Love your vids Nicole! Like others have said, I would be proud to have you as my daughter. You are very candid about yourself, and one day you will look back at this time, and realise that it was not so hard, and that you can be kinder to yourself. Thanks for making so many people happy 🪓🪵🪓😊
I really love the above comment. I'm 75 and I'd like to echo what was said about being kinder to yourself. Else ways you are a champion, and a lovable character. Do take care!
It never occurred to me that wood could need so long to dry out. I thought maybe a few days, but 6 months to two years is insane. Really have to get started early I guess
For woodworkers, we often store wood to dry out for 2-4 years! A piece of wood that is used without adequate drying will begin to pull in on itself, leading to loose joints and stresses. Wood for construction can have up to 20% moisture content, but wood for furniture is 4-11%. Made a quick cabinet out of big box store pine that had a high -20%- moisture content and it shrank about 1/16-1/8" in a couple of years, pulling out some joints.
For firewood purposes, you end up keeping multiple separate stacks by year in a rotation so you’re burning the older stuff while stacking fresh stuff elsewhere, similar to compost piles.
The main issues are how wet the wood is. How are you storing it? Is there airflow? Have you cut it to reasonable lengths and have you cut the segments in half? If the wood isn't cut in half, most of the moisture is stuck going out the ends, which is slow. Then there's the issue of ambient humidity and temperature. If you're in a humid location, it'll take a long time.
Not so long ago i discovered this channel, but I really like the way you create your content. And I really like woodchopping and being outside in the woods! That nature looks always amazing! Keep going
Wow, my son discovered your channel, then I caught on. I grew up on a large in the fifties, Wood was our source of heat and hot water. I was given a double-bit axe at 4 years old. So I have some knowledge about splitting wood. You are truly an outstanding young woman with a great outlook on life. Very much enjoy your videos. God Bless
Firewood is the only fuel that heats you thrice: First when you collect it; Next, when you chop it and Lastly, when you burn it. Love the "look" expressed at your double entendres... Cheers from an Ex-Pat Canuck, now in the Willamette Valley.
I’m always impressed with your consistent aim. I like to cheat at splitting by just using the biggest maul I can find. That tends to make it probable I will split it but then I’m betrayed when I occasionally come down on the handle instead of the head and split the wrong piece of wood. In this video it’s worth mentioning that balsa wood is also a hardwood.
@@Spark_Chaser Yeah true. Lots of energy wasted for burning away the water instead of heating your place...and wet wood produces exponentially more soot!
@@Spark_Chaser I can't say pine (at least Scots Pine) would cause too many problems...the resin however sends sparks everywhere from time to time...not much of a problem in an enclosed furnace of course. But maybe other species of pine behave differently?
As a fellow lost human being I gotta say, you've inspired me. I'm applying to do another degree now, kinda want more out of life. I've also got a strange obsession with the Canadian wilderness now so that kinda sucks being stuck in Australia. Anyways good luck in your roaming, I know you'll find what you're looking for.
"Stuck in Australia"? Come on now. What a beautiful and wonderful land it is - full of extremes and everything in between. Open your eyes and you'll see you could do the Australian version . . . easily.
I'm FAR east and south of you, and my wood splitting has mostly been on some variety of Cherry, Ash, and some Elm and a little bit of a type of Chestnut. The Chestnut would almost split if I showed a maul to it. The Cherry, not so much. Ash is a satisfying wood to split, for certain--even if it's been bucked within the last month. I'm kinda sad that my current house doesn't have a wood-burning fireplace. My last house did, and one of my tasks (in the distribution of chores) was splitting firewood (my spouse was even more fond of having a fire in the fireplace than I). I have a firepit, but it's not as fun as having a fireplace in the house, and it doesn't get used as much as the fireplace did, so I don't get to split wood as much... Even so, okey dokey, I enjoy sharing your videos with friends.
So funny that you posted this cause I was just talking about your videos with my husband saying that I thought that even he might have trouble splitting some of the pieces I’ve seen you split in your videos and he said it was all in the seasoning of the wood. The longer it’s been seasoned the easier it is to chop. Way to read your viewers minds! 🤣😵💫😁
Really enjoy your vids as someone who has spent nearly thirty five years working in a Saw Mill (Lumber Mill) enjoy your take on types of wood love the smell of silver birch and moisture content we take green timber and from summer to winter is cutting speeds slow with the wetness of the logs we run down.
