Hand splitting firewood. Become a better Axe man

[Music] this is what I do at this time of year every time for a Christmas present Christmas axis what I do is I get the wives or the people who bought Christmas axes okay to email me in the first week like like now is the time to email send a reminder email for your axe because I have a list chee-chee-chee and I checked them off as they go into the into this Postal Service okay but it always helps at this time to just do a double check on your Christmas presents and give me an email okay thank you the difference between old growth and second growth can you look at this the second growth on your left and on your right is old growth there's probably the same amount of rings in that little corner piece right down there but an inch of that as there is in this whole piece of wood as a matter of fact I know there is look at this look it I mean that's beautiful second girl that's nice nice consistent tight second growth the beauty and the Wonder and the glory of it I'll show ya okay just watch I'm here let's get you guys up first hey get get the Gullit right yeah yeah okay let's clean the lens okay yeah smiled wrote today which is kind of nice okay so now I put the phone up I can't I put this up right here like this you guys have seen this trick you guys know it see like that there look at it look at the freaking green look at how tight that grain is was a little dead spider look at that guy look at it you can really see it there now oh that eye on the sky works good friends Hey done that deadly wood all right well all I can say at this point France is that this one of one of the one of the men one of the is it's known it got cold it's snowed yesterday a little bit here one of the men wives one of the men's wives that watch his channel got a hold of me and bought him an axe for Christmas it could be freaking you it could be so here's the deal so when you open this up at home I love this part of this channel this is fun for me it is it's fun I love this stuff this is a really cool head True Temper reversible pattern so both eyes are pretty much the same size they are so that's the one thing I forget to do sometimes when I'm building when I'm doing video on this phone is airplane mode it a call came in the crazy the crazy crazy Josh frizz Olli right phones me I know what's out there so I had a chat with them how's everybody doing you guys doing all right everybody good out there good I I got a cool axe on the build right now it's the universal pattern reversible look at this there's paint left on it I sanded that hard I'm leaving it on there you guys know how I do that I always leave a little bit of its passed on it it's a true temper Kelly works look at it it's dandy and I totally totally did the like I took the shoulders right off this thing so that it went cheap and sat down on a tapered fit here's a little here's a little trick I do not a trick but it's it saves out on the on the wrong part let's see if I got one here that's not done Yeah right here okay so look at this here's here's the difference you see this here how it's just it's an edge right now if you hit that on there on an angle you can bust them they break I've done it I did it years ago but see this look see the difference that sham four on there that taper okay so I do that to them so that when it's time to do what I'm gonna do right this instant do this it's like hitting the top of a pedestal it's it's done but friends with a double bit if you're if you're getting into the double bit thing friends try this try to the flick I'll show you out here again when I do how I do it I left a handle go actually right when it hits the wood I flick it you flick it that's why I call it a flick I don't know if anybody else calls the flick it's called the flick I call it a flank now this is dead swear dead freaking spur so I'm gonna cut the excess off I'm gonna cut this little bit of excess off and there's no point in you guys not really seeing what's going on so you guys come over this side there's no point in that you know then then you can just kind of have a little go here with me here what do you get that see what do you think of that skis hmm I think it's pretty good ghetto acts off hey friends darker over here though a net hey yeah this is darker net interesting hey I should put a light up there in the corner you guys don't hang out over on this side very often I like to get this started on the backstroke in the in the other side like a snap cut doing tree work you don't even friends so this one's sharp I won't do anything to the edge of this one okay let's get a wedge I'm going jatobá straight up going to Tobin I should probably come back over the other side now I got my I got my wood stove cooking real nice it don't take long to warm this shot cut frenzy you know what I'm saying right yeah loosen this off get you guys up yeah there we go hey what do you think of that no yeah you're gonna see everything ebony here huh yes you can be guy and you can see this I don't know ah all right yeah so once we get to this stage friends I get my hacksaw blade oh right get me old hacksaw blade oh and I drop that down in there okay I drop that sucker down in there like that yeah and I put my finger on it just make sure you're down there which we are make sure there's no back down in there from the last cut because I made it deeper a friends yeah I did I made a deeper sure I didn't you're indeed nothin didn't you die did Oh Darren she goes right there like that okay so we go yeah put our thumb there pull that out and see what we got we got that two-thirds down the axe okay that's what we want now I make this wedge to fit that and because it's this long the friends me and Kobe were talking about this he's talking about his hangs now what he does is he kind of custom fits his wedge a bit more now that's what he's been doing a cold I think that's what we were talking about cuz Ivan Ivan cuffs event and wedges spending the time on regimen ship how much gap oh my god right like this what's the space here what's the space here and what's the space here add those three pieces together and you need this here but bigger cuz you're hammering it right but too big it won't go down as deep that's where I find a lot of the work needs to be done on this half dang thing so obviously we're far too big in every way so as I put my glasses on and have a look you can see I'll show you guys see the space on the bottom we've we've got space here we've got space there and we do have some there this got hit with a drill friends pretty bad in some spots yeah look at this look at that right there somebody grooved it big-time right there you know what it's not gonna matter here that more more the reason to get a tapered fit down on there this is a dandy this one worked out nice I'm real tickled with it so we're gonna do we're gonna do this I'm gonna I'm gonna custom-make this and friends you don't need to watch me do this because it really doesn't you know put it on the sounder make it fit just get it to where you need it to be I use one little sander out there and that's where I go but what I'll do here now is I don't need all that girth III don't I don't need all that girth it won't go for starters it won't fit so I go like this friends see this that's where my wedge is gonna hit so I'm actually gonna cut this off the top so that it'll probably end up almost about perfect with what I need girth wise