Apr2013_TOOLS ON THE WALL
Many readers may remember growing up when part of daily life included felling timber for all manner of uses: Paling fences, post and rail fences, railway sleepers, bridge girders, housing timber, bullock yokes, firewood etc all done using hand tools which mostly hang silent on Museum or back-yard shed walls these days with nothing to tell of the skills and strength needed to use them.
Samford Museum, with financial assistance from the Regional Arts Development Fund and a professional film maker have produced a 30 minute DVD using men across the Moreton Bay Regional Council area demonstrating working with traditional tools: Cross Cut Saw, Broad Axe, Adze, Froe, Maul and Wedges, Auger, Morticing Axe.
This newly released Documentary shows the process of felling a tree, barking it, splitting the log, adzing, splitting shingles, morticing a fence post, sharpening a crosscut saw and more, with descriptions of the tool used for each job.
Samford Museum’s men (all Senior Citizens and volunteers) demonstrate these tools on Australia Day and by appointment for visiting groups.
Copies of this DVD are available from Samford Museum, also group or School visits can be arranged. Enquiries for the DVD can be made by contacting Eileen Kemp on 3289 1550 and group visits can be booked by contacting Margaret Hickey on 3289 1259. The Museum is in Station Street Samford and open all day Wednesday and from 10:00 till 4:00 on Sundays.
………..Geoff. Harris …………..President.
