A museum team in Sweden shows excellent axe techniques for felling, bucking, riving and hewing as they duplicate 40-foot-long rafters in a medieval Swedish church.
The segment on controlling the riving is my favorite. Early in the video you can see that the tree used for the original rafters has considerable twist, and the crew shows how to overcome that.
Lately I've been following the "Finnish Vintage Axes" account on Instagram, and now I see what all those long-headed axes are for. It also looks like "mortising" axes have a more general use during the controlled riving.
The best woodworking videos give me an itch to get busy. This one does that, in spades!
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