Hand Tools

[frustratedearthmother]

Found this to replace a chain saw... course most chain saws are gas-powered, but I do know that some are electric. This would replace both of them... and it might be my next purchase.

http://www.forestry-suppliers.com/product_pages/Products.asp?mi=17181&itemnum=81078&redir=Y

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Drawing knife-for peeling bark off pine posts for fence posts

I'm gonna have to look that one up.... (crawls away to Google...)

 

[MoonShadows]

Found this to replace a chain saw... course most chain saws are gas-powered, but I do know that some are electric. This would replace both of them... and it might be my next purchase.

http://www.forestry-suppliers.com/product_pages/Products.asp?mi=17181&itemnum=81078&redir=Y

I have one of these. It is not the easiest think in the world to use.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I feel sure that it serves a double purpose in life. Tree trimmer and upper body workout!

 

[baymule]

I spent many an afternoon after school, peeling pine saplings with a drawing knife, for fence posts. My Grandpa was putting up a new fence and me and my Dad went to his farm on weekends, picked up a pick up bed full of pine poles and delivered newly peeled ones. My Grandpa had his own treatment vat. Then we got to help him set the posts and string fence.

 

[baymule]

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Wow - that is one wicked looking tool. I'd have to count my fingers after working with that.

 

[Mini Horses]

LOL...not your fingers....you generally straddle the pole, hold that rascal in front of you and pull....you skin the log of bark.

I have several (!!!) saws for lumber and crosscuts for big timber. You master their use or die trying.

Chisels are good to have.

I LOVE my machete and use it often when clearing vines, etc.

At this point in my life, I hope to have power 'cause hand tools for BIG jobs are very tiring and need more muscle than I sometimes have -- not to mention endurance. It will give you a whole new appreciation for those pioneers who trecked West and, if they lived thru that, began to clear land and build houses.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Cool! We have what my DH calls a pry bar that's about 6 foot log...flattened on one end and I think, I'd have to go look, it might be curved on the other end. Definitely a handy thing to have around!

 

[baymule]

Your koevoet is called a crow bar here. And yes it is a useful tool! I have that too, in several sizes. The small one is great for pulling stubborn nails.

A drawing knife is not so bad, just peel fresh poles and it is fairly easy.