🪓 🩸 Every Serious Axe or Hatchet Injury I've Had ! 🩸 🪓
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- Every Accident I can remember having with an axe or hatchet. Also some disscussion of how intelligent, integrated, ongoing safety works using experience like accidents, near misses, imagination and an appropriately humble attitude.
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The "cocky phase" you mentioned is a very real and very dangerous thing. In aviation it's called the killing zone, and sits roughly between hour 50 and 350 of flight time. You don't know how much you don't know, and what you don't know can kill you if you don't check yourself and recognize your inexperience. A few close calls will certainly help check your ego and push you out of this phase!
Good to know that. Yeah, it's very real lol.
Can 100% with some of the Wranglerstar "Nevers" and "Always" rules.
Hi Steven, that was a very interesting approach on ways to deal with danger. "Dummie rules make dummies" is my quote of the day. I'm glad you're on RUclips and share your experience with us. Thank you and have a nice day!
I love your approch to safety. I have completely diffrent dangers in my work (moving heavy loads with a crane) but this video is valuble for any kind of work in life. I actually developed the same technic of meditating on the danger and vividly imagining the possible consequences. I find it very usefull too. It teaches you to be humble and respect the tool/situation.
Great video and insight. Makes me think back to splitting firewood as a kid and making kindling with my dad's dull hardware store 25" splitter. New found appreciation for still having 2 hands and 10 fingers !
100% agree. Abstract thinking and the ability to imagine "what if" is our human superpower. I got that safety tip from an electrician I apprenticed with one summer. I was super young and had never worked near anything like a construction site. I was intimidated and he just told me that I was smart and if I just kept thinking about what could go wrong I would avoid most problems.
I think the phenomenon of a glancing blow seeming to increase speed is a matter of expectations, control, and perception and not an actual increase in speed. Everything is happening according to the plan up to the point that the axe strikes the wood, but the expectation is for it to chop/split/sink/stick/cut. When the axe glances instead, suddenly it is out of control and not what you expected which certainly changes how the event is perceived in our minds.
I thought of that, but it sure seems like the pick up speed. Same with a hammer on an anvil, when you miss. could be studied with slow mo footage I guess.
@@SkillCult I'm always a fan of scientific inquiry and would love to see a deeper dive there. Physics tells me that there isn't a way it could gain speed unless you are swinging with a follow-through in order to continue "feeding" energy into it after the impact. I know you in particular have talked about the dangers and wastes of following through and "pushing" the axe into a cut. I suppose that even without proper technique, we still stop the momentum of our own arms against the axe when it bites, and if it glances, the axe might "scavenge" some lost speed from the momentum of our still-swinging arms.
Liam Hoffman did a little experiment where he put grain orientation to the test to see how long it took to break a handle with "wrong" grain orientation. I got to thinking then that Destin of Smarter Everyday might someday be interested in applying himself to a colab that visits axemanship physics. This topic is definitely another one that could be looked at.
That's why you cut down through the wood. You don't allow for a glancing blow to miss and swing in to your feet or shins. Avoiding the accident is very easy once you know what to look out for. Steel toes are a good choice to when using axes. Also work with gravity not against it.
I'd guess if the radius is reduced by the new direction the speed will increase. Sit on an office chair with two weights, spin yourself, move the weights in and out, your speed will change. I don't remember the point my teacher was proving with that, but no reason it wouldn't apply here.
@@lodazal6571 Conservation of angular momentum. Good suggestion!
It was interesting to hear about the plant medicine you used to heal your thumb. Could be a cool video topic? Like "most useful plants for first aid". I'm just picturing aragorn and samwise and the athelas plant lol
I thought of that actually. It's an easy approach that can be used almost anywhere as long as there is fire and something to cook in. iI've even used plants to wrap if there is no cloth, but usually I'll use stirps of cloth.
I am new to camping. I am at the "I don't know what I don't know" stage. It is very refreshing to hear your common sense approach.
Glad to see new vids
Humility is definitely important with dangerous tools. A lathe doesn't give a shit how cool you feel. I definitely can be too confident sometimes and forget to be present. I always am grateful for little cuts or near misses. Really makes me more careful in the future.
