TALE OF TWO SAWBUCKS
Building a log rollway and folding wood rack for easy lumber cutting, construction.
by Harvey Mitchell
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From MOM's mailbox: Two handy racks for cutting your logs
without breaking your back
The Rack and the Rollway: couple of readers offer their
views on how wood should be cut.
JUST OVER A YEAR AGO, IN THE
September/October 1988 issue of MOTHER, we featured an
Alaskan firewood cutting rack designed by longtime
homesteader and contributor Ole Wik. Plagued by the
familiar problems of pinched chain bars, precariously
stacked timbers, and sawteeth dulled by contact with the
frozen earth, Ole poked two lines of saplings into the
ground, stacked full lengths of narrow logs between them,
and tied the tops of the saplings together so they wouldn't
splay open.
His vertical rack allowed him to turn about two dozen
small-diameter logs into firewood in less than 15
minutes-without the worry of dancing over tumbling rounds
or the waste of wrestling a large piece into place while
the saw idled.
Yet what's good for the goose may not be so for the
gander—at least not according to Milo Lamphier, a
woodcutting Montanan who submitted his wood-rack design
just after we'd accepted Ole Wik's. Milo may have been
disappointed when his submission was returned, but he was
confounded when he saw the setup that was published and
promptly resubmitted his offering with a challenge to
compare the two.
But the story doesn't end there: Not too long afterward,
another wood burner, Canadian Harvey Mitchell, mailed us
his description of a simplified bucking rack-one that he'd
built in about 10 minutes using some of the timbers waiting
to be cut. It, he wrote, was the perfect solution to a
temporary log surplus.
We're thankful for all this correspondence. Cutting
firewood is enough of a chore; if committed wood burners
among MOTHER's readers have a tool or technique that makes
their woodcutting hours go more smoothly, we're happy to
share it!
THE FOLDING WOOD RACK
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