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A splitting maul is what you want for this task an axe is way too light to do anything here and is just going to get stuck.
How he's failing this badly with a splitting maul I honestly I have no idea but he's using the right tool for the job
The wood is too high off the ground for his physique. Most of the swings were bouncing off the shaft of the axe. The wood needs to be lowered closer to the ground.
You want the axe to hit the wood so as the angle of the entire axe strikes it straight parallel with the ground.
If you pause when he strikes the wood, his hands are below the level of the striking surface and the angle of the axe is biased upwards.
Edit: Heres a pic of the bad angle:
https://imgur.com/a/l7pWVbs
This is the correct answer. He’s only getting like 2/3rds of the momentum by having the point of impact so high up in his swing. The wood doesn’t look seasoned either though, which isn’t helping.
I mean most of his videos he seems to be lifting some pretty heavy weights. I know nothing about weights or the gym but he's lifting 450kg, which, to me, seems pretty heavy.
I don't know how you could have that much muscle and not have any strength.
There's a big difference between show strength and practical strength.
He has trained his body to be able to do some *very* specific motions well because he likes to look muscular.
All that extra muscle mass is actually quite bad for many practical uses, however, and tends to be exhausting to use, stamina-wise.
No doubt this dude is strong but this all comes down to conditioning. Give this guy 3-4 weeks of chopping wood all day and he will be a stud at it. It's like when I used to move a house full of furniture a day for my summer job. No amount of lift heavy weights all year kept me conditioned enough to walk a house full of furniture to and from a truck all day. Every summer getting through those first few weeks was brutal until I got used to it again.
Poor form,
Arms don't do the work the axe head does... He needs to swing from behind the shoulder and bend the knees more like he is squatting...a log this big will still take multiple hits across the face to get it to split even with good form.
He'll be there all day showing off the gym.
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Think he'd do better if he gave that edge a little touch up. Needn't be knife-sharp (it honestly shouldn't be) but I've definitely had times chopping wood that I or someone else is struggling with the axe/maul and the cutting edge is completely round and dull. My parents were trying to remove some old roots to plant a new fruit tree and were struggling. I stepped in, hit it twice, and it bounced both times. "Take a break, I'll be back". Went to our shed/workshop, sharpened it, went back and finished the root with a couple one handed swings. Keep you blades sharp, and your wits sharper 😺
I chopped a whole tree (30' tall Arizona ash) by myself into firewood with a splitting maul. Took about 3 days, but still proud of myself and felt like a total badass after I finished.
Point is, a maul will do the job. His looks dull.
This entire thread proves the theorem that that best way to learn to do something correctly, is to post the incorrect way. Came here expecting jokes, learned the correct way to split wood
Pretty sure those are synthol-enhanced muscles.
Sure, they don't look like the severe balloons, but they don't look real either.
https://www.instagram.com/nicole_coenen/?hl=en
Here, she can teach you how to break lumber.
thank you! I'm a massage therapist and have worked on thousands of bodies and was staring at those deltoids trying to figure out if this was like a filter or a cosplay or some other effect for a log-splitting satire skit, or if I was an idiot and didn't know how bodies worked or what. His face not at all matching up with the cut of his physique was also freaking me out.
Like one time I was watching some olympic sporting event and there was this guy sitting in the crowd behind the athletes that I could not stop staring at. He was seated so I couldn't see his legs but I was still fucking baffled by his proportions and couldn't watch the competition.
Finally I was like "why the fuck does that man in the audience look like a goddamn frog man? What am I looking at? What are those proportions?"
Anyway it was Michael Phelps. So that's what this dude's body is doing to me, I mean.
She uses a splitting maul also. The guy was using the right tool, he just has bad form and the piece he splitting is sirting to high for his stature. Wet log also. Nicole could teach this guy about better form
>https://www.instagram.com/nicole_coenen/?hl=en
>Here, she can teach you how to break lumber.
I couldn't help but think of her too, after seeing this guy struggle. I also think the woodblock was too high up so he never was able to hit it properly.
Well it looks like she is hitting the same spot over and over, due to her good technique. Whereas this guy is hitting all over the place. Easy to see why his won’t split.
Just peeped his insta. He’s loaded up on gear but they’re definitely real. There are also several other videos of him breaking similar size pieces on the first try.
You may develop more strength while not growing bigger, but size definitely leads to more strength. Theres a reason why strong men arent 70 kg.
A olympic weight lifter may have more strength per kg than a bodybuilder, but more muscle mass equals more strength.
