Back in our Pennsylvania mountain days, we acquired a custom, i.e. new,
froe made by a local guy who cut a steel car spring leaf (hard to
picture that, but it was a piece of heavy flat bar stock), rolled one
end round in which to wedge a handle, and sharpened the blade just right
for splitting shingles. The maul we made from a trunk of a cherry tree,
whittling it thin enough to hold, and placing the working end at a
crotch of really dense hard wood.

It worked for demo and to make shingles for our little cabin in the
woods, the Nautilus.

Frankly, my neighbor's froe worked much better, a thinner metal, and
held its edge better.

Memories...


QUINN EVANS | ARCHITECTS 
Ilene R. Tyler, FAIA, FAPT, LEED AP
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