repairing wedges

[Gologit]

And don't be leaving your broken wedges in the brush!! It makes me mad because it makes you look bad should any "Monitoring" people go look at the results after logging is over. I'll pack busted wedges out, but they get thrown in the nearest pickup/crummy available. Same with soup cans.

Monitoring: Often can be defined as "we are looking for any errors so we can shut down logging."

Does that include empty snoose cans, used up files, sandwich wrappers, broken chokers, old hydraulic hoses, and miscellaneous boxes, cartons, and containers that parts come in?
Geeeezz, Slowp...we can't just cram that stuff down into the slash piles and hope we're somewhere else when they burn?:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[slowp]

Does that include empty snoose cans, used up files, sandwich wrappers, broken chokers, old hydraulic hoses, and miscellaneous boxes, cartons, and containers that parts come in?
Geeeezz, Slowp...we can't just cram that stuff down into the slash piles and hope we're somewhere else when they burn?:hmm3grin2orange:

Yeah, and then you get to come back and maybe even have a nice hike if the roads have been closed, and get some healthy exercise packing it out! I did leave the #### magazine behind to rot over the winter...not getting caught dead with those in my pack! And the energy drinks....so many cans bottles of that left out. Maybe they need those after tiring themselves out reading?:greenchainsaw:

 

[Nailsbeats]

I do not doubt that you have never broken a splitting wedge. But the fact one has never failed you reminds me of the person who shot one deer in his life and then bragged that he had never missed. Give it time it will leave you wishing for some thing better, much better.
Don't think that you are the first or only person to use splitting wedges. When I first came to CA the young fellow who came with me tried to use them. There are very good reasons that production fallers don't use them. In a nutshell they are very inefficiant when compared to falling wedges.
There is a time and place for a steel falling wedges (not splitting wedges) but one needs to be very skilled at wedging before even attempting them.

Joe, when I am production falling I don't use them either, I use 12" plastic. Thats why in my first post I stated that I don't use them when I have to carry 3 wedges at a time in the woods. My point is nobody is going to tell me they can't be used or have no place, because they work fine if you need them and are very skilled at wedging.

 

[2dogs]

And don't be leaving your broken wedges in the brush!! It makes me mad because it makes you look bad should any "Monitoring" people go look at the results after logging is over. I'll pack busted wedges out, but they get thrown in the nearest pickup/crummy available. Same with soup cans.

Monitoring: Often can be defined as "we are looking for any errors so we can shut down logging."

Busted wedges? How about old trucks, truck engines, wire rope, and barrels of mystery oil. I do like finding old growth culls! I get to keep those. My favorite is a piece is a well worn heart with no sapwood.

 

[Gologit]

Yeah, and then you get to come back and maybe even have a nice hike if the roads have been closed, and get some healthy exercise packing it out! I did leave the #### magazine behind to rot over the winter...not getting caught dead with those in my pack! And the energy drinks....so many cans bottles of that left out. Maybe they need those after tiring themselves out reading?:greenchainsaw:

LOL...If they have time to read, or even look at the pictures, somebody isn't keeping them busy enough.
We wouldn't really put hydraulic hoses in the slash piles. Actually, even on the private ground I work, leaving trash behind is considered poor form.
I watched a truck driver spread litter around himself while he was loading....sandwich baggies, Red Bull can, candybar wrapper, cigarette butts, all around him in a little litter circle.
While he was throwing his landing wrapper one of the other drivers picked up all the guy's trash and put in on the seat of the messy guy's truck. He got the message.

 

[GASoline71]

Joe, when I am production falling I don't use them either, I use 12" plastic. Thats why in my first post I stated that I don't use them when I have to carry 3 wedges at a time in the woods. My point is nobody is going to tell me they can't be used or have no place, because they work fine if you need them and are very skilled at wedging.

Relax... nobody is tellin' anyone that they "can't" be used. They can. Steel wedges were used a lot waaaayyyyy back when. Back when Gologit was a young landing rat. LMAO... gotcha Bob!!!