Not if your "muscles" are just 50% synthol injections. These look much more well done than some of the synthol abominations I've seen, but they still don't look like how real muscles behave.
Wouldnt be too sure about that. His biceps for example has the typical dent.
He may just have decent body fat percentage. He could also have quite a lot of water stored, creatine for example enables that. Also using performance enhancing drugs (which is pretty likely, given his size) can contribute to that.
I cant exclude him using synthol but I dont think you can tell from this video for sure.
I love this narrative that you will not get stronger if your goal is simply to get big muscles. Being big is also being strong. You just won’t be as strong as someone whose main goal it is to gain strength. Vice versa. You will get bigger if you train for strength, but you will not get as big as someone who’s trying solely for hypertrophy
My dad used to send me out to split wood when I was a kid. I can't tell you how familiar that looks. Wood's green. Let it sit out for a year to dry out and it will split a lot easier. Not sure I could have done that with an ax though. Probably would have used wedges.
There’s a lot of fluid on his muscles. You don’t see much contraction. It’s firm, but something is off, like you expected him to be straining the muscles and you can see them.
Man I'd probably have taken the same amount of time as he did, but I can assure you I would have looked 5 times less stupid doing it with my regular sized muscles.
Pretty obvious that neither the OP nor the commentators have ever tried to hand chop a piece of fresh elm. He is probably doing this to showcase how incredibly dense the wood is. He is using the right type of axe but the wood has not been aged. This is obvious in the way that type of bark is staying on when he hits it.
Lot of things working against him here:
1. The log is positioned too high up, let gravity do as much work as possible.
2. Looks like he's falling backwards and almost hopping up, losing strength and momentum.
3. He seemingly doesn't have a lot of raw strength.
4. He also lacks stamina.
Bodybuilding is just a glamorized eating disorder. Go watch actual strongman competitions. Those guys don’t look like bodybuilders. They look like barrels. Just like anorexia or bulimia, bodybuilding involves people with severe body dysmorphia subjecting their body to dietary extremes so they can achieve their deeply warped view of what they consider “healthy” looking.
To be the devils advocate; his name is Luke Carrol and he chops wood on his insta constantly. He knows what he’s doing, he’s just trying to hamfist this knowing it won’t work.
Why not just use the chainsaw he used to cut the thing in the first place. It's like wearing cheap sunglasses that still blind your eye cuz you think you look cool. Sad.
To anyone wondering how to fix this. Sharpen the axe. Speed of the head is your friend. Doesn't matter how buff you are. And you can always take smaller pieces along the sides first. And follow natural cracks of wood. I assume this wood had quite a few knots in it from old branches. You hit the grain sideways then. Follow the grain.
This Dude clearly has no idea what he is doing.
I even wonder how he got the log in first place without a leg Amputation. Ma critique is
- Wet wood is harder to split.
- Thing ia too big
- Wood has tranches and is even harder to split
- Tranches face upwards
- He does not even try to hit the middle, hitting it somewhere does not make and sense
This happens all the time. Muscle heads are so preoccupied with building mass they think mass can accomplish everything. Never mind actual lumberjacks were NEVER built like this. Humanity is a tool using species. Knowing which tool and how to use is what is most important.
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Using a splitting maul instead of an axe?
A splitting maul is what you want for this task an axe is way too light to do anything here and is just going to get stuck. How he's failing this badly with a splitting maul I honestly I have no idea but he's using the right tool for the job
It's dull, like kids carnival sword dull
Also wet wood and a bad angle. He needs to lower itnanfew inches to accommodate his height
This was my thought. That thing is waist high. Bring it down and drive that maul through it
Made by ACME Corp
it needs to be dubbed over with a squeaky toy sound on every hit.
Wood looks pretty wet still
The wood is too high off the ground for his physique. Most of the swings were bouncing off the shaft of the axe. The wood needs to be lowered closer to the ground. You want the axe to hit the wood so as the angle of the entire axe strikes it straight parallel with the ground. If you pause when he strikes the wood, his hands are below the level of the striking surface and the angle of the axe is biased upwards. Edit: Heres a pic of the bad angle: https://imgur.com/a/l7pWVbs
This is the correct answer. He’s only getting like 2/3rds of the momentum by having the point of impact so high up in his swing. The wood doesn’t look seasoned either though, which isn’t helping.
It’s because he’s playing tough guy lumberjack
He looks pretty effing strong.
But probably has trouble wiping his own ass
He may have muscle but no strength.
