Silliest thing that I've ever done woodworking

It occurs to me the only person who knows this story is vivianteddybear and others might want to hear about it. So this it the story of the last time I tried to chop a piece of oak in half across the grain.

I had borrowed an axe from dr_mrow (still have it) and the head was rusty and the handle was in terrible shape. I reground the head, sharpened it, put a new handle on it, and wanted to test it out. So I put a piece of oak lengthwise across my (plastic) sawhorses, took a breath, and whacked it as hard as I could.

A thunderous whack later and said piece of wood vanishes. I was very puzzled—this is not the expected outcome when you hit a piece of wood with an axe. I look around for a bit and then a few seconds later a clatter results as it hits the roof on its way down and falls into my yard. Near as I can tell, what happened was those stupid plastic sawhorses flexed and launched it straight up like it was on a trampoline.

I think I got my wooden sawhorses the next week or so after that…