There is something so utterly satisfying about watching that axe land at damn-near the exact same place every time. But I am a man, I am used to aiming for stuff and hitting everything but the thing I was aiming for.
Just come across your channel and watched a few of your videos, you are a breath of fresh air amongst some of the rubbish on TH-cam. Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦.
I got a load of birchwood from my neighbor last weekend. Sadly quite wet, even snow sticking to it as it has been lying on the ground for a few days. I got the chainsaw out and cut it, but now it's in the woodshed for a few months to dry. Need to get myself a good splitting axe, then in summer... :-) So far I have been lazy and bought the little fire wood split and ready for the oven, but it's time to take the challenge, after seeing your videos!
In the novel I'm writing, I'm approaching the chapter that introduces a lumberjack girl as a major character, and I think this channel is exactly what I need to help! Thank you algorithm gods
It’s really noticeable when you do the comparison one after the other. That's awesome so thanks for that. And I can't with you... with you saying... moist 😶wood 😂 LOL! The sigh of inevitability 1:29 .
I absolutely love all your vids Nicole. Very informative and my escape from living in London. I'm waiting for you to start a range of "Okie Dokie" T-Shirts etc. Stay happy and stay safe and keep enjoying your Wood. 😬😬😬 chopping.
@@nihtgengalastnamegoeshere7526 All species are different. The mechanical properties change as wood dries out. Softwood get easier to chop because the sap hardens and the wood becomes less spongy. Hardwood becomes harder to split because the sap hardens and is harder to pull apart. Ask any wood carver whether they prefer carving wet or dry wood.
In the Carpathians, wet stumps are chopped with a blow along the edge, and dry ones in the middle are chopped. If even a small piece breaks off from a wet stump, then it will be much easier to chop it further.
My late father and I determined that the way to chop wet wood was chop it the same day you cut it or at least within 24 hours. The surface of a recently cut log is firm and allows the energy of the ax to be transmitted thought the wood. We found that after 24 hours the surface of the cut face softened and would absorb the energy of the ax.
*DEEP FROZEN WET WOOD* can be fun to chop - I had 4m3 of wet oak here in Bulgaria and it dropped to -25C - the water in the wood expanded so as you chopped it, it exploded...!!! It was such good fun, each half would fly off a good couple of meters.
That's true, the majority of wood is easier when dry but there are some exceptions to that rule. Pacific madrone is another wood that's easier to chop when it's still green
I find a lot of the Australian alien hardwoods around here are easier when still wet, preferably three four days after cutting: ) once dry the axe will just bounce off @@NicoleCoenen
Hornbeam , birch are much more easy to split when they are fresh cut, after Sun dry them lets say in warm Summer for 2-3 weeks its become hard to split them, you must use wedges. and if there are knots maybe some chainsaw too.
When Nicole starts talking about wood and does a funny about "Wet wood" YOU BETTER DAMN LAUGH. When Nicole gives you tips about regonizing the type of wood YOU BETTER DAMN SAY "yes ma'am".
I have some wood I want to get rid of, and knowing how to store it properly until it goes in a fire would be really helpful! Thanks for teaching me something today. My day is off to a good start.
The main thing is keep it off the ground, you can build a rack with some 2x4’s and cinder blocks ( there’s a lot of videos on TH-cam) or just some 4x4’s on the ground then putting in a sunny area is best and just cover the top of the wood so air can get at the sides, I hope this helped.
Yep, I'm nearly 70, and I split up and burned most of an old pecan tree trunk this past winter. Some pieces were 2 and 1/2 feet in diameter, and one was about 3 feet. But they were easier to split than most smaller ones with knots. I've got a piece of wood from one of those that I call "the jawbone of an ass". It came from around a knot. After a rain, the wood was really tough to split. But it gives you an excellent arm and shoulder workout. You should try changing arms and splitting lefthanded, too. I cannot do it the same way like that. I find myself pushing the axe with the right arm that way, but still with good results, sometimes better, depending on the angle I need. I bought a splitting maul for the first time about a couple of months ago, but I have yet to use one. I saw a video about using one but couldn't find one at a reasonable price until it was too late to use it this season. Oh, well, next year, I suppose. I always just used an axe, and if things got too tough, I'd switch to a wedge or two and a 12 lb. sledge hammer. I call it the sewage hammer, because if I have to resort to that, something is going to get the crap beat out of it. It's fun to crack jokes at your wood while you're splitting it and do Three Stooges routines like, "Oh, a wise guy, eh?" Or Jackie Gleason, "Alright, Wisenheimer!" Then, there was my mother's saying, "I'll bust you open!" And, then, there's me, threatening to beat my wedges with a hammer, if they don't get in there and split that wood. 😅
Nicole absolutley love your channel.. you are an inspiration..❤❤🇦🇺 Ive always been taught when you chop wood your going across the grain, but when you split wood its with the grain.. do you agree?