Recently I had a vintage handle break while I was bucking with loud machine noise in the background. If the handle didn't cut me when I slid my hand up it could have been catastrophic. Also grateful when a handle let's me know it's no good.
Great video as always. The thing about dummy rules are that I don't know another way to teach beginners. Scares the shit out of me when they aren't splitting with not aiming at themselves in mind. I don't let them continue if they can't keep the handle parallel.
I think the solution is to give strong guidelines and just don't state absolutes that are not true. If they are really true, then they aren't dumb rules. The problem is broadly stated rules that are supposed to cover every circumstance and contingency, but they actually don't. The long game is important. No substitue for thinking.
They say learn by mistakes, preferably other people's but the mistakes you remember are mainly one's own! I remember using a very very sharp hatchet for splitting kindling and thinking "I bet that would really cut deep if it met flesh" Yep, it did, fortunately the hospital was able to save my finger.
Steven, ALWAYS keep making videos.
I'll always never stop
That’s cool you met Eustice Conway. Dude is kind of a celebrity now
Thanks for sharing your experiences. Much appreciated. Love your no BS approach.
Thanks for reinforcing this man, wish I'd found your advice when I was younger. I nicked my shin several years ago doing some shit I knew better than to do. Since then I go out of my way not to do shit that does not align with my better judgement and still get some wakeup calls every once in a while. Hemlock knots are not good to hammer on with the poll (from some angles) was my most recent one. Lol
Haven’t watched the video but that is the best thumbnail I’ve seen in a while
Good, maybe it'll get some views. I am usually pretty lazy with my thumbnails anymore.
Haha! Got my attention. And wow, rewards abound! A Eustace Conway story. Awesome.
That's the only time I met Eustace, but all my southern friends have always talked about him a lot. When I read The Last American Man, I tried to get my girlfriend to read it so she'd understand me better lol. She didn't.
@@SkillCult i read that book when it came out. I was living in NYC, all my life since 7, and romanticizing the outback. Now Elizabeth Gilbert kinda rubs me the wrong way, she’s so bougie, but anyway, back then I was like, oh what a perfect man! He was then looking for a partner, too. Women couldn’t hang. But i knew I couldn’t hack him or his lifestyle, either. Now that I’m older, I’m even more cognizant of the auto-marination some of us, um particularly non-conformist, personalities undergo after a time spent trudging in the default world. I finally got out of dodge, 6 years ago. And, boy, was I a clueless armchair permie, yikes. Education, every day. Thanks for making uncompromising videos. Your whole demeanor and vibe is my tribe. And I’ve lost so many of them to the centrist narrative over the last 2.5-5 years. It’s super cool that you’re buds with Sean/Sasha of Edible Acres and David the Good. There’s hope. 🤪
Great topic and insights. All it takes is a moment of daydreaming for an accident to occur. My last axe incident was about almost a year ago while chopping some kindling for the fireplace. I managed to cut up the logs into firewood unscathed, but cut my hand just slivering some little pieces. No big deal. As the cook in the house my knife wounds far outnumber my axe wounds. Being cocky and working too fast in that arena. My closest call was discharging my shotgun right next to my foot while spring turkey hunting. That took the spring out of my step so to speak.
I wouldn’t mind seeing some more axe videos.
you are so right about the three phase we go thorugh in learning a skill. Some of us are very fortunate to have close calls or just small accidents in gaining the humbleness required to transition to the third phase. I had a pretty scary near accident with my 4 lbs double bit. I was felling a tree chopping out the notch and one blow just glanced of off the three hitting me in the shin - with the side of the head not the bid! No at very high veloicity but still pretty scary stuff.
