Quite amazing how much information is packed into a bare five minutes! Excellent video.

White Shirt Dude is a touch chunky, so he must not do this regularly. It looks like good cardio. If he keeps it up, maybe he'll be more poplar with the ladies.

That's why traditional builders were very particular about which trees were cut for use. Straight trees, squared of around, with the pith running down the middle dry remarkably straight. Also, because most of the rings are cut through at the edges, it reduces checking.

Splitting a twisty log and planking it causes all sorts of problems when it dries. This is what happens with modern timber. Cut it fast roughly, kiln dry it, plane the kinda straight ones to regular size and shape. Mangled ones go elsewhere: lath, pallets, OSB, etc.

Technically not true. If used as beams the wood can be incredibly green and not warp as it dries due to the fact that the heart of the tree is still there in the center. The reason boards tend to warp is because they are cut from the sides of the log. It may develop a few small cracks as it dries but its still perfectly fine.

Nothing like watching idiots in shorts swinging an axe at their legs

Looking at this make me not look at cut down logs as "logs"; I now see them as planks! Thanks..

Careful with that axe Eugene

Christopher Forsberg it’s not dangerous as long as you know what you doing and you use the correct technique it’s perfectly safe in fact I use axes all the time and I’m not dead!

Anthony Maurice he knows what he’s doing he’s trained how to use an axe Safely

@John Lamb it's a Pink Floyd song