Why is my felling lever rubbish.

[james kay]

sharpen the hook !

[aspenarb]

..sling it and get a stihl

 

 

 

He has got a Stihl, he`s using it as a wedge.

 

Bob

[Billhook]

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[Spruce Pirate]

heres an even more radical idea......learn how to do a decent gob and back cut, the tree will go over itself, just a thought from the past

 

That has to be one of the most ignorant and useless posts I've ever read.

 

Often the tree is not weighted where it needs to fall, often I use a pulling line, but there are many, many occasions when our FL is just the ticket and speeds things up greatly.

 

We literally never leave the yard without it.

 

I have to agree with both of you here. I've watched guys who've done courses recently trying to fell trees with barely any gob cut out and a hinge that would hold the Queen Mary. They're bashing away with wedges and bars struggling to get a tree on the deck when all they need to do is cut it right.

 

That said, you can't fell a back leaner the way you want simply by gubbing it and putting the back cut in, gravity will get in they way every time. Felling levers, wedges, winches, ropes, diggers, jacks, whatever felling aid you choose have their place, you just have to learn when you need to use them.

[porangi]

I have to agree with both of you here. I've watched guys who've done courses recently trying to fell trees with barely any gob cut out and a hinge that would hold the Queen Mary. They're bashing away with wedges and bars struggling to get a tree on the deck when all they need to do is cut it right.

 

 

 

That said, you can't fell a back leaner the way you want simply by gubbing it and putting the back cut in, gravity will get in they way every time. Felling levers, wedges, winches, ropes, diggers, jacks, whatever felling aid you choose have their place, you just have to learn when you need to use them.

 

 

 

This is all great but my question was not about its use as a felling lever. It was about its other supposed uses and the black hook, which only seems capable of digging into my skin and nothing else.

 

 

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[Spruce Pirate]

This is all great but my question was not about its use as a felling lever. It was about its other supposed uses and the black hook, which only seems capable of digging into my skin and nothing else.

 

 

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OK, but it wasn't me who derailed it in the first place and see my post on page one of the thread in relation to banging the hook in.

[luftwaffe]

dont know why you are having problems with what is a quite a simple consept,

 

place the spike about an inch further than where you want the spike to penetrate the log to allow the 'bite' and slowly ease the spike into the log by pulling on the handle, this has never failed in my experience, or is the log not turning because it cant due to being to heavy or stumps stoping the log from moving.

[TGB]

This is all great but my question was not about its use as a felling lever. It was about its other supposed uses and the black hook, which only seems capable of digging into my skin and nothing else...

 

 

Banter aside - consensus of opinion is to file or grind to re-profile the cant hook, so it grabs when you need it to.

[luftwaffe]

ok i have had a look at the picture again and all i can come up with is that your felling bar is too small for use with the size of the timber that you want to turn, is the spike only penetrating the bark and not the timber underneath,if so that could be your problem,

[Mick Dempsey]

It's just a stock photo off the net, it's not him.