Nice drop, Joe. You underestimated yourself! That white oak didn’t make you look small…….It made you look handsome! LOL. I’m clearing a patch of nice red, white and chestnut oak at the moment. Getting some dandy sticks. Minimum 24” with up to 48” at the butt. Most are 30-32’ to the first branch. Having a blast coming out of retirement to cut on this property. Haven’t felled such fine specimens of Allegheny hardwoods in years. The tops are yielding cord after cord of great firewood, too. Stay safe out there Joe. Have fun. Get logs! Whipple
Funny you mention cutting white oak today. I just started into a patch of nice big red oaks and some decent sized white oaks. Scaling out an easy 1,000 board feet each on the red oak we cut on Saturday. Slightly less on the white oaks. Very nice level ground and short trips to where I’m yarding them. It’s been dry so we won’t tear up the ground too much. Stay safe out there, Joe. Get logs! Whipple
Holy crap! Looks way too far north to grow bananas, Joe! Next video will probably be how to properly cut pineapple bushes or prune a watermelon grove! LOL. I kill myself sometimes! Be safe out there, Joe!
It's appropriate that these trees are harvested for a useful purpose rather than allowed to just grow old and rot. Everything has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Even bristlecone pines and ancient sequoias get old and decay. The old makes way for the new.
Whereabouts are you cutting walnut these days, Joe? We used to get a decent percentage of walnut on the timber warrants we won in Green County, PA, but the real gold mine for walnut was in the hills around Altoona. Mainly north and east of town. We had some real monsters that we cut toward Prince Gallitzin State Park in the late 70s. The timber buyer was shipping the veneer quality logs to Germany and he gave us some poly end seal to make sure the checking was minimized. I cut on shares with the logging contractor and it was an awesome pay day when we got into the big walnut. We also cut persimmon, paw-paw and osage orange in Greene County that went to Japan for custom gold club heads. That buyer wasn't too particular about the length of the logs but they absolutely had to have the end grain sealed to prevent checking as soon as they hit the landing. If they showed the least bit of checking, the buyer rejected them. Again, a top dollar pay day. Be safe out there. Cheers! Whipple
@@naturetamer Too old to log any more…..Love to work black walnut in my wood shop. Just finished a keepsake box for a friend’s daughter’s wedding gift. Her mom made the paper, bound the wedding registry and photo album, and I sized the box for it all to fit inside. Looks pretty nice, if I do say so myself. Stay safe, have fun, and get logs, Joe! Cheers! Whipple
@@Whipple1 I would love to hear your stories some day, a woman that I was talking to today asked me if I would ever sell my logging equipment and go to work for someone... 🤔🙄🤣
We had a JD 4020 on our farm when I was a kid. I think it was made in 1969. First new tractor my dad ever bought. He loved that tractor until it started giving him fits. Worked perfect for a few years until it didn’t. Transmission, hydraulic pump, electrical system. They all started going bad. I was in high school and can remember getting off the bus to see a guy winching it onto a trailer. My dad had the biggest grin but wouldn’t tell me where it was going or what kind of deal he made to get it off the farm. Always knew he came out on the upside of the ledger when he got rid of that tractor. Hope you have a great run with your 4020. Cheers! Whipple
Doggone it, Joe. Could you have cut that skidder trail just a wee bit narrower? Dang it. My knuckles are white just watching this video! Merry Christmas! Whipple
Been there done that, got to be in shape, , but.... God the views and the love of nature. At the end of the day you know that someone else is going to be able to have a new house for their family. And most loggers are family members, so that does make a difference.
@@naturetamer .... I was much younger and on the west coast, falling fir and spruce in 70's an we had to cut em 12 inch off the ground and same with the slash plus clean any water ways . Back breaking work, running up and down the hill. But.... God I loved those 2 years watching the sun burn off the morning fog and the beauty god made, then trying to leave it as good as we found it . I only worked select cuts , and been back there 10 years later.... Was bigger trees than before, what we took out actually gave more sun in and it just jumped. Just like that old logger said it would.
Looks like more fun on the slopes! Could use a bunch of those tops to finish off my firewood pile for next season, Joe. Stay safe, be careful, and always aware. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Whipple
Most skidders I ever operated in western PA, and particularly in Fayette and Greene Counties, had the vinyl on the seats all tore up from the operators clenching their behinds on too steep and too narrow skidder trails…! LOL
