General Tree pics

[Mr Ed]

Nothing wrong with Hilift alloy wedges. I find the plastic ones break apart under my enthusiastic belting with a maul.

[Stephen Blair]

the edges just disintegrate jamie, if you are off target when hitting them in, i alaways use a splitting mall,(sledehammer one end, axe head the other) and when have been thumping away for ages with something horrible in a tricky bit, it idesnt take long to get fatigued, so my aim maybe isnt as good as it should be, the edges just crumble and then split. i think they are crap, i have used then a couple of times then through them away, the plastic ones are the way forward i reckon. yeah the lime was good to cut, but you experts out there will of noticed i hit some crap and the saw started running off, but i knew i would run through about level and i gave myself some room for error when i started as i knew there would be crap somewhere..

[jojam]

I use a fore hammer for mine an 2 rings on each wedge.Each to their own dude.I hit metal in an elm last week with a new 28'' an ripped off 5 teeth!:thumbdown:ps no pics,sorry

[Stephen Blair]

the ones i had only had one ring on i think jamie, so there was loads of spare wood at the ends to peel off and split, maybe thats what was wrong. mmmmm. cheers

[Mark Bolam]

Nice job that Stevie.

 

I like my alloy hi-lifts, but tend to agree about them not lasting, and they are well overpriced. Plastics rule up the tree as well!

 

Hope you didn't horse all that lovely log wood through your wee chipper!

[Stephen Blair]

it is all getting burnt tomorrow i think, and the firewood ran off site, the stem is getting burnt on site around the stump with all the brash

[Jonesie]

We try and advise people two put 2 ring on the high lift wedges. The rings and shafts are available on their own.

[Stephen Blair]

i still think that something that you buy that comes in diferent parts that spends its life getting hit by a big hammer by a sweaty tree cutter is daft lol

[jojam]

Sure beats breakin the long cant hook though!

[Andy Collins]

I was talking to Mike Hill one night about wedging, and he mentioned deadblow hammers, never heard of them being used in the tree biz before. But since then I bought one, and use it on the hi-lifts and even the plastic wedges, and I havent bust up one wedge since. Good tip Mike:thumbup1: