WES Evaluation for CANADA IMMIGRATION. By cnugadu, December 26, 2017 in Discussions
List of timber framing tools. Illustration of carpentry (charpente) in the French EncyclopÃ©die showing hewing, mortising, pit sawing on trestles. Tools include dividers, axes, chisel and mallet, beam cart, pit saw, trestles, and bisaigue . The men talking may be holding a story pole and rule (or walking cane). Shear legs are hoisting a timber. Below, the sticks on the log are winding sticks used to align the ends of a timber.
A third chopping tool is the hand axe, which is also meant to be used with one hand but has a longer handle and is not used for striking. These tools hit the middle ground between hatchets and axes, and because they are designed to be used with one hand, they are more closely related to hatchets in regards to use. In a pinch, an axe can be used in situations where a hatchet would work better, and vice versa. You could conceivably chop down a tree with a hatchet, but it would take hundreds more strikes and would dull the blade much faster.