I'd love to come to Indiana but it would be a long swim. I'm in Australia so I won't be visiting any time soon.

I'd really appreciate any information that you could send my way. I've just ordered Roy Underhill series of books and I've got one other that I can't find just at the second that talk about hewing but has really bad pictures.

Other than that I've googled lots.

The cypress that log that I've already done moved around a lot. So I think it needs something to hold hit in place. What might be needed for the light stuff is something toothed to go on the bearer like you have on sawmill beds.