👍👍🙏🧡 Love your splittin' vids Billy .... So calming .... And your messages ..... Are so true .... Be kind to each other and the world as well Folks ..... Goodnight .... 3.27 am "Down Under" ....... ZZZZZZZZZZ
I’m watching this vid and my fiancé comes out and asks “ are you seriously watching a guy cut wood?” Ha! I told her “yep, he’s and interesting guy that does this for a living in Canada and spreads a msg of kindnesses to others, it’s not a guy thing...it’s a ppl thing.” Man, it seems we’re losing this in America till tragedy strikes. Love your vids and msg. Hope everyone takes the msg with them and will do one act of kindness to others. No act of kindness is too small, right? Take care Friend.
Good old splitting video...love it. I always loved splitting and watching Nick split wood for dad when he was still with us. I honestly could sit there watching you, Nick, anyone spilt wood and be completely content for hours! Axes and Trees are my bliss! Haha 😁🌲. When you started the 60 to cut that chopper block and sped it up, from the other room River yelled "That's one angry bee!!!" LOL 🤣. Gotta love that girl! Welcome any and all new subscribers, you are now in the best place you can be, a place full of love and kindness. We are all soldiers and family here. Love to all!
The Homelite 902 was the first powersaw I ever got to run. 1966. I was eleven years old. It was my brother-in-law's on their farm where I spent summers. He showed me how to start it, how to oil the chain manually, pointed at a deck of walnut logs and said, "We need firewood. I've got things to do. I'll be back later." and then he left. :D I know that beast well.
Thank you Brian for being such an inspiration to the rest of us, being there asking if BBRS needed some financial help. You're the recipient of a lifelong free service award from Buckin', couldn't happen to a nicer fella. Buckin' we don't get tired of seeing you splitting any wood. Edutainment at it finest! Be safe and keep moving.
The teachings of Billy Ray Smith! These are the videos that nourishes the mind and the soul. Thank you BBR! Welcome new subscribers! Be sure to check out the archives and maybe drop something into the comments! Love and BE KIND!
First of all I want to say thank you for your positive messages and attitude! I love watching your videos and learning. My dad was an old logger from N. California but he’s no longer here to ask questions. I Really Really appreciate you getting back to me when I have a question. You truly are a great man and thank you for sharing your knowledge to everyone who watches.
lol, Ya ain't doin it right. Hell these days It's great to see anyone doing it at all. If you're doing it, enjoying yourself, staying active, warming yourself many times over. Then you're doing it right. Stay safe and enjoy. Wish my wood split that easy. All hardwoods here. White, Red, Black Oak, Sugar Maple, Hickory, Black Birch, Beech, etc.. Split a lot by hand and a lot with our old 1950 Ford Tractor.. It's a great feeling seeing that full wood shed when a New England winter is settling in..
Hey hey and thanks for all your videos. I've been watching a bunch of them lately and it's been years since you made misty of these, do I'm not even sure you'll see this. I'm way down in Florida and I'm helping a friend with an actual yard prepare for a party. Basically a big fire pit, a bunch of friends, some adult beverages and what have you that's legal hahaha and some food with overnight camping They have some variety of an oak chopped down with rounds around 24" with what to me seems like a million knots. It's sat there in an unorganized pile in the shade with all other yard beaches on top. They basically burned all the good and easy wood. Do this is the nastiest stuff of all I grew up in Michigan, deep woods with a hardened family of DIY OGs, so I have a few years of chopping under my belt, but it's been 30+ years, so I'm going off of memory I'd be smart to rent a hydraulic splitter for a hundred bucks for the day, but... Hahaha I spent a hundred bucks in manual tools because I wanna have fun doing it the hard way. The other night, this wood kicked my rear end. I only showed up with a 3.5lbs 2 hand axe. Fairly sharp. I went so slow and had more problems than ever before. This wood kicked my rear end. I got 3 round cut in an entire night. We even bought a cheap manual splitter from Harbor Freight for $22 US and it buried itself inside a log. I accidentally bent it 10° trying to get it out. Bummer... So now I've bought 2 wedges and an 8lbs maul. I've got 3 days left to work before the party. My forearms are jacked because I've done pretty much no exercise all of COVID. My body ain't even a fraction as good as it used to be when I was a young man. I'm 51 and hell bent on chopping this pile of wet seasoned