[Stoves] Fire Stump: center hole making

[ajheggie at gmail.com]

On Wednesday 20 July 2011 01:41:48 Richard Stanley wrote:
>  Here in Little 'ole Ashland Oregon and I suspect all over the land,
> ordinary softwood  logs were used for water pipes. They bored 2 to 4"
> dia holes right thru the center of 8 to 10 ft lengths and somehow
> maintained  center...Have no idea how they managed that but it wold
> certainly give us a clue as to how to bore a simple 18 inches depth or
> so.... My trusty 18 volt dewalt with a spade bit dies after about 6"
> yet they managed 10 ft probably by hand auguring..Perhaps any of us in
> the over 80's club can recall..

In uk they used elm with taper sockets for the joins. They used spoon 
bits.

AJH