Chopping with the MOAB/New chopping project(pic heavy)

DanR217

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My new chopping project, a dead scrub oak:


First cut:


Glad I put the brass beads on my D guard. I got a little over zealous (as usual), this is the mark from the bead bashing the tree. Didn't hurt my knuckles though:


Two handed thrust:


A fire came through this area some time ago, there's a few old oaks that have old burn damage:


Makes for good chopping, but you gotta watch where you walk, there are elk up here:








Came inside to eat breakfast, gonna head out in a few and chop some more, be back with more pics.
 
Awesome. The elk dropping pic made me think that you broke the tip off for a split-second! :eek:

Those pics make the wait for my MOAB almost unbearable! Garth, get grinding! :D
 
wow you are going for it in a big way :)
 
oak is some hard stuff, and looks like its a lot of work. Cant wait to see it felled.
 
I bet those forearms are feeling used and abused just like that beautiful MOAB. Great pics man love to see the INFI getting loved on.

No safe queens here either :thumbup: Keep it up!
 
That is so cool!!!!!! I'll be there asap to help you finish it off.

The MOAB is an awesome chopper! And that oak looks pretty tough too :) I bet it's a workout wailing on that dead wood.
 
I chop for exercise/physical rehab for my shoulders. Messed one shoulder up in the military a few years ago and messed up the other one in a bad car crash/short flight off a mountain in April of last year.

I'm in no hurry, I've been wailing on the below log for about a year I guess. After the accident, as soon as I got strong enough, I started chopping as much as I could.



It was a full log out to the green part, but there was also some hollowed out burn damage, so I didn't chop it all completely. I left that part sticking out to see how far I'd gone and spray painted it green one day to do some depth testing.

I get stronger everyday but I'm pretty much limited to back hand swings. Swinging overhead or forward is tough, but I can do it. My arms/shoulders do not work together so I can't swing a two handed tool, I'm limited to one-handers.
 
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Get-r-Done Dan!!! That is some cool chopping and like Isheldon said, "oak is some hard stuff".
 
DanR217 said:
I chop for exercise/physical rehab for my shoulders.
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I'd like to hear more about that. The one time I went chopping a lot, my shoulders hurt for weeks. Then I found out I have some congenital condition that limits my shoulder mobility (or inflames my rotator cuff, should I try to test that mobility :)).

How do you chop? Posture, movement, everything, in detail? It's something that doesn't get discussed much. The most detail I've seen people here go into chopping technique is chopping at an angle rather than perpendicular to the wood--otherwise, it's edge geometry, angle, steel, knife stuff.

Nice pictures, though. That tree must be huge to dwarf the MOAB.
 
uyotg, I had a SLAP repair in 2006 on my left shoulder where they repaired the glenoid labrum. In April 2012 I separated my right shoulder. Some tendons and ligaments broke and my shoulder is permanently partially out of the socket. The doctors have never said anything about my rotator cuffs. Basically I can't throw things, putting a spin on a football kills me, I can't keep my arms over my head long and I can't swing a baseball bat.

When I chop with my right hand I stand right foot forward and swing from my left shoulder to past my right hip. With my left arm I just do the opposite, left foot forward, swing from right shoulder to left hip. I started off slowly, just a few minutes a t time and kept at it. Now I'm even slowly starting to do overhand swings again... slowly ;)
 
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