Billhook

If you are mad and Finnish!

I watched him work and it is impressive but Dan Franklin does more hand tool work and rarely uses the chainsaw. His axes are so sharp you can shave with them and he makes special gouge chisels out of old car springs to make the groove in the log. When Dan swings his axe wood flies!

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This man?

We built this in 2000. Wooden ways did a full scribe log cabin course on the farm here using poplar that had been planted by my father in 1960 for the match industry. The millennium came and fewer folk smoked and those that did used butane so there were a lot of poplars looknig for a home. I had heard from somebody living in Oregon that the ultimate cabin there was made from poplar and that there was a Church built of it that was 120 years old. Dan Franklin and his team came and I think were pleased to work with poplar for a change and the result is a 25 foot by 15 foot cabin that you see in his cabin photos one and three by the lake with the swans. It is really only a place we go to enjoy the lake with friends over a beer or two but I highly recommend Dan and his skill. If you have a good source of timber locally all the better but I would hope that there is plenty around in your part of the world. The cabin is now twenty years old and because it sits on six great lumps of sandstone and therefore is away from moisture and has plenty of air underneath, there is no sign of rot. My wife and I have stayed in a fully developed cabin in Washington State and you have to be aware that sound travels along the wood, so be careful what you say or do! But a lovely feeling. especially for those who have worked with wood for a living. Log Cabins | Woodenways WWW.WOODENWAYS.COM

If you have 40 minutes to spare.....................

Not sure about this one either

Some educational stuff on youtube as usual. This guy says he is certified, if he isn't he definitely should be!

Thanks for all the replies If you had a 44 inch diameter tree to cut down and had a choice of two chainsaws one with a 48 inch bar and the other with a 24 inch bar, is there a situation where any of you would choose the smaller saw perhaps for more control and ease of use?

Just wondered what the largest diameter tree anyone has felled when you only have a small chainsaw I know the technique but have never tried it. I have often done the double plunge from either side leaving a felling tab I realise that you need to leave a slightly thicker hinge to compensate for the bit you cut through in the middle I am sure I read somewhere that you should be able to cut down a tree two and a half times the length of the bar. Felling trees greater than twice the guide bar length - Husqvarna WWW.HUSQVARNA.COM Follow this felling technique when removing tree greater than twice the guide bar length.

The ulnar collateral ligament can remain in one piece but pull a piece of bone away from where it attaches at the base of the thumb. This is called an avulsionfracture. Skier's Thumb causes pain and swelling. Your skin may bruise and appear discolored

Palmar perforation is the same as volar radio carpal perforation. Palmar radiocarpal ligament - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG I will look up thumb avulsion but it sounds like you look at your injured thumb and go “ Yuk” !

Sorry if this has been seen before. A 2010 study from Sweden of hand injuries from splitters https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:346971/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Plenty of life left in these well built machines. The circular saw beats a chainsaw every time, like a knife through butter when sharp. This is a useful thread from four years ago, shows my modifications.

Totally agree with you on this one. My machine is also about 1995 and has done a lot of work for a quarter of a century with no problems at all apart from the fact that when a log decides to be awkward and fall crossways it will do so. I made a simple foot control pedal which has the additional benefit when cutting smaller diameter stuff without the splitting knife, I can cut half a dozen logs without triggering the ram, which makes the job a lot faster. I made a log deck and there is a certain amount of manual work but no heavy lifting, I prefer it like that to keep warm rather than sitting on a seat or in a cab just pulling levers all day.

x27 definitely punches above its weight. I feel that it may be easier to achieve a high velocity with a lighter axe than a heavy one. I read stories of variable steel quality but all I can say is I have been very impressed with the head, in the six years of ownership I have never had to sharpen it, never chipped it and the shape I think has been carefully thought out so that it seems to explode the logs and as I said before it is easy to extract. (I do not work for Fiskars nor receive any rewards from them!)

The main thing with the X27 is that it is relatively light so easier to swing hard all day, but very importantly it is very easy to extract from a recalcitrant log. For a long day's work it would be my choice.

I would feel a bit of a prick going around with that one! The only one I found amusing was this one but now I see it has been done too many times.

Billhooks is the answer to everything!

Bugger that for a test. Invasion of privacy!

I was shown around Waddesdon Gardens, near Aylesbury, Bucks a few weeks ago and the mossies came out of the yew hedges and we were bitten to near death. Went out into the meadows to try and avoid them and were still bitten. Had to leave which was a shame as I really wanted to see the rest of the gardens.

Just bought these scales. Always wanted to know the weight of logs, one ton boxes full of different split wood varieties, and the weight of the same box full of branch loggings. They can weigh things up to two tons and are accurate to one kg i thought that we might have a lockdown competition to see if you can guess the weights of those logs above The largest sycamore has been down for over a year It is 32 inches at one end and 33 inches at the other and 147 inches long The shorter one is 26 inches x 120 inches The Ash log is 15 inches x 90 inches Perhaps Steve can think of a prize for the winner