Are you CUTTING FIREWOOD the WRONG WAY? Upgrade your AXEMANSHIP with this INCREDIBLE method!
2024 ж. 4 Нау.
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Learn the best way to cut and split firewood with this incredible method! Upgrade your axemanship and save yourself time and energy when chopping wood.
If you're tired of struggling with cutting firewood, then this video is for you. We'll teach you the master axe technique that will make chopping and splitting wood a breeze. Say goodbye to sore muscles and wasted effort, and hello to efficient and effective firewood cutting. Don't miss out on this amazing technique!
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Good job mate, thank you for your trust in that method !
Thanks. I thought it was pretty obvious that it could save a lot of effort and waste right away when I saw you using it. Now I just need to practice using it a bit.
So nice with the axes. No fumes and you get exercise. Also with split buck with what seems as less waste than with a chainsaw. Good job
Yes, it’s a great method. I’ll never go back again to regular bucking an splitting afterwards.
The Tressels sound very interesting ! Looking forward to seeing that !! At times Im a bit of a dullard when it comes to building some things that I need. Your axe swing is really something! I dont have the focus to do that style. You sure do create a Lot of head speed !! One thing I do when bucksplitting poles, once i have a bunch of splits. I place the pole on the splits. It keeps the toe up off the ground and I don't have to move as many splits because they are already on the pile when they come off the log. Very often I wear a Pulp Hook for moving poles, logs and splits. Occasionally I use one of my pair of Husqvarna brand Sissor Tongs . They work GREAT for dragging and lifting logs. And the 7" model fits in my back pocket or in my wedge pouch. I think you would Love a 1500 gram Calabria with a 770 mm handle for bucksplitting . I dont have one yet. But Lord willing I will have by next winter. I also almost exclusively chop towards the butt . I do put in splitting blows on many rounds before i start the bucking blows. I also find that often once i get past the heart from one side. The split will pop off. You are doing amazingly well! Especially for your first tree !!!! 👍👍 . You will get better and better !
You don’t hold back on your compliments. I’m very happy you improve of what I do. I like to get a lot of speed in the chops instead of using a heavier axe. But that’s not set in stone, of course. I’ll probably try slightly heavier axes as I keep learning. For now, I’m waiting for that 1100 gram America. I saw that pulp hook in one of your videos, although I didn’t know that’s what you called it in English. I have one of two pairs of scisser tongs, but I don’t bring them that often. Should probably start to do that.
Looking GREAT ! With Aspen , if you fall them in the winter and get them Off the stump. But Dont limb them. And leave them for the summer. The leaves will come out and they will suck 50% or so of the mousture out of the tree. Then the leaves will shrivel up in the July sun and fall off. Usually by then , the ground has dried up enough to haul wood out of the woods without getting stuck or making a rutty mess. From mid july to freeze up, if the wood is bucksplit and stacked under an open air roof to keep the rain off. It will be plenty dry enough to burn . And will continue to dry over the winter. Great content 👍👍👍 I Subscribed
I’ve used that technique for felling birch after the sap started rising. It’s a lot lighter after the leaves have come. But I have never heard the same technique can be applied for winter felling. Is it only aspen or have you seen it work like that on other species aswell?
The buck/split method is great when it works!
Hi Matt. Yes, I really like it. Will definitly continue using it. And I think I’ll do a comparison between that and ”regular” bucking and splitting,
Very nice and good work. The Calabria is also a great axe. I'm really looking forward to Theud Bald's new Rinaldi. It's currently in production. :-) Best regards from Germany
I saw it on his channel. Looks interresting. I’m getting a Rinaldi America 1100 gram delivered tomorrow myself, can’t wait to set it up and trying it out.
Nice will try that! Its always time for another axe!
Of course it is.
Great content! Lovely sound 👍
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I have found that difficult pieces of wood split easier if split from the bottom to the top (base of tree to the crown). Just to be clear; I'm not saying you should swing underhand somehow or throw the pieces down on the axe's edge. You never know what some KZhead watchers will decide to misinterpret and want to argue about.
I’ve heard of that theory before, but can’t honestly say that I’ve put it to the test yet. Maybe that would make an interresting video.
