I use my hatchet instead of nails to push up against. Sink your hatchet into the log with handle facing away from you and jam the piece of wood up against the hatchet head for leverage. Happy New Year and thanks for all the great vids!
Highly Bush-crafty solution. I need to do this when cutting plastic pipe too. ( mistakes have been made…) Saves sawing hands with handsaw when short pieces roll.
Dan, two things to suggest. You can cut a sapling with a fork and drive it into the ground at your campsite to give yourself a cutting station, or what I do a lot is place the branch behind the left knee and In front of right leg. Squat down locking the branch in the back of your left knee between the thigh and calf and resting it above the knee of your right leg. That allows you to hold it with the left hand, and saw with the right. Hope that’s not confusing!
I've gone mostly to tree length wood and just feed the ends in, it also allows the fire to spread out for those multiple pots hanging on the tripod system with chains. But when I do cut wood, with smaller stock 2" or so I chunk it up into 4 or 5 foot lengths and hood the bowsaw/bucksaw with my feet and knees in a vertical position and the the wood up and down the blade, pretty efficient method. Nothing wrong with a few nails in the pack either.
I had that idea last week, but I haven't picked up any large (16d or bigger nails at the hardware store yet). Good to see it in action before I get around to it. I would bet that big deck screws with a square drive head or small lag bolts might be even better. I'll get around to that tomorrow. Thanks, Dan! 👍
Paul Kirtley has a nice solution. You just squat on your knees, with the wood pinched between your calf and hamstring, then you can saw right next to you. Not quite as comfortable, but probably quicker since it doesn't require any sort of prep.
This is a good idea to get a production line going. I like Dave Canterbury's tip for doing one offs also; kneeling with the wood behind your knee and you can cut the piece that is protruding.
Happy New Year to you, your family, & team. Nice tip, keep them coming. P.S. Of all the channels I sub to (quite a few), yours always gets the first view. Keep on representing the Keystone State dude.
I'm sorry, I know this is a bushcraft channel, but I'm going to have to suggest a little woodcraft here (especially since we're not cutting bushes). First of all (as someone who made their living using saws for decades), you hold the work (the wood) by the opposite side of your cutting hand. This gives you the stability that you need to get a firm grip. If you cut with your right hand, you brace the piece on the left side (not the right). You don't hold the work by the section that's going to fall off. I'm sure it's different for Australians and bushcrafters because everything is upside down there (Aussies laugh), but that's how 'Muricans have been doing it for centuries. Secondly, I don't know about Australia, but in the Northeastern woodlands, you can't walk an acre without coming across a fallen tree so if you have something to drive nails into, you obviously have something to work on. Again, a little woodcraft comes in handy here where you hew the top of the fallen tree to get a flatter surface to work from. This makes it easy to buck the last few pieces which really don't need to get any smaller than 18" anyway which is more than enough real estate to hold on to with one hand. Oh, and if you're going to buck that much wood, then all you have to do is to lash a couple of 4' limbs together (preferably over 4" thick) into an "X" and you prop your wood into that crotch and cut away. The pressure you put on it by holding it locks the two pieces like a vice and stabilizes everything. This also allows you to work with various diameters of wood without having to remove nails (make sure you use an axe with a hardened poll) and re-insert them for every significantly different size piece. Again, traditional woodcraft practices. 😊
I was wondering why he was holding the piece he was cutting off instead of the main log. I just keep my hand well back so if that blade jumps it doesn't get your fingers .
I certainly hope you had a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year. This is a great little hack as I always carry Nails in my pack it will come in handy. Thanks for the video Dan. Stay vigilant!
Thanks Dan. It occurred to me that you press the wood against the nails on the side of wood on the other side of where you are (the side facing the camera), so you aren’t actually using the nails on your near side. So, instead of putting two nails at the front when you only have two, you might be better off putting both of them on the far side. Still better with four nails though
You’re right. But Dan showed that you press the wood against one stop, and you cut on one stroke, in one direction, so the wood doesn’t rock back and forth. I am going to give this a try when I can, but in regular woodworking one uses a bench hook that does the same thing and it doesn’t hold the near side.
I have been wondering and wondering why I don't see any of the popular bushcraft channels recommending for others to make a permanent sawhorse at their permanent base camp sites?
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Happy New Year from Jefferson N.Y. You really nailed this one Dan.
I like what you did there haha. I'm from NY as well
I saw what you did there 👀
Ha good one
Fingerlakes native here
Having this guy's content available online is like having the world's greatest uncle in your family. Freaking love it.
