How'd it go today?

Good start to the day. Found my skidding cone. It's better than I could have hoped for...

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Downside is I cut my finger with a hacksaw removing the hardware(Why's that crap on a skidding cone anyway?!). Dumbest part is I said to myself, "Self; You should move your hand, or you're gonna cut yourself". Self said "Don't worry about it. It'll be alright..." :^S
 
lxskllr said:
Downside is I cut my finger with a hacksaw removing the hardware
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Lol that's why you don't use a hacksaw! I can count on one hand the times I've used a hacksaw, it's like the tool of last resort when the other tools of last resort have failed :lol:
 
stikine said:
Those beech look nice size stig.
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Yep.
Too old to use for anything else but testing apprentices in.
We have gained some fame locally for our way of having new apprentices in for a "talk", so when I called the local State forester and asked if we could borrow "the usual Beech tree", he just laughed and said: " Another youngster being tested, I guess".

I got really lucky today.
We'll be logging for at least july and august on island Møn.
2 different castle forests and some 3000 cubic meters.
So I called the owner of Nordfeld castle ( We have a really fine relationship, he'll be going along on our motorcycle trip to Schweiz this summer ( Corona willing) and asked if he knew of anybody down there, who had room for us.
While logging camp is fine and fun, 2 months is too much.
Turned out that Nordfeld castle had a place where the renters are moving out in may, and they haven't decided whether to rent out again or do a bed and breakfast.
So letting us have it for 2 months is no problem. :)

Working 10 hour days in summer heat, it sure is nice to be able to shower and sleep on a mattress, instead of staying in a tent.















Hhhhhhmmmmm......................................................Am I getting old or what?
 
I have no other choice.
Doing 10 hour days in the shape I am in, will likely be the hardest thing, I've ever done.

But, I still have 2 months to train for it :|:
 
10 hrs is a long day running saws for sure. Stig where do the apprentices come from? Are they enrolled in some college or trade school program?
 
Forestry school.
A 3 ½ year education, where most is served with a master and 1½ year at school.
 
Tree09 said:
Lol that's why you don't use a hacksaw! I can count on one hand the times I've used a hacksaw, it's like the tool of last resort when the other tools of last resort have failed :lol:
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Hacksaw's all I got. If a file, carpentry saw, bowsaw, hacksaw, or chainsaw won't cut it, it doesn't get cut.
 
I guess I have a reciprocating saw. It was in the tools I found in the trash. Haven't used it though. I've spent most of my life using hand tools. That's why I got into chainsaws so late. Until a big storm nailed my property, I did almost all woodcutting with a bowsaw. The rest was an axe/machete, or crosscut.

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This was the last cordless drill I bought...

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Got it a couple months ago. I wanted one in the house. My old one's in the truck, and the chuck's sloppy from abuse. Haven't had a dead battery yet!
 
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I hate even using a sawzall, it's a tool of last resort for me. But a hacksaw is ridiculous, especially on iron or steel. Hand tools have a use for sure, but on metal they are almost futile except for fine work. A cold chisel and hammer would even be better in my opinion. I'm spoiled in the fact that i work with metal all day everyday so i have all sorts of tools, but sometimes doing stuff the way it was done over 100 years ago isn't remotely practical. Get yourself a cheap grinder, or better yet a good one, and then you'll have a way of cutting stuff, sharpening tools and mower blades, and wire wheeling rust off stuff.
 
I have stationary grinders. I have a foot treadle big stone grinder, a normal sized handcrank grinder, and an electric benchgrinder in the basement, but I don't like going in the basement. I scavenge a lot of rebar at work to use as control points and property corners. Straighten them out in the hitch receiver in the truck, then cut them to length with a hacksaw. It goes pretty quick. You only have to get ½-⅔ in, then snap it off.

I like the portability and reliability of handtools. They just work. No hassle aside from the effort it takes to operate them.
 
A pair of bolt cutters does rebar even faster. I'm clearly not gonna convince you of anything, but in life things are often done in a certain manner for a reason. A $20 tool, or the one you already own, could have done that job effortlessly in a couple min.
 
Boltcutters leave a shitty twisted end. Yeeaars ago we used to get rebar from a guy that cut them with shears. They don't drive straight, and it's hard to get a cap on right. Not that all my rebar is a gem. Some of it came out of old bridge decks or jerseywall, so though I straightened it mostly, it has a funny shape, and doesn't drive as straight as virgin rebar. I prefer to use those for control points, cause they get set and located. They don't have to be in a particular place. I save the really straight ones for property corners, or driving in extremely hard ground. Mine are 100% recycled, 100% postconsumer content, and no petrol or electricity was used in production. Doesn't get any greaner greener than that!

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WTF spelling :^/
 
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John, take some photos when you use your improvised log cone. You might want to cut the flange off it beforehand? Of course that might not be feasible with your hacksaw... ;)
 
Tree went well. Not terribly large. Just in a bad spot. I was going to originally cable it after a nice prune, but mom was worried the insurance company was going to eventually require it's removal vs cancel. And really, it would not be over my personal dwelling.
Down to a stem by lunch. Mom went and got pizza. Started about 9ish. Lowered most of it. No stress day. Levi ran the material with the mini about 600 feet out to a burn pile. 20210430_085906.jpg 20210430_085928.jpg 20210430_090023.jpg 20210430_090040.jpg 20210430_090044.jpg 20210430_125005.jpg
 
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