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If a guy is going to be pounding a lot of wedges in frozen wood, try bringing a small sandwich baggie of really fine sand to work with you in your rigging sack. That is the stuff to use for traction.
 
Gologit said:
: I've never seen the point in taking any time to look for a wedge that's probably clear over in the next county.:)
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Not to worry, I usually find them. Then get a bit :censored: (but now I see more of a reason for it and won't get so PO.d) that they get left out there which is another reason for the enviros to whine about logging. I pack them out. Just another part of the babysitting job.:)

I don't like packing out empty soup cans and sticky power drink of the month plastic bottles. If I find a gallon jug left, I'm emptying the water and up the hill it goes. I did not pack out the discarded (by the rigging crew) #### magazine. Heaven only knows what they did with it!

OK, back to wedges. The raspy ones price started at $2.50 in the box in the middle of the aisle. Not being a faller, I did not buy any. Although they might make good shims for things like hot tubs. :)
 
slowp said:
Not to worry, I usually find them. Then get a bit :censored: (but now I see more of a reason for it and won't get so PO.d) that they get left out there which is another reason for the enviros to whine about logging. I pack them out. Just another part of the babysitting job.:)

I don't like packing out empty soup cans and sticky power drink of the month plastic bottles. If I find a gallon jug left, I'm emptying the water and up the hill it goes. I did not pack out the discarded (by the rigging crew) #### magazine. Heaven only knows what they did with it!

OK, back to wedges. The raspy ones price started at $2.50 in the box in the middle of the aisle. Not being a faller, I did not buy any. Although they might make good shims for things like hot tubs. :)
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The magazine was left by the hippies who where studying on how to sabotage the job.
They smoked some pot and forgot the magazine and figured sabotaging the job would be to much work.
The rigging crew does not have time to look at #### at work and would never live down being caught with it. Lol it would be freakin great to catch them at it though. Do you have any idea how much grief a crew could give some poor soul?
 
joesawer said:
The magazine was left by the hippies who where studying on how to sabotage the job.
They smoked some pot and forgot the magazine and figured sabotaging the job would be to much work.
The rigging crew does not have time to look at #### at work and would never live down being caught with it. Lol it would be freakin great to catch them at it though. Do you have any idea how much grief a crew could give some poor soul?
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The young hooktender made into a yarder engineer for a while was able to study #### while running the yarder and eating junkfood. He probably handed his reading material on. Recycling at it's finest. There may have been a few delays for the crew in the brush to get some reading in. It was a gyppo outfit that went through crew guys pretty fast. They were in and out of jail quite a bit, except for the chaser, hooktender/yarder engineer, fallers, and owner. I couldn't keep up with the turnover on the rigging crew.

I think the last couple of guys were doing something stronger than pot. But at least they could read or maybe just looked at the pictures? :)
 
Burvol said:
If a guy is going to be pounding a lot of wedges in frozen wood, try bringing a small sandwich baggie of really fine sand to work with you in your rigging sack. That is the stuff to use for traction.
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Good advice! That is what I always found worked best for me too.
 
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slowp said:
Not to worry, I usually find them. Then get a bit :censored: (but now I see more of a reason for it and won't get so PO.d) that they get left out there which is another reason for the enviros to whine about logging. I pack them out. Just another part of the babysitting job.:)
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Hang on to those wedges you find. If a faller is having a bad day (just listen for the sound of about ten minutes of heavy wedge knocking, a short silence, and then some really loud cussing) you could probably make some pocket money selling him an extra wedge or two. Same with those firewood cutters you're always stumbling over.

If you find any with my initials scratched in them I want half of whatever you sell them for. :)
 
Yup, I loaned a wedge to the firewood cutters that were in the way. He seemed to only know one way to cut and that way doesn't always work too well on blowdown.

So, a couple years ago, I found a bar left down in the unit--Carlton brand. I'm sure that didn't get flung across the county. Or did it?
 
You guys were busy today .. I worked all day , had a good day . Would have prefered the day off ............ The trick of course is to not have to beat wedges .. I seldom do , but once in a while I get hung in a buck ... I hate puting in a wedge unless I need to , and you won,t know if you need to until your chain stops going round and the saw makes that wwwhhhhhuuuaaaa wwwwhhhuuuaaa sound followed by a :censored::censored:......I do alot of buckin standing on the log using the top of the bar any way , but then I,m not cutting helicopter wood either .........One reason I didn,t want to cut for the birds , Who in the world wants to limb the bottom side of a log :chainsaw::confused:.... I don,t mind 2and a half sides , But the bottom . specially in big red cedar ....YUK ....That is the wonderful thing about polockin with a 009 Madill They will limb almost anything for a guy ...:clap::clap:.. Shovel loggin also ...!!:hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange:
 
tramp bushler said:
One reason I didn,t want to cut for the birds , Who in the world wants to limb the bottom side of a log :chainsaw::confused:.... I don,t mind 2and a half sides , But the bottom . specially in big red cedar ....YUK ....That is the wonderful thing about polockin with a 009 Madill They will limb almost anything for a guy ...:clap::clap:.. Shovel loggin also ...!!:hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange:
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True that man. The whole "have to be done" thing gets old, everyone likes to say "#### it" every once in a while, let the loggers deal with your mess.

Our line is...... "#### the hookers" for when we bail on a stick and not get some limb or something cut off. We dont mean it, but it sure is easy to say!
 
AT sawyer said:
One thing I've noticed about hammering wedges is the sound they make just before popping out. The tighter they get, the higher the pitch of the sound they make when hit. When they start to "ring", I stop hammering and put in another wedge somewhere else. You might not hear this with a saw running and your ears plugged. That sound also puts me on notice that maybe I should be underbucking the rest of the cut.
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I hear the pingin with the saw runnin! That can mean some fun wedging is ahead of you.
 
that baseball bat might work for hippie and whatever else you find on the roadway up there,but a good 8 pound sledge with a good man at the handle can definately either loosen teeth up or knock it over,one or the other.be careful with those alders slowp,just hackin on ya:cheers:
 
i dont wedge anything unless i get stuck beside a fence. I have had a few close calls when the tree comes down. nearly landed a big red on a fence. Missed said fence by a quarter inch or so. same tree almost took out my saw with it. had a heart attack becuase of it. had to sit out for about 20 minutes becuase i could barely breath enough to say im still alive. For those stubborn trees that dont want to take a plastic wedge hatchet and axe heads work very well and give superp lift on a short distance.
 

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