I use my hatchet instead of nails to push up against. Sink your hatchet into the log with handle facing away from you and jam the piece of wood up against the hatchet head for leverage. Happy New Year and thanks for all the great vids!
Great tip!
Thanx from the Mountains of Colorado 🗻
Little things make life so much easier
Good information , thinks Dan , and have a great blessed day AMEN .
I like the idea of using the table instead of a Saw horse, it has multiple uses when not sawing!
KISS for the win again! Thanks Dan !
Happy New Year from Syracuse NY USA brother and everyone else
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. This was so simple I'm slapping myself. I've been fighting with cutting wood for so long. Thanks.
Highly Bush-crafty solution. I need to do this when cutting plastic pipe too. ( mistakes have been made…) Saves sawing hands with handsaw when short pieces roll.
Dan, two things to suggest. You can cut a sapling with a fork and drive it into the ground at your campsite to give yourself a cutting station, or what I do a lot is place the branch behind the left knee and In front of right leg. Squat down locking the branch in the back of your left knee between the thigh and calf and resting it above the knee of your right leg. That allows you to hold it with the left hand, and saw with the right. Hope that’s not confusing!
A good bow saw is invaluable in opinion for being out in the bush and camp
Dan
Excellant article of you and Coalcracker in the latest American Frontiersman magazine!!!
Glad I got a bigger toolbox for all the tips/tools I get from you. Fortunately the nails don’t take up much room in the real toolbox for the woods.
Happy New Year from near Parkersburg, West Virginia on a very rainy day. Stay warm, dry, and ahead of the cold weather.
Good video. God bless. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts.
Looks to be a good bowsaw, thanks for the info.
Happy New Year from Western New York, Dan.
I've gone mostly to tree length wood and just feed the ends in, it also allows the fire to spread out for those multiple pots hanging on the tripod system with chains. But when I do cut wood, with smaller stock 2" or so I chunk it up into 4 or 5 foot lengths and hood the bowsaw/bucksaw with my feet and knees in a vertical position and the the wood up and down the blade, pretty efficient method. Nothing wrong with a few nails in the pack either.
I saw that method for cutting with the saw but had forgotten about it until your comment. I'll have to give that a go.
That’s BRILLIANT!! Thanks for sharing!!
What a great idea. Thank you Dan.
Nice idea! You can probably pull and reuse the nails multiple times, so it makes for a quick setup as you travel from location to location.
I had that idea last week, but I haven't picked up any large (16d or bigger nails at the hardware store yet). Good to see it in action before I get around to it. I would bet that big deck screws with a square drive head or small lag bolts might be even better. I'll get around to that tomorrow.
Thanks, Dan! 👍
Happy New Year!! I think it’s about time you did some sort for 48 or 72 hour Bushcraft challenge, you defo have the knowledge and the know how!
Paul Kirtley has a nice solution. You just squat on your knees, with the wood pinched between your calf and hamstring, then you can saw right next to you. Not quite as comfortable, but probably quicker since it doesn't require any sort of prep.
Cool tip, a much better reason to carry nails than boarding up windows in a zombie apocalypse.
This is a good idea to get a production line going. I like Dave Canterbury's tip for doing one offs also; kneeling with the wood behind your knee and you can cut the piece that is protruding.
I believe that's called a "plumber vise".
Thanks for another precious tip! Happy New Year!
Happy new year from Cambridge Uk
Happy New Year to you, your family, & team. Nice tip, keep them coming.
P.S. Of all the channels I sub to (quite a few), yours always gets the first view. Keep on representing the Keystone State dude.
Great video Dan from Allentown, PA
Nails and mech wire always had it good one dan
I'm sorry, I know this is a bushcraft channel, but I'm going to have to suggest a little woodcraft here (especially since we're not cutting bushes).
First of all (as someone who made their living using saws for decades), you hold the work (the wood) by the opposite side of your cutting hand. This gives you the stability that you need to get a firm grip. If you cut with your right hand, you brace the piece on the left side (not the right). You don't hold the work by the section that's going to fall off. I'm sure it's different for Australians and bushcrafters because everything is upside down there (Aussies laugh), but that's how 'Muricans have been doing it for centuries.
Secondly, I don't know about Australia, but in the Northeastern woodlands, you can't walk an acre without coming across a fallen tree so if you have something to drive nails into, you obviously have something to work on. Again, a little woodcraft comes in handy here where you hew the top of the fallen tree to get a flatter surface to work from.
This makes it easy to buck the last few pieces which really don't need to get any smaller than 18" anyway which is more than enough real estate to hold on to with one hand.
