The work of sawing logs into firewood for stove heating or construction work on traditional sawhorses is not easy, convenient or reliable. The log tends to rotate when cutting, it must be constantly moved along the sawhorse as it is sawed, and at the end it must still be balanced. The log rack that we will make is devoid of all these shortcomings.
Will need
Materials:- Steel profile square pipe;
- steel round rods;
- two round pipes with adjacent diameters;
- paints for metal.
The process of manufacturing a stand holder for sawing logs
We mark the square pipe and make blanks of the required dimensions using a pendulum saw.
We place the blanks from the profile square pipe on the assembly and welding table in a certain order, fix them with clamps and begin to weld the power frame of the future log holder.
In two pieces of square pipe of equal length, after marking, we drill a hole in the opposite walls with a core drill.
We continue assembling the load frame of the log holder using an assembly and welding table, magnetic clamps, clamps and welding. It should consist of a vertical post and a horizontal support frame.
We draw a center line along one side of the square pipe workpiece, mark equidistant drilling locations and perform them on a drilling machine.
We cut pieces of the same length from a round steel rod according to the number of holes and sharpen everything at one end on the grinder.
We insert the rods with blunt ends into a square pipe with holes all the way to the opposite wall and weld them in this position.
We insert the workpiece with pointed rods in a horizontal position between the racks of the power frame at the calculated height from the floor and weld it.
Using a pendulum saw, we cut the required number of bushings of equal length from a steel pipe.
From a round steel rod we cut several blanks of the estimated length and sharpen them at one end on a grinder.
We transversely weld bushings previously cut from a round pipe to the blunt ends of long pointed blanks made from a round rod.
We insert a round steel pipe into the through holes at the top of the vertical posts and string bushings with long pointed rods welded to them onto it, preceding and finishing the stringing with bushings without rods.
We install the second end of the pipe with the threaded bushings in place and in this position we weld it to the vertical posts. Long rods should oscillate freely around the pipe in both directions.
We paint the assembled device and, after it dries, it is ready for use.
We insert the log into the holder from the side of the support frame, the end of which deflects some long pointed rods back. When the front part of the log is lowered, it rests on the lower pointed rods, which bite into the tree and prevent it from moving in the longitudinal direction.
The deflected rods, when lifting the back of the log, dig into it with their tips and do not allow the log to move in a vertical plane.
