[Greenbuilding] <-- or maybe it's [Harrowsmith] now ? re: Chippers and Splitters

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In a message dated 10/31/07 8:39:56 PM, terrain at shaw.ca writes:


> I have a leetle swiss axe that I use in the kitchen for chopping veggies -
> occasionally I degrade it by chopping wood or with its big brother. It has
> only to look at a piece of hard maple (or knotty fir) and it falls into
> pieces. Very very sharp - little effort - few muscles involved
> 
> JOHN SALMEN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
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> terrain at shaw.ca
> 

A machete and a log are what folks use in most of the world.   I have a tool 
like a machete called a brush hook that has a machete blade that ends with a 
hook that curves back. The hook is sharp too, making it easy to, say, weed 
brush from a clump of blueberries.   It would do the trick.   I'm too lazy to chop 
my mulch that way, though.

Dan Hemenway



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