My new sawbuck

[Shawn Curry]

I finished building my new sawbuck over the weekend and its working great. Took a couple ideas I liked, and designed it to suit my needs.

The "crotch" height is 2' from the ground, to match the height of my wood trailer. I offset the center leg, and made the short side 18"OC, my preferred length, which fits N/S in my stove, and 24"OC, which fits E/W. I used half lap joinery for extra strength.




Here is is folded "closed". I had to make a trade off, between folding ability, and the extra strength of the joinery. Takes up about 1/2 the space as it does fully open.


This thing is solid. Here it is loaded up with 2/3 of a smaller Norway maple tree:


Get ready to press the "easy" button:


The "short" side is pretty handy too:


Then my Dad came over with the FEL, so we could really test her out:


Just kidding. This is the ash log I saved from my 4th of July score. Finally got it home from the neighbors house:

 

[Studdlygoof]

Looks great Shawn. I was just telling myself last night I could use one when I was looking at my pile of uncut branches. Like how you took the time to add the lap joints and stain your finished product.

 

[bigbarf48]

Nice looking sawbuck! Makes mine seem a bit ugly

One word of advice- be careful not to nick any of the bolts when you're cutting, ask me how I know

 

[Shawn Curry]

Nice looking sawbuck! Makes mine seem a bit ugly

One word of advice- be careful not to nick any of the bolts when you're cutting, ask me how I know

Thanks! I wanted to countersink for the heads of the bolts, but I had to make that relief notch to allow it to fold up, so there was just too much going on right there and I didn't want to compromise the strength.

I already "broke it in" yesterday - started going too fast and nicked it with the chainsaw:


Made quick work of a medium size ash tree, and a trailer load of branch size stuff in the process though:

 

[Charlie2]

Nice work!
Thanks for showing how to use a saw buck! I thought it was for ol timey manual crosscutting saw work, one piece at a time.

 

[Rossco]

Nice horse. Looks like nice wood.

Fiskars doing the job.

 

[Roundgunner]

Yours makes mine look like it came from the scrapyard.