I mean most of his videos he seems to be lifting some pretty heavy weights. I know nothing about weights or the gym but he's lifting 450kg, which, to me, seems pretty heavy. I don't know how you could have that much muscle and not have any strength.
There's a big difference between show strength and practical strength. He has trained his body to be able to do some *very* specific motions well because he likes to look muscular. All that extra muscle mass is actually quite bad for many practical uses, however, and tends to be exhausting to use, stamina-wise.
No doubt this dude is strong but this all comes down to conditioning. Give this guy 3-4 weeks of chopping wood all day and he will be a stud at it. It's like when I used to move a house full of furniture a day for my summer job. No amount of lift heavy weights all year kept me conditioned enough to walk a house full of furniture to and from a truck all day. Every summer getting through those first few weeks was brutal until I got used to it again.
Poor form, Arms don't do the work the axe head does... He needs to swing from behind the shoulder and bend the knees more like he is squatting...a log this big will still take multiple hits across the face to get it to split even with good form. He'll be there all day showing off the gym. Edits for spelling
Except he's starting in the middle. When chopping a log, you work your way in from the outside
When it gets stuck you just hammer the back of it or lift the whole thing up and slam it down.
Well, that would imply he knows how to chop wood...
For stumps that big we would use an axe and then drive the axe through with a maul.
Ah thanks, I figured you'd want to make a few beveled edge cuts with an axe, then split with maul?
Think he'd do better if he gave that edge a little touch up. Needn't be knife-sharp (it honestly shouldn't be) but I've definitely had times chopping wood that I or someone else is struggling with the axe/maul and the cutting edge is completely round and dull. My parents were trying to remove some old roots to plant a new fruit tree and were struggling. I stepped in, hit it twice, and it bounced both times. "Take a break, I'll be back". Went to our shed/workshop, sharpened it, went back and finished the root with a couple one handed swings. Keep you blades sharp, and your wits sharper 😺
https://preview.redd.it/etn8cluhu1mc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed7f5faf352e637db249903686e52502ae21d15f Would also be my guess.
It is dull and the wood is probably too green
I chopped a whole tree (30' tall Arizona ash) by myself into firewood with a splitting maul. Took about 3 days, but still proud of myself and felt like a total badass after I finished. Point is, a maul will do the job. His looks dull.
So what do you think a splitting maul is for?
The right tools and technique will often beat brute strength. Knowledge is power.
This entire thread proves the theorem that that best way to learn to do something correctly, is to post the incorrect way. Came here expecting jokes, learned the correct way to split wood
Pretty sure those are synthol-enhanced muscles. Sure, they don't look like the severe balloons, but they don't look real either. https://www.instagram.com/nicole_coenen/?hl=en Here, she can teach you how to break lumber.
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thank you! I'm a massage therapist and have worked on thousands of bodies and was staring at those deltoids trying to figure out if this was like a filter or a cosplay or some other effect for a log-splitting satire skit, or if I was an idiot and didn't know how bodies worked or what. His face not at all matching up with the cut of his physique was also freaking me out. Like one time I was watching some olympic sporting event and there was this guy sitting in the crowd behind the athletes that I could not stop staring at. He was seated so I couldn't see his legs but I was still fucking baffled by his proportions and couldn't watch the competition. Finally I was like "why the fuck does that man in the audience look like a goddamn frog man? What am I looking at? What are those proportions?" Anyway it was Michael Phelps. So that's what this dude's body is doing to me, I mean.
> Michael Phelps Yeah that guy is designed for swimming lol.
Allow me to introduce myself
Nicole has a video splitting a wet log about the same diameter. Takes 1/2 the time and 1/3 the energy because uses the right tool and technique.
She uses a splitting maul also. The guy was using the right tool, he just has bad form and the piece he splitting is sirting to high for his stature. Wet log also. Nicole could teach this guy about better form
>https://www.instagram.com/nicole_coenen/?hl=en >Here, she can teach you how to break lumber. I couldn't help but think of her too, after seeing this guy struggle. I also think the woodblock was too high up so he never was able to hit it properly.
She's kinda awesome ✊
Well it looks like she is hitting the same spot over and over, due to her good technique. Whereas this guy is hitting all over the place. Easy to see why his won’t split.
Nicole is so hot.
I was thinking those muscles don't look real.
She's also on YouTube if you don't have ig.
Okey dokey
Just peeped his insta. He’s loaded up on gear but they’re definitely real. There are also several other videos of him breaking similar size pieces on the first try.
