Our Story
The tale of how the BranchBuck Firewood Cutting Rack came about.
Is it possible to look back on the pile of wood you just cut in an hour and say, “Wow, that was fast!”?
If you are like me, you heat your home with wood. Do any of these sound familiar:
You feel like you are constantly behind keeping up with your firewood through the winter. You managed to get some trees felled and drug them back to where you cut them, but you didn’t quite get to bucking them. When you get some time on a weekend, you wade through 8 inches of snow, dig the wood out, and cut enough for the next couple weeks. Each weekend you dread having to go out and cut wood.
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You get slabwood delivered to your house for your winter firewood needs. When the logging truck arrives and the wood is unloaded, you hand the driver your money and stare at a huge pile of wood, wondering how long this is going to take to cut.
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You are cleaning up around your property after the winter, picking up sticks and smaller branches and dragging them to the curb for pickup. You burn wood, but cutting all the smaller sticks and branches takes forever, and you just don’t have the time or someone to help you. Not to mention, it's dangerous.
A big apple tree just blew down in a storm a few days ago. There are twisted limbs and branches everywhere. You cut it up the best you can into pieces that fit into your firebox, but it’s slow going and the whole time you’re doing it, you wonder if there isn’t a faster way to cut the whole thing up at once, rather than branch by branch.
For me, situations like the ones above seemed to happen just about every year. I heat with wood and cut my own firewood, and I have a lot of smaller branches that I hate to just burn on a bonfire outside to clean up, but cutting them all up into manageable pieces with a chainsaw just takes too long. I have a family and I’d rather spend time with them than cleaning up the property and cutting wood.
All the time I was cutting, I kept thinking about better ways to cut wood. It was time to get to work and build something that helped me cut my wood faster, safer, and easier than the way I had been doing it. Most importantly, it was time to take back my time so I could spend it with my family.
