PREP Scottish auger/ Settlers wrench-Who's got one? What've you built

BadMedicine

BadMedicine

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Been wanting one of these for about a year and GF got me one for Christmas.

Videos make it look like quite a bit of work but could be cool for joining certain things, simple benches, stools, ladders... but even for joining large frame beams in a building or ship... Lots of uses..

Ever used one much or built anything cool? Tips and tricks?

Video run time 22:34 Many other videos on it lately. *LIFE HACK clicks settings and change playback speed to watch youtube on 1.5/2x speed... most are just fine at those rates.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R98TNOmzC-w
 
Dobbin

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
Owner has MANY of the usual timber framing tools. Chisels in 1, 1-1/2, 2, 2-1/2 width. A couple of adze, one specifically for "surfacing" of beams, another for cutting the "corner notch" in log cabin building.

He has a "slick" which is a chisel about 4" wide and perhaps 3/4" thick - heavy - with a handle about 2' long. Not hit with a hammer but rather used "freehanded" and by momentum to "level off" the bung plugs on screwed ship planks.

He has a "bruzz" which is the "corner chisel" for taking round drilled holes and turning them into square holes for mortise & tenon joints.

His mallet is round about 6" diameter and made of lignum vitae, which is the heaviest known natural wood known to man.

He has broadaxe in both two handed (axe) and one handed (hatchet) style. This he uses to "mark out" the beams and rough out before adzing.

He has the "boring machine" used to manually drill the holes using auger bits up to 2". A pix below.
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Although he also has a Milwaukee Hole Hog and a set of drills adapted to that specifically.

He says drilling by hand is a "lot of work" - and electric drills save the effort for the things that count.

I've seen him use an 8" gear drive circular saw to "rough out" mortise, and also a Milwaukee Sawsall.

Dobbin
 
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Caplock50

Caplock50

I am the Winter Warrior
Does this count?

3 pictures of my 'car killer' crossbow I made from junk the neighbors had thrown away. The stock is a 2 X 4 from a shipping pallet. The 'bow' is a leaf spring from a golf cart. The 'string' is a piece of cable from cable ratchet. The trigger is a piece of aluminum alloy. All if it was shaped and fashioned and put together by hand tools I have in my shop. It 'kicks' worse than my 12 gauge shotgun and sent an arrow made from an extra long metal bolt clear through my burn-barrel. I call it a 'car-killer' because...well...think what it could/would do to a car's engine.

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Caplock50

Caplock50

I am the Winter Warrior
Lol, I have 2 knives I made from some more thrown away junk. Would you like to see pictures of them? One is butcher knife I use in the kitchen, made from a file. The other I call my 'booger knife'...because it's what I carry when I think I might run into a bad old 'boogerman'. It's about 18" long and made from another leaf spring. It's scabbard is a piece of plastic pipe I heated and flattened out and the strap to put it on my belt is a piece of a car's seat-belt.
 
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KFhunter

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BadMedicine said:
Been wanting one of these for about a year and GF got me one for Christmas.

Videos make it look like quite a bit of work but could be cool for joining certain things, simple benches, stools, ladders... but even for joining large frame beams in a building or ship... Lots of uses..

Ever used one much or built anything cool? Tips and tricks?

Video run time 22:34 Many other videos on it lately. *LIFE HACK clicks settings and change playback speed to watch youtube on 1.5/2x speed... most are just fine at those rates.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R98TNOmzC-w
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That guy doesn't know how to run that auger

Once the tip just starts to poke through you pull it out then drill from the backside.

Once the drill is through, you bottom out the drill and finish boring the hole, he's threaded the hole by stopping then backing it out.

It's splitting the ends because he hasn't properly bored the hole and is smashing the pegs in, even if he pegged the upright rails, then cut to length, the peg would still split the end, as it's still too tight having been smashed in.

The auger being home made doesn't have cutting ears that a more modern design would, that would make an even cleaner bore hole.

I didn't watch much more than that
 
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Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams

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Stumbled across a full set….a very full set….of augers, braces, bits and other related accessories on eBay, some years ago.

Watched the listing languish for a couple auctions and go nowhere.
The box it came in weighed over 60#….

I made the seller kind of a lowball offer, privately.
He replied back, asking my intent for the tools.

After I explained, he cheerfully accepted my offer and sent the tools.

Have put them to serious use, since, and think about our brief exchange, every time.
 
