I'd just like to thank you, Billy, for being such a great teacher with absolutely no ego involved. Just great examples that we can all learn from, and a good heart to go along with it. Gratitude.
I sent a young man I work with home 3 different axes to help him decide what type of axe he would use the most and today when he came in I could see it in face when he said he cut down a smaller Douglas Fir tree. Some people have it in their soul and he's one of them. Thanks Buckin because you've helped me to be able to help others in the axe world.
I have Learned so much about and felling Trees, bucking them and busting for firewood. Your knowledge passed on is PRICELESS for saving my back. Thank you.
That sounds amazing buckin! We both do tree work for free with the same goal in mind. HELPING PEOPLE! Meeting new people just showed me and my brother the beauty in life! Making relationships with good people is worth more than any money!
I’ve been following your channel for years now , I don’t always put comments, I love what you do and and your messages, and never get tired of watching you split wood , I broke my back also so splitting wood is my gym also thanks for all your videos love you brother.
Never seen somebody split with a double bit axe.i always used mine for chopping.I am 73 and can only last for a few hours doing this you are full of energy and keep it up it's good exercise.
Can't thankyou enough BBR!! I enjoy watching every video you put up. Im a little sad that I didn't get to help you split all my wood so anytime you need a hand, I'm here for you. Your message that you put out to the world has more importance than you realize. Keep up the great work!!
Glad I found this channel. Love the energy , and the experience just oozes from everything you do. I am learning a ton. At first I thought why does he have 7 identical axes, must be a team of guys choppin' today. NOPE. All unique in their own way and demonstrated by yours truly. Love it
I can’t believe I’m watching a guy chopping wood, but the truth of it is this guy is so into it and you know the fact of the matter is is that excellence breeds attention and this guy is really excellent at what he does. Love, his attitude..
I have split firewood since I was in high school. Always been cautious and treated it with respect. A week ago at 28, I just had an accident splitting wood and almost lost my big toe. I guess I just got careless and too comfortable.... trying to avoid a knot and take a slim piece off the side of a log and didn’t catch enough. Ricocheted off the log and into my foot it went. Fortunately I was wearing a pair of Nicks Boots- Overlanders. Slice my foot right over the knuckle of the big toe. I believe if not for those boots I would have been in serious trouble! Excellent work Billy Ray.
Same thing happened to me cause you gotta stay in the zone at all times. Not easy to do. Just cause you split a thousand pieces of wood with no problems doesn't mean you let your guard down the 1,001st piece. Glad you got through it without major injury.
Many people would probably criticize you about using axes where a splitting maul is usually used. But your method worked well, and I definitely learned a few useful techniques. Thanks for doing what you're doing!
Been watching several months now trying to figure out what you enjoy more Buckin slapping the drums smacking the rounds or working the power saws it seems to me your enjoy all equally I know I enjoy watching all of them equally Thank you Oh one more thing can't forget the most imported thing the good messages your spreading ✊
This video was absolutely incredible to learn how Different axes react to different wood situation. Buckin you make the nicest, most functional axes in this world right now. And you put them to work to show how incredible each tool functions. I would love to get my hands on anything you make in the bunker.
Thank you for all you show buckin' I helped my grandparents and other family members split wood so they can heat their houses this winter. I get as much done with your techniques and an axe as they do with a 27ton splitter... I got a 28" bar for my 268 and I won't go back to a short bar. I could buck firewood all day with that sucker. Take it easy and take care!
Thanks Buckin. I spent the afternoon and evening splitting wood with a splitter but would take breaks to try what I’ve learned from your channel. Using a Collin’s 3.5 I got from the bargain tool shed. It’a all oak. Had some fun with a few rounds. Trying to get us two seasons ahead with the splitter for now and then keep it up with an axe. Thanks for everything. Your channel is a blessing.