In this day and age, is it smart or safe to fall trees with steel wedges... no.

You can use steel wedges for your "big" trees all you want... I personally would point and laugh at ya, and you would be called a rookie if you packed steel wedges into the woods here.

Your choice.... be safe.

Gary

 

[Gologit]

Relax... nobody is tellin' anyone that they "can't" be used. They can. Steel wedges were used a lot waaaayyyyy back when. Back when Gologit was a young landing rat. LMAO... gotcha Bob!!!

In this day and age, is it smart or safe to fall trees with steel wedges... no.

You can use steel wedges for your "big" trees all you want... I personally would point and laugh at ya, and you would be called a rookie if you packed steel wedges into the woods here.

Your choice.... be safe.

Gary

LMAO...Gary, we didn't even have steel wedges then. We used to whittle our own out of wood with the same piece of sharp rock that we attacked dinosaurs and sabre-toothed tigers with.

You're right about all the rest of it, though. I would think that when a whole bunch of different people tell a guy the same thing (steel wedges vs plastic wedges) he'd want to listen. If he was working out here and "production falling" on the kind of ground we work those old steel wedges would stay in the crummy.

And...I wasn't a landing rat very long. It looked like the fallers were having all the fun and going home early besides so that's what I thought was a good idea. Boy, did I get educated.

 

[Zodiac45]

steel wedges go to the woodpile

and plastic wedges follow you into the woods...

ain't no two ways about it

+1

 

[joesawer]

LMAO...Gary, we didn't even have steel wedges then. We used to whittle our own out of wood with the same piece of sharp rock that we attacked dinosaurs and sabre-toothed tigers with.

You're right about all the rest of it, though. I would think that when a whole bunch of different people tell a guy the same thing (steel wedges vs plastic wedges) he'd want to listen. If he was working out here and "production falling" on the kind of ground we work those old steel wedges would stay in the crummy.

And...I wasn't a landing rat very long. It looked like the fallers were having all the fun and going home early besides so that's what I thought was a good idea. Boy, did I get educated.

LOL! good post. Gary just thought he got you.
How come even after we get educated, we don't ever want to go back to the landing, or stetting chokers or whatever we where doing before we wuz edumicated?

 

[Gologit]

LOL! good post. Gary just thought he got you.
How come even after we get educated, we don't ever want to go back to the landing, or stetting chokers or whatever we where doing before we wuz edumicated?

I don't know. I think that once you've been a faller you never really want to be anything else.
Time and circumstance will change what you do but nothing will change what you want to be.

 

[joesawer]

I don't know. I think that once you've been a faller you never really want to be anything else.
Time and circumstance will change what you do but nothing will change what you want to be.

It is just something that I have wondered about for several years.
My circumstances have changed many times and I have done a lot of other things, some that paid better and where easier and less risk, but I always come back, and I always miss it when I am doing something else.

 

[slowp]

But it sure looks hard when a guy who quit falling for a few years (and is my age) returns. Ouch!
So, is there something you can make out of the broken wedges? Perhaps hit the flea market circuit with? Substitute wedges for beercans in the classic beercan hat? Door stops? Ice scrapers?

 

[Festus Haggen]

But it sure looks hard when a guy who quit falling for a few years (and is my age) returns. Ouch!
So, is there something you can make out of the broken wedges? Perhaps hit the flea market circuit with? Substitute wedges for beercans in the classic beercan hat? Door stops? Ice scrapers?

Give them out for Halloween

Leave them on the shelf at Walmart

Melt them down, make a kayak out of them

Carve them into plastic army men

Keychains

Put them all in a pillowcase, used for "education"

Levelling furniture


I just throw them into the plastic recycling bin...

 

[randyg]

Broken Wedges

Anybody repair a broken wedge? I'm frustrated with them breaking and have a bucket full of busted ones.

How about welding back together, or maybe cooking in a microwave?

