Something a little different, took down a big oak that was threatening my cabin a couple of years ago... still splitting it for the fire but I left the bottom 8' or so in one piece and dragged it alongside the front path. Yesterday I started shaping it into a bench with an adze I found on ebay (the head is about 100 years old and I put a new hickory handle on it)... before this I'd never even seen an adze much less used one. It's a lot of work; I now have newfound respect for the guys who built cabins of squared logs in the old days!
Still need to smooth it off with my drawknife but it's more or less flat and I have a bunch of big buckets of wood chunks to start the coal stove with...
Still need to smooth it off with my drawknife but it's more or less flat and I have a bunch of big buckets of wood chunks to start the coal stove with...
