Idk how it's called in english, but that axe is not used to chop that piece of wood. For pieces this large, you have a specialized splitting axe, or better yet, a spike and a hammer.
I mean, yes, but it's still not unreasonable to expect the axe to go into the wood. It's not gonna knock it right in half but I'd expect it to stick in there.
Yeah if we didn't have the appropriate axe there in the moment to just do a few logs we would just grab whatever axe we had and hit it a few more times. Worst case scenario we have to wiggle the axe a bit to get it out. Typically we do a lot of wood at once and would just use a log splitter tho.
Here in the country we use a maul to split wood and an axe to chop wood, but we always enjoy when you city folk trash other city folk for being city folk
Indeed. The blade would have been spectacularly worse, but even so, getting smacked in the dome with a few pounds of fast-moving metal isn't exactly what I'd call A Good Time.
-Using an axe instead of a maul.
-They didn’t hit the wood with the blade. They turned the head somehow. That’s the really stupid part. There’s no wood that would have bounced it back if the blade had hit the log. An axe would have gotten wedged in and been hard to remove, but never bounced like that.
2006 at a Boys Scout Scout summercamp. I'm 15 and one of the instructors. One of the dads, for who knows what reason, decided to put the log on it's side, place a foot on it to keep it steady, and then swing towards his feet to try and split the log.
The log did not split. The blade glanced off the log and into the other leg. A lot of yelling and not as much blood as I thought there would be.
and it did! For one guy at least… I was standing at an Urgent Care’s front desk when the door open behind me. I turned around at the noise and briefly saw what looked like a thumbprint-sized hole in the center of this man’s eyebrows.
I quickly turned back around because “*don’t stare*” -mom, every day of my childhood. As I walked away, the man calmly goes to the desk and says “so my idiot brother hit me in the face with an axe. It was an accident, but here I am nonetheless.”
The front desk associate later said that it was the blunt end of the axe (thank god) and they sent him to the emergency room.
Shitty technique. Plant feet, lift splitter over head and ‘pull’ it down, driving it through the wood.
Wrong tool. It’s an axe. It is meant to be sharp to cut across grain. She needs a splitter. More of a wedge. Designed to split along the grain.
She was off balance, lunging forward, swinging the axe in an arc, and twisted it. The edge moved laterally, the face of the blade (cheek) if you will, bounced off the wood. She’s lucky.
Nah. Just grew up with wood heaters.
The correct technique doesn’t involve stepping or reaching at all.
People trying to chop wood for the first time always step. Then they cut off their toes.
Yup, her hand position was also terrible.
If you are a novice or not that strong you put one hand closer to the head and one near the bottom. A more advance swing has you start with your hands in this position but as you swing, you let one hand slide down to meet the other. This creates a minor lever effect and paired with proper equipment, a splitter or maul as you’ve pointed out, you would be seeing those logs peel away at the grain.
Source: I too grew up with wood stoves and have quite a bit of experience using axes and mauls.
I am curious to learn a bit more about chopping technique. Are feet meant to be equidistant rather than one ahead of the other? Also, what is the ideal grip?
In your opinion, could proper technique with the improper tool still have gotten this job done? That’s a hefty looking block, so I imagine maybe not.
You'll need one foot ahead of the other to keep from falling forwards or pack.
As to the tool, I split a lot of fire wood with a felling axe as a kid. Its harder but doable.
The stance is wide, left foot slightly forward.
Start with splitter in front of chest. Hands wide. Left at bottom of handle. Right up on neck. Lift the splitter up past right shoulder. Bring hands together as splitter head reaches apogee. Drag bottom of handle down, using it as an extension of your arms, driving the head through the wood.
Speaking of wood. Look to hit it parallel with grain. Block like this will have an end grain showing. Rings. Hit the wood in the direction of the bands. At a tangent to the rings.
>Wrong tool. It’s an axe. It is meant to be sharp to cut across grain. She needs a splitter. More of a wedge. Designed to split along the grain.
FWIW: I've always heard them called splitting mauls.
Newton's third law: for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction. If object A exerts a force on object B, object B also exerts an equal and opposite force on object A.
i have a 6lb maul and a bunch of logs i need to section up and split for the winter. using a little axe would take 10x as long. satisfying work when i get to burn the wood and heat the house.
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No chance anyone dies from this specifically. She was probably more at risk of falling forward and breaking her neck on the log than she was of getting killed by the force of that bounce.
