As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I was interested in cosmopolitan stupid exists in Russia just as much as in Europe and the United States. They were lecturing how important an ax was in rural areas, and did mention the correct angle for splitting wood or cutting green wood, but the above photo was used and it just stunned me, as it is the Canadian Hudson Bay Axe design which is absolutely not at all what anyone who uses an axe would ever want.
These axes are pretty to the eye, but the short wood to metal contact makes them more likely to get loose with use. These axes are designed for traveling light in the wilderness where they are carried on your pack or in your hand.
Granted they are wonderful for brush clearing, for killing some Indian terrorist or thug you meet in the bush, for pounding in a stake for trapping, for cutting stakes, but they are not meant for the work of cutting trees or making a log cabin in trimming work.
A broad axe is what one wants for trimming work or work for leveling a log to a flat surface. As in all things, the British came up with how dandy they work for chopping off people’s head as a portable guillotine.
The basic wood axe which is just a wedge is what will serve for most purposes from chopping down the cherry tree or splitting wood.
Stay away from splitter heads. They will pull your tendons and back loose due to the stress of employing these things on wood logs. You are better off with a splitting wedge and a maul in doing it slow and the old way.
There are some specialty axe heads for chopping and splitting to make it a bit faster in different forms. I have one that is graduated a bit less than this one, but they do help a bit. The one I use is quite old and pound on it with another flat back axe head to split larger pieces of wood.
I would forget about swinging an axe at a log to split it, as none of us are Abe Lincoln and in almost all cases we will end up shattering the handle as we miss the log and smack the handle onto it. You also may be a lotter winner in it glancing off and chopping your toes, or slicing into your leg for experiments in how to stop blood flow and trying to get to a doctor when you are passing out from blood loss.
A wedge is safer.
With a type of blacksmith plough hammer
As I have done this now for years, a log splitter is a whole lot easier to use in the hydraulic models and in processing wood, what I am kind of concluding is the Tractor Whisperer is kind of right. He said, “My chainsaw runs pretty good”, meaning when I asked about a buzz saw, he liked his chainsaw better as it was easier than loading big logs.
I have found though, when not attached to a wide flat belt and an engine, that the electric motor small one I obtained with a v belt, was very much less work than a chainsaw on sticks and bat sized wood which is what the barrel stove eats with joy, well readily as I am overjoyed in the fast heat it puts out.
Buzz saws “sing” just so you know, and I wear hearing protection now as loud metal noises are as loud as chainsaws.
I did not mean to go into a detailed post again about cutting wood, but this is become an lost expertise. I did notice that the “new” Chinaman chainsaws on Ebay do not have that damned primer bulb on them to screw things up, and just use the old method of the pull starter and I like these better as in problems as chainsaws always have problems it seems, someone who is not going to blow themselves up can take off the shroud, prime with some gas to the carburetor and the chainsaw will usually then self prime to running in a few attempts, instead of pulling your ass off all day on that rip cord. I noticed when I mentioned the Poulan chainsaws in the old model like Craftsman that they went nuts on pricing in Ebay and are now out of my price range and the nasty shit on there as fixer uppers are really some horrid things.
As I discovered in I purchased one that I thought needed fuel lines…………well it did and then I noticed the one diaphragm cover on the carb had been removed for another saw. That sucked and I had to get one that did not work exactly as it did not have the idle eccentric………yes too much information, but you can not get replacement carburetors for Poulan 2000 saws anymore. The scalpers want as much as a junk saw now.
The method though for wood gathering is the chain saw for the first cuts to long pieces, haul them home, then I buzz saw the smaller stuff, and use the chainsaw to cut the bigger stuff, if not using the big buzz saw in managing those heavy pieces. It still wears my ass out in wanting to quit, but for people who have disposable children or niggers they have not released from slavery, it makes the job less exhausting. I have neither so I play the part of nigger and child.
OK I should wrap this up, as you should always quit writing when child exploitation is considered or niggers are mentioned.
Thank you K and C as your fried chicken initials mean allot to me.
Nuff Said
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