This article originally appeared on Modern Farmer. There may be some actual science behind the legendary manliness of Paul Bunyan, the ax-wielding lumberjack folklore credits with razing forests from ...

Chopping wood isn’t a walk in the park, and lumberjacks bulk up those muscles by felling trees, cutting logs, and transporting heavy lumber. Historically, lumberjacks used axes and hand saws, and many ...

Using traditional bushcraft techniques, this video follows the process of building a primitive shelter while chopping wood and cooking over an open fire. It highlights hands-on skills, simple tools, ...

Wood has been around for somewhere between 395 and 400 million years. Axes, by comparison, have only been around since 4,000 BCE at best. But humans have never been the type to let a late start get in ...

Chopping wood for an hour can boost male testosterone levels by almost 50 percent, says a group of University of California, Santa Barbara, researchers studying the Tsimane population of Bolivia.