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A mattock (/ ˈ m æ t ə k /) is a hand tool used for digging, prying, and chopping. Similar to the pickaxe, it has a long handle and a stout head which combines either a vertical axe blade with a horizontal adze (cutter mattock), or a pick and an adze (pick mattock). A cutter mattock is similar to a Pulaski used in fighting fires.
The focus is more on stamina than speed compared to other wood-chopping events outside the Basque Country and most competitions last half an hour at the very least but normally more than an hour. They can be held with each aizkolari having two helpers. The botilero (botillero in Spanish) holds the towel and brings new
A Pulaski combines the functions of an axe and an adze in one tool. The Pulaski is a specialty hand tool used in fighting fires, particularly wildfires, [1] which combines an axe and an adze in one head. Similar to a cutter mattock, it has a rigid handle of wood, plastic, or fiberglass.
Swedish carpenter's axe with straight handle/cutting edge, beard and notch ideal for choking up on. A Swedish carpenter's axe Examples of Japanese carpenter's axes. Carpenter's axes or carpenter's hatchets are small axes, usually slightly larger than a hatchet , used in traditional woodwork, joinery, and log-building.
The handle of the axe also acts as a lever allowing the user to increase the force at the cutting edge—not using the full length of the handle is known as choking the axe. For fine chopping using a side axe this sometimes is a positive effect, but for felling with a double bitted axe it reduces efficiency.
The head of an ice axe typically possesses an adze for chopping rough steps in ice. A firefighter tool called the Halligan bar has a dull adze on one end of the bar. This bar is a multipurpose tool for forcible entry of a structure and demolition with a forked pry-bar on one end and an adze and spike on the other, called the adze-end.
When splitting a log by hand, it is best to aim for the cracks (called checks), if there are any visible. [5] Some types of wood are harder to split than others, including extremely hard woods, as well as types like gum which an axe will often bounce off of, and cherry, which is typically so twisted it's near impossible to get a clean split ...
Hew is a general term meaning to strike or blow with a tool such as an axe or sword; to chop or gash, and is used in warfare, stone and woodcutting, and coal and salt mining in this sense. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Hewing wood is to shape the wood with a sharp instrument such as an axe, [ 3 ] specifically flattening one or more sides of a log.