[KegRiver]

Dang! even looking at that thing makes my arms ache.

We had one and two man crosscuts and I used them more then I care to remember. Man that was along time ago.

When dad brought home a Swede Saw I thought I'd found Nirvana.

Some old tools are so interesting. It is amazing what some of those tools could do.

My brother inherited two old planes from my dad. A wooden Block plane and a brass, fillister plane made by Stanley that came with a bunch of fancy shaped blades.

The old log building tools were pretty awesome too.
I only know a few of them, I've used an Adze and a broad axe. I've seen a couple of froes and scribes but never used one.

A lot of those old tools were bought up by homesteaders like my dad when power tools made them obsolete.
Most homesteaders couldn't afford fancy tools or power tools so they bought obsolete tools some of which would have been prohibitively expensive during their hayday.

That old fillister plane my brother has would probably be worth several thousand dollars in today's money when it was new.