I actually think me being pretty proficient with an axe has been very helpful for using a chainsaw safely. To me the risk assesement seem seems quite similar. You'll need to be focused on the risk when cutting and always try to predict what will happen next, where will the bar and chain go once the branch is cut off etc. Very similar to an axe - or many other tool uses
Yes totally, risk assessment and predicting future probability/possibility. The ignorant phase does not have enough information to do that well, including our own capabilities and muscle memory etc. The cocky phase has enough to be dangerous lol, but without the humility that it probably isn't enough and knowing that performing at a higher level brings a new level of risk. The more mature phase embraces that there is very likely more to learn, that it's just dangerous period and our ability to make those predictions and have all the data is probably limited. Not that we can't in this phase play around and take chances, it's more about the sobriety of that decision and risk assessment.
Hi there, few years back I heard you mention that it is possible to split Doug fir straight through the middle of knots. I found a crosscut log with a tiny crack down the middle of its knot and I split it!
Thanks for the tip!
It is possible sometimes, but it doesn't work very well with doug fir, and I rarely try. It usually doesn't pay. many other woods split much easier through the knots for some reason, like all the oaks that grow here. Never could figure out why.
Videos on home made plants base remedies for how to treat wound in nature or other illnesses would be nice!!! last time i cut myself with an axe was while i was filing it. Cut my finger pretty deeply that thing would not stop bleeding
I would like to do that actually. I have healed a lot of cuts and burns with natural stuff and I know how it works and that it works well.
Cayenne pepper for bleeding. I’ve it countless times on knife and broken glass cuts. (Cooking is dangerous, too,lol.)
my first axe accident was sharpening a hewing axe when i was hanging out in my friends shop drinking beer using a file with no handle on it. hand slipped and the bit dug into the side of my thumb to the bone, stayed numb for a few years.
Yeah, that's a bad one. shudder...
Great idea for a video. Those close calls are the ones we really learn from.
Hopefully :)
You’re lookin great man. Awesome vid, wise words.
Keep up the good work!
Careful the Wranglestar disciples will go crazy if you have any kind of different opinion. 😂😂
Thanks for The he info if only I watch it sooner
Just wanted to say your axe videos have really helped grow my skills. Also if you have never heard of buckin Billy Ray check out his axe videos, endless content on mounting bits and sharpening plus uses.
yeah, I know Buckin', he's awesome.
This was a very valuable video. Many thanks!
I am thankful for my leather boots that stopped a cut on my foot. Have a good day.
Ive seen Eustace in mountain men, he seems legit and a very nice knowledgeable person
I've never watched that show, but I know at least two friends of mine that have been on it.
skillcult axe video!!!
1:13 These stories are so informative. I am too from the concrete jungle. I finished high school 3 years ago and I dropped out of university 2 years ago. Sometimes I wonder what I did in all these years, were they wasted? No, I learned how to sharpen, how to carve wood, fix all kinds of stuff. 19 yo me would not have tried to make a bowl with a dull knife. I had a similar cut on my index finger and it's still not 100% but it's good to know it will probably return to normal after 10 years.
Thats nuthin i remember once i cut my entire left leg completely off but after several months of excercise and daily walking i was able to grow it all back and get back to work 😳
2 things worry me in the woods. 1 surprise snake bite. 2. Making a mistake with a razor sharp axe.
by far the most likely things to kill me out there. Nothing else even comes close.
I think people who haven't experience very many injuries throughout their lives develop a delusional sense of how bad injuries are (as in what our body can heal on its own if we just stop the damage that is being caused)
I have been dealing with knifes, hatchets and axes for many years (50 for knives and about 40 for the later) and up and until 2 years ago the worst cuts I had were from hacksaws and angle grinders.
About 2 years ago I slipped with a Stanley knife and sliced two fingers. More recently I sliced my little finger with a pocket knife.
And what you told about the respect for the tool you use is a real thing. I got so used to taking "risks" that my attention slipped, although I recall a thought flashed through my head the moment I was cutting with the Stanley "that if I slipped, it would slice my fingers" ... stupid me.. I ignored that.
The pocket knife incident was more a "mindless" action taken....
Be aware of the tool you use, have respect for what it MIGHT do and stay alert of possible outcomes of your actions.
And about accidents with axes, I can remember about 4 times a bouncing axe hit my shin, just a small cut (lucky me). But the amount of pieces of logs that hit my shins... I have no idea... never counted them as axe accidents.
