| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Nick |
Saw horse.I need to build one of those things that you put logs on and chainsaw them into useful length chunks, for splitting.I can build one, but I rather suspect there's optimum heights, lengths, sizes, etc. Does anyone have what I want, so I could cadge the measurements from, please? |
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| Jenna |
Made one from six lengths of 2x4, a few other bits of plank to brace/ attach it together and a 'recipe' from 'Smallholding' magazine from a few years ago. It's basically 3 asymmetric X's using 46 inch lengths of 2x4, with the centre of the cross of the X 17" down from the top, and the outside of the feet of each X at 30" apart (just been outside and measured it  ). The whole thing is 48" from end to end, and the gap between the first two X's is about 11". It'll take up to telegraph pole size, at a push, and our lad uses it as well as me (he's 6'1 and I'm 5'6). Clear as mud, I bet, hehehe 
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| gil |
I have one, though I have no idea whether it is optimum for anything. It works, though. No time to measure it today. | ||
| welshboy454 |
Look at this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qYERpGVJ4Y |
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| Rob R |
Like the sig, Nick. 
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| alison |
We have a leather belt pinned onto ours, to strap a log too, if it is moving a lot. | ||
| RichardW |
When you make it ensure that the spaces are correct so that any logs cut are the right size for your fire & that you dont have to keep moving the log. You see them with large spaces at one end & small at the other. You will have to move the log in the end to cut it all. With all the same size spacings set correctly you can fit a very large log & cut from both ends to keep it balanced & then cut between each leg to finish.
Ours has 4 legs (so its wider) so it can hold much much longer logs. |
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| Nick |
Thanks, again, Downsizer! | ||
| Rob R |
Like one of those benches they have in American prisons?
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| alison |
Ha ha, proberbly
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| lowri |
Two of my friends have the old metal ones, found on some farms and at the back of old cottages. They always complained of backache - then I came along with my folding "Ceffyl Pren" (literally the Welsh for Wooden Horse" but probably Horse for Wood). It is made of wood, and is much higher than the metal ones, I can steady it with the left foot up on the bottom bar. It's very handy to have someone feeding long branches through.
I would not care to use it in conjunction with a chain saw, but for a bow saw, and timber thinner than one's leg, it is perfect. I have been known to carry it in the van on windy days, and leap out to saw up a branch in the road!! 
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