Design a saw horse challenge!

Yeah , I know , it's just an idea
You could change it to work

 

4 supports seem to work pretty good

 

You learn to work with what you got. In frustration, you may devise something different?

 

Does a grapple bucket on a loader count? If so, I win.

 

Is that a question? If so, yes of course. "Human frustration" is what has brought us to where we are today, a giant MESS!! LOL!

 

Here are my actual dimmenions... I need to figure out how to get 3 small supports in the open area of long section... then I can cut the short side round, and cut in the middle of the long side and all 3 rounds will be supported on both sides of the round.

 

In order to win, you have to send me your entry (which can not be returned)! After evaluating it, I'll let you know if you won for not. I will require the loader, grapple basket and keys please!

 

Oh, and by the way... the winning prize is a nice robust pat on the back!

 

Well here is my old saw buck.

Aint nuthin fancy, just some old boards screwed together. Iffn I can pick up a piece of wood and place it on there I just cut between the 2 center X's and my rounds are the length I need for my stove. Going on it's 6th year and is showing some wear but so is I.

 

WOW! "just some old boards"?? Dems are some SERIOUS boards!

#1 You must have a BIG stove!
#2 How the heck do you move that giant piece of art, tractor... ?

 

Objects in this mirror are closer than they appear.

My SB is only 40 inches long and 34 inches tall and made from old barn cedar that don't weigh nuthin. If I buck wood down the middle it gives me around 18 to 20 inch rounds.

 

LOL!!

Oh ok, it looks much beefier than those dimensions.

 

Here is mine, I threw it together a few years ago, just some 4x4's and other scraps I had laying around. I didn't put a lot of thought or design into it. It may look like the center X is in the middle, but it is not. It is actually set off to the left side about 2". I cut all of my wood 18" long, set a log in there, and cut off the long part that sticks out either end 1st, then I make the last cut right next to the center X, and that round falls out and the last one stays in. It works well I think.

The legs can be spread part also, they are two large carriage bolts holding the to X's together on each end, they are snug but not tight. That way you can spread the legs if needed in case the log is a larger diameter.

Best part about it, is all the lumber was free. And even the two large carriage bolts were free. There is a Case IH dealer in town and they get all these oddball shipping crates there from tractor parts being shipped in. They have a huge pile in the back, they either burn it even so often or take it to the land fill. I go there and pick out things I want when I am in town, I think I can reuse. All my firewood racks have been built from their shipping crates, and my saw buck too.


It is only about 34" in total length. It is pretty stout also, I have set 16" to 18" around and 16 to 18 feet long logs in it and it has held them while I bucked them up.

 

I like to make stuff using 4x4s too. Cool saw buck. I wonder if anyone has ever added a roller set up to the upper arms, to make moving logs laterally easier... something like this...

 

Saw bucks = pole buck n up

 

I agree totally. But if I am at home in my driveway with a log or two I wanna buck up, I would rather work at waist level, then bend over to ground level. But I have a fork lift (for other reasons) on my property so I just go grab it and set the logs in my saw buck, you can see it in the back round of my picture. I even use my fork lift to buck on the big ones, 24-30" just lift them to waist level and cut.

 

Good plan. If possible, waist working height changes everything. And, whatever has to happen prepping for it is worth it too...

 

It sure does change everything! Makes it fun again also! The little bit of prep work pays off, just to be able to stand there and pull the trigger.

Here is a video I made this summer with my new 362 trying to get her broke in. I either put the forks under the log and lift, or I put one fork on top of the log length wise and wrap two chains around the log, and lift to waist level and just stand there and cut, the remaining log chained under the fork is then either set on top of a few rounds to finish bucking it up, or I put it in the saw buck,.

 

Another gravity fighter...