Bucking logs?

Paul Toivonen

Is there a clamp or vise specific for holding wood for bucking?
Fairly small stuff but too long for the fire.
I have tried a few methods but nothing so far is ideal.
The wood is so irregular shape it just wants to move/slip out of it.
I will build something based on suggestions, so any ideas?

cutter660

The diametre is fairly important there are a few designs out there. If the logs are under 200mm diametre then you can use a stacking log holder...which consists of 3-4 large U shaped pieces of box or tube joined at the bottom. You can stack the logs into the holder and cut multiple pieces at the same time and all the logs sort of jam in so they don't move much.... Or there is the single log holder if its over 200mm, which uses the logs own weight to lock itself inbetween two rigid offset bits of steel and they come in a couple of designs ie portable, large, small, fixed, callapsable.........There are some fancy versions of this with clamps and the such to positively lock it in. But the principle is the same.

Brent Ferris

The easiest way I have found is to lay a couple of logs on the ground a foot or so apart, and stack the rest of the wood (perpendicular to them) on top, and then just cut thru the pile from each end. That way I cut several logs at a shot without restacking, or setting down the saw. Of course, if you have bigger logs, it is simpler just to roll the log over another with a cant hook, and cut away.

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John Vander

Small wood that lacks weight has a tendency to jump up when getting in contact with the saw, so I built my own bucking horse. The construction is easy and it's cheap to make. I built in a small device with screws that funcion like teeth to hold the wood down. I cut heaps of small wood since trees in Japan don't come cheap and some are hard to find I try not to waste any.

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stihlman441

These work a very well.

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Russian

My fiend form Ukraine has made this It looks pretty smart

Paul Toivonen

Great, thanks guys.
The last one is what I had in mind.
Now to start building.

Glen Poulton

At first I began just laying logs out in a criss cross fashion. Now I have a state of the art system made up of old wooden dunnage with a wide V shape cut into the top row. I can fit two full cypress pine trunks at 2400 length into it and cut into 30cm lengths two logs at a time with only one movement of each log. Works a treat.