Flattening a round

Topam AX Survivor hey.
A lot of jocks start with square and use the lathe to make it round,, you my friend are different,
Larry

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Now that it’s properly squared up, it’s ready for the lathe :-))

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence

neat !! original post … fun to read about

-- keeping myself entertained ... Humor and fun lubricate the brain

Thats actually a lot of work to do. I do it occasionally with my short hatchet and it is a lesson in labor.

Another good lesson from the “Old School”

Great job!

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

Thats going to be the smallest log cabin in the world, is for a hamster? :-)

-- if the hand is not working it is not a pure hand

I don’t think I could do enough for a hampster. I can auger out 3 or 4 round holes, dig a bit more out with chisels and have a bird condo :-))

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence

Now that it’s properly squared up, it’s ready for the lathe :-))

LOL !!!!

-- Don S.E. OK

I think you’re on to something there Bob. That looks like an eco-friendly way to to do things, if we don’t take the food into account. Seriously though, it’s a great way to quickly prepare a log for further work. I sometimes cut some logs about 6ft long and split them with wedges before smoothing them with axe and drawknife before I cut them into bowl pieces for the lathe. It’s actually very efficient, and more importantly it’s cheap!

-- Mike, an American living in Norway.

REally interesting story. I don’t have any axe, but maybe I should get it too!

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wait a minute! your firewood is MAPLE????

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

wait a minute! your firewood is MAPLE????

LOL…kind of like lighting your cigars with hundred dollar bills !!!

-- Don S.E. OK

wait a minute! your firewood is MAPLE????

LOL…kind of like lighting your cigars with hundred dollar bills !!!

Depends of the area of the country. Where I am we burn maple and red oak and we burn a lot of it. And every house lot has hundred foot white pine trees on it. I read here about people who have walnut and cyprus and hickory and such… you’ve got to walk a long ways in the woods where I am to find any such animal. Most of them don’t exist here. And where I am we’re all woods.

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You have done the job so well. I have never seen the use of axe for such a useful job. You are great!
Sharad

-- “If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they have never tried a new thing in their life”.-Albert Einstein

I’ve burned cords of it in the past. I saw a pickup load of maple firewood last weekend. I wondered what kind of figure it had?? This block is from thinning at the tree farm.

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-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence