Skills chalenge: 1stick fire method with axe Pt. 1

Hey guys, I wanted to do a video today responding to Iowa Woodsman's video, the one stick fire method. So instead of using my knife, I've done that before, I'm going to try and use my axe, which I've never done before. So just my axe and my fire steel. I've got a piece of basswood, same stuff Iowa Woodsman used, it's good wood to try things out with, you know what I mean, it's not a hard wood, it's good wood. So yeah, I've got, and I'm in my backyard, it's not very bushy. So and if I was in the bush I would be normally using a piece of like Ash bark or some other kind of bark to lay down to keep things off the ground But I'm just gonna use a piece of cardboard today. You have to forgive me for that So I'm gonna try and split my my basswood with the standing method between the legs Do this I'm just gonna put a piece of bark on the ground about here and then support It's gonna it's gonna tip the one end of the basswood log up so that I can hit it Now, you want to keep your legs really far apart while doing this so you don't glance off and hit your legs. That would be horrible. And you just want to swing one swing right through. See how this works for me. Okay, so I got mostly through it in the one swing, which is alright. I'm just going to go out through there, okay? I'm going to do that a couple more times until I get manageable pieces. And you don't have to do it like this, obviously. This will probably be the last one I do like this. Pretty much four nice pieces to work with. If I was in the woods, I would have a downed log that I was using as a base to chop from. I don't know if you guys can see that from here. So I just cut a piece of something I found under my deck just for that. So you want to keep your fingers out of the way while doing this, obviously. I'm just going to break into smaller and smaller pieces like this, and I'll be right back so you guys don't have to watch me do the whole thing.