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:thumbup: Yup. Gettin outa Dodge is real important. Another thing that I see guys not doing on different vids is looking up when they are wedging.or jacking. . . . Its important . I hav e snapped dead limbs off from a good lick on a Hard Head with a 5 lb ax. And had dead tops break off...

Ya, I believe in Jesus, and pray lots. Just Too much can happen for me to go it alone. But, the fact is that most people get hurt or killed when they loose focus on what they are doing, in the moment and over all ... I think they are equally important. Get too tired and your mind...

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Not that I haven't made a few thousand mistakes while falling timber. Just not with those trees.

That tree was blown into the other. Partly uprooted. . No mistake on my part

Several of the dead limbs got thrown back and smacked the stump and the area I was standing when I was cutting. Ya gotta Know when to cut and when to run. !!

This hemlock was blown into the one its resting on. It was hard to tell whether it would hang or foll out. . I faced it so it would start to fall away from the bole of the tree it was in. . Made a good run trail so I could get away from itand backed it up. . I didn't want.it.to go so far that...

:) Anytime your falling timber thru timber whether its big or small even the most experienced faller can and sometimes does get stuff hung up. But Stig definatly has it right. God wants people to fall timber. And the best way to do that is with the lean. :D Not gonna get much done...

On this job, one of the goals was to Not pull the guts out of them so doing a lot of swinging was out. I could have put that tree down the hill but Dan wanted it where I put it. I don't really beat wedges too often. But its important as a faller to know how to and when to wedge a heavy tree...

I think its Gumboot65. But I messed up when I uploaded some of them and I can't easily access them

If your getting hard bounce back while driving plastic falling wedges then you need more wedges in the back cut, a bigger hammer " heavier ax " , a jack, or a pulling line up in the top of the tree. I have some vids on YouTube of beating wedges but I can't figure out how to access them to...

I've never owned one. Are they expensive, ??

I've heard that a few years ago some guys were breaking their hard head wedges. But, the only way I've broke them is by using them for a hammer setting other wedges. And that took a few months. They might tear up the striking face on a plastic dead blow hammer tho. . ?????

If I Know I will have to beat wedges a bunch then I will bring the 5 pounder. Like having to wedge my timber up out of a crik or away from the cut line. . Usually the bull buck will give a guy a heads up on that if its a new strip.

In the old growth forests on the coast of Alaska the timber is mixed age. . The understory are the young trees most of the time. . We call them whips ect. Often several of them have to be fell in the swamping out process of falling timber. I always pack my rig builders ax on my belt. And...

Just fall an understory tree. And find the mallet in it. I usually try for . about a 30" limb handle. A faller from Montana named Butch, taught me that trik

I like a mallet a lot more than a club. A club can ring the stuffing out.of your hands and jam your wrist. A mallet almost never does as long as you make a good one.

If my strip is a good ways off the road or a long walk from the landing. I use a 26" handle 5 lb raftein ax. It really chaps me that Collins ect.stopped making the 5 lb rafting ax. As a bushler I don't make money beating wedges so I don't make a habit of doing it. But , sometimes it can't...