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How Danner Boots Screwed the Laws of Physics

How Danner Boots Screwed the Laws of Physics

by Todd Walker

A boot full of blood. Tenons and bones severed. A tourniquet to stop arterial bleeding.

After watching the video footage of the ax striking my foot, all of the above should have happened but didn’t. I kept working on the log cabin. In fact, a whole month passed before a coworker noticed and asked how I sliced my boot.

“Huh?”

“Your boot. How’d you cut it?”

Inspection at school.

I…

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How to Mitigate the 5 Deadly Sins of Ax-Work

How to Mitigate the 5 Deadly Sins of Ax-Work

by Todd Walker Photo credit: Casey Deming, GeorgiaBushcraft.com On the heels of my ax-work classes at the Georgia Bushcraft Spring Gathering, I wanted to cover some of the risks of swinging a tree clever. It’s our job to mitigate some of the risk. Even then, accidents happen. At the Gathering, my buddy, Karl, shared a recent ax injure he incurred when his ax glanced from the wood he was…

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Brute Force vs Finesse: The Art of Working Axes

Brute Force vs Finesse: The Art of Working Axes

by Todd Walker Photo credit: Didi Davis Less than a century ago, woodsmen skilled with an ax could chop wood all day and return to do it again, day after day. They were held in high esteem and highly sought after. Power saws and combustion engines sent yesteryear’s axes to hang on old barn walls. Today the usefulness of axes seems to be limited to splitting firewood… or, for the lumber sexual, as…

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