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I look for ones that the grain is parallel with the notch groove.

I have read that the wooden ship builders used to look for crooked trees to use for parts of the ship that needed a curve. Or possibly a limb coming off the trunk at the right angle to fit a purpose.

That has been my theory too, but I wasn't positive though. When you look in the stores at handles it doesn't look like they pay any attention to the grain. My Dad told me you have to split handles out of the wood to get a really good one. Made sense to me.

Stig, Do you like the grain in the handle to be parallel to the head or perpendicular? Imagine the damage you would do to a handsaw if you hit a foreign object. Would mess up your day, I am sure.

It must have been hard to move or saw a log that size, let alone cut it down.

It sure looks different from the Beech here. My sister lives in Utica (about the center of NY State) and I saw a tree there I identified as European Beech. It did have somewhat darker bark-ours are almost white-but I don't remember it being that dark. The bark looks like our Pin Oak.

Is that an Oak?

Yeah, I know. I was just busting on ya a little.

It looks like it would be easier with a higher stump.

I was thinking it might be a tool you could find at a flea market. Most people would have no idea what the tools were for. We have a big flea mkt. in Buffalo. Amazing what you see there.

I have one hanging out in the barn. When I was pretty young-about 5 I would say-I remember my Mom and Dad bucking a log with it. I don't know if the chainsaw was broken or what, but I was amazed you could cut a log that big with a handsaw.