Felling using axes - big no no or not?

[slack ma girdle]

The other advantage of the humbolt cut is when the trunck are skidded/ skylined up the hill, the downward facing slope of the stump reduces the chances of the trunk snagging on the way up.

[PeteB]

In this country the Humbolt gob was not used much because of the value of timber left on the stool, and the then difficulty in tushing the timber out by horse and dodging high stools. Allowances were made in the hoppus feet measurement to allow the gob, whereas in many foreign parts where tushing was by skyline, a high stool did not matter and a square cut log was better for the mill (more volume).

 

Many people have preferred to lift a muff at a critical time to hear the fibres as well as feel the fibres pull. Older tree people may be hard of hearing but they can lip read (except their wives) especially when a beer is pulled!

 

Skills with an axe should be correctly taught before the use of a chainsaw imo. You can knock in a wedge with an axe - but you cannot do that with saw!

 

My grandfather had an Uncle who had a 14lb felling axe which he used before the 1st World War!

[firewood]

ahh you beat me to it, was gunna post that, i love that

 

 

look at the bridge that the train crosses at 6.04. they must have felled half the forest to build that

[log_hauler]

Everything you ever wanted to know about axes & felling and a lot more stuff besides can be found in this book

 

 

 

Amazon.com: The Ax Book: The Lore and Science of the Woodcutter (9780911469165): Dudley Cook, S. Lawrence Whipple: Books[/ur

 

 

 

A very interesting read.

Edited October 13, 2010 by log_hauler

[Bolt]

 

real men working hard

 

never seen that before......

 

 

 

makes me feel like a fraud.

[Joy Yeomans]

when hedgelaying if the hedge has alot of stones or debris in the bottom best to lay with a axe or large billhook to save the chain and easier to use in this way than the saw and safer too ensuring no stones kicked up etc

[scbk]

At college they taught us to use the Swedish brush axes (you don't often see them about), but they were very good for clearing small trees, gorse, broom, etc

[liamjordan]

At college they taught us to use the Swedish brush axes (you don't often see them about), but they were very good for clearing small trees, gorse, broom, etc

yeahhh we used them at college to, love using those axes so much fun!!! Gunna have to get one of my own one soon

[digga]

use an axe still a fair bit in hedgelaying or coppicing work and dont see it being a safety issue cutting trees with and axe two old boys i use to work for use to cut all there wood with an axe and many others to you can get control with an axe its just another different skill set to learn same as using a chainsaw you need to learn to use it and sharp it properly was allways taught a sharp tool earns you money a blunt 1 costs you money

[Johny Walker]

heres a few pics of how they did it in the old days ,not brill pics but wer taken in 1946 & 1953