The Sawbuck.

A few have asked about my big sawbuck. I dug it out & set it up tonight and put a few logs on it before it started raining. Pretty self explanatory in pictures.

 

I cannot tell from the pictures. Is it made from metal or from wood.

 

Looks like angle iron and square tube, to me. It ought to hold up, OK. Just need to be really careful not to hit the steel members with the chainsaw.

 

I think I will stick to my wood saw buck. I have a tendency to hit it once in awhile. But if you do good with a metal saw buck then go for it.

 

X2. I made a regular "X" type wood sawhorse years back and would seem to nick a nail or screw in it when cutting. When i made another i used all exterior glue.
Nice looking rig though AC. Impressive pile of logs too!

 

Looks nice but it would break my back trying to lift logs up there.

 

Mine too!

 

Yep at my age I was thinking the same thing.

 

Yep, me too. This one reason I don't haul full rounds to the house, either. Too heavy to lift, for me.

 

Yeah. I can get them in and out as is, but ill section with the maul or sometimes the saw. Much easier as i have to move them more than once. I went as far as quartering some 18" oak last week and liked it even more.

 

It is steel, very heavy construction.

If you look at the spacing of the beams, there's ample room for the saw to drop through without coming near the rails. In the first pic you can see the distance to the first support, that's 42". The beams are spaced so as to able to set an 8' or 12' log on center & cut 18" or 24" rounds & not come close to the steel.

Ha! Yep, that ain't gonna happen lol. I load it with the tractor & then buck the full load of logs. The splitter is set about 10' away, the rounds drop & get rolled to the log lift, split & then loaded into a tractor bucket or run up the conveyor into a dump trailer depending on where they're going. The conveyor isn't set up yet as it started raining. I gotta drop that into place yet. This is a new processing layout so I'm sure some refining will be necessary.

 

Thanks, amateur cutter

 

I’d like to see some pictures when you get the whole system in place if you have time.

 

I will get some when it's up & running.

 

Here's a few pics from yesterday of the processing set up. Conveyor not needed yet. We made about 2 1/2 cord in 3 hrs.

 

Nice work. 2.5 cords with four guys?

 

Yes, we loaded Ken's trailer, made about a cord for me & then about a cord for bundled campfire wood. That takes forever making those little splits. Feels kinda like making toothpicks after doing boiler splits. No, we didn't work real hard lol, just enjoyed a nice day.

 

I know the feeling. I make mine smaller too especially when the wood is questionable for seasoned! Which isnt often, just with Covid sales have been brisker. Wood doesnt dry fast enough.