When I was a lot younger and lived at home growing up my parents burnt wood we would average around 36 cord of wood a year and I never minded splitting it now I come from a family of 9 kids so we had a axe and a wedge for the tough ones lol and I see the way u tip the axe to split it apart and that is how I use to do it as well their was only 3 boys left at home when I was old enough to cut and split and pile lol the other 3 boys had moved away to start their adult life’s but watching you it brings back a lot of memories of when I was a kid thank you for the memories love ur videos 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I only have one axe of unknown make so ive been really interested in researching the different head designs, makers etc because I really want to hang my own handle on a vintage head. I really want a double bit and a single wood bullet type just haven't figured it out yet as to what to buy, collins, plumb, council tool etc.. I'm 6'4 295 pounds and I need to split some wood for my own sanity! Thank you Billy Ray for this awesome channel and message of kindness and gratitude. Helping me in many ways!
Wait what!? I've been watching your shorts and videos for a while now and only just found out you're in the Island!? I'm in Victoria, you have no idea how stoked that makes me.
No matter how long of a day I've had or how tired I feel...when I watch you hand splitting, I get a jolt of energy that makes me feel like I could scale a building! Thank you, my friend!! Love you all...❤❤❤ Lieutenant Bradley
Great content Buckin! I love the segments when you split all different types of wood. It all matches, when you choose your axe. Leaned a lot today, thanks. You,& yours stay safe, healthy, happy, productive,& blessed.💯❤️👍🏾😀🙋🏽♀️✝️🙏🏾🇺🇸
4:46 to 5:00 that right there is wat shows us how skilled this man is. love you billy love from Australia. edit. this is getting a little wood exited, one of the best vids i have seen from the billy absolutly stunning work
awesome video sorta new to the chanel and so far I love the enthusiasm. Personally I run like an 8lb fiskars maul with a 9.00-20 truck tire to hold the round with a Pickaroon and with enough getvdone attitude I can split a pickup load of wood faster and easier than with a splitter. Plus the wood is cleaner. Let the Axe do the work you've just gotta swing it. I also have to add my Dad showed me rather than trying to spit a big round straight in half keep working around it taking block of firewood off need be turn 90 and split them perpendicular.......Granted we spill down to about the size if a 4x4 or 6x6 at the biggest. Love it!!!!
Taz man... Taz family, greetings I met your doppelganger... What a freaking great dude...him and Nick, Getting 'er done. Was lucky to hand him the hand drum in the parking lot and watched his hands as we jammed for a moment. 🪘🎶🪓
Man you seem like a really good guy big heart,God bless you for everything you do!that axe you made is one of them man goes into the forest and forest disappears lol nice job
Thanks for the content and the help you provide for the youth of your region. I was hoping in a future video you could provide tips on hand sharing axes have a great day
Thanks to Billy Ray I have just completely logged a wind blown veteran oak by hand, I thought it was never possible without the use of my wood splitter, but following the techniques I achieved what I thought was not possible. The sense of achievement stacking those logs to dry in my log store was quite something.
All I ever split with is a maul, most of the big hardwoods in western PA aren’t fun with an axe, but the flick honestly has worked great with a maul. I don’t use it to make splitting easier so much but it’s great to keep the maul from burying in the ground on the logs that split easier than expected
Crazy how I essentially discovered the "flick" on my own for slabbing off the edges and like you said not burying the maul into the ground where I inevitably hit a rock an inch or so below the soil
You are good with the axe. You are an expert. I bought one that is all plastic and it does not really split I think I have to sharpen it. Your axes are awesome. Those rounds look beautiful there. Thank you for showing us.
