Old machinery, chainsaw usage, old records played on my old Brunswick, Victrola, or Edison disc machine. The videos on this channel are all meant to be workplace-safe. You could possibly become a logger if you pay attention to my chainsaw videos!
I was surprised to see the wedge fly. Hopefully it wasn’t too badly damaged. During the Depression my father was a lumberjack (my description) in the northern woods of New Hampshire with the CCC., before he went off to war. He was a tree topper. (To this day I don’t know what that entailed and why someone would climb to the top of a tree and cut the top). When I was a boy I remember once him telling stories, one about how at the end of the day they would sit in camp and make wedges. [The days before plastics]
Wedges are expendable, but I hate touching them with the saw. The plastic is hard enough to knock the point back a bit on the tooth that catches it. I had it set to close in where I was cutting. It's a good lesson if it doesn't smash you!
We have quite a few sassafras in Connecticut. Depending on the particular location. I had no idea they got that big though. We used to pull/dig out the small treas and shave the root wood to make sassafras tea. Would the root on a tree that big be good for making tea? You'd need a backhoe to dig it out.
The roots may be spoiled already, but I can check that out. There are sassafras seedlings/sprouts in our woods that would be good for making tea. The government shut down sassafras extraction for tea back in the 1970s. They said that it is carcinogenic. That was their story. I recently learned that it is used for making some illegal drug, and that probably is the real reason, not cancer prevention.
@@DavidN23Skidoo I used to drink it a few times a year when I was young. Still here at age 62. My uncle used to drink it on a daily basis. He lived until age 86 but did die of bone cancer. My guess is the dose makes the poison like most things. Never heard about any illegal drug.
This is the exact same method that I use to control pests in my garden. I bought this torch off Amazon that has a 6 inch flame and makes quick and so satisfying work of pests. 🔥 👍
Hello, Tim! It's always good to hear from you. I am hooked up with a great cardiologist at Barnes/WashU in St. Louis, and making progress on my problem. I will be wearing a monitor again for a few days so he can figure out if the PVCs or the slow heartbeat is the problem, then we can do the proper treatment. Hope that you are doing well!
We have more raccoons than we like, because they are aggressive nest predators, and we like our migratory songbirds. Wear more fur! Our resident mother deer and babies are a joy to see every day. We have a gobbler show a few times per week. The barred owls are out in the timber. They will move back into the dog yard during the winter. We are blessed!
I took down a similar two-foot thick "decapped" ash yesterday with a traditional back-cut and wedge. This method would have been better, if I could master that bore-cut as you have. Thanks! :)
You can learn that pretty quickly, I think. Here is a video I made a few years ago to help you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ULcOb2ssw-c.html
The new mower really is a good fit for us. Hauling the Grasshopper back and forth was getting to be too much of a chore. The new one has a shorter wheelbase, thus it rides rougher over mole runs. Chew gum while you mow and you will exercise every muscle in your body! But it makes our lives better. The twin Kawasaki engine powers through tall grass easily, and nothing has to be greased. I think it will outlast us, and it does the job we need done. I am making good progress now on the bradycardia/PVC/VPB problem. We are hooked up now with a first class electrophysiologist at Barnes/WashU in St. Louis. He has reviewed the information from Deaconess and spent an hour talking to us. This week I had an electrocardiogram to have a look at my heart working. One ventricle is slightly thickened, but no enlargement. The valves are tight and working properly. This means the problems are definitely electrical. The doctor will be sending a monitor for me to wear several days to check out how my heart responds while working. When Deaconess had a monitor on me they told me to take it easy, and to not work up a sweat, plus, when they had me on the treadmill the technician shut it down too soon. We need information on how my heart responds when I am working hard. The Wash U doctor says to go ahead and work, lift heavy things, split wood, etc., while wearing the monitor. He wants to see how the heart responds while working and then recovering. I have been getting some tachycardia after heavy lifting, and that needs to be looked at. The possible treatments are ablation to control the PVCs and VPBs, a pacemaker to speed up the heart when it goes too slow, or a combination. Sometimes it drops down into the 20s, but mostly at rest it is mid-40s right now. The tachycardia event I had recently had the heart tripping up to 200. It is all very interesting, and a heck of a lot better than clogged arteries or an enlarged heart to deal with. We are encouraged!
