Medieval wood riving: Replacing a historic pine beam with primitive tools
Slow, methodical, extreme hardwork. Watch this team of men work to replace a beam in an historic Swedish church with a 42 foot pine log - using only primitive tools.
 
Video uploader Örebro läns museum describes the technique as medieval wood riving, a technique that hasn't been captured on video before.
 
The felling and riving of the tree are performed with axes and tools modeled on archaelogical findings from the late 1100s - when the church was estimated to have been built.
 
If you have time for a 22-minute video, you'll certainly be satisified.
 
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Robert Dalheim

Robert Dalheim is an editor at the Woodworking Network. Along with publishing online news articles, he writes feature stories for the FDMC print publication. He can be reached at [email protected].