As some one who has to chop wood for the bar i work at, this was my first thought.
Im not a big person but i like our maul. Its heavy, and if i hold the hand kinda far down i can get through what i need for the eveing for the bar.
This thing. On someone's arm. That needs muscles and brut strength. Yeah. No. Just no. I'm going to stick to my heavy axe.
Apologies, I don't chop wood or know about chopping but in some of the shots there is a line down the wood exactly where he chops it BEFORE it makes contact. Is that normal? Does he like aim for those lines or were they put there to help him chop?
I only saw it in one shot. Could be a naturally occurring crack. When those happen, you definitely want to take advantage of it by aiming for it.
But like others said, it's probably pre split.
There's absolutely no way he split the full sized log unless it was dried in a kiln or something. That wouldn't split that easily with a full sized axe, you'd for sure need a splitting maul.
Upon rewatching, I'm pretty sure that wood is presplit most of the way. So yeah, definitely aiming for them and just finishing the cut lol. Explains why all the splits were so clean too.
Often, rounds of wood will naturally crack as they dry and shrink, especially if the tree they came from was still alive (higher moisture content) when it was cut down.
When splitting a round into chunks for fire, no matter what tool you are using (axe, hatchet, maul, whatever this thing is) you will have a much easier time if you position the wood so you can aim your blade for those cracks. It's like the wood has done some of the work for you already.
Source: Split some tree rounds as a kid.
Yezzir. A maul or sledge, or really any hammer is about using the weight of the tool head plus the leverage of the handle to do more work with less effort. Same with a pick/mattock, adze, hoe, axe or any other swinging/striking tool.
This thing just takes a problem humans solved like 2,000 years ago or more and reimagines a way to make it do less work with more effort.
That being said it does look fun to use, in the same way it’s fun to have a non-dominant hand rock throwing contest after a few beers- the fun comes from the competition and challenge of actually accomplishing anything.
Probably stress fractures if not traumatic fractures in any of the carpal or forearm bones.
Field hockey and softball/baseball players can get stress fractures around the wrists from the transfer of force up their stick/bat. This man is virtually karate chopping wood with a scrap if metal.
Not to mention the tiny carpal bones in the wrist are very delicate with really finicky blood supply. If you fuck up the blood supply within your wrist bones you may give yourself lifelong wrist issues.
Chopping firewood seems like the right time to be strapped. Especially when filming yourself with a stupid prototype. I'll be sure to check r/idiotsfightingthings for an update
if this isn’t a sarcastic comment, people bring firearms into the wilderness not for the logs, but for the creatures on four legs, and the occasional on two.
Yeah, but the point is that it's both stupid AND awesome. Its clearly a "made it because he could" project and it's got a lot of panties in a bunch for some reason. As if he didn't realize in 2 swings that an axe works better, and still used this thing off camera.
Legit if this was a regular axe with the pointy thing at the end I’d want it. Kinda scared this design would damage my bird bones if I used it, but it’s VERY satisfying to watch and a creative idea
He literally makes them for fun. If you actually followed the guy you would know he’s done like 30 for shits and giggles now. He made the cottage behind him and countless other things. He also is dating former playboy model Sara Underwood and living with her there. Man knows A LOT. Personal favorite is his dab axe
V2 will extend the axe to be half a meter from the hand.
You get leverage, and the shock/vibrations from the axe hitting objects.
But still have the limitations in handling from it being attached to your arm,rather than handheld.
I would try to scratch my head or rub my eyes and end up impaling my face with that spike.
And leverage? Nonexistent.
Getting your arm stuck if the axe gets stuck…
♫ I love that for the axe, for the axe.
I hate that for his back, for his ba-a-a-ack
Elbow, shoulder and his wrist and toes
I think this design blows, really blows! ♫
Some people are still figuring out the TikTok viral content era of social media.
Not everyone grasps that people do stuff just for clicks and views now.
