The Ax Book: The Lore and Science of the Woodcutter

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The Ax Book is a thorough guide to cutting wood with hand tools. The author explains how to use various types of axes hatchets mauls saws and wedges to take down trees and prepare firewood. In addition he shows every aspect of dealing with wood from the forest right to the hearth or stove. Author Dudley Cook of Waterboro Maine tells the reader a certain amount about himself. He has evidently worked in the woods a great deal having learned to use an ax and the other tools of the woodsman as a boy growing up in a small New England town in the 1930s. He doesnt say whether in writing The Ax Book he found he had taken on a longer journey than he had expected; but if so he was equal to the task and his reader gain by the bargain. Illustrations are by S. Lawrence WhipplePaperback 144 pages 8.50"x 11"