Wedges

[brisawyer]

Im not a timbercutter by any means but I do cut some small patches here and there. Learned what I know from some loggers I worked with off and on, never saw anyone use wedges.

I read stuff here and watched some video with guys using wedges and decided to try some today. Made life a lot easier and safer I dont know how I got along without them especially bucking. I will never be without even if I have to cut them from a sapling. Thanks guys!

 

[2dogs]

It is a good thing when someone learns a new technique or learns how to do something safer. Wedges are another tool in the tool box.

BTW IAFF local 1716 LOD ret.

 

[Zackman1801]

i usually wont go out without a wedge or 2, some trees i could never ever fall without wedges, cant drop em with the lean all the time.

 

[thejdman04]

Wedges make life easy

 

[clearance]

You need three wedges whenever you are falling, at least.

 

[brisawyer]

I have one plastic and 2 I cut out of dogwood. Santa is bringing more.

 

[slowp]

The 12 inch one was just the tool for chiseling off the igloo consistancy snow yesterday.

 

[PA Plumber]

You need three wedges whenever you are falling, at least.

I agree, except take along an ax, too.

Sure is easier than beating them in with a chainsaw!

 

[palogger]

axe, naw thats what the 12 inch wedge is for, works great unless your lifting alot of weight

 

[John Ellison]

I used two twelve inch wedges and black tape to splint a guys broken forearm.

 

[perchhauler]

I always carry three K & H wedges and a small sledge, or sometimes a maul... Sometimes one does the trick, I like the wedges with the double taper, alot of lift quick, and not getting into your chain on a smaller tree.. Just my two cents, Happy Holidays to all... Steve

 

[forestryworks]

just got new wedges today - blue ox wedges - not as hard as K&H, and they don't take as good a beating as K&H wedges

if you can afford it, get the K&H wedges, they hold up well

i always take 4 with me, and a 5lb. axe

 

[sawinredneck]

I buy the CHEAPEST 8" wedges I can get. I tend to cut them a lot. I guess it's my nature?
I have never needed more than a 16oz hammer to move a tree. Yeah, an axe or maul might be nice, but I have yet to screw up bad enough (and I have REALLY SCREWED UP!!) to need more than a small hammer and four wedges to save my sorry butt!
I don't leave without at least six wedges in the box BTW!!!

 

[brisawyer]

I carry a belt ax all the time at the mill and in the woods. Its so handy I even put one on my turnout gear at the FD. I was working in the woods one day went to the local store for lunch got threatened by a local knuckehead (was a witness in a case that jailed him) All I had to do was unsnap the sheath and he zipped the lip and left quickly.

 

[Ghillie]

I carry the 8" hardhead wedges. Just need to make an accesory pouch to carry them on my belt and keep them handy.

I use them alot when flush cutting the last trunk section to lift it off with the crane on removals. I need to get some lighter ones to carry when I don't need the metal ends.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

I have never needed more than a 16oz hammer to move a tree. Yeah, an axe or maul might be nice, but I have yet to screw up bad enough (and I have REALLY SCREWED UP!!) to need more than a small hammer and four wedges to save my sorry butt!

A good axe makes pounding the wedges easier, as well as a tool to chop out a stuck saw, bump knots, clean up a notch, etc...

Tons of uses for an axe in the bush, other than pounding wedges.

 

[treejunkie13]

12" 4 ME...
This is what I carry, fits nice in the back pocket. Also a way 2 get more life out of a cut/beat up wedge. When needed, the 5lb and extra wedge r usually near by, pends on the job.

put in vise, hacked out hand holds w/ sawzall, touched up w/ orbit sander.

 

[forestryworks]

A good axe makes pounding the wedges easier, as well as a tool to chop out a stuck saw, bump knots, clean up a notch, etc...

Tons of uses for an axe in the bush, other than pounding wedges.

+1

 

[Bushler]

Nothing quite like the sweet sensation of having a quick taper wedge bounce out and catch you on the lip early in the morning.

Burvol says to rub white fir pitch on the broken lip...stops the bleeding so you can keep working.

 

[slowp]

Nothing quite like the sweet sensation of having a quick taper wedge bounce out and catch you on the lip early in the morning.

Burvol says to rub white fir pitch on the broken lip...stops the bleeding so you can keep working.

Then, at the end of the day, spill Diet Pepsi on the pitchy lip and it will remove the pitch. I discovered that on a bumpy road.