Bushcraft: Bucking Logs

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this ol clogged will work nicely and oak lobbyists thick there's a lot of work has a not nearby on each side won't be easy see what we can do make sure there's no obstructions smilax come towards me either I get lower why go to my knees the width of my notch is the same width as the tree itself so if the log on cutting is this wide my nachos out wide as well careful knots nearby from glancing so I'm going to try to cut that getting down low so if i have any problems x doesn't come to me Oh near Rome I like the double check I'm going to start my notch I'm not trying to truncate the layers and trying to go in between them a second hit should be over here somewhere drop for the glancing blows yeah okay so now what I have my notch all set ready to go and it's not working on the cheeks butt cheeks are here and the same corresponding spot here move up a tiny bit I'm going to cut into this way it's like taking the notch and just angling it so now I'm cutting the notch out of 45 to the center straight down 1 80 or 90 depending how you look at it suppose now I'm going to angle it this way come back do it again then eventually the last step is to come in that way

okay my cheeks are gone now I'm going to work on these cheeks I could go on the other side the exact same thing or I can get lower back up get lower to hit here alright the cheeks are gone from this point stand up get closer I'm gonna come here here always trying to get to the middle right here I'm gonna be that out now I want to be wide I'm gonna log in the back here smell part of the tree so I can stand okay I'm gonna come in stop working on cheeks sound beat into here I'm gonna do the same thing on the other side what I as you do is hit the side to prep it and then I go straight in the middle this isn't a race x work position careful my camera hopefully I don't hit it be quite the technical difficulty ok so I've taken the back cheeks out now I'm going to stand in the front I'm going to come right through the middle remember this is a piece of oak this isn't pine this isn't anything soft this thing's a monster oak it was not easy to work with ok so I'm going to just come through here I'm going to make my cheeks a little wider right in this in the spot this one's pretty good that's be a little water I'm going to go right through the middle nice wide stance so the ax can go in between my legs let's work on the front this is the last cut the last angle to take as you do this slow and easy and with my rib and see what's happening here and very close to breaching see one side and the other yeah rather then wildly swing my axe through it if it's broken its broken just push it down so that's how log is bucked good size 0 clog a lot of heat in this log and I showed how to do it on a real log this is legit this is a no clog this is not a piece of pine signing soft this is real now you're going to get bonus you're going to get a couple glances here and there sometimes is two or three on a whole log project like this sometimes there's none you can't let it frighten you you have to put into place the proper safety measures so when a glance happens nobody gets hurt yourself or anyone else

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is a game changer knowing how to create firewood from something like a large log or a tree that's felled we're already on the ground can mean the difference between life and death when it matters I've been in a rainforest or I had to split down logs that were eight inches wide I just split him down to pencil-sized nothing else was burned to get a fire going all of it with an axe of course dropping a tree that large bucking it up every single day in six foot sections til there's none left it's only last a couple days and you have to do it again the axe is the woodsmen tool a woodsman's life relies on his acts being good acts good quality a good edge manufactured with quality steel maintained properly with a good edge this is just a small for stack this is a 19-inch axe and this is a very small axe that I just used on this oak log so go slow be extremely careful and acts with a blade this big and even a blade the small truly but a blade this big with this much heft behind it swung with the fourth set it is that it is swung can do a lot of damage it's very dangerous use properly it is an incredibly invaluable tool there's been Mitch with the native survival school sure to check out our website nice volcom and as always enjoy the outdoors you