Well said. It is hard to listen that voice and actually stop immediately.
Great info. Thanks!
Great lessons. I have a feeling that almost everyone who gets into axe usage has a scar on their thumb from a hatchet.
ha ha, maybe.
Very usefull, thank you for sharing.
I think modern humans, having existed inside a safety net our whole lives, we just approach each day or each task with the mentality that nothing will go wrong this time. While I've always enjoyed the outdoors specifically because it takes me outside the safety net, specific events I've witnessed in the last few years have really hammered it home that each day or task has the potential for a life changing accident. I dont fear it, but acknowledging that fact is what keeps you safe.
Well said!
How did I get here? First btw! Staying for the bloody pics, till I have to run away!
No bloody pics, sorry to disappoint :)
i just recently cut my leg open with a hatchet and I have 6 stitches in my leg right now. it happened yesterday
only serious injury Ive had was cutting my arm fixing a machete handle. the cut was about 4 inches long and almost an inch deep. Ive defiantly been more aware of what could go wrong since then.
One physics reasin the axe could speed up is if the radius of the arc of the swing gets smaller due to the glance because it has changed direction and is coming towards you.
Just another thing to thing about lol
If your not familiar, spin on an office chare with your arms wide and then tuck them in really fast, angular momentum want to be conserved so you will speed up a lot
I think that is a good theory and should be true period to my understanding. I suspect there is more, but maybe not. That could be it. I have definitely had that happen in limbing.
i got one bad one while filing a super old axe i found in my grandparents abandoned stables hit a dull patch of teeth on the file and slip knuckles straight into edge and I file them thin so it sliced me good. also almost lost my toes but thankfully i had composite toe work shoes on.
P.S I love your videos very in depth and you helped me learn a lot about file sharpening using opinel knife as card scraper and sharpening knife spines and all types of general outdoors knowledge and tool knowledge
Filing axes is dangerous af. Glad you are getting something out of my channel. I aim to provide legitimately helpful information that is not just recycled.
About sIx weeks ago I sliced off a piece of finger while preparing kindling with a very sharp antique hudson bay axe. The wood fell out from under it and it simply fell a few inches and nicked my finger tip. "Don't put your hand down and then cut it" is the basically the lesson I took away from the experience. Most of the meat regrew, and the nail is growing back, but the end of the finger might forever be a little more pointy than it used to be. That shudder factor will be much closer to the front of my thoughts for a while.
Bummerland. Thanks for sharing. For future reference, or if it's not healed all the way yet, keep it packed in raw honey. It's amazing for wounds like that. Almost like it provides a solution for flesh to regrow, without any scabbing. It should completely prevent infection if it's always in clean honey and there is probably more going on, like feeding cells, but I don't really know the science behind it. It's legit though. I've watched a couple of other peoples wounds reheal in honey, where part of the flesh was lost. Even sugar paste can work similarly and is used in medicine, but I prefer to use raw honey. Also, I'd prefer to split kindling with hatchets and axes that are not razor sharp,b ut just pretty sharp. But we use what we are using or what's on hand.
I actually used to keep bees and have heard about using raw honey on open wounds, but I've never tried it.
Axes must have a real healthy fear of them, they can be devastating to human flesh. Complacency will be the end. Thank you
I wonder if the speeding up of the tool after a glancing blow is 3 things, the reduced radius of swing adding momentum (maybe), ground effect of reduced drag on the axe head (being in close proximity to the surface and not quite touching, the density of air increases and small dragging vortices are negated) and enhanced ground effect where energy is added to one object. I saw a vid on this years ago, where a professor held two tennis balls touching and dropped them, and one ball bounced weakly while the other gained tremendous velocity. If the axe head glances off the wood, is it rebounding in the same way? Instead of expending energy into the wood, the head gains energy from the wood. Thanks for the video!
edit: I think it's the dual nature of the strength of wood plus the aerodynamic loss of drag effect. Stand a pane of glass on one edge and chop down and that glass will break, hit a glancing blow on the side and no breakage plus little friction, and close proximity making the air denser to skate on. The angle of attack is so important when bucking, it's to overcome the strength of wood as much as possible and use the weakness.
