Tehoa ja terävyyttä

[mr dazzler]

If you thought the film of the old Finnish man rehandling an axe was good, you'll like this one probably even better

https://youtu.be/TgbdWsmNu64

Its all in Finnish, but the man demonstrates how to rehandle 2 different billnas axes, including a wedging method I never saw before, plus he reprofiles a felling axe to give it a straighter cutting edge
Apologies if its been mentioned on BCUK before. Well worth a watch! (the axe section starts @ around 3 minutes)

 

[John Fenna]

Very interesting wedging!

 

[Janne]

Intersting wedging. Only possible in wet finely grained wood? Wonder if the wood is birch?

 

[Martti]

Its all in Finnish, but the man demonstrates how to rehandle 2 different billnas axes, including a wedging method I never saw before, plus he reprofiles a felling axe to give it a straighter cutting edge

This was filmed by Työtehoseura (Work Efficiency Institute) in 1955 as the first part of a three-part instructional series teaching how to maintain forestry tools. The other two parts were about saws, spuds and drawknives. The films were preceded by a 100-page book which I have a copy. Later in 1958 they also produced a film about chainsaws, which one can watch below.

The axe heads used in the film were 12/2, TEHO felling axe and TEHO splitting axe, which were manufactured by a few ironworks, out of which Billnäs (owned by Fiskars) was the largest. The wood used looks very much like birch, but the Institute also recommend using rowan or ash.

[video=youtube;l6csDRInOD8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6csDRInOD8[/video]

 

[warthog1981]

I enjoyed that thanks for sharing

 

[Janne]

Agree, superb movies.
That guy in the uniform is a master. The ease he does it with is amazing.

I am not sure the wedging can be done on a handle made from well dried hickory.