I built this sawbuck yesterday following the directions from video made by Firewood For Life on YouTube. Only gave it a quick test. Works great and it holds me up completely. Couple changes I made to it was that I used shorter bolts to try to eliminate hitting the chain on a bolt. I also did not add another horizontal board to it, as was in the directions. It was heavy enough using PT wood. Maybe I’ll add that on after it dries out.
You might want to have a thin, sacrificial piece of wood laying in the crotch. It'll help keep the saw from nibbling away at structure.
River birch from my tree service neighbor. Those branch’s pieces have been a PITA. I should plow through them now
Looks good! I've thought about making something like that myself. Let us know how you like it after using it a while!
I I like mine. I usually throw one on to be ready to cut when I don’t feel like getting the tractor out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I spaced them 16” apart for the wood I cut. There’s a few tricks that I came up with some rework and do overs. My saw’s bar being on my right side(like everyone’s), I can cut on the Left(as facing) side of each cross sliding the bar down beside the cross board sticking up which(the near board) is also placed on the Left as I face the sawbuck. Cutting the log working from right to left then lets each round fall into the right side so the bar doesn’t bind. I pick them up and place on the splitter all at waist height. Then the carriage head bolt that I countersunk is run from the left to right for the pivot. This puts the nut and threaded end sticking out on that right side of the cross that the chain never goes on normally. Between a couple of cross bars I made a low shelf down near the ground. This gives me a place to set the saw off the dirt/snow as I move rounds to the splitter or load logs with the tractor. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Hey Lenny , I like the idea of a shelf. I usually use a piece of plywood to set my saw on. I think I will attach it to my saw-horse as a shelf , this way it is always there.
Ya know, I stopped and thought about something- depending on loading/weighting a buck of that size, think about how much more wood could be slung into that if it were upside down??? Plus, the initial few lengths would be closer to the ground therefore easier to load. To bring the saw thru the bottom of the cut, one would merely have to go to a one knee stance. That may not work for hoarders with bad knees, but I go to one knee when bucking because of my lower back and not being able to bend at the waist. Looks gooder beastly, Lennyzx11 no matter how it’s oriented!
That’s an idea… I’m always getting multiple logs trying to move and bind the saw so I do one at a time. My most efficient use is that I use the tractor grapple or forklift attachment to grab a log & cut rounds off in the air then place the 6 or 8 ft leftover in the sawbuck. Go get another log and repeat process cutting the first leftover up on the sawbuck along with the 2nd log hanging. Shut saw off, roll ground logs or pickaroon and tongs them to splitter to use lift to pickup heavies and split then clean off sawbuck rounds at waist height. Dump second leftover on sawbuck and pickup 3rd log. Rinse and repeat. I always try to leave something on it to cut so I can walk out to “test a saw” without messing with the tractor.
