Felling a Tree - Axe Cordwood Challenge
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- čas přidán 16. 12. 2016
- The felling process as I harvest another tree for firewood. This tree will be chopped and split into cordwood completely with an axe. I'm doing this as part of my participation in Steven Edholm's Cordwood Challenge. • Official *AXE CORDWOOD...
I am taking on the challenge to increase my skills using and handling an axe, among many other benefits. As I read and research more on axe use I've discovered more ideas about what can be done with them, and what some people consider best practices for their use.
In this interesting video featuring Mors Kochanski, he speaks about proper felling approach including height of stump, angle of attack, and stance. He states that a proper axeman should fell a tree from one spot, cutting the felling notch and the back cut from the same spot on the same side of the tree. • Mors Kochanski on Axes...
At the beginning of this video on Steven Edholm's Skillcult channel he's got a good montage of himself doing off-side, non-dominant chopping on the backcut. Better than the one I do in this video. • One Cord in 3 Months W...
This was an idea I had not seriously considered and chopping with my non-dominant side was hard to wrap my head around. I have given it some testing while bucking up some firewood, and this is my first attempt at chopping a felling cut left-handed.
You can see how rough and inaccurate my blows are on the back cut. The back cut is also not placed exactly where I would have liked it, but the tree did come down where I intended without problems.
To be honest, the stump was higher off the ground than Mors Kochanski recommends, and I would be fined $1.50. I wish it were 6-8 inches lower.
A tree from our woodlot was harmed to death in the making of this video. We try to manage our woodlot for sustainable production of timber and firewood, but if you think killing trees for any reason is wrong, please heat your home with environmentally-friendly petroleum distillates.
dude that looked like it sucked or ur just out of shape
Well, I wish I could cut one down without taking a hard breath, but I can't. Why don't you make a felling video and show us how?
Oxbow Farm My Doctor told me I need to get in shape, I told him round is a shape!
Felled a pine tree this size yesterday and had to take a break half way. I'm mid 20s and in shape
Clearly you have never fell a tree because that shit isn't something you can do without breathing... with that said, his axe bit needs a better profile, it isn't really penetrating deep enough which is making his job 2x as hard...
I have one lol
Some people really are minges. One of the few good axe demonstrations i've seen. Well done!
Can we just appreciate his beautiful ambidextrous felling video?
Yea. He could of just stepped around but he wanted the camera to be in a well position. I have mad respect for people who can chop with their non dominant arms.
Love your little heavy breathing towards the end
Love it man! No talking in my felling and bucking vids either. Just heavy breathing.
Thanks Survival Sherpa. I maybe talk too much in lots of my other videos.
I've been accused of too much talk in mine too. In no way do that apply here. Somethings just need explaining more. In our 60 second sound bite society, I don't fit very well.
Well done. Skillcult should be proud.
I was going to go mow my lawn with my zero turn mower but after watching this I'm too tired! Beast-mode on. Tear it up!! :)
Oxbow Farm, Bravo sir! You did what not everybody can or would do. That's fantastic to say the least. Good job!
Beautiful cut brother!
Man that's awesome. Ha my first felling took a long time, but I am a novice at using axes and still learning. Fun to do and great exercise.
Very sharp, very strong, very correct
Under 5 minutes omg well done,great video
Beautiful fawns foot on that axe. I knew I wasn't the only person who made fawns foots on my axes like that
Awesome !
Impressive!
Thanks!
Great techniques, and Stamina, thanks for the Video.
Greetings from Australia.
thanks Lumber Jaxe, it must be interesting chopping down in OZ. Do you ever work with some of those super dense hardwoods you have down there? Like jarrah?
Hi, yes Iron Bark red and Grey, Tallow wood and Redgum all are hard woods here, and Australia claims to have the Hardest of the Hardwoods on the Planet in the Buloke tree, bent all the Cutting Teeth on a new chain within seconds on my Chainsaw. Happy Chopping Oxbow.
I hope to get down under someday, it would be so interesting to be in a forest of completely different trees and sounds.
The only problem in aussie forests is that it's illegal to cut down anything at all! (unless it's a weed like african olive)
@@@conradp.woodturning972 BZZZZ Wrong, Land clearing Laws
are still open Slabber, the Greenies may get there way soon,
thats why iam getting all the practice in i can atm.
Blessings Comrad Conrad.
Good workout for the heart my friend, you will live a long and prosperous life if you keep on felling!
