Handtools for Trail Work Part 2

This is the second part of the video.

[@mikeyutube]

Great safety tips on the axe

[@Membersacc]

What happened to an adze being a wood working tool?

[@eqlzr2]

Gee, I wonder if that woman has a boat and an outboard?

[@arnold7156]

you know what? I have a boat and a 150 hp motor. and that lady can share it with me anytime she pleases. WHAT A GAL. SEXY!

[@cattmann1405]

I like how in the Axe to Grind series, the forester says never to use the metal wedges cross grain to hang an axe head, yet in this series, the forester says they always finish up with the metal wedges.

[@zombiefighterof1987]

In Ax to Grind, he means perpendicular to the wood wedge, i.e in a diagonal, he's not saying to not use a metal wedge at all.

[@Doc-Holliday1851]

The point made at the 20 minute mark is completely wrong. Curved blades cut much better than straight blades. If this weren't the case the katana, the scimitar, and the various cutlasses and sabers that exist wouldn't be curved. A curved blade hits it's target with a smaller surface area, meaning that all of the power of a stroke is focused on a smaller point. The smaller the point of contact and the greater the power, the greater an object's ability to penetrate that object. Think of a bat vs a machete. A bat is going to create a great deal of concussive force but it won't cut because all of the force is being transferred to a relatively large surface area. Where as the same force, or even less, can be used when swinging a machete. Yet a machete will cut it's target. That's because all of the force is being transferred to a much smaller surface area. It's simple physics. I have no doubt that curved blades have a greater chance of glancing off their targets. With less of a blade there is less friction to keep it from deflecting. A flat blade is less likely to glance off but that also means there is more friction that will be constantly fighting the axe.