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Need one foot WAY in front of the other, it'll protect your back and keep your balance should you make a mistake

WTF is Father Jack doing stood in the axe death zone? 😂

Axe....girls....drink....feck!!!

Tumbs up.

I was told as a child never to take advice from a man with a fiberglass axe handle...

This was a great video. My back says thank you in advance! That being said, the beautiful landscape was soo distracting. I forgot it was a wood splitting video thinking about how lush and green it is. 😊 ❤ from 🇨🇦

My new favourite video on UA-cam. "I couldn't say percentages" is precious, and makes a change from all the spurious unfounded percentage claims bandied about by other UA-camrs. I also enjoy that this video is authentically bucolic, and is not made by someone who recently took up rural living and now wants to make a social media career out of it.

I would add hit through the log not to it.

The absolute most important part is bending your knees as the axe or maul hits the wood. Besides increasing the safety by directing more swing force towards the ground it also increases impact force as the ace or maul strikes the wood.

Interesting - I use an axe both left and right hand at the head dependent upon circumstance. As a right hander I'll swing the axe up over me' right shoulder with right hand at the head - or swing it over me' left shoulder with me' left hand at the head

Good swing. Ive tried different weight mauls. #6 is best for me. I get a lot more speed on the head than with a heavier maul.

Great video michael you made a fine job of that tree. True experience there. Plenty of firewood there. What make of chainsaw have you got, plenty of power. Where are you from, only just came by your channell, very good.

Greetings from Cape Town, great video, huge project, take your time with the firewood, a little bit every day.

Great demonstration, no nonsense (unlike some of the comments here 😂), clean and effective technique. Excellent posture and body mechanics. Full control, no further safety precautions needed.

Wear eye protection.

Some wood just falls apart when it sees an axe-like this one. You can't split eucalyptus like that. Since I’m in my 80s, I take it easy. I sit on a milking stool and use a 4-pound rock driller's hammer along with a 4-pound wedge. I work from the edge of the log on the ground, lining the wedge up parallel to the rings and removing splinters the size of a piece of firewood. I split wood about twice a week as needed. You don't have to work that hard! I would give this technique two out of five stars.

I wonder if the Lewis and Clark Expedition had all this training by axe handling 'experts". I have been swinging an axe here in Alaska for 45 years. How the hell did I survive w/o "experts" is beyond me. I'm going to the store right now to get some bungee cords. Do you realize how stupid you look? I swear the human race is getting DUMBER not smarter. Now I understand why the Scottsman wear kilts. So when they step over a drunken Irishman they can see what a REAL man looks like. Scottsmen don't need no bungee cords. When they swing the axe the wood stacks itself out of respect and the young maidens giggle in delight.

Is this also a good technique for execution?

I have a suggestion for you. From the physics, energy is mass times velocity squared. I spent summer working on the railroad driving spikes. Early on I was taught to not only swing my arms but bend my back in unison. I love going to state fairs where they ring the bell by hitting a seesaw device with a mallet. I like picking out the weakest guy in the crowd who's with his girlfriend and showing him how to do the arm swing and back bend combination. The muscle men around are amazed when he can ring the bell and they can't. Never fails to put a smile on both he and his girlfriend. So, if we let your arms be V1 and you're back V2. Then V1 plus V2 equals V3, or velocity of the axe head. So the next time you swing at that round, snap your back forward and bend along with your arm swing. Note, you have to be an excellent physical condition to perform this action. Good luck!

Those bungee cords are a bit o.t.t. Use an old tyre to contain the log.

Should have been in bed hours ago here i am at 1am watching you cut down the tree you told me about the other day 😢😅😂❤ Great job Mick 🙏 Shane

They're called "widow makers" for a reason, mate.

That's a tough one, Mick. We'll done.

Michael, love the barrow our type of log mover 120 ltr I suspect, Sad am I not, Ladders and saws,oooooooooo,keep safe

Great video Michael and i see you are training the next generation.

Fantastic job Mick. That tree was in a very awkward spot. Very well executed. Great job. Gerry.

A true lumberjack!!

good work

Ridiculous. The most milk toast splitting tutorial I’ve ever seen. When did men become so scared of everything? Ican find a hoochie momma with cleavage and ass split in a more manly way. Very inefficient. You will never see anyone in real life setup like that to split. Perhaps if you had to split in a confined space with fragile items around you.

Bit of a safety nut here, but I’ve seen some ugly accidents. I’d make the front fence strong enough to manage a shank from a full force blow. Hmmm, maybe higher too. And maybe adjustable.

That round is only about 8" thick! 😅

What county is this?

I like your little bungie cage.

Absolutely the best tutorial on this topic on UA-cam, Takes an Irishman,FairPlay Michael,from Just up the road Belfast✊👍👍

Why do you put your strong hand near the head?

What was the point of having that other guy stand there? This entire method entails so much wasted effort. Why lift each round onto the stump when you could just split them where they lie on the ground? Why use a maul when an axe half its weight would do the job and the maul is such overkill for the majority of your swings? Why rotate each piece for subsequent swings when you could just as easily reposition yourself and maintain your grip. In my experience the most efficient method is to split the rounds on the ground and never touch them with your hands until you are done splitting all of them. Use a long double hit axe in the 4 pound range. Wear protective boots and learn to swing the axe at different angle so you can split pieces as they lie without having to handle them. It turns a repetitive laborious chore into a varied athletic workout with no wasted effort. Give it a try.

Right on. Yes, you gotta sit down on it! Great demonstration, and exactly how I like to do it. He used a maul later, so yes, the maul works for splitting. This is not dangerous at all. If you think it is, you'd better go sit in the rocking chair. Cutting the wood to get it there was more dangerous because there was likely a saw involved.

The ax you're using is not for splitting wood. IT'S for chopping down trees.

It’s little latter for me to view this experience and lesson from you sir, but I can certainly learn some from you. Thanks a lot! 👍

Never ever seen anything as dangerous as this demonstration! Please don’t do this! Go buy some firewood and save youself from pain and injury.

Powerful

Good method, it works.

Good man Mick. Simply done but great Idea 👍

Hello mr Kearney. I just got into axe splitting for exercise. I recently got some big rounds of spruce. I turn one of the biggest round into a splitting block like yours. It works great, actually better than a tire because a tire would be to small for the round’s. I made those axe stands too, works great. I want to do more and more axe splitting because it’s a really good exercise. Enjoy your firewood splitting. Greetings from Norway

Like your equipment, looks just right for elm. I give the rounds 3 to 4 and if they aren't splitting I go for the wedges. Dead stuff 3 or more years old splits a bit easier which is helpful. But fresher stuff.. its heavy going 👍

Which maul are you using?

Great videos Michael….👍

Good to see you're still swinging Michael!

Thank you for your informative videos sir . After a painful encounter between a flying block of wood launched from the splitter block and my shin I decided to use shin-protectors that soccer players use. May sound silly but it works for me.

I just screw a tire on mine