Making Sawbuck From Scrap Materials & Cutting Fire wood

Recently I have been felling a lot of trees to clear land on our 56 acre off grid homestead. I made a sawbuck out of scrap materials to make cutting the trees into logs easier on the ground.

We are buying 56 acres of land where we are making our off grid homestead. We are clearing some of the trees near our little meadow to expand the area that we can use.

We hope to have our chickens and goats free ranging by next year in the expanded meadow area. And we have to clear trees to allow more sunlight to hit our solar panels and increase our off grid tiny house solar energy production.

Dropping trees is easy. Cutting the top parts of the trees is easy if they are off the ground. But when I get to the last few feet of the tree it gets very hard to deal with alone. I have had Chris help me lift the tree trunk up and then prop it on some logs. Then he has been holding the tree trunk in place as I make the last few cuts. This is time consuming and requires two people to make it work.

I have read on the comments that I should make a sawbuck to help in cutting the fire wood. But I had no idea exactly how to make one until today when the idea came to my mind.

I immediately got to work using some scrap 2x6 lumber that I have on the land. I recently picked up a few truck loads of scrap lumber which was waiting for a project.

Some of the boards have a steep slant cut into them which makes them perfect for the job. I want a sharp slant on one side so that I can roll the logs up onto the sawbuck alone.

Next I cut three pieces of this wood to the length that I need.

Then I measured out where the notch will go and cut the notches with a reciprocating saw.

And then I cut three frame pieces to hold it all together. I was going to use 2x4 lumber but decided that the same 2x6 lumber would be stronger in the end.

I ran out of screws on the homestead so I am using my framing nailer to fasten this all together. I had to fire up the generator and pull out the air compressor to power the framing nailer but the job itself only took a few minutes. I love this tool.

Soon it was time to test out my new homemade sawbuck.

I rolled a lot up on to the sawbuck myself and positioned it onto the notches. I have placed the boards in such a way that I can cut them with the chainsaw into the right lengths for my tiny house wood stove.

Two of the boards are closer together so they can hold the last log in place with two points of contact. This allows me to cut the tree and keep both hands on the chain saw.

I cut up the log with ease and moved on to the next. And the next and so on until I had all the tree ends cut. There were a mess of them waiting for this project to be completed.

I am very happy with the results of my new homemade sawbuck.

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Troy

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[lt]

Thanks for the Information, very useful project.

[cindybeck]

Hubby made us a saw buck out of pallet wood that we can stand up and cut. U just pull the 6 to 8 foot log up on it works great. Not sure about cutting the logs on the ground on your knees or bent over like that. Looking good this year big difference then in the past. Keep it up.

[semretired]

Troy with all your trees your cutting down. Like Wayne mentioned you could get a use alaskian saw mill, and mill your own lumber to side your house, make chicken coup, make furniture, wood project for Melanie to make.

[Lanninglongarmmowing]

You've cut a lot of wood with that new saw the paint is worn off the bar. Wow.

[waynekwoods]

That looks like some nice wood. If you had a small saw mill those logs you could have got some nice boards, and scrap for fire wood.
being there are so straight and about same diameter.

[slickmongercash]

You should look into making a saw-mill to turn some of that forest into lumber too

[persebra]

Had no idea what a sawbuck was....a nifty thing.

[HotThunderbird]

Ya you should camo out the jeep an make it a true bugout machine that would be sweet

[vosoda]

You set up the compressor, hose, nail gun and ran the generator just to put in 18 nails? That's what a hammer is for, lol

[glendaruff]

Feet next to a chain saw don't think will end well.

[Bill]

All my life I thought a sawbuck was just ten dollars.

Troy that kind of work screams out for knee pads. I say this as a person with no cartalige in his own knees.