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Yep. A huge part of our jobs consisting of knowing how and when, applied at judicious times.

For people not so used to wedging, the only real way to build experience is by doing. Butch, I gather you are a get-it-on-the-ground-and-go treeman working for tree service, who May not want to pay to see you spend extra time on a particular tree. If people can set a line to help tip the tree...

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When you have room for more, back from the hinge, is good. Sometimes it seems both are helpful.

Dunno. He's got to accelerate his whole body not just the pounder. Remember, we weren't going any farther than 5 minutes from the truck, usually 30 seconds. Big hammer is easier to drag around than big saw and big bar, but it all adds up. Big The total of the wedges certainly weighed more than...

You work best with that weight. I wonder about a bigger guy. I might be a step up in size, and Duane, who I worked with pounding over big trees was two steps or maybe three beyond me (40 pounds and 5 inches). I don't know if a big guy like him would be able to get the pounder going as fast, but...

Previously, I worked for state parks. We were professional mess makers (knock 'em down and move to the next) with big, rotten or dead trees. Putting them out into the woods was our best bet. Having to get a pull rope from under a huge fir in the brush would not be very fun. We beat the snot...

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Tight wrist= hard on wrist, no?

I found that cutting a kerf into a top bind, then slamming the mushroomed wedge a bit until its set, makes a good vice for shaving down the wedge with a saw. I have flung a few, backchaining, which is why I slam it in firmly now before wedge pruning.

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Yes, nothing yet. Potential Job Opportunity. Budget Biennium end June 30th. Could have a position open with the new Biennium, as soon as July 1st, but more likely take a couple months. Full disclosure: you'd be working with a couple atheists, one of whom retired from the religious department of...

You can jump ship and move to Oly, maybe. See the thread about job opportunities at Parks.

I've been pushing for both. We have just been so busy for the last couple months, and coming couple months that we haven't had time to address it. Add to that people who don't know what we do, or how we do it, scrutinizing equipment purchases. My supervisor got questioned for buying bar oil...

dThanks for the input cody. We have the 120 ton, double ram Silveys. Heavy suckers, like 70 pounds, seemingly. Mostly the big pounder wouldn't be for typical residential sized trees when we are working at State Parks. This one went relatively easy, as it was neutral. Duane is 6'3". Whereas...

Edited my original post to read 8#, not 5# splitting maul. I bet the sledge, which I've recently put on a handle when the maul handle was broken, but I haven't used, is more like 5# or maybe more. Maybe that makes the OP more sensible a bit.

Those are the rough lengths of our Parks axes, though the shorty is not 5 pounds. Our situation is somewhat unique in that its got elements of residential work and logging. Structures and infrastructure that you don't deal with in logging, along with bucket access, with constraints sometimes...

We have been beating over some big trees last week and this week at Parks. For small trees, we have a short handled 3# ax, for bigger trees, a 4# medium handled ax (for really big trees we have the Silvey hydraulic wedge;), stored in the shop until we get our new job box mounted on the truck)...