THIS IS my woodchopping journey.

My coworkers also vary in density. I haven't yet determined which ones are harder to chop, but I'm getting close.

It never occurred to me that wood could need so long to dry out. I thought maybe a few days, but 6 months to two years is insane. Really have to get started early I guess

Love your vids Nicole! Like others have said, I would be proud to have you as my daughter. You are very candid about yourself, and one day you will look back at this time, and realise that it was not so hard, and that you can be kinder to yourself. Thanks for making so many people happy 🪓🪵🪓😊

No wet wood can stop our wood-spliting champion.🌟👍

Love your "Okie Dokie", warm nature and that charming half smile. Also, I get to learn a lot of things! ♥️

Informative and entertaining. Thank you Nicole 😃👏🏻👏🏻

After a long and tiring day at work, it’s so nice to be greeted with Okie Dokie! A perfect way to end my day 😊

I just love talking about wood Nicole it's so interesting, it,s like my favourite thing to talk about!❤

Learned a lot here. I have a whole stack of wood out back from a fallen tree. I have been avoiding it. With this new knowledge I will give it a go.

Not so long ago i discovered this channel, but I really like the way you create your content. And I really like woodchopping and being outside in the woods! That nature looks always amazing! Keep going

I love the echo/tone in the woods. I live in the suburbs and just chop in my back yard. It's not the same as when I go camping or something.

I hope you get to chop wood around the world!

Wow, my son discovered your channel, then I caught on. I grew up on a large in the fifties, Wood was our source of heat and hot water. I was given a double-bit axe at 4 years old. So I have some knowledge about splitting wood. You are truly an outstanding young woman with a great outlook on life. Very much enjoy your videos. God Bless

Good job young lady as usual I like it because you know a whole lot about what you’re doing. Keep up the good work got you on my prayer list.

When Nicole drops the double Okie Dokie, you know it's going to be a challenging one.

Perfect - breathtaking - in a sense magical!!! Nicole incorporates beauty, feminity, strength and very respectable muscularity!!!

That echo of the chop in the trees. 😍😍😍 so serene. ❤

I love that you've started doing these! Can't wait till youto a sharpening video!

Nicole, you are one great wood splitter. Always enjoy your videos. 🍁

I’m always impressed with your consistent aim. I like to cheat at splitting by just using the biggest maul I can find. That tends to make it probable I will split it but then I’m betrayed when I occasionally come down on the handle instead of the head and split the wrong piece of wood. In this video it’s worth mentioning that balsa wood is also a hardwood.

Thank you for being so positive and awesome. It's nice to see that since everyone is always so doom and gloom

I always wondered about the importance of drying out the wood over time.

I'm FAR east and south of you, and my wood splitting has mostly been on some variety of Cherry, Ash, and some Elm and a little bit of a type of Chestnut. The Chestnut would almost split if I showed a maul to it. The Cherry, not so much. Ash is a satisfying wood to split, for certain--even if it's been bucked within the last month. I'm kinda sad that my current house doesn't have a wood-burning fireplace. My last house did, and one of my tasks (in the distribution of chores) was splitting firewood (my spouse was even more fond of having a fire in the fireplace than I). I have a firepit, but it's not as fun as having a fireplace in the house, and it doesn't get used as much as the fireplace did, so I don't get to split wood as much... Even so, okey dokey, I enjoy sharing your videos with friends.

I don't chop wood, but I love learning about it. You make it fun! Your content is so wholesome. I love it

So funny that you posted this cause I was just talking about your videos with my husband saying that I thought that even he might have trouble splitting some of the pieces I’ve seen you split in your videos and he said it was all in the seasoning of the wood. The longer it’s been seasoned the easier it is to chop. Way to read your viewers minds! 🤣😵‍💫😁

Thanks for educating us!

Your smile and cheer is contagious!

Fantastic video great thought in detail and you kept it interesting too😂 always a pleasure.

Your vids are a good natured breath of fresh air. Carry on!

Just come across your channel and watched a few of your videos, you are a breath of fresh air amongst some of the rubbish on KZfaq. Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦.

Really enjoy your vids as someone who has spent nearly thirty five years working in a Saw Mill (Lumber Mill) enjoy your take on types of wood love the smell of silver birch and moisture content we take green timber and from summer to winter is cutting speeds slow with the wetness of the logs we run down.

Firewood is the only fuel that heats you thrice: First when you collect it; Next, when you chop it and Lastly, when you burn it. Love the "look" expressed at your double entendres... Cheers from an Ex-Pat Canuck, now in the Willamette Valley.

