Hantverkslaboratoriet är ett nationellt centrum för kulturmiljövårdens hantverk. Vårt uppdrag är att dokumentera, säkra och utveckla traditionella hantverkskunskaper inom bygg, kulturlandskap och trädgård - därför producerar vi hantverksfilmer. Kanalen är till för dig med intresse för hållbart hantverk och vård av kulturmiljöer.
Tho I will never be cutting a log like this myself: I came because Talasbuan recommended this vid and I have a lot of respect and interest in this kind of craftsmanship,
How would you stack these to form a wall? large wooden plugs to hold them together with the one on top of it? you can't do the concave way you would normally stack a log cabin
Now you understand why the first bladed mills were called wood misers. 75% of the wood was wasted. Which is fine if you live in a country that needs lots of firewood, the problem is all wood burns, and A-grade wood like that being turned into unusable wood chips was too wasteful. The downside is that cut wood rather than split isn't as structurally strong and can hide faults.
every culture had it's own version of squaring timbers.....the interesting part for me is to see the different methods and uses of the tools. It seems strange to me to not be using a bent-handled gull-wing broadaxe for the joggling and hewing stages, but that's how i was taught...others will use an adze to finsih the surface, while others never do.....but all are able to get a nice square timber at the end and you can't say it's wrong if the result fits the need. (and gives you something to discuss when you start comparing/contrasting the methods)
What an odd design choice they made when building that church. Squaring all four faces seems like excessive squandered effort for aesthetic refinements that offer no obvious utility. Could have still achieved a consistent course-height while leaving two faces round. Granted the wall-thickness would vary some, but structurally it would be the same. Hewing all faces removes quite a bit of insulation as well. I really wonder why they chose that aesthetic? Particularly at a time when people were living hand to mouth and conserving energy was a top concern? I just find it a really perplexing choice. Perhaps it was simply 'conspicuous consumption.' Like the caste rich of the age keeping their fields mowed just to show off that they were so wealthy they didn't have to grow anything, they could simply buy whatever. Perhaps the church decided to use that design simply because they could afford to pay for the excess labor, and people of the time would have certainly had an appreciation for it in a way we couldn't. Knowing the additional labor which went in to each piece. Perhaps it would be better to say 'conspicuous devotion' for a church though? Willingness to sacrafice time/energy for no obvious benefit, as a way of showing devotion perhaps. It really is just a strange choice to me.
09:00 Väldigt intressant och det är väl inte mer än rätt att dagens moderna skogsbruk får sig en känga. "Det är bara ogräs...", vilket är den sorgliga sanningen. Majoriteten av alla "skogar" är snart mellan 0-40 år (Skogsdata 2019) och omloppstiderna ligger mellan 60-80 år. Artfattiga monokulturer som inte duger för timring med andra ord. :/
Intressant och trevligt att gammal kunskap finns kvar! Men folk på den tiden fick nog slita lika hårt som hästarna de använde, med en massa skador till följd.
English translation of video description: " Carpenter Olof Andersson prepares a log with ax. The film is filmed May 13-14, 2014, in Södra Råda, Värmland (right next to the border with Västergötland). Audio, camera and editing: Gunnar Almevik and Christina Persson. A film from the Craft Laboratory." The location is in Sweden. The Craft Laboratory at the University of Gothenburg is an organization dedicated to preserving craft knowledge. craftlab.gu.se
How does he know what height (the second, taller cut) to make it? The first was done with the with of the board, but I didn't see him make any measurements. I hope this question makes sense. If not, let me know and I'll try to explain.
Correct. Paraphrased: 'It might seem wasteful, removing so much material from such a fine log. But in a time when all heating and cooking was done by wood fires, these scraps would have been used as fuel.'
