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[MB]

Thanks Craig Mate
We’ll give that a try too this week, weather permitting.


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[mudnut]

What about push-pull, with two bars attached. One to guide, both applying force to strip the bark?

[MB]

Thanks Again Craig Mate
One of the most noticeable unfortunate things I did initially find was the energy excerpted shoving versus simply dropping and leveraging the old fashioned fast bar spuds. I’ll try anything once but to keep it up for a full 8hrs is hard/impossible for me


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[Avo]

Oi MB ,are you smacking the bark with the back of the axe first....we use to ha e to over here,sort of releases the tension between bark wood....back in the day I use to do post n rails,with jarrah of course so this is just a question suggestion

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[MB]

That’s the beauty too of the spud/crow bars Thanks Avo Mate
When we use them to, raise/drop/raise/drop along to cut the line instead of chainsawing a line it shock/pops the bark up for approximately 25% of its top circumference, once top opened we just lever and peel off like a bark canoe. The photos above weren’t very elegant as was butchered testing all sorts of angles, walloping, scraping exhaustion


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[MB]

A little Red Ironbark lucky example of using my boots a few months ago with an 8kg too heavy all day crowbar to firstly cut the top popping line:



Shocking definitely works AVO Mate
Disclaimer: Only when the sapwood is seasonally running, Summertime no chance of this


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[mudnut]

What about a spur that spikes the log and gives you traction. Drawing is not to scale.

After the initial start where you get enough meat for the spike to bite, it should let you steer and use leverage instead of brute force.

Somewhat the same concept as they use to move rail cars.

[MB]

Thanks Craig Mate
I’ll try Youtubey searching the rail car mover mechanism, sounds powerful for sure

EDIT: Is it similar to this one found Craigstar?

https://youtu.be/7W8c_jMVYAs

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[mudnut]

Yeah, but using the leverage from pushing down, not lifting. Looking at it, I think it will just try and bust out the top of the bark. Anyway just a thought.

[Plasnart]

Yeah, but using the leverage from pushing down, not lifting. Looking at it, I think it will just try and bust out the top of the bark. Anyway just a thought.

I think you'd need the spiked pivot lever at a much more acute angle (and spring-loaded for rebound), the thrust lever foot operated and the cutting head fixed (not pivoted) to optimise forward and slightly downward thrust for this to work.

IMHO of course