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That lightweight splitting maul ain’t doing your exercise routine much good. Get a heavier maul and get an even better workout. Take it from someone who grew up splitting wood to keep warm for real.
And if you want the very best workout, find some American elm. It’s near impossble to split even with a 15-ton hydraulic splitter. Thanks to the corkscrew grain. Though at -20F/-28C it will explode into splinters when hit with the maul.
Keep on keeping your dream alive!
It’s enough exercise for me. I have a heavier maul in the garage, but my balance isn’t the best and I don’t feel very safe with it. Also, I can’t aim it as precisely for the same reason.
As for tough wood, I have a surprising amount of really knotty wood here. Apparently the older the trees, the more gnarly they are. The really big, knotty logs will take me a good ten minutes to even crack open, and I’ll work up a proper sweat 🙂
Dullest thing I’ll watch today. Thanks!
I can’t believe I watched the whole thing!
I found the amount of work it took to split that log upsetting! Surely you need a heavier axe / maul?
(I’m really enjoying your 360 videos!)
I’m doing this as a sport: it’s good physical exercise, and it forces me to land the maul with precision to “draw a straight line” from the front of the log face to the rear, to initiate the split - which isn’t too easy for me because I’m missing half of both my feet, so my balance isn’t the best.
It’s also why I don’t really bother sharpening the maul: it’s a bit dull and I don’t mind that it takes more blows to split a troublesome log. I like that it’s safer when it’s dull better too.
Some particularly knotty or large logs will take me 10 minutes to split, but I always get them in the end 🙂
(I’m really enjoying your 360 videos!)
Thanks!
Chop wood, carry water.
Chop chop!
How was the video edited? The blurring is following the head so smoothly. Good job on that
The video was edited in Kdenlive. The pixelation was done with the motion tracker filter: I usually slice the parts of the videos where I need to obscure things - in this case the entire video - in 10-second slices, then run the motion tracker in each 10-second segment. I do that because it tends to loose track after a while, so I manually set it back on target at the beginning of each segment.
Also, while this is an equirectangular 360° video, in this case, I could pixelate my face directly in the video without doing a equirectangular-to-rectilinear then rectilinear-to-equirectangular transforms before and after the pixelation, which makes rendering a lot faster. With the 360° transforms, it’s dog-slow. But my face is usually close to the vertical center of the image, near 0° pitch, because I tend to shoot my videos at eye level, so there isn’t too much distortion to worry about.