A female with relatively small muscles popping wood ! Thus showing that it is the technique not the showboat swing you see in movies. I like to put a little righthand twisting flick at the end of the swing because it rotates the axe out of the wood after the impact. It's takes lots of practice. The more you split, the better you get. Great physicological therapy for stress. So get you a thermus of coffee, and some rock and roll music and go split for 12 hours straight! If your 15-40 years old ! I started splitting wood with a very narrow faced double bitted axe at the age of 5. Dad taught me the righthand twist pop after I broke a few handles getting the axe unstuck! PS I grew up in Michigan. Never ran into Southern Live Oak until I was in my 30s. Drying it for a year is criticle and it's still tough going.
Hello Nicole. I was told when young. That if there is a tree that you want for fire wood or what ever. But has to be seasoned. To take a chain saw and cut a gertel all the way around it in the spring. Then you can cut down in the fall. And it will be completely seasoned because the sap will have run out of it. True or not?
I've just started chopping wood yesterday and it is wetter than wet cherry wood. It literally oozes water when I hack into it and I need to hack through a half composed layer to get to the hard wood. 😅
How do you consistently hit a spot when chopping wood. Every time i try chopping wood, it looks like i'm butchering wood. Ax hits are near the first blow but not on the same spot
Quirky, a bit weird, great, simple entertainment... and You sold me to the Okie Dokie thing. A bit weird in French, but hey they don't need to know...! Thank you!
As long as you are young and strong, you can split wooden blocks with a splitting hammer, but the work has the price of destroying the shoulder. When you have inflammation in the shoulder joint, it is time to hang the cleaver on the wall in the log cabin and continue with an electric or fuel wood cleaver. I saw you often hit the blocks in the middle - that's where the cleaver often gets stuck. The claw hammer must hit the edge. The difficult blocks with many knobs that cannot be split down regularly are what we call "night pieces" in Scandinavia. Nothing is as "hyggeligt" (cozy) as a wood-burning stove in the dark of winter. Danelove❤
we have pine oak and red cedar and the red cedar smells good when burned and i love me chopping and i ran out of red cedar and all i have left is alpine in the deep woods and the risk is brown recluse spiders and snakes
Left eastern Ohio, foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and spent 40 years in the west. Lots of conifer firewood. There are over thirty species of tree in the foothills. Each wood has its own characteristics. Hickory, elm and Osage orange require several wedges and a sledge or a hydraulic splitter, to split. Ash splits easily with an axe and even burns when green. Oil content is what I heard. Lots of different forests and trees in this planet's biosphere. If you ever get a chance, visit the Appalachians.
THIS IS my woodchopping journey.
Mine too! Leearn so much about chopping wood watching Nicole's videos.
Love your vids Nicole!
Like others have said, I would be proud to have you as my daughter.
You are very candid about yourself, and one day you will look back at this time, and realise that it was not so hard, and that you can be kinder to yourself.
Thanks for making so many people happy 🪓🪵🪓😊
I really love the above comment. I'm 75 and I'd like to echo what was said about being kinder to yourself. Else ways you are a champion, and a lovable character. Do take care!
It never occurred to me that wood could need so long to dry out. I thought maybe a few days, but 6 months to two years is insane. Really have to get started early I guess
Thing is, it seems like a long time the first time you do it, but when you're looking at having a stockpile, it really is just a thing!
That's why you see ads for seasoned firewood.