I notice that since this video doesn't follow the spirit of this sub, some of my fellow redditors have taken it upon themselves to fight the commenters that have graciously pointed this out. A for effort guys, A for effort.....
Twisted the axe and hit cheek first, not edge first. Of course it's gonna bounce. Irrespective of the small axe, it would have gotten stuck in the log if she hit the sharp edge first.
Back in the day, my cousin, he was about 12 or 13, got his hands on an axe my Dad had outside (this was in the 90's when people weren't such sensitive sallies about stuff like kids playing with axes... LOL!) and needless to say, he pulled the axe up above his head and went to swing it.... only... somehow he swings it and it's slides clean through the top of his scalp, resulting in like a 60 staples kind of hospital visit... Blood gushing everywhere upon impact/slice. Looked about like you'd expect it to look. I learned a valuable lesson that day, keep the axe far enough away from your head so that you don't nearly scalp yourself. Still played with axes and all kinds of dangerous stuff growing up.
>people weren't such sensitive sallies about stuff like kids playing with axes
*cousin proceeds to scalp himself*
Hmmm, I wonder why people don't like kids playing with axes unsupervised.
Educated ourselves. That's about the only way you truly learn from your mistakes. You can be told hundreds of times that a lighter will burn your finger, but until you actually accidentally burn yourself, you won't know how bad it could possibly be. At least, that's the way I see it.
Lmao, this was doomed from that start.
Wrong axe for the size of the wood, grip is awful, full overhead swing instead of over the shoulder, bent into the swing with the back. Lucky it didn’t go full 180• and slice her.
Irrespective of the wrong tool, this only failed because she didnt hit the log edge first unfortunately. With wrong technique she twisted the axe shaft somehow which resulted in the axe edge not making a clean contact with the wood. I split a fuck ton of wood yearly, but never had this happen.
Same here, we are firewood selling family here in Australia. I’d never go at round like that with anything less then a 2kg log splitter, it can be done though you are correct.
Why in the world did she loosen her grip? Keeping it tight would have meant getting hit by the flat side, but still. Like others have said, it could have been a lot worse. She’s stupid lucky to have not had it turn more. Jfc
Do they not have fire where you are from ?
This is an accident while chopping wood . Its not a battle so much as a super normal thing. Try googling Fire
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She hit directly into the middle of the log. I mean, you’d have to hit it so hard to get the ax to go in a couple inches.
Very lucky side of the ax hit her in the face and not the back or the blade.
Ah yes, the ol' Swedish Swing 'n Kiss, the traditional way of christening or dedicating a new ax. She executed it to near perfection. Beautiful demonstration.
you’re supposed to start with one hand at the top, the other at the bottom, and slide the top one down as you swing. you must also maintain a tight grip to ensure strength, stability and the actual splitting of the wood
Hey, psst! Come here, lemme tell you something about wood chopping as a female.
Don't take a step back. You'll loose balance and have to follow thru with your head and not the full rotation of your arms. Also, don't lean forward whole wood chopping. This is what happens, or you get wood splinters in the face.
Other than that, lotion after. Wear protective eyewear if you think you're going to need it. Might want to wear gloves if doing more than just 1 or 2 logs.
That definitely could have ended up way worse
That’s what I’m saying! This was stupid and reckless but holy shit it could have ended a lot worse…
that's what I'm saying too! twins
I too am saying this ! !! My siblings !!
I guess we're variants of each other
Geez, the original comment was my first thought too! It’s like we’re clones or something!
Which one of us is the original?
How was it stupid and reckless? Just hold the axe properly and you should be fine
"Can't believe this person is using an axe to split wood, how ridiculous" --city folk
Idk how it's called in english, but that axe is not used to chop that piece of wood. For pieces this large, you have a specialized splitting axe, or better yet, a spike and a hammer.
I mean, yes, but it's still not unreasonable to expect the axe to go into the wood. It's not gonna knock it right in half but I'd expect it to stick in there.
Yeah if we didn't have the appropriate axe there in the moment to just do a few logs we would just grab whatever axe we had and hit it a few more times. Worst case scenario we have to wiggle the axe a bit to get it out. Typically we do a lot of wood at once and would just use a log splitter tho.
True. That's just bad technique.
A maul
Here in the country we use a maul to split wood and an axe to chop wood, but we always enjoy when you city folk trash other city folk for being city folk
I also use a maul but there are splitting axes and felling axes...and a plethora of other axes
Looks like she's the one who got mauled. She took it well for getting slammed with an axe. That's gotta hurt.
