[AT] 'farmer' Francis Robinson

[John Hall]

Dad is 86, I asked him had ever heard of warming an ax. He said no but 
did say if its cold enough and you were splitting hard wood it was 
possible to break a plug out of the ax. He seemed to think there was one 
around here that had a chunk missing. Given the quantity of wood they 
used to split for firing tobacco barns, not to mention cooking and 
heating, he should know. I've heard him mention several times about 
leaving tough wood standing on end so it would rain in it and freeze 
during the winter, seems it helped to split it at a later and warmer date.

John Hall


On 1/30/2017 2:10 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> That gets back around to a discussion I believe we had many
> years back about cold  embrittlement.
>
> Very interesting phenomenon.
>
> Charlie
>