Falling wedges. What's good, what's not, and why?

[lfnh]

Hmmm,

the car, the dogwood, and the ornamental garden.

tuff choice.

 

[paccity]

...and probably ran off screaming. These threads in the F and L section are a lot like logger's conversations around the lunch log or in the tavern or the saw shop. They meander. That's good. Learn to deal with it. Relax. Enjoy.

yup.

 

[Mastermind]

You can only use the Infamous Slopping Back Cut if you film the entire process and then vigorously defend your choice of technique. You also have to insult and disagree with anyone who doesn't like what you've done. You're also required to use a saw that runs poorly and a very very dull chain.

No butt crack pictures, though. We do have our limits.


Or...you can post pictures of the white oak, get seventy three conflicting opinions on how you should drop it, and then go ahead with what your gut and experience level tell you. Me, I'd pick dropping it in the road.

Well then we have a problem. I may not be a Pro logger like HBRN but my saws run very well, and are kept sharp. :cool2:


I'm with you on the butt crack, that's just too much for anyone to suffer through.

 

[Rounder]

Holy ####, this thread has gone even more haywire than the last one I posted in. I've calmed down a bit since then, no worries.

Since everyone seems to be here, Jake included, I got word today that there will be a logger games event at the Lumber Jack Saloon in late August. Jake, I'll be there, hope to see you, as well as Nate and Roma. It's on Saturday/Saturday night, a little more manageble for me.

Back to wedges. Wife is out of town on bussiness, so I've been making a concerted effort to get a lot of work #### done while drinking a lot of beer. So far, so good. Don't usually work out this well. Wedges- been busy fixing the ones I've ruined. Using my dremel with the little orange grinding thingy to resquare and re-bevel the tips. Works pretty darn slick. Hell of a lot better than mowing away with a rasp.

Anyhow, nice to make a dent in things, the dull chain nail, and buggered wedge pile start to get a little depressing when they start to stack up.

Hope you all are having a good weekend........Don't let the culls eat at ya too much. Guilty of it myself - Sam

 

[lfnh]

if ya go for the ornamental garden, we want pics of the rash and cleanup

or maybe you could tail it off to the dogwood...just a thought.

 

[Mastermind]

if ya go for the ornamental garden, we want pics of the rash and cleanup

or maybe you could tail it off to the dogwood...just a thought.

We are gonna wait until fall to drop it, but I plan to take pics. That way when I make a big mess we will at least have something to laugh at.

 

[lfnh]

was hoping for more to way in on this tricky felling ya got coming up :msp_smile:

by fall, this tread should be punching upwards of 2000.

 

[Mastermind]

was hoping for more to way in on this tricky felling ya got coming up :msp_smile:

by fall, this tread should be punching upwards of 2000.

Yeah I sorta though we would hear from the fabled HBRN.

 

[lfnh]

Thinking bout it some more (that always gets ya in trouble), prolly best thing is just print off this whole thread. Surely, the answer to your dilema in here someplace.

 

[Sport Faller]

Holy ####, this thread has gone even more haywire than the last one I posted in. I've calmed down a bit since then, no worries.

Since everyone seems to be here, Jake included, I got word today that there will be a logger games event at the Lumber Jack Saloon in late August. Jake, I'll be there, hope to see you, as well as Nate and Roma. It's on Saturday/Saturday night, a little more manageble for me.

Back to wedges. Wife is out of town on bussiness, so I've been making a concerted effort to get a lot of work #### done while drinking a lot of beer. So far, so good. Don't usually work out this well. Wedges- been busy fixing the ones I've ruined. Using my dremel with the little orange grinding thingy to resquare and re-bevel the tips. Works pretty darn slick. Hell of a lot better than mowing away with a rasp.

Anyhow, nice to make a dent in things, the dull chain nail, and buggered wedge pile start to get a little depressing when they start to stack up.

Hope you all are having a good weekend........Don't let the culls eat at ya too much. Guilty of it myself - Sam

Count me in man, is that the one in Lolo?
also, what events, since Darby I've been brushin up on my axe throwing

 

[Rounder]

Count me in man, is that the one in Lolo?
also, what events, since Darby I've been brushin up on my axe throwing

Yep, up the pass at the 16 mile, Grave's crick road. I'll pm ya some contact info to find out about events, not sure off the top of my head - Sam

 

[KiwiBro]

The OP checked out of this thread 12 pages and 180 posts ago.

Philbert

I stop by every now and then to work on my tan.

 

[Sport Faller]

Yep, up the pass at the 16 mile, Grave's crick road. I'll pm ya some contact info to find out about events, not sure off the top of my head - Sam

sweet, thankee

 

[Rounder]

Sounds good, will most likely be there.