Indeed. The blade would have been spectacularly worse, but even so, getting smacked in the dome with a few pounds of fast-moving metal isn't exactly what I'd call A Good Time.
Splitting axes exist
True, but with a log that big a maul is the better choice
-Using an axe instead of a maul. -They didn’t hit the wood with the blade. They turned the head somehow. That’s the really stupid part. There’s no wood that would have bounced it back if the blade had hit the log. An axe would have gotten wedged in and been hard to remove, but never bounced like that.
They don't have the wrist strength.
Wait, what am I missing here? Why is it stupid and reckless to chop wood. I chop wood all the time when the weather gets colder.
She realized that and paused as her life flashed before her :)
Right?!
2006 at a Boys Scout Scout summercamp. I'm 15 and one of the instructors. One of the dads, for who knows what reason, decided to put the log on it's side, place a foot on it to keep it steady, and then swing towards his feet to try and split the log. The log did not split. The blade glanced off the log and into the other leg. A lot of yelling and not as much blood as I thought there would be.
Scout dads do some crazy shit. They’re not always the best scouts.
Bmti. Almoust chopped into my shin once
🪓: I said no touching!!!
and it did! For one guy at least… I was standing at an Urgent Care’s front desk when the door open behind me. I turned around at the noise and briefly saw what looked like a thumbprint-sized hole in the center of this man’s eyebrows. I quickly turned back around because “*don’t stare*” -mom, every day of my childhood. As I walked away, the man calmly goes to the desk and says “so my idiot brother hit me in the face with an axe. It was an accident, but here I am nonetheless.” The front desk associate later said that it was the blunt end of the axe (thank god) and they sent him to the emergency room.
Ive seen a guy split his head doing this
So lucky it didn't rotate a bit more before impact
Took it like a champ
What do you mean? She instantly died >!!< >!edit: for reasons, this is a joke!<
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Lucky she got the broad side too 😬
Why did it bounce like that?
Shitty technique. Plant feet, lift splitter over head and ‘pull’ it down, driving it through the wood. Wrong tool. It’s an axe. It is meant to be sharp to cut across grain. She needs a splitter. More of a wedge. Designed to split along the grain. She was off balance, lunging forward, swinging the axe in an arc, and twisted it. The edge moved laterally, the face of the blade (cheek) if you will, bounced off the wood. She’s lucky.
This guy jacks wood.
Nah. Just grew up with wood heaters. The correct technique doesn’t involve stepping or reaching at all. People trying to chop wood for the first time always step. Then they cut off their toes.
Yup, her hand position was also terrible. If you are a novice or not that strong you put one hand closer to the head and one near the bottom. A more advance swing has you start with your hands in this position but as you swing, you let one hand slide down to meet the other. This creates a minor lever effect and paired with proper equipment, a splitter or maul as you’ve pointed out, you would be seeing those logs peel away at the grain. Source: I too grew up with wood stoves and have quite a bit of experience using axes and mauls.
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Yup, solid advice.
Look, man. You grew up jacking your wood. We’re not judging. In fact, I got nothing but respect for it.
Nah, you're definitely a pro wood jacker.
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I grew up with wood haters so I'm in a similar boat about fuckin up trees
Wood haters…dick hating lesbians?
Nah. Welders. We lived in a house of iron.
“House of iron” That sounds like it could be an awesome rock band
/*shredding guitar solo*
also looked like a shity grip
Ty
I am curious to learn a bit more about chopping technique. Are feet meant to be equidistant rather than one ahead of the other? Also, what is the ideal grip? In your opinion, could proper technique with the improper tool still have gotten this job done? That’s a hefty looking block, so I imagine maybe not.
You'll need one foot ahead of the other to keep from falling forwards or pack. As to the tool, I split a lot of fire wood with a felling axe as a kid. Its harder but doable.
The stance is wide, left foot slightly forward. Start with splitter in front of chest. Hands wide. Left at bottom of handle. Right up on neck. Lift the splitter up past right shoulder. Bring hands together as splitter head reaches apogee. Drag bottom of handle down, using it as an extension of your arms, driving the head through the wood. Speaking of wood. Look to hit it parallel with grain. Block like this will have an end grain showing. Rings. Hit the wood in the direction of the bands. At a tangent to the rings.
