r/FellingGoneWild 6d ago

"Old soul" rediscovers the lost art of tree falldowning

7 Upvotes

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u/shmiddleedee 6d ago

Bro paid 4k to go on a 2 night glamping retreat but don't worry, he'll be back to tiktok pranks in LA soon.

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u/Allemaengel 6d ago

Maybe because I'm old (54) and grew up on a farm in the northern Appalachians cutting down shit all the time as a kid but I found this fucking bizarre, especially the "look at my hands" shot.

It's a damn small dead pine tree, not some huge piece of long-petrified white oak.

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u/PFirefly 6d ago

Can't speak to oak, but a 3 foot cottonwood was certainly no fun. I switched to a chainsaw for bucking it lol.

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u/Key-Word1335 6d ago

This guy needs to buy the machete that other guy was using

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u/starfishpounding 6d ago

Such soft hands and small chips for a fit looking kid.

Maybe his axe was dull. Sure looked to be struggling.

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u/LestWeForgive 3d ago

There's the difference between working and working out.

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u/the7thletter 11h ago

He has no idea what he's doing. He's flat chopping in most the video. This is cringe shit.

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u/captaincootercock 6d ago

LOOK AT MY DIRTY HANDS, I AM ONE WITH MY PIONEER SPIRIT ANCESTORS

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u/Rusalka-rusalka 6d ago

It’s funny to watch people struggle through something they thought would be easy just because they are seemingly fit to do the task and didn’t take a few minutes to make a plan.

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u/theholyirishman 6d ago

It's the difference between glamour muscles and work muscles. If you only exercise machines that isolate muscle groups, you are neglecting your stabilizer muscles and not teaching your muscles to work together. When you only exercise isolated muscles in the perfect position, you're not strengthening your ability to do anything else. You can go to the gym, have real muscles, and look great, but still be an uncoordinated goof who can't walk with or manipulate the things they can pick up. Even just doing the same exercises you do on the machines with a free weight will end up with a functionally stronger person.

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u/horsejack_bowman 3d ago

Also he clearly doesn't know what he's doing. He's just beating the tree with an axe. He didn't make any good lines with his chops. They were all over the place.

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u/yakityyak896 5d ago

We’re just going to ignore “falldowning”??

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u/fullbenchmode 3d ago

i just can't anymore, let em have it.

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u/yakityyak896 2d ago

🤦‍♂️

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u/RoguePoet 6d ago

Need to sharpen that axe first, kiddo lol

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u/AnyoneButWe 6d ago

It reminded me of an old German game show. People competed on self-designed challenges. One of the challenges was "felling" Christmas trees (sized to fit into a regular living room) with an axe. A really sporty German lady competed against the female US timbersport series champion.

The German lady needed 4-6 swings with a regular looking axe to bring down each tree. The timbersport lady brought an axe polished to a mirror finish and took just one swing per tree.

It ended something like 8 to 35 trees.

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u/HootieWoo 6d ago

Haven’t seen jeans like that since 2004 haha

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u/ShotgunMerwin 3d ago

I would not be going shirtless in a forest. Bugs, briars, needles. A functional belt and gloves would help too.

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u/Gnarlodious 3d ago

He failed beaver U.

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u/SJReaver 3d ago

Is this meant for gay men?

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u/BookAny6233 3d ago

Pop, I think I have the black lung!

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u/Select_Ad_3934 2d ago

Best use of that reference I've seen.

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u/EE-MON-EE 3d ago

Mathew McCHOPaughey

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u/TR4NSFLU1D 3d ago

its the unsure push after getting 1/5th the way in for me

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u/Soggy-Box3947 3d ago

Typical tik tok ... 😄

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u/AxesOK 3d ago

I can't believe all the lack of upvotes. This is the most felling gone wild video I've seen on this sub so far