Oh, and if you're going to buck that much wood, then all you have to do is to lash a couple of 4' limbs together (preferably over 4" thick) into an "X" and you prop your wood into that crotch and cut away. The pressure you put on it by holding it locks the two pieces like a vice and stabilizes everything.
This also allows you to work with various diameters of wood without having to remove nails (make sure you use an axe with a hardened poll) and re-insert them for every significantly different size piece.
Again, traditional woodcraft practices. 😊
I was wondering why he was holding the piece he was cutting off instead of the main log. I just keep my hand well back so if that blade jumps it doesn't get your fingers .
@@leeetchells609 Absolutely.
Happy New Year 2023 from Montreal, Quebec, Canada !
I love your stuff ! 👍😊
I certainly hope you had a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year. This is a great little hack as I always carry Nails in my pack it will come in handy. Thanks for the video Dan. Stay vigilant!
Great Dan, thank you for another time saving idea!
Dam good tool idea for the tool box!!! Nicely done on video and keep kicking ass on videos !!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🔪🪓👍👍
Awesome video happy new year Dan ❤
Happy New Year Dan
Happy New Year Dan,
You could also nail a small branch to act as a stop to help keep the log from getting away from you.
Take care
Good video
Thank you for making this video, friend
Thanks for the video. You solved a problem for me.
simple tips are awesome, thanks CC
Thanx for this vid. I struggle with saws but I would love to get the hang of it so I can play ang practice with wood.
Good tip Dan, thanks and have a good New Year 😊
Guess you could do the same thing with a Y branch driven into the ground with your axe poll along side of a larger log and skip the nails.
Happy New Year from NW Pennsylvania.
Stay safe everyone.
Keep an prescription bottle, stick a few nails in there, put it in your bag. Same for your sewing needles.
Hello from British Columbia Canada
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you nailed it.
Thanks for the tip.
Thank you for making this
Happy New Year stay safe and keep prepping God bless you brother
that is a great hack
Great tip!
Happy New Year 🥳
Great idea.
Great tip
I did have nails, but just small ones. Guess it's time to add some big ones too!
How about putting a nail or two in the curf to prevent pinching the blade?
Love that tip.
As s fifty plus years experience woodsman I avoid working on wood that moves. It must be stable maybe a whole video on this great grandpa 🙂
So ironic you dropped this video today. I processed firewood all day.
thank you
Simple but effective !!
Great information
Happy new year carry on this year
Great idea Dan..Happy New Year.
I'm not getting notifications yet again. Uhg.
Nailed it!🤔🥴🤣👍🏼
Nice idea dude
show us how that bench was made.
Can we plz have the intro from 1 year ago it was awesome and now it sounds out of place
Good tip, see ya next time.
Cool! Thanks!
Great hack
In ireland 🇮🇪 the saw blades dont cut , it kssps jamming
That's a handy tip
Nailed it
Thanks Dan.
It occurred to me that you press the wood against the nails on the side of wood on the other side of where you are (the side facing the camera), so you aren’t actually using the nails on your near side.
So, instead of putting two nails at the front when you only have two, you might be better off putting both of them on the far side.
Still better with four nails though
Remember that you both push, and pull the saw. The piece you are working on will try to roll both ways.
You’re right.
But Dan showed that you press the wood against one stop, and you cut on one stroke, in one direction, so the wood doesn’t rock back and forth.
I am going to give this a try when I can, but in regular woodworking one uses a bench hook that does the same thing and it doesn’t hold the near side.
Neat idea. What type of blade is that you have in your saw? Man that cuts fast!
Good hack.
why not use a Silky?
I always make sure I have strong base!?
Yes, nails are huge!
I do not carry nails with me when I have a emergency situation? I rely on my local ACE Hardware on my Appalacian Trail head for my nails. 🤣🤣
I have been wondering and wondering why I don't see any of the popular bushcraft channels recommending for others to make a permanent sawhorse at their permanent base camp sites?
good ........but if you have no nails theres this thing half way down your leg called a knee...... kneel on it
Good tip but I tried it with a huge log and it just rolled and flattened the nails over. 😅
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Michel Froissart agrees
You all want a good tip?
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I just get my wife to put her big ol dump truck down on the other end.
Just use a fork in a tree like a normal person who doesn't want nails sticking out of everything
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Now show me how to pull those nails back out of the bench so I can reuse them, without using a claw hammer, since you pounded them in with a hatchet.
I must admit , I never thought of this, very clever 👍🪓
or u can use a leg to hold d short wood in place while sawing xD