Friday, February 21, 2014
Spitting logs and getting ready for more turning on a cold November afternoon
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Hi Everyone,
Ive had a large section of a box elder tree trunk and a large linden tree branch in the wood shop for a while now that have needed to be split and cut into bowl blanks. So my youngest son Ollie, aka The Critter, and I decided to go down to the wood shop and split the logs and get going.
Heres some photos of the splitting:
Here is the linden tree branch and splitting this is easy to do. I always begin by driving an axe into the edge of on of the ends to the branch and open up a big crack. Youll wind up with either a crack across the face of the branch or along the length of the branch:
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In this case, a crack opened up along the shaft of the branch. When it did we started hammering splitting wedges into the crack and opened it up:
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And viola! It broke apart. It took us about 5 minutes of hammering away:
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This is the box elder tree trunk. This had developed a crack along the long axis of the trunk and so we did the same thing-insert wedges into the crack and hammer away:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg68BP9ANM-Mj1xe27zKk9KGYJI9yRNO9ZL1_lA4Jov7ktRGNTV8kzzwsbz8nj78ZI_WWIDZua3OfmsXiggU4f6DE3bYbW46FjfTGzLD_P1sY1jrA03wiCDSaQZ2aeMA7uE9fye8drjO9c/s320/IMG_3170.jpg)
...almost there...
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpzC2yOh9NOgUc0uvkZj7_KmGFITxjqY7hqeNelf3eGknLBqTfwRNLBqcaEA0D02wkXOnYThb105X093e2zNOLKvQxTkty4ejJUCE2BTPI3uGdsLhZPqxLY1c-2dAWCyeSWeS1llxV54Y/s320/IMG_3171.jpg)
And BAM! it falls apart. The sections are now narrow enough to cut on a bandsaw or cut by hand with a carpenters saw into blanks (see the next posting):
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY0u_SuS_sgQ7Jy7rKCxD4y0_vkXvARobIUnseXanfv8Qhg61YR_GL9uyNq7YcQfAZfLWXnjJ9KIUXxWsESEoti_cFM3q-SKugFq_3XBmxbd0WZp_cFIglO83QyNVhyphenhyphen9cru3ypDcsE5Es/s320/IMG_3173.jpg)
And this is the Critter. Axe in hand. Smile on face. The family that splits logs together stays together:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIZ2BvWzabKPptFtjR1NZGAU5Ov1D6dyf7te1psxzaWeK2Qiu3xtPkZ7bCFswQ_P5PrJPSYct_QTPIEjIJflKu08ejXHy0D8hKMqySVVsCAarJgyB5V2t31erjEaUS-lWjoHM4cN0df64/s320/IMG_3172.jpg)
Ok, theres a reason for all this craziness and well talk about this in the next blog posting.
VW
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