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Jared in VT
02-22-2004 16:53:22
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Re: HOLDING WHEN CUTTING FIREWOOD in reply to SMARK, 02-21-2004 16:04:09
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SMARK, 'Aint nothing safe or easy about cutting wood, period. All you can do is wear the right gear, stand it the right spot and file the chain. I've got over thirty years experiance at this and I still don't know jack. (btw; it's a Peavy, invented in Old Town, Maine and a Log Jack) Because it is such a noisy, mindless task, this fitting fire wood job is mostly a solo gig. In the wood lot, I buck it into 4' lengths and get it back to the house. It moves quicker when it's 4' than when it's 4 pieces. I leave nothing but twigs. If I can pick it up, it can burn. I try to do a tidy job of stacking, because I'll cut it right from the pile. I have a scrap wood saw-buck, (that was invented by folks who moved to Arkansas) that I can pile a giant arm load of small 4' "biscuit wood" into and buck it all at once. I'll also use this once my big wood pile gets small. Otherwise I wade into the sort of neat wood pile of 3-4 cords and whack away at it with the chain saw. When I get sick of that, or when I'm tripping on the now stove size wood, I take a break and toss it into another pile, or the back of the truck for the ride to the wood shed.
If you are better with people than I and you have help, you can just watch them do it. Buy a pair of chap's and wear them. You'll look very cool once they get broken in, and your dance lessons are more fun and productive with both a right and left foot. Jared
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