For woodworkers, we often store wood to dry out for 2-4 years! A piece of wood that is used without adequate drying will begin to pull in on itself, leading to loose joints and stresses. Wood for construction can have up to 20% moisture content, but wood for furniture is 4-11%. Made a quick cabinet out of big box store pine that had a high -20%- moisture content and it shrank about 1/16-1/8" in a couple of years, pulling out some joints.
For firewood purposes, you end up keeping multiple separate stacks by year in a rotation so you’re burning the older stuff while stacking fresh stuff elsewhere, similar to compost piles.
The main issues are how wet the wood is. How are you storing it? Is there airflow? Have you cut it to reasonable lengths and have you cut the segments in half? If the wood isn't cut in half, most of the moisture is stuck going out the ends, which is slow. Then there's the issue of ambient humidity and temperature. If you're in a humid location, it'll take a long time.
Love your "Okie Dokie", warm nature and that charming half smile.
Also, I get to learn a lot of things! ♥️
No wet wood can stop our wood-spliting champion.🌟👍
Informative and entertaining. Thank you Nicole 😃👏🏻👏🏻
I don't chop wood, but I love learning about it. You make it fun! Your content is so wholesome. I love it
Not so long ago i discovered this channel, but I really like the way you create your content. And I really like woodchopping and being outside in the woods! That nature looks always amazing! Keep going
Wow, my son discovered your channel, then I caught on. I grew up on a large in the fifties, Wood was our source of heat and hot water. I was given a double-bit axe at 4 years old. So I have some knowledge about splitting wood. You are truly an outstanding young woman with a great outlook on life. Very much enjoy your videos. God Bless
My coworkers also vary in density. I haven't yet determined which ones are harder to chop, but I'm getting close.
Good job young lady as usual I like it because you know a whole lot about what you’re doing. Keep up the good work got you on my prayer list.
I love the echo/tone in the woods. I live in the suburbs and just chop in my back yard. It's not the same as when I go camping or something.
After a long and tiring day at work, it’s so nice to be greeted with Okie Dokie!
A perfect way to end my day 😊
Yeah sure thoso mofos never berayted us?
Firewood is the only fuel that heats you thrice:
First when you collect it;
Next, when you chop it and
Lastly, when you burn it.
Love the "look" expressed at your double entendres...
Cheers from an Ex-Pat Canuck, now in the Willamette Valley.
I’m always impressed with your consistent aim. I like to cheat at splitting by just using the biggest maul I can find. That tends to make it probable I will split it but then I’m betrayed when I occasionally come down on the handle instead of the head and split the wrong piece of wood.
In this video it’s worth mentioning that balsa wood is also a hardwood.
I always wondered about the importance of drying out the wood over time.
Splitting, and I'd imagine burning. Wetter woods likely take more to get lit, keep lit, and how cleanly it burns.
@@Spark_Chaser Yeah true. Lots of energy wasted for burning away the water instead of heating your place...and wet wood produces exponentially more soot!
@@KnorpelDelux I think I remember that being part of why pine is such a problem for chimneys. That and pine tar making for nasty soot buildup.
@@Spark_Chaser I can't say pine (at least Scots Pine) would cause too many problems...the resin however sends sparks everywhere from time to time...not much of a problem in an enclosed furnace of course. But maybe other species of pine behave differently?
As a fellow lost human being I gotta say, you've inspired me. I'm applying to do another degree now, kinda want more out of life. I've also got a strange obsession with the Canadian wilderness now so that kinda sucks being stuck in Australia. Anyways good luck in your roaming, I know you'll find what you're looking for.
"Stuck in Australia"? Come on now. What a beautiful and wonderful land it is - full of extremes and everything in between. Open your eyes and you'll see you could do the Australian version . . . easily.
I'm FAR east and south of you, and my wood splitting has mostly been on some variety of Cherry, Ash, and some Elm and a little bit of a type of Chestnut.
The Chestnut would almost split if I showed a maul to it. The Cherry, not so much. Ash is a satisfying wood to split, for certain--even if it's been bucked within the last month.
I'm kinda sad that my current house doesn't have a wood-burning fireplace. My last house did, and one of my tasks (in the distribution of chores) was splitting firewood (my spouse was even more fond of having a fire in the fireplace than I). I have a firepit, but it's not as fun as having a fireplace in the house, and it doesn't get used as much as the fireplace did, so I don't get to split wood as much...
Even so, okey dokey, I enjoy sharing your videos with friends.