Variety Gamer13 we or he won’t if we chop down all the trees and run out of oxygen
We just take a Few trees, in Comparison to Large scale.
Your Cereal you ate this Morning came from Hundreds of acres of land cleared with a Bull dozer's
to plant Cereal Crops, the milk you added, came from hundreds of acres of Land cleared for Pastures for dairy farmers, can go on with the sugar you sprinkled , was from thousands of acres of timber felled by Machinery, to grow sugar Cane. O did you want a Coffee also, yer you know where iam going with that,
and thats just Breakfast, will let you work lunch, afternoon tea, and Dinner to Rationalize.
@@lumberjaxe8910 dang i think you just broke the guys ego lol!!
I can't swing left handed. Right only. Respect!
You have a great felling teqniqe keep it up
Thank you very much .
I have been wanted to cut down the huge tree by the axe in some day .
This video clip is a very valuable footage for the future .
I love this video clip very much .
And this must be admired by the person
who have been wanted to cut down the huge tree by the axe like me .
It has been one of my slightest dreams .
I must say thank you very much deeply to you .
Great .
May 26th 2022 Thu. 22:04
from Yokohama City Japan
He made such a nice notch, then stumbled through the back cut. When you start to breath hard you lose your accuracy. Accuracy and sharpness are about equally important. When you are blowin' you might as well be cutting with a hammer.
Actually Ed, I'd say more of the inaccuracy comes from the fact that I was cutting the back cut left handed. I'm much less accurate left handed but I'm trying to do the felling cuts from one side of the tree. Most of my back cuts are much rougher.
Oxbow Farm its hard to do things left handed if you're right handed i know i broke my right arm twice
Have you ever held an axe? Everyone I know has a strong side and a weak side.
Ray Duerksen I learned toequalize my skills when l was a kid. You do that by starting on your weak side and by not being defensive when ssomeone has a suggestion
Thinking the same thing. Off hand is tough to do just about anything. Thanks for the vid. BTW is that ash?
very nice
Thanks Lone58
nice! may I ask what axe you are using here? looks like a different weight and size than the jersey. wonderful handle! looks very shiny from all the work! thank you for sharing!
This is the same axe I've used in all my other CZcams videos so far. Its a 4.5 lb Plumb, round lug Jersey. Its pretty much my very favorite axe and I used it for almost all the chopping and splitting I did for the first cord of the Cordwood Challenge. For the second cord I am going to at least try out a couple of my other axes, starting with the one I just hung.
btw: what haft is on there... it is amazingly shaped and finished! I havent seen that much of a bend in the fawns foot area except for finnish axes... any info on that particular haft?
I wrote another long answer that got lost! Being from europe I wanna try several axes if I get over the logistics problems of the chord wood challenge... spent all year in ontario and now home things are different. if I was american I´d use only an american pattern... being european it is a great opportunity to try out austrian (rheinland), kent and scandinavian patterns like swedish and billnäs.I know what is in those axe styles and why they differ so greatly... it will take me a while to collect all the axes and restore them!
I would love to try using one of those Finnish socketed billnas, but they go for crazy money on ebay whenever they get listed. I also drool over the Swedish and Norwegian axes a lot, someday I'd like to get a laftebile to try. I'm not familiar with Austrian styles, except I've seen many ornately forge stamped Austrian broad axes on ebay a few times. The only German type axes I've seen are the Oxhead made axes that Stihl sells at their dealerships. I think those are very clunky and awkward seeming axes, but maybe not representative of German axes as a whole?
Thanks for the complement on it. Its kind of strange with this handle, because it has turned out to work great with this axe, but it violates several of the "rules" about what a good handle is supposed to be. Its a very cheap "Truper" brand replacement handle from a box store, I think I got it from Tractor Supply company. I've looked at them since, when this one turned out so nice, and they've always been terrible with grain runout, and there is very little flare at the fawns foot since they clearly start with very thin blanks. The "fawn's foot" on them is also strangely bulbous, I think to give the visual impression that there is more material there than there actually is. I cut most of it off and you got this profile. I like a flat on the bottom of the handle to make hanging it easier without chipping off the edges. The other thing is that this handle is heartwood hickory which is supposedly not as good for handles as the white sapwood, but in this case it worked fantastically well. I've used this axe a lot and it is in perfect shape, maybe a few tiny dings in the usual area up near the head. I wish I could say that I planned this handle to be as good as it has turned out, but it was a lot of luck really.
