If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.
If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.
I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging.
When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.
I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.
I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.
I come from a long line of lumberjacks. My family has a proud heritage of swinging the ax. I've always been quick to take on a big piece of timber, and I'm just as ready to topple the big spending in Washington.
We could have chopped down the sycamore with this.
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.
I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.
You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.
