Watch "The Schertel Saw" on YouTube . iI not sure if anyone's ever seen this yet but this is pretty ingenious idea! Looks like a real back saver!
I'll bite. Why does this jerk toss his Jonny(?) when he could file the chain. Such a fit of pique! Throwing everything, what a savage! (Sorry, Dennis.) Wanna save your back? Learn to go down on one knee on occasion. I'll pass on the do-dads, thanks. (Firewood processor, maybe.)
We tend to buck everything up in the woods and clearing enough area to position the cart and the saw dolly would add too much time into for me. Works great for all that driveway cutting though. I just never seem to get much of that. I also like to fill and work on my saw at the tailgate level saving my back.
That was the first thing I noticed, the guy's chain was either dull or on backwards; seeing him throw the saw makes me think it was on backwards. Now to finish watching the video.
Not bad for working with logs on flat level ground. I cut my logs in the woods, on slopes and uneven ground; I have no way to get logs out of the woods to a processing area. However, for those with the means to get logs to a level processing area, I can see that improving processing of the logs.
I've seen it, some inventors like to invent. I think necessity is the mother of invention, and this I don't need.
I agree with everything you guys wrote. In my opinion this would be a good idea for someone more elderly but still like to try to process there own wood. Of course they would have to get a load of logs deliverd to and open area on their property in order to use this effectively. And as for the guy throwing his saw? Yeah we don't need the drama! We get that you were just trying to make it look harder than what it was.
This thing is a joke for so many reasons. If you have to cut remotely, you lose half of your hauling space. It looks heavy and ackward to load also. If you have uneven ground, mud or snow, wrestling that cart around will be s challenge. Last, setting up and tearing down the thing willjust add more time. I am certain I could block twice as much with half the saw in the same amount of time. Sorry, had to vent.
Not the first time this stuff has been tried. Looks like several days of building to accomplish an hours worth of work. I don't think it would work so well with real-world firewood logs, especially here in the NE, land of twisted, branch infested hardwoods. Bucking the trunk is the easy part! 70cc, a 20" bar and good chain would have all that bucked up real quick. Proper attention to posture and perhaps a knee pad or two would eliminate the back strain. The Peavey is worth keeping tho.
Look at all of the work to hold and manage that contraption. At the end of the day, with a good sharp saw there is little effort operating until you need to move over. After about 20 cuts these monsters it would be break time. I understand people wanting to do things easier, but these are not the answer.
Those attachments fit the 4-wheel gravely tractors too. Sit down and let the tractor do the work. Sloooooowly.
All the time spent making that single cut with the gravely I would have made several cuts with my Husky 555 and been moving the next log to where I wanted to cut it up. I noticed he also had set the log on a cinder block so it would need to be moved with each cut. I think I'll pass. That tool is more technology looking for a problem than most. The Schertel saw was even more interesting. First he uses a dull saw to make believe that cutting with a good saw is hard, then he brings out that 4 wheeled contraption that would be a pain to use anywhere but on paved ground. I see it also requires a prop to hold up the log but at least he has a tool that does that for him rather than a cinder block.
you should never attempt to market a product with the straightest, easiest to buck wood - dead standing pine(notice the blue hues in the wood - beetle killed dead standing)
If that Jonny in the first staged scene were a Stihl, it would have bounced off the ground and cut the log by itself.
