Second Sunday of woodcutting for the fund raiser. I took the camera with me this time and campinspecter took most of the pictures. Campinspecter has been dealing with a sciatic nerve gone haywire so while he took a break, he took pics. NO pics, it didn't happen - right! We arrived first and Campinspecter checks out where to put the splitter to work the best. It is easier if the blocks load on one side and the splits get tossed out the other side where hopefully a truck is waiting to be loaded. This is the pile we are working from. It is quite an art and a hazard working from a pile and a little later Campinspecter using the truck and winch and one other worker with a rope and truck pulled logs down from the sides. Big wood requires big saws. Bucker is using at least a 36" bar. Hand splitting going on as well as supervisors making sure all is going well. We are working in a dry land sorting ground. The timber company sorts the wood from the woods and makes up bundles to be transported. Trucks were loaded stacked not haystacked. This pile is what remains of the woodsplitter operation before we moved to the other side of the wood pile. Loaded truck is waiting to be told the destination for the load. The trouble with not holding onto the camera is that you get your picture taken. the two guys using the splitter thought the winch was too slow so they were manhandling the blocks onto the table. Hope they had really hot long showers when they got home.
Closer view of the bucker and the size of blocks we were working with. These two really worked hard at the splitter. These two worked as a team - One got the maul in the wood and the other sledgehammered it until the round broke open.
What a way to make money for the church! Was that a 660 with a full wrap? I'd be a whole lot scared to be cutting at the bottom of that stack of man-killer logs! One of dem dudes decides to get away the cutter and saw are just a greasy spot!
I knew someone would ask about the saw and I don't have an answer. I will try to find out. Campinspecter was bucking to get some wood ahead for the splitter and another man was bucking as well. To keep ahead of the splitter, the big saws were really needed.
As we live in a timber - logging country, woodcuts are used to raise money for school grads, figure skating groups, hockey groups, Legions, etc. Wood is getting harder and farther away to get out in the wilds and most of our wood burning population is getting older so wood delivered split to the house is quite popular.
Everyone is smiling & having fun Great community effort ! Some big wood there, it would be fun work some wood that size I see truck loads leaving, Making money Tell CI to take it easy on the back, several here know the shooting pain in the back & down the leg. We feel for him. PS he did a great job taking pictures, he's almost as good as you (almost) Looks like you are working at the splitter pretty hard too, you'd better hit the showers tonight too LOL
Awesome work for a great cause. It's great when you have a hard working crew. You got quite a bit done. I'm glad it all worked well and everyone had fun..
Woodwidow nice post good to see this kind of stuff for fundraisers,look's like you guys were working hard. Bigbarf when i was going threw the post i was thinking the same thing, cookies and paper drives for us. The good thing about the paper drives was all the adult magazine,s that got dropped off. When your ten years old that was like finding gold. LOL
Thanks for posting the pictures Woodwidow. For sure best for Alan to be taking pictures mostly instead of wrestling logs and saws but apparently you couldn't hold him down all the time. Sadly, we can relate to his problem and sometimes not much to be done except not as much work, lay around and maybe invent a couple new cuss words. I like that fund raiser and remember your earlier posts about it.
