8 MORE LOGS With Skidding TONGS | PLUS House PAD Leveled 

In my teens I went to friends who lived in the bush, clearing their land for their farm. I wandered off into the surrounding bush and heard movement. It was an old fellow with a bullock team. He was a quiet man, spoke softly to his animals and also never swore. He had some hooks made up just like those but without replaceable tips, he would turn to smithing and reshape the point. One idea that he used was to have a disc of steel with a whey cut near an edge, with a reinforced rim on that hole. The chain that connected to the tongs was fed through that hole and it slid under the leading edge of the log being pulled. It stopped them jamming onto roots and rocks. It may be something you could knock up and save you a lot of grief. This is the first time I have watched, great jod and I have subscribed. Looking forward to more

Just a note, when cutting raises logs, make a bottom cut first then from the top and your saw won't get trapped by the pressure. Enjoying the channel😊

Still my favorite channel

It is a true family affair. Love how the kids jump in and help. I bet nobody has a problem sleeping at night, they are all worn out. Thanks for allowing us to share in your adventures!

Had rain yesterday in Concho and was supposed to turn to snow today. Have a guy working on tree clearing for my driveway to get a CONEX delivered. Be safe!

I saw YES! Mill up that log. Bound to get some good lumber out of it. Punky is the work to describe the beginnings of rot.

I’d mill that log, as you go up it will get much more solid, your Alaskan friend 🙏🏻❤️

You have become quite the loggers. Great natural resources near you.

Homesteading with the Skinners uses tongs, winch and arm to load logs for dimensional lumber all the time. Matt Cremona uses chains 'cuz most of his logs are massive, so he can cut slabs

Hey good afternoon you guys hope you guys are having a wonderful day and a wonderful morning keep up the good work I'm proud of you guys keep up the good work and God bless you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Great to see you and your family out working together in the forestry, but get yourself a pair of chaps cause one little bite from that chainsaw is going to put you out of action for a long time. Believe me, New Zealand has a lot of forester,s and it is compulsory to wear them chaps. A chainsaw bite is never a clean cut it’s more of a cut and rip, and takes a very long time to heal. Chaps my man save your legs and also makes it a little easier moving thru the scrub and undergrowth.. Kiwi Dave New Zealand

Those logs that are partially rotted can still be used for your cement forms. You don/t want to use up the good framing lumber on the forms.

Cool the kids can help out. And work in a little kickball too. Free logs is awesome. Just a little elbow grease. Good job. Thanks for sharing

Please save the wood left over so you could use it and make the furniture , cabinets later on ,

Wow, I can’t believe you got that all as flat as it is,considering how many rocks and boulders there were, unbelievable work!

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You all are getting it done. So nice to see a whole family enjoying all the process. You are trying to be careful too and that is so important. See you on the next one.

In general, the USDA Forest Service allows everyone to collect deadwood from fallen trees as long as they’ll use it to build a campfire. No license or prior consent is required for such an act. However, if you want to take the deadwood off the site of the national park or forest, that requires permission from the forest service itself.

I hope your family has a Happy Thanksgiving

About the rotten log... for structural framing, no. But it could be used for concrete forms, dunnage to stack good wood, even lay down inch live-edge planks to keep you out of the mud working this winter.

Great place to visit for camp and logs...win win. Good to see the kids. Some of the not so good logs could be used for cement forms and wall supports etc...nice job on the level prep. What a great vision you have and a wonderful partner to work side by side.... thanks for sharing your family

It is so cool to see what your vision is for your homestead. You’re so talented to be able to do all the projects yourself. Oh my goodness you guys have more than your share of boulders. It’s a huge blessing to have the equipment to do the things that have to be done. Great job guys!

Campfire ring and a tire swing. Living the life! Making memories. Thanks for sharing. Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey, if you hook those tongs to your foot bucket, you wouldn’t need a second person you just operate the tractor by hooking up automatically by drop in the bucket over the long I’m gonna pick the lock up and drive away with it. You don’t need unhook it with the backhoe part and have a second person.

Have you thought about changing the channel name? Maybe something like a boulder free life. LOL

Another fine Sunday video with my Sunday morning coffee thank you from Calgary Canada keep them videos coming.

Well, that’s what I I get for making a comment before the video it’s over you are going to have to haul gravel and stuff in but it looks beautiful

What y'all really need is some more rocks 😊 Great job!

Glad. the tongs worked for moving the logs onto the trailer and then unloading them onto your log deck. It is nice you made this a family outing as well as a wood-harvesting adventure. Blessing to you all.

U will look back on this video and say wow that's what the land looked like before, just like u can with the shed ❤❤

great work as a family, love the projects and the progress

Did you send Andrew a royalty for using his log lifter invention?

Great job!! I can see how the family really likes logging, it looked like a really great day!! The house sight is also looking really good.

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Bolders are our life😂😂😂 I’m glad that you all can keep a sense of humor about everything. The hardest working family on RU-vid. I keep saying this, but I have to keep repeating myself. I love how you make your children a part of everything that you do; you are raising amazing young people.😍😍 I’m looking forward to the start of the root cellar and the beginning of the house. Blessings to your family and happy Thanksgiving.

One thing is for syre man. It' ll make a lot and very good fire wood.

It looks fine to me, The rotting part is minimul just as far as you have witnessed already. It should make great lumber

Thanks for sharing

happy thanksgiving!!!

Well done! What a great family affair... Everