Lets use those axes for what they were ment for.

[David Martin]

muleman 77, good job. What is the poll called with the grid pattern, on your Plumb? DM

 

[muleman77]

muleman 77, good job. What is the poll called with the grid pattern, on your Plumb? DM

I'm not sure if it had a given name. I just call it a milled face, or waffle face, the same as you would on a hammer.

 

[David Martin]

Ok, thanks. DM

 

[John A. Larsen]

Thanks for posting the video. I had seen it listed before but not with the English sub-titles. John

 

[Agent_H]

S Square_peg redid one of his Plumb rafting axes here:

I recently posted a picture of this axe along side a fresher axe and it made me realize how badly I needed to re-grind the waffling on the poll. It's something I've wanted to do for several years but I held off because I knew it would be difficult to do.

Today I finally got around to it. I started with a cant file (not safed) to re-establish the lines. Later I switched to a triangle file to shape the points and grooves.

Here you can see how I set it for filing in my vise. A scrap of hickory protects the bit from the screw while two elms wedges help secure the axe in the jaws.

In the more worn areas it was really tough to carefully re-establish the lines. Tedious and painstaking. It took me over two hours to do. The file had to be brushed out constantly.

Almost finished

Tools.

Finished waffle.

"Waffling" seems like a pretty apt description/term.

 

[Downwindtracker2]

I went out with the wife Sunday rockhounding for amethyst. This trip up the Fraser canyon would be a perfect to post the photos the wife took. The area we went into had been hit with one of the big forest fires on the beetle killed pine. So incase we had to open a logging road, I brought along an axe I never used before, a 3# on a 24" haft. The head worked fine on the most difficult piece of wood I could find, just file and puck sharpening, however a 24" haft on a head that weight required a two handed use, and a uncomfortable swing. I love using a boys axe with a 24" haft brush clearing trail on the quad, but that is one handed. The axe went into the truck's tool box .

 

[Mack]

A bunch of us from the Becker subforum got together this past weekend. I brought out a few axes to try.

The 3 1/2 and 4lb Hults really impressed me but the massive 5lb Collins Jersey stole the show.
For some reason my muscles are really sore.

 

[Downwindtracker2]

Your testing must have been much more through than mine, my muscles weren't sore this morning. chuckle.

 

[junkenstien]

Squarepeg style swinging with a mulemanstyle style axe,swell in the right hand and a full size head on a boys axe handle

 

[rjdankert]

Taking on a Mighty Monster Mulberry




Bob

 

[flexo]

nice job i'm amazed! people can't imagine how difficult it is to have such a regular cut with an axe. it's a pity you tear a bit of bark just to prove Nothing must be perfect on this earth!

Squarepeg style swinging with a mulemanstyle style axe,swell in the right hand and a full size head on a boys axe handle

 

[Yankee Josh]

I thought it would be interesting to do a before/after of this red oak I felled last fall. I got more firewood out of it than I thought I would. Almost 2 cord! I took the one on the right.

I finished cleaning up all the small stuff today and splitting all the hard ones. I split all but one with my #5 S&N.

The difficult ones;

And finally the stacked wood. 219.3 cubic feet of it. (That number is wrong see edit/=109 cubic ft)

Have a great night all!
This oak was 84 years old btw.
And it's equivalent to 42,000,000 btu's. Red oak is 24.6 million btu's per cord x 1.71 cord(s). That's a lot of heat from one tree!

I made a mistake when calculating.. There is NOT 1.71 cord there. It's 4/5ths of a cord or 109 cubic feet.
I knew there wasn't that much wood there. I just wanted to make that correction. So about 20 million btu's from that oak. Still not bad!

Walking my property yesterday I finally found a property marker that I was sure didn't exist. I've looked for it a bunch in years past. In light of finding it I discovered that I have more oaks than I thought I did! And even though it's not the ideal time of year to harvest them I'm going to anyway. So I'll have some more axe swingin' updates soon!

 

[Square_peg]

The difficult ones;

Those are the fun ones, the challenging ones. Satisfying when you finally split them. Nothing goes to waste.

All well done. Thanks for the pics.

 

[muleman77]

Flint edge Connie on a 30" octagon handle

About 4 feet up

It's all on the ground now

 

[Fmont]

You've got a beautiful forest that there. And god that looks like fun chopping.

 

[garry3]

S Square_peg redid one of his Plumb rafting axes here:


"Waffling" seems like a pretty apt description/term.

I think waffle is a slang term, most commonly used in framers nomenclature. Never heard another term used to describe it on a job site.

 

[Ernest DuBois]

This past week's itinerate work making do with materials presented.
The thick

The thin

And the just right

 

[ithinkverydeeply]

Cool clogs!

 

[Ernest DuBois]

Hand made by The Netherlands klompenmaker champion 2018-2019 Gerald Getkate.

 

[ithinkverydeeply]

Hand made by The Netherlands klompenmaker champion 2018-2019 Gerald Getkate.

I bet they have great arch support! Planter Fasciitis wouldn’t be a problem.