It all started with the Finnish log cabin video then the puukko knife. Here I am

@@jjpingleton hey same

There isn't a "cut" every 0.5-1 seconds like current TV uses to hold (and destroy) your attention.

@@holzmann8443 Yep TV is increasingly being made by (and for) people who have likely developed ADHD after years of smartphone use. I've cut right down on my use of these things after noticing my inability to focus anymore.

nah you are just farming subs and likes

@@Narutofan825 How? The people who do that write nonsense like "who's watching this in (current year)" and their life is so sad that they actually get happiness from seeing likes on their comment. By the fact that your mind went there when just reading an honest thought someone wanted to share makes it look like that's the sort of thing you do.

well explained....@@holzmann8443

hey

To smite people with a hammer for us. 👍🔨

Arne has hands like a bear

@Tabourba they exist, its a matter of finding them.

Ame has some biscuit hooks on him!

He's just using the hammer for demonstrative purposes in this video, he usually just used his hulk hands.

he picks up that sledge hammer like its nothing.

You mean you've been using the walking cane holder part of the anvil incorrectly!

That's knowledge acquired through decades of iron bending hard work

Let's say the axe you buy from the hardware store is $10 and the hand made one like in the documentary is $100. Can you say the hand made one stays sharp 10 times longer and 10 times more durable? Not really the case I think.

Well yes but. Modern steels can be alloyed to produce tool steel superior to those of old, removing the need (for cost purposes in days gone by) hammer welding the slice of high quality steel into the softer 'common' steel body. A modern quality 'mass' produced axe from Hultafors, Granfors, Husqvarna, Kershaw, Fiskars none of these are what could be described as low quality. I'd agree it's very easy to get hold of poor quality tools, but with a little research decent quality ( is 'the best' really needed?) axes and hatchets can be found still. Besides double bit felling axe? er no that's what saws and chainsaws are for ;-) ( for a laugh try finding a modern felling saw ;-))

If only we had an Arne instead of a Jake Paul

Actually, LOVE Arne

😁😁😁 Top!👍 Humour coming from someone I don't know, from a different culture, possibly from the other side of the world. Human nature...One of the reasons I still love humanity. 👍

I would not doubt it!

I don't know if you're referring to what I think you're referring to... But MAAAN did he hit that poor axe head so cold. That steel was borderline touchable, and he was still hammering on it.

Big Arn . . . immortalized in song by Marty Robbins.

Dying breed, soon to be gone in the western world

Glad I read this. You reminded me to turn off my oven. I was using it for tempering earlier haha

@@johnkiser1837 Comment on my 2 year old comment. It's like time traveling. haha. Cheers!

@@JAMaxeRestoration cheers to you too, my friend!

Im beyond jealous. I wish i could own and use a (at this point any) Laftebile myself one day. Although i probably wouldn't dare to use a Johansen one since i dont want to ruin the craftsmanship and expertise that went into making these.

You can only v weld a new cutting edge on two or three times before the base material will crumble away rather than weld but yeah in an age when you had to smelt your own metal and an axe frequently cost six months wages I bet anything they did this where ever possi ble

This is the sad truth. We live in a disposable world.

You obviously haven't heard Danish XD

Build one!

Trond Erlend Rotabakk klarer du å gjenkjenne dialekta? Det minner meg stort sett om Gjerstad dialekt, nær Arendal. Men det er en del ord som ikke hører hjemme..

Gardening in Norway e du fra Gjerstad? E e fra Arendal 👍

arnjhon Gjersdøling vettu. Verden e'kje stor. 😊

Valdresdialekt. Filmet på Fagernes i Valdres.

Trond Erlend Rotabakk why are you proud of the workmanship you arent the man who made the axe

Yes they will. I hope you men out there are paying attention. Forget wasting time on video games and sports and social media. I suspect in the future, you'll be glad you did. When all the men working for Google and Facebook are standing around never even owning or holding a tool, then you men will be seriously in demand.

Brandl Stephenson kerosene

@@solarisseven6969 paraffin

@@matsgranqvist9928 kerosene.

@@ardvarkkkkk1 the guy say paraffin in both languages

Good sir, I will make you a axe home-made. im buying forging equipment and i want to make axes

chinookforge.com Alberta

Snowwalker I’ll forge you one.

Still possible to purchase such axes from a lot of Norwegian blacksmiths, me included.

i wonder if it's because of the adrenaline when working with extremely hot metal that you have to be aware of every movment you make, and of course smithing the hot iron. Anything that is accomplished with adrenaline seems to be addictive, many extreme sports are based on this.

@@goognamgoognw6637 I don't think it's about adrenaline, there isn't much danger or risk around forging. It's more about the satisfaction that you've created something solid, something that can be here long after you're gone. Too many people today just create office paper or unnecessary junk for the consumery industry. The oldschool forged items are things that are real and useful. You feel the connection between yourself and the generations before, the long line going back to iron discovery. I'm not a very spiritual person, but I feel this.

@@PetrLCustomHistoryCZ I wrote that some months ago. i suscribe to everything you wrote especially about "unecessary junk for the consumery industry". The current world economy is based on junk goods, the most rich companies produce absolutely nothing useful ( google, facebook, amazon) in fact the contrary they make our world worse by pushing globalization. The important things are mass produced and in the control of only a small number of people. This is a dangerous situation and a degenerated world. I do feel the spiritual connection with real artisans.

GSP!

Mr. Trump wants Norwegians as immigrants not the Blacks from Africa, lol

Why? You were born in Norway but you didn't get to choose. You aren't a traditional axe maker either, I would guess. So for the most you could consider yourself lucky. Proud? I cannot see why...

PaavoLammikko I am proud of what my ancestors did and what my people are doing. I can trace my family back almost a 1000 years back and they’ve all contributed to making Norway the fantastic country it is today. I feel pitty for you who are not proud of your people and culture

Thank you for your romantic verses my norwegian viking warrior! You almost made me weep... I can see that you are all about feelings. Don't feel pity for me though 'cause it does not help. :-) You knowing about your ancestors etc. is all fine. The problem was the human concept of being proud of something whenever it suits our needs. Even if, like you in this case, have nothing to do with it. Norway was made for what it is today by the oil that was found in 1969. Thanks to that you can play romantic viking computer games all day long in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Consider yourself lucky!

We still had a high gdp before oil mate. I hate the misconception that without oil Norway would be some third world country when in fact we would probably have an economy close to that of the other Scandinavian countries. Nice strawman by the way I never called myself a viking warrior. I am not proud of Norway when it suits my needs I am always proud. I guess you're Finnish by your name, are you not proud of the Finns?

Daniele Piccirillo arne is sadly dead..

arnjhon Goddamn it, im sorry, may he rest in peace

I didn't know him, but considering that this video is filmed during, no later than the 70's, and he was a pentionist. (So at least 67). He would not be humanly possible to live today.

This video is from 1980. It is from Nasjonalbiblioteket. (The national library)

Why tho

Don't forget a beard.

and toilet paper roll

Ya,if you play backwards Led Zeppelin comes out haha🤗

Im Norwegian and i can barely understand some what he says, he uses a lot of old terms. sounds like he lives in a fjord 100 km from civilization. seems like they used a narrator with a very thick dialect to make it seem more "authentic".

Arne seems nice.

Talk to your parents about it.