BadMedicine

BadMedicine

Would *I* Lie???
Yeah they are fairly specialized tool that take some time and 'overbuild' many of the items they're used for, but for building without nails, seem pretty handy for joining larger timers together. I've also seen these used as pins after notching the wood together another way. I've even seen pins through larger pins. The additional shipwright tools Dobbin spoke of I'll be looking in to as well!
I've got an analogue webpage (book) on cabin building designs, notches and joining techniques...

....Like most of us here, just hoping the lights go off and don't come back on:D
 
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mecoastie

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In 2019 I built a timberframe sugar shack using mostly hand tools. It was a great experience and fun to really use the tools I had collected. While the beam drill was slower than using the Hole Hawg I felt it was more accurate and better at keeping the mortises 90 degrees to the beam.
 
ainitfunny

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
Nothing yet, I was considering a fire log that works like a rocket stove.
one hole down it lengthwise, and one hole drilled near the bottom perpendicular to that hole (for air)
 
ainitfunny

ainitfunny

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mecoastie said:
It’s a specialty tool. Not a lot you can do with it.
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you can build humongos barns (bigger than they build today with wood), without nails, all kinds of primitive and camp furniture, stools, chairs, rocking chairs, bunk beds, shelves, tables, you can make 1 log fires, both rocket stove logs and swedish fire torches and fire candles with tree sap packed onto a drilled out branch. you can build a log cabin, the doors and windows, floors and framing.
 
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Dobbin

Dobbin

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BadMedicine said:
....Like most of us here, just hoping the lights go off and don't come back on:D
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Um. Owner would do fine I'm sure.

Me not so much.

I DON'T LIKE THE DARK. Owner has taken special arrangements for me with lighting in the event of a power outage.

"Don't want Dobbin upset - I don't want to remake that stall another time, the first time was enough!"

I was young then.

Dobbin
 
ainitfunny

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
It's called a SCOTCH EYE AUGER.
plug that into amazon.

The survivalists have spurred the demand for them and many companies have started making them again so they (the VINTAGE ONES) have gone WAY DOWN in price in the last year.
 
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Millwright

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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Didn't watch the video, but looks like you could get a $15 set of Irwin bits and weld them on a piece of pipe.



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I'd probably weld a small piece of something on the top and make a something that fits in it and spins...maybe with a short spike or three.

That way you could lean a limb on it to provide weight with your knee or foot.
 
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mecoastie

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Millwright said:
Didn't watch the video, but looks like you could get a $15 set of Irwin bits and weld them on a piece of pipe.



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I'd probably weld a small piece of something on the top and make a something that fits in it and spins...maybe with a short spike or three.

That way you could lean a limb on it to provide weight with your knee or foot.
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I tried
one of those in my beam drill and it did not cut well. I used these instead:

Drilling Accessories | IRWIN

IRWIN® Spade Bits, SPEEDBOR SUPREME™, and SPEEDBOR® Tri-Flute Drill Bits; Core Bits for masonry drilling; Multi-Material bits, for rotary and hammer drilling on single or combined materials; Rotary Percussion Drill Bits, Heavy-duty bits for SDS Max drills; SpeedHammer Power™ SDS® Plus shank...
www.irwin.com www.irwin.com

Worked much better and cleaner.
 
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mecoastie

Veteran Member
ainitfunny said:
you can build humongos barns (bigger than they build today with wood), without nails, all kinds of primitive and camp furniture, stools, chairs, rocking chairs, bunk beds, shelves, tables, you can make 1 log fires, both rocket stove logs and swedish fire torches and fire candles with tree sap packed onto a drilled out branch. you can build a log cabin, the doors and windows, floors and framing.
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But for Alone very little of that is really important. You dont need a humongous barn, rocking chair, bunk beds etc. You can do a lot of the same type of stuff with other more multipurpose tools. Not as well but enough to get you by.
 
Millwright

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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mecoastie said:
I tried
one of those in my beam drill and it did not cut well. I used these instead:

Drilling Accessories | IRWIN

IRWIN® Spade Bits, SPEEDBOR SUPREME™, and SPEEDBOR® Tri-Flute Drill Bits; Core Bits for masonry drilling; Multi-Material bits, for rotary and hammer drilling on single or combined materials; Rotary Percussion Drill Bits, Heavy-duty bits for SDS Max drills; SpeedHammer Power™ SDS® Plus shank...
www.irwin.com www.irwin.com

Worked much better and cleaner.
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I can see a single cutting edge doing better. (I just grabbed a random pic)

Also, a small triangle file should be part of the kit for one of these.
 
hiwall

hiwall

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I have a few ways to make different sized holes. From .22" to .72". Very quick to use though do require ear protection.
 
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