Felling wedges

[Burvol]

LOL...yeah, a lot of dented hard hats around here. I've had my nose broken twice from the rim of my Mac-T getting slammed down on it. And it wasn't real pretty to start with.

I got a hard conconsion this fall from a limb, and a real nice "cromagnum forehead" for about a week. It seems like the times you think you are in the clear, it gets ya. Never assume jack, run like hell. I cut with a guy for a few weeks this fall that would literaly sit back on his huanches swinging trees, and while watching them go off the stump. And the thing is, this guy is a damn good faller that has been at it for 20 years. Kinda scary to watch. I think he was getting tired. I tried not to let him rub off on me at all!

 

[smokechase II]

Appreciate genius

This is a great site.

Before the last couple posts on this thread all I wanted for patio/deck furniture was a couple inverted stumps, root area flattened and varathaned - bark removed - a mushroom shape with the top half of the cap cut flat, and some round short 2 foot+ or so logs finished the same way as chairs.

Now I simply must have an outdoor table, perhaps of coffee table height, with four legs of glued together wood wedges (a good use for those) and a big old slab as the table top.

Logging furniture for the wanna be.

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Perhaps a barber chair off to one side.

 

[Burvol]

How about an empty spool of bull line and some milk crates? Does that not say "backwoods Oregoinan" or what?

 

[smokechase II]

Easy now

I'm trying to get some culture.

Move up. By the boot straps.

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The best backwoods Oregonian I ever saw was some fella who had a goat fence that enclosed about 2 acres where just over 1/2 of the fence was made from bed springs.
Placed vertically, wired together, every one a different size, with a decent amount of rust.


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There are some who'd say that an attempt to redirect a thread on falling wedges to fences for goats would be grounds for censure.
They'd be right.

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By the way, any vibration introduced into a tree could loosen hazards above. Even the first cut by your saw.
Make looking up a habit so that you'll do it when it’s needed, which is always.
(Hope that's better!)