does that make sense yeah okay I'll even probably go more you know you guys you may as well come on over come on I'll show you the process hey that's that's what I'm talking about right there we're short now [Music] good yeah there we go Oh but now I can really see this gonna be dandy I got a real good feeling about it this this is another thing I do friends okay this is what I do it's nice right there in there look at that wow this is what I do here now see I go like that right on the edge when I take a look oh she's a little big we got to take some offer here so that's my next thing I do thank you so much it honestly isn't luck [Music] this thing's ready to rock I like it I like it a lot huh oh yeah see this is it's gonna be scary we're in try and fill that gap friends you know the gap I'm talking about the gap at the top let's take a look let's make sure we're not - it's bloody perfect it's bloody perfect I'm not even worrying about it at all I rub this in hard a friends doing it I mean like I rub it in hard I just do because I think what it does is he gets into the pores of the wood of that sucker how real hard I told you that didn't I all right thought I'd check in with you real quick make sure Billy Ray is doing all right all right all right watch out for Cletus let's do this you guys want to watch this go down hey who's tried this before and screwed it all up me friends the axe is down it's fitted beautifully it's dead square the wedge is ready I'm feeling good about my girth at the top as far as what I've got here it's going in let's do it see I'm going for it you guys can see me this is the part for an art actor this is always the part fellas come on don't give it you know it is what I do some guys do it upside down I don't do that I've always done this but what I do is I hold the head down I don't know why I just you I seen some guy banging it on like this like going like this let me make him started like that but it seems to me that you'd be I don't know I don't know okay I just started it like that okay watch okay see the timer she's going down she's going down now this is when we stick her in the George Vincent and get a little violent with it when you make the right decision like you've seen me hitting it a pretty good day you know when you see you know what I'm saying friends don't ya yeah what is that oh it's stuff on my phone okay so pretty pickle I'm pretty tickled with this I'm actually really tickled this axe is sharp it's a big accent it look at a France I'm excited about this this jatoba I'm telling ya it's freaking hard down the final slam guaranteed I like it okay talk to you a minute okay so I just finished making that ax okay yeah indeed I did that double bit yeah and I think what we should do to be honest is take it outside take it outside voice yeah let's do it I'm not even gonna bring a choice like a jacket we're going we're going out forget it I'm gonna shut the door though I don't want my heat to escape mind you know what it's gonna be rip snortin hot in there so we can let it go and it is a little milder you guys are coming up with something sure throw this axe it'll stick hey Blanco this is our specimen friends this is our specimen right here it's not it's not really thick it's not it's not a massive massive splitting profile but it has cheeks trust me on that it does I always look for the thicker one which is actually this site look at this it's my concern no sticking yeah see that was my concern is it getting stuck and it's not oh it's beautiful yeah this is what I wanted exactly what I wanted wow this is killer see try the other side oh heavens oh it's better oh it's lovely friends see did you notice it wasn't getting to see that to you you want to try some people would be going like this see and look how much I want to show you something look how much you you friends for starters I'm I'm like choked up my shoulders are choked up I'm missing about 16 inches of swing power it's not good oh I'll block that Wow frozen oh my holy cow that's dry wood very dry this is amazing [Music] [Music] [Music] the glasses throw off my depth perception you guys wanna see the flick was it there it was again friends watching the next couple of swings here I pause and I reach over top of a piece of wooden if I don't do the flick I'm smashing my hammer or smashing my handle watch it's coming up on this next one here where I pull it out just have a watch it what I do here [Music] this is hemlock now this is gonna be tough okay it is it's gonna be tough let you see that in Hawaii when you split wood there was the flick again there was again a little bit of rotten wood here little punky that's what you get sometimes when you get these right twist your handle so that it see that French twist your handle when you split the wood the first time and it doesn't die it doesn't split completely but you know the wood spliff twist your handle I'll show you what I mean sure yeah this is what I mean watch if it doesn't split this like that like your ham alone there's now you you've actually split this would you just don't know it watch see now it's split it all for some bugs in this stock okay friends show you again you guys see that oh okay well I would use this ax all day any day I've not been stuck in the wood once watch French flick you guys see that did you see I actually let go of the handle friends seriously I know it's I don't I don't have the greatest spot here I did it again okay this thing's nuts it is absolutely nuts it's heavy it's gorgeous the fit is crazy we haven't had any slippage the things ready for bottle it's ready for its new owner I just made the sacks today and excuse me I believe I got the order because it's for Christmas it was my choice to take the order for Christmas and I did and oh look at this big piece right here France here we go here's another little good wood spoon place right in here okay oh here here we go there oh here's here's another one here look at this see here's the test which is right there that's a massive piece of wood there we go and it ain't getting stuck see oh this thing's gonna be deadly the thing split this thing's killer Sachs is nuts no that's the flesh we go see this there it is we got knots beautiful wood that's what that's for the bunker that one I might even take some of that back then that's glorious that so friends do you see what's going on there I think you can yeah you can good see how that ox goes in I got knots running through there this axe is crazy cool Wow I took for granted that we wouldn't need to flick now am I gonna actually try that Wow huh that is a see that friends way to get rid of those Wow that's that's crazy friend the split can go the other way to the flick can go the other way to us see that I'll show you from this side watch coming your way right see that way Wow oh yeah I see it now Wow excuse me I gotta be honest this killer and look at it friends it's mister hello yeah when you get this axe whoever it Hey I love splitting wood friends I just this there's really nothing quite like it you get to touch me there little sweat on the brow friends on that one yeah little shine on get your shine on / now

Channel: Buckin' Billy Ray Smith

Views: 661,282

Keywords: firewood, splitting, hand splitting, axe, double bit axe, axe man, tree felling, logging, logger, hafting, axe restoration

Id: iDc6h3K3gYQ

Length: 35min 40sec (2140 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 03 2019