Learned a lot here. I have a whole stack of wood out back from a fallen tree. I have been avoiding it. With this new knowledge I will give it a go.
I hope you get to chop wood around the world!
I just love talking about wood Nicole it's so interesting, it,s like my favourite thing to talk about!❤
Here you go. Have a burger or a coffee on me. Sharing your smile and persona deserves more.
That echo of the chop in the trees. 😍😍😍 so serene. ❤
Like an gilliotine huh?!
@SandyFoxx-s3p 🤣🤣🤣 sure
This info is great! Going to search for your stacking tips now. Much appreciated.
Thank you for being so positive and awesome. It's nice to see that since everyone is always so doom and gloom
I love that you've started doing these! Can't wait till youto a sharpening video!
So funny that you posted this cause I was just talking about your videos with my husband saying that I thought that even he might have trouble splitting some of the pieces I’ve seen you split in your videos and he said it was all in the seasoning of the wood. The longer it’s been seasoned the easier it is to chop. Way to read your viewers minds! 🤣😵💫😁
Your smile and cheer is contagious!
that line you set on the wet moist green wood was nice. top chopping chops.😉
Really enjoy your vids as someone who has spent nearly thirty five years working in a Saw Mill (Lumber Mill) enjoy your take on types of wood love the smell of silver birch and moisture content we take green timber and from summer to winter is cutting speeds slow with the wetness of the logs we run down.
Wow, vert accurate and powerful swings
Nicole, you are one great wood splitter. Always enjoy your videos. 🍁
Fantastic video great thought in detail and you kept it interesting too😂 always a pleasure.
There is something so utterly satisfying about watching that axe land at damn-near the exact same place every time. But I am a man, I am used to aiming for stuff and hitting everything but the thing I was aiming for.
Your vids are a good natured breath of fresh air. Carry on!
Just come across your channel and watched a few of your videos, you are a breath of fresh air amongst some of the rubbish on TH-cam. Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦.
Thanks for educating us!
I got a load of birchwood from my neighbor last weekend. Sadly quite wet, even snow sticking to it as it has been lying on the ground for a few days. I got the chainsaw out and cut it, but now it's in the woodshed for a few months to dry. Need to get myself a good splitting axe, then in summer... :-) So far I have been lazy and bought the little fire wood split and ready for the oven, but it's time to take the challenge, after seeing your videos!
In the novel I'm writing, I'm approaching the chapter that introduces a lumberjack girl as a major character, and I think this channel is exactly what I need to help! Thank you algorithm gods
It’s really noticeable when you do the comparison one after the other. That's awesome so thanks for that. And I can't with you... with you saying... moist 😶wood 😂 LOL! The sigh of inevitability 1:29 .
Love your sense of humour 😂❤ but tips is great thanks
I absolutely love all your vids Nicole.
Very informative and my escape from living in London.
I'm waiting for you to start a range of "Okie Dokie" T-Shirts etc.
Stay happy and stay safe and keep enjoying your Wood. 😬😬😬 chopping.
Good job Sandy!
I'm new to this but I'm finding green oak way easier to split than the dry one...
Thanks for sharing your wood knowledge!
Yeah, it's weird. I'm no dendrologist, but I SWEAR some species get denser and harder to split when they dry, despite that making no logical sense...
@@nihtgengalastnamegoeshere7526 All species are different. The mechanical properties change as wood dries out. Softwood get easier to chop because the sap hardens and the wood becomes less spongy. Hardwood becomes harder to split because the sap hardens and is harder to pull apart. Ask any wood carver whether they prefer carving wet or dry wood.
Hi Nicole.
Your Oke Dodie is Contagious.
I keep repeating it all the time.
I’m a old guy take grew up with older sayings.
Thank Nicole n
When Nicole drops the double Okie Dokie, you know it's going to be a challenging one.
I mostly chop birch,rowan and beech wood. Good to use. Happy chopping, greetings from Sweden
Good information and entertaining at the same time. Thanks for this, you've more than earned a like. 👍🏾
Thanks for the information, always nice to learn something new 👍
Very good I enjoyed that. Keep up the good work.
In the Carpathians, wet stumps are chopped with a blow along the edge, and dry ones in the middle are chopped. If even a small piece breaks off from a wet stump, then it will be much easier to chop it further.
