Cutting wood........... every kids dream machine

[Rex in OTZ]

As a kid I used to have to haul wood after it was cut, Pop's and the chain saw cutting up that old deadfall white ash. I thought it was tough work, esp the splitting that needed to take place after, them darn knots and stuck splitting wedges.
 
I love some of these labor saving devices, Wish we has some back in the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FM8d26ay5o
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnQVoE9AvzY
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXzaGFkWfUI
 
added some pic's of what the neighbors used to work with, that is a Ottawa drag saw.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr-ynA5CgKc
 
 

[elkslayer4x5]

Way back when I was in high school, Dad, my brother and I worked one summer making redwwod posts from logs washed up on the beach north of the Point Arena lighthouse in Mendocino County, Calif. The logs where of course packed with sand so using a chainsaw was out of the question, Dad found a couple of old drag saws locally and we used those to buck the logs into post lengths. First thing I learned was to stay away from that magneto wire! Here's youtube vib of a simalardragsaw to what we used.   
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WREE3xF2ko

[Rex in OTZ]

Cutting beach wood Alaska style, we use a portable gas powerd pressure washer and a water pump, we pressure wash the silt off them black spruce logs.
 
we use a Sthil but swapped the 20" for a 16", set the poiler to max, some fellas use a 5 gal bucket of oil and dip the bar & chain (power oil)
 still end up ruining a pair of bars and several chains a season.

[spruce]

The picture of that buzzrig on the front of that Farmall brings back memories.  We had one just about like that when I was a kid (on an F-12 Farmall if I remember right). 
 
Still have vivid memories of working around that big old spinning blade with no guard on it!!!
 
How times change.  Nowadays if someone saw a parent making his kids work around something like that they'd probably call child protective services.  Back then most everybody who lived on farms burned wood and the whole family worked to put up the winter's wood - just a way of life in rural America.

[Ranger99]

i'd love to have one of those
daughtery turbo tractor saws.
though i'm afraid after paying an arm
and two legs for it i wouldn't be able
to operate my tractor. . . .


wonder if anyone rents 'em?