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Building neurological pathways, I see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEwg8TeipfQ
and you won't forget it.

Hello,

In all seriousness I don't think he is building neurological pathways at all I think he is reinforcing neurological pathways long unused. When you pick up an axe to do work it is a connection to one of the strands that is at the very core of what it is to be human. Right, the axe, one of he first tools used by humans.

Forget it? All of the right actions are known, they reside in the unconsciousness carried from person to person down the generations by the DNA selected to be preserved as essential in maintaining connection and continuity to the human condition. So I say, "Away with saws and remember how to use wood."

Greetings,

Don Wagstaff

By watching some new people swing an axe, I suspect your thesis may have a flaw, Don.

I will rest my case.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4i0aaW0LD0&feature=related

Somewhere along there baseball did enter in,
and that's a tough one to overcome

Here's some of our work of late.
This stuff is all easy going, and right now we are runnin at about 3 logs per day. Then all of these will get sawn in half along their length...

Good stuff there. Not the felling vid though. That was scary, lame, disappointing and sickening all at the same time.

rock & roll

2nd log done. One face gave me a fair bit of trouble with a lot of tear out mostly because of the nots.

http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd481/Weaverofduart/2012-05-06162307.jpg

http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd481/Weaverofduart/2012-05-06162328.jpg

Stuart, have a look at this video:

http://www.en.charpentiers.culture.fr/node/337

It has some good footage of a Breitbeil -also known as Goosewing- in action.

Pay close attention to the fact that the axe used is right handed, yet Mr. Weller is using it left-handed.