Hey buckin ✌🏻 do good an talk about it ...there is no shame in talking about the good you have done ...just dont throw it on everybody like this hyped free lawbcare guys ...you are just the Man buckin greetings from germany much love stay safe 💪🏻
Thanks Buckin you are such an inspiration and teacher. I have just started my own little firewood business. I have made a few axe handles and restored some heads, I've given 3 away to family and friends and is such an amazing feeling. Have a question - what length handle would you recommend for a 6'4" guy? Just hung a big old head on a 70cm handle and seems good but wondered what you suggest. Just got back on the hand filing and getting best results ever - when the switch goes in your head and you get what you are doing with it, is great feeling. Thanks for all your help from the uk, peace, love and kindness
Wow this sounds exactly what I'm thinking....I'm 6'4 myself and use 36" handles . I just started a little firewood thing a few months ago all because of Buckin'. Great comment 👍
@@woody1755 cheers Woody, i've been using same length handles until today and really got on well with shorter handle - recommend it! Good luck with your firewood business
@@Joe2328 hi Jody, I've just started splitting for the first time (also UK) and having hurt every bit of my back, shoulders, wrists, realised there was a lot to learn and I can't just go out cluelessly whacking (I was even pulling the axe down from behind my head - what a wally I am). I then stumbled on this channel and have spent a lot of time watching and less time whacking. However, I immediately noticed a difference when using what I can remember from BBR. My only sadness now is using fibreglass handled axes from Screwfix. I need to find somewhere I can get my first proper axe (I think a 3-4lb maul for starters). I'll work my way up to a Gorilla. Don't know what it is, but splitting logs makes my heart sing and my body sweat! 😂
@@bloophero great to hear from you mate! we all have to start somewhere - will never forget the time I finished off filing a proper ski jump into my first chain and then had no idea why it wouldn't cut!! have you thought about making a splitting axe? there are some beautiful old heads on eBay for 20-30 quid, you can buy handles and metal/wooden wedges as well for not much. am loving the latest one I made with a short handle, feels a lot more manouverable than 36" ones. what buckin says about inertia is really true. You are right running saws and splitting wood is great for body and soul
I like to allow the water to get into the log, and once in the freezing season rip through them allowing nature to do most of the work. If I have to split, I put the smaller diameter logs on the larger ones, drive the axe into the log then take a sledge hammer with the other hand and hit the back of the axe through the wood. Once you get used to doing this method you get into a cadence and work like a machine. Love watching these vids because I always learn something from you like working around the knots.
hey buckin I love you channel and videos and the love you have for the power saws I have some saw I want to get rid of and think they would find a beautiful home with you I have the complete set of poulan/pioneer saw staring with a 655 boost port then the 525 poulan pro and a 455 poulan pro then I have an amazing pioneer p60 all full wrap handles every Saw all have bars and dogs and all of them run just love them and don't want them to go to some who doesn't love them
Billy ; talk bout the clues that come from the sound of an axe strike. At least for me, when you hit, I hear when you first strike on a bucked round ; it tells the tale of the future of both wood and axe.
Would love to swing some of those axes. I use the long Fiskars splitting axe to pretty good effect but drool over those beauties. I hunt on a Boy Scout camp and several years ago we had a nasty fall hurricane. The camp supervisor called and told me the upper access road had a couple of big oaks and a gum across it and I could have the wood to open the road. I brought a couple friends and a dump trailer that Saturday and got busy. A group of scouts and their master heard our saws and came to investigate. We were working on a big red oak about 30" diameter, my 28" bar was a bit too short to buck. Well the scout master went on to explain that to split wood that big you had to pop off the edges first, I told him I just look for knots and split it and popped a couple of rounds apart. He then said I was much bigger than him...lol. My rather small uncle taught me to split wood when I was 9 or 10 years old. If the scout master looked in the dump trailer he would have seen a bunch of rounds busted to 1/2 or 1/4.
Hi Buckin. I discovered the channel a week ago and I am a fan. Sametime I go through the knot but with the grain not across. Straight in the middle and it splits good. What are your thoughts
Im trying to get my feet wet with this type of work. With climbing and rigging of trees. Would you possibly help me with some advice on navigating crothes. Where the tree stops growing straight up but more at 60 degrees in either direction. Any help with this would be great and very much appreciated. Keep doing what you are doing, stay safe up in them trees!
It depends on the wood. I've some bigger elm rounds I could only split with 3 wedges and a sledgehammer and once I split some just cut good sized red Alder with a boy's axe.
One thing he doesn't stress is how dangerous axes can be. I had a great uncle or something injured as a young man in the 1920s when his ax glanced and hit him square in the leg. It split the bone and left him crippled for life. It looks so easy and safe when BBR does it that many may not appreciate the dangers.
I wish the wood here on the east coast was this easy to split by hand. Hardwoods here are a bugger with the axe unless it's freezing out and the woods is frozen.
