Here's some of my work with the
Breitbeil.

We've been working hard at hewing our pine logs, and have fiddled around a lot with our methods. Currently, here's how I do:
Notch with the German Bundaxt, then use same to split of the juggles, being as accurate as I can at this step and trimming the face down to about 1/4 from the line.
Then, I just go right at it with the Breitbeil (goosewing)
I find it is much faster to forgoe the Plankaxt (the llong handled broad axe) altogether when going for a very clean finish like we are doing here.
However, if we were hewing smaller faces (today we hewed 2 12 1/2 inch faces) then I would make much more use of the Plankaxt.
