What's up everybody?
Welcome back to my laboratory
where safety is number one priority.
And today,
I'm gonna show you pretty cool trick
Chopping wood with the axe
In case all you have is an axe
to split wood,
I'm gonna show you the easiest way to split the wood
with an axe.
Let's check this out
Ok let's do another one
Lay this one down like this
Make sure it doesn't roll
Pretty steady
and grab an axe
and go
Boom! Did you see that?
And then the two pieces right here.
Done with this one so side
Now this one,
Easy.
So here is a few reasons why I don't split wood vertical
First of all,
If you gonna try to split it on the dirt,
you gonna keep hitting it and drive
into the dirt...the log.
So it's going to take a lot longer to split the log.
And a lot more energy
So that's why you need to find a bigger log,
to set your smaller logs on top of it.
But if they cut sideways...
sometimes you are going to have trouble sitting them up. You see?
You got to figure it out so they would stand.
And you see it's all sideways.
So if you hit it sometimes it will just fall sideways
It's not very comfortable. It's annoying.
When I split wood this way. Let's say I missed and it's going to go fly this way.
So I gotta catch the axe.
So it doesn't fly into my leg, this side or that side.
So I'm going to lose a lot of energy catching the axe if I miss.
And also, when I do split the piece of wood. Lets see!
Split it, it just gets stuck really really hard. And...
It's annoying to take it out
You gotta reposition the log and hit it again.
And just keep getting stuck
So you gotta...
reposition the log...take it out...
and put it back up.
But when you split all your logs falls on the ground.
So you have to take it out.
And again. Now it's a smaller piece.
Now it's even harder
to get it steady.
And again, you see it kinda slip through
and on the tip got stuck into this wood.
Sometimes what's happens
you hit it
you
you chop it aside
and then it keeps going
in between your legs
so you gotta watch out for your legs
When you split wood like this, you don't have to worry about its falling over
it's just resting on it doing well
and when you hit it here, it will split all the way
through really easily
And also if you miss it,
it will stop at here, or stop at here, or when you go through all the way it just
will stop on this piece of log.
So let's see what I'm talking about.
When I'm gonna hit it right here,
boom,
it split through, it stay in one spot, so I grab it, throw it away
and also the axe stopped, I don't have to catch it
So, I save a lot of energy
and also it's much safer. I'm not gonna chop my leg off.
So, this is like a safety.
So let's see this from this angle
I wanna hit it right here
just like that
and to pull it out,
just go like this. Boom.
You see, it's pretty thick
piece of wood, so I'm gonna flip it around, but you see, it's cracked all the way almost.
Now I'm gonna hit it from this side.
And boom, look
look, it's cracked almost all the way
So just gonna do one more hit
and it's done.
Boom.
Pretty awesome, huh?
Now, I'm gonna grab this piece of wood
and put it this way
and just hit it right here again
Easy.
Now this one...
one more time
and you see
and you see it splitted in half again
Got my axe
I wanna hit right here
Boom.
Look at this.
One hit, and it splitted
two hits
Boom.
and
if it didn't cut all the way through, you could just flip it around
Missed it.
Done.
So with practice, it just gonna get easier and easier
so this is the easiest way to split wood
with an axe like this. You see, sharp axe
Well guys, be careful chopping wood
and let me know how do you chop wood
in comments below.
Thank you for watching, and I'll see you next time.