Info needed please

Just a point of information. This style of bucking wedge was not typically place into the kerf. Instead its broad blade was pounded in across the kerf. As you're finishing the cut of a large tree with a crosscut saw there's a risk that one side of the cut will roll and thus bind your saw. Wedging across the kerf keeps the two sides together and prevents this possible bind. The same thing can be done with an axe. But when people were bucking 6 and 8 foot diameter trees 70+ years ago one or more of these wedges might have been needed to keep things together and prevent roll-bind.
 
Square_peg said:
Just a point of information. This style of bucking wedge was not typically place into the kerf. Instead its broad blade was pounded in across the kerf. As you're finishing the cut of a large tree with a crosscut saw there's a risk that one side of the cut will roll and thus bind your saw. Wedging across the kerf keeps the two sides together and prevents this possible bind. The same thing can be done with an axe. But when people were bucking 6 and 8 foot diameter trees 70+ years ago one or more of these wedges might have been needed to keep things together and prevent roll-bind.
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https://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/htmlpubs/htm04232822/page11.htm#bucking
 
I've never seen one...very nice find. Glad the historians here were aware what
it is.... also glad it didn't end up in the scrap yard.
Charles
 
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