oh boy

[Jackbnimble]

Thanks folks.

I don't know exactly what you mean when you say drive a wedge in the top which will lift the log a bit. Dropping trees perpendicular to the big fella you want to make timbers from, makes sense. I have a good size oak and poplar already belly up, so that's not an option right now. I'd like a gargantuan peavey or facsimile that could throw these guys around with my bare hands. That, or a front-end loader the size of Alaska, like the LeTorneau L-2350, with 160,000 pounds capacity, a 2300 hp engine, with an operational weight of 258 tons, that's all.

 

[BC WetCoast]

If you have a lot lying horizontal and you make a cut in it, driving a wedge in the top makes the top of the log longer making it want to bridge ie raise it in the middle.

 

[Jackbnimble]

Thanks BC

 

[ANewSawyer]

If you have a lot lying horizontal and you make a cut in it, driving a wedge in the top makes the top of the log longer making it want to bridge ie raise it in the middle.

Ah, I get this. Good info!