[TheForge] Woodpile (Was: Scaffold) OT

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Clever solution Steve..pf

Steve Bloom wrote:
> Greetings all --
> 
> Just a comment on the Chain-Saw-On-A-Rope ... I dismembered (or is 
> that de-limbed) a large dead live oak using the tool -- placement was 
> with a 20+' piece of bamboo. I used a radiator clamp to hold a hook 
> ('Y' shaped with one leg pointing forward and the other hooking to 
> the rear- hand-forged, of course) on the business end. A spare hammer 
> head was attached to one of the ropes and I just did the 
> 'raising-the-flag-on-Iwo-Jima' to get the hammer over the target 
> limb.  Since I don't think it's a really good idea to be positioned 
> under a ton of wood that is eventually going to fall, I rigged a 
> simple pulley on one side and ran the rope through it. Imagine a 
> large triangle - one side on the ground and the other two sides 
> reaching up to the cut point. I would then stand on one vertex of the 
> triangle (on the ground) and the pulley was on the other vertex on 
> the ground.  A couple of old hammer handles and a couple turns of the 
> ropes around the handles provided the necessary grip.  After that it 
> was a case of pull left, then pull right, then pull left, 
> then....forever it seemed until the limb started dropping.  At which 
> point, I dropped the handles and scampered out of the immediate 
> area.  Took awhile but the tree provided most of the winter's 
> firewood and didn't have the opportunity to fall on the house. The 
> reason for the piece-meal approach was that the tree was in the front 
> yard, leaned towards the power line and the house, and was tall 
> enough to smash something no matter which way it dropped.
> 
> Steve Bloom, Ironflower Forge
> 
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