Merle, it is a 40, but the tree lined drainages on the east and west sides make this field 25.5 that we are looking at here. From road to road north and south it is 1320 feet. From tree line to tree line east and west it is 780 along the road I was on.
They chunked it down from the top with a bucket truck and pushed the log over with a skid-steer. I will post a photo on the blog. I got over to the farm as they dropped the log.
They would do well to watch some of your fine videos. Sorry you lost a good ole tree but it will make good firewood for you, Susan and your furry friends.
It was in a bad place, under the crown of a big pecan, so it was growing with a severe lean, over the gazebo. I have no way of doing any corrective pruning on it. It is also close too close to the garden. My only option to drop it would have been directly against the lean with a winch, but that would have put it on the power line going around to the east side of the garden. I do all my cutting with both feet firmly on the ground, so I hire work like this out to tree removal contractors. I will process it to firewood myself. Thanks for visiting! We have some good walnuts out in the timber that we might see reach maturity. No hurry to get them, though.
Ah, my favorite time of the day, mainly the weekends when everyone is asleep. I can be home and enjoy the quietness of the Birds chirping in the the cool crisp air. Oh, and of course many cups of coffee. Thank you for sharing, hopefully you all are doing well out that way.
I just found one of these in my dad’s old shed. Works great and even had to plastic pouch and wire/pipe cleaners. Such a simple tool and will be nice to use when storms approach. Thank you for the video!
Robinia pseudoacacia. We planted black locusts to add nitrogen to this tree planting project in 1993. Most of them have passed out, but the ones on the edge were leaning out, getting in our way when mowing. It is great firewood, so waste not. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q67VJa7Zm-c.html
@@HiLineTree They do OK in the hydraulic splitter. We began cheating with hydraulic in '09. The Monster Maul is rusty! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--udjdkuuGYM.html
Come-alongs typically come with one snatch block, so you can pull with two lines. Mighty handy to have. The tractor makes life much easier, though! Thank You for visting and commenting!
I agree with you about the smell of sassafras when splitting it. I set aside about a 14” round and I am planning to make a Swedish log. I am curious to see how it will smell while it burns. (My favorite is red cedar. I haven’t tried cherry yet.) Sorry about your dry conditions for the garden. We have had quite a bit of rain here in RI and MA this summer.
As a logger you might get away with this but as an arborist you’ll have to get used to being precise with a chainsaw so practice being precise and yeah you’ll ruin some chains but it’s better to ruin chains on the ground while practicing to be precise than to cut your rope what is holding you up because you didn’t practice. I personally try to always buck my logs without having to turn them around and without touching the ground. This really helped me getting more precise with my chainsaw… it also helped me getting rid of 30lv (15 bucks) per ruined chain, luckily I did get a little chain grinder which makes life easier and cheaper lol 😂
@@DavidN23Skidoo I understand that, I’ve heard a lot of people telling me that I’m an absolute brain deprived person for wanting to be an arborist lol 😂
Susan picked a nice bunch of beans today, and the stinkbugs have damaged many of them. When you look at the perfect produce at the supermarket you know that someone was killing the bugs! Well, we do like to eat.
Long log and no cant hook at hand, you need a plan. This is quite common in log yards. For firewood cutting out in the woods you can pick a safe bucking point to reduce length and then roll the segments. Eating dirt with your saw makes a guy feel like a loser!
I have run this one below the maximum speed until recently. My newest saws have auto-tune, and I have readjusted the high speed on this one and the 385 to match the notes of the new ones. I like my saws to speed up a bit at the end of a tank, rather than sag, just to protect the piston and cylinder. The new ones (550 and 572) have demonstrated that it isn't necessary to do that.
@@pamelah6431 I had my first instruction course in 1995, from Tim Ard. He has a good channel with lots of instruction and examples. Tim came to our farm one time and did a session for some of my landowners. He's a great guy, and is easing into retirement.
