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The thread about wedges and stacking them was what caused me to think about making those wedge plates of nylon instead of iron. Since then I've shown them to a bunch of fallers around here. The reaction has been the same from all of them:Now, why didn't I think of that ? Now everybody here are...

Run it through a planer, and the taper is gone! That is why you cut it as thin as possible in the first place. It only has to be thick enough to slice through once it's dry, any thicker is just waste.

A forester I fall trees for regularly use to say: wood is only worth anything, when it's been sailed around the world. When America was first settled, and they started shipping huge logs of american chestnut, Black walnut, pecan etc. back to the old world, furniture makers like the Chippendale...

Burl elm is a "freak of nature". It is only about one in a thousand trees that have any burl at all, and the ones that are solid burl are really rare. That kind of veneer is not turned by the way. In turning veneer, you cut along the growth rings, so the grain "picture" becomes unexciting to say...

Apart from burl elm, normal elm wood is quite beautiful. We don't have many dark colored native hardwoods here, so it's been used for furniture a lot. I've made lots of tables and countertops out of it, when I was into furniture making. Something completely different. It was used for building...

I cut them a little wider than the wedges I use (Hardhead) and about 5 " long.

Nope, Reddog! That is a different tree, we sure felled a lot of really big elm trees when the dutch elm disease killed them all off. However, this tree was sold on auktion in Germany, but I don't know who the buyer was. The owner of the tree was going to give it to someone for firewood, I...

I just realized I could fake it, just use two pieces of firewood to make an illusionary tree. So here goes: pound one wedge all the way in, inset nylon plate and start the next wedge on top of plate. Pound second wedge in, remove first wedge, inset 2 nylon plates and start wedge on top of them...

It'll be a while. Even though I fall lots of trees right now.........525 today alone, I don't use wedges, since they are christmas trees. Yes, the season is upon us again. I have about 10000 to kill this year, hateful work. It usually rains and even when it doesn't the trees are wet, so it's...

When this whole wedge talk started, I told you all how we danes don't stack wedges but use iron plates to build them up. Then I got to thinking; we use plastic wedges now because they are lighter than iron wedges, but we still drag 5 pounds of scrap iron around the woods. So I went to a plastic...

As the society hostess Wallis Simpson once said: "You can never be too rich or too thin, or have too many wedges!"