The Ax Book
by Dudley Cook · first published 1999
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The ax is an indispensable tool for every woodsman. The Ax Book is a thorough guide to cutting wood with hand tools. Even those who use chainsaws and other power equipment need to be familiar with the hand tools of their craft. An ideal resource for anyone who wants to fell trees and take lumber or firewood from the wood lot or forest. The author explains how to use various types of axes, hatchets, mauls, saws, and wedges, and their use and care to take down trees, section and split and prepare firewood. In addition he shows every aspect of dealing with wood from the forest right to the hearth
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…Two books I recommend for axes are "One Moving Part", the USFS ax manual, probably the best (only?) work that they ever did: https://www.fs.usda.gov/t-d/pubs/pdfpubs/pdf18232812P/1823-2... And "The Ax Book" by Dudley Cook, which you'll have to buy a paper copy of. (I don't suggest you round the corners of your axes as he suggests though) The old USFS ax manual, "An Ax to Grind", even had a companion video…
on “The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening [pdf]” ↗The Ax Book by Dudley Cook is also in the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/works/OL495023W/The_Ax_Book So is "One Moving Part" https://openlibrary.org/works/OL36779701W/One_moving_part
on “The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening [pdf]” ↗This reminds me of a firewood seasoning method I saw in (IIRC) Dudley Cook's "The Ax Book", except you pile up your split firewood in concentric circles around a stove pipe with holes drilled all around and along it's length. When the wood is stacked to about breast height, you cover it with…
on “A Solar Kiln to dry wood. Overview, design and build (2019)” ↗