Where's the Double-Love?

As long as we're doing dbl photos, I'll include my other favorite, a HSB&Co OVB. It measures 32 1/2 inches overall and is marked 4 on the back, next to the square hole. Just what is that square hole for, anyway?
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The haft is slim and feels great in the hand. Notice the pin embedded in the haft at exactly 2 ft from the swell end. I guess we know how big their stove was! I'll never swing this treasure, as I don't want to risk marring the logo, and because I glued a crack in the wood back together. I couldn't bear to rehang it and compromise the story that this has beauty has to tell. T-A
 
thunderstick said:
I go to events such as this also and enjoy learning from craftsmen who ply their trades with hand tools. The value of such skills comes to the forefront in times of disaster such as ...

...the day we had an ice storm at home which brought multiple trees down over our 1/4 gravel mile long lane. We have 4 drives going off the main lane to houses in the woods. I went out in the morning and trees and branches were still randomly dropping in the woods. There was a tangle of 4 trees which fell in a heap. I was carefully chain sawing and trying to relieve all tensioned branches working my way to the trunks. I should have tightened my chain because when branch fibers let loose under tension they caught between the chain and the sprocket and mangled the chain and the bar sprocket. I had other chains in reserve but found out that what I thought was my backup bar from a previous saw did not fit my new saw due to a new configuration. So I brought out my crosscut saws and axes and went to work. I used the axe for the tensioned branches and she drug them away. My wife ran the other end of the crosscut for bucking the trunks.

The neighbor strolls over to see what were doing. He asked if we were going to do all that tree work by hand. I said we'll do enough to the point where I can clear the lane with my tractor and then get my truck out to get a new bar. He said you gotta be crazy doing all that by hand. I asked what his plan was to get out. Do you have a chain saw? He goes nope my burnt up. So what is your plan to get out? I don't have any, I thought you would get us out. Well that's what I'm doing. Why do you think the axe and saw are crazy? Most of America was deforested with the axe and crosscut--but of course that was back when men were manly men. Hand tools work just fine if they are sharp and you know how to use them. He shook his head and walked away while my wife and finished up shortly thereafter. You can guess who was waiting to get out the lane when it was cleared. :)

I started my son pretty young on the axe and saw ... we would cut some trees down and limb them out by hand and just used the chainsaw for bucking. We had our single bit and double bit days in the woods.
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With an attitude like that I would have been tempted to leave his lane blocked and come up with his own plan to get his lane cleared. It is sad how helpless some people are without technology.
 
He's just that type of guy ... but we usually managed to get along ...
The part that irritated me the most is that he had no issue just watching/waiting till we were done ... wouldn't offer a hand knowing my wife was right in the thick of things ... so maybe he didn't want my wife taking his man-card away. :)
 
the-accumulator said:
As long as we're doing dbl photos, I'll include my other favorite, a HSB&Co OVB. It measures 32 1/2 inches overall and is marked 4 on the back, next to the square hole. Just what is that square hole for, anyway?
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The haft is slim and feels great in the hand. Notice the pin embedded in the haft at exactly 2 ft from the swell end. I guess we know how big their stove was! I'll never swing this treasure, as I don't want to risk marring the logo, and because I glued a crack in the wood back together. I couldn't bear to rehang it and compromise the story that this has beauty has to tell. T-A
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Plumb made axes for HSB and that square was one of their marks. They also used a star, crescent moon, circle etc. That's a beautiful OVB!
I've got a bunch of double bits and enjoy using them AND looking at them. I've posted them all to the forum but spread out in amongst all the sb axes which are so much more prevalent it does seem that they get lost. I'll take some photos and contribute to the thread tomorrow if I can take some photos after work.
Some nice axes gents!!
 
the-accumulator said:
As long as we're doing dbl photos, I'll include my other favorite, a HSB&Co OVB. It measures 32 1/2 inches overall and is marked 4 on the back, next to the square hole. Just what is that square hole for, anyway?
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The haft is slim and feels great in the hand. Notice the pin embedded in the haft at exactly 2 ft from the swell end. I guess we know how big their stove was! I'll never swing this treasure, as I don't want to risk marring the logo, and because I glued a crack in the wood back together. I couldn't bear to rehang it and compromise the story that this has beauty has to tell. T-A
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I'd bet that was a flexy dream to swing with that thin, horizontal grain handle!
 
Yankee Josh said:
If I'm not mistaken those are saw marks... I think it has perfect vertical grain.
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Yes, the grain is perfectly vertical, however, the condition is not. Looking at the first 4-5 inches of haft below the head with the front (logo) side up, you can see where I glued a split back together. While I love the feel of the haft and enjoy swinging it gently through the air imagining I was chopping wood, I would never trust my glue repair job. The head is also a bit loose, not a concern for a wall-hanger! T-A
 
thunderstick said:
He's just that type of guy ... but we usually managed to get along ...
The part that irritated me the most is that he had no issue just watching/waiting till we were done ... wouldn't offer a hand knowing my wife was right in the thick of things ... so maybe he didn't want my wife taking his man-card away. :)
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Any man that would sit around and watch your wife do that work and not even try to help didnt have a man card to begin with. Thats shameful...:thumbsdown::mad: some people are just pathetic...:( good on you guys for helping your neighbor though. Besides, work like that can be enjoyable.
 
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Yup post up your dogs and axes. I have a Husky /Malemute mix. Starting from a pup when I split kindling on the back porch she would come around curious. I started howling one day while she was watching and she joined in. Now every time I split kindling she comes running to watch and howl. If I join in she gets more animated.
 
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