Making a Simple Wood Splitting Tool (Froe)
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- Опубліковано 10 січ 2020
- Only three things were used to make this wood splitting tool, called a froe: A leaf spring from the junkyard, a cheap shovel handle from the hardware store and an angle grinder. This project is as simple as simple gets!
It's hard to find a froe in my part of the world, we don't even have a word for this tool, so I decided to make one myself and looked for a suitable leaf spring at my local scrap yard. It's around 1/4 inch thick and a bit over 2 inches wide.
I cut it at around 12 inches long, before the spring got too bent, which gave me a cutting edge of around 9 inches, which should be plenty enough for my needs. Shaping went quite easy and the end result looks pretty much like a froe, but the sharpening part was really time consuming and my entire workshop is now covered in angle grinder dust.
But overall it's an easy project that can be done in an hour or so with just some basic tools. - Навчання та стиль
This makes me miss hanging out with my old man in his shop, watching him take tools and random things he'd find and turn them into either another useful tool or some kind of piece of art. My uncle gave him a piece of purple heart wood that he found and my dad made it into a small boat paddle to go with my mom's ship art. It had a tiny worm hole in it and he left it in it, and it was used as the hanging piece so she didn't have to mount a hanger to it. She still has it, though he's gone now, but watching channels like this really make my heart go back to a happy place of my childhood.
The man is making us jealous. Fair play to him. Can't beat the ol' boys😊
I got caught up watching the process and ended up learning what a "froe" is. This video was a two-for- one!
Happy humon noise
it was a two froe one
Hey i gotta tell you when you took the blade out of that saw and re-attached it inside the loop of that leaf spring that might have been some of the smartest shit ive ever seen
Cole Wyman that was a smart move.
I'm a service engineer for security systems (CCTV, alarms etc). Sometimes, what I do is mechanical or electrical and other times it's sitting at a computer dealing with software. Add to that, it's on customer premises, not on a fully equipped workshop and often (though not right now with Covid-19) it's with what I can carry on public transport in Central London. It makes me very resourceful!
Lol.
Then we're thinking why didn't I do that
Perfect! I need a large froe and was about to buy one then saw the price! This is exactly what I need.
This is also a perfect UA-cam video in my book; no annoying background music, just the sound of the work.
The maker has obviously made a lot of things in his life given the fluency of this; it's very enjoyable to watch.
Liked, subscribed and saved for future reference. 👍
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Good stuff. Did you make one? What metal did you get for the blade?
The end where the wood was chopped so perfectly, was gorgeous.
0:29 my man knows how to make straight lines without a ruler
by the effects of quarantine videos like this have become very interesting
YOU. ARE. AMAZING! 😍 I love watching you work. What you create is awesome, and the fact it is done in a small shop with common tools makes it that much better. Keep up the great work, sir! 👍🏼
You know what’s better than voiceover commentary? Text commentary that says “let me play you the song of my people” as an angle grinder goes about making chipped fire. I like it. 👍🏼
As a purist, this kills me.
As a realist, I Love it!
As a woodworker that Steel hammer on a steel tool made me cringe.
But overall GREAT JOB!
(I need a froe, hence my finding your video)
I loved it to
Splitting kindling I wouldn't call woodworking.
It looked to me like a rubber mallet
The steel hammer on steel tool bothered me also. Try a wood mallet. Great job on the video though.
Here in the pacific northwest froes are used to split cedar into blocks for milling into shakes and shingles. We don't use a wooden mallet (laughing my guts out). We use a mallet with a heavy cylinder of lead for a head.
It’s unreal how this man turns scrap metal and things into amazing pieces of craftsmanship.
Thank you!
I had one of these once. "Mother Earth News" showed how to make one. After trying this again with a storebought one many years later I decided it was too much trouble. You have to get straight grained wood with almost no knots which is very hard to do these days. I've always wondered how pine would do. There is nearly none available here.
Idk and know one knows he dose magic
Also The Small Workshop why don’t you talk like you have to do this first then this why do you not talk
@@badbrain8279 it works with pine wood , I did some , in the past . I made a froe like this , somme yrs ago , with Triumph Spitfire leaf spring , ( it was too thick ) then I tried a gransfor bruks one( I made a video on UA-cam , of epicea shingles making ) , and then found a very old one , forged here ( SW of France ) that was rusted but very good to use .
BRAVO!!! I watched this one several times, and it just keeps gettin' better! Thanks for the video!
Brilliant! The simplicity was great
I love the little notions he adds every so often, they make the experience just that more enjoyable.
Glad you like them! Some people think they are cringy.
@@TheSmallWorkshop and those people are WRONG
Very nice build! I love watching you fabricate a very helpful tool
what a smart project ... I liked it and I think I'll make one for myself
Excellent project and video! Thanks for sharing.
it's so cool what you do with old rusted stuff ! i've always wanted to find old things and turn them into something useful, like a long gone rusted car. i wish i had this patience and talent..
Hey that's great! Brilliantly simple device.
Thanks for sharing that, well done
Excellent work👍👍👍. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your ingenuity.
Great job, nice work.
I really enjoyed that. I'm still using something similar that my Father made in the Sixties, but with the metal tubular handle welded on in line with the blade.
Brilliant work 👏👏💯
Great Job I love the idea I will be working on my......Thanks!!!
here we go, 2 a.m and this pop up. time to watch.
Excellent video!!!
Excellent video; better job on a very useful splitting tool that will last generations!!! Absolutely superb!!! God bless!!! Chuck Knight from Buffalo, Texas. 🤠
That was really awesome to watch! Bad ass
That's badass bro.
