Chainsaw bucking jig

[beenthere]

Looks clever, and appears to work well for bucking small diameter stems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEG4caulGkM

[Jeff]

pretty slick

[DeerMeadowFarm]

pretty slick

I agree! There were some comments on safety but I think it's safer than my current method of cutting smaller branches:


 

[chester_tree _farmah]

Yeah.  That is awesome. How come we didn't think of that?

[Oliver1655]

Just position a wheel barrow/cart or elevator next to it to catch the rounds.

[CTYank]

Easy to spread some red stain with that. 

I much prefer using my 14" bandsaw, with an older blade. Enormously safer, no problem with 6" thick.  No problem at all indoors. In fact, I use it to buzz all the wood in my stacks (16") in half for my little stove.

Side benefit is greatly reduced wood waste. Over the course of a heating season, the bandsaw generated part of a 5-gal. wastebasket full of chips/dust. Collected by shop-vac, of course.

[chester_tree _farmah]

pretty slick

I agree! There were some comments on safety but I think it's safer than my current method of cutting smaller branches:


 

Wow. Yea don't stumble and trip!

When I was in high school I remember working with my friends father. He was a logger. He use to hire an old guy with an old Ford that had a table and saw rig like that mounted on the back. Used it to process firewood. I was young but I swear that blade was at least 3 ft in diameter. No guard. We would buck the logs long enough to get 3 or 4 sticks out of but short enough for two to lift onto the table. When I say the Ford was old I mean curved fenders like the model A years. Two flathead fours. One for the saw. I remember standing next to that blade pushing wood into it... wow scary stuff when u think about it now!

[Ianab]

Pretty ingenious.

If you added a plywood guard between the saw and the operator, with just a slot to feed the branch through it would be a lot safer. Don't put your body parts though the slot or over the guard, and that way your finger will stay at least 6" from the sharp bits?

Ian

[d1hamby]

I definitely need to make one of these for making little cookies to throw in my mulch beds.