Swiss Video

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John A. Larsen

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Don't ask me how I got to this video, but I found it interesting. The title is :
"une rencontre de bucherons et forgerons passionnes "De bois et d'acier". It is filmed in a French speaking canton in Switzerland. A different way to prepare trees for dropping is used, one man forges a very Germany (to me ) looking axe head and another man makes the handle. Off to the woods they go with a lot of axes and a cross cut saw to bring down and cut up a tree. Good photography but no English sub-titles, so not exactly sure why they were cutting down the tree. John
 
A familiar sound to it as described John but no media showing up on either browser I look at, not even Tor.
I too am not exactly sure why they cut down the tree, even less how they got permission, that sort of thing being strictly bound by regulation in that country where the net accumulation of wood increases from year to year - as it does in Europe as a whole - while maintaining also a growth in output. ( At the same time Europe imports tons & tons of wood from the tropics and more, importing also chipped up forests out of Canada for bio-fueling electric generation, much of it cut illegally). Anyway, I've come to know a bit more of the characters in the film, members of the Swiss AVDM looking into and preserving knowledge of traditional tools and building techniques, in particular Serge who has done a study across Switzerland about old tools. I guess this all has something to do with it but who knows maybe they just went out to their woods and cut it down for a good time together with friends. We'll be meeting up next Spring with Turberg, doing a bit of axe work, so it will be a chance to find out about it.
 
I am interested in the way they prepare the tree for sawing. They cut away a lot of the base first. I’ve never seen this before. Anyone know anything about it? It must be local to those foresters. I’ve not seen it in any American, Canadian, or Scandinavian videos.
 
Curt Hal said:
I am interested in the way they prepare the tree for sawing. They cut away a lot of the base first. I’ve never seen this before. Anyone know anything about it? It must be local to those foresters. I’ve not seen it in any American, Canadian, or Scandinavian videos.
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It makes sense to remove dusty bark to save the saw. If we could ask the creator of that method possible answer would be: My saw was too short. :)
 
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Curt Hal said:
I am interested in the way they prepare the tree for sawing. They cut away a lot of the base first. I’ve never seen this before. Anyone know anything about it? It must be local to those foresters. I’ve not seen it in any American, Canadian, or Scandinavian videos.
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When you see how the stem is worked after felling, the intension in taking this wood, reducing the butt-end in this way makes plenty of sense.
 
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