safe axe use

[tomongoose]

I found this video on youtube apologies if it has been posted before as it is from 2009.

For those who don't click on random videos it shows a couple of chaps splitting wood quickly but dangerously.

The only thing I liked about the video was the interesting looking axe

[video=youtube;37gH9SObKVA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37gH9SObKVA&feature=re lated[/video]

 

[robin wood]

Not sure it was so dangerous, nice wide stance and most of the axe blows were traveling in a line that would have carried through to miss the axe side leg or sufficiently far over the block that that would have formed a stop. I would have preferred the holding hand was a bit further away but the second chap particularly was completely accurate with the swing and no way he was going near the holding hand, also see how he moves the thumb out of the way as the block gets smaller? Is it Eastern Europe? Hungary? Nice straight grained wood is easy peasy to split.

 

[Robbi]

i reckon this man is scary !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P32JDvu0b-0

 

[Robbi]

this one is amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V-SwpDKkHko

 

[santaman2000]

Yeah I'm with Robin; the onl thing close to unsafe I saw was the hand position. As to their swings and mechanics, that was pretty much standard here.

 

[tomongoose]

I dunno I wouldn't like to have my hand that near an axe however good my swing was

 

[British Red]

Best not watch me chopping sticks then!