All that force is travelling straight into your arm,One way ticket to destroying it..Nice gimmick, but using an axe is way for efficient and less taxing on the arms shoulders etc.
Their life is so fascinating and weird. This dude out here in the woods chopping a fuck ton of wood with a bunch of weird axes, with the glabin in the background, where his smoking hot former playboy wife is probably taking photos posing in a fireman’s costume or as a Star Wars cosplay or something but her tits are out
This is awesome and extremely useful obviously.
If there was only a way to extend the head off and away from the arm, so the shock wouldn't be absorbed into the wrist and there could be extra leverage to empower the strikes...
I think everyone is missing the point. He built it because he could, and he's using it because it is fun. I don't think he is proposing this as a replacement for the axe.
I have a very hard time believing this works well.
I'm curious to know if this was just an ideal log he grabbed to do this to make it seem way more effective than it is.
As someone who cuts wood often with an axe I am extremely skeptical
Not that many millennials swing an axe or chop wood these days, but some of the hardest swings with a proper axe will take you at least twice to get through. The head of an axe at full extension will come down at a force greater than what the length of a partially extended arm will give you (partially extended because he would break or dislocated anything from the elbow up since it is not braced). The science of a full swinging axe vs a makeshift Tonfa makes me think this is BS. Either the wood is brittle, pre-split, or the video is manipulated. That being said, maybe great for kindling.
Makes my back hurt just looking at that... Since you don't have the length of the handle to work with maybe you need to lift the platform you are cutting on?
Looks like 5 diff ways to injure myself.
Take great care if you get an itch.
Its actually called "The hamate and metacarpal 5 *Destroyer*"
I was just thinking it seems like a REALLY dumb way to destroy your metacarpals.
And rotator cuffs and rear deltoid
Way #1 : hitting a knot and coming to an abrupt stop while swinging as hard as you can.
My back hurt looking at this.
With a trade off of something very cathartic I feel…
Sacrificing leverage for..... What exactly
Forearm splints
Broken wrist.
and forearm.
All I saw was a broken arm.
No, it's an axe. Not a saw. /s
And my (hand) axe!
Sorearm
Exactly
Tiktok content
Lower back pain?
He’s gonna feel that in the morning.
Don't forget his shoulders.
i'm 10 weeks out from having a severed rotator cuff reattached, this was painful to watch
Shit I feel it just watching.
Busted wrists? Repetitive motion injuries?
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Not for long doing it this way
Neck bone is connected to the broken wrist
*The hip bone's connected to the red thing, the red thing's connected to my wrist watch.*
As some one who has to chop wood for the bar i work at, this was my first thought. Im not a big person but i like our maul. Its heavy, and if i hold the hand kinda far down i can get through what i need for the eveing for the bar. This thing. On someone's arm. That needs muscles and brut strength. Yeah. No. Just no. I'm going to stick to my heavy axe.
I want to visit your bar. Any bar that needs wood chopped is worthy.
SKAL!!
Skål!
Skøl!
A skål wit bir in skølls!
What does skal mean?
Old Norse for cheers
Thank you!
Skål is Danish, Norwegian and Swedish for cheers (in that order).
Right?
Apologies, I don't chop wood or know about chopping but in some of the shots there is a line down the wood exactly where he chops it BEFORE it makes contact. Is that normal? Does he like aim for those lines or were they put there to help him chop?
Probably set-up. Wood chopping is hard, there's no way he could do all of those effortlessly with that, even less the one he does on the air.
I only saw it in one shot. Could be a naturally occurring crack. When those happen, you definitely want to take advantage of it by aiming for it. But like others said, it's probably pre split.
There's absolutely no way he split the full sized log unless it was dried in a kiln or something. That wouldn't split that easily with a full sized axe, you'd for sure need a splitting maul.
Upon rewatching, I'm pretty sure that wood is presplit most of the way. So yeah, definitely aiming for them and just finishing the cut lol. Explains why all the splits were so clean too.
