Handtools for Trail Work

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• About This Document
• Introduction
• Safe Trail Work
• Tools for Sawing
  • Crosscut Saws
  • Hand Chain Saws
  • Bow Saws
  • Pruning Saws
  • Pole Saws (Pole Pruners)
  • Wedges
• Tools for Chopping
  • Axes
  • Hatchets
• Tools for Grubbing
  • Pulaskis
  • Combi Tools
  • McLeods
  • Picks
  • Mattocks
  • Adze, Grub, and Hazel Hoes
• Tools for Digging and Tamping
  • Shovels
  • Digging and Tamping Bars
• Tools for Brushing
  • Lopping and Pruning Shears
  • Bank Blades and Bush Hooks
  • Clearing Knives and Swedish Brush (Sandvik) Axes
  • Machetes and Woodsman's Pals
  • Corn Knives
  • Scythes
  • Sickles and Grass Hooks
  • Weed Hooks
  • Weed Cutters (Grass Whips)
• Tools for Pounding and Hammering
  • Sledge Hammers
  • Hand-Drilling Hammers
    • Pictures of Hand-Drilling Hammers
    • Nailing Hammers
• Tools for Lifting and Hauling
  • Crowbars
  • Block and Tackles
  • Wheelbarrows
  • Cant Hooks and Peavies
  • Timber Carriers
• Tools for Peeling and Shaping
  • Bark Spuds (Peeling Spuds)
  • Drawknives
  • Carpenters Adzes (Cutting Adzes)
  • Broadaxes
• Tools for Sharpening
  • About Sharpening
  • Files
  • Grinders
  • Whetstones
• Tools for Rehandling
  • About Rehandling
  • Fastening Wedges
  • Rehandling Procedures
• Bibliography
• Appendix—American Pattern Files
  • Mill Files
  • Flat Files
  • Half Round Files
  • Round Files

Acknowledgments

This document was prepared by William R. Hutcheson and Dale Mrkich, former Forestry Technicians at MTDC. The work was accomplished under the direction of Jerry Oltman, former MTDC Forester and Project Leader. Special thanks to MTDC staff Bert Lindler, Sara Lustgraaf, Brian Vachowski, and Gary Hoshide for helping develop this revised edition.