OARniAOE AND WAGON MAKIUG. 



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The staves are made principally in the forest, since ■wood is split 

 most easily when it is fresh felled ; also because it is not every 

 piece of timber that is adapted for the purpose, and in the forest 

 itself the workmen can best choose only what is really suitable, 

 and can often utilize the tops and butt ends which the sawyer 

 rejects. 



Three tools are used — an axe with a broad flat head like the 

 back of a wedge, the divider and the shave. The last two tools are 

 clearly represented in Figs. 13 and 14 below : 



Fig. 13. 



Fig. 14. 



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Divider \ Shave 



Stave-maker's tools. (After Boppe). 



The stave maker's bench {Fig. 15) consists of the fork of a tree 



Fig. 15. 



Stave-maker's leneh with divider and mallet. 

 (After Boppe). 



fixed on three stakes firmly driven into the ground. 



