From Forest Killer to CrossFit Icon: The Axe's Weird Journey

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Sketching a colonial settler woodsman while discussing how axes evolved for American trees, girdling techniques that killed forests standing up, and how Rocky and Thor turned wood chopping into modern fitness. Drawing starts at 5:30am CT.
9 Fun Facts About Settler Woodsmen:

European settler axes transformed after arriving in America around 1607. Early settlers brought small lightweight axes designed for European coppiced trees.
Settlers killed trees by girdling instead of always chopping them down. Girdling meant cutting a ring of bark around the trunk to starve the roots.
Colonial settlers cleared nearly 300 million acres of forest by 1920. From 1600 to 1900, axes were the primary tool for transforming America from forest to farmland.
A typical colonial family farm was around 60 acres with only 20 acres cleared. An average farm in late 1700s Gloucester, Rhode Island had 9 acres of meadow, 7 of pasture, 3 to 4 planted to grain, plus house and garden space.
William Penn required settlers to leave 1 acre of trees for every 5 acres cleared. This 1681 Pennsylvania ordinance aimed to preserve forests for future generations.
Pop culture movies turned wood chopping into a fitness trend. Rocky IV showed Sylvester Stallone chopping wood in Siberia as part of his training montage.
The first sawmills were built immediately when new settlements formed. Every new community established going westward built a sawmill as one of its first structures.
Wood chopping fitness programs now use specialized training axes. Companies like ChopFit created workout equipment shaped like axes with uneven weight distribution.
Axe throwing recreation exploded from backyard hobby to 336 million dollar industry. In 2006, friends in Toronto started throwing axes at stumps for fun.

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