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

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I could use, ah, a couple hundred feet of the tape.:D

I'll look in the shop. I still have some...if I can dig through enough dark corners I can find it. I don't want to know what will be done with it. I imagine I'll be reading about it in the paper.

Edit...how 'bout an old scruffy looking CAUTION---TIMBER FALLING AHEAD sign?
 
Tree falling

My best friend taught me the tricks to the bigger trees, so I know what I am talking about. He was as mean and as nasty as they come and I was given no mercy. If know much about timber you know the word Barber chair, watch as he laying a big cedar into a strip and the tree barber chaired, I was scared sheetless watching him run for his life. I have a healthy respect the bigger trees. He was a old school faller that was willing to show us young fallers the right way.
 
I'll look in the shop. I still have some...if I can dig through enough dark corners I can find it. I don't want to know what will be done with it. I imagine I'll be reading about it in the paper.

Edit...how 'bout an old scruffy looking CAUTION---TIMBER FALLING AHEAD sign?

Scruffy is good, I would be honored.
 
Well since most of you live on the wrong side of the country, I think Ill just sit over here and read! It would be awesome to learn to fall with some of you! But also at the same time, Im glad I dont have to log for a living.
Randy and Bob, why dont yall move over here! :) First 3 beers are on me!
 
Well since most of you live on the wrong side of the country, I think Ill just sit over here and read! It would be awesome to learn to fall with some of you! But also at the same time, Im glad I dont have to log for a living.
Randy and Bob, why dont yall move over here! :) First 3 beers are on me!

LP, if I drank 3 beers all at once I wouldn't be any fun at all...'cause I'd be asleep. Now, one beer, with a pizza...I could handle that.
 
Hah, same here. :)
We dont really use wedges much here. We cable everything off or use the skidsteer to push anything where it needs to go. Mostly small wood, and by the time you get enough of a cut to drive the wedge in, the tree is already goin the wrong way. But I dont claim to be a logger. Just a thinner :D
But we have plastic wedges, some with teeth. The steel ones have been retired to spitting duty when I get bored.
 
WEst

Come to my part of the world and we have quite a few brewery's around here. These yuppys around like their micro brews:dizzy:
 
My best friend taught me the tricks to the bigger trees, so I know what I am talking about. He was as mean and as nasty as they come and I was given no mercy. If know much about timber you know the word Barber chair, watch as he laying a big cedar into a strip and the tree barber chaired, I was scared sheetless watching him run for his life. I have a healthy respect the bigger trees. He was a old school faller that was willing to show us young fallers the right way.

So now you are a faller again huh? Did your friend teach you how to farmer cut big trees too? You have no credibility here. Get it?
 
I wonder if it's possible to get somebody banned from just one section, like the F and L for example. Then maybe hbrn could go back down to the chainsaw and off topic threads and annoy them for a change.

Wait..I know...maybe he could be banned from everything but the Homeowner Help section...he's always very helpful with advice and I think he'd do well there. Under close supervision of course.
 
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