O.C.G.D. Thread, part two

[stehansen]

I don't think i"ve used even 23 wedges in my life time and none of them hard heads.

 

[bonner1040]

Do you mean just the length, or the ratio of length: height (slope/ taper of wedge)?

The higher the ratio the better.

The less height compared to length: the more lifting power per newton of force hitting the wedge. There is all sorts of loss, the wood, heat, the hinge, bounce, whats lifted, everything.

Forget all that.

If you had a wedge that was 1" high and 36" long (36), it would lift more weight with the same swing than a wedge 2" high and 24" long (12), or a wedge 3" high and 36" long (12).

 

[stig]

You boys are beginning to sound like you're picking up on the wedgeing thing...saints be praised!

I guess you can call bying 23 dozen wedges " picking up on the wedgeing thing"!

 

[bonner1040]

You boys are beginning to sound like you're picking up on the wedgeing thing...saints be praised!

Burnham,

The guy who taught me to cut always said the old ways were best. I rarely use a rope unless necessary, almost always relying on wedges alone. In my avatar I am wedging over a big cherry, It was tall and leaning opposite of the lay but it went over with just wedges.

 

[stig]

Oh, I thought that was a hung-up tree.

You'd never catch a logger looking away from a falling tree.
Surefire way to get hit by falling debris.

 

[bonner1040]

I was muggin for the cam Stig!! It was already way committed and the tip was way out from above me, the only thing falling on me then was rain

Besides, if i had my back turned how would you be able to see my vanity?

 

[Burnham]

"BIG cherry"...:roll:



Stig is right, you know.

 

[bonner1040]

Big for here... most of the cherries in my neck of the woods are little ornamentals...

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[Burnham]

Not the cherry part .

 

[bonner1040]

You lost me..

 

[SkwerI]

You're getting picked on by one of the best, and I don't blame him since you called that little pecker pole 'big'.

 

[arborworks1]

Maybe its an optical illusion!! I've seen limbs on cherrys bigger than that though...

 

[bonner1040]

Well I guess compared to the tree that Stigs apprentice Martin cut the other day, using the 088, it is pretty small. I wasnt calling it big in comparison to any tree, just the other cherry trees I normally work with.

I can take my licks though

Still a nice photo though!

 

[bonner1040]

Maybe its an optical illusion!! I've seen limbs on cherrys bigger than that though...

Oh yeah? Did you need that crane for that nice street tree in your Avatar??

 

[Burnham]

You called that little stick "big" .

No worries, just PNW regionalism at play here, as you were, ignore the old man .

 

[bonner1040]

There I was supporting YOUR support of wedges....

 

[Burnham]

I think I can manage to soldier on .

 

[tophopper]

Ya"ll are fighting over wedges? .........in the ocgd thread? tsk tsk

 

[Burnham]

Not a bit of fighting...just a little friendly riposte.

 

[bonner1040]

I wouldnt fight with Burnham, you know what they say about having that one good punch left

 

[SouthSoundTree]

And a "Search Google for..." vocab lesson.

 

[bonner1040]

Riposte... that was a good one. I was pretty sure but i googled it to confirm... 'command t" > tab > define ripost > enter

I enjoy the vocab though...

 

[Burnham]

 

[bonner1040]

Perfect use of the emoticon. You got style.

 

[tophopper]

I thought this thread was for shiny things that go jingle jangle jingle