I think you're over my head there. I think the radius change is a good theory though, that one or two other people mentioned. I am inclined to think it's something else though usually.
Risk management involves doing only one dangerous thing at a time.
just sharpened my machete a few days ago glad i was wearing heavy pants, my knee was even happier. #bladescanbounce
I love the thumbnail 🤣
The percieved speeding up of glancing off is just because of the mechanics of swinging an axe or hachet. Acceration from extra power added towards the end and extending the swing radius of the mass of the axe head.
When you swing an axe, as you know, it's more like swinging to 'throw' the mass of the axe head powerfully as you let out the linkaged of your arms and the handle.
The last burst of power and dramatic increase in the radius in which the axe head is moving means it's going way faster (axe head starts near your hand and then ends at full extension, imagine it on the end of a rope, your hand hand axe head move the same degrees but the axe head has to cover more distance in the same time period).
If that power doesn't go into the fibres of the wood you get to see just how many joules of energy you put into that thing, all without the certainty of where it will end up.
I think the radius change could definitely be a factor in some cases. In fact, I'm pretty sure that has happened to me when missing in limbing. I'm not so keen on the extra power added toward the end part. I will have to test this with high frame rate footage.
Love the thumbnail man lol
I do have very Limited Experience with axes and hatchets, But I already had some close calls. One time I tried to stick my splitting axe into a small, maybe 4 inch wide oak stamp, single handed of cours. Well it didn‘t wanted to stick 3 times and I missed on the fourth. Luckiely I already moved my legs to the side „just in Case“. That would have been a shaddered shinbone.
Lance Armstrong cut off his little toe when he dropped a carving knife off the counter while making a sandwich. His mom put it on ice in a baggie and they sewed it back on in the ER.
My suspicion with the constructive redirection of force with a glancing blow is that the sudden change of plane of the tool is noticed and catches the user off guard. I’ve felt this before when having to limb with a really poorly sharpened tool. I think that the immediate and sudden change of direction makes the tool feel as if it’s accelerating, since it happens quicker than we can perceive and in a direction we hadn’t planned for
Maybe. It sure seems like they are actually gaining speed, but I can't be sure without doing a slo mo test. I should really do that. It won't be that hard. I think I have 128 frames per second on one of my cameras.
@@SkillCult would definitely be interested to see a slow motion take, that’s a great idea!
Could you make a video on how to conserve blades? Especially knife blades. I have two working knives that are constantly in use. They are cheap (Mora Basic, Opinel) but I want to use them as long as possible. I prefer honing them instead of sharpening on a stone, but this does not work every time
Don't over sharpen which is eaiser said than done. You can strop in between to maintain, or use a microbevel and hone with a very fine stone or sandpaper between bigger sharpenings. Also, using a little bit less acute edge it will last longer between sharpenings, though at some point the performance compromise will be a problem
@@SkillCult Honing steel works quite well for me. Problem is, my knives are carbon steel. Sometimes I have to get rid of rust. It dulls the blades, and then I have to use stone. I wish I bought stainless steel knives... I have been using them for three years. They are starting to be very slightly wore out. I do not want to replace them either. They will do the job for many more years for sure
i was on 1 side of the tree a friend was on the other side, he chopped and it bounced ( like you say ) and his axe hit my finger right near the knuckle , it hit the bone lucky it was more of a sliceing cut rather than a direct blow, yes i still have the scar.
Bummer. I prefer to give a pretty big radius to anyone with an axe.
Add a link to your “sharp tool safety” video to the description
Done, thanks.
There is a term I can't remember that I need to track down references for this but it'll come to me and ill get back to you.
