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I am that busy getting the roof to the barn all closed up before too much rain starts to fall and yes, one tool of the trade coming into play in my work is the new Dusmtorfer, when all of a sudden my eye catches something curious in the corner there, axe tracks.
Not really conventional ones one could expect and in fact are nothing remarkable throughout the barn. These axe tracks are from work taking place on top after assembly by the looks of them as if the rafter was used for support and receiving the errant chops just like in the work I myself am engaged in at the time leaving my own tracks behind however unintended.
The cuts go this way and that way as if someone were having trouble getting a fix on the good position while standing up there between rafters. ( Above the batten to the right in the picture below you see cuts more parallel with the beam below the batten the predominating perpendicular cuts).
It looks to me, the bottom cut gives an indication of the kind of edge that was on that carpenters axe all those years back now when he was up there.
There's other tracks to be found there too, like these from the pit saw.
Then there tracks of a different nature like these, telmerken, cut with a special knife and for keeping different parts sorted for assembly, all having less to do with axes and so less pertinent.
Not really conventional ones one could expect and in fact are nothing remarkable throughout the barn. These axe tracks are from work taking place on top after assembly by the looks of them as if the rafter was used for support and receiving the errant chops just like in the work I myself am engaged in at the time leaving my own tracks behind however unintended.
The cuts go this way and that way as if someone were having trouble getting a fix on the good position while standing up there between rafters. ( Above the batten to the right in the picture below you see cuts more parallel with the beam below the batten the predominating perpendicular cuts).
It looks to me, the bottom cut gives an indication of the kind of edge that was on that carpenters axe all those years back now when he was up there.
There's other tracks to be found there too, like these from the pit saw.
Then there tracks of a different nature like these, telmerken, cut with a special knife and for keeping different parts sorted for assembly, all having less to do with axes and so less pertinent.