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Figure 152.     Maul

In the 1980s when Amelia Vernon asked Archie Waiters to make a maul, he made three mauls for her.  This is one of them.  The handle of another maul was shortened to make it look more like a mallet so it could be used in the cabins exhibit about shingle-making.  When John Parker Bultman donated a legitimate mallet for that purpose, the cabins collection was in a position to exchange its short-handled maul for this proper long- handled maul to be used in the cabins exhibit of tools for splitting wood.  Waiters explained that a maul is very important in splitting wood.  An ax is only used to make the first chop into the wood; after that, wedges are inserted in the crack and struck with a maul to open the crack wider and eventually to split the wood.  (Photo 2002)
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Copyright Amelia Wallace Vernon. All rights reserved, 1998. Revised, 2007.