Making Kindling with the CAK

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T. C. Weston

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This past weekend I took my family to visit relatives in Colville, WA. I love this place, it's deep in my heart and soul. Grandma needed some help with the wood pile, and so I put the CAK to work.

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I had a good helper here!

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I think I spent half my youth or more on a wood pile just like that.
Fine looking helper you got there, he'll go far, and gold stars to you for helping out grandma.

I love the Colville area too, although I haven't spent much time there, a lot in the general area.
 
Awesome! Looks like you are instilling a good work ethic in the little guy. Wood is some much more fun to chop with a kukri than an ax. Something just so satisfying.
 
Man that last pic is postcard material there! Glad you got some good help. Hey My sister lives in Coleville:eek: I dont think its a really big place eh? She says it beautiful and theres a lake there she lives on. She teaches at a local school. Great pics TC.

Uhhh..btw...Got some rocks in the mail today. Wow..:thumbup:
 
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That wood is splitting so straight and clean, it actually looks like it would be fun to split that stuff. Great excuse to make use of a CAK AND bonus grandson points for helping out, what a deal!
 
Looks like cedar or possibly lodgepole pine to me. Nice to split, excellent kindling. I need to start chopping myself. I scored a nice pile of cedar this summer, so no need to tear siding off the neighbors house this year unless it's a cold long winter and I run out of wood.
 
That looks just like the loblolly Pine from my parts. It splits very nicely and makes great kindling. Maybe lodgepole is the same? The fullers on the AK really work well on that stuff. Makes it almost impossible to stick.
 
Might be Tamarack, think theres a lot of that round those parts too. I know there is further north for sure.
 
Yep, it was Tamarack. It was a joy to split; start at the edge and the wood would fly off as fast as I could swing the khuk. I was able to reduce pieces like the one at the top of the thread in about 30 seconds. My relatives up there are only familiar with axes and hatchets, so the khukuri was an alien object to them, but they immediately saw what a useful tool it was.
 
T. C. Weston said:
I missed this earlier...glad it arrived safe! If you make some good points out of it, put it up in your knapping thread!
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Thank you sir! I sure will. That was some awesome pieces! Cant wait to bust them open. Im still studying them but will work on them soon. Box O rocks coming your way too! Some Arkansas Novaculite and a bit of Kinley Rock from West Texas. Enjoy!
 
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