To: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Homestead] 100 Thing Challenge
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:32:53 -0400
On Jun 14, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Don Bowen wrote:
Tools are my interest. For a minimal tool set I would suggest the
following.
....
Firewood
Crosscut saw
Double bitted ax
Don,
I have used a number of different axes. My favorite for limbing
downed trees and such is a hatchet head I put on a boys ax handle in
about 1958 while I was a junior leader at scout camp. I have here a
hudson's bay style ax that needs de-rusting, sharpening and some
smoothing of the handle. I think it may be as handy for light work as
the boys-handled hatchet head.
But I've never used a double bitted ax. They seem intimidating
somehow, and I suspect they are a bit heavy. I remember hearing that
they were used by lumberjacks because they could be sharpened and
shaped for two different kinds of cutting. Issat so?
Roy
PS: Were/What is the antique tractor repair/restoration mailing list?
It looks like we are going to own the 1950 International Harvester
W-4. I talked with our neighbor, a lifetime farmer, about the 1944
H-4 he was turning hay with. Just about the same tractor, he
reported. Also, he converted his to a 12 volt system after some years
of trouble. He guessed that the asking price of the seller was about
right, and said that very few W-4's were to be found around here in
Virginia/Maryland.
I'm hoping I can download at least an owners manual from online
somewhere.
Roy Morgan
k1lky AT earthlink.net
Lovettsville, VA 20180