Timber Framers Guild Forums General Barns and Traditional Timberframing The old way of felling trees (with a felling axe)

Hello everybody.

This winter I decided to cut down some trees in my own forest for my upcoming log and timber frame family house project. I made a decision to do in this project as much as possible using only human energy, hand tools and historical and traditional techniques of working with wood and timber. To get the feeling of how it has been done in the old days. The next step will be hand hewing with a Gransfors Bruks 1900 broadaxe and German style finishing broadaxe.

There are some good memories from this winter work in forest. The air temperature was -20 degrees (Cesium) and the new moon was raising.

Thanks for posting....

Welcome Jim! Soon I will be done with some hand forged chisels and a slick. I will post some photos of them here later.

Hello,

That was worth the wait. So Fine.

Greetings,

Don Wagstaff

Hi nebruks;

Nice work and nice stand of trees to work with!

I found your cabin restoration video on YouTube and I enjoyed that even more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNhxDUsESUM

You must be in Latvia?

The method of building your foundation and shingling your roof were new to me. Very interesting.

Do you have a ceremony which involves placing a wreath such as you show on your rafters. What is it called where you are?

Thanks for sharing several kinds of great work!

Respectfully;
Jim