"Sticky axes... nu kom den"😅 You may have said "come, then" but I heard the former (because I tend to switch to Swedish with the occasional word, here and there, so I decided that you do, too)😁
I edited out quite a lot of stickyness for the sake of tempo throughout the video …
@@myoutdoorways that stickyness can be solved if you keep the full trunk and high branches : there will be better inertia and the branches will help the trunk not moving when you make leverage to get your axe out. It helps a lot !
Thanks, I’ll try that. But in this case I needed to move the logs anyway, so it would have been hard to leave the branches then.
I've often thought about how firewood was made in the pre saw days or when saws were very expensive. This must have been the way they did it...
Yes, and I believe a lot more smallwood was collected as firewood before saws were common. I’ve started doing that myself. There’s a lot of fuel that goes to waste in all the brushpiles people burn out in the open for no use whatsoever …
Do you all use Birch wood for axe handles there?
No, that’s only a tradition in Finnish hewing axes as far as I’m aware. I usually use ash for mine.
I do not know for positive that Birch will leave out in the spring when winter fell. But I will know by mid summer.
Interresting. I’ve only felled birch like that in late spring or summer.
@@myoutdoorways I always try to take my birch in the winter, and split it immediately. There are very few things in life quite so satisfying as splitting green birch in sub-zero temperatures, when its really good and cold you almost have to be a bit gentle to avoid damaging your chopping block.
I see what you mean. I’ll try to start my cutting earlier next season, we’re in spring here now and the cold has gone. But I did find it a bit hard to fell one of the birch trees when it was frozen, I have to say. It was a bit twisted and stringy though, quite a bit up the trunk and not just at the bottom.
@@myoutdoorways My impression has always been that aspen is also easyer to split green and frozen, but the difference is not so great as birch, and perhaps there is a limit to how cold you want to go. I bet Glen could tell us LOL.
I don’t think anyone wants to go colder than Glen.
Aren't you afraid to hit rocks with your axe when chopping on the ground like that?
A bit, that’s why I prefer the Calabria and not the Normal, since the first one doesn’t have a protruding toe. And I also file the edge to a wider angle right at the toe to make it more durable.
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I just tried this for the first time a couple days ago. I did a couple small poplar and with both trees this method only worked well from one side. I plan to take down a couple birch tree's today, in my experience birch usually splits well from the end, but going from the side you usually just break off small chunks, so I'm interested to see if my method will need to change. I noticed you were having some trouble with your logs bouncing around, I get better results leaving my tree whole for as long as possible and also leave a couple good sized limbs attached to hold it steady, preferably near the top. With those poplar the butts ended up in the air, so I notched one side of whatever was floating too high to buck-split, then buck split the co-operative side of the log off until it got too thin. Next step was to finish taking off the blocks and what was left of the buck-split portion. Last step was lopping off my stabilizer limbs, and finishing the treetop over a block. In this manner the tree stayed fairly stationary for most of my chopping, until the very top which only takes one or two strikes to get through. Just what I've adopted, YMMV.
I sometimes notice the same on birch. Maybe it happenes if the crack isn’t close enough to the heart of the trunk. Or it matters if one starts from the top or from the bottom. I’m still figuring that out myself. Perhaps it would work to leave the split cut out totally and only cut at 45 degrees a bit up the trunk, splitting out the piece like that. It would probably work best with a pretty cheeky axe though, not like the one I’m using with its thin blade shape. I think I saw Glen Urquhart do it like that recently.
@@myoutdoorways I havnt seen any difference top or bottom, but I've heard people say it. I just ground split from the end, watching a nice block of birch turn to kindling is real irritating. The golf swing works OK, best is between the legs, keeping your feet on a perpendicular plane to the end you are striking. Sounds scary, but I've not yet had the handle sack me.
I think it’s easier to hit well between the feet. Good idea not hitting to hard though, if you miss. But choke down on the force to gain control and not have an accident. That’s also something Glen Urquhart talked about, and which I have been aware of for a long time.
@@bushleague3472 usually that is how I put in my split blows also. I straddle the log and take an easy swing . Depending on how the day is or how the tree is acting , I will keep a super cheek tassie right along side the log and use it for my split blows . I've taken to loading my sled as I buck split my way up the tree. Often I have several trees fell in the same spot so I get a good sled load by the time I top out. I've also had good success with my Big HB tassie in Cold weather
Right now I’m actually missing a good cheeky axe with enough headweight and handle length. That’s something I will look into pretty soon.