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Axe Safety

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Naturalist John Rhyder has learned through direct experience how best to handle axes safely when preparing firewood. Here he demonstrates the stances, swing actions and range of cuts that can be made to ensure personal safety when splitting wood with an axe. http://www.woodcraftschool.co.uk An Adliberate film http://www.adliberate.co.uk for WoodlandsTV http://www.woodlands.co.uk/tv


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Excellent and sorely needed video!

DannoCrutch

April 1, 2015

Some great common sense wisdom right there.  Work smarter not harder and also safer too!

Barkeaters99

April 1, 2015

great rundown of basic axe use and safety. production quality amazing as well music and video very beautiful

Jdmsword14

April 3, 2015

Thanks for your comments folks

John Rhyder

January 3, 2016

Great stuff

Amanda Lynch

September 10, 2016

IMHO all those Swedish type axes are kept way too sharp and are way to short to use as a splitting tool for any real amount of wood. They're more a glorified hatchet. Great vid , well shot.

Bushradical

February 24, 2017

wow great cinematography. . and your teaching skill is delivered very professionally. . subscribe.. best new channel found in along time for me.. thank you

CRAFTY BY NATURE

March 27, 2017

Bushradical   I agree with you.  I'm in the USA, and I own two Wetterlings. I'm ashamed I own them because they never go into the field.  Way too many metrosexuals own these axes and have driven them to ridiculous prices.

I use real axes, not these metrosexual toys.  I own 13 axes, and use them all the time on my farm, but the Wetterlings never go out because they are too expensive.

If I see someone with a Gransfors Bruks,  I immediately think Poseur and metrosexual from the city.

faultroy

July 25, 2017

Thank you John. Just bought an axe and I'm trying to learn about the safety aspects & techniques for splitting logs. This helped a lot.

Carl Taylor

November 1, 2017

Good stuff cutting some firewood and didnt think all this through. But after seeing this video I see that you are an expert. Really helpful.

Steve from Cali

September 25, 2018