River
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Rives (splits) logs or wooden blocks into bolts, pickets,
posts, shakes, or stakes, using handtools, such as ax wedges,
sledgehammer, froe, and mallet: Drives wedge into log with ax
and sledeghammer to split log along grain to form posts or
bolts. Positions froe on block according to grain and thickness
of specified product and pounds it into block with mallet to
start cut. Pulls froe handle up or down to pry and split pieces
from block. May fell trees, using chain saw [Faller (logging)
Ii] and cut logs into desired lenghts [Bucker (logging)]. May be
designated accroding to product cut as Rail Splitter (logging);
Shake Splitter (logging); Shingle-Bolt Cutter (logging);
Stave-Block Splitter (logging).
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