American car cut in half by a Basque lumberman with an Australian axe

Ugaldie

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They did it again, last time, the first, it was a bet between friends in the fiestas of a small town. They used Basque axes to cut French cars. But now it has been a part of a competition between professional lumbermen in a TV broadcasted event. It seems its in the way to become a tradition,

[video=youtube;IS7z3dJNgz8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS7z3dJNgz8&sns=em[/video]

I think we will have to start looking for another name for this sport, timbersport will no more be a correct term.
 
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Neat stuff! This is definitely a brute display of 'man-power'.
These guys want an optimum amount of mass in the axe heads and at the same time want to use as thin a blade profile as they can get away with, that will still hold up (ie won't break!). To be fair to competitors they should be using a standardized weight/profile and template-pointed implement (maybe these should be issued by the contest judges). Otherwise 'Yankee-type ingenuity' is going to surface sometime soon and all manner of bizarre axes (specifically designed to chop through car steel with least effort) will appear. I can already imagine the evolution of a perforating tip (like a can opener) that immediately precedes contact by the main blade.
 
trestle said:
An axeman in lycra tights, now I've truly seen it all. At least for today.
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The way he swings an axe I would be a little hesitant to say anything to him about his choice of wardrobe. It would be comparable to going to the highland games and telling them competitors they had on skirts.
 
Near the end of this video is an Australian axe design that can do a lot of damage to a car with one chop:

[video]https://youtu.be/c3y4-H2l31Q[/video]
 
Wow good video, but seems the traditional sistem is more efficient

The frame of those cars is clearly there and they are frontal traction cars, the only thing it has been removed is the exaust system.

Joxe Mari Olasagasti's dressing choice can be funny and this man is cataloged by some people as a bit crazy, but at his 56 years he is a beast cutting logs. Ultimatelly he competes with younger axemen usually in inferiority (cutting more logs) and most of the times he wins. Here you have a bet he played against a young man, the bet was to cut 12 logs, he did it 12 minutes faster. Take in account the wood type, harder to cut than that used in timbersport and the physical shape of the young man.

[video=youtube;UL_zooEj_iM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL_zooEj_iM[/video]
 
I'd like to see them do that with a 59 Caddy....or pretty much any American car with a frame....No uni-body.
 
Ugaldie, the hardest wood cut in the world of wood chopping or Timbersports, is cut here in Australia all the time. It is called Silvertop Ash, it is a variety of eucalypt and our axes have evolved to cut hardwood, not softwood like that cut in the northern hemisphere. The video looks pretty gimmicky, I don't think it would have hurt the axe at all though I bet it wouldn't cut a log very well.
 
300six, in hard hitting contests here in Australia, each axes weight cannot exceed 3 kilos and the blade or bit can be no wider than 175 mm. It is really strictly controlled and each axe measured before the contest. The biggest most powerful guy with the best technique usually wins though.
 
Mmmm, very interesting ICS. Can you give us more information? Videos and links incuded i you can.
 
garry3 said:
The way he swings an axe I would be a little hesitant to say anything to him about his choice of wardrobe. It would be comparable to going to the highland games and telling them competitors they had on skirts.
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The difference is that the Highlander tradition of kilts is masculine.
 
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