Back in the early 1900's there was a woman going around on stages claiming access to this "something" (magical implied) force, and her show was with her, in one example anyway, using this force to hold a broom stick in the air whilst giant body builder types were pushing against her it, side by side or backing each other up, none could move her. In her biography she wrote 20-30 years later she wrote about her early child hood discoveries and observation in physics about deflection angles and such and as a woman thought it better to rip people off a little with entertainment rather than publish science in those times. Either way, yes, there are specific angles where only a microscopic angle deflection from a much much smaller object can change the travel direction by huge margins, like using a palm sized stone thrown at a boulder rolling down a hill in collision path to kill someone could be deflected so severely the person would be saved. It's talking almost impossible precision to do that but the physics relates. The smaller axe or hatchet hitting at the right angles of directions could easily propel it five times faster if not more. And yes, I have experienced that too, scary as hell. I had a near miss with that one time myself.
Aconic/iconic/psyonic force...if you get lucky googling you might come across her videos on youtube of a display, her biography pdf is easily found on google if you get the womans name.
The odic force...Lulu hurst's book...
Demo..from 60's or 70's maybe
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Been watching your axe videos for a while and wandering about the Hudson bay breakup, despite searching I didn't really find anything so I'm curious what the story is
Short version is tha the eye is stupid small and comes loose and breaks a lot. Ben scott thinks there is also a negative leverage effect that breaks handles at the eye more. Also pretty light for an all purpose axe.
You’re still gaining momentum at the point of impact
But the feeling is really that more speed is very suddenly gained after the strike, like as if you were hitting a spinning wheel. It seems counterintuitive, but it seems that way sometimes. Need to test.
...if I had to make a video on that topic - in my case will be much longer with "beep" at every other word because I have done so many stupid cuts in my flesh... Like I was making new handle and while fitting the head I dropped it on my foot and was already sharpened, no tape on the blade🤣... 3.5 lbs - 6 toes for the rest of the summer...
You should totally make that video :) I'd watch it...
@@SkillCult - the funny thing is that I started to cut myself once I passed age of 40. With all the wood splitting over the years never had even a close call but when I started making handles and playing with hatchets - bam... As you said it a number of times - short stick on a razor sharp hatchet is a recipe for disaster!
Not braggin, lol, modesty is etiquette only for those with no skills in context to feel better about themselves when in the company of those with skills in said context because they are too weak minded to admit they have faults or too emotional or too immature to see the lack of something as a chance to learn instead of choosing to feel inferior to, or insulted by...
Easy and logical to understand. Not hubris -
Classified wood types and barks -
(a) Softwood and cracked bark (Pine, Fir, Hemlock, Spruce, Juniper, Yew, Cedar, Redwood, Sequoia, Cypress)
(b) Softwood and smooth bark (Fig, Peach, Plum species)
(c) Soft crappy wood and crappy bark (-------------)
(d) Hardwood and cracked bark (Ash, Basswood, Cherry, Elm, Gum, Hard Maple, Hickory, Oak, Osage Orange, Pecan, Poplar, Walnut)
(e) Hardwood and smooth bark (Alder, Aspen, Beech, Birch, American Sycamore, Eucalyptus)
(f) Hardwood and crappy bark "paperbarks" (Cottonwood, Maleleuka/Tea Tree)
Which barks - smooth or cracked - when using an axe, hatchet, or machete - will deflect and cause richochet and accidents?
No matter softwood or hardwood - cracked bark will always be the more dangerous bark to cut and cut into
Softwood and hardwood smooth bark - is much safer to cut and chop as there is no thick and uneven bark layering and deflection
Hardwood with "paper barks" will only cause the cutting tool to get stuck in all the soft papery bark
Therefore, it is most important that you take special care when cutting into live cracked bark of trees, or felled timber - or debark the area to be cut first having a clean wood surface for properly aligned and safe cuts into the wood (not bark).
The biggest cause of all cutting implement accidents is (1) a dull or wonky blade, (2) improper alignment of the cutting edge to the cutting surface - and (3) CUTTING AT IMPROPER CUTTING ANGLES ACROSS CRACKED BARK. It is not the cutting implement nor the hewer. The hewer controls the cutting implement to make exact aligned cutting strokes perpendicular to the cracks in cutting logs ... or in-line with the cracks of the bark in splitting timber. Otherwise, debark the cutting area - and then make the appropriate cuts and angles desired on the dense wood.
