Lets use those axes for what they were ment for.

Looks like your having a good time. Is that a 72" felling saw you guys have with you?
 
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Square_peg said:
Looks like your having a good time. Is that a 72" felling saw you guys have with you?
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Nearly--66" to be exact; I believe she's a 5.5 footer. We have a variety of other saws but Gretchen there is about the biggest we need usually in the Frank Church. Lot of the clearing out here is in lodgepole/fir burn where a BIG tree is 2' +. Of course, now and then ponderosa make you glad you've got the length.
 
Pindvin said:
[video=youtube;VNSQrLK4AmU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNSQrLK4AmU[/video]
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Głupie skurwiele.

Looks like they're trying to win a Darwin Award. Leave rotten timbers alone.

New title for the video - "Survivalists Trying to Commit Suicide".
 
more viewshed management. i think this is shagbark hickory. i could be wrong.







maine axe. unknown maker. Marked 35 on the underside.





 
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On elm wood I differ. I know of one case where the elmwood handle of a sort of chopping axe from a not unknown axe maker broke on initial use. How representative is the instance? I don't know and it is true elm is known to be tough and resilient in many uses, which are two things an axe handle should be. From personal and widespread experience I can say it is not a durable wood. It has a high sugars content throughout and will attract insect infestation outside of the ideal conditions. It was widely used for paneling here in the barn where I live and every plank is rife with wormholes. Also, you should see the outside eating table I have here made of elm. And, I just replaced the elmwood jaws of both of the leg vices on the old workbench, they were crumbling. I did use elm wood though as replacement in sticking to my restoration framework. Elmwood axe handle? I would look into it from all sides, including the use of the intended axe. I had hauled out a thick elm plank some time back with the idea of making an axe handle for my splitting axe. On second thought I put the plank back, to me it's not an axe handle wood.

E.DB.
 
Ernest DuBois said:
On elm wood I differ. I know of one case where the elmwood handle of a sort of chopping axe from a not unknown axe maker broke on initial use. How representative is the instance? I don't know and it is true elm is known to be tough and resilient in many uses, which are two things an axe handle should be. From personal and widespread experience I can say it is not a durable wood. It has a high sugars content throughout and will attract insect infestation outside of the ideal conditions. It was widely used for paneling here in the barn where I live and every plank is rife with wormholes. Also, you should see the outside eating table I have here made of elm. And, I just replaced the elmwood jaws of both of the leg vices on the old workbench, they were crumbling. I did use elm wood though as replacement in sticking to my restoration framework. Elmwood axe handle? I would look into it from all sides, including the use of the intended axe. I had hauled out a thick elm plank some time back with the idea of making an axe handle for my splitting axe. On second thought I put the plank back, to me it's not an axe handle wood.

E.DB.
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Good info, thank you.
 
mewolf1 said:
Elm, for certain.
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What tells you this is Elm mewolf1?
If you look closely at Elm on those length wise cuts you should see a herring bone pattern to the grain of the wood that is unique to elm.
Please don't take this wrong and I am not trying to say its not elm just curious as to how you are positive.
 
In this photo you can see many of the characteristics of Elm.
The pinkness of the cambium layer(oxidizes very quickly)
Stringiness
Scaliness of out bark( the edges of the scales get whitish too)
Heartwood color
Slippery appearance of the sap wood(outer bark peels VERY easily this time of year)

.....50 years experience

......... and the Elm leaves in the pic;)

 
mewolf1 said:
In this photo you can see many of the characteristics of Elm.
The pinkness of the cambium layer(oxidizes very quickly)
Stringiness
Scaliness of out bark( the edges of the scales get whitish too)
Heartwood color
Slippery appearance of the sap wood(outer bark peels VERY easily this time of year)

.....50 years experience

......... and the Elm leaves in the pic;)

OK, It's hard to beat experience. You have me completely convinced. It's not American Elm, neither is it Siberian Elm(Chinese), so it must be Slippery Elm?
We have none of it that I know of in this state. The wood looks just like the Siberian Elm, but the inner and outer bark is different. Leaves are also quite different.
I try to make a point to know what I am cutting, what I am working with and what is growing around me.
Very nice answer! You have spent a few days in the woods no doubt.
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