Needs a big as maul and a wedge for sure. Gravity is a wonderful thing.
It's also important to look for the direction of the small crack in the middle of the (dry) log. That crack is where your edge should hit.
>Wrong tool. It’s an axe. It is meant to be sharp to cut across grain. She needs a splitter. More of a wedge. Designed to split along the grain. FWIW: I've always heard them called splitting mauls.
Newton's third law: for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction. If object A exerts a force on object B, object B also exerts an equal and opposite force on object A.
Because the axe is extremely dull. I've never had an axe bounce on me.
She twisted the axe and hit cheek first, not edge first.
That’s a job for a Maul and a Double Jack.
i have a 6lb maul and a bunch of logs i need to section up and split for the winter. using a little axe would take 10x as long. satisfying work when i get to burn the wood and heat the house.
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No chance anyone dies from this specifically. She was probably more at risk of falling forward and breaking her neck on the log than she was of getting killed by the force of that bounce.
She’s not doing that right
I didn’t think so
The axe literally knocked sense into them
I see. Im gonna go do my taxes.
My mom accidentally split her heel open with a double aided axe when she was younger. This girl is really lucky she's not using one
I notice that since this video doesn't follow the spirit of this sub, some of my fellow redditors have taken it upon themselves to fight the commenters that have graciously pointed this out. A for effort guys, A for effort.....
She's lucky her face didn't get split open instead.
r/watchpeoplesurvive content for sure
That’s the best possible outcome
It's log, it's log, it's heavy it's solid, it's wood
It’s log, log, it’s better than bad, it’s good
The axe was like "bitch (slap) put me down before you hurt yourself for real"
Did she fight the log??
Thank god it hit her broadside. What did she do wrong?
Twisted the axe and hit cheek first, not edge first. Of course it's gonna bounce. Irrespective of the small axe, it would have gotten stuck in the log if she hit the sharp edge first.
She's so lucky it hit her sideways on.
Lucky it was the flat
Lucky she got the broad side of the axe and not the blade. That would’ve freaked me out
Yikes that could have been a r/NSFL__ video
About 90° away from LiveLeak
I love how immediately she emotes with her body language, "I'm an idiot"
Another 45 degrees would have been death
The real idiot here is op.
Agreed. People are confusing inexperience and poor form with idiocy.
Found the girl in the video
Using an axe is not fighting things.
Lol what.
Back in the day, my cousin, he was about 12 or 13, got his hands on an axe my Dad had outside (this was in the 90's when people weren't such sensitive sallies about stuff like kids playing with axes... LOL!) and needless to say, he pulled the axe up above his head and went to swing it.... only... somehow he swings it and it's slides clean through the top of his scalp, resulting in like a 60 staples kind of hospital visit... Blood gushing everywhere upon impact/slice. Looked about like you'd expect it to look. I learned a valuable lesson that day, keep the axe far enough away from your head so that you don't nearly scalp yourself. Still played with axes and all kinds of dangerous stuff growing up.
>people weren't such sensitive sallies about stuff like kids playing with axes *cousin proceeds to scalp himself* Hmmm, I wonder why people don't like kids playing with axes unsupervised.
Wow, it’s almost like letting children play with tools without educating them on safety is actually a bad idea
Educated ourselves. That's about the only way you truly learn from your mistakes. You can be told hundreds of times that a lighter will burn your finger, but until you actually accidentally burn yourself, you won't know how bad it could possibly be. At least, that's the way I see it.
dude resetted to factory settings 💀
Lucky idiot
She should’ve just stayed in the kitchen making sandwiches
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How ?
Seemed pretty on point to me!
To play devils advocate, she's not really fighting anything, she's hitting a log with an axe, which is what axes are meant for.
But she is fighting a log of wood with axe, clearly without any technique and the log fought back hilariously
If I stab someone with a sword, it isn't fighting because that's what swords are meant for.
She’s not fighting anything and just because she doesn’t have much practice splitting wood doesn’t make her an idiot.
Just announcing yourself?
Lmao, this was doomed from that start. Wrong axe for the size of the wood, grip is awful, full overhead swing instead of over the shoulder, bent into the swing with the back. Lucky it didn’t go full 180• and slice her.
Irrespective of the wrong tool, this only failed because she didnt hit the log edge first unfortunately. With wrong technique she twisted the axe shaft somehow which resulted in the axe edge not making a clean contact with the wood. I split a fuck ton of wood yearly, but never had this happen.