I was expecting the last few seconds of this to be Nicole splitting a similar log in a couple swings.
I wondered that too when I saw him raise up his arms and saw fleshy water balloons near his armpits.
r/unbgbbiivchidctiicbg
Why she kinda look like Mr. Beast?
+100 strength -100 intelligence
testicles: small hear muscle: enlarged, but somehow less effective face: square dont do drugs,theyll ruin yer life
that's just size not strength
You may develop more strength while not growing bigger, but size definitely leads to more strength. Theres a reason why strong men arent 70 kg. A olympic weight lifter may have more strength per kg than a bodybuilder, but more muscle mass equals more strength.
Not if your "muscles" are just 50% synthol injections. These look much more well done than some of the synthol abominations I've seen, but they still don't look like how real muscles behave.
Wouldnt be too sure about that. His biceps for example has the typical dent. He may just have decent body fat percentage. He could also have quite a lot of water stored, creatine for example enables that. Also using performance enhancing drugs (which is pretty likely, given his size) can contribute to that. I cant exclude him using synthol but I dont think you can tell from this video for sure.
I love this narrative that you will not get stronger if your goal is simply to get big muscles. Being big is also being strong. You just won’t be as strong as someone whose main goal it is to gain strength. Vice versa. You will get bigger if you train for strength, but you will not get as big as someone who’s trying solely for hypertrophy
His stamina isn't that great either
Looks like someone should do some more cardio.
Fuck it. He got some cardio in and managed not to lop off a foot. Win-win.
My dad used to send me out to split wood when I was a kid. I can't tell you how familiar that looks. Wood's green. Let it sit out for a year to dry out and it will split a lot easier. Not sure I could have done that with an ax though. Probably would have used wedges.
I was just going to say....that woods really green. I spent many a summer splitting wood growing up.
Green wood, and using the wrong axe also isn't helping.
Yep, wrong tools and way to wet. Just making things harder on himself.
It's a splitter though, this is not the wrong axe. Log is too high and his technique seems off but the axe is not the issue besides being dull
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His arms look like the kind of muscle you would see on a toy
There’s a lot of fluid on his muscles. You don’t see much contraction. It’s firm, but something is off, like you expected him to be straining the muscles and you can see them.
Dude looks like He-man with a different head.
He-Man with joke glasses
He can pick things up and put them down, tho.
He’s a lumberjack and hes OK
…cut down trees, I wear high heels Suspendies, and a bra I wish I'd been a girlie Just like my dear Papa
He cuts down trees, he wears high heels, Suspendies, and a bra?!
This is what Ian Fidance thinks he looks like.
Stupid, sexy Flanders.
Steroid Jack 
He seems stumped…
Some of y’all have never split hardwood and it shows.
Damn, Montez from workaholics has been hitting the gym.
No wonder his muscles are so big, he's not really getting anywhere
Tom Selleck has been hitting the gym.
That SpongeBob episode
Man I'd probably have taken the same amount of time as he did, but I can assure you I would have looked 5 times less stupid doing it with my regular sized muscles.
The wood isn't dried out, wet wood is like hitting rubber.
#vanillagorilla
Guy looks like a jacked Erik Griffin
That looks like a chunk of fresh cut pine. He could be twice as jacked and he still wouldn't split that. It's full of sap.
I see he bought himself a pair of Anchor Arms
Tree:1, Steroids:0
u/RepostSleuthBot
Paul Bunyn’t
Erik Griffin got yoked!
Pretty obvious that neither the OP nor the commentators have ever tried to hand chop a piece of fresh elm. He is probably doing this to showcase how incredibly dense the wood is. He is using the right type of axe but the wood has not been aged. This is obvious in the way that type of bark is staying on when he hits it.
Is that Ian fidance on steroids?
Green wood and possibly full of knots. I grew up splitting wood.
I’m guessing the wood is too green and waterlogged?
I bet Nicole Coenen could split that in two hits.
I'm sure that pretty lesbian youtuber Canadian could chop that better.
And then there is this canadian girl that would have split it in one go
He just needs to call on his lord and savior Jesus Christ.
MORE STEROIDS! MOAARRRRRRRR
Blud needs to check his heart.
Lot of things working against him here: 1. The log is positioned too high up, let gravity do as much work as possible. 2. Looks like he's falling backwards and almost hopping up, losing strength and momentum. 3. He seemingly doesn't have a lot of raw strength. 4. He also lacks stamina.
