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Hobo
i didnīt use the technique myself, but i definately looks interesting...and seems to be also quite acurate!
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Hobo
Thanks for the vid, i'll try that.
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Alone in the Wilderness
i use a full size meat cleaver excellent for producing a lot of kinderling in a short space of time due to its weight and balance ! the downside is it takes no prisoners !
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Peasant
Froe use
What an outstanding way to use the froe. I recently stayed at my friends mountain lodge where he has two open hearth fires to heat the place. He makes kindling once a week, I volunteered to help out with chores by chopping three buckets full of kindling with my axe.
How much quicker it would have been with a froe and bike inner tube.
Got to buy one!
Thank you for posting the video.
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Hobo
Hmm yes, always knew I needed a froe really !
Richard
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Wanderer
Thanks for sharing. That is a great vid.
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Native
I have a froe at the fireside thyat I use for courses, much safer for folk to use in the dark or after beer O'clock The trick with the string and a log is a very old one used by woodland folk for cutting the blanks for making such things as pegs and rake tines. It is much faster and less wasteful (you don't get all those odd splinters) than using an axe in my experience, partly because each thwack makes half a dozen or more pieces and partly because you then don't spend time picking the bits up
I often get folk using a beetle and an axe to split kindling, especially kids, but the more direct equivalent to the froe is an old meat cleaver or billhook (or any long bladed knife) on account of having a long blade to get the full width of the log.
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Hobo
One of my grandmothers always used a billhook for splitting kindling down, even in her later years and she lived to be 97! It was a double edged Elwell, I think a yorkshire pattern. Curved edge used mostly, with the straight back edge for knottier problems.
Dave
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