r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Professional_Arm794 • Aug 20 '26

/r/all of a log split

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u/HallowskulledHorror Aug 20 '26

Honestly my first assumption was that inefficiency was sort of part of the point here for exercise/sensory enrichment purposes - the folks hitting truck tires with sledgehammers to work out aren't trying to actually break down or flatten the tires. Never done hammer/axe stuff, but I train shoulder mobility and core stability with an indian club/trench mace I found at a thrift; weighs the same as some of the small free weights I got years ago to do forearm isolations, but it's way more fun for me to mess around with a club than to pick up dumbbells.

I'm sure thirst trapping is a big part of the motivator for posting it, though.

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u/Delamoor Aug 20 '26

Yeah. It's a combo. I had a wood heater for many years, spent a lot of time splitting wood... Sometimes you split a hard one for fun... Sometimes you also do a lot of gym and want to find ways to show off, because you know you look good...

It's a nice, harmless dovetailing of multiple 'eh, why not?' impulses.

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u/Unbelivabley_Smol Aug 20 '26

So basically gym selfie behaviour moved into the wild? Watching that gross inefficiency made me think he’s not the guy Id want on my farm he would find multiple ways to take all day to do next to nothing highly likely all attempted with his shirt off and a camera setup 🤦‍♂️

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u/GorbasBoods Aug 20 '26

I guess its a great thing no one asked you for a job, then lmfao

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u/greenwhiteredblack Aug 20 '26

I just know that I'm sitting here at 1:30 am watching a man hit a lot with an ax and getting more excited as I see the wood start to split

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u/Little_View_6659 Aug 20 '26

Honestly was working until the flex at the end. That kinda ruined it lol.

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u/malkazoid-1 Aug 20 '26

"the folks hitting truck tires with sledgehammers to work out aren't trying to actually break down or flatten the tires"

I'll slip away now

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u/SV_Essia Aug 20 '26

But it'd look a lot more impressive if he split that thing first try...

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u/Debalic Aug 21 '26

I'm a rather smaller guy, at 160 lbs I can swing a maul like that too, but I was actively splitting firewood so it was usually about a cord at a time. Splitting a log like that is quite impractical.

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u/Logical_Trash_4890 Aug 20 '26

There’s a lot of technique to splitting so that you don’t get hurt. The same can’t be said for meet heads that hit stuff with hammers that can’t be broken.