Making a Firewood Splitting Mallet
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- In this video I make a #maul for hitting a #froe with. I used a piece of firewood that I think was maple, but I am not sure. #bushcraft
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Very nice baton. I'm getting mine started today when I get my lazy but off the couch LOL. Oh and a very nice but to. Well built 😁
I knew I could count on you to help me with this! I bought a fro for my wife last Christmas, and have been ruminating over a mallet ever since. Now, having seen you make and use the mallet, I'm good to go. Also, the footage of you using the fro is perfect to show my wife. Nicely done. Thank you.
I just realized, you and I have two very different ideas of what “relaxing” in front of the fire is.🤠
Linn that looked like a lot of fun and a lot of work at the same time. Give Darwin the small one so he will not be as inclined to go after the bigger one. Working with your hands, I think, is so rewarding and relaxing. I try to work with my hands at least 3or4 times a week.
Thanks for sharing and God bless
That would make a terrific politician adjustment tool! 😁
calibration tool?
here in Brazil we have a ... Judge is called Moro ... kkk
When I saw you sawing the log I smiled and said what is Darbin DOING...I continued to watch THEN said oooohhh..... SHE'S GOOD!!
This is very timely. I have been making kindling from already split oak by using a larger fixed blade and swinging a piece of firewood down as my mallet. This project affords for a much safer and ergonomic means by which force is applied to my blade. Thanks!
Awesome!
I love your enthusiastic presentation and interesting variety of projects.
When you beat that one to death, see if you can get a length from a small tree with the root ball, a maul made from the root ball will last a lot longer with all the interlocked grain. Roy Underhill did a show on making a maul way back when he was starting out on PBS.
I know, I'm keeping my eyes open for such a tree!
It is as if I see my son at work, also furniture maker.
Always in to make something yourself.
Nice project Linn! Thank you for sharing the video with us.👍😎JP
Love the shot with the smoke on the side, nice touch 🙂
Got that same froe myself as well. Like it a lot, has me constantly keeping my eyes peeled for nice straight-grained logs. Probably the only Lie Nielsen tool that I can actually afford too, ha!
Haha, it is pretty affordable compared to their other stuff!
Awesome work Linn! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
Thanks Fred!
I did not even know there was such a thing as a froe! But I always needed one! Thanks!
Here i thought another lathe project. Very cool watching you make a mallet with only basic tools. O and I love your dog. Cheers
Happy New Year! Cool wooden mallet! Peace and Good Fortune to you and your family! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year in your new house!
Great video, I’ll be making this soon and I just subscribed, thanks for the video
Nice job there. You can give the little one to the doggie!!! Happy New Year to you all. Hope Christmas went well for you and you got all you wished for.
I wish you and your family All the Best for the 2019 year!.Simple is always effective.
You would do better tapering the handle into the larger end instead of an abrupt change - much stronger.
The best way to use a froe is tap and pry, tap and pry.
Others have indicated looking up Roy Underhill - the woodwright - he has info on making mauls / using froes.
And finally, I think I love you 😌
Nice work - good luck with your projects!
Pretty nice work, Linn! 😊
Bonjour Linn, pas mal ce maillet rustique, très efficace. J'en profite pour souhaiter à toi et ta petite famille une très bonne année pleine de créativité ;o)
Hello Linn, not bad this mallet, very effective. I take this opportunity to wish you and your little family a very happy new year full of creativity ;o)
Merci!
Nice! Great way to make a club! If you have the time and space, make yourself a shave horse. It will make using that draw knife and holding onto round work pieces much much easier!!
I've been wanting to make one of those forever!
Do you know of a good video on making one? I know I can search, but it's easier if someone already knows. :)
@@Aardrijk1 I don't think I can post links but Ann of All Trades did one and so did Zed Outdoors
@@MakeBrooklyn thank you.
Paul Sellers would be so proud of you!!!
Excellent!
Have you ever used a drawknife bench? Being able to sit comfortably and clamp down hard on the wood by just shifting your foot makes working with the drawknife so much faster and easier than constantly opening and closing a clamp. And seems like it is the sort of thing that would fit nicely with your channel's content.