Billy R. You've just run the 58cc Stihl MS32 with a 28" bar. Can you get your hands on a MSA 300 & give it an outing with the 28" bar? Love you know your opinion? Make sure you get the Larger Battery!
If you want to build upper body strength and bone mass, spend a whole winter collecting, pitching, splitting and stacking firewood. I got so ripped, chick's were falling off the back of trucks for a date. Now I'm older I use a hydraulic because I can't afford to get carpal tunnel. Forgive me Billy and thanks for all your awesome vids.
i m bit jaleous see you working with an axe . since a surgery at my shoulder these kind of work is gone . now i use an hydroulic splitter .😉😉 kepp on bucking 👍👍
I'd just like to thank you, Billy, for being such a great teacher with absolutely no ego involved. Just great examples that we can all learn from, and a good heart to go along with it. Gratitude.
I sent a young man I work with home 3 different axes to help him decide what type of axe he would use the most and today when he came in I could see it in face when he said he cut down a smaller Douglas Fir tree. Some people have it in their soul and he's one of them. Thanks Buckin because you've helped me to be able to help others in the axe world.
That's Buckin' needs to be on a cutoff mechanics shirt plz
What kind of work are you in?
Douglas fir has beautiful wood too!
How does one join the axe world
@@j.porlando5091 why pick one up and swing it.
Your here, all you have to do is participate in the festivities
I’m a recipient, but just of your knowledge and kind words from your warm soul. Thank you for you BBR!
I feel like I have been a recipient of your kindness and your positive attitude that has lifted me so many times over the years. Love you Buckin!
I have Learned so much about and felling Trees, bucking them and busting for firewood. Your knowledge passed on is PRICELESS for saving my back. Thank you.
That sounds amazing buckin! We both do tree work for free with the same goal in mind. HELPING PEOPLE! Meeting new people just showed me and my brother the beauty in life! Making relationships with good people is worth more than any money!
Thanks!
I’ve been following your channel for years now , I don’t always put comments, I love what you do and and your messages, and never get tired of watching you split wood , I broke my back also so splitting wood is my gym also thanks for all your videos love you brother.
Never seen somebody split with a double bit axe.i always used mine for chopping.I am 73 and can only last for a few hours doing this you are full of energy and keep it up it's good exercise.
Can't thankyou enough BBR!! I enjoy watching every video you put up. Im a little sad that I didn't get to help you split all my wood so anytime you need a hand, I'm here for you. Your message that you put out to the world has more importance than you realize. Keep up the great work!!
👍👍👍💪🤝
Glad I found this channel. Love the energy , and the experience just oozes from everything you do. I am learning a ton. At first I thought why does he have 7 identical axes, must be a team of guys choppin' today. NOPE. All unique in their own way and demonstrated by yours truly. Love it
I can’t believe I’m watching a guy chopping wood, but the truth of it is this guy is so into it and you know the fact of the matter is is that excellence breeds attention and this guy is really excellent at what he does. Love, his attitude..
I have split firewood since I was in high school. Always been cautious and treated it with respect. A week ago at 28, I just had an accident splitting wood and almost lost my big toe. I guess I just got careless and too comfortable.... trying to avoid a knot and take a slim piece off the side of a log and didn’t catch enough. Ricocheted off the log and into my foot it went. Fortunately I was wearing a pair of Nicks Boots- Overlanders. Slice my foot right over the knuckle of the big toe. I believe if not for those boots I would have been in serious trouble! Excellent work Billy Ray.
Same thing happened to me cause you gotta stay in the zone at all times. Not easy to do. Just cause you split a thousand pieces of wood with no problems doesn't mean you let your guard down the 1,001st piece. Glad you got through it without major injury.
Love them slo-mo shots of your axe swing, helps me break it down and try and attempt it my self. Thanx for everything Buckin'.
Many people would probably criticize you about using axes where a splitting maul is usually used. But your method worked well, and I definitely learned a few useful techniques. Thanks for doing what you're doing!
This video is pure of joy .
Thank you and God bless you .