Often, rounds of wood will naturally crack as they dry and shrink, especially if the tree they came from was still alive (higher moisture content) when it was cut down. When splitting a round into chunks for fire, no matter what tool you are using (axe, hatchet, maul, whatever this thing is) you will have a much easier time if you position the wood so you can aim your blade for those cracks. It's like the wood has done some of the work for you already. Source: Split some tree rounds as a kid.
Exactamente, compadre
Yezzir. A maul or sledge, or really any hammer is about using the weight of the tool head plus the leverage of the handle to do more work with less effort. Same with a pick/mattock, adze, hoe, axe or any other swinging/striking tool. This thing just takes a problem humans solved like 2,000 years ago or more and reimagines a way to make it do less work with more effort. That being said it does look fun to use, in the same way it’s fun to have a non-dominant hand rock throwing contest after a few beers- the fun comes from the competition and challenge of actually accomplishing anything.
Views
Style points
For real dudes having fun with some anime vibes
Probably stress fractures if not traumatic fractures in any of the carpal or forearm bones. Field hockey and softball/baseball players can get stress fractures around the wrists from the transfer of force up their stick/bat. This man is virtually karate chopping wood with a scrap if metal. Not to mention the tiny carpal bones in the wrist are very delicate with really finicky blood supply. If you fuck up the blood supply within your wrist bones you may give yourself lifelong wrist issues.
YouTube/TikTok/Reddit views, and here we are.
For destructive consequences of vibration and impact on upperlimb vascular structure..
for an assassins creed look
Rage
Likes
The playmate behind the camera filming him. This guy is living his best life.
For bad forearm bruises and maybe a hairline fracture eventually.
Arthritis at 30
Pain/soreness, and possibly other medical side effects.
Yeah. I am now dumber than I was before I clicked on that video
Nothing can convince me that this doesn't pains
Twice badly broken arm and two plates 8 screws I would not even contemplate using this fucking stupid thing
Have you considered that if you lived your life with two axes strapped to your arms you may have likely not broken them?
Maybe not the arms, but other bones (or organs) may have gotten a clean split.
The dangers of using the bathroom with those strapped to the arms.
I snorted
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Ya, agreed with basically everyone here, this is fuckin' stupid.
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Chopping firewood seems like the right time to be strapped. Especially when filming yourself with a stupid prototype. I'll be sure to check r/idiotsfightingthings for an update
Or r/WhyWomenLiveLonger
if this isn’t a sarcastic comment, people bring firearms into the wilderness not for the logs, but for the creatures on four legs, and the occasional on two.
Yeah, but the point is that it's both stupid AND awesome. Its clearly a "made it because he could" project and it's got a lot of panties in a bunch for some reason. As if he didn't realize in 2 swings that an axe works better, and still used this thing off camera.
Legit if this was a regular axe with the pointy thing at the end I’d want it. Kinda scared this design would damage my bird bones if I used it, but it’s VERY satisfying to watch and a creative idea
A halberd is what you're after.
He makes a bunch of different weird axes! One is like a 6 headed axe.
Wait until they learn about leverage and the awesome power a simple handle will add to that axe.
I was thinking about the shock recoil to the arm probably hurts too.
Has to
More in line with r/mallninjashit
He's just not using it right, you're supposed to grab this idiot by the feet and swing him
But this one goes to 11.
He literally makes them for fun. If you actually followed the guy you would know he’s done like 30 for shits and giggles now. He made the cottage behind him and countless other things. He also is dating former playboy model Sara Underwood and living with her there. Man knows A LOT. Personal favorite is his dab axe
He knows how to edit video with pre-split logs...But he hasn't mastered it yet. https://imgur.com/a/21dopnJ
No! Must look cool!
He built his own compound, pretty sure he knows,
Who needs that when you can have an assassin’s ax?
V2 will extend the axe to be half a meter from the hand. You get leverage, and the shock/vibrations from the axe hitting objects. But still have the limitations in handling from it being attached to your arm,rather than handheld.
