Cutting some European Beech wood

Hi Sparky415,

thanks, and yes, i love beech wood too. We also have other kinda Wood here, like oak and maple, but beech is most often used for burning here...

very sad that Lemmy passed away :-( he really was a great guy.
 
Hi Eric

We have Beech woodland in my area, the Chilterns UK



I don’t get to use my axes a great deal, just a little clearing, sometimes splitting and playing (I’ve just watched some of your you-tubes)









 
I enjoyed your video. I like how you chainsawed through that one knot before splitting the log at 7:30 in the video. I've used that technique as well. In the next scene you might not have to start a wedge with the chainsaw if you change the grind on your wedge, making the bevel very slightly concave. A concave bevel will bite easier. That's a fine maul and wedge you have.

I'll join you in a shot of bourbon in remembrance of Lemmy.
 
Hi Sparky,

thanks for your nice pics ... your landscape looks great. I have just looked up Chiltern in GogleMaps.. is is North/west of London, in Buckinghamshire?
The forest pic (the first pic) Looks pretty much like here in Germany, i live south of Hannover.

Very fine axes you got! Whats that single-bit axe on th 3rd pic?

Glad to see that you also like hawk throwing! Thats a very Relaxing and contemplating thing to do ... :thumbup:

Cheers, Erik
 
Hi Square_peg,

thank you a lot - good to hear from you :) within the last years here in bladeforums (awesome, by the way), i have read many of your substantial and interesting comments, and i appreciate you as a true woodsman and axe afficionado with an immense knowledge.

Yeah, that log at 7:30 demanded a small chainsaw cut. I guess, every man develops his own personal habits and style of chopping .. of course, there are general rules to consider. For instance, here in Germany, the old woodsman have a saying "wie der Vogel scheisst, so der Baum reisst", which you could translate roughly as "how the bird's poo Drops (from the sky), that's the direction to chop the log". So from top/ crown to root direction.

Abut that wegde: good recommendation, i have in fact thought about re-profiling this a little bit...

Cheers, Erik

PS: by the way, since you live in the US: for many months, i have a very fine, old but nos double-bit axe head from Kelly here. Soon i plan to put a Hickory grip un it.. i ll post this on YouTube as well. So far, i have manly Gränsfors Bruks axes.
 
Thank you for this. Many of us have a hard enough time trying to split 16" rounds that the obviously gnarly stuff gets cut into 12" lengths right off. Aspiring to bust up metre-long trunks is a pipe dream for most of us. Works quite nicely for you though and I can see this is not your first time doing that, either. Why it is that Beech is considered a garbage tree by professional foresters in n. America escapes me. That it doesn't tolerate being kiln dried is probably what started it. But as a firewood Beech is lovely stuff.
 
A lot of the large beech trees here in the US have big hollow trunks so for logging they would be less that ideal, especially with other hardwoods so plentiful.
 
der_vincent said:
Hi Sparky,

thanks for your nice pics ... your landscape looks great. I have just looked up Chiltern in GogleMaps.. is is North/west of London, in Buckinghamshire?
The forest pic (the first pic) Looks pretty much like here in Germany, i live south of Hannover.

Very fine axes you got! Whats that single-bit axe on th 3rd pic?

Glad to see that you also like hawk throwing! Thats a very Relaxing and contemplating thing to do ... :thumbup:

Cheers, Erik
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Hi Eric, Sorry for the slow reply

Yes that’s in Buckinghamshire, Beech woods on chalk hills
That’s a Kent pattern axe from the 1960’s with the original handle :thumbup:
 
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