Kreuzaxt

[ernest dubois]

A kreuzaxt, timber framer's tool, is helping to make my frame using axes only.
http://i586.photobucket.com/albums/ss304/DonWagstaff/DSCF2713_zps811c21ed.jpg (http://s586.photobucket.com/user/DonWagstaff/media/DSCF2713_zps811c21ed.jpg.html)

[Jim Koepke]

Ernest,

Welcome to the Creek. Your profile doesn't indicate what part of the world you are living in. If you were close to me, I would want to come get some more information on what you have and how it works.

The far end is not visible in your photo. Does this one have what appears to be a mortising blade on the other edge?

With the help of Doctor Google this was found:

http://vimeo.com/66650337

jtk

[David Weaver]

He's definitely not in america, because he's not fat.


.... did I just say that?

[Jim Koepke]

He's definitely not in america, because he's not fat.


.... did I just say that?

That is why the phrase, "what part of the world," was used. My instincts work at times, just have to learn how to pay attention to them.

Yes, you said it, but how do you know? Is America the only place where people pay too much to eat poorly?

jtk

[David Weaver]

No, it's just a little dig I like, because i'm a little tubby, too. Truth of it is that the odds are that it's more likely for an american to not be tubby in a video than to be tubby. But it's fun to pretend like it's legitimate, anyway.

I'm interested in hearing more about the tool, but it does look reserved for timber framing and boat building type work.

[george wilson]

At last,someone who takes worse pictures than I do! I forget what a mortising axe is called. A twibil? Never been into timber framing.

[Jim Matthews]

A question for Msr. DuBois -

I note the safety chaps, worn while running the chainsaw to make billets.
Do you find clogs are particularly good as a safety measure?
It would appear that those should handle any rolling log.

Lastly, some details on your log jack would be VERY helpful.

Thank you for posting your videos, they're informative.

Jim
Westport, Massachusetts
USA

[ernest dubois]

Oh, I can't believe it worked - logging back in on a whim like that.

Let's see, First a better picture is in order
http://s20.postimg.org/93j642dkp/DSCF2807.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/93j642dkp/) http://s20.postimg.org/9631qwh89/DSCF2809.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/9631qwh89/) http://s20.postimg.org/xy2ny4yex/DSCF2810.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/xy2ny4yex/)

And further I'm living here in Oostrum, maybe it has something to do with why I'm a rather slim fellow, I don't know.

Timber framing might apply unless you are in England where that means what Americans call stick framing, here it's just, wood construction, or sectioned work, for what it's worth.

So with the clarity of the location question out of the way it's understandable that it would be then, Mijnheer Dubois:

I had the trailer loaded up with those billets, maybe a ton's worth, but unhitched when they shifted forward 10 cm and the boom came down on my foot luckily shielded by those clogs. They provide very real protection unlike the chaps which I take more mental comfort from than actual.

The jack is really an all purpose lifting tool called dommekracht, or still power​, to make a literal translation. The solid elm wood body encases the simple direct drive cogged shaft with two lifting options, one on top and one down low. I bought it off the dairy farmer here in the village for 10€ just before his shed burnt down where it had stood all these years, and will have to get around to refurbishing it in good time because the worm has gotten in, as it will with elm, and eaten away about 50% of the total. It's falling apart.
Hope to make it back here some time soon.

Greetings,

Ernest Dubois

[Jim Koepke]

Does the axe end have a single bevel?

jtk

[ernest dubois]

Does the axe end have a single bevel?

jtk
No double bevel. I have only seen one drawing taken from an actual example by the drawer which portrays the bit with its cutting edge paralel to the handle as single beveled though I believe this would be the more appropriate configuration in the case of a kreuzaxt even while rendering it less universal.

[Tim Cooper Louisiana]

Once every three years the wild and elusive...j/k :).

[Eric Schatz]

Yeah! What happened to the dommekracht????!!!! I gotta know!!!!!! :D

[Pat Barry]

No double bevel. I have only seen one drawing taken from an actual example by the drawer which portrays the bit with its cutting edge paralel to the handle as single beveled though I believe this would be the more appropriate configuration in the case of a kreuzaxt even while rendering it less universal.
I've been waiting 3 years for that answer. Thanks a lot

[Mike Cherry]

Best resurrection thread ever haha