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So, aside from the obvious saw and perhaps splitter, what do you consider to be the most important or perhaps most used tool you use while processing or obtaining firewood.? I would say it is my Logrite hookaroon....

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Sure helps when unloading the truck or moving rounds to the splitter.

Second, would be my rubber knit gloves. I have tried a lot of gloves and these seem to have the best performance to price ratio. I like the feel of deer skin, but they are worthless with wet wood and wear fast. The big farmer gloves fit to loose, but do last a long time. Brownies are good for half a day at best.

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Wheelbarrow...

By far, the wheelbarrow is the one I use the most, closely followed by the sawbuck that I use to cut lengths and bundle logs.

My wheelbarrow is indispensable and the old single wheel variety works the best for carrying split logs from the truck or the splitter to the main pile and from the main pile to the house. I can pack 30 logs into it.
 
Wood Doctor said:
By far, the wheelbarrow is the one I use the most, closely followed by the sawbuck that I use to cut lengths and bundle logs.

My wheelbarrow is indispensable and the old single wheel variety works the best for carrying split logs from the truck or the splitter to the main pile and from the main pile to the house. I can pack 30 logs into it.
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Very true, I use a Jackson similar to this. I do like the steel handles. Only thing I would change is to swap in a solid tire once original wears out.

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I got some pictures, just got to get around to downloading them.I made my own hookeroon, and I must say that is a handy dandy tool, also, I fabbed my own cant hook, don't know how anybody gets along without one.Wedges, chains, cable,snatch blocks, and of course the tractor.They sure make life easier.
 
My DAD...He is by far the most important tool I have in my firewood bag...He is 65 years old and can out work most 20 year olds...

He would cut, stack, and split firewood every day of the week if my mom would let him...I very rarely get to stack a piece of firewood or haul a load to my house...He is up at the crack of dawn and heads to the river on any day that wood is ready for splitting and stacking...

When burning season comes he hauls wood to my house almost weekly, just enough to keep my front porch full...I have told him I can store some behind the garage, but he said it keeps him young...
 
no particular order

Tractor..not sure how the lazy fatgirls would take to being mud dog sled haulers...the tractor gets the stuff home..they supervise and like..keep the dinosaurs away...near as I can tell

Chains to drag logs closer to the tractor when I can before bucking...see also comealong, more used to drag beaver dropped nice ones outta the pond (the beavers can have around one third of the tree, the top, I share it with them, heck they did the work getting it down...)

log lifter tool..just the berries for fast work on logs too heavy to pick up, but not ridiculous sized. Will sometimes work on ridiculous big sizes if the log section is cut down to around 3-4 rounds length, just depends... I still hate cutting on the ground and in the dirt....

Truck jack, cheap trolley. EXCELLENT if you have any place to slide it under a log, get 'er picked up some, sledge in a small piece to hold it there, work your way down the log. I hates cutting in the dirt. Hates it. I want it up with chunks under it so I can work right down it cut like crazy and zero pinches or..cutters in the dirt.

MOST important though is GF, keeps the hot chow on the plate that keeps me cutting hauling and splitting, she does most of the stacking then bringing it into the house. Ya, I could do that stuff too but she actually likes to build the stacks and loves bringing it in to build another little stack behind the heater and messing with the fire. Calls it her exercise so I don't kvetch about it.

After that is the house cats (I have house cats, barn cats, then semi wild ones who come and visit me in the woods..they sorta disappear now and then..but more cats show up..I go someplace and stop, call kitty kitty kitty, five ten minutes later a little friend shows up to get petted, then runs off again..sorta cool).

Anyway, the house cats hang out in, on, and around and under and in the general vicinity of the wood pile and assorted various small equipment stuff there and ..catch and eat stuff when they ain't sleeping and when they ain't in the house. Not sure when they don't sleep though, but the pile stays pretty much vermin free...Big ole black snake lives inside the greenhouse some place, I think mostly under the rockpile little pond waterfall thingee, he does rodent duty in there. Not a woodworking tool per se, but rodents used to eat all the little started veggies and stuff (going back to one of the tools, hot chow on the plate). since he showed up, we don't lose much baby plants. he can stay as long as he wants.
 
Id be all done without a chain file because if there's dirt I'm going to cut into it.
 
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redheadwoodshed said:
I got some pictures, just got to get around to downloading them.I made my own hookeroon, and I must say that is a handy dandy tool, also, I fabbed my own cant hook, don't know how anybody gets along without one.
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Ah, it's quite simple really. I almost NEVER go firewooding with one, because I always forget to bring the stupid thing with me! 9 times out of 10. I bring dozens of things I never use, but never do I remember to bring the cant hook! :bang:


stihl_in_texas said:
My noggin is the most important tool I take with me.
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Not familiar with that one. Is that like a dikfir?
 
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It's difficult to pick one, but I'll say that wedges are certainly the little giants of timber/firewood cutting. They save me time, sweat, and potential loss of equipment.

I'll also say that I wouldn't do 90% of my firewood cutting if I didn't have a tractor.
 
Hookeroon wins hands down with me. It would be one of the last tools to go before the saws. Was unloading those "just right for the stove without splitting" chunks today. Unloaded all of them without once stooping over to pick one up. Spike, drag, pitch behind me.

I built my own 7' hookeroon to to with the LogRite and can now unload a full load without ever crawling up in the bed.

The X27 Fiskars is a close second.

Harry K
 
More Tools

While I am still in the cutting area besides the chainsaw my next most important tools are these.

If I am cutting a trunk or log I want to get part of the end off the ground. I have a home made log jack which will raise the end high enough to make a couple cuts to shorten the log before raising it again.

For big rounds laying on the ground when I'm ready to load up I have a crane on the rear of my truck which will lift up to 1,000 lbs. I've never had one I could not pick up yet.

Nosmo
 
Ear plugs... without them I would be able to hear the better half complaining, that 12 hours is enough for the day, over the sound of the saw. Seriously, plugs, without them the next day wouldn't be the same.:redface:
 
For me it has to be the wedge, the plastic type. Seems I forget how important the wedge can be at least once a day and pinch my saw in the bucking cut though. Before I discovered plastic wedges I can't remember how many times the saw hit those steel wedges, or the wedge fell on the saw during the cut... and that will ruin your day.
 
Whitespider said:
For me it has to be the wedge, the plastic type. Seems I forget how important the wedge can be at least once a day and pinch my saw in the bucking cut though. Before I discovered plastic wedges I can't remember how many times the saw hit those steel wedges, or the wedge fell on the saw during the cut... and that will ruin your day.
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I use those plastic wedges all the time as well. Over time, the edge gets lost from the occasional encounter with the saw chain. I keep about 3 or 4 on hand at all times. It's nice to have a second saw on hand to help out if needed.
 
YOU ARE!!! In all seriousness, be careful out there. Wear the PPE, lift with your legs, etc... All it takes is a minor injury to put you out of commission for a time or a major injury which could stop your woodburning altogether! I tried playing He-Man with some oak rounds last year and ended up flat on my back for a week when I wasn't at the bone cracker trying to realign the muscles in my lower back.
 

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