Hi-lift wedges

[IanW]

after your wooden shaft has smashed, put the alloy wedge on a stump and just give it a good bash side ways on with a big hammer, just enough to squeeze the wedge, it will spit the wooden shaft out or loosen it enough for you to wiggle it out by hand.

 

 

after that.... buy the plastic shafts, they last for bloody ages!!

 

Ian

 

 

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[Old Mill Tree Care]

The easiest solution I found was to throw the whole lot in the bin.

 

 

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[IanW]

The easiest solution I found was to throw the whole lot in the bin.

 

 

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at about 27 quid a shot, and if your unlucky a wooden shaft only lasts 3 trees...... it's gets pricey lol

 

 

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[countrryboy]

I'm still on the wooden shafts but don't use them anything like as much as i used to.

I put double rings on them, slows the mushrooming down a bit.

 

Never had 1 break in the first tree infact usually get a fair while out of them, as long as u hit them squareish on and is better if the sledge head is bigger than the wedge (same idea as a fencing mel/mual) always meant to weld an oversized face on my sledge but never got round to it

 

Fire and big screw both good ideas always just drilled them out in past, never that bad to do.

[AlexB]

at about 27 quid a shot, and if your unlucky a wooden shaft only lasts 3 trees...... it's gets pricey lol

 

 

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But a replacement shaft is only £3 or am I missing something. Double ring and give it a bit of a soak in water to hold the rings in place the first use and they're great. 4 of us worked our way through 8 hectares of hand cut clear fell and the only trashed wedges were single ringed, yet still survived the whole job. Extra rings are about £3 too. Oh, plastic wedges didn't last too long.

 

 

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[treequip]

at about 27 quid a shot, and if your unlucky a wooden shaft only lasts 3 trees...... it's gets pricey lol

 

 

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Good God man, what are you hitting them with?

[treequip]

I put my ally ones on the fire. Worked a treat.

 

 

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Saw a couple with the ends melted off

[IanW]

But a replacement shaft is only £3 or am I missing something. Double ring and give it a bit of a soak in water to hold the rings in place the first use and they're great. 4 of us worked our way through 8 hectares of hand cut clear fell and the only trashed wedges were single ringed, yet still survived the whole job. Extra rings are about £3 too. Oh, plastic wedges didn't last too long.

 

 

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he did say throw the whole lot on the bin, I though he means the alloy bit too which would be pricey to replace.

 

I don't use plastic wedges, I have a alloy wedge with a hard plastic shaft & 2 rings on it.

 

it really dose take some hammer and is holding up very very well

 

 

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[IanW]

Good God man, what are you hitting them with?

 

 

only a little 7lb'er

 

 

 

 

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[Old Mill Tree Care]

he did say throw the whole lot on the bin, I though he means the alloy bit too which would be pricey to replace.

 

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No, I meant the whole lot. Every annoying bit!

Don't have time to poke bits of annoying wood out.

Takes less time to buy new wedges.

 

 

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