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General Forestry => Forestry and Logging => Topic started by: lopet on January 10, 2017, 09:49:55 PM

Title: Making a on site chain saw vice
Post by: lopet on January 10, 2017, 09:49:55 PM
Just thought that was neat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fpHn00Ne8w
Title: Re: Making a on site chain saw vice
Post by: WV Sawmiller on January 10, 2017, 11:54:57 PM
   Pretty neat trick. Got to hand it to those Scandinavians.

   Another trick I have seen that came from that part of the world was to make a stove out of a piece of firewood. They took a dry pine or spruce log common to that region, cut to 2-3 feet long, stuck it upright in the snow then split the top end with a chainsaw down 6-8 inches, sprinkled tinder (sawdust, shavings, paper, etc) down into the split and lit it. The tinder caught and the reflected heat from the 4 quarters allowed it to burn quickly. They put a coffeepot or kettle on top of the log and it heated the water/tea/coffee very effectively. They could do the same thing by splitting the firewood with an ax into quarters and tying them back together.
Title: Re: Making a on site chain saw vice
Post by: jmouton on January 11, 2017, 07:12:24 PM
that is pretty cool,  now i just have to remember it when i am in the woods
Title: Re: Making a on site chain saw vice
Post by: samandothers on January 11, 2017, 08:17:51 PM
Well that is pretty cool!
Title: Re: Making a on site chain saw vice
Post by: rank on January 11, 2017, 10:17:25 PM
pretty cool but if it's -10 why can't we see his breath?
Title: Re: Making a on site chain saw vice
Post by: g_man on January 12, 2017, 08:59:34 AM
Quote from: rank on January 11, 2017, 10:17:25 PM
pretty cool but if it's -10 why can't we see his breath?

My exact thoughts too !         

The vise idea is neat. Probably will never use it but I appreciate the clever idea.

gg
Title: Re: Making a on site chain saw vice
Post by: DeerMeadowFarm on January 12, 2017, 01:40:28 PM
They taught us how to do this in Game Of Logging training. Pretty handy, as he said, if you are working in an area for a while.
Title: Re: Making a on site chain saw vice
Post by: Maine372 on January 12, 2017, 08:27:17 PM
or if you dont have a pickup tailgate or tractor bucket to use as a filing bench. I travel in an suv and often struggle to find a place to file.