There is something so utterly satisfying about watching that axe land at damn-near the exact same place every time. But I am a man, I am used to aiming for stuff and hitting everything but the thing I was aiming for.

Dude! I love your videos. Keep going.

Good information and entertaining at the same time. Thanks for this, you've more than earned a like. 👍🏾

Good job Sandy!

Love your sense of humour 😂❤ but tips is great thanks

that line you set on the wet moist green wood was nice. top chopping chops.😉

Yep, I'm nearly 70, and I split up and burned most of an old pecan tree trunk this past winter. Some pieces were 2 and 1/2 feet in diameter, and one was about 3 feet. But they were easier to split than most smaller ones with knots. I've got a piece of wood from one of those that I call "the jawbone of an ass". It came from around a knot. After a rain, the wood was really tough to split. But it gives you an excellent arm and shoulder workout. You should try changing arms and splitting lefthanded, too. I cannot do it the same way like that. I find myself pushing the axe with the right arm that way, but still with good results, sometimes better, depending on the angle I need. I bought a splitting maul for the first time about a couple of months ago, but I have yet to use one. I saw a video about using one but couldn't find one at a reasonable price until it was too late to use it this season. Oh, well, next year, I suppose. I always just used an axe, and if things got too tough, I'd switch to a wedge or two and a 12 lb. sledge hammer. I call it the sewage hammer, because if I have to resort to that, something is going to get the crap beat out of it. It's fun to crack jokes at your wood while you're splitting it and do Three Stooges routines like, "Oh, a wise guy, eh?" Or Jackie Gleason, "Alright, Wisenheimer!" Then, there was my mother's saying, "I'll bust you open!" And, then, there's me, threatening to beat my wedges with a hammer, if they don't get in there and split that wood. 😅

I got a load of birchwood from my neighbor last weekend. Sadly quite wet, even snow sticking to it as it has been lying on the ground for a few days. I got the chainsaw out and cut it, but now it's in the woodshed for a few months to dry. Need to get myself a good splitting axe, then in summer... :-) So far I have been lazy and bought the little fire wood split and ready for the oven, but it's time to take the challenge, after seeing your videos!

Thanks for the information, always nice to learn something new 👍

You have the absolute best facial expressions!😁

I absolutely love all your vids Nicole. Very informative and my escape from living in London. I'm waiting for you to start a range of "Okie Dokie" T-Shirts etc. Stay happy and stay safe and keep enjoying your Wood. 😬😬😬 chopping.

Very good I enjoyed that. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

As a fellow lost human being I gotta say, you've inspired me. I'm applying to do another degree now, kinda want more out of life. I've also got a strange obsession with the Canadian wilderness now so that kinda sucks being stuck in Australia. Anyways good luck in your roaming, I know you'll find what you're looking for.

Thanks for all the information.

Thank you for the positive and valuable video.

There is room for diversification Nicole 👌 Hatchet & Axe throwing is an entertaining skill to learn 🤙

Omg you are so cute!! And thanks for the information!! I'm slowly getting into woodwork.

I mostly chop birch,rowan and beech wood. Good to use. Happy chopping, greetings from Sweden

Seeing the wood splitting is so satisfying

In the Carpathians, wet stumps are chopped with a blow along the edge, and dry ones in the middle are chopped. If even a small piece breaks off from a wet stump, then it will be much easier to chop it further.

Okie Dokie... Lesson Learnt🤙 Thankyou🙏🙏

Split wood dries quicker. Yep.👍

Hi Nicole. Your Oke Dodie is Contagious. I keep repeating it all the time. I’m a old guy take grew up with older sayings. Thank Nicole n

Good show, good advice. You are good.

Great info. Thanks.

Thanks for the lesson on wood

We always left wet wood to cure for a year before even trying. Most of what we cut was birch for the furnace. Did cut some cedar for kindling however.

You really know what you're doing.... Awesome

Loved this although I don't have any wood to split. Yet very interesting informations!

Thanks for the info

Great information always fun 👍👍👍👍

In the novel I'm writing, I'm approaching the chapter that introduces a lumberjack girl as a major character, and I think this channel is exactly what I need to help! Thank you algorithm gods

Thanks !

Good info🎉

Good info.❤

I have some wood I want to get rid of, and knowing how to store it properly until it goes in a fire would be really helpful! Thanks for teaching me something today. My day is off to a good start.

Aloha. Great video, Mahalo for sharing.

It’s really noticeable when you do the comparison one after the other. That's awesome so thanks for that. And I can't with you... with you saying... moist 😶wood 😂 LOL! The sigh of inevitability 1:29 .

