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Felling Wedge by Jay_Omega
by Thingiverse
Last crawled date: 4 years, 5 months ago
If you use a chainsaw, a felling wedge is a useful tool to have. It can be used to fell a tree in a particular direction, separate wood slabs if you use an Alaskan Chainsaw Mill, or keep a log from binding your chainsaw blade.
You can buy a 5.5" felling wedge for about $5. $5?!?!?1 For a piece of plastic?? That's outrageous! I'm making my own!
Don't confuse a felling wedge with a splitting wedge. Much different purpose. (If you have some steel filament be my guest.) Also different than a pitching wedge.
The store-bought ones are solid ABS. I printed mine using PETG, although PLA may be OK. ABS should work great if you like that sort of thing. 0.25 mm layers are fine, unless you really want to impress your lumberjack friends.
I've included both the cool looking triangle braced version and a solid version. Use the solid version if you're somewhat cautious. The PETG versions I printed feel really strong; I stood on them without any damage. The wedges were undamaged too.
Sorry, no action shot. It has been too cold/too wet/nothing to cut/too lazy lately.
You can buy a 5.5" felling wedge for about $5. $5?!?!?1 For a piece of plastic?? That's outrageous! I'm making my own!
Don't confuse a felling wedge with a splitting wedge. Much different purpose. (If you have some steel filament be my guest.) Also different than a pitching wedge.
The store-bought ones are solid ABS. I printed mine using PETG, although PLA may be OK. ABS should work great if you like that sort of thing. 0.25 mm layers are fine, unless you really want to impress your lumberjack friends.
I've included both the cool looking triangle braced version and a solid version. Use the solid version if you're somewhat cautious. The PETG versions I printed feel really strong; I stood on them without any damage. The wedges were undamaged too.
Sorry, no action shot. It has been too cold/too wet/nothing to cut/too lazy lately.