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[skc101fc]

I hear what your saying. I think I’d be knackered if I had to use steels all the time. They do come in handy for learners though. They seem to draw into the cut better than plastics or hi- lifts.

Learners or leaners ? Would defo learn you that saw chain and steel dont mix.

 

[openspaceman]

3 hours ago, jones said:

I still use metal wedges although they are mushroomed quite badly and need replaced.  They can be picked up at ironmongers/tool shops.  Can't remember the last time I saw one in an arb shop though.  Steel all the way.  Only plastic wedge I own is on my harness for big removals

Grind off the mushrooms or use a gas axe to do it

 

When I started work it was with a couple of 65 year old veterans who worked together during the war, when felling was a reserved occupation. Fred was the feller and Ted the assistant, Ted only had one eye as a bit had come off a felling wedge and hit the other one.

 

Similarly my late mate on the same firm lost the use of his eye from a wedge splinter within the last 10 years

[Graham]

48 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Grind off the mushrooms or use a gas axe to do it

 

When I started work it was with a couple of 65 year old veterans who worked together during the war, when felling was a reserved occupation. Fred was the feller and Ted the assistant, Ted only had one eye as a bit had come off a felling wedge and hit the other one.

 

Similarly my late mate on the same firm lost the use of his eye from a wedge splinter within the last 10 years

Quite a common injury.  I had a few lumps come off and embed themselves in flesh.  The old fallers warned us though :-)

[Rough Hewn]

Years ago when I started my firewood business in France, I used a large axe in my left hand and a sledge hammer in my right to split logs. After a year or so the axe and hammer were badly mushroomed but the sledgehammer had started to break and split as well.
Firing tiny bits of shrapnel randomly.
That's when I learned to make BIG mallets.
Metal on metal not good.
[emoji106]

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, Rough Hewn said:

Years ago when I started my firewood business in France, I used a large axe in my left hand and a sledge hammer in my right to split logs. After a year or so the axe and hammer were badly mushroomed but the sledgehammer had started to break and split as well.
Firing tiny bits of shrapnel randomly.
That's when I learned to make BIG mallets.
Metal on metal not good.

Most of all never hit an axe with a hammer, it can cause the eye to split out but grind mushroomed bits off before they fly off.

[Jon@CareFell]

Old School.

[billpierce]

Just for TCD if your still out there.

[Stubby]

On 07/06/2018 at 13:12, Jon@CareFell said:

Old School.

'That's a corker . Wish I could do 'em like that .

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, billpierce said:

Just for TCD if your still out there.

If you fell of that you would break your neck ! ?

[aspenarb]

Noticed this perched on one of the trailers, must have been the hinge from hell. About four chains died