On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 11:33:57 PM UTC-5, Michael wrote:
> This is the first time I've seen this. I can't way to get some and try th=
em out.
>=20
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DehiSOFuBlRo&feature=3Dem-subs_digest
>=20
> Mike
I bought a few, off Ebay. Seems, old original ones are not offered, that =
often, so I bought newer, repro ones.... 6" & 8" ones. I hadn't thought t=
o use them for joining boards, but for steadying logs or large timbers, as =
I hand split them or hand work them, in certain circumstances.... more so i=
n a fashion of a hold-down type tool. *Old original hold downs are not al=
ways so readily available, on Ebay, either.
There are very large varieties of pinch dogs, 3', 4', etc., for logs, also.=
I don't recall if those larger ones have a different "name"/term.
They look simple to use, but my use was not perfect. I didn't know a prop=
er technique, for my purpose, so I had problems, as to their proper applica=
tion and function, but I persisted. I suppose, someday, I'll learn better=
, as I practice, more, have a project that I can practice on. =20
I like old tools, I have only a few, and it's a little annoying when I have=
to teach myself their proper or best use. It looks easy, when someone els=
e uses them, correctly, but not so easy, when it's use is new to me. Some=
times, I try to convince myself that I'm smarter, than an inanimate object,=
but end up humbling to my *smartaleckness, if you know what I mean.
Similarly, using a adze or broad ax, properly, is not as easy as it seems, =
either.
Sometimes I feel like a idiot, sometimes I prove it, when messing with old =
hand tools!.... and, luckily, I still have all my fingers and toes.
Sonny
Sonny <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
*snip*
> I like old tools, I have only a few, and it's a little annoying when I
> have to teach myself their proper or best use. It looks easy, when
> someone else uses them, correctly, but not so easy, when it's use is
> new to me. Sometimes, I try to convince myself that I'm smarter,
> than an inanimate object, but end up humbling to my *smartaleckness,
> if you know what I mean.
>
*snip*
Sometimes there's a lot of knowledge hidden in tool designs. It's not the
object you have to be smarter than, but the designer you have to equal.
Puckdropper
--
Make it to fit, don't make it fit.
On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 9:40:44 AM UTC-5, Leon wrote:
> On 3/11/2015 11:33 PM, Michael wrote:
> > This is the first time I've seen this. I can't way to get some and try them out.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehiSOFuBlRo&feature=em-subs_digest
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
> I think I would be more inclined to use clamps...
No doubt, but I'm still going to try this. It looks like fun.
Sonny wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 11:33:57 PM UTC-5, Michael wrote:
>> This is the first time I've seen this. I can't way to get some and try them out.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehiSOFuBlRo&feature=em-subs_digest
>>
>> Mike
>
> I bought a few, off Ebay. Seems, old original ones are not offered, that often, so I bought newer, repro ones.... 6" & 8" ones. I hadn't thought to use them for joining boards, but for steadying logs or large timbers, as I hand split them or hand work them, in certain circumstances.... more so in a fashion of a hold-down type tool. *Old original hold downs are not always so readily available, on Ebay, either.
>
> There are very large varieties of pinch dogs, 3', 4', etc., for logs, also. I don't recall if those larger ones have a different "name"/term.
>
> They look simple to use, but my use was not perfect. I didn't know a proper technique, for my purpose, so I had problems, as to their proper application and function, but I persisted. I suppose, someday, I'll learn better, as I practice, more, have a project that I can practice on.
>
> I like old tools, I have only a few, and it's a little annoying when I have to teach myself their proper or best use. It looks easy, when someone else uses them, correctly, but not so easy, when it's use is new to me. Sometimes, I try to convince myself that I'm smarter, than an inanimate object, but end up humbling to my *smartaleckness, if you know what I mean.
>
> Similarly, using a adze or broad ax, properly, is not as easy as it seems, either.
>
> Sometimes I feel like a idiot, sometimes I prove it, when messing with old hand tools!.... and, luckily, I still have all my fingers and toes.
>
> Sonny
>
When I was much younger, my Dad & brothers "dipped turpentine". They
used a broadaxe and maul to cut a slit to insert the tins in. That
was long ago but not so far away.
--
GW Ross
People who live in stone houses
shouldn't throw glasses.
Nice lesson.
I always heard pinch dogs. Timber dogs are larger than your hand and
are used in attaching a chain to a log in order to drag it. Handy
attachment item.
Martin
On 3/11/2015 11:33 PM, Michael wrote:
> This is the first time I've seen this. I can't way to get some and try them out.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehiSOFuBlRo&feature=em-subs_digest
>
> Mike
>
On 3/11/2015 11:33 PM, Michael wrote:
> This is the first time I've seen this. I can't way to get some and try them out.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehiSOFuBlRo&feature=em-subs_digest
Cabinetmaker I worked for briefly in the UK 50 years ago had boxes full
of them, some of them fairly long, 8 to 10 or so". He had them made by
the local blacksmith.
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