Ray Won't Be Cold This Winter.......

[Binder]

Daughter wanted to camp up the back paddock with her mates a couple of weeks ago.

So I towed the campervan up there, set it all up, then looked up......bugger - tree right above the prime spot had died in the last few months, and some of the dead branches didn't look to stable. One of the red cedar things, which I loath only slightly less than black wattle......

So rather than be responsible for an accident involving someone elses' teenager, I packed the campervan up and moved it to the other end of the paddock.

Today I got around to dropping and bucking it for fire wood. Given the wood only gets used for the odd teenagers party up the backyard, I am fairly sure Ray is digging his trailer out of the shed right now........

 

Anyway I decided to do it a little different. Current practice appears to make the first cut an undercut (on you tube anyway!), rather than the traditional way I had learnt. (First cut flat bottom and wedge comes down to the flat cut,  not up).

 

Anyway seemed to work just fine, managed to get the hinge wood right, one wedge to start her moving and dropped it right in the pocket where I wanted it to go, although I was sorely tempted to drop it in the other direction and claim an "oops" moment to have an excuse to get rid of the last bomb from the backyard

A Few photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ellicat]

Looks like you deserve a drink and a rest !!

I've never seen them cut like that before either. Still does the same job.

[Binder]

Cheers Brian, definitely old and fat, I had to have two rest breaks during the work!

Only redemption - I was teaching oldest son how to use the small saw, letting him cut up the small branches while I worked on the main trunk with the big saw, he was buggered before I was 

 

[Cmaltby]

Beautiful hinge wood! there's no one correct way to scarf a tree different scarfs serve different purposes 

[rayke1938]

Just by coincidence i have this leaning up against the boat

Not that I am lazy the wood just stacks better in the trailer and will help with Calums upper body strength

Cheers

Ray

[ellicat]

59 minutes ago, Cmaltby said:

different scarfs serve different purposes

I'm off to investigate. Thanks for that.

[Gad]

2 hours ago, ellicat said:

I'm off to investigate. Thanks for that.

is that, Hellooooo sailor?    

[Binder]

Be careful how you search for types of scarfs Ellicat, was looking for desserts recipes for christmas and googled "cream pies", in retrospect I should have googled "cream pie recipes"........took me a whole afternoon to realise my mistake.......

[ellicat]

Ahahahaha. That must be close to joke of the year !

I was careful and found this reference a good one.

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