knotty rounds A smart man would've just rented the hydraulic splitter but I want to be able to go to ask my friends houses and chop wood for them for a party invite for my family, plus I really love the exercise. I feel like I'm going to be buying wood for this party until my body gets back in shape and then I can finish chopping that pile of wet seasoned rounds in the next few months on weekend I notice you never wear safety glasses or even talk about it, but as I recall, somewhere around every 200 or so swings, a piece would fly up and hit my face. A few times I've hit my eyes. I've always used a chopping block which from learning from you I'll bring it down in size. I believe I tried that before but they always disintegrated pretty quickly. I guess I just need to have more ready because I want to always work easier than harder Anyways, I'm still healing and going back to chop some more tomorrow night. This wood ain't gonna get the best out of me. Imma kill that wood hahaha Thanks again. This is really taking me back and it feels as much fun as trying to hit a home run in baseball, just different Oh... My Wife loves to watch me. Sometimes it turns her in and other times it makes her laugh which is totally awesome. I don't think I'd enjoy chopping at much without her around, or at the very least a friend to share the burden with or compete with
Damn. Subscribed today. What an amazing man you are Mr. Smith. I mentioned chain saws in another comment. Now I see this vid. All your chain saws. COOL. Your drums....WAY COOL. I've played drums for 42 years now. Best enjoyment to play is just like you demonstrated. Jump on the set, and beat em!!! Beat out what you feel in the moment. That is true expression of your inner most thoughts, and feelings. If it lasts 1 min, or an hour. But, get it out. Playing for a band keeps a person trapped to someone else's expression. You are an amazing man Mr. Smith. You sooth the soul. God Bless.
Hey Billie, I have been hypnotized with your videos for the past 7 months. I like your spirit, soul and demeanor. Ive learned a lot from you. I need to purchase a sharp ax. My progress with a fiskers maul has been difficult with all the snotty horrible wood that the tree cutter left for me to cut.. I need a tool besides a maul. Please sell me a nice ax Billie! Im 6ft 2 and weigh 210 lbs. I have an ax from my grandfather that I may want refurbished and sent to you. I hope you and family are well. Be safe
why is splitting wood so therapeutic?? I've always liked it but now that I'm older and stronger I've found it so meditative and less like work. Love the channel and all the passion!
Peace Buckin' army! Hey Buckin', I been talking with ironhorse about saws. What an awesome man! He is so very knowledgeable about power saws! He amazing! Thanks for turning me onto him! Welcome new subs!
I’m willing to do my part in changing the world with kindness THANKS Buckin ‘. Always a pleasure to take time out to watch and learn something from you that SALMON Samich sounds great 👍🏻 I’ll 😁Be safe be kind God Bless y’all
Great skills, Friend. Been hand-splitting firewood for 40 years and learned new stuff from you and, one way or another, I am gonna learn to be kind. Thank you.
Having watched this video yesterday and I took notice of Buckin's idea to hit the part of the log close to you. I've been manually splitting wood for 41 years and have busted a few handles in my time, always by hitting the far side of the log and sometimes missing. Inspect the handle, yup another piece of damage. How is it that I have never worked out it was my lack or control to hit this side of the log. So I went out this morning and somewhere along the line I hit the handle again!!! From then on I utilised that 'nugget of gold of an idea' from Buckin' of aiming at this side of the log!! How simple!!! How obvious!! What have I been thinking of all these years? Very little it seems!! Thanks Buckin' Maybe it is the thought of missing the log may result in hitting my foot.
That's cool with the hook in the axe, I started doing that about 2 years ago. Saves the back from bending over to stand rounds up. Great minds think alike.
I’m with you in the chopping block, it just isn’t the same. You can’t golf on a chopping block😂 I love hand splitting the stuff that I can at home. Heck of a workout and good time to relax. Thank you for the tips and tricks buckin. Love to you and the family❤️
You're always teaching me something new (often times many new somethings in one video) and I'm so grateful for it. Thank you!! I'm glad to be alive when you are Buckin'. Someone's gonna come along in 30 or 40 years and watch some of your videos and say "dang that guy knew whats up", but someone will be making videos then too, having watched yours, and you'll live on. And Happy New Year!