Chopping wood is so satisfying. Storing and stacking-I’m ready! 🙌🏼🪵

Nicole you are too good

Que bueno encontrar una mujer tan guerrera, eres unica

*DEEP FROZEN WET WOOD* can be fun to chop - I had 4m3 of wet oak here in Bulgaria and it dropped to -25C - the water in the wood expanded so as you chopped it, it exploded...!!! It was such good fun, each half would fly off a good couple of meters.

You may not read these, but you are incredible

Can drier wood ever be more difficult to split? I've heard some people say that Ash is easier to split when it's still "green".

Thanks.

I'm new to this but I'm finding green oak way easier to split than the dry one... Thanks for sharing your wood knowledge!

Nicole absolutley love your channel.. you are an inspiration..❤❤🇦🇺 Ive always been taught when you chop wood your going across the grain, but when you split wood its with the grain.. do you agree?

When Nicole starts talking about wood and does a funny about "Wet wood" YOU BETTER DAMN LAUGH. When Nicole gives you tips about regonizing the type of wood YOU BETTER DAMN SAY "yes ma'am".

All of your videos make me enjoy life more. Why is that?

A female with relatively small muscles popping wood ! Thus showing that it is the technique not the showboat swing you see in movies. I like to put a little righthand twisting flick at the end of the swing because it rotates the axe out of the wood after the impact. It's takes lots of practice. The more you split, the better you get. Great physicological therapy for stress. So get you a thermus of coffee, and some rock and roll music and go split for 12 hours straight! If your 15-40 years old ! I started splitting wood with a very narrow faced double bitted axe at the age of 5. Dad taught me the righthand twist pop after I broke a few handles getting the axe unstuck! PS I grew up in Michigan. Never ran into Southern Live Oak until I was in my 30s. Drying it for a year is criticle and it's still tough going.

Left eastern Ohio, foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and spent 40 years in the west. Lots of conifer firewood. There are over thirty species of tree in the foothills. Each wood has its own characteristics. Hickory, elm and Osage orange require several wedges and a sledge or a hydraulic splitter, to split. Ash splits easily with an axe and even burns when green. Oil content is what I heard. Lots of different forests and trees in this planet's biosphere. If you ever get a chance, visit the Appalachians.

Quirky, a bit weird, great, simple entertainment... and You sold me to the Okie Dokie thing. A bit weird in French, but hey they don't need to know...! Thank you!

My late father and I determined that the way to chop wet wood was chop it the same day you cut it or at least within 24 hours. The surface of a recently cut log is firm and allows the energy of the ax to be transmitted thought the wood. We found that after 24 hours the surface of the cut face softened and would absorb the energy of the ax.

Love this content! Do you fell your own trees or do you buy them and buck it on your property? I get firewood from my own land, but time constraints replaced the axe with a splitting screw. Miss the axe tho, it sure is therapeutic work.

sorki I was looking for you typing canadian wood barby.. It worked

Try splitting Eucalyptus. It’s much easier to split while wet!

we have pine oak and red cedar and the red cedar smells good when burned and i love me chopping and i ran out of red cedar and all i have left is alpine in the deep woods and the risk is brown recluse spiders and snakes

I've got wood! Great video

Oh I am excited for the stacking and storing!! This might have sounded sarcastic in written form, I assure you I am dead serious 😬

Interesting!

I was finding freshly cut arbutus was splitting fairly easily. Surprising tbh. And some aged oak that I got from someone was like IMPOSSIBLE, lol! Maybe it's just some luck with the pieces and grain, etc. (PS I think I speak for everyone that "green" Is preferred over "moist", lol!)

Green wood is easier to split in the winter, especially when temperatures stay below -10 degrees C.

Could you do a vid on finding and processing fatwood

Psyching yourself up for the wet wood chop. 😂

Storing and stacking. Time to find the answer to the ultimate question: Bark side up, or bark side down?

Dear Nicole, not sure you read all your comments, already 151 here on this post. I started following your channel and did not view the first video of yours where you mentioned your sexual orientation (wow - not much on the sound of those words for some reason) for quite a bit. At first, I was caught between confusion and perhaps a bit of disappointment as I had sent onto a friend a suggestion that you were the type of girl I would hope he marries some day. But then I realized that you had captivated me from the start with who you are, how you see things, your smile, and just so much about you that despite my Boomer+ bias thinking and my confessed positions on sexual orientation, I am still a total fanboy of your channel and of course you. So just as you shared with us, I wanted to share with you. Thanks for being Nicole. Bob in Nevada