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If you beat on metal with those old hand forged axes it will screw up the heel of the axe .Somebody in the history of my 100 plus year old splitter did so . The way the steel was folded as it was forged plus the quenching to harden the cutting edge leaves the cutting portion hard as a rock but...

On that stone deal .My 5 pound splitter which is hard forged and over 100 years old plus my departed fathers double bit cruiser are so hard a file is just about worthless .The old man always used a stone that was really designed to sharpen a sythe . I have no idea how old my dads axe is but...

It was claimed those old axe men carried a round sharpening stone in their back pocket and were fussy as the dickens about the axes .As soon as it left a "nick " in the cut they laid the stone to it . So now days as soon as the chain stops pulling big chips most lay the file to it .What's...

Those PNW giants presented all kinds of problems .The standard cross cut wasn't long enough .The circle sawmill blades weren't large enough and it goes on and on . Yankee ingenuity came through .Blacksmiths forge welded a couple of cross cuts together .They came up with the double cut circle...

Good heavens 4 cords of wood just in chips alone in the notch .

According to that book the average logger was about 165 pounds and tough as a wildcat .They could metabolise an amazing 8000 calories a day .

Remember that first pic the cut was made with a cross cut but the roof was cut with an axe .Lawdy I can't imagine . I've got the Time/Life book titled "the loggers " which shows early timber cutting in the east as well as the PNW .It's full of old timey pictures like that . Those eastern...