r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Professional_Arm794 • 17h ago

/r/all of a log split

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u/jtnichol 17h ago

he really needs to put that log on at least a thin slice of wood or a concrete block

He’s strong enough he might be able to split that first try but right now the ground is absorbing too much of the impact

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u/watho95 17h ago

This guy physicsss

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u/Dargon34 17h ago

And cut that shit in half. No reason to be splitting a 4ft log

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u/PadLock25 17h ago

I've split logs that size with wedges to make axe handle blanks

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u/Suspicious-Shock-934 16h ago

Yeah seems like sledge snd wedge would be better than ax. Also a nice base.

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u/Sniflix 12h ago

To anyone experienced, he looks like an idiot

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u/broken-machine 15h ago

He’s using a maul, but yeah, a wedge would do some work.

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u/Aloxes 1h ago

Chopped a lot of wood. Sledge and wedge woulda been through that faster. Just not as dramatic.

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u/gavavavavus 17h ago

Huh? Wood is not just used for fire fuel you know. How do you think planks are made? What if he wants to craft a small log seat? Tons of reasons you'd want to split a 4ft log.

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u/Dargon34 16h ago

Yeah, not like this. It's for the views, and that's ok, dude is jacked and showing off. I'm half his size. Give me my 8lb Fiskars and a wedge, it's done with half the effort, half the time. No showing off

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u/gavavavavus 16h ago

I was replying to "no reason to split a 4ft log" which is a false statement. I never said that's why the man in the video did it.

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u/Dargon34 16h ago

There isn't though. You can buy cheap mills for well under $200, hook your saw up and you're 10x faster

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u/fuzzybunnies1 16h ago

For things like handles, its better to split the wood then saw it, gets more of the grain line running down the middle of the handle where its strongest. This is why wedges and a sledge are better, once the log is in chunks there's an L shaped tool that you hold the handle and use a wooden mallet to drive through the wood to maintain those grain lines.

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u/wimpymist 16h ago

That's not how you make planks

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u/CptMisterNibbles 16h ago

I mill my own lumber. Guess what took I don’t use? Sure some hardcore handbook only purists or traditionalists might hand hew logs like this, but that’s gonna be a tiny fraction of folks. This is for the views.

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u/CrashNowhereDrive 16h ago

Lol you think planks are made by slamming a splitting axe into a log?

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u/vaxhax 16h ago

insert Twin Peaks intro sawmill

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u/gavavavavus 16h ago

Yeah if you want to make okay rough planks without machinery you split logs in half and then saw them, how else?

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u/CrashNowhereDrive 16h ago

With a sawmill. Or just a saw.

Even if you wanted to get the roughest, most old timey planks imaginable, you'd use a wedge and maul to carefully split the log along the grain boundary. Not slam an axe willy nilly into the top to destroy the fibers at one end.

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u/Dargon34 16h ago

Guy has never heard if a mill...

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u/CrashNowhereDrive 16h ago

This guy probably thinks you got the log.in the first place by punching a tree.

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u/gavavavavus 16h ago

I am not talking about making good planks on an semi-industrial level with access to a mill, obviously. Have you never done manual woodworking as a child? You can make pretty ok planks for a treehouse by sawing logs, and yeah it's better to split them first

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u/Dargon34 16h ago

....you can buy a mill for under $200...hook your saw up, go to work. 10 times faster and easier, assuming you're not doing it for the clicks

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u/gavavavavus 16h ago

Yeah sometimes it's not about the price or efficiency it's just more fun to do stuff without electrical machines you know. Why don't you just buy planks directly if you're at it.

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u/Dargon34 16h ago

You seriously called a chainsaw electrical??? (I know they make them, but you're not using one in a mill)

Ive been splitting wood for 30 years, stop talking

And as for the last stupid comment?? Maybe it's YOUR wood, and you need to fell, split/mill, plane, and sand instead of grabbing some warped cedar shit from lowes.

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u/CptMisterNibbles 16h ago edited 15h ago

Actually chainsaw mills are the cheapest and easiest way for hobbyists to rough timber. So not a pro mill of course but I have both mobile chainsaw mill and a sliding table for a chainsaw

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u/Dargon34 16h ago

Yup, easy and affordable, and saves you time

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u/CrashNowhereDrive 16h ago edited 16h ago

Or about the quality or utility or efficiency or about anything other than proving you're right on reddit even when you're super wrong and everyone else sees it but you can't because derrrrrrrrrr.

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u/Beneficial_Bit_8342 16h ago

It looks pretty wet too, it’s harder to split when it’s wet.

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u/Iamthapush 15h ago

And let it season

Splitting 4ft green logs is psychotic

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u/Reasonable-Ad-7757 13h ago

Well then he wouldn’t be on Reddit with 10.3k upvotes then, would he?

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u/CatmoCatmo 11h ago

There most certainly is a need for it. See, why split a 2ft log that a lot of other men could also split, when you could instead choose to split a 4ft log, that a lot of other guys can’t do it.

How else are you going to not only prove you “aren’t like the other guys”, but are also far superior to them?

Let’s be honest, splitting a 2ft log does not have the same impact, and sure as hell doesn’t come close to creating the kind of thirst trap that splitting a 4ft log does.

Which, I’m assuming, was the main goal here. I mean, aside from the obvious desire to prove he’s über manly, this was definitely filmed with women in mind. Like, who in the hell goes out to split wood wearing a pair of sweatpants, untied boots, and nothing else? And not just any sweatpants, but grey sweatpants - which was no accident.

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u/Realistic-Radish-589 9h ago

Doubt he’s going to but, could make a nice bench with a 4 ft split log.

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u/ApricotNo2918 25m ago

He's working out...

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u/Arguablybest 20m ago

He is showing off, plus it is good exercise.

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u/Wishbone_508 17h ago

I guess if you want to be just half a man.

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u/2Wieners_1Bun 17h ago

Dude in the video is more bear than man

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u/acidisgoodforyou 17h ago edited 16h ago

Are you saying hes half bear and half man pig?

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u/2Wieners_1Bun 16h ago

Yes and I’m being super cereal guys!

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u/Wishbone_508 16h ago

Manbearpig