Northern Kentucky Project: Building a Blocking Station

This video goes over a trick I use for blocking up logs into firewood.

When dealing with larger piles of longer sapplings through pole-size logs (roughly 4"-10") that are not suitable for sale to a log mill, you have the option of cutting it down into firewood for yourself. Some common issues with these piles is you tend to run out of room underfoot when you do it the regular way (cutting all of the logs on the ground). It is bad for the back, tends to cause the blade of the chainsaw to hit the ground on occasion speeding up how quickly it dulls out, and you tend to have logs rolling around under foot causing a tripping hazard.

By making one of these temporary cutting stations you save your chainsaw blade, save your back, and in my experience it speeds up the processing tremendously.

As I mentioned in the video, this setup allows for the pile to stay on one side of the cutting station, allows you to put your saw down in a secure location while picking up the log pieces you just cut, and you can customize the cutting stantion to a size that works best for you.

(Side Note on Terminology - blocking and bucking mean two different things, but the terms are sometimes wrongly used interchangeably.

Bucking means to cut a felled and delimbed tree into logs of standard sizes of desired length for milling, whereas blocking means to cut logs into rounds of suitable size to be split into firewood.)