The Backyard Lumberjack | 
 enlarge | Authors: Frank Philbrick, Stephen Philbrick
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 180757
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 1580176348
Dewey Decimal Number: 634.98
EAN: 9781580176347
ASIN: 1580176348
Publication Date: September 15, 2006
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Product Description
For every man who has ever conjured up a picture of himself felling trees in a roar of chainsaw noise and power, The Backyard Lumberjack is an account of dreams fulfilled. Father and son lumberjacks Stephen and Frank Philbrick have enjoyed the thrilling destruction of felling, bucking, and splitting timber for hundreds of cords of firewood. Together they bring practical instruction and first-hand advice to every man with a chainsaw.
Before there can be any felling of trees or satisfying shouting of Timber!, every potential lumberjack must choose the proper saw. The Philbricks offer buying advice based on the quantity of wood to be cut and the amount of time to be spent on the job. Diagrams of chainsaw parts, functions, and maintenance requirements; tables and charts of saw specifications and firewood volume; and personal cautionary tales of on-the-job injuries arm potential lumberjacks with the necessary tools to make informed choices.
Chainsaw in hand, father and son move on to detailed instructions on managing a woodlot, felling and bucking, splitting and stacking, and even include fun facts on burning. For every lumberjack chore they offer advice on equipment (chaps, helmets, felling wedges, hatchets, mauls, peeves), careful procedural instruction, safety and efficiency strategies, and always their humorous anecdotes and tales of tree adventure.
For the rural lumberjack with acres of woodland, the suburban guy with a cord of wood to split and stack for the fireplace, or the urban guy who just likes to think about chainsaws, The Backyard Lumberjack is as much an engaging read on the legends and experiences of lumberjacking as a practical reference guide.
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 Borrow it From the Library February 12, 2008
This is an ok book. Probably the most helpful info was the section on how to cut down a tree. Not worth keeping on the personal library shelf and I don't recommend buying it. I'm sorry I bought it.
 Awesome book, great pictures February 10, 2008
I just bought a chainsaw for my 12-acre woooded property, and after reading the manual cover to cover, I was terrified of using it. This book was very helpful, and the pictures were great. It has given me some confidence that when I get out there, I will know what I am doing.
Practical, clear, great handbook April 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great all-purpose book if you have a woodlot or even if you don't. It covers just about everything you ever wanted to know about trees, identifying them, felling them safely, splitting, stacking, aging and burning them! We heat our house exclusively with wood, most of it taken off our property, and have found this book (like most Storey publications) to be genuinely useful.
The Art of Woodcutting April 4, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There's more to cutting wood than swinging an axe. Learn the finer points of wood splitting in this book.
Fun, informative, not complete March 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a fun and informative book. I recommend it for anyone considering doing anything
with wood before burning it. The book covers every step from tree to ashes, but there
is something in it for those that start with delivered log lengths, or shorter pieces,
split or unsplit.
I've been cutting and splitting wood for about 20 years, mostly purchased log lengths,
but also some trees on my lot. The only mistake I found was a one time confusion between
BTUs and Kilowatt Hours. The sections about limbing and bucking were correct, but a few
more examples and illustrations might have made them even better.
A substantial part of the book is not needed in an instruction manual. There are stories
about people (characters) the authors have known, sermons about the good life burning wood,
even a description of lumberjack competitions. You might not laugh as often as I did, but
if you don't smile frequently, you really are a grump.
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