Make a simple Log bridge with only using wedges #bushcraft #bushcrafters — Transcript

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1. 0:00all right so we got this problem out at
2. 0:03my property we've been building bridges
3. 0:06out here with pallets and and all this
4. 0:07and that and they kind of break and uh
5. 0:09just erode and disintegrate basically so
6. 0:13we're coming up with this idea we we
7. 0:15chopped a few trees down and we're going
8. 0:17to turn them into Bridges so what I want
9. 0:19to show you today is how to take a tree
10. 0:22that you knock down split it in half and
11. 0:25basically turn it into a bridge but the
12. 0:27method that I want to show you how to
13. 0:29use is really cool because you can get a
14. 0:30flat surface by just using wedges so if
15. 0:34you take a look at this log right here
16. 0:35I'm going to chainsaw off about an 8ot
17. 0:38segment and come on over here real quick
18. 0:40cuz I'll show you what we've done so
19. 0:44far so right
20. 0:46here this log about an hour ago was
21. 0:50together and as you can see we split
22. 0:52right through the middle now it's not
23. 0:54perfect but it's doing pretty well for
24. 0:57what we want it to be and and I actually
25. 1:00set up one of the bridge segments
26. 1:04already and I'll show you real quick now
27. 1:06if you take a look down below I have
28. 1:08these hunks of
29. 1:09wood uh that are squared off already and
30. 1:13kind of carved out a little thing on the
31. 1:15chainsaw and they fit perfectly into the
32. 1:18log and now we have this bridge but the
33. 1:21problem is that's an 8ft segment we need
34. 1:23to make it about probably about 70 ft so
35. 1:25it's going to take a while check out the
36. 1:27process and uh we'll see how it
37. 1:31all right so the first thing we got to
38. 1:32do is cut off about this 7 and 1/2 8T
39. 1:35segment so let's get to
40. 1:42[Music]
41. 1:50[Music]
42. 1:58work
43. 2:02[Music]
44. 2:22now we broke this off now it's time to
45. 2:25split this thing right down the middle
46. 2:27all right so we have this log we split
47. 2:29it
48. 2:30down uh with the chainsaw so now what I
49. 2:33want to do is I kind of look at the end
50. 2:34of this and we're trying to split it in
51. 2:37half so I just turn this a little bit
52. 2:39there's like a natural split right here
53. 2:41that's already happening so I'm going to
54. 2:43try to get my wedges in right up here
55. 2:46now if I have a chainsaw sometimes I
56. 2:48cheat and put a little bit uh of a
57. 2:52Groove in here to get started and I
58. 2:54think I'm going to do that today but you
59. 2:56absolutely don't need to do that uh let
60. 2:58me show you the tools that you really
61. 2:59need for this number one so you want to
62. 3:02get yourself a nice
63. 3:04sledgehammer and I like to use at least
64. 3:08two splitting wedges I like metal ones
65. 3:11and then I have big Bera over here in
66. 3:13case um I need to split it a little
67. 3:16wider so I end up using this quite a bit
68. 3:18in this process so I'm going to use the
69. 3:21Chainsaw real quick to cheat but like I
70. 3:23said you don't need to do that it's
71. 3:24already here but I feel like that's
72. 3:26going to give me a better a better
73. 3:28chance at splitting it somewhat even now
74. 3:30also if the log's moving like this it's
75. 3:32a good idea to get a
76. 3:34wedge hammered in there while you're
77. 3:38working to stabilize a little bit so
78. 3:40here we
79. 3:43[Music]
80. 3:49go it's not perfectly straight but let's
81. 3:52see what happens I'm going to start off
82. 3:54with this blue wedge it's a little bit
83. 3:55sharper just kind of set it in
84. 3:58there
85. 4:00and you'll see it start to split fairly
86. 4:03quickly we'll see what happens sometimes
87. 4:05it doesn't work
88. 4:06out just like
89. 4:10life clear the
90. 4:12area an old beer can from
91. 4:15someone definitely wasn't
92. 4:21me you can see quickly it already split
93. 4:25now is this even no this side's going to
94. 4:29be a little bigger but I don't really
95. 4:30care about that for this purpose I'm
96. 4:32just trying to split it so that I have
97. 4:34two somewhat flat surfaces to help in my
98. 4:37bridge building process so I'm going to
99. 4:38go ahead and dig this in a little bit
100. 4:41deeper as you can see it's starting to
101. 4:44split all the way down so this is not
102. 4:47coming out that's where your second
103. 4:49wedge comes in so you can put your
104. 4:52second wedge right here if you want I
105. 4:54like to go down a little further give it
106. 4:56a little starter hit and and then go to
107. 5:03town and then eventually that blue one's
108. 5:05going to get
109. 5:08loose and then you take it right out and
110. 5:11move it down and you just keep switching
111. 5:13them out all the way
112. 5:20down black one gets loose move it
113. 5:26down but
114. 5:28hey
115. 5:30you can hear the
116. 5:33crackling hear
117. 5:38that nice and free
118. 5:46down sometimes it doesn't want to split
119. 5:48all the way
120. 5:49through that's when I bring
121. 5:51in Big
122. 5:54Mama put in Big Mama right here send
123. 5:58her
124. 6:04you want to talk about
125. 6:05flat look at
126. 6:08this this is how I learn how to surf get
127. 6:11out there and you got to stand up it
128. 6:16happens you know what I'm saying nice
129. 6:18flat surface nice flat
130. 6:20surface uh not that hard not a whole lot
131. 6:23of work now you could you could take
132. 6:26these and turn them into more
133. 6:28dimensional Lumber but as a nice easy
134. 6:31way to get a flat surface from a piece
135. 6:33of wood that's otherwise just going to
136. 6:35rot out in the woods split it in a
137. 6:38half and use some wedges and you could
138. 6:41use uh wooden wedges absolutely so you
139. 6:43could do this whole project with a
140. 6:46sludgehammer and Three Wooden wedges
141. 6:48that's all you would need so maybe
142. 6:50you'll go out and try it maybe there's
143. 6:52much better ways to do it I've seen
144. 6:54other ways on the internet but this is
145. 6:55simple and it's a lot of fun so
146. 6:58hopefully you get out there and and give
147. 6:59it a shot adios