500 year old methods

[thetyreman]

I thought this was interesting

 

[Doug]

When the European Woodworking show used to take place at Cressing Temples there were a couple of blokes who would demonstrate hewing a log into useable timber with different axes, quite an interesting spectacle to watch.

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

Mr. Sawyer and Mr. Pitman?

 

[thetyreman]

Mr. Sawyer and Mr. Pitman?

indeed, the topdog and underdog

 

[AndyP]

I don’t wish to bash the elf a safety drum but barefoot

 

[heimlaga]

That's not a very old method.

Pit sawing may have an older history further south in Europe but in Finland and northern Sweden very little timber was pit sawn before the introduction of rolled cast steel sawblades in the late 18th and early 19th century.
The old hand forged saw blades were too laborious to work by hand. They were mostly used in single blade sash sawmills. Most timber was split and hewn to scantlings back then.

 

[thetyreman]

That's not a very old method.

Pit sawing may have an older history further south in Europe but in Finland and northern Sweden very little timber was pit sawn before the introduction of rolled cast steel sawblades in the late 18th and early 19th century.
The old hand forged saw blades were too laborious to work by hand. They were mostly used in single blade sash sawmills. Most timber was split and hewn to scantlings back then.

indeed, they are trolling us with clickbait titles.

 

[heimlaga]

Indeed