Such a motion would be extremely challenging (and perhaps dangerous) to undertake and would cause the wood to split out far ahead of the axe work. I personally have observed well into the thousands of vintage log cabins… In my decades long research and career in building and restoring cabins I’ve never seen a single log that was hewn with an axe being swung in the same direction as the grain of the log. My posting was not meant to offend anyone that is an adze enthusiast… but rather to pass on what I have observed, practiced, and learned from others. ![]() I would like to know exactly what I wrote that wasn’t true if you care to be more specific. (Even though you write that not everything I write is true… □ Remember those old commercials on tv where they had this device that would cut your hair after you hooked it up to your vacuum cleaner? A flowbee? It did the job, and to most folks it looked fine, but to those in the trade it irritated to no end… well, that’s what modern adzed logs are to old cabin guys. I can appreciate the desire to get rid of a rough sawn timber and to instill some handworkmanship onto the surface of a log… But I’ve found that the more people work with logs, the more they learn and practice log construction, the more they experience antique cabins… the more faux these adzed logs look… An adze is a hand plane on the end of long handle.Īnd the final photo, seen below, is of what you will find on many modern made cabins… where they took an adze, which is intended to make wood smooth, and instead used it to roughen the wood… creating lots of random scoop marks. It is very, very rare to find an old log cabin where someone has come in with an adze… that tool was generally saved for making the floor joists look refined. The next photo shows an Eric Sloane drawing of the proper use of an adze which was to plane down, or make smooth, a timber that was previously hewn with an axe. The major hunks have been removed by using a regular axe and then the broad axe is brought in to clean everything up nicely. The next photo is of a man today demonstrating how a hewn log was made with a broad axe. ![]() just a sub-par design for a $35 piece of rubber.The one above is of a greyed antique log that was nicely hewn with a broad axe more than a century ago. And, I do have an engineering background. Using the instructions (which were horrible) neither my partner or I could figure out how they were supposed to attach while in alaska. On the crampons - they have the worst design ever for the antibott plates for the M12 (?) crampons that came out a few years ago. ![]() These don't usually work as well or are uncomfortable on the hand with sharp angles under the palm. They are constantly changing the picks - forcing you into a generic one a few years after the tool has been on the market. Never know when you need to re-set an existing pin, pound in a picket, etc.īTW - I'm done with CM tools and Crampons. ![]() Nonetheless, if I go alpine with only one tool, I ALWAYS choose the hammer. Some tools do have interchangeable adze/hammer. Otherwise if you're not doing that, I'd personally forego the adze and possible lobotomy. On big mountains/longer trips, an adze can come in handy. IMO, you can usually whack the ice with a hammer then the pick on waterfall ice, if you're trying to clear for a screw. In general if you're using them in Colorado or similar, I don't see a need for an Adze.
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