Great job as always. Good to hear you speak more in the video.

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

The weather helps. Not that inspiring to talk into the camera in cold and snowy weather, as in the previous one.

@TheBrifors

Ай бұрын

Yeah I can see your point :)

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

Snow makes silence. That’s probably why the further north you go, the less people speak.

Excellent video again ! Your axemanship is continually advancing and improving. You and Matt are great salesmen for the 1100 gram Rinaldi American .

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

Glad you approve. I’m quite happy with the outcome myself, considering this is only the third log I ever hew in my life. I’m glad I finally put my theoretical knowledge into practice. I thought the video was a bit long, but it’s hard to do a video like this shorter without leaving out too much. I know for sure I’m responsible for at least one sale of that axe.

Rinaldi is cutting well. You're producing great content!

@myoutdoorways

28 күн бұрын

Thanks, I appreciate it!

Admirable that you can turn that log into such a smooth and even piece of wood, using only the axe. It is always both interesting and educational to watch your videos.

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you like my videos. But now I have to decide what to make of the lumber too…

@johanfahlberg3778

Ай бұрын

@@myoutdoorways you don't know?! 😂 I have been rewatching your videos to find that out, because it felt stupid to ask after several posts! Here I was thinking that I must have been distracted the exact moment where you just threw that comment out there! Well, no wonder I didn't find it, then. Bring that over to me and build me a big shed to replace the old forge that's rotting to pieces. 😁 I'll even throw in free food and a place to sleep while you're building it, and there's free mead (as always) and you can walk our dogs for hours, too! Did I mention free food and a place to sleep?

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

I think I’ll start on some sort of basic camp, to keep firewood and benches and maybe a few tools out of the weather. But I’m not quite sure if I’ll use this lumber for that or not. Is the smithy building rotting? It didn’t look that bad on the wedding.

@johanfahlberg3778

Ай бұрын

​@@myoutdoorways ah, not the new forge. The small wooden building next to our wood shed is the old forge. That was transformed from an old shed they moved to the current position from another yard.

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

Good. That explains it then.

Wow you really know how to use that rinaldi axe! Great vid👍👍👍

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

Thanks, I’m glad you appreciate my work!

Wonderful video! Nice work.

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Now you know what to do when your America arrives.

Very cool

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

indeed well done bother ........blessings from rainy nova scotia.......there is a book titled Keeping Warm With an Axe, by Dudley Cook......well worth checking out, have used my copy extensively

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

Thanks for that, will check it out.

Another nice video. Have you watched Japanese log hewing? Crazy how they do it, especially barefoot! Still, it gets the job done.

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

Yes, I’ve seen quite a lot of that stuff. They have heavier axes on longer handles, and work on wider logs. Small logs like the one in my video are probably too narrow even for an experienced Japanese hewer. And even on the large diameter trunks they work on, accidents sometimes happen. And when they do, it means the loss of one or more toes. So I would only try that for real on larger trunks, but very carefully. Doing it right, it’s a really impressive technique, though.

In the old video "The Axeman", he cuts some flats on top of a log to stand on before bucking, but it was a big (~60cm) log. I suppose it would be wasted effort to try to do that for all those scoring cuts, though.

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

That’s one way to obtain better balance. If I was certain I would square the log later I could do it, but as it is now it’s still possible that I want to keep the two remaining sides as they are. With some more practice, maybe I’ll be able to stand on narrow logs more comfortably, and still place good hits on the log with the axe.

Start with top (smallest part) and hew towards the thicker part and always hew as cross the log as you can and it will be a lot faster and a nice surface all the way.

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

Ok, is that your experience? I’ve gotten advice to do the exact opposite, and leaving the branches on to keep the tree steady until I reach them.

Excellent work. Will you be submitting this for the "mini" challenge ?

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

I don’t know how the hewing mini challenge works. But I’ll keep hewing no matter what.

Du får tillverka skålformade skor så du kan stå på stocken 😂

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

Det finns en tradition av timmermanskängor med rätt höga klackar i USA. Minns inte exakt varför, men det kanske hade med balans att göra på nåt sätt.

@gumboot65

Ай бұрын

​@@myoutdoorwaysCaulked boots . We call them Corks. The high heels rock ya into the work. But for shear balance , a 0 rise heel (no heel) seems to work best. . Think Burling (log rolling ) corked (calked) shoes .

@myoutdoorways

Ай бұрын

Ok, that’s what they’re called. I just saw them in a video a while ago, but I didn’t remember. According to Ben Scott, regular trainers are pretty common in Timbersports. With chainmail, of course. So that probably speaks well about the flat soles being superior for balance. But why then were those caulked boots so popular? I can’t remember what they said in the video.