Hewing

Hewing an 8" x 8" x 25' purlin for a timber frame in East Montpelier, Vermont. There are easier ways to make round logs square, but none as cheap as this. The log is Eastern White Pine, harvested a few hundred feet from this hewing site in February 2022.

[@casterman2]

Love the pencil sharpener 😊

[@mairemarie1713]

nice job. slash scoring as a 2nd pass is smart, although very rare on youtube hewing vids.
this stands in contrast with extensive signs/evidence of slash scoring on a lot of 18XX hewn log houses in the northeast at least. gives a nice finish as far as rough finishes go.
thats a crazy nice eastern white pine log man.
this spring im trying a longer axe handle to do the scoring... tired of breaking my back (im 6ft tall...)

[@herrieson]

I've actually struggled with longer handles. I'm 6'1" and I've always had back problems. The shorter handle seems to help. What/where are you hewing?

[@mairemarie1713]

@@herrieson im in southern québec hewing mainly white spruce :-)

[@vegancrabcakes]

Any risk of termites when stacking the wood like that? I had a big pile of wood before and some of the lower ones became rotted.

[@herrieson]

Termites love the part of the wood just beneath the bark, so removing the bark goes a long way. These timbers aren't going to be stacked here for very long, either. Getting the wood up off the ground is really helpful in mitigating rot.