My late father and I determined that the way to chop wet wood was chop it the same day you cut it or at least within 24 hours. The surface of a recently cut log is firm and allows the energy of the ax to be transmitted thought the wood. We found that after 24 hours the surface of the cut face softened and would absorb the energy of the ax.
Dude! I love your videos. Keep going.
*DEEP FROZEN WET WOOD* can be fun to chop - I had 4m3 of wet oak here in Bulgaria and it dropped to -25C - the water in the wood expanded so as you chopped it, it exploded...!!!
It was such good fun, each half would fly off a good couple of meters.
Can drier wood ever be more difficult to split? I've heard some people say that Ash is easier to split when it's still "green".
That's true, the majority of wood is easier when dry but there are some exceptions to that rule.
Pacific madrone is another wood that's easier to chop when it's still green
I find a lot of the Australian alien hardwoods around here are easier when still wet, preferably three four days after cutting: ) once dry the axe will just bounce off @@NicoleCoenen
@@NicoleCoenenI never wished I died and came back as a axe until now 🤤
Hornbeam , birch are much more easy to split when they are fresh cut, after Sun dry them lets say in warm Summer for 2-3 weeks its become hard to split them, you must use wedges. and if there are knots maybe some chainsaw too.
I se you are using the splitting maul ..... good choice ! good choice !
When Nicole starts talking about wood and does a funny about "Wet wood" YOU BETTER DAMN LAUGH.
When Nicole gives you tips about regonizing the type of wood YOU BETTER DAMN SAY "yes ma'am".
I have some wood I want to get rid of, and knowing how to store it properly until it goes in a fire would be really helpful!
Thanks for teaching me something today. My day is off to a good start.
The main thing is keep it off the ground, you can build a rack with some 2x4’s and cinder blocks ( there’s a lot of videos on TH-cam) or just some 4x4’s on the ground then putting in a sunny area is best and just cover the top of the wood so air can get at the sides, I hope this helped.
Thank you for the positive and valuable video.
Yep, I'm nearly 70, and I split up and burned most of an old pecan tree trunk this past winter. Some pieces were 2 and 1/2 feet in diameter, and one was about 3 feet. But they were easier to split than most smaller ones with knots. I've got a piece of wood from one of those that I call "the jawbone of an ass". It came from around a knot.
After a rain, the wood was really tough to split. But it gives you an excellent arm and shoulder workout. You should try changing arms and splitting lefthanded, too. I cannot do it the same way like that. I find myself pushing the axe with the right arm that way, but still with good results, sometimes better, depending on the angle I need. I bought a splitting maul for the first time about a couple of months ago, but I have yet to use one. I saw a video about using one but couldn't find one at a reasonable price until it was too late to use it this season. Oh, well, next year, I suppose.
I always just used an axe, and if things got too tough, I'd switch to a wedge or two and a 12 lb. sledge hammer. I call it the sewage hammer, because if I have to resort to that, something is going to get the crap beat out of it. It's fun to crack jokes at your wood while you're splitting it and do Three Stooges routines like, "Oh, a wise guy, eh?" Or Jackie Gleason, "Alright, Wisenheimer!" Then, there was my mother's saying, "I'll bust you open!" And, then, there's me, threatening to beat my wedges with a hammer, if they don't get in there and split that wood. 😅
Thats f uped first wood then trunk.. Aa shit.. I dunno wanna know
@SandyFoxx-s3p I didn't get the whole tree. The guy just gave me the trunk pieces. But, at least it was already cut.
Split wood dries quicker.
Yep.👍
We always left wet wood to cure for a year before even trying. Most of what we cut was birch for the furnace. Did cut some cedar for kindling however.
No on ever wanted my wood..
You have the absolute best facial expressions!😁
U aint seen nothing yet..
Seeing the wood splitting is so satisfying
Dunno but that.. I like pie
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Loved this although I don't have any wood to split. Yet very interesting informations!
Great information always fun 👍👍👍👍
Que bueno encontrar una mujer tan guerrera, eres unica
Good show, good advice. You are good.
Chopping wood is so satisfying. Storing and stacking-I’m ready! 🙌🏼🪵
Birch is an exception. It's easier to chop when it's fresh, at least the sort that grows around here.
