Finnish/Earlier Scandi axes - Kirves

Does somebody know why the pictures I posted keep disappearing? Not that it would be a problem for me personally, just wondering:eek:
 
veeteetee said:
Does somebody know why the pictures I posted keep disappearing?
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I do not.

I looked at some of your posts with missing pictures. If I quote those posts, the pictures will show in the BF Editor, but when I click "Preview" the same pictures (in your post) are again missing. I looked at the BBCode and pulled out the URLs for the missing pictures and they work for me. FWIW I think your best bet is to start with a BF administrator. They should be able to duplicate the problem and get it sorted.


Bob
 
With my trusted Sparrbila now in hands and ready - once some acclamation has set in after coming from costal levels to high desert- for some raftering action, the reason behind its 4,3 kilos kind of becomes self evident. I guess, 'cause I operate to a large degree on intuition and common sense with these archaic tools, this feature is first and foremost for powering through knots effectively and maybe secondarily for the big cuts such mass can facilitate in rafter hewing context, big blade on small working surface. Me, I'm waiting now on the snow to melt so as good trees are able to be gotten at and out.
 
Another Billnäs 30/6, for rafter hewing, w/o haft landed in my hands😀
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As usual, the left side is totally flat and the eye socket is bent to right and slightly twisted away from the cut being made.
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Happy day, three old axes: two pieces of Billnäs 1121 from the year 1967 and a Mariefors Bruk / Kellokoski 12.1 most likely from the war time.
The MB 12.1 has a 7,8 mm / .30” hole, clearly from the time of manufacture, drilled through the blade for a belt snap hook, like on the engineering corps shovel. Unhappy day, for reasons unknown to me I cannot share their pictures on this site:(
 
My late friend Mikko Karen was one of the last original (born & lived in Kokemäki, Finland) makers of Kokemäen puukko. He was also a keen collector and in his collection there were two Swedish rafter hewing axes

This one has no maker´s stamp:
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This one is stamped Säter Banko:
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veeteetee said:
Happy day, three old axes: two pieces of Billnäs 1121 from the year 1967 and a Mariefors Bruk / Kellokoski 12.1 most likely from the war time.
The MB 12.1 has a 7,8 mm / .30” hole, clearly from the time of manufacture, drilled through the blade for a belt snap hook, like on the engineering corps shovel. Unhappy day, for reasons unknown to me I cannot share their pictures on this site:(
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OK, it seems that pix can be posted again:thumbsup:

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veeteetee said:
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Conical as seen above, or maybe you might call it tapered as it is no longer round in cross section, but square/squarish.
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Found a book ("Laivureita ja parrukauppiaita" i.e. "Skippers and rafter salesmen" by Kalle Tynkkynen") about Egyptian rafters export from Finland. Included in the book is the picture below:
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Acc. to the caption the picture from 1983 show Arvo Kuivanen giving a demonstration in manual hewing with axe to Egyptian customers. It is stated that in average a man would cut 30 pcs / 1 cubic meter of rafters. In 1960 younger Arvo hewed 210 pcs (!) of rafters in one day in a demonstration for Finnish weekly magazine Seura. That was considered to be the world record and I don´t doubt that for a second.
 
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