{"product_id":"piller-plastics-8-double-taper-wedge-with-high-vis-orange-top","title":"Piller Plastics 8\" Double Taper Wedge with High Vis Orange Top","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 8\" Wedge That Works as Hard as the Season Does\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsk a professional faller what is riding in their wedge pouch and you will hear the same answer a lot: Piller Plastics, the company that invented the plastic felling wedge back in 1963. The\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAW96\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis their 8 inch all-weather wedge, textured on both faces with a hi-vis orange top, and it has earned its place in the kits of production fallers and wildfire crews working the toughest timber in BC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTen inches of lift is the working faller's standard. It gives you the length to drive deep behind the bar, the mechanical advantage to pick up a back-leaning stem, and enough wedge left proud of the kerf to stack a second one when the tree needs convincing. The double-sided texture is what keeps all that lift honest: both faces bite into the wood so the wedge holds every millimetre you drive, instead of spitting back out under load.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e✅ All-Weather Rated for Real Canadian Conditions\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCheap wedges get brittle in the cold and shatter under the axe poll in January, or soften and mushroom in summer heat. The AW102 is moulded from all-weather rated material built to take repeated striking through the full swing of a BC season, from frozen coastal mornings to 35 degree August afternoons on a fireline. And because it is plastic, it will not wreck your chain if the bar finds it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🌲\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSix Decades of Wedges, One Family Story\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePiller Plastics is not a factory that happens to make wedges. It is a company that exists because of one. Back in 1963, founder Jacob Piller brought an injection molded plastic felling wedge to the woodsmen of the Pacific Northwest, a patented design that was cheaper, lighter, and tougher than anything in their kits, and easy on a saw chain to boot. Loggers adopted it almost immediately, and more than sixty years later that same lineage of wedges is still in production and working in timber around the world. As a family-owned shop ourselves, that is exactly the kind of maker we love to put on our shelves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔧\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e8\" Length\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e– The professional standard for felling, with the lift and reach to handle back-lean and heavy stems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTextured Both Sides\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e– Double-faced grip holds firm in the kerf under load, in wet wood, frozen wood, and pitchy wood alike\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHi-Vis Orange Top\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e– Easy to spot in the kerf, in duff, in slash, and in low light, so it goes home in your pouch instead of staying in the bush\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAll-Weather Rated\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e– Engineered to resist cold-weather shattering and hot-weather deformation through years of striking\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eChain-Safe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e– Saw into it and you sharpen your chain, not replace it. No metal in the wedge body\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e💪\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect For\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProfessional fallers and buckers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erestocking the wedge pouch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWildfire and danger tree crews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewho need gear that performs in every season\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArborists\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efelling removals with tight lay requirements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFirewood cutters and woodlot owners\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estepping up from bargain-bin wedges\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnyone bucking on a slope\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewho wants the kerf held open and the bar unpinched\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e💡\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy Fallers Carry More Than One\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA wedge is the cheapest insurance in falling. It holds your kerf open, protects your bar from pinching, and steers the stem where you planned instead of where gravity votes. Working fallers carry three or more, because stacking wedges is how a back-leaner comes over safely, and because the day you need a second wedge is not the day to be walking back to the truck. At this price, set up your pouch properly: two or three AW102s and you are covered for almost anything a day of falling throws at you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e📦\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Specifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eModel\u003c\/strong\u003e: Piller Plastics AW96\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 8\" (20.3 cm)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSurface\u003c\/strong\u003e: Textured both sides\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eColour\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hi-vis orange top\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRating\u003c\/strong\u003e: All-weather\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMade by\u003c\/strong\u003e: Piller Plastics, making professional felling wedges since 1963\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🛒\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRound Out Your Falling Kit\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrive it with a proper axe from our\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/axeman.ca\/collections\/axes\" style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003eaxe collection\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, keep a\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/axeman.ca\/collections\/silky-saws\" style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003eSilky saw\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eon your belt for limbing, and see how wedges fit the bigger falling picture in our\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/axeman.ca\/collections\/wedges\" style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003efelling wedge collection\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e. 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