Dry peg coat hooks in green wood - PEP BB roundwood.sand.drypeghooks

Base is from a Pine Justin cut down yesterday and lopped the dry pegs from a dead standing Pine.
Shaving the backside would have gone faster if I started with the fatter end then worked on the knots after checking.
I started on the skinny side that made a huge gap which led to more shaving for a learning lesson.

I cut this green pine branch and split it down the center. The split branch was a little crooked, so I cut and saved the straighter half.

Four holes were drilled using a 1/2" auger, then cleaning the holes with my pocket knife.

The hangers were chosen from a dry oak branch, and hammered in place using my new mallet.

To get certified for this BB, post three pics.  

- Your chunks of wood that you are starting with
- Progress about half way through, with the hand tools you have decided to use for this
- Final product

These are the steps I took to make a my coat hooks.

1) I started with:
One six foot piece of green beech harvested with a bow saw while doing some trail maintenance
One well seasoned prunus walking stick found on the trail
A handfull of potential pegs from an old fallen tree





2) Make three wooden wedges from the walking stick and use them with hand axe and homemade mallet to split the log




3)  Cut the best, straightest section from the split log with bow saw



4) Strip the greenwood and dry wood pegs with whittling knife - might have to get a draw knife if I carry on down this path




5) Drill the log with hand drill, shape the pegs and hammer in with wooden mallet, clean up with whittling knife



6) Job done - shown with the tools I used

I'm excited to learn all these round-wood techniques, because I feel like a lot of the wood from tree trimming and pruning gets wasted. In this project, I used a branch of a tree that was cut from under a power line for the greenwood, and applewood pegs from apple branches I pruned last winter. Hopefully they are dry enough! It's been such a wet spring that their cambium still had some green tinges to it. Anyways! I cut the bark off of them with my Mora Kniv and sanded them a bit with 150-grit sandpaper.

I intended to split this log with my little hatchet. Is there a trick to splitting wet wood? It was so much more difficult than I thought!! I ended up using a HUGE assortment of tools to help me break it open, including hammers and wedges! Or would it have been better to saw this log length-wise? Still learning. Once it was split and barked, I used this wrench attachment for 1/2 and 7/8 hole-drilling thingy. I wish I had a lug-nut wrench or something else made to use more pressure. This method used a lot of grit and pressure, and made a "push" sign in my palm by the time I was done! then I cut a few chunks off the end of the log to even out each side.  I think it turned out pretty! I would be happy to hang this in my house, although I'll be putting it up in my dry out-house area for a 2-fer with the greywater badge.

Robbie Bassen wrote:Base is from a Pine Justin cut down yesterday and lopped the dry pegs from a dead standing Pine.
Shaving the backside would have gone faster if I started with the fatter end then worked on the knots after checking.
I started on the skinny side that made a huge gap which led to more shaving for a learning lesson.

My cousin's bathroom needed a towel rack. Mold had colonized the pine, so I hit it with a torch and finished with linseed oil.  

This is going to be a present for my older sisters. Shhh!

I just finished installing, and hanging coats on my coat rack in my room, I like how it turned out, it took a few tries but I was finally able to get the pegs in super securely.

I just finished making a useable 4-peg coat hook. I could not get all of the pegs to point at the exact same angle but I did get sort of close.
The coat rack is currently in the stage of the green wood drying, and this shrinking around the dead pegs to ensure that they stay secure.

Here is my submission for this BB, with the following pictures:

- chunks of wood I started with
- Progress about half way through, showing the flat back of the green log. (Somewhere out there is a picture of me with a big-ass saw cutting this, but I couldn't find it.
-  the hand tools I used, in several installments
- Final product

Many thanks!

I'm trying out some dry pegging for my green hole.  It's rough going in but some rigorous pounding gets the job done.

I used a piece of larch leftover from the roundwood pergola build we did during the ptj last week.  I split it in half with the kindling cracker, then flattened it out with a draw knife on Mike H's shaving horse.

I drilled out 1" holes with the hand auger, and shaved my pegs down with the hand tenon maker.  I used a knife to clean up the edges.