Cutting 16 inch logs the Cheap and Easy Way!

[Billhook]

Saw this idea on youtube but thought I could improve his original idea of coloured insulating tape on the end of the main black heavy duty 1/2 inch wide tie with a bright yellow 5mm tie fitted to a hole drilled in the black one.

It folds neatly out of the way when not in use and will not be knocked off like the magnetic ones or mislaid like the bolt on ones.  Works for me anyway

 

 

[monkeybusiness]

Even cack-handed freaks-of-nature are supposed to use their right hand on the throttle - the saw’s safety features are designed around holding it to the right of your body. But you aren’t dead so I’m guessing some rules can be broken!!!

[Gav73]

I think I’ve seen the same video, your improvement looks like it makes it much easier to line up the next cut - something I didn’t think was that easy on the original version [emoji1303]

[Billhook]

3 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

Even cack-handed freaks-of-nature are supposed to use their right hand on the throttle - the saw’s safety features are designed around holding it to the right of your body. But you aren’t dead so I’m guessing some rules can be broken!!!

I'm sure that I can easily become part of the current victim culture by listing all the ways you right handed barstewards make life difficult for us lefties!  

I can start with chainsaws but go on to screw threads,  saws,  serrated knives,  many hand tools and electric tools which have the trigger guard button on the wrong side, bolt action rifles,  double barrelled shotgun triggers. trowels, fountain pens, scissors, cheque books, card machines

 

Just remember, left handed people are the only people in their right mind!

16 little ways that the world is designed for right-handed people

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Lefties have to endure lots of little struggles in a world designed for the right-handed, from swiping credit cards to cutting with scissors.

 

[Billhook]

12 minutes ago, Gav73 said:

I think I’ve seen the same video, your improvement looks like it makes it much easier to line up the next cut - something I didn’t think was that easy on the original version

Thank you for that, all I can say is that it works perfectly for me and cost very little

[sime42]

I'm sure that I can easily become part of the current victim culture by listing all the ways you right handed barstewards make life difficult for us lefties!  
I can start with chainsaws but go on to screw threads,  saws,  serrated knives,  many hand tools and electric tools which have the trigger guard button on the wrong side, bolt action rifles,  double barrelled shotgun triggers. trowels, fountain pens, scissors, cheque books, card machines
 
Just remember, left handed people are the only people in their right mind!

16 little ways that the world is designed for right-handed people

WWW.INSIDER.COM

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Lefties have to endure lots of little struggles in a world designed for the right-handed, from swiping credit cards to cutting with scissors.  

This is interesting. As a right handed person, I sympathize for you left handed people! Some of your examples Id heard of before but most I'd never even considered. Screws stopped me in my tracks, the right hand wrist is naturally stronger in a clockwise direction, so you're always at a disadvantage using the left hand.
I don't understand trowels though, can you explain that one please? Surely trowels, gardening and bricklaying, are completely symmetrical.
Have you ever tried training yourself to be ambidextrous? Years ago I developed some RSI in my RH wrist from too much computer mouse work, (I know!). I had a degree of success in learning to do it left-handed. Same with excessive snedding using a Billhook.

[Billhook]

1 minute ago, sime42 said:

This is interesting. As a right handed person, I sympathize for you left handed people! Some of your examples Id heard of before but most I'd never even considered. Screws stopped me in my tracks, the right hand wrist is naturally stronger in a clockwise direction, so you're always at a disadvantage using the left hand.
I don't understand trowels though, can you explain that one please? Surely trowels, gardening and bricklaying, are completely symmetrical.
Have you ever tried training yourself to be ambidextrous? Years ago I developed some RSI in my RH wrist from too much computer mouse work, (I know!). I had a degree of success in learning to do it left-handed. Same with excessive snedding using a Billhook.
 

Trowels have a hardened edge on one side only usually., to suit a right hander.for cutting bricks.

To pass my chainsaw certificate I had to be right handed and now can operate with either hand.

[Peasgood]

I am right handed but can do most jobs with either hand. Spend day after day doing repetitive manual tasks and you learn to change hands.

 

I won't be holding a chainsaw like that any time soon though.

[Billhook]

Another thing which literally threw me on a lot of occasions was the fact that I always mount a bicycle from the the right hand side, left leg over.  I do not ride horses generally, but when in South Africa we went for a ride down a beach with a guide.  I tried to mount the horse from the wrong side and it did not like it at all.

Come to think of it, it could explain my problem with some ..Nah forget it!

Edited March 22, 2021 by Billhook

[Billhook]

Just had a look on "Anything Left Handed " website for a chainsaw which came up with no result"

 

Anything Left Handed

WWW.ANYTHINGLEFTHANDED.CO.UK

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Left handed products and tools for left handed people - online left-handed shop