Yacov from Israel
THX FRIEND
Good work for good people spreading the love back to those that can use some help. Good on you Buckin 👍♥️
Hey Bud,,this man is by far the best in class,my favorite wood Miller
Been watching several months now trying to figure out what you enjoy more Buckin slapping the drums smacking the rounds or working the power saws it seems to me your enjoy all equally I know I enjoy watching all of them equally
Thank you Oh one more thing can't forget the most imported thing the good messages your spreading ✊
Very nice message friend. Thx
I fell a 12 inch ash tree the other day with an axe and a hand saw and a little wedge, really made me appreciate what you can do
Knotty, green ash is tough to split! Straight grained rounds split like butter though!
Looking good Buckin'. You've gotten more fit, congrats.
This video was absolutely incredible to learn how
Different axes react to different wood situation. Buckin you make the nicest, most functional axes in this world right now. And you put them to work to show how incredible each tool functions. I would love to get my hands on anything you make in the bunker.
Thank you for all you show buckin' I helped my grandparents and other family members split wood so they can heat their houses this winter. I get as much done with your techniques and an axe as they do with a 27ton splitter... I got a 28" bar for my 268 and I won't go back to a short bar. I could buck firewood all day with that sucker.
Take it easy and take care!
Thanks Buckin. I spent the afternoon and evening splitting wood with a splitter but would take breaks to try what I’ve learned from your channel. Using a Collin’s 3.5 I got from the bargain tool shed. It’a all oak. Had some fun with a few rounds. Trying to get us two seasons ahead with the splitter for now and then keep it up with an axe. Thanks for everything. Your channel is a blessing.
Once again my go to for all things tree felling and splitting. Thanks Buckin'!
Buckin' you make short work out of it. That's some pretty wood. Lovely axes. Have a blessed weekend. Love to all.
If i didn't live on the other side of the world i would totally visit you and chop some wood with you! Cheers from Poland!
Your axes are work of art! Wish you all the best in life brother, greetings from Serbia
THANK YOU FRIEND
I LOVE THE SOUND OF THE WOOD CRACKIN, BUCKIN IS SIMPLY AMAZING!
yes, love the sound...
like prehistoric drums...
crack! whomp! shaclank! thud! poom!
When I was a lot younger and lived at home growing up my parents burnt wood we would average around 36 cord of wood a year and I never minded splitting it now I come from a family of 9 kids so we had a axe and a wedge for the tough ones lol and I see the way u tip the axe to split it apart and that is how I use to do it as well their was only 3 boys left at home when I was old enough to cut and split and pile lol the other 3 boys had moved away to start their adult life’s but watching you it brings back a lot of memories of when I was a kid thank you for the memories love ur videos 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
36 cords of wood, you lie
@@skinnflint no a 3 story house finished basement I’m one of 9 kids so ya no lie boss gods honest truth
I only have one axe of unknown make so ive been really interested in researching the different head designs, makers etc because I really want to hang my own handle on a vintage head. I really want a double bit and a single wood bullet type just haven't figured it out yet as to what to buy, collins, plumb, council tool etc..
I'm 6'4 295 pounds and I need to split some wood for my own sanity! Thank you Billy Ray for this awesome channel and message of kindness and gratitude. Helping me in many ways!
Buchanan Smith's Axe Handbook is a good little resource for learning. Just ignore the part about painting handles.
Wait what!? I've been watching your shorts and videos for a while now and only just found out you're in the Island!? I'm in Victoria, you have no idea how stoked that makes me.
First time watcher! This sh!t rocks bro!!!! TY!!!
I'm so grateful to have experienced the magic of this extraordinary video.
Thank you for this. The past 20+ years we have relied on propane to heat the house. This year for the first time, we are using wood burning stove.
THIS WILL CHANGE YER LIFE ,, MENTALLY, SPIRITUALLY AND OF COURSE PHYSICALLY
No matter how long of a day I've had or how tired I feel...when I watch you hand splitting, I get a jolt of energy that makes me feel like I could scale a building! Thank you, my friend!!
Love you all...❤❤❤
Lieutenant Bradley
"love win
I felt that. It's 12:15 am and I want to go out and split. And I cut wood all day 😂
To scale a building is a tall undertaking.
