farmerdoug
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I like keeping my firewood the same length. This is a fairly new product and so I ordered it today to see how it might help:
I like keeping my firewood the same length. This is a fairly new product and so I ordered it today to see how it might help:
Looks like somebody dragged a giant **** magnet through a chineese hardware store, and bolted all the crap that stuck, to a formerly usefull saw.
Seriously. If you need Grandmas friggin walker bolted to your saw, in order to make a consistent cut, you quite possibly need to shy away from pointy objects in the first place.
If an engineer was tasked with designing an aparatus, that would reliably snag every damn green brier vine, sapling, bramble, and stray cat within 20', causing the bar to deflect into flesh or brains....it would look just like that abortion in the picture above, or possibly a little less complex.
Here's a way to save some $$, your back, fingers, toes, lips, and nether regions.
Go to the hardware store. Find the hard of hearing old geezer, that wanders around looking to help people, by telling them what they need isn't in stock.
Ask the geezer for 36" of 1/4" Nylon cord.
Cost will be around 50 cents to a dollar.
Then grab half a dozen 1/2" washers, while the geezer tells you about how you're gonna need lock washers or you'll end up like cousin Earl.
Figure two bucks.
Then drive to the dollar store and head to the aisle where they keep the school supplies.
Find the Chalk and select a color. Blue, red, Pink, purple...whatever.
Chalk is expensive these days. 2 bucks a box in some places...ridiculous I know, but it's chalk.
Now this is the hard part.
Use a tape measure, and mark the cord at the length you commonly cut.
Then thread a washer to that point and tie a big assed granny knot, so the washer stays there.
Do the same thing for the next longest length.
When you are in the woods or car port, and need to buck to stove length, take the cord and Chalk out of your pocket and holding the chalk and proper washer in one hand, and the proper end of the cord in the other, then mark the log. When done, wad up the cord and place back into your pocket.
5 bucks, with darn near a lifetime supply of replacement markers...and it wont cause the saw to pluck your eyeballs out when it gets snagged, walking in the woodlot.
I just use a big zip tie off the side.
Me too.I have some measured sticks and spray paint, old school I guess.
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