Boat Building Forum

Find advice on all aspects of building your own kayak, canoe or any lightweight boats

Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 10/3/2011, 2:01 am
In Response To: Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video (Will N to go)

: Thanks for the response about blacksmithing. So Etienne's magic
: wedge axe could have been invented 500 years ago.
: I wonder why it wasn't? (the theory on why the axe was so rapidly
: improved in the Americas was because trees were suddenly
: unlimited and free. I'd be willing to bet that all Japanese
: design is based (on Chinese origins--everybody knows) but also
: on their straight grained easy to split cedar trees.

: I find it hard to believe that all the thousands of years of
: splitting wood, plowing fields, etc... these things weren't
: invented everywhere right at the beginning. Philo T Farnsworth,
: walking behind a plow invented the television of horizontal scan
: lines.

Actually Et's axe is pretty much like a hand held wedge using on log splitters (powered).

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/20/2011, 3:39 am
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
scottbaxter -- 9/20/2011, 8:18 am
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
StephenHJ -- 9/20/2011, 1:09 pm
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/20/2011, 2:41 pm
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Bill Hamm -- 9/21/2011, 1:35 am
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/21/2011, 2:32 pm
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Bill Hamm -- 9/22/2011, 2:04 am
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Will N to go -- 9/29/2011, 3:00 pm
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Bill Hamm -- 10/3/2011, 2:01 am
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Bill Hamm -- 9/21/2011, 1:32 am
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Robert N Pruden -- 9/21/2011, 7:00 pm
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Will N to go -- 9/21/2011, 9:42 pm
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Robert N Pruden -- 9/21/2011, 9:49 pm
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/22/2011, 4:01 am
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Mike Savage -- 9/22/2011, 2:56 pm
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/22/2011, 3:57 am
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Bill Hamm -- 9/22/2011, 1:11 pm
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Nick Riccardi -- 9/22/2011, 2:28 pm
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
John VanBuren -- 9/23/2011, 7:28 am
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/23/2011, 2:03 pm
Re: Off Topic: My log splitting method video
Bill Hamm -- 9/23/2011, 3:52 pm