Broad Axe Ramblings

[Ernest DuBois]

It's the first confirmation I've seen of what I suspected was the function of this sway-back axe.
No further help about your real Mccoy.

 

[Hairy Clipper]

It's the first confirmation I've seen of what I suspected was the function of this sway-back axe.
No further help about your real Mccoy.

It makes me wonder how quickly so called modern civilizations could ramp up using older techniques and tooling to supply needed items like barrels to store liquids and other bulk products for a world that has lost electricity that runs the machinery of today's factories and for the manual labor requirements to ramp up and get physically conditioned to work an eight or more hour day like those coopers were undertaking? Additionally, if gasoline suddenly disappeared long term I suspect the horse breeders might be very busy.

 

[Square_peg]

We simply couldn't do it. The wood supply isn't there. Riven wood requires clear knot-free wood - at least for things like barrel staves.

If civilization lost power it would only be able to support a small fraction of today's population. Lack of supplies would in some manifestation reduce the population to the new carrying capacity. Those would be some grim years. Civilization would have a very difficult time re-starting on Earth because all the easily exploitable raw materials at the surface have long since been used up. A civilization of this scale gets one shot on a planet.

 

[Ernest DuBois]

https://archive.org/details/stavetrimmingcoutre




Here I was one winter trimming up staves of a different kind with this coutre. It could have just as well been a side axe.

I fail to embed. Perhaps it's a privilege reserved for those Golden Members.

 

[garry3]

It makes me wonder how quickly so called modern civilizations could ramp up using older techniques and tooling to supply needed items like barrels to store liquids and other bulk products for a world that has lost electricity that runs the machinery of today's factories and for the manual labor requirements to ramp up and get physically conditioned to work an eight or more hour day like those coopers were undertaking? Additionally, if gasoline suddenly disappeared long term I suspect the horse breeders might be very busy.

The world is ruled by oil money and our economy is built on it. Paul Pantone and his Plasma reactor motor 30 years ago should tell us all we need to know. We will always have other alternatives to oil.

 

[the-accumulator]

Here I was one winter trimming up staves of a different kind with this coutre.

You say "staves of a different kind", staves for what? T-A

 

[Meek1]

https://archive.org/details/stavetrimmingcoutre




Here I was one winter trimming up staves of a different kind with this coutre. It could have just as well been a side axe.

I fail to embed. Perhaps it's a privilege reserved for those Golden Members.

Came through good on my end. Fascinating work!

 

[Ernest DuBois]

You say "staves of a different kind", staves for what? T-A

These staves are for wattle and daub in-fill. They get shaped in the length to a diamond form cross-section for stiffness and at to allow the withies to to lay somewhat inline without too much bulge.

 

[the-accumulator]

These staves are for wattle and daub in-fill.

I watched Mr. Chickadee demonstrate w&d. That's a lot of work. The time required to make the staves alone, and then all that work gets completely covered up, unappreciated by the eye. Have you done much of that type of construction? T-A

 

[Ernest DuBois]

I guess the most work is preparing and mixing the clay. If it's fortunate or not there happens to be super high quality clay in the ground here just about 1 meter down and below that some nice sand.

If the work I've done is much or not is difficult to say. In relative terms, yes, objectively prob'ly less so.