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2. Wood splitting - Wikipedia

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   Wood splitting (riving, [1] cleaving) is an ancient technique used in carpentry to make lumber for making wooden objects, some basket weaving, and to make firewood. Unlike wood sawing , the wood is split along the grain using tools such as a hammer and wedges , splitting maul , cleaving axe , side knife , or froe .

3. List of timber framing tools - Wikipedia

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   Chalk line or ink line used to snap lines on the wood. Ink and a slurry of charcoal were used like chalk. Carpenter pencil; Scratch awl or similar tools were used to scratch lines on wood before the pencil was commonly used beginning in the 19th century in the U.S. Try square; Steel square is also known as a framing square. Historically a ...

4. Cleaving axe - Wikipedia

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   To split longer logs, wedges are driven with the heavy poll of this maul, giving its alternative name of "hammer-poll axe". [9] Splitting axes are inconsistently described. Some are cleaving axes, used for green woodworking. [6] Others are a crude firewood-splitting axe, but without the heavy poll of a maul.

5. Splitting maul - Wikipedia

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   A typical wood splitting maul has a head mass of 6 to 8 lb or approximately 2.7 to 3.6 kg, respectively. Traditionally, mauls have a wedge-shaped head, but some modern versions have conical heads or swiveling sub-wedges. The original maul resembles an axe but with a broader head. For splitting wood, this tool is much better than a typical axe.

6. Axe - Wikipedia

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   Splitting axe: Used in wood splitting to split with the grain of the wood. Splitting axe bits are more wedge shaped. Splitting axe bits are more wedge shaped. This shape causes the axe to rend the fibres of the wood apart, without having to cut through them.

7. Log splitter - Wikipedia

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   A log splitter is a piece of machinery or equipment used for splitting firewood from softwood or hardwood logs that have been pre-cut into sections (rounds), usually by chainsaw or on a saw bench. Many log splitters consist of a hydraulic pump or electric motor which then powers a hydraulic or electrical rod and piston assembly.