Eh? One tap of the knife with a batton to get the cut, and another tap and there's the wedge.
It's oooh all of maybe five seconds.
M
It's oooh all of maybe five seconds.
M
Eh? One tap of the knife with a batton to get the cut, and another tap and there's the wedge.
It's oooh all of maybe five seconds.
M
Susanne I feel like you think Mary and I are having a pop. We aren't. We are just showing and offering alternatives. Most of the UK geology would not have flat rocks to hand in the numbers you used them - indeed I can think of only a few places that would. So for most of us here, whilst the technique is interesting, its probably not directly useful. That does NOT mean it is not valid - we were merely offering insights into other techniques that for US are more useful.
Any burnside has these kind of rocks
Pick up a rock - one second...
First find the rock
If you can tap the wedge out so easily from the same piece of wood - (a wedge wide enough and thick enough that you can actually use it to split the knot, that is) - then I wager you did not need the wedge in the first place.
It's one slice off the outside; it's quick, it's effective. If you have the timber, you have the wedge.
Like I said - I. Want. To. See. The. Video...
Tough. I don't do video, and they prove nothing because they can be edited.
Nuff said...
Nah, it's a discussion forum We get out and do stuff, and we sit and have a blether here around the virtual campfire too.
Those who don't want to use the technique - well they won't
Those who find it useful - well they will
All very simple really.
Actually it looks a blooming good way to get a very sore hand, tbh. However, each to their own
Gnight...
S
.......and your point was ?
It's a discussion forum.
Not the link I minded, but this one's pretty clear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwqRqRje1Bo
Anyone know of one where it shows how to split for a cruck frame or the Y frame ?
M
Can't say I've ever used a flat stone as a wedge to split wood before but its one to remember and round here there's masses of skimming stones about to try it with. Pretty much any beck has a few kicking about and even the river through the sandstone areas often has stones from further up where its gabro or slate.
Not got much shale and chalk isn't common up here either. Plus we have a fair bit of glacial matter thats come down from the fells.
Mind, in a lot of chalk areas there's flint as well which is where the posh, advanced wedges with a cutting edge come in eh?
I tried it with our local rocks(shale and slate mainly with outcrops of quartz) but all I got was rockdust from the flat bits and nice white "sugar" from the quartz
I will stick to my wooden wedges around here but look for flat stones to have another try elsewhere
Cool. Love your sense of experimentation. That's what it's all about to me.
What were you hitting the rocks with? I've had some corking wedges from the slate. (Llanberis pass)
Just wood It is very shaley where I am ... and the wood I was splitting was hard