This article is about converting logs to timbers with an axe. For mining, see hewer.
A German carpenter (Zimmerer) hewing a log into a beam. Note the blue chalk line snapped on the log to which the hewer works.In some medieval Scandinavian buildings a special method of hewing which produces a herringbone pattern on the timbers has been used (Swedish: Slinthuggning, Norwegian: Sprettejling). This is a modern reconstruction in Stråsjö Chapel in Hälsingland, Sweden.Stråsjö Chapel
In woodworking, hewing is the process of converting a log from its rounded natural form into lumber (timber) with more or less flat surfaces using primarily an axe. It is an ancient method, and before the advent of the industrial-era type of sawmills, it was a standard way of squaring up wooden beams for timber framing. Today it is still used occasionally for that purpose by anyone who has logs, needs beams, and cannot or would prefer not to pay for finished lumber. Thus, homesteaders on frugal budgets, for example, may hew their own lumber rather than buy it.
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worked, and at the start of the hewing the hewers had to lie on their stomachs or even their backs in various hewing sections, in tunnels and even rooms...
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