How about climb your favorite tree on catbird hill...🌲🧗👍🍁🍂
@@jirusjirus9322 Amen!!!
Another great video with great advice on splitting. Keep up the good work and stay safe. Spread the love and kindness
will do
Great content Buckin! I love the segments when you split all different types of wood. It all matches, when you choose your axe. Leaned a lot today, thanks. You,& yours stay safe, healthy, happy, productive,& blessed.💯❤️👍🏾😀🙋🏽♀️✝️🙏🏾🇺🇸
4:46 to 5:00 that right there is wat shows us how skilled this man is. love you billy love from Australia.
edit. this is getting a little wood exited, one of the best vids i have seen from the billy absolutly stunning work
You definitely make it look easy Buckin you are the man, I always enjoy your videos.
thx
awesome video sorta new to the chanel and so far I love the enthusiasm. Personally I run like an 8lb fiskars maul with a 9.00-20 truck tire to hold the round with a Pickaroon and with enough getvdone attitude I can split a pickup load of wood faster and easier than with a splitter. Plus the wood is cleaner. Let the Axe do the work you've just gotta swing it. I also have to add my Dad showed me rather than trying to spit a big round straight in half keep working around it taking block of firewood off need be turn 90 and split them perpendicular.......Granted we spill down to about the size if a 4x4 or 6x6 at the biggest. Love it!!!!
Always learning. Love that lineup. All very nice works of art. Lovin it. Thanks Buckin. 🌲❤️🌲👊🪓
Taz man...
Taz family, greetings
I met your doppelganger...
What a freaking great dude...him and Nick,
Getting 'er done.
Was lucky to hand him the hand drum in the parking lot and watched his hands as we jammed for a moment. 🪘🎶🪓
Man you seem like a really good guy big heart,God bless you for everything you do!that axe you made is one of them man goes into the forest and forest disappears lol nice job
Double bit axes are my favourite . They are balanced , swinging them brings me joy . Ever break a axe handle ? 👍🇨🇦
Thanks for the content and the help you provide for the youth of your region. I was hoping in a future video you could provide tips on hand sharing axes have a great day
Absolutely love the truck!!!
thx
Thanks to Billy Ray I have just completely logged a wind blown veteran oak by hand, I thought it was never possible without the use of my wood splitter, but following the techniques I achieved what I thought was not possible. The sense of achievement stacking those logs to dry in my log store was quite something.
BUCKIN TALKS ABOUT AXES LIKE SOME PEOPLE TALK ABOUT GOLF CLUBS, FANTASTIC !!!!
he he
All I ever split with is a maul, most of the big hardwoods in western PA aren’t fun with an axe, but the flick honestly has worked great with a maul. I don’t use it to make splitting easier so much but it’s great to keep the maul from burying in the ground on the logs that split easier than expected
Crazy how I essentially discovered the "flick" on my own for slabbing off the edges and like you said not burying the maul into the ground where I inevitably hit a rock an inch or so below the soil
That flick move is really slick, Billy Ray. 👍
Of all the things I've learned from watching you the flick is my favorite to practice....gettin a little better everyday!
good stuff
Awesome the way you give back paying it forward god bless you brother
this is stuff that is passed down thru generations...billy grew up with this...
Thank You Billy that was awesome.
We love you too.
Double the fun! Love it when you break out a double bit.
Beautiful axes Billy awesome craftsmanship different ax for different jobs I'm always learning something new when I watch your videos ✌ ☮ man.
kool
I love the red head wedges you got me started on it years ago thanks
You are good with the axe. You are an expert. I bought one that is all plastic and it does not really split I think I have to sharpen it. Your axes are awesome. Those rounds look beautiful there. Thank you for showing us.
THIS IS NOT PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT WOOD TO SPLIT BUT IVE SEEN FOLKS MAKE IT LOOK HARD .. LOL
Excellent program buckin. Nice tool box 🪓 you carry around.
Wow. You are a rare breed in this world.
Love the new handles buckin! That big palm swell at the bottom is a beautiful feature, nice work my man!!
