#axemanship

[mizar113]

[mizar113]

[bastard-woodsman]

AXEMANSHIP

-- Excerpt from THE BOOK OF CAMPING AND WOODCRAFT, by Horace Kephart [1905]

Beginners invariably over-exert themselves in chopping, and are soon blown. An accurate stroke counts for much more than a heavy but blundering one. A good chopper lands one blow exactly on top of the other with the precision and regularity of a machine; he chops slowly but rhythmically, and puts little more effort into striking than he does into lifting his axe for the blow. Trying to sink the axe deeply at every stroke is about the hardest work that a man can do, and it spoils accuracy.

[involuntarilydreaming]

This is the last time I’ll post pictures of studs in green jumpsuits, I swear.