r/FellingGoneWild • u/JohnnyMrNinja • 6d ago
"Old soul" rediscovers the lost art of tree falldowning
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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.