After a quick peak at your profile, it APPEARS that you are a climber/tree care service, not a logger? You may on occasion wail away with a 12 lb sledge? Me too. I shave the business end a bit with a rasp if chain gets it. When flat end chips away or even starts to crack I cut it off with miter saw with 60 tooth carbide blade. When they break, they are retired. If you're thinking JB Weld or epoxy or fiberglass repairs, you're thinking to much. I think?

 

[Gologit]

But it sure looks hard when a guy who quit falling for a few years (and is my age) returns. Ouch!
So, is there something you can make out of the broken wedges? Perhaps hit the flea market circuit with? Substitute wedges for beercans in the classic beercan hat? Door stops? Ice scrapers?

Yup...it's tough to quit for a while and then go back....I found this out the hard way. By the end of the second week I was pretty much back to normal and didn't have to soak in the tub for an hour every night.

And the broken wedges? Just put them in a box out by your front gate with a sign "Genuine PNW logging wedges...1.00 a piece"
Nobody will buy them but some moron will think they're valuable and steal the whole box. End of problem. Might work with worn out chains, bent bars, and blown out boots, too.

 

[2dogs]

Yup...it's tough to quit for a while and then go back....I found this out the hard way. By the end of the second week I was pretty much back to normal and didn't have to soak in the tub for an hour every night.

And the broken wedges? Just put them in a box out by your front gate with a sign "Genuine PNW logging wedges...1.00 a piece"
Nobody will buy them but some moron will think they're valuable and steal the whole box. End of problem. Might work with worn out chains, bent bars, and blown out boots, too.

Better yet wrap them in gift wrap and leave the package on the roof of your car. A mall parking lot works great.

 

[slowp]

Yup...it's tough to quit for a while and then go back....I found this out the hard way. By the end of the second week I was pretty much back to normal and didn't have to soak in the tub for an hour every night.

And the broken wedges? Just put them in a box out by your front gate with a sign "Genuine PNW logging wedges...1.00 a piece"
Nobody will buy them but some moron will think they're valuable and steal the whole box. End of problem. Might work with worn out chains, bent bars, and blown out boots, too.

Except then we find them dumped over the edge of the road right by the NO DUMPING sign. I call it the Appliance Give Away Store. There's a couple of freezers up there right now.

For really sore muscles, I found choker setting to be a form of yoga. Different positions, lots of stretching. Was very sore and cranky from a weekend of ripping up stuff at the Moneypit. Took pity on the lone rigging guy and helped out and felt much better afterwards.Except we pulled a tree over!:jawdrop: I like to think of it as The Choker Spa.
No tanning though.
The magazine has slipped out. I need to try a wedge under the leg of this table now. What taper style should I use?

 

[Gologit]

Except then we find them dumped over the edge of the road right by the NO DUMPING sign. I call it the Appliance Give Away Store. There's a couple of freezers up there right now.
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The magazine has slipped out. I need to try a wedge under the leg of this table now. What taper style should I use?

It's always a dead giveaway when some pickup is headed to the woods just before dark with old furniture or appliances in the back. I won't go into details but sometimes it's fun to drop a little snag across the road just below them and then suggest that they re-load all their crap or we'll just go to town and leave them up there.

Furniture wedges? Single taper. Everybody knows that.

 

[olyman]

It's always a dead giveaway when some pickup is headed to the woods just before dark with old furniture or appliances in the back. I won't go into details but sometimes it's fun to drop a little snag across the road just below them and then suggest that they re-load all their crap or we'll just go to town and leave them up there.

Furniture wedges? Single taper. Everybody knows that.

i like it--wish that was done to more of those trash people, for whatever reason they do it!!!!!!!!

 

[hammerlogging]

Admittedly, wedges are my one piece of litter I consider ok. I sort of like finding some ancient logging scrap, old cables, drums, whatever, down in the woods from the good old days. So broken wedges are my contribution to the legend. Maybe kind of vain. I still pick up skidder drivers beenieweenie cans, soda cans, sandwich bags, and so forth, just my preference in litter.