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Jordan Jonas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1257 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

Because it's like all the dudes out there working on the fence.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

So the natives, when I got there, I thought, you know, I grew up on a farm. I thought I was pretty good with an axe, but... They do tons of work with those things. And I really grew to love their type of axe, their style of axe, and just an axe in general. They'd always say it's the one tool you need to survive in the wilderness. And I agree.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

So the natives, when I got there, I thought, you know, I grew up on a farm. I thought I was pretty good with an axe, but... They do tons of work with those things. And I really grew to love their type of axe, their style of axe, and just an axe in general. They'd always say it's the one tool you need to survive in the wilderness. And I agree.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

So the natives, when I got there, I thought, you know, I grew up on a farm. I thought I was pretty good with an axe, but... They do tons of work with those things. And I really grew to love their type of axe, their style of axe, and just an axe in general. They'd always say it's the one tool you need to survive in the wilderness. And I agree.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And this one has certain design features that the natives...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And this one has certain design features that the natives...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And this one has certain design features that the natives...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

that was unique to the evenki to the natives i was with one is with these russian heads or the soviet heads whatever they had they're a little wider on top here meaning you can put the handle through from the top like a tomahawk and it uh that means you're not dealing with a wedge and if it ever loosens and you're swinging it only gets tighter it doesn't fly off and so that's something that's kind of cool um then they have what's what they do that's unique

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

that was unique to the evenki to the natives i was with one is with these russian heads or the soviet heads whatever they had they're a little wider on top here meaning you can put the handle through from the top like a tomahawk and it uh that means you're not dealing with a wedge and if it ever loosens and you're swinging it only gets tighter it doesn't fly off and so that's something that's kind of cool um then they have what's what they do that's unique

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

that was unique to the evenki to the natives i was with one is with these russian heads or the soviet heads whatever they had they're a little wider on top here meaning you can put the handle through from the top like a tomahawk and it uh that means you're not dealing with a wedge and if it ever loosens and you're swinging it only gets tighter it doesn't fly off and so that's something that's kind of cool um then they have what's what they do that's unique

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

is so you can see there's the wolverine axe so it's got the little wolverine head in honor of that wolverine i fought on the show so you have actually two axes this is one of the small this is a little smaller i didn't want to make it too small because you need a something to actually work out there you need something kind of serious um but then they sharpen it from one side so if you're right-handed you sharpen it from the right side and that means when you're in the woods and living there's a lot of times where you're whether you're making a table or a sleigh or an axe handle or whatever you're doing

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

is so you can see there's the wolverine axe so it's got the little wolverine head in honor of that wolverine i fought on the show so you have actually two axes this is one of the small this is a little smaller i didn't want to make it too small because you need a something to actually work out there you need something kind of serious um but then they sharpen it from one side so if you're right-handed you sharpen it from the right side and that means when you're in the woods and living there's a lot of times where you're whether you're making a table or a sleigh or an axe handle or whatever you're doing

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

is so you can see there's the wolverine axe so it's got the little wolverine head in honor of that wolverine i fought on the show so you have actually two axes this is one of the small this is a little smaller i didn't want to make it too small because you need a something to actually work out there you need something kind of serious um but then they sharpen it from one side so if you're right-handed you sharpen it from the right side and that means when you're in the woods and living there's a lot of times where you're whether you're making a table or a sleigh or an axe handle or whatever you're doing

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

you're holding the wood and doing this work and it makes it really good for that planing the other thing it is especially in northern woods all the trees are like this big you know that you're never cutting down a big giant tree and so when you swing with a single sided axe like this sharpen from the one side it really with your right hand swing like this it really bites into the wood and gives you because with that if you can picture it that angle is going to cause deflection

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

you're holding the wood and doing this work and it makes it really good for that planing the other thing it is especially in northern woods all the trees are like this big you know that you're never cutting down a big giant tree and so when you swing with a single sided axe like this sharpen from the one side it really with your right hand swing like this it really bites into the wood and gives you because with that if you can picture it that angle is going to cause deflection

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

you're holding the wood and doing this work and it makes it really good for that planing the other thing it is especially in northern woods all the trees are like this big you know that you're never cutting down a big giant tree and so when you swing with a single sided axe like this sharpen from the one side it really with your right hand swing like this it really bites into the wood and gives you because with that if you can picture it that angle is going to cause deflection

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And without that angle on your right handed sling, it just like bites in there like crazy. And so That, there's other little, you know, the handle was made by some Amish guys in Canada. This is all hand forged. Oh, it's hand forged. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And without that angle on your right handed sling, it just like bites in there like crazy. And so That, there's other little, you know, the handle was made by some Amish guys in Canada. This is all hand forged. Oh, it's hand forged. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And without that angle on your right handed sling, it just like bites in there like crazy. And so That, there's other little, you know, the handle was made by some Amish guys in Canada. This is all hand forged. Oh, it's hand forged. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And so it's a pretty sweet little. Yeah, it's amazing. There's other things, you know, like I slightly rounded this pole here. It's just a little nuance because when you pound a steak in, if you picture it, if it's convex. when you're pounding it, it's going to blow the fibers apart. If it has just a slight concave, it helps hold the fibers together.