NWSI 2024 Axe, Wedges, and Associated Tools

Description:
Though the crosscut saw is the primary tool for clearing wilderness blowdowns, there are accompanying tools that make up a full sawyer’s kit. Bucking and hanging wedges to manage binds and tensions, a single bit axe to drive them and act as an underbuck or chop out side binds, Silky saws for removing springpoles, and a few tools you can make in the field from what’s at hand.
Presenter:
Dan Dueweke, Crosscut C Sawyer, Instructor, and Evaluator for the USFS and North Country Trail Volunteer