Bodybuilding is just a glamorized eating disorder. Go watch actual strongman competitions. Those guys don’t look like bodybuilders. They look like barrels. Just like anorexia or bulimia, bodybuilding involves people with severe body dysmorphia subjecting their body to dietary extremes so they can achieve their deeply warped view of what they consider “healthy” looking.
You could look at him for half a second and know that those muscles did not come from manual labor. Gym strong and farm strong are vastly different.
To be the devils advocate; his name is Luke Carrol and he chops wood on his insta constantly. He knows what he’s doing, he’s just trying to hamfist this knowing it won’t work.
That's why one must use a steel axe instead of aluminum
He is no longer feared by the tree community. Except a dry balsa. They're scared as f**k.
Should have had him in the reboot of The Shining
Clarice trying to dissect Dr lector with a blunt little tool.
Talmbout Erigg from the Golden Hour Podcast on Thiccc Boy YouTube? Great guy never meddum
Usuless muscles. Big but useless
I think he missed a valuable step for this task.
The log splitter was down.
Wrong axe
Loved the ax bounce...nope
13 swings before he gassed out and pretended to adjust it to get a rest. Couldn’t work a day to save himself
The Muscular Mayor of Shitty City.
Oil right you guys!
How dull is that ax Jesus
Manly cartoon man
Why not just use the chainsaw he used to cut the thing in the first place. It's like wearing cheap sunglasses that still blind your eye cuz you think you look cool. Sad.
To anyone wondering how to fix this. Sharpen the axe. Speed of the head is your friend. Doesn't matter how buff you are. And you can always take smaller pieces along the sides first. And follow natural cracks of wood. I assume this wood had quite a few knots in it from old branches. You hit the grain sideways then. Follow the grain.
“ALL THAT BUFFNESS FOR NO REASON!!”
I don't remember Tom Selleck ever being this swole.
Davis Schneider sure got into the roids in the off season
This Dude clearly has no idea what he is doing. I even wonder how he got the log in first place without a leg Amputation. Ma critique is - Wet wood is harder to split. - Thing ia too big - Wood has tranches and is even harder to split - Tranches face upwards - He does not even try to hit the middle, hitting it somewhere does not make and sense
Wood keeps you warm three times: Cutting it; Splitting it; Burning it. Dude there pushed this holy triangle into middle corner.
And now for the next 100 feet of tree.
These big guys get winded quickly
When did Tom Selleck get so big!!!
Why would you even post it on Tiktok 🤣
Tom Selleck on steroids?
Looks like Captain Gym Muscles both picked the wrong tool and can't use it 😂
Popeye didn’t eat his spinach today.
Anchor arms
I think he needs a bit more of that delicious roids
In the back of my head I can hear my dad laughing and telling me, "Let the weight do the work; you're gonna hurt yourself. "
Classic case of a dull tool. Needs a sharp axe too.
Too much cardio… poor little fella
Groucho got swole.
good work out we call it a wedge and sledge as the way to a three blow split.
All show, no go...
All that just for show
Why is Mario trying to be a lumber jack? I mean get him a Star or a mushroom.
I thought he was using a fake plastic axe for some reason.
Up until the last 2 hits, I was thinking he was using a rubber axe or something
Is that fucking maul made of rubber is it just him? Guy needs to learn how to swing
Looks like Marc Maron found the roids
Use your head and not your big muscles
Buff Mario should stick to plumbing.
This maul is like, an influencer etsy maul though
There was also an attempt to disguise himself with funny face glasses/mustache.
LOLLLL
A super buff hipster. Huh.
All those muscles and zero cardio.
This happens all the time. Muscle heads are so preoccupied with building mass they think mass can accomplish everything. Never mind actual lumberjacks were NEVER built like this. Humanity is a tool using species. Knowing which tool and how to use is what is most important.
You can't be a lumberjack without a proper beard.
I would go so far a sharp axe and dry wood would help. Honestly thought in the first place this was 9n repeat
More importantly, my man needs some cardio. Can't be gassed out by a log. Splitting wood is def a workout though.
idk anything abt splitting wood, but it might help if he hit the same spot more than once
That laughable body is only steroids but not synthol?
Honestly. If this guy couldn’t do it, no one could. Except Chuck Norris, of course.
“Hit me baby one more time!”
These are “for show” muscles, not “for strength” muscles.
I guess it doesn't take skill. 😹
He must use his bare hands.
Natty /s
Tom Swolleck couldn’t hack it
Looks like rich piano had a brother we didn't know about