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( Warning, Picture Dump )
No, it's not a typo ( well, O.K. it kinda is * Froe/Frow * ). I had planned on getting my dad to model for this thing while he was visiting a week ago, but we were to busy making a sound dampening box for his generator, to take camping with him.
We got most of the box done while he was here, good enough to use. He just needs to make a cutout for the power cord. But next time he comes out I'll probably make some more modifications to it.
Anyways, back to the Froe/Frow. My favorite knife to use for making kindling is the WTF. What I like to do is make a bunch of half splits in the piece of wood I'm making kindling out of & then BLAST it with some big hits to make the piece Explode into multiple pieces of kindling.
But to be honest, when I do this, I get into somewhat of a dangerous speedy rhythm ( it's probably from knocking a few back before I do this looool ) & it can get a little Dicey. ( “I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.”
-- Andrew Dice Clay )
So I got to thinking, What would be a safer way to make kindling...something a Kid, or a Grandma or a Drunkard could use. I started looking around on youtube for various kindling contraptions & I saw some homesteaders using a long metal blade with a pivot point at the front to make their kindling. Basically, a thick Sheer.
Their method seemed to be a safe way to do it, but I wanted to incorporate my Beloved Busses into this method. So I came up with this.
But first, here are some pictures of the box I made for my dad, and his dog.
His dog is a 2 year old Silver Lab named Lunde...and man is he Big and Full of energy. Don't let this picture fool you loool.
It slices really nice.
Got a couple Buskets off to the side to catch the kindling.
The types of wood used are multiple Indonesian Hard Woods, White Oak & Douglas Fir for the wall mount.
No, it's not a typo ( well, O.K. it kinda is * Froe/Frow * ). I had planned on getting my dad to model for this thing while he was visiting a week ago, but we were to busy making a sound dampening box for his generator, to take camping with him.
We got most of the box done while he was here, good enough to use. He just needs to make a cutout for the power cord. But next time he comes out I'll probably make some more modifications to it.
Anyways, back to the Froe/Frow. My favorite knife to use for making kindling is the WTF. What I like to do is make a bunch of half splits in the piece of wood I'm making kindling out of & then BLAST it with some big hits to make the piece Explode into multiple pieces of kindling.
But to be honest, when I do this, I get into somewhat of a dangerous speedy rhythm ( it's probably from knocking a few back before I do this looool ) & it can get a little Dicey. ( “I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.”
-- Andrew Dice Clay )
So I got to thinking, What would be a safer way to make kindling...something a Kid, or a Grandma or a Drunkard could use. I started looking around on youtube for various kindling contraptions & I saw some homesteaders using a long metal blade with a pivot point at the front to make their kindling. Basically, a thick Sheer.
Their method seemed to be a safe way to do it, but I wanted to incorporate my Beloved Busses into this method. So I came up with this.
But first, here are some pictures of the box I made for my dad, and his dog.
His dog is a 2 year old Silver Lab named Lunde...and man is he Big and Full of energy. Don't let this picture fool you loool.
It slices really nice.
Got a couple Buskets off to the side to catch the kindling.
The types of wood used are multiple Indonesian Hard Woods, White Oak & Douglas Fir for the wall mount.
