Long overdue project.

[duke]

Wanted to make an axe chopping block for a few years. Tapered the leg tenons with an axe, bored out of mortise with a spade bit and chiseled the taper.

 

[Mike G]

Wouldn't it have been easier just to have a longer log?

I guess there is the three-legged thing of never wobbling, no matter how uneven the ground.

 

[meccarroll]

Wanted to make an axe chopping block for a few years. Tapered the leg tenons with an axe, bored out of mortise with a spade bit and chiseled the taper.View attachment 28649View attachment 28650

I bet you wish you had got around to it sooner. I know when I get around to completing jobs that have been on the back burner for too long I feel so pleaed with myself. What's next?

 

[duke]

Wouldn't it have been easier just to have a longer log?

I guess there is the three-legged thing of never wobbling, no matter how uneven the ground.

This is the log which was here when we moved in 13 years ago. I have been using it but got tired bending over.
Works well now!
Yes it's great for uneven floors such as what is in our garage Mike.

 

[duke]

I bet you wish you had got around to it sooner. I know when I get around to completing jobs that have been on the back burner for too long I feel so pleaed with myself. What's next?

Yes, came In from the shop and had a cup of tea with the missus and started thinking about this. Gulped the tea down and got my arse back out there.
Such a pleasure chopping without bending over.
The what's next list is too long.

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

The what's next list is too long.

Derek Cohen had a lot to say recently about "To do" lists and the discouraging impact of them. He proposed, and I fully agree, that they should be "Wish" lists. That frees one up from the guilt of not achieving 40 things in one day, despite "going like a nailer". You simply reverse the psychology - and bask in the satisfaction of achieving even one or two things; secure too in the knowledge that more could not have been done, given time and circumstances.
I'm trying it as part of a fundamental reshape of my work ethic, following poor health over the last 4 years and I'd add: J.F.D.I. (Just Flippin' Do It - Dr Bob or Graeme Hayden originally, I think) and "an hour before 12 is worth 2 after". So far, pleasantly surprising; the alternative viewpoint could be: " Be realistic". So many of us succumb to peer pressure (even at 60-plus!) and inappropriate expectations regarding processes and materials.

 

[duke]

Yes , the reverse psychology does work. Generally I make a weekly list of things to do also knowing not all will be done. Need to have a list as my memory can't retain info as it did in my youth.
Luckily I'm not swayed by peer pressure, never have but know people who have, such a disruption in ones life.

 

[duke]

I bet you wish you had got around to it sooner. I know when I get around to completing jobs that have been on the back burner for too long I feel so pleaed with myself. What's next?

Not next but during the winter I would like to make wattle fence panels. We have alot of Tag Alder, Ulnus incana , on the property.

 

[AndyP]

Such a pleasure chopping without bending over.

I have a large lump of oak stump that I split logs on with a splitting maul. When I need to use a hand axe for kindling I pull up a garden chair.

There is of course another reason why a milking stool only has 3 legs. Because the cow’s got the udder.

Sorry.

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

Because the cow’s got the udder.

Sorry.

BADOOM, CHING!