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[4570Man]

My full size skid steer would have been optimal for this job but I didn’t want to go get it from a job and haul it back. This stand on machine continues to impress me. That’s a 20” bar on the saw for scale and the log is probably 12ft long. The log in the last picture is a 14ft hickory.

 

[2515R Dude]

I had a couple of trees fallen in the storm. My daughter volunteered to help me to do the most difficult part

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I don't know if it applies on a trailer deck, but the way I manage heavy rounds is to place the dog of the saw in the middle of the round, make two 45* saw cuts on opposite sides of a round standing up of just enough depth of cut to hold two wedges to either side. Couple, 3 whacks and the round is split. Very fast. You can do 10 of these in about 10 minutes w this method.
The problem as I see it here however, is perhaps the deck being too flexible and thus absorbing the whacks.
Maybe you could cut say less than half way and then insert wedges?

I guess I don't see the need when what we are doing now works pretty darn good. I will probably change things when we can no longer do it, we aren't getting any younger.

Even chainsawing them all the way through really isn't a big deal, and I do, do that sometimes.

SR

 

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My full size skid steer would have been optimal for this job but I didn’t want to go get it from a job and haul it back. This stand on machine continues to impress me. That’s a 20” bar on the saw for scale and the log is probably 12ft long. The log in the last picture is a 14ft hickory.

I'm impressed as well considering that piece is approaching a ton or at least 1700 lbs if dead..
What do those things weigh?

 

[shooterdon]

I guess I don't see the need when what we are doing now works pretty darn good. I will probably change things when we can no longer do it, we aren't getting any younger.

Even chainsawing them all the way through really isn't a big deal, and I do, do that sometimes.

SR

I have always enjoyed your posts. But as a old man, I wonderred how long you can keep doing it your way.

Dealing with rounds over 20” in diameter gets tough and you handle stuff bigger than that. Being younger and full of piss and vinegar is a far away memory for me.

it will be interesting to see how you adapt….if I live long enough…lol.

 

[4570Man]

I'm impressed as well considering that piece is approaching a ton or at least 1700 lbs if dead..
What do those things weigh?

I assumed more like 2500 pounds or at least a ton just from handling it. That model skid steer is 3600 pounds.

 

[4570Man]

I have always enjoyed your posts. But as a old man, I wonderred how long you can keep doing it your way.

Dealing with rounds over 20” in diameter gets tough and you handle stuff bigger than that. Being younger and full of piss and vinegar is a far away memory for me.

it will be interesting to see how you adapt….if I live long enough…lol.

I’ll put them on my splitter up to about 24” diameter. Much bigger than that and the half piece is too heavy to get back on the splitter. I have a log lift on my splitter and rolling a 24” on level ground isn’t that bad. I’ll noodle down the big rounds but I find when you do that it’s about as easy to 1/4 them. If you cut the big rounds in half they’ll land on the flat spot trying to move them and they’re heavy to get back up.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I have always enjoyed your posts. But as a old man, I wonderred how long you can keep doing it your way.

Dealing with rounds over 20” in diameter gets tough and you handle stuff bigger than that. Being younger and full of piss and vinegar is a far away memory for me.

it will be interesting to see how you adapt….if I live long enough…lol.

Don, I've read your post and many times you talk about being in your 70's, here's a news flash for you, I'm in my 70's too. That's why many times I have a helper. When I'm alone, I saw them down to quarters.

What I'm doing right now works pretty good for me, if I have to change something later, I have no problem doing so.

SR

 

[shooterdon]

Don, I've read your post and many times, and you talk about being in your 70's, here's a news flash for you, I'm in my 70's too. That's why many times I have a helper. When I'm alone, I saw them down to quarters.

What I'm doing right now works pretty good for me, if I have to change something later, I have no problem doing so.

SR

You are a better man than I am!! Lol

 

[Sawyer Rob]

You are a better man than I am!! Lol

It must be the water...

Tonight, we were trimming trees,

SR