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2o8CAMPING AND WOODCRAFTthe cut, all around, to bolt size, and then knock outthe bolts by driving the axe in at right angles to thecuts, leaving the heart as one solid core (Fig. 47).Skin off the bark, and your bolts are ready to rive.The next thing is ton\ake a brake. Thismay be simply the forkof a limb, as in Figs.49 and 51. Anotherway is to lay twoFig. 48.—Brake for blocks against the pros-Riving Boards trate trunk of yourboard tree, at right angles to it, like fire dogs,and a yard or so apart; on them lay a smalllog, parallel with the trunk, and drive stakes outsidethis "roller" to keep it from rolling more thansix or eight inches away from the trunk (Fig. 48).The office of the brake is to clamp one end of thebolt while you are riving with the froe.Fig. 49.—Splitting with a FroeNow take up your froe. Stand one of the "boltson end, lay the froe's edge accurately along the centerof one end, and split the bolt in twain bytapping with the mallet and springing your cleft