Found the best firewood measuring tool no one needs.

Unless your wood is all perfectly straight, maybe it would work.

 

There’s a thread on opeforum by Philbert about a low rent one. In that thread another user made a diy version and mounted a laser sight to his handlebar. Pretty slick set up for the guy who likes precision in their stacks.

 

I'm one of "those guys" who LOVES evenly cut wood and nice orderly stacks.

So this should appeal to me, but no, I see it as a problematic gimmick.

On the other hand, timber fallers LOVE a dead level stump, so something that radiated out in a fan to identify when your bar was dead flat side to side AND dogs to tip would be awesome, especially in big timber. "Stumps don't lie" - about the faller's ability.

Oh, and HI EVERYBODY!

 

One can become obcessed with neat stacks. I used to be this fussy, but not so much anymore

 

Lasers aren't easy to see in the bright sunshine. For that reason, I'd probably be out but a trial run would have to be made.

 

I have wondered why lasers haven't been used for this already. I mean they are all over the place for all other types of saws.

 

The older I get, the better I can foresee the headache I get trying to figure out how these electronics work.

 

Ill keep my mingo marker

 

It seems like it could work on perfectly straight grained pieces. I'm fussy about my stacks/firewood size too. That's why I use a mingo marker. But I don't get much perfectly straight stuff. Also the depth of the bark would distort the light. Cutting burr oak would be a challenge. Plus since it sticks out the front of the saw it would get bumped cutting big stuff.

 

If I hit somewhere between 17 and 20 inches, that works for me. As far as the stacks, as long as they don't fall over, that is perfect.

For those reasons, I'm out.

 

I just measure my cuts with the bar

 

I used to do that. It takes too much time and there's a lot of wasted motions in that method.

 

I agree. Thats a lot of unnecessary dancing for me.
I use a tape measure and grease marker.
One day I'll pick up a mingo marker.

 

The Mingo marker work well on large or straight logs, the amall stuff I just eye up and call it good. I used to spend a lot of time making nice neat stacks, but honestly it's a lot of wasted time and energy, both of which are in short supply anymore. When I was selling bundles the lengths had to be pretty close or customers complained.

 

I just draw a line on my saw with a sharpie where tip of bar to saw body is 20”. Put line at end of log, where tip of saw is is 20” rotate saw and cut.

 

I remember seeing one of those before online. Never have seen or used one in person. Ruler and chalk my MO for marking logs.

 

I follow a pretty easy system:
1, drop the tree
2, pick up the echo 2511c
3, pull story stick out of back pocket
4, mark rounds all the way out to branches
5, put story stick back in pocket
6, limb out the tree usually with the 2511.
7, buck firewood

I like the Ott accu-stick but it’s easy to measure a story stick from any straightish branch with the Spencer tape on sight.

 

So there are tree guys that cut to consistent lengths? Lol. I usually see random stuff and angled cuts everywhere.

 

Though I usually use the “twist it bar measure” method, lately I’ve been using the pickaroon and a stolen piece of my grandkids sidewalk chalk on my log pile.
My pickaroon(Logrite) happened to be 32” long so a paint pen mark at the 16” mark lets me lay it on the log with one hand and mark with the other down the log with chalk. Stick the pickaroon, pick up the saw at the end and work my way back bucking.


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Interesting product however I see several reasons why I would not use one (the most obvious being you can only measure from one side of the bar). Being a scrounger, I'm always flip-flopping which side of the log I'm cutting on based on where the tree fell in the woods, so I need to measure from both sides of the bar. I've tried many different methods (several mentioned in previous posts above) but prefer the Acc-U-Mark for my purposes. I disagree that measuring and cutting to uniform lengths and then making nice, neat stacks is a waste of time and energy, however that is just my personal opinion. Interesting review video of four different methods of measuring:

#479 How Do YOU Mark Your Firewood Length? 4 Markers. Comparison. Mingo Marker. ACC-U-MARK. PROSIZER - YouTube

If you go to the Prosizer FB page, it jumps right out that there are people bashing the equipment because the manufacturer is showing a video cutting pine for firewood (that age old argument that no one uses pine...).