The craft occupation of Pole Lathe turning. The earliest use of which is depicted in a tomb painting. Bodgers were also called Turners or Throwers. The word origin is in England about 500 years ago. Bodgers worked in the English Beech woods making Windsor chairs near towns such as High Wycombe or Worksop. The wood was sometimes worked green from coppiced woods or cut one season stacked and dried to be worked the following season. The turning of the legs and spindles was done in the woods on a pole lathe. The wood being shaped on the pole lathe was held in place at the ends by metal spikes The spikes were threaded and are screwed into hold the wood firm. A rope was wrapped around the wood and tied above to a flexible fishing rod like pole, the other end was attached to a treadle pole. The Bodger depressed the treadle pulling the rope causing the wood to spin and allowing the wood to be shaped with chisels.