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    Posted: 5/06/12 at 9:55am
So I have two nice caber in my garage that have gone from about 130lb when i cut them down to about 80lb once they dried. I'm trying to figure out how to add some weight if I can.

My ideas are as follows
Soak them in water. But that will eventually make them rot.

Plug them with lead. Not quite sure how to go about this without damaging the strength of the caber.

Does anyone have any suggestions 
they would be much appreciated.

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I once saw something on tv of a guy in Scotland filling the splits on a caber with lead he was just walking the length of the caber and pouring the lead in the cracks. I know it's a common prctice in Scotland to put a log in a pond for awhile and let it soak up water.
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Cabers aren't meant to last forever.  I'd just soak them for a couple days, now and then during the season.  I know that some guys have added lead to the big ends, but I've never really figured out a sensible way to do it, myself.  You could pretty easily add 5-6-7 pounds of steel rod....bore some holes for pieces of rebar, but that's not much weight for a lot of work.
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l'd use the 80 lber for a lower class and get a new heavy caber to replace it.
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I agree with Wally...use it for a lower class and get a another heavier one. We had a caber years ago in Campbell, CA that was leaded, it did add weight but it rattled and occasionally pieces fell out :) the wood shrinks but the lead doesn't, plus lead is considered a toxic metal. Unless you have a pond to soak the caber in and enough time(?) to do it, you won't gain much weight that way. In addition, you'll never know what weight you'll gain until you weigh it. Pain in the butt...
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Wrap a heavy chain around it. The lower the chain the tougher it is to turn. Learned that one from this man back in the early 90s.
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Interesting, I was thinking about bolting some 2.5 plates to the side of mine.  You could add them just about any where on the length to change its difficulty...well I thought but that chain sounds like a way to do it too.
 
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I duct taped 2 (5) pound pound plates to the end of mine, I was distracted and kept looking up, becasue 10 pounds from 18 feet up will hurt! lol My Friend John Odden recommended using soft ankle weights and taping them to the end. Smile
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you could also try soaking it in glue. that way when it dries the weight will stay. it may be only a matter of 5 pounds, or it could be up to 20 pounds. just depends on how long you let it soak.
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Thanks for all the advice! The chain and Idea of duct taping some weight to the stick seem like the ticket. I could soak them but then I'd have hard time figuring out how much weight they would gain. Guess this summer I'll have to cut a couple spruce logs with a bit more width to compensate for next year.
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Originally posted by jimdeg73 jimdeg73 wrote:

...I'll have to cut a couple spruce logs with a bit more width to compensate for next year.
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Bore out a cylinder at the top end down through the caber.  Fill it with lead and epoxy.  Plug the hole with a large diameter dowel (maybe 1-1/4" or better).  Epoxy and deck screws to hold the plug in place. If you're going for effect, use iron bands around the diameter with studs so it looks like an oversized cudgel.

Had one like this (minus the bands) for many years until we got too wimpy to turn it so we cut the top 12-18" off the stick leaving a 17'6" stump.  Finally broke it about two years ago after many hard years of service with literally thousands of tosses.  Great stick.  RIP Dos Huevos!
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