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TreeHouser
There is a part of me that gets all warm and fuzzy looking at old photos of logging with misery whips, double bits, and steel wedges. I have always wanted to find steel felling wedges and came across these Warwood 6#'ers.
Steel wedges
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FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
Criminy!
MasterBlaster
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It looks light - like you could just slip it in your pocket!
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TreeHouser
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Maybe thru your pocket. Heavy? Yes. Made to take an absolute beating? Yes. Will I ever use them on a job site? Maybe!
More of an impulse buy than practical. Kinda like the spring boards I made several years ago that have never smelled two stroke smoke.
More of an impulse buy than practical. Kinda like the spring boards I made several years ago that have never smelled two stroke smoke.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
But you're ready!!! 
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
Are they safe to strike?
Merle Nelson
TreeHouser
Nice! But,....my plastic wedges have too many saw curfs to feel like I could use steel.
Have you seen the aluminum or magnesium wedges? I think Madsens had them.
Have you seen the aluminum or magnesium wedges? I think Madsens had them.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Why don't you use your springboards?
Burnham
Woods walker
How much lift to length ratio? Maybe show a side on pic? Or give some measurements.
True felling wedges made of steel are a rare bird. I have a couple of steel felling/bucking wedges, shop made, that I have always called "razors". 10 or so inches long, 3/4 of an inch thick at the head. Tips you could slice cucumbers with
. For getting into a closed kerf, once one has screwed up enough to need to wedge open a closed kerf 
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Ask me how I know
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True felling wedges made of steel are a rare bird. I have a couple of steel felling/bucking wedges, shop made, that I have always called "razors". 10 or so inches long, 3/4 of an inch thick at the head. Tips you could slice cucumbers with
. For getting into a closed kerf, once one has screwed up enough to need to wedge open a closed kerf .Ask me how I know
.
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
I always get nervous striking steel with steel.
Burnham
Woods walker
Hit it straight and square, and wear your eye protection. All will be well.
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
I hit a bearing race one time in a John Deere wobble box and after I put the hammer down it looked like I had been quail hunting with Dick Cheney.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
The ends should be softer and made to mushroom, rather than splinter, like a chisel, IIRC.
Burnham
Woods walker
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Ouch!
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TreeHouser
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Haven't needed them flat ground here in Wisco. But one day they will shine!
How much lift to length ratio? Maybe show a side on pic? Or give some measurements.
True felling wedges made of steel are a rare bird. I have a couple of steel felling/bucking wedges, shop made, that I have always called "razors". 10 or so inches long, 3/4 of an inch thick at the head. Tips you could slice cucumbers with
Ask me how I know
I'll get some exact measurements tonight. But at a guess they are about 8-10" long and about an inch on the beating end, fairly sharp not knife sharp but sharp.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
I've found use for them on flat ground, on regular sized trees where you have to get above a near-ground level fork or bad sweep to fell big pieces rather than climb. A reasonably small, light tool that can fit in the truck easily enough. The homeowner version is the step ladder
I was raised on steel wedges.
Gotta say that I don't miss them much.
Heavy bastards to drag around the woods, and you constantly had to be vigilant about trimming the mushroomed edges off, or bad shit would happen.
One guy I worked with had a piece of badly maintained wedge go through his eyeball.
Another had a piece of his hammer head break off and go through his knee.
The surgeon said it was akin to a 7,65 bullet in power.
I love my Hardheads
Gotta say that I don't miss them much.
Heavy bastards to drag around the woods, and you constantly had to be vigilant about trimming the mushroomed edges off, or bad shit would happen.
One guy I worked with had a piece of badly maintained wedge go through his eyeball.
Another had a piece of his hammer head break off and go through his knee.
The surgeon said it was akin to a 7,65 bullet in power.
I love my Hardheads
