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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
James Tapper

INSANE: Cutting edge wood chopping trend takes off online | Rare Historical Photos

Zoe Penlington, the inaugural British women’s champion, shows her skills in the stock saw.
Zoe Penlington, the inaugural British women’s champion, shows her skills in the stock saw. Photograph: Matt Tween

For some of Thoren Bradley’s fans, it’s the look: tight white T-shirt, tattooed forearms and braces. Others are fascinated by the way his axe seems to split a log in half in a single blow.

But whatever the appeal of the man some have described as “Fifty Shades of Grey, the nature version”, Bradley and other social media axemen have created a surge in interest in woodchopping.

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