Love it, and it saves you a lot of money!!
Brill - thanks for sharing!
Well done!
Pretty beautiful job, dude! Really fantastic!!! 😃
Good job!
Fine job indeed and the result is working well!! Love those vids keep up the good work!
That was very satisfying to watch :)
That is really neat.
I liked how he placed all of the items on his workbench, then started grinding..., with his hearing protection left sitting on the bench. File that under: Things we did when we were younger, but that now we regret. ;)
That was the spare set for trainees.
Amazing craft , good job!!
A very handy outcome
Beautiful!
Thank you!
Great job!
Very cool idea.
Nice to the point and functional
Outstanding
I love your tape measure marker
Very clever 👏 👌 😀
fabulous!
That is waaaay cool. I never would have thought of a leaf spring. The froe I bought decades ago was a ring of pipe welded to a blade and I made my own handle. It got lost in one of my moves so now I'm gonna make my own. I'm thinking I would weld the loop closed so the leverage won't twist it open. I have a whole dead ash tree and I can't wait to split it up into baseball bats and shaker rockers. Thanks for the video!
Good job man
Nice work and great idea.
MAGNIFICIENT 👍!!!
Great job
Good meticulous work!
Great idea. It would be good to have about three of these with three different size blades for the shop. One shorter, one longer, and one the same size.
Ok, now take the rest of that leaf spring and make an awesome DRAW KNIFE with it.
Cloggers peg knife, elbow and tang adzes. Leaf springs are decent steel.
This channel is not only interesting but oddly satisfying. Usually can make me fall asleep if it’s late enough. No homo just chill
Wow nice!😀
It’s exactly what I was thinking it would be from! I had been looking for a leaf spring ever since I saw your picture. It’s weird how occasionally I will see shattered fragments of leaf springs on the side of the road, but never when I specifically look for them. Sometimes trucks or trailers get overloaded or hit a pot hole and the leaf springs get ruptured from the mounts and I see them just laying there. But now that I want to find one, I will never see another one again. I saw someone else make one from the hinge from a barn door.
I think spring steel is better than barn door hinge steel. You should find cheap leaf springs at car scrap yards.
@@TheSmallWorkshop thanks for sharing this build. May I ask the size of the spring? Or which common vehicle to get it from? Is the diameter recommended to be a size specific?
Not all leaf spring end loops are ideally shaped like that one, many don't have the blade section central to the circle. This won't affect the operation of the froe, but for symmetry and looks I'd find one like used here.
Very nice clip. Nice filming, lighting and very clear. And you did a good job on the project itself.
If you make a pair of them, do you then have a two & fro? 😜😂😂👍🇦🇺
EXCELLENT!
Bravo, esti artist cu ustensilele !
Multumesc!
A USEFULL tool good job
Wouah great tool, never seen that before
Great work too 😺
Now that’s cool!
Thanks, it’s gonna make splitting kindling easier and less messy.
Dang, I gotta go find a spring!!! To easy.
well done sir
Hi 👋 good idea 👍good job 👍
Ahh the humble angle grinder, so versatile.
Awesome!
Nice tool, never seen before
Leaf spring is the best solution to make a froe, very good job! 👍Idid one with a lown mower blade, it's ok too.
Nice job
Thank You.
What can you use an angle grinder for?
Yes.
Cut-off-wheel
Very Nice 😃👌🏻
One more video, before I go to bed (4am) Here I am wayching a blacksmith make a froe.
This is an excellent idea, I think I’ll find a leaf spring and try to make a froe and a draw knife from it.
My favorite part of the video is when you show good safety etiquette by unplugging the angle grinder to change the disk.
I had one start on me out of the blue once, because it's button failed... Weird design, the switch was always on and a lever was keeping it off, when the leaver failed the button went to it's natural state of ON and it started jumping on the floor... Scary stuff! (It was not a Makita)
I like how the earmuffs are just sitting there on the bench. Great video. Awesome idea though.
Good to see all the safety Sally’s are here.
@@stovepipe9er The safety Sallys are correct we should not knock them, I am 59 years old and am going to the family "I didn't hear what you said, please repeat" WTF I never used hear protection
I noticed that and was glad to see it as well. Demonstrating good safety practice deserves a pat on the back.
Very nice
One of the simplest ways of making a froe I've seen yet
Thank you
Very nice 👍
Genius
Good beer choice! Hai noroc! 🍻
a couple of suggestions, if you have the ability to oil quench the froe to harden the blade and temper it, just to ensure it is hardened properly.
Also never hit the spine of the froe with a metal hammer, use a wooden baton
What is this "oil quench" thing?
Necessity is the mother of inventions
Great tutorial and agree it is way better without the usual random muzak found on others ! :-).
For a more robust tool that stays on the handle when really levering take the Froe to your local garage and have them drop a weld down the hole-blade junction. Did that for mine many years ago and it has been super solid.
Him: gets hit by sparks on all places possible.
Also him who had the infinity gantlet under his skin the whole time: “ tis but a mere scratch”
Gallileo made wood splitters? I'd no idea. Great vid mate.
Super like your video
Love the Galileo reference
Good one
Pacat ca faci clipuri atat de rar, esti bun si meriti mai mult
Puțin si bun
Multumesc, mai greu cu timpul...
@@TheSmallWorkshop ca la toti. Timpu-i problema.
On a scale of 1 to 10, that was an ELEVEN. Nice work. (May I order one please???)
Очень умно придумонное инструмент. Спасибо. Лайк зароботол.