SO glad I came across the Buckster! Now, the very BEST cutting block is a big, !ow cut stump. Georgia has too many rocks to not have a block. I use a fireplace insert, so it's best to use smaller pieces. Every cut of yours would be 2 or 3 of mine, or what we call "overnighters" though I prefer 6 to 8' rounds for that. That said, I find that for smaller pieces, my back don't like all that restanding, so I'll put several on the stump and use the chain and bungee cord trick. So nice to just circle them swinging away, nearly nothing leaving early! I saw on the tube both pickaroon work and even better, the pike at work. Well, I only had one stick of 1" pipe, so wanting to make a pike (straight handle with a spike straight out the business end) and, wanting a pickaroon also, I simply welded another spike at a 90 degree angle to the base of the main spike. It's an awesome 2-in-one tool, and I'm calling it the "pikearoon"! ...and my back loves it!
Ho ther Buckin. I just want to thank you for your videos. I am a Canadian at heart but I live in Indonesia. Your videos make me so happy and honesty make my day everyday. The nostalgia I'd amazing. Seeing where you live and the countryside you are in almost makes me cry. Thank you again and all the best bud
Great video Buckin', I'm building a 6lb axe with a home grown Scottish Ash octagon shaft. Before I temper the edge I'm going to cut an eagles beak into the bottom edge and see how it works for me! Have made a straight double bit shaft too, in case I find a head for it! Enjoying the axe building, saw maintenance and positivity in your video content!
This is " FLICKIN" Awesome. Not sure I will ever adopt this method, but it sure seems to be very efficient for you. Been burning nothing but lodgepole pine for 7 years now. (LOGGING & BURNING MY LAND AS I GO) 5 Acres with 250 sq ft cabin, less than 2 cords each season. This Knotty damn firewood requires the Wedge & Sledge method.
I first saw you split wood maybe 2 years ago without a chopping block and this completely change the way I chop wood now. I don’t need a chopping block anymore thsnks to you for sharing your technique.
New subscriber here. Living in L.A., I thought my only option was to buy firewood that was already split, but after getting a maul and a bunch of chopped trees dropped off, I now realize what I've been missing. Great vids! I'm hooked!
Hey buckin’, i love your content so much, your a very kind, genuine, and highly entertaining soul! Just wanted to say thank you for being yourself, and i look forward to watch more of your videos
cOUNTRY BOY LIVING IN THE CITY NOW. WOULD COME TO LOCAL RURAL ROUTE AND SPLIT A FEW CORDS OF WOOD JUST FOR THE MEMORIES.. SOME POET SAID WOOD HEATS YOU TWICE ONE WHEN YOU SPLIT IT AND AGAIN WHEN YOU BURN IT/ YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF THE COUNTRY BUT YOU CANT TAKE THE COUNTRY OUT OF THE BOY. YOU ARE BLESSED THANKYOU FOR YOUR CHANNEL
Yep.. whatever's best for each individual.. that's the way to do it. There's no right way or wrong way.. just Norway.. Haha!! Great tips by the way… all the best to the Army, hope you'all doing well :) Be kind and take care :)
Hi Buckin from wny ... I agree with ya that the chopping block is not the ticket ... a simple work-saving device is a light chain about 4-6ft long in conjunction with a rubber bungee cord ... secure a rubber bungee on one end of the chain (I use electric tape but you can use whatever) ... use your axe or hook-a-roon to set up (vertically) as many rounds as needed (depending on length of chain ) to allow the chain and bungee to hold the wood in tension (if you only have a few rounds you can just choke up on the chain with the bungee hook ) ... now go NUTS and split away - the chain and bungee will hold the wood in tension (no bending down to reposition/ re handle the Chunks ) when done splitting that load simply unhook and toss ur Chunks into a pile ... rinse and repeat ... When using a splitting block to elevate the Chunks for splitting you ARE losing power on your downswing for sure plus all the bending / grabbing / repositioning the pieces back on top of the block makes for a lotta work ! Seems like Buckin way is the cats az and works well for ya - for myself I like me legs and feet just the way they are 😆!!! I spent about 5 bucks making the “adj harness” So for all ya frugal ones out there (myself included) ya don’t have to break the bank (or your back) !!!
I went through something this morning ... i was going to say some stuff i was gonna regret.... i remembered your words "Be kind" thanks for being a positive influence !
