Big muscles mean nothing without real technique. What’s he doing wrong here? 👀

He hasn't dried out the log he's trying to split (wood is ordinarily allowed to dry for a few weeks prior to splitting - splitting it usually the last thing you do before burning - a lot of it happens in the winter), his axe needs sharpening (he seems to be getting very little penetration), and his form isn't the best. To split a stubborn log using muscle power, you have to square off to the log instead of adopting an oblique stance. Your chest / the plane of your body should be tangential to the log (or perpendicular to a line from you to its vertical central axis) so that your muscles are symmetrically engaged to maximize the downward force. Also, when the axe head "stuck" in the wood, he should have grabbed a sledge and whacked it a few times to drive it deeper, perhaps forcing the log to split (that's why wood axes have a sharp side and a flat side to the rear). If none of that works, then he needs a hydraulic wood splitter. These things are common knowledge to those who have actually had to use wood heat for warmth and cooking, as we did when I was a kid.

Green white oak is incredibly hard to split

He needs to start the splitting from the edge of the wood. Don’t be dumb muscle bro 😂

1. Log is too high, he is not getting full swing or gravity assist. 2. Splitting axe looks dull, not best geometry either for head design (Fiskars are great). 3. Let it dry out. 4. Start on the outside edge and work in.

He needs more steroids. That should do it!

You need to start splitting it on the sides taking small chunks at a time.

Axe blade isn’t even sharp. It’s blunt like the width of the neck of a screw driver. If it had any point on it the axe would stick at the very least.

Sharper edge and heavier splitting maul. Also, start on the edge. For a piece that big, even if you start getting through the middle where he’s sitting it, you’ll still need splitting wedges in several places to crack it open. You’ll just bury the maul once you get through the middle.

Well first of all he needs a wood splitter not an axe. Second of all his legs should be parallel and shoulder width apart.

I've never cut wood but I would imagine the force is greatest when the axe travels below the knee? He's not getting enough momentum

I'm 57. Skinny. I guarantee I can lift more than him. Except squatting. I have had compression fratures on L 1-3. Supposed to have surgery but was denied approval. I can run 5 miles with minor back pain. I just deal with it. No medication. Not Tylenol, Advil or whatever. Just suck it up and lift.

Try hitting the edge. Not the center. I was a lumber jack in my youth. Them muscle guys can’t handle that kind of work.

I use to chop wood all the time....from age ten and up. There is a technique to it....you definitely do not need muscles to chop wood.

He's trying to split bull pine. that's what's wrong.

Put it on the ground. Get a fuller swing. Take a pause, find a target, start at the edge. Slow down, it's not a race.

Had he had an actual splitting axe, he probably would have got that 2-3rd try. His technique is not bad. The splitting end is just not the right head for such a large stump. Look at the size of that dude, to scale that log is actually pretty fucking huge to split lol. I love splitting wood and piling cords of it. It’s actually a peaceful and a good workout.

He needs to pay a Boy Scout to sharpen his ax for him!

Square feet up helps drive force thru body. Start at edge. Be built like Thor and not The Incredible Hulk.

I could chop in half the time with less effort. Smart work.

he resembles a massive Mike Mentzer

He's not using a hydraulic log splitter.

His techniques not bad, his problem is, his AX is as dull as his personality! Unless of course he’s got petrified wood?

Well, I used to have to split logs for our fireplace, and for a log that size, I would use a wedge along with the axe. And I was a 15 year old girl, so I didn't have big muscles like that, thank God!

Try putting axe head on the log and hitting it with a sledge hammer to start the cut. Then hit with the axe

when I used to split wood as a KID, I'd use a steel wedge on something that big just to get the split started..and I was probably 1/4 of this dudes size..LOL

This is clearly bait. He's working out said muscles, it's SUPPOSED TO BE HARD.

One the Axe is blunt! Secondly you need to split it at the sides, little pieces at a time and thirdly that looks like white oak, white oak is extremely hard to split.. Also this video looks fake due to the fact that there's no recoil when he strikes the wood which they'd undoubtedly be...

If this were real, the 'recoil' of that axe would smack him in the head.

He’s just using his arms. He needs to use this whole body.

He keeps hitting that branch. It’s taking away all his strength.

Needs to square his legs and he is doing the hand slide wrong

He needs a woman to tell him he's doing it wrong. Lord, I apologize for that right there, and... be with the starving pygmies down there in New Guinea, amen.

Everyone calling that an axe has never split wood before. You don’t split logs with an axe you use a splitting maul

Dulling the ax.