green wood saw buck with dry wood legs - PEP BB roundwood.sand.drypegsawbuck

Wow.  I just went through google image search and youtube and the best sawbucks are at a site called permies.com  :)

When bearpaw was here last year, he had something that was a bit of a saw buck - but it would take three of them to make what I think of as a sawbuck.  I cannot seem to find a picture of it now.  

I made a sawbuck about 15 years ago.  We've been using it and I cannot find pics of it, and I don't know where it is right now, but it looks a bit like this:



Clearly, this is a sawbuck made with dimensional lumber, which is NOT what this BB is about.   But here are some important characteristics of a sawbuck:  

  - there are two "log holders" at one end and one "log holder" at the other end.  The idea is that if you have a log that is 8 feet long, it will hold it.   And if you have a log that is 30 inches long, it will hold that too.  

  - it needs to hold the log steady - no jiggle.  This includes while working over that log with some sort of saw


Here is an interesting design.  If the legs are dry and the big log is green, this could work for this BB




This is the first I have seen of this design and i like it a lot:



I think that the log supports should make an "X" instead of a "U" but maybe that is more a matter of taste.   And maybe you would end up with two different sawbucks - one with a "U" and one with an "X".   If that were the case, I suspect that the one with the "X" would get used about six times more often.

I thought I'd try 4 bits on the top side. I have not yet made up my mind as to whether it was a good decision or not. time will tell.

Paul wanted one of these done, so here it is! Pretty neat concept.


Cleared some trees the other day and brought a forked cherry and hackberry home for this project. Grabbed a couple of small poles that were lying around not in use.





Boring a hole with the adjustable drill bit. I'm not gonna lie; it wasn't easy. If that cherry had been dry, I'm not sure I could have done it.





Decided to clean up the ends a little.





Just enough time before dark to try it out.





Full screen shot.

The y buck saw I had to use different wood for my legs so its not in my pic of what i used but you can see it in the last pic.

I built a sawbuck that ended up pretty decent but I'm planning on building a different style one soon so I'll post this one here. I don't know that I've seen this design before or not but it seemed the simplest way to do a one-piece sawbuck that fit the bb without using any fasteners or lashings. Mainly built to deal with cutting up a bunch of smallish diameter oak branches without constantly putting my chainsaw near the dirt. I used what materials were available near at hand, mostly stuff my neighbor had stacked at the curb. The main log is green tulip poplar, the legs are mostly dry tulip poplar but one is alder. Not durable woods but it was pretty quick to build. I bored the large mortises with a hand auger, leg tenons were shaped with a hatchet and a spokeshave. Wasn't sure if it would need additional braces until it was put together but it was pretty rigid and functional as-is.