Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[TomSeller]

OK, I think I under stand your question now. Well besides plastic I have used pre bought wooden wedges and wedges made on the spot out of the face cut wood. While blocking firewood I have used a steel splitting wedge in the past. Can be hard on the saw chain :laughing:.
As far as doing the job best and holding up to the abuse the plastic ones are my choice by far. Their angle is right so they don't spit (sp ) out on you when under pressure and some have a roughened surface to help hold even better. After you hit them with the saw a couple times you can remake them with a belt sander. The only things I don't like is that they seem to expensive for plastic even though they are worth the price and if it is very cold out, 0* F or so, you have to be careful starting them and hit them with a square blow because they might break off where the plastic is thin.

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I have some old steel ones that are nearly the same shape, I was just surprised how much easier to use the plastic ones were. I think they nailed the angle and obviously the light weight helps a lot. Plus my steel ones got used somewhere along the line as splitting wedges so they are mushroomed out a little to the point they don't go in and out of my back pocket easy like plastic ones did.

 

[94BULLITT]

There are aluminum wedges too.

 

[Jim Timber]

9 bucks is a lot to spend on dulling a chain.

I usually mash the ends of my plastic wedges into the back of the back cut and booger them that way, but I've also notched more than a few with the nose of the bar. My primary use of wedges is directional falling against back leans, so it's not always fun stuff.

I'm waiting for the price on the 36" Wilton 6# maul to come down. That looks and feels like the perfect wedge slammer. Locally they want $124 for them, which is insane. Online they're around $90. If it got down to $60 I'd probably move on it.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

9 bucks is a lot to spend on dulling a chain.

I usually mash the ends of my plastic wedges into the back of the back cut and booger them that way, but I've also notched more than a few with the nose of the bar. My primary use of wedges is directional falling against back leans, so it's not always fun stuff.

I'm waiting for the price on the 36" Wilton 6# maul to come down. That looks and feels like the perfect wedge slammer. Locally they want $124 for them, which is insane. Online they're around $90. If it got down to $60 I'd probably move on it.

Yup. I use plastic wedges too for directional falling and don't care if I nick them with a chain.

 

[Jim Timber]

Looks like Wilton dropped the ball with those unbreakable sledge/mauls. The heads come loose after a few months and their customer service says "you used it up. time to buy another one." I don't have to worry about keeping tabs on that accessory anymore.

Wilton used to be a class act and made outstanding wares. Sad to see them wind up like this.

 

[square1]

Right. Just never used the plastic ones. Sure made for faster cutting.

And here I thought you were being facetious

 

[Baby Grand]

Looks like Wilton dropped the ball with those unbreakable sledge/mauls. The heads come loose after a few months and their customer service says "you used it up. time to buy another one." I don't have to worry about keeping tabs on that accessory anymore.

Wilton used to be a class act and made outstanding wares. Sad to see them wind up like this.

I wonder if the eye is the right shape to take a wood sledge handle as a replacement?
Something about the "unbreakable" handles just doesn't click for me - they feel kind of dead.
Years ago I got a rubber handle saver for the maul & haven't damaged the handle, since it went on.
Handle Savers for Axes, Sledge Hammers, Splitting Mauls!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Looks like Wilton dropped the ball with those unbreakable sledge/mauls. The heads come loose after a few months and their customer service says "you used it up. time to buy another one." I don't have to worry about keeping tabs on that accessory anymore.

Wilton used to be a class act and made outstanding wares. Sad to see them wind up like this.

The Wilton name was taken off shore years go and hasn't been worth a tinker's dam ever since. Now even a 4" Wilton vise will set you back a couple hundred bux if it's old enough. But not the new ones. Same goes for a lot of the great American tool names, so it pays to do a little research on the Internet before you buy.

 

[FentonFarmer]

The new Mahindra 5035 got its first load onto the carryall today. Did it with ease as you would expect. Am sure that my wife will be even more impressed by the effectiveness of the magic wood fairies who restock the stack at the back door. Spied a stack of second hand shipping pallets at her work the other day so that will be the next project transitioning future wood stacks to palletised loads. Especially now we have forks.
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Cheers, B.R

 

[FentonFarmer]

The new Mahindra 5035 got its first load onto the carryall today. Did it with ease as you would expect. Am sure that my wife will be even more impressed by the effectiveness of the magic wood fairies who restock the stack at the back door. Spied a stack of second hand shipping pallets at her work the other day so that will be the next project transitioning future wood stacks to palletised loads. Especially now we have forks.View attachment 430295
hope I got the attachment right.
Cheers, B.R