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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the wood badge in round wood woodworking.

For this BB, you will build a skiddable shed for green woodworking!

Minimum Requirements:
   - skiddable shed for green woodworking that includes
        - a cleave brake and
        - a place to dry wood/pegs
        - storage for a shaving horse and pole lathe
        - storage for mallets and other tools
   - skiddable base that can be dragged or lifted from one end without the structure falling apart or racking/twisting.
   - roundwood framework and structure, the walls can be dimensional lumber

To get certified for this BB provide photos or video (less than 2 minutes) showing the following:

- materials and equipment at the site of construction
- partway through the build
- List any power tools you used (Otis would love it if you only used hand tools)
- completed skiddable shed that meets the above minimum requirements
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I cannot find a definition for a cleave break. Please enlighten me.
 
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I finally found it. Searching for riving brake gave results.

Basically it seems like something you stick the bottom end of a piece of wood in to keep it from moving while being split with a froe.

 
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This article on making a hurdle gate has some pictures of a cleave break. I just assumed that it was a chopping block, but it isn't. It is an elevated triangle that you use to hold the piece that you are cleaving in a way that faces you and allows for a more natural motion.



They also show a post vice, which seems to be an alternative to a shaving horse.

 
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Nice find.

I've also seen them on the ground, instead of elevated. So that you can use the froe vertically and downward to rive.
 
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This video shows both kinds of cleave brake. The crotch of a tree laying on the ground kind. And the elevated kind. Note that when he uses the elevated one he starts with the butt end of the log on the ground. He gets the froe set in the log, then tilts the log up to rive it.

 
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