Ey bucking whats is up my friend
Hey buckin ✌🏻 do good an talk about it ...there is no shame in talking about the good you have done ...just dont throw it on everybody like this hyped free lawbcare guys ...you are just the Man buckin greetings from germany much love stay safe 💪🏻
Thanks Buckin you are such an inspiration and teacher. I have just started my own little firewood business. I have made a few axe handles and restored some heads, I've given 3 away to family and friends and is such an amazing feeling. Have a question - what length handle would you recommend for a 6'4" guy? Just hung a big old head on a 70cm handle and seems good but wondered what you suggest. Just got back on the hand filing and getting best results ever - when the switch goes in your head and you get what you are doing with it, is great feeling. Thanks for all your help from the uk, peace, love and kindness
Wow this sounds exactly what I'm thinking....I'm 6'4 myself and use 36" handles . I just started a little firewood thing a few months ago all because of Buckin'. Great comment 👍
@@woody1755 cheers Woody, i've been using same length handles until today and really got on well with shorter handle - recommend it! Good luck with your firewood business
@@Joe2328 hi Jody, I've just started splitting for the first time (also UK) and having hurt every bit of my back, shoulders, wrists, realised there was a lot to learn and I can't just go out cluelessly whacking (I was even pulling the axe down from behind my head - what a wally I am). I then stumbled on this channel and have spent a lot of time watching and less time whacking. However, I immediately noticed a difference when using what I can remember from BBR. My only sadness now is using fibreglass handled axes from Screwfix. I need to find somewhere I can get my first proper axe (I think a 3-4lb maul for starters). I'll work my way up to a Gorilla. Don't know what it is, but splitting logs makes my heart sing and my body sweat! 😂
@@bloophero great to hear from you mate! we all have to start somewhere - will never forget the time I finished off filing a proper ski jump into my first chain and then had no idea why it wouldn't cut!! have you thought about making a splitting axe? there are some beautiful old heads on eBay for 20-30 quid, you can buy handles and metal/wooden wedges as well for not much. am loving the latest one I made with a short handle, feels a lot more manouverable than 36" ones. what buckin says about inertia is really true. You are right running saws and splitting wood is great for body and soul
@@Joe2328 just had a quick look at eBay. I'm going to have to apologise to the family, I'm going to go back there later and I might be some time!
i was just thinking yesterday while watchin g your videos id love to see more axe stuff
Love these kinds of videos, Buckin!
You are absolutely right. It makes know sense to handle that wood twice using a chopping block.
I like to allow the water to get into the log, and once in the freezing season rip through them allowing nature to do most of the work. If I have to split, I put the smaller diameter logs on the larger ones, drive the axe into the log then take a sledge hammer with the other hand and hit the back of the axe through the wood. Once you get used to doing this method you get into a cadence and work like a machine. Love watching these vids because I always learn something from you like working around the knots.
cant believe you do that to an axe ...any axe
Great motivation to get outside and work!
hey buckin I love you channel and videos and the love you have for the power saws I have some saw I want to get rid of and think they would find a beautiful home with you I have the complete set of poulan/pioneer saw staring with a 655 boost port then the 525 poulan pro and a 455 poulan pro then I have an amazing pioneer p60 all full wrap handles every Saw all have bars and dogs and all of them run just love them and don't want them to go to some who doesn't love them
Great one Buckin. Setting the example.
i love the new theme song youve been using lately
Buckin I’m still waiting on a wedge banger axe keep up the good work
Love ya brother
wish i had a good axe to do what you are doing you are so blessed.. regards from South Africa
Butch from South Africa .. welcome friend
Also I'm digging this funky intro
Great Video, Buckin!
Billy ; talk bout the clues that come from the sound of an axe strike. At least for me, when you hit, I hear when you first strike on a bucked round ; it tells the tale of the future of both wood and axe.
when it starts the sound changes. it gets deeper
Would love to swing some of those axes. I use the long Fiskars splitting axe to pretty good effect but drool over those beauties.
I hunt on a Boy Scout camp and several years ago we had a nasty fall hurricane. The camp supervisor called and told me the upper access road had a couple of big oaks and a gum across it and I could have the wood to open the road.
