When Nicole Coenen began publishing wooden videos online, it was a bit joke.
She was parodying the star of social networks, Thoren Bradley, which publishes self -cutting videos and offering physical conditioning advice.
But coenen soon became incredibly popular.
“I became the cliché Woodchopper that I was parodying,” Coenen told CBC’s The early edition Host Stephen Quinn.
“[Thoren] It is a great guy. “
Now, “Axe-Pert”, 31, has millions of followers in half a dozen platforms, all clinging to its next wooden division video.
Look | Nicole Coenen guide to cut wood:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj4xanfii8y
“It’s curious how life is sometimes,” he said.
After three years of registering his passion for cutting wood online, he has just launched a book full of advice and history on the world of wood cutting, entitled Ax in hand: a wooden, wood and fire guide.
Coenen, who now lives in the area of the BC Gulf Islands, grew in Ontario and said he never cut the wood as a child.
“Maybe once in Girl Guides.”
But he had to learn the tricks of the trade in 2020 when he worked on a farm in the Kootenay region of BC.
“It was very bad in that, my goal was horrible and I couldn’t make the wood separate,” he said.
Coenen joined a community group from Woodchoppers who taught him everything he needed to know, and then, he was hooked. I had to learn everything that was about the best techniques to divide the records.
Using his skills as a cameraman, Coenen Ramiza his videos with fast and funny edition.
While taking the strange landscape or workers’ concert, he has forged full time work by creating social media content for the past two years.
Not all its content focuses on wood; Sometimes it becomes personal, shares physical conditioning tips to obtain those toned wood arms and even answer the viewer’s questions.
Coenen said that some people bark sexist comments about their videos, but she has accumulated such a loyal follow -up that she never has to answer: her fans have hurried to defend her.
“Many people almost, like, support me now or are women who cut wood or are arborist women,” he said.
“You really find your people on social networks.”
Not to sit in his laurels, he wrote a book.
Ax in hand, Published by Cool Springs Press in Massachusetts, it aims to do something similar for those who learn to sharpen an ax and cut a piece of wood. Includes the history of axes, tips to choose the correct type of wood and tips to restore the axes, how to stack wood and how to build a fire.
“I wanted to cause a lot of curiosity,” Coenen said. “It’s like choosing your own adventure.”
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