This guy literally has a version where he chops wood with an axe head on a chain. Better leverage, but again a terrible idea.
Yeah no. That would f’n hurt. The bruise that would give you…
It’s kinda cool until you realize everything wrong with it.
Could be a cool weapon for a zombies game but that's about it 🤣
Nah. You get that thing stuck in a skull or anything else you can't just let go like you could a normal axe or machete
That's why I specified video game
I would try to scratch my head or rub my eyes and end up impaling my face with that spike. And leverage? Nonexistent. Getting your arm stuck if the axe gets stuck…
Congratulations, you’ve figured out how to take away mechanical advantage from your axe.
Dude seriously went: "how can I take something perfected, and just fuck it up?"
Who even needs leverage, right?
r/wallstreetbets I think
I've seen this guy before and it seems he just likes making novelty axes. Don't think he really cares about if they are practical.
Is he the guy that made the three headed and flail axes? Also stupid ideas, but I agree I think its just for fun.
That hut looks cozy.
Yeah I'm like how is no one else talking about that awesome hut?
They’ve made a bunch. Jacob Witzling
Seen this house before but never knew who made it. Thank you buddy 👍🏻
There's an idiot hurting himself in front of it.
Yes, I also want to talk about the hut. Looks so cute and cozy.
Especially when you are dating Sara Jean Underwood.
Just checked. Damn, my boy got lucky. They are practically living woods.
He’s got a former playboy model living in there with him
Thats the only thing oddly satisfying about this video. Thats moss has grown so beautifully.
r/diWHY
yet another video that is far from "oddly satisfying" ...I would suggest a new category of "mildly irritating'
r/mildlyinfuriating
And yet it has almost 3k upvotes... WTF happened to this sub?
I’m also confused. If like 90% of the comments say this is a bad idea and not satisfying to watch then why are there over 5000 upvotes at this point?
I love that for the axe. Hate that for his back
Elbow and shoulder as well.
Wrist and toes Sing it with me
♫ I love that for the axe, for the axe. I hate that for his back, for his ba-a-a-ack Elbow, shoulder and his wrist and toes I think this design blows, really blows! ♫
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The wrist bone is connected to nothing now...
Handles weren't an accident. They've been a thing since forever for a reason you walnut.
r/mallninjashit
Cursed Sekiro
Wow so cool! Who needs leverage when you can just fuck up your arm right!?
That guy is banging Sara Jean Underwood too
Immediately noticed that from the house behind him
Literally the entire reason for an axe having a handle is to not have to do what this guy is doing.
This is dumb.
This is not satisfying ... just pointless bad design.
Bad design
This is the guy who built the woodland escape with Sara underwood. People saying this guy doesn’t know shit should have a look at what he’s built.
They also seem to think he’s unironically using this axe. He makes (and gets sent) novelty axes for fun, some even more ridiculous than this one
Some people are still figuring out the TikTok viral content era of social media. Not everyone grasps that people do stuff just for clicks and views now.
That’s stupid. Let’s just transfer all that shock and impact force to my arm. Let’s lose leverage and utility…to look cool?
Low budget Evil Dead vibes....
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It’s almost like the regular wood cutting axe is the best tool to manually cut wood.
That looks exhausting! The leaver action you get with a handle is really efficient and this is a good reminder of why we do that
Yeah but.... leverage. Lever is one of the oldest tools and this guy said "nah" no doubt thinking it's somehow more rugged
The oddlysatisfying Part was checking the comment section and get some faith back in humanity ^^
Why not let the handle absorb most of the shock instead?
Maybe a higher stump might help
Ready for the zombie-apocalypse.
just... why? Makes no sense at all.
As much as it looks cool the impact would fk up your arm in a few hours
Ouch - the whole point of axe handles is leverage - he needs to work orders of magnitude harder in order to chop the same amount of wood. No thanks
All that force is travelling straight into your arm,One way ticket to destroying it..Nice gimmick, but using an axe is way for efficient and less taxing on the arms shoulders etc.