Bukin's enthusiasm is infectious, it's great watching him walking around his workshop. How many saws does he have? I have 4, I have 4 axes, two with broken handles. Saw Buckin fixing an axe it made me go out and start to fix my original splitting maul, a cheap but partially effective tool, used it for about 6 years and then the head came loose. I went out and bought a better replacement about 4 years ago, I kept looking at my old maul and did nothing but Buckin's piece about fixing handles has enthused me to fix my old maul. My other broken axe is an old american felling axe, it just feels great but often jams in some pieces, the handle has snapped near the head. I loved using it on clean bits of ash, I have loads of it at the moment so I'm going to fix than one as well. Watching someone as enthusiastic as Buckin makes me feel good in these awkward times, so thank you for that, keep up the good work.
Just had to like an SUBSCRIBE just for that drum line! been watching your videos for a while, but now I subscribe. A gentleman of many talents. Love and Respect from Australia!
Thank you for this video. I haven't split any wood for three or four years now, but this makes me ready to give my arthritis a challenge. However, mostly I really enjoyed the positive messages and kindness, i really needed that today. Low and behold, I "stumbled" on to your channel. Thank you, new subscription.
Great work mate love it love to the world equality and respect for fellow man great content you are changing people's lives and in turn they can change the world. Regards Tom Hannagan
I've learned so much from you and am having fun in the woods again like I'm in my 20's again 🤣you inspire me even with all the 43 year old pain's thanks friend I'm stealing that I use to call everyone my brother now it's friends 😁😎
How can anyone give you a thumbs down?! I love watching your videos, you are the most positive person I've ever seen. And your collection of saws and axes fascinates me... Love it all!
Love your channel! Great having someone to hang out with who does the same stuff I do and enjoys it like me - and you sound great behind the kit! Ya can't carry no groove if ya ain't got no pocket - and you definitely got the pocket going on there, Friend... Mighty impressive gallery of old saws you got there...I should have hung on to some of those old Macs and Stihls. .. Thanks for everything Rockin' Buckin' Billy Ray
A flush cut stump does work nice for chopping block. I do, however, like the freestyle splitting method of yours, Buckin', much better than messing with a block.
A Mercury pickup truck, don't see many of them these days. I'm guessing it is a 3/4 ton. Been using a 8Lb. splitting maul, just over 44 yrs. now. For 28 consecutive yrs. I split all my firewood with the maul.( '75 - '03 ) Back in '03 at the ripe age of 50, I smartened up & bought me my 1st & only compact commercial grade hyd. splitter. I haven't looked back since! I recently added a set of tables onto it & recently finished up 6 + cords of hardwood with it. ( beehived into a pile with a tarp over it in my lower field )... Speaking from personal exp., the narrow splitting block is the way to go to get that maximum swing but a solid hit rather than a cushy hit imho... The " Woodman Axe " is a true beauty of an axe btw & " Conan The Barbarian " would be proud of that double headed axe head & I think it was the most effective one of the bunch you used today... Happy Choppin', Bill on the Hill, Vermont, USA... :~)
Welcome Charles I can see by your comment you're gonna like it here 😬, I've not missed a video since October 2017 Buckins pearls of wisdom are priceless they have inspired/motivated me & lots of others for the better pal, Brents been around a lot longer than me, he's fast he always gets to welcoming folks before me but he's an auctioneer ha! ( hi Brent 😀), greetings from Scotland Charles 😀❤️👍
Looks like nice weather on that part of the earth. I'm near Washington DC and it feels like 115 degrees. You'd be soaked in sweat here. I put my firewood stuff away soon as warm weather hits.
Great video Billy! Down here where I live, in Ohio, I have lots of hardwoods especially cherry and oak that I split. I use an 8 lb maul and wedges for the large rounds and split them while sitting on blacktop to reduce bounce. Then I use a double bit to turn the chunks into usable pieces. I do this on dirt to protect the edge on the ax (don’t want that razor edge smacking the blacktop). Right now I am sitting in my office watching you and banging on the computer. Wish I was out splitting too! Have a wonderful day!!!
Just when I thought I couldn't like your videos more than I already do, I had to see this this one. I love it! You put a huge smile on my face. Keep on do'n what your do'n. 👍😁
"Alright let's find a piece of wood, oh here's one" what do ya know lol I absolutely love your banter. I don't even live in the country but I want an axe made by you. Also I don't think I've ever seen that many chainsaws in one place. Love your videos. You're awesome