I brought a couple friends and a dump trailer that Saturday and got busy. A group of scouts and their master heard our saws and came to investigate. We were working on a big red oak about 30" diameter, my 28" bar was a bit too short to buck. Well the scout master went on to explain that to split wood that big you had to pop off the edges first, I told him I just look for knots and split it and popped a couple of rounds apart.
He then said I was much bigger than him...lol. My rather small uncle taught me to split wood when I was 9 or 10 years old. If the scout master looked in the dump trailer he would have seen a bunch of rounds busted to 1/2 or 1/4.
Hi Buckin. I discovered the channel a week ago and I am a fan. Sametime I go through the knot but with the grain not across. Straight in the middle and it splits good. What are your thoughts
with the knot works ,,ontop ,, beside, all good brother if it splits
longer handle = higher potential axe head speed?
am i right to assume that is the goal? optimum axe head speed?
Love these types of videos 🙂
He has the power and technique it is nice to watch and learn.
@@martyrutter3630 🙂
I'd love to see how this works in classic new england hardwoods... these narrow profile axes especially.
Im with you Billy, Im semi retired and I try to pass it forward, BTW this is my wife's yt acct. and I use it
Im trying to get my feet wet with this type of work. With climbing and rigging of trees. Would you possibly help me with some advice on navigating crothes. Where the tree stops growing straight up but more at 60 degrees in either direction. Any help with this would be great and very much appreciated. Keep doing what you are doing, stay safe up in them trees!
You are one of the few people I've seen that will spilt without a mauler head. Never have used a head that thin before.....maybe I need to try.
It depends on the wood. I've some bigger elm rounds I could only split with 3 wedges and a sledgehammer and once I split some just cut good sized red Alder with a boy's axe.
One thing he doesn't stress is how dangerous axes can be. I had a great uncle or something injured as a young man in the 1920s when his ax glanced and hit him square in the leg. It split the bone and left him crippled for life. It looks so easy and safe when BBR does it that many may not appreciate the dangers.
yes, it's always good to throw down the caution flag before freestyle ax chopping 🪓
@@jirusjirus9322 When you start getting tired you get clumsy and it's time to stop.
@@jeffreyrubish347 yeppers
Tired=clumsy
Clumsy=injured
Injured=ouch or possible death 🪵🪓🔥🖐️
I absolutely love that big double bit axe. They are definitely hard to find.
I wish the wood here on the east coast was this easy to split by hand.
Hardwoods here are a bugger with the axe unless it's freezing out and the woods is frozen.
How long does it take to master the vortex figure 8 technique?
hi.a did grind down little bit
the speed bump on my fiskars axe,works mutch better now.
Billy R. You've just run the 58cc Stihl MS32 with a 28" bar. Can you get your hands on a MSA 300 & give it an outing with the 28" bar?
Love you know your opinion? Make sure you get the Larger Battery!
Love splitting with my Buckin Special :)
Thanks BR !!!!
If you want to build upper body strength and bone mass, spend a whole winter collecting, pitching, splitting and stacking firewood.
I got so ripped, chick's were falling off the back of trucks for a date.
Now I'm older I use a hydraulic because I can't afford to get carpal tunnel. Forgive me Billy and thanks for all your awesome vids.
you're an inspiration
I also live in nanaimo, im a forestry graduate still studying at VIU 👍
Buckin, how well do YOU like that Greenly tool chest that you have in the back of Myrtle? I’m just curious.
What are your thoughts on commercially available axes? I myself run a 27inch fiskas
i m bit jaleous see you working with an axe . since a surgery at my shoulder these kind of work is gone .
now i use an hydroulic splitter .😉😉
kepp on bucking 👍👍
Love the video Buckin'! Is the wood Doug Fir?
YES SIR
How many swings did it take you to split the final round?
When splitting wood, do you think fresh wood is easier or harder to split than wood that has been drying up for 6-7 months?
Fresh is definitely easier to split in my experience.
Technique #1 - find good axe. Older the better. Technique#2 Make it sharp. -- this is what I have learned from buckin and I put it to good use.
Those are two steps in ONE technique imho.
@@Gideon_Judges6well said sol. Well said.