Springboard manufacturer?

[Serf Life]

Anyone know where to buy shoes?

 

[evo]

I’ve always seen them custom made. Horse shoes with either a welded bead ground down into an edge or a thick bandsaw file welded around the out side hanging over about 1/4” and single bevel sharpened.

 

[Serf Life]

That’s down home!

 

[flushcut]

https://images.app.goo.gl/1PZBV6vmaHBLMdDC9
eBay

 

[flushcut]

But making your own would be an easy beer fueled evening in the shop.

 

[Serf Life]

Looking to try springboard chopping and have found one facebook post from Canada ($450) and then those ones ^ and that’s it. Seems crazy given all of google at ones fingertips. Probably just need to learn to weld for all the random wants…

 

[Serf Life]

 

[flushcut]

Looking to try springboard chopping and have found one facebook post from Canada ($450) and then those ones ^ and that’s it. Seems crazy given all of google at ones fingertips. Probably just need to learn to weld for all the random wants…

It’s not that hard to learn how to weld and so rewarding making random things. Plus the machines out there are can be had cheaply. They might not be the highest quality but will stick metal together.

 

[ATH]

It’s not that hard to learn how to weld and so rewarding making random things. Plus the machines out there are can be had cheaply. They might not be the highest quality but will stick metal together.

I had a cheap stick welder that I did OK with....then I bought a Yes Welder multiprocess and gas bottles. Wow, what a difference! I'm not saying I'm an expert, but can stick metal together with much more confidence. It was less than $400

 

[evo]

I wouldn’t go for those red ones. There isn’t much of a lip to bite into the wood just a pair of weld beads which will likely slip around.
You don’t need to weld anything just a cut off grinder wheel and a torch and vice is all that really is needed.
Get some thick plate the width of whatever board you will be using. Cut a bull nose on one end. Stick it in a vise and heat the edge of the bull nose until at least cherry red in a dimly lit shop, smash it down with a hammer to upset the lip. You need just enough lip to bite into the wood of the tree, file or grind to clean up the back side and drill a few mounting holes.
Even a plumbers torch or a hot wood fire can be enough to heat it up.
A bag of lump charcoal and a steel pipe you can shove into the coals and put a hairdryer/ reversed shop vac hose/ or even a leaf blower on idle will get it hot enough to melt the steel! Just don’t melt it but you can make a super simple forge out of any fire pit this way.
It’s not rocket science and the only times I’ve used spring boards I just made them in the woods with a saw. No shoe… but I recommend having a shoe more so if chopping with an axe

 

[Serf Life]

I wouldn’t go for those red ones. There isn’t much of a lip to bite into the wood just a pair of weld beads which will likely slip around.
You don’t need to weld anything just a cut off grinder wheel and a torch and vice is all that really is needed.
Get some thick plate the width of whatever board you will be using. Cut a bull nose on one end. Stick it in a vise and heat the edge of the bull nose until at least cherry red in a dimly lit shop, smash it down with a hammer to upset the lip. You need just enough lip to bite into the wood of the tree, file or grind to clean up the back side and drill a few mounting holes.
Even a plumbers torch or a hot wood fire can be enough to heat it up.
A bag of lump charcoal and a steel pipe you can shove into the coals and put a hairdryer/ reversed shop vac hose/ or even a leaf blower on idle will get it hot enough to melt the steel! Just don’t melt it but you can make a super simple forge out of any fire pit this way.
It’s not rocket science and the only times I’ve used spring boards I just made them in the woods with a saw. No shoe… but I recommend having a shoe more so if chopping with an axe

That sounds like the right investment to give it a go, thanks bud. Heat metal, hit it, bolt onto wood.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

You might be able to find the contact for the promotor of logger games at town festivals
The local saw shop in logging country should be a good source

logging springboard for sale - Google Search

 

[southsoundtree]

The red ones won't pivot for tree work.

The curved ones shown in Tom's post will.


Pivot forward for face-cutting, then pivot to the rear for back-cutting... different than sport chopping.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

The red ones won't pivot for tree work.

The curved ones shown in Tom's post will.


Pivot forward for face-cutting, then pivot to the rear for back-cutting... different than sport chopping.

I never knew that.

 

[southsoundtree]

I've done it Very little... you put your weight toward the tree on the board and come light on the board a little while kicking it forward or backwards. It's not pivoting exactly under your weighted foot so your whole foot/ body moves with the board a little.

 

[evo]

I've done it Very little... you put your weight toward the tree on the board and come light on the board a little while kicking it forward or backwards. It's not pivoting exactly under your weighted foot so your whole foot/ body moves with the board a little.

Kinda like a little bounce shimmy foot action thing?

 

[southsoundtree]

Yep