Nicole absolutley love your channel.. you are an inspiration..❤❤🇦🇺
Ive always been taught when you chop wood your going across the grain, but when you split wood its with the grain.. do you agree?
A female with relatively small muscles popping wood ! Thus showing that it is the technique not the showboat swing you see in movies. I like to put a little righthand twisting flick at the end of the swing because it rotates the axe out of the wood after the impact. It's takes lots of practice. The more you split, the better you get. Great physicological therapy for stress. So get you a thermus of coffee, and some rock and roll music and go split for 12 hours straight! If your 15-40 years old ! I started splitting wood with a very narrow faced double bitted axe at the age of 5. Dad taught me the righthand twist pop after I broke a few handles getting the axe unstuck! PS I grew up in Michigan. Never ran into Southern Live Oak until I was in my 30s. Drying it for a year is criticle and it's still tough going.
Thanks for all the information.
Thanks for the lesson on wood
It's the spinginess of wet wood that makes it harder to split. The axe sinks in without forcing the wood apart. It just compresses.
Would be nice to hear how do you rate jean jackets as an outdoors wear)
Hello Nicole. I was told when young. That if there is a tree that you want for fire wood or what ever. But has to be seasoned. To take a chain saw and cut a gertel all the way around it in the spring. Then you can cut down in the fall. And it will be completely seasoned because the sap will have run out of it. True or not?
Could you do a vid on finding and processing fatwood
Omg you are so cute!! And thanks for the information!! I'm slowly getting into woodwork.
U aint gonna chop it tho? I mean its cute and small it can get
Perfect - breathtaking - in a sense magical!!! Nicole incorporates beauty, feminity, strength and very respectable muscularity!!!
I've just started chopping wood yesterday and it is wetter than wet cherry wood. It literally oozes water when I hack into it and I need to hack through a half composed layer to get to the hard wood. 😅
This is why it's best to split wet wood in the winter - because frozen wood splits even easier than dry wood. 🤠
One question, what made you start cutting wood? 😊
She was cold and needed something to put in her stove?
I have no idea? I aint fluent at english.. Is this sum kind of cut the cheeze thing🤔?
Okie Dokie...
Lesson Learnt🤙
Thankyou🙏🙏
Heeeyyy?!!?! But I were supposed to be that? Mistä vitudta mää tietä Häh?!
VERY AWESOME LADY
Aloha. Great video, Mahalo for sharing.
You really know what you're doing....
Awesome
How do you consistently hit a spot when chopping wood. Every time i try chopping wood, it looks like i'm butchering wood. Ax hits are near the first blow but not on the same spot
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whats a good wood for carving? whats a bad one?
Is it grain or density that influences the chopping difficulty the most? Or is moisture the defining factor?
Any tips for chopping ironbark eucalypt? 😬😵💫
Dunno know, bon Jovi thought it 7800 Fahrenheit.. Ask from him was he right
As long as you are young and strong, you can split wooden blocks with a splitting hammer, but the work has the price of destroying the shoulder. When you have inflammation in the shoulder joint, it is time to hang the cleaver on the wall in the log cabin and continue with an electric or fuel wood cleaver. I saw you often hit the blocks in the middle - that's where the cleaver often gets stuck. The claw hammer must hit the edge. The difficult blocks with many knobs that cannot be split down regularly are what we call "night pieces" in Scandinavia. Nothing is as "hyggeligt" (cozy) as a wood-burning stove in the dark of winter. Danelove❤
Bruh, no
we have pine oak and red cedar and the red cedar smells good when burned and i love me chopping and i ran out of red cedar and all i have left is alpine in the deep woods and the risk is brown recluse spiders and snakes
Left eastern Ohio, foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and spent 40 years in the west. Lots of conifer firewood. There are over thirty species of tree in the foothills. Each wood has its own characteristics. Hickory, elm and Osage orange require several wedges and a sledge or a hydraulic splitter, to split. Ash splits easily with an axe and even burns when green. Oil content is what I heard.
Lots of different forests and trees in this planet's biosphere.
If you ever get a chance, visit the Appalachians.
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0:44 Which also means size doesn't always...
Bout that huh? It didn't even get up cuz I was so tired. Alltho one hellraiser waz borned
Great info. Thanks.
Green wood is easier to split in the winter, especially when temperatures stay below -10 degrees C.