That looks like you could make some beautiful axe hafts out of That!
Nice video, very useful! What axe are you using? Best regards!
Looks like a Plumb Rockaway....
I have a pair of forest camouflage carhart bibs
Damn, ash is about like cutting hickory, definitely not the softest wood to take an axe to. I wasn't too sure about this video when I saw that little dance at the start, glad I hung around to watch though, good job! Anybody who gives you grief about breathing hard after taking out a white ash has never done it with an axe.
I wish I hadn't done that stuff, but the idea was to do the whole tree in one take with no edits. I don't know if I normally do the dance thing or not, or if I was nervous because the camera was rolling. I was definitely pushing faster, and taking shorter breathers than I would normally.
Have any issues with the EAB (emerald ash borer) as of yet?
Yes. Its here. So far the trees are not yet being killed.
@@oxbowfarm5803 glad to hear it...
Here's a video you will enjoy doing. For a week do all your cutting lefty. Record your progress. I bet by the end of a week or a fortnight you can chop, eat and maybe even write left handed. If you can keep your sanity, that is.
Have you ever had a tree kick back over the second cut?
No, but I'm really selective with the trees I fell with an axe. I definitely believe that felling with an axe is less safe than felling with a chainsaw, particularly if you are using wedges etc, with the saw. I'd not consider felling a tree with lots of lean or uneven/unbalanced tops with an axe. I'm pretty much looking for trees that I can fell in the direction they already wish to fal, andl where they aren't going to damage trees I want to save. If a tree is tricky or risky I leave it, possibly to get with the saw later. If its really dangerous I let a pro handle it. I try and have fun but not leave my wife a widow.
Nice video, makes you respect beavers a bit more(get a tame one to help)
ist das etwa eine carhartt-hose ?!?! yes bro
How come the backcut was so high above the undercut?
Mostly because I'm less accurate cutting off side. It could definitely be lower, but its better to be too high than too low.
Oxbow Farm I thought there might have been a reason. Good cuts though, very clean. I'd love to fall a tree with an axe one day.
Your welcome
Timberrrrrrrr!
Lol I know how this guy feels, it’s tough work
What kinda tree was this?
white ash
The most underrated ASMR...except hearing the heavy breathing. That's a little weird, but otherwise awesome.
May suggest standing back from the tree a we bit
Nice tecnice but this is how I thought my self down up middle
I don't disagree with the down up middle pattern, but sometimes things go out the window a little bit when you are chopping with your off side and you're trying to go fast on camera. Thanks for watching Awesome Tree cutter.
Swinging non dominant is difficult
Yes, I'm better at it when I'm bucking, but my non-dominant felling cuts are very inaccurate.
ash is such a pain
Not for much longer, it'll all be dead around here soon.
Sharpen that axe, just use a file, you don't even have to Stone it if you're in a hurry. You shouldn't be bouncing off when you go across the grain. Really good fall though. Hinge wood was perfect.
Dude, the axe was sharp. When you get tired and misalign the blow the axe will bounce. Go ahead and make a felling video in one take like this and then look at the footage, bet you a dollar some of your cuts will bounce! There's a difference between talking about chopping on Axe Junkies or wherever and actually doing it.
You were tired on your fifth swing? And every single horizontal swing the entire time? I even said the end result was perfect it was a great job, seriously. But you should be able to bite on your horizontal and not just cutting with the grain. Calm down a little.
And I grew up in the pacific mountains and forest. Was that maple? I know we have fir and it's not as hard but I've dropped a few.
The axe doesn't bounce on every horizontal swing, and the axe was and is sharp. If there was a problem with my cuts in this video, I would chalk them up to the fact that I swing horizontally only when I'm felling, and I only fell a couple trees a year with an axe. Its not like I'm a timbersports competitor. So my horizontal cuts are way less accurate than when I'm doing a normal bucking cut. Also, I was pushing my pace to try and do the vid in a single short take, and I did both cuts from one side of the tree, so all the backcut was done left-handed, which is why that cut is so ragged and slow. So there are a bunch of reasons why my cuts are imperfect, and NONE of them have to do with the sharpness of the axe. Which was wicked sharp! So maybe your armchair diagnosis did piss me off, because I know the condition the axe was in when I made the video.
to chop on the otherside, go to the otherside bro.
This seems fake some how
I couldn’t hear the tree crying over all the heavy breathing but I bet my lib friends could