I'll keep you in the loop - Sam

 

[slowp]

On a much different subject, one we fade in and out of. I've got a fairly large white oak (36" - 40") to take down. If it goes one way it will crash over a bank and land in the road. If it goes another it will damage a little dogwood that the owner wants to keep. Yet another way and it will mash an ornamental garden. So it has a very narrow landing zone. Would this be the correct time to use the world famous slopping back cut??? :msp_biggrin:

Just sayin.

I am sure I can tell you exactly how to fall it because I am comfy in my chair drinking coffee and contemplating my landscaping project. So heed this advice. Not advise, but advice.

Remember, you will need at least three 12 inch long wedges...that would be foot long wedges. I don't have my metric converter handy. Choose a color that will coordinate with your saw. Your hardhat should also be of a similar color, chaps too.

Don't wear suspenders. We women love to see male cleavage. :msp_scared: It makes for good conversation, especially when there are 3 or more examples of large cleavage gifted guys sitting at bar stools leaning slightly forward.

Better put some sunscreen on that cleavage this time of year.

Run your saw in some dirt first. Then begin the slopping back cut.

Don't pick out which way to gun it for. Surprise is the essence of life as is spontanaity.

That's all I'm good for now. The coffee has not kicked in.

 

[brnchbrkr]

This thread has taken some twists and turns.

I enjoy being in the woods as much as anything I can think of. I have been an avid hunter, hunting with every legal weapon. The only time I found myself afraid was while I was hunting with a bow. It was about an hour before daylight and I had spent over an hour getting into the area. Just as everything was beginning to settle down from my trek in a group of coyotes started yipping and being a general nuisance. That was something I was used to, I never gave it much thought. What scared me was a sound I had never heard before. It was loud, really loud. Sounded like an insane man screaming at the top of his lungs. The coyotes shut up, and that scared me even more. Everything was quiet, way too quiet. After a little bit the coyotes started their yipping around again, but this time they were right on top of me, on both sides, it was a little unnerving. It was then that the screaming started again, my hair was standing up all over my body, the coyotes shut up and never made another sound. I was damn glad to see the sun coming up that morning! I still have no idea what made that noise, I've never heard anything like it since. Anyone heard anything like that before?

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[Mastermind]

I am sure I can tell you exactly how to fall it because I am comfy in my chair drinking coffee and contemplating my landscaping project. So heed this advice. Not advise, but advice.

Remember, you will need at least three 12 inch long wedges...that would be foot long wedges. I don't have my metric converter handy. Choose a color that will coordinate with your saw. Your hardhat should also be of a similar color, chaps too.

Don't wear suspenders. We women love to see male cleavage. :msp_scared: It makes for good conversation, especially when there are 3 or more examples of large cleavage gifted guys sitting at bar stools leaning slightly forward.

Better put some sunscreen on that cleavage this time of year.

Run your saw in some dirt first. Then begin the slopping back cut.

Don't pick out which way to gun it for. Surprise is the essence of life as is spontanaity.

That's all I'm good for now. The coffee has not kicked in.

OK let me get comfy in my own chair so we can hash this out proper like.

First I have to get the correct color wedges, roughly the same color as a creamsickle.

Now for my first question. Would it be better if the three 12 inch wedges were as rough looking as the well used saw??? Also, should the wedges have a coat of bar oil so they don't feel left out??? We can't have that. Just imagine an unruly wedge with a dark and twisted agenda. The tree could become unstable, forced into the road by the pissed off wedge.

And now, moving on. The hard hat is a bit of an problem. I have yellow and white. Nothing in orange. Is that going to put the ornamental garden at risk??? I don't own any chaps, I know, what a rank amateur.

That brings us the the well oiled man cleavage. I can't even type this without feeling a bit queasy. I'm getting me some suspenders.

At this point I'm feeling a bit uneasy in my ability to follow thru. You say to run the saw in some dirt and begin the slopping back cut??? But if I do that will I not be rising above my station in life??? At my admitted limited experience level should I really but attempting to put myself in the same class as the revered super hero of the woods HBRN???

Oh, and one other thing. This gunning of the tree you mentioned??? Where on the tree will I find the throttle???

 

[slowp]

Oh, I forgot. You might want to go walk about in a recently logged area and look for discarded wedges. You can then make them into perfectly good wedges, somehow. Now, if the area was cut with a buncher, you can still wander around and look....

 

[madhatte]

Buncher wedges are the best kind. They make the slopping back cut a snap.

 

[wyk]

You may have seen this in the off-topic forum, but sometimes I just gotta bust out wid mah big red cock!

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