You quit at the right time on the mallet . I've made some too, most I don't want to destroy.
I like that you bulked it up.👍
I was chuckling as I watched your ax chipping away wood . then the thought came to mind that your name should be "wood Chip." or some variant of that. oh, by the way I love the paste wax that I ordered from you - good stuff.
Nice. I needed one of these. Using a metal hammer to wack at my wedges splitting planks made me cringe.
Learned about froe and maul from the movie Cold Mountain and ended up here...strange. Very interesting though being of Nordic decent. en not on.
Happy New Year to you and your family Lynn. That maul is an awesome idea and looked very easy to make, but that log splitter seems a little bit like hard work and even a little dangerous with the way it moves around when its hit. Please be careful when your using it I don't want to see you get hurt.
How is August doing? I hope he is well. Is he crawling and getting into mischief yet? I see Darwin is a mummies boy as usual where ever you are there he is. Does he and August get along and play together? I look forward to seeing more great videos from you this year.
Nice one..Love my froe....
Why would you use this over a heavy maul or other splitter? I’ve never seen this type in action.
Nice hefty, whacker, smacker...
Does the job, and that's all that matters. 👍
Good for making kindling!
Even quicker then a chisel is the arbortech plus turn the piece on the lathe 😂
Bonne année 2019 à toi et ta famille
Happy New Year 2019 to you and your family
Love the rough, rustic tool, functional and not unattractive either :-D It can also be a handy defensive weapon like a caveman club lol
It does have that caveman club quality :)
I wish I could have a froe, but I am bald!
A froe is better used for riving green wood furniture than for simply splitting for firewood. Your next step could be to fashion a chair.
carver3419 I was wondering why one would use this over a maul for splitting logs. Thanks for info.
Drill a hole on top and fill it with led .
perhaps you should look into rocket stoves with your cooler weather, plus no creosote build-up if the combustion just right
I just got a froe too!
Fun!
做的真的很不错，nice
How do you like Virgina winter so far? Compared to where you lived on the west coast.
Sunny and less rainy and humid. Warm sometimes, cold sometimes, it's been pretty great.
Did your lathe stay in Corvallis?
Hi Darbin Happy New year 👍
I prefer the exercise I get from my splitting maul.
A wonderful tool for the bigger stuff!
Muito bom
Parabéns!!
Do you have a bandsaw? You could have removed a big bulk with that.
I do, but I felt like just using hand tools.
Rustic is not probably perfect but dose the job.
Oh yea if you have glass shower doors , WD40 is magic.
I guess this tool is not made for firewood making? Right ?
They sell them at Lowe's for 15$
looks like the beginnings of a murder mystery, But I always like the death by leg of lamb trope with the murderess serving the meat to the cops..
I remember that one. I think it was on Alfred Hitchcock.
@@jimpritz4169 Twighlight Zone.
Thanks your memory is better than mine. They both started in the 50's I think back when we only had 3 channels.
Doing some green work or only using it for firewood?
So far I've only used it for firewood, but I'm planning on using it to for splitting wood for actual woodworking too.
Genial!!
Is that a Granfors hatchet?
Yes, love that hatchet.
Did yours come from Lee Valley Tools? I purchased my father's there ~20 years ago (I'm in Ottawa) and he still raves about it.
If you bought that mallet in IKEA, it would be called "stöt"
Size does matter, I knew it...
That would have taken 10 mins in the lathe ?
If one had a lathe that is...
@@darbinorvar I thought you had one did you get rid of it in the move
It’s called a froe or at least in America
Would've probably also been fun doing the rough work with a chainsaw, altho it'd be a lot louder and messier :D
reenaxement club?
Do you have a lathe?
No, not right now. Although it gave me a good excuse to do this a different way.
@@darbinorvar when will you be getting another? Loved that turning episode with Carl Jacobson.
I liked exploring this non-lathe option.
First!
Don't put it in the wood stove by mistake 😉
Haha, would be pretty easy to do!