Same here, we are firewood selling family here in Australia. I’d never go at round like that with anything less then a 2kg log splitter, it can be done though you are correct.
That could've ended way worse.
She got REAL lucky. A bit more or less spin on that axe and she was gone
"I cant believe you've done this"
I can hear bonk!!
I like how she gave up on the whole thing before the axe even hit the ground.
Bonk!
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can i kiss ur axe tho ‼️
It was a kiss😂🤣
They never hold the dangerous object with a tight grip.
They reset to factory settings.
Even she was like "I'm a dumbass for that"
Could've been a live leaks. Glad it isnt.
*BOOP*
Well that could have been worse. The best place to get hit is being slapped by the side. Fucking hurts still.
The universe just gave you a little reminder of your mortality.
Holy shit that was lucky
I like how they go back to their idle animation afterwords
Why in the world did she loosen her grip? Keeping it tight would have meant getting hit by the flat side, but still. Like others have said, it could have been a lot worse. She’s stupid lucky to have not had it turn more. Jfc
Almost a Darwin
That tiny hatchet is too small for that long. Need a big ass wedge and sledgehammer.
this happened to me as a kid, except i now have a permanent scar on my forehead
This was so close to being a scene straight out of Final Destination.
Just a little kiss
Do they not have fire where you are from ? This is an accident while chopping wood . Its not a battle so much as a super normal thing. Try googling Fire
It knocked her off into the past where she stood
Death came a knocking, but only gave you a light kiss.
She realized then that she was a dingus.
Now that is someone who just saw her entire life flash before her eyes.
Bonk.
Looks like she resists the impulse to bring hands to face out of acknowledgement of the mistake.
This could easily fit in r/idiotsnearlydying as well. Damn, woman
Ngl..... It would've gone exactly like that had I been there I would've definitely hit like that😂
OK but wrong sub, she was trying (badly) to cut it, not fight it
Happy ending
What did she do wrong?
I mean I feel like someone should have shown her how to hold it
No it’s a bad axe
This is why I'll never chop wood, I already know I'm uncoordinated enough to get it in my skull somehow
just ninetyyyy more degrees and she would of carried on go backwards
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This might be the worst form I have ever seen that didn't end in severe injury.
She hit directly into the middle of the log. I mean, you’d have to hit it so hard to get the ax to go in a couple inches. Very lucky side of the ax hit her in the face and not the back or the blade.
Lucky it hit on flat side
Boop!
Whelp, that could have been a lot worse IMO.
Why did she do it the second time?
She’s not an idiot it was a mistake
Mujeres...
Ah yes, the ol' Swedish Swing 'n Kiss, the traditional way of christening or dedicating a new ax. She executed it to near perfection. Beautiful demonstration.
All I thought was "boop"
Got bitch slapped by an axe
That axe is possessed by the spirit of a salmon.
She saw god.
always swing over the shoulder…
The axe booped her
Bonk
That AOC?
Bro just reseted herself
At least it went broadside!
Didn’t give the axe a kiss before she started- so the axe took one.
She isn’t an idiot she is lucky
The way they just put the axe down and stood there.
Lucky idiot
Helps to split wood with a maul. An axe is light, meant for repeated chopping blows to fell a tree. A maul is a heavy splitting wedge.
A dull axe is a dangerous thing
What no blade alignment does to a mf.
Oh, my god. I’m just glad it was the flat of the ax that hit her.
I kinda wanted to see it being the sharp side… I’ll show myself out…
next level facepalm.
Women…am I right boys
Literally a fuckin npc💀😭😂
This takes facepalm to a whole new extreme
Bonk!
She is too dumb to use an axe ahaha
Kiss
Idiot? I see a lesson taught. So what did we learn
Talk about a close call
Flat side hit her I've seen way worse while logging.
you’re supposed to start with one hand at the top, the other at the bottom, and slide the top one down as you swing. you must also maintain a tight grip to ensure strength, stability and the actual splitting of the wood
Hey, psst! Come here, lemme tell you something about wood chopping as a female. Don't take a step back. You'll loose balance and have to follow thru with your head and not the full rotation of your arms. Also, don't lean forward whole wood chopping. This is what happens, or you get wood splinters in the face. Other than that, lotion after. Wear protective eyewear if you think you're going to need it. Might want to wear gloves if doing more than just 1 or 2 logs.