froe

The trees are chopped in the fall, and then by means of a "froe" and axe each handle is roughly blocked out.

These are four feet in length, split with a froe six or eight inches wide, and half an inch thick.

The froe is held by the handle with the left hand and hammered on the top with a mallet held in the right hand.

In the fall of the year the trees are dropped, and in a rough way each handle is shaped by a tool they call a froe.

A couple of years later they paid a visit together, an enjoyable and profitable one, to the Froe Islands.