Wood cutting table

[BIGNASTY]

You will laugh im sure

But I haven't as much experience as MOST of you guy's in PRODUCTION FIREWOOD CUTTING!!

We have found that the branches and limbs of trees burn ALOT better in Penny's wood cooking stove. The reason ive been told is that the growth rings are much tighter and the wood more dense ( sounded logical to me ) For what ever reason I dont really care but its TRUE!

Her stove uses 20" logs but its a pretty tight firebox to get a 20" chunk of wood in and close the door without loosing ALL THE HAIR ON YOUR HAND AND WRIST, and what it does to long sleeve Flannel shirts will not be talked about.

I was having a PITA time cutting her wood for the stove, more time consuming than a PITA until a guy on another site im on sent me this link.

This is the way to cut the time in less than half for WAY MORE wood.

One small thing I do different is to work in a more open area and put the tractor bucket on the side to catch the cut wood, we cut, split in a different place than where we stack.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPOWV61xMSE


BIG

 

[DAN V]

cool

Looks pretty cool. I would be worried about kickback from the saw, but that is just me.

 

[jhenderson]

Good idea. Works well with the type of wood you folks use out west.

 

[KBurgoyne]

Looks like it would work great for tamarack or pine. Picking up oak would get old quick. Also limited to branches and not so much tree trunks. On the subject of wood cutting, I have sum hillbilly injinooity fer ye. Because its just no fun when an axe, maul, or sledge experiences drastic weight loss on the backswing. Seat the wooden wedge, drill a 5/16 hole in the middle and screw in a half inch by three inch lag screw with a 7/16 washer.

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[GCroyle]

BIG,

Watch this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxWUz1Qc51g

 

[jhenderson]

I wish I could bring a copy of this vid to some of my customers. I've got a few who complain if I mix in a few maple or yellow birch in with their oak. They should try a winter with dead spruce.

 

[BIGNASTY]

The cart that he has looks kind of what im looking for Gary. I have been looking into wood cutting on Nat. Forest Property. The requirement for NON MOTORIZED CARTS has stopped MANY!! The commercial firewood guy's around here are PO big time. Its their own doing that this has come about they dont care for the land and raise hell with other living things that should be left alone.

Have been looking at a cart some of the different parts of the country call them different things. I call them skidders or in the case of our backwoods horse/Mule logging group a, Logging Arch again they want as much a NO TRACE as possible so I have been looking around at what is mule powered and carry various length logs of pretty good size around, came up with the use of my Fore-cart connected to another device to lift the logs completely off the ground and only leave tire prints.

Fore cart has a ball hitch like on our trucks to pull the Arch. With little or no weight on the ball the cart can do it easy. The video on the link shows how the arch works pretty slick new update on a old piece of equipment

My fore cart is the same as the picture, I use it now for snow plowing with an attachment blade


http://www.logrite.com/store/index....=t30-t36&sid=7j83813fi018077bqgq067s3541yfmo9

 

[GCroyle]

OK, non motorized. How about just substituting the Mule for the prime mover? Same rig but rig a small generator to run the hoist? His did have the weight of the prime mover to counterweight the loading process or just pull them up from the rear end of the log cady, not over the side.