Soft and hard woods with smooth bark (usually thin 1/8 - 3/4 inch thickness - compared to cracked barks 1/2 - 2 inches thickness) are easily cut at the perpendicular, at the in-line, (and potentially other less-intelligent angles of the cut when felling small trees at their bases - Dave Canterbury 4-chop basal tree cut).
Wood is dense and hard. Bark is soft or hard, gnarly, pliable, and wieldable compared to wood. When cutting through bark, the angle of the cut can be deflected, while the dense wood will richochet back (deflect) the cutting implement's energy from the angled mis-direction of the bark's deformation (shallow cut - shallow deflection, deep cut - deep deflection). Like billiards and pool, it is plain geometry, and what angles of kinetic energy objects, impact and/or deflect upon soft or hard potential energy objects, or the deflection of the soft rubber billiard bumper. Shallow impacts on bumper deflect shallow directions. Perpendicular impacts on rubber bumper have a direct deflection return. Skip a stone across a pond at a shallow angle and have deflection - too steep and the rock plunges into the water. Come in too shallow a space descent through the atmosphere - and be deflected back into space - proper steepness and come down through the layered atmospheric burn.
And wear proper safety clothing (boots !) glasses, and gloves when chopping wood - live or felled. Dont be like this f(---) Larry from Survivor on his YT channel going out and showing how to (improperly !) cut wood with a hatchet - and yet be in beach shorts and thongs (!) with a raised long on a table being hewed ! Stoopid mofo - and people and youngsters will follow those vids and get wounded in their own accidents ! GD POS worthless moron ! Should have had that vid yanked !
But I watched Kevin's Disobedience "Safety Sally" video....so I'm all good with this safety stuff. 🤦♂️
I go with the chance. What are the chances of x going wrong. If y is a safety net for when x goes wrong, what are the chances y will fail. A big thing for me is also laziness, that gets factored into the chances calculations for things going wrong. I have to ask myself, do I care? Yes, but *how much*?
You break your way of thinking down really well. It would be best if I adopted your way of thinking, but do I care to learn it? I'll be back when I've lost a finger. Take care man.
Dummy rules create dummies #truth
Cue up some Death Metal background music to go with that insane thumbnail
Dude, when I was uploading I was like I should have put a sound bite from Hatchet to the Head by cannibal corpse! Oh well. I did put a link in the video description lol.
@@SkillCult LOL Better yet , an original track from your punk band . I assume you've seen this by now ruclips.net/video/YtZqNAI4pBk/видео.html
@@robertgraves3215 I'd have to be HAF to be patient enough to make it through Careful with that axe Eugene lol. Muy favorite axe song is Thrones of Blood , pickaxe murders is good too.
@@SkillCult oh but Roger Water's creepy screams are so awesome. I saw that tripping on shrooms in an actual movie theater in 1979.
@@SkillCult Honestly, just a frenzied chopping video to a hardcore or death metal soundtrack would be pretty funny.
If there is any really serious delimbing (upward, torso height, or leg/foot level) that needs to be done at the house - or in the wild - on live trees - then just get a bowsaw (or folding pruning saw) and not have any issues of cutting axe, hatchet, or machete accidents (duh no brainer) !!!
I often carry a pruning saw in my back pocket, but I don't always have it and If I go afield, there are always limbs everywhere in the way in this regrowth forest. There is a whole art in japan of limbing trees up to grow better timber. They climbed the trees with a rope and two sticks in the old days and I think some still do. The limbs are not removed with saws. They use Nata or hatchets to make clean cuts and trim it just a certain way so it heals right. that includes cutting as least some of it from the bottom. Out here I'm not so picky, so if I have a saw, I might pull it out, or just do a rough delimbing job with the hatchet, often mostly from the top, or with a small under cut that doesn't go through. but now I am more coordinated, more in control, more knowledgeable about what it takes to cut through etc., so I'm pretty comfortable, but still cautious.