Found this video while reorganizing files on my phone. It is just log split video without comments but I found it somehow relaxing, so uploading it.
Situation: in the late autumn, rain is falling time to time. Good sized birch was fell and hacked for fire wood. So me and my father-in-law picked up axes on hand, splitting logs in half for drying.
the axe I was using is a Kellokoski N:o12.3, 1.5kg head. It worked wonderfully even against large knotted log.
I have been using a forge which I have contracted about 2 years ago. It was working OK till new, but it start to have some issues, so decided to make new one.
The old one was made from large paint can filled with cray. the issues on this one was that it consumes too much char coal and the cray is start to giving up. Also the air hole was easily get blocked with melted cray and was very difficult to clean.
this is the old set up.
So to solve those issues, I decided to use proper fire bricks and cement.
Went to shop and got 2 different sizes of bricks. in total 8 of them. then took some parts from old forge and constructed the new one.
this picture was taken before every thing is cemented.
Last week end, I have got time for forging, I fired up this new forge and made 4 blade blanks.
The forge worked very well. it consumes less charcoal, retains heat well, mobile, blower is in the right place... and so on... the only problem I have now for this new one is storage... now it need larger spot in my garage to stare this.
From top left clock-wise:
Whittling puukko / leather cutter / Makiri neker / Makiri Style Knife.
on the end of the work., my hands and arms so tired. I only managed to forge the bevel out on Makiri style knife. tang on that one is just tapered enough and I could not lift the hammer any more... I guess I am little out of shape:)
This time, I am talking about cold weather clothing. According to my experience, with different combinations of this set, I could be comfortable in the temperature between 0 to -25 degrees centigrade.
Little bit of additional information about the wool sweater. the one I like using is a Norwegian sweater, which uses thick yarn and rough weaving. this thick yarn and rough weaving will trap the warm air when used as a middle layer. Also because it is not tight, it releases the air when outer layer of clothing is removed, so this combination of layering makes easier to control the heat trapped in the clothing.
I have listed The items mentioned in the video for your reference.
I just realized that my update speed of blog has slowed quite bit... I only have 10 post since this year has started....
also noticed that the twitter is not busy ether. What is happening????
Well, one reason is my new forge. I finally managed to schedule a forge fire time and it is coming up in about week. But since I have took my old forge in pieces, I have got no forge to play with....
My plan was to have my new forge constructed already by now, but the new forge is still in pieces of bricks. father more, I have no idea of how to get the forge set up on my hip height with all the optional parts attached.
however, I have had good plan on forge itself and this is how it looks and does look promising. All I need to figure out now is how to cement them on the base and how to set it stable on hip height.
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