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Heaven #23532 05/10/10 04:53 AM
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Today, I put to use a broad ax that had been in the family but unused for almost 100 years. I spent the day learning to hew next to countless cords of wood in a pasture near the bush line. I hewed my first timber while wild horses watched.


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Re: Heaven [Re: Gumphri] #23656 05/28/10 06:53 AM
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Nice Gumphri. I spent all day with a spokeshave. Cool tool. Not that many think about it with Timber framing, but it does make any curve nice without the sandpaper. Good topic.

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I love moments like that! Thanks for sharing. Wild horses?

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I now have a Silky Big Boy...... no sandpaper or wild horses but what a nice cut.

Tim

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Chopping a 10 meter length of rain gutter with my gutter adze today. The tactile contact with wood inspires poetry.

Don


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