Hello, all.
As part of my greenwood crafts unit I have to write an assignment on coppice management, timber production, legislation and so forth. One part details the wood production techniques in common use including: felling, cleaving/riving, splitting, peeling and pointing. Now I believe my lecturer described and demonstrated splitting as the process of using an axe, wedges and mallet in succession to split a large log, but every source I've found, even in reputable books such as Tabor, has that down as cleaving/riving. Every website and book I've found indicates that cleaving/riving is the process by which large logs are split into lumber using wedges. So what's splitting then? My lecturer said that splitting is when you use you a bilhook to slowly and gradually split poles/rods in a controlled manner. Tabor doesn't help in that he calls this cleaving/riving too in his book on woodland crafts.
So, just to clarify, what is the difference between splitting and cleaving to you?
As part of my greenwood crafts unit I have to write an assignment on coppice management, timber production, legislation and so forth. One part details the wood production techniques in common use including: felling, cleaving/riving, splitting, peeling and pointing. Now I believe my lecturer described and demonstrated splitting as the process of using an axe, wedges and mallet in succession to split a large log, but every source I've found, even in reputable books such as Tabor, has that down as cleaving/riving. Every website and book I've found indicates that cleaving/riving is the process by which large logs are split into lumber using wedges. So what's splitting then? My lecturer said that splitting is when you use you a bilhook to slowly and gradually split poles/rods in a controlled manner. Tabor doesn't help in that he calls this cleaving/riving too in his book on woodland crafts.
So, just to clarify, what is the difference between splitting and cleaving to you?