Viking Longship

[Subdeacon Joe]

Yes, it's Facebook.   Maybe someone not afraid of FB will decide to try to find it on YouTube for you.

 

https://www.facebook.com/Vikingeskibsmuseet/videos/377561086979985/

 

 

[Earl Brasse, SASS #3562]

reasons to own a few good axes

[Subdeacon Joe]

18 minutes ago, Earl Brasse, SASS #3562 said:

reasons to own a few good axes

 

And mauls, wedges, hatchets, adzes, braces, etc.

A similar video:
 

 

[Alpo]

Somebody ought to teach them what a saw is. They wasted a whole hell of a lot of wood. Out of a tree, what, 4 ft in diameter they got 16 planks?

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

6 hours ago, Alpo said:

Somebody ought to teach them what a saw is. They wasted a whole hell of a lot of wood. Out of a tree, what, 4 ft in diameter they got 16 planks?

But then it would not be a demonstration of how a Viking ship was built.

 

and maybe they used a saw for parts of the ship not on video.  But think they have wood to spare..

[Subdeacon Joe]

7 hours ago, Alpo said:

Somebody ought to teach them what a saw is. They wasted a whole hell of a lot of wood. Out of a tree, what, 4 ft in diameter they got 16 planks?

 

 

Splitting the wood and doing minimal cutting will give a stronger product than just ripping through it with a saw.

[Utah Bob #35998]

 

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

Viking Longship.  That's me in the forward lounge swilling down some aquavit.

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

That old boy with the bearded axe is almost good enough to be a surgeon.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

18 hours ago, Alpo said:

Somebody ought to teach them what a saw is. They wasted a whole hell of a lot of wood. Out of a tree, what, 4 ft in diameter they got 16 planks?

Splitting the log radially like they did is way stronger than can be done with a saw blade. There is not one plank that wants to twist or crack.  Who cares about waste when you can get that kind of strength.