Yeah that's a job for like, a tiny handsaw that would cut through it just as fast with a fraction of the effort. Or even just better form with the axe. Like it's been a long time since I've used an axe, but I was under the impression you sort of unfold your arm to add extra force in the swing, then relax before impact to dissipate the shock instead of taking it all on your wrist? Also you come at a tree from the side, at close to a right angle, you don't wildly swing an axe overhead at a shallow angle. This looks like he's holding his arms at a rigid angle through the whole thing.
Hot axe advice (also from long time ago lol). he is hitting near the middle, where the rebound is strongest, so you either grip the axe tightly and fuck up joints, or get axe flying. Need to hit near the roots, at max third from there. Shallow angle is kinda correct (like 45 degrees ideally, to chop into a tree by alternating angles), but wrong axe for this to work
Yeah pretty much you come from the side and go at around 30 degree angles and make a sort of triangular in order to make a greater distance from the top piece and the bottom piece so you can control which direction the tree falls, also a chainsaw would make the whole thing infinitely easier but an axe does work :what-the-hell:
Yeah that's a job for like, a tiny handsaw that would cut through it just as fast with a fraction of the effort. Or even just better form with the axe. Like it's been a long time since I've used an axe, but I was under the impression you sort of unfold your arm to add extra force in the swing, then relax before impact to dissipate the shock instead of taking it all on your wrist? Also you come at a tree from the side, at close to a right angle, you don't wildly swing an axe overhead at a shallow angle. This looks like he's holding his arms at a rigid angle through the whole thing.
Hot axe advice (also from long time ago lol). he is hitting near the middle, where the rebound is strongest, so you either grip the axe tightly and fuck up joints, or get axe flying. Need to hit near the roots, at max third from there. Shallow angle is kinda correct (like 45 degrees ideally, to chop into a tree by alternating angles), but wrong axe for this to work
Back in my days we valued hard work and fucking stuff up cause there was no internet and we didn't ask people who knew
Yeah pretty much you come from the side and go at around 30 degree angles and make a sort of triangular in order to make a greater distance from the top piece and the bottom piece so you can control which direction the tree falls, also a chainsaw would make the whole thing infinitely easier but an axe does work :what-the-hell: