My Bushcraft Axe

I built this saw horse here while back with my buddy, and I need to get a cross piece to go to rest in it. I'll just leave it there to rest the logs on that I used. And to do that, I'm going to use my axe. I'm going to go out and get a piece of wood. It's not necessarily felled a dead tree for. It might be on the ground already. It doesn't need to be anything special. I'm just going to go around and look for that piece right now. Here's the rest of the firewood. I could use my saw, but what's the fun in that, right? I'm always looking out for the dog. You've probably noticed he's always in the way, always running around the axe. I'm very conscious of where he is at the time I'm using my axe. He's chasing the wood chips. It's going to serve as a cross piece so I can rest my wood on top of that and have it at a better angle for myself higher up. So I'm just walking through the woods here. I'm going to use my axe a lot today. I'm going to try to anyways. I want to practice a little bit on chopping on bigger stuff. In my area, there's a lot of dead ash around, and they've fallen. So I'm not going to take down a tree or anything. I'm going to find one that's fallen. It's up off the ground some. And I'm going to just kind of buck it up. I might use the pieces or something might not just Just for some practice cut the notch wide and what I read the other day Just try to hit it in the same spot every time Go go on. I'm not all the way through it off yet. Obviously. I'm Quite a bit of ways through I haven't thrown that many chips But the ones that I have thrown are quite large, big as my hand you know, nice and big I saw a video a while ago someone was saying to use your axe kneeling down you're doing this kind of thing now you want big dinner plate size chips well that's all fine and good if you're using uh really soft wood those just down green soft wood fine yeah throw it one-handed and get dinner plates but this is iron wood uh or maple i'm not sure i think it's an iron wood it's hard wood as you can see it takes it's taking me a long time to get through it i don't think that you could do that sitting or kneeling down and take you a hell of a lot longer so just just something to think of when you hear people giving advice and whatnot you got to take everything into consideration I'm not chopping Aspen here on my knees you know it's a lot harder than that well as you can see now I'm switching sides this sides predominantly done and I worked up a sweat so I lost a layer the fun part will be carrying that back to camp I was wrong in saying it was ironwood the tree Elm that's a dead Elm right in front of me too, and it has the same holes in in the wood from the bugs How's that and a little bit of the bark left over right there? So it's an Elm I'm not sure what kind this is one of the logs that I use to work on like axe work and you use for base for shavings and stuff and it Outlines my camp. I've got one there and then one on the other side So that one's getting pretty beat up as you could as you just saw So I think with that log that I just chopped or that I bucked up or that big piece I'm gonna replace this log here Brand new log to chop on moving on up in the world guys Oops little grubs in the wood. I'm not sure what they're alright guys. This video is done. I just wanted to say By no means am I an expert, use an axe as much as I can. I like using it What I use works for me uh might be different for you so uh get out there and try it for yourself all right