(1) If you use a broadax , hew the log face perpendicular to the ground rather than parallel, as shown here.(2) The Boston mob broke down the doors with broadaxes , destroyed the furniture, stole the jewels and money, scattered the papers and books, drank the wine in the cellar and dismantled the roof and walls.(3) The coopers in the Historic Area of Colonial Williamsburg shape their staves with broadaxes , planes, and drawknives, and then gather them in a circle secured by a ring.(4) Loggers downed trees with broadaxes during the winter, honed them by hand to the right dimension, and floated them down the Wind River in huge tie drives.(5) With broadaxes , adzes, and other tools of days gone by, crews continuously repair the park's buildings.(6) The shaping of the timbers was accomplished mostly by the use of a variety of adzes, and broadaxes , each one especially designed for a specific purpose.(7) Larger broadaxes , often beveled on both sides, were used by the ‘tie hacks’, who would drop a tree with a felling axe, then walk up and down it, hewing as they went.(8) Unusual about these two broadaxes was that along with Hicks's name they also bore the names of other residents of the Garden State.(9) We carry hand-forged broadaxes from Sweden that can be either beveled on the left or right and that come with a straight or angled handle.(10) These are called broadaxes , named for their unusually wide cutting edge.(11) The blades of broadaxes can range from six to over twelve inches, and can weigh anywhere from two to over seven pounds.(12) Carpenter's broadaxes are designed with shorter handles than lumbermen's adzes.(13) In 1872, the sound of cross cut saws and broadaxes echoed across Mount Hotham.(14) The main tools were cross-cut saws, handsaws, broadaxes , axes, spokeknives, and pocketknives.
