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Fitting and hanging a 'green' handle conceivably could be accomplished but would require seating the head gradually plus using cross wedging that is able to be replaced or driven in further over the course of at least a few years. Rule of thumb for 'air drying' is one year per inch thickness. 10-15% shrinkage is hugely significant if you're trying to keep something tight!
Who the hell is talking about hanging a "green handle"? Not Peter Follansbee:
"So I weighed this piece of wood one more time, and got the same weight as recorded here in April & early June 14 oz.

heres where it will go, a replacement handle for my old Viking-style hatchet.

Here is recto:

and verso:

a favorite quote from Bill Coperthwaite, found in his book A Handmade Life."
Bob