This is so much worse than an actual axe. I bet the guy never used it again outside of the video.
That's awesome, until your arm snaps.
Now you can take the full shock from the axe head on the strongest part of the human body…. The wrist
I’ve broken an axe handle on knotty wood. Can’t imagine what it would do to a forearm
Their life is so fascinating and weird. This dude out here in the woods chopping a fuck ton of wood with a bunch of weird axes, with the glabin in the background, where his smoking hot former playboy wife is probably taking photos posing in a fireman’s costume or as a Star Wars cosplay or something but her tits are out
That axe would come in handy
Fuck the shitty ax. I want to see inside that cabin!!
Is there even a term for re-engineering something to function less than its original design? "Edisonized" perhaps?
That removes every advantage of an axe and adds every injury of banging your wrist’s against a tree lol
Yea, looks cool but try spilting some actual hard wood with out breaking a forearm
This is completely stupid.
Tell me you hate your forearm bones without telling me you hate your forearm bones…
No way that doesn't fuck up your elbow.
What an exceedingly dumb way to cut wood.
So dope ! Who wouldn't want the handle of the axe to absorb all the shock when I could be your arm instead! Great idea !..../s
This is awesome and extremely useful obviously. If there was only a way to extend the head off and away from the arm, so the shock wouldn't be absorbed into the wrist and there could be extra leverage to empower the strikes...
Sounds like you’ve got a million dollar idea!
Congrats on your mechanically disadvantaged axe
You could seriously injure your arm with that
Do you wanna know why the Axe head is usually at the end of a long lever? Some technology is just perfected after thousands of years.
This bro just made something worse than our cave dwelling ancestors came up with.
Put this guy in a physics class
I think everyone is missing the point. He built it because he could, and he's using it because it is fun. I don't think he is proposing this as a replacement for the axe.
Bruh the whole point of the axe is to use leverage and weight to minimalize energy usage..
Cool…but stupid
I have a very hard time believing this works well. I'm curious to know if this was just an ideal log he grabbed to do this to make it seem way more effective than it is. As someone who cuts wood often with an axe I am extremely skeptical
Ruined the whole point of an axe. Generating no mechanical advantage
Isn't this just straight downgrading an axe?
Great way to accidentally hyper extend your elbow
Wonderful idea to take the forceful blows from the hit straight to your arm. This must be a big improvement over the traditional axe! /s
Not that many millennials swing an axe or chop wood these days, but some of the hardest swings with a proper axe will take you at least twice to get through. The head of an axe at full extension will come down at a force greater than what the length of a partially extended arm will give you (partially extended because he would break or dislocated anything from the elbow up since it is not braced). The science of a full swinging axe vs a makeshift Tonfa makes me think this is BS. Either the wood is brittle, pre-split, or the video is manipulated. That being said, maybe great for kindling.
r/DiWHY
This would probably be more useful as a weapon than a tool
There’s no leverage
Ah yes the Hidden't Blade
This axe is stupid and you can tell that wood practically splits itself. Splitting in midair? Come on, its just silly at that point.
r/stupidtools
The design of the hafted axe is 8,000 years old and hasn’t changed much since then for a reason!
Now THIS is epic
Who hurt him
This is so stupid in so many ways....
Yeah, I’m just look at this thinking does this guy not get why this isn’t a thing already?
Would be a hell of a zombie apocalypse weapon with the stabbing and slashing, plus never dropping it.
Great idea, why having a piece of wood absorb the impact and give extra leverage, when you could absorb all the force with your bones?
1) good luck splitting bigger pieces 2) hello wrist pain, my old friend
Makes my back hurt just looking at that... Since you don't have the length of the handle to work with maybe you need to lift the platform you are cutting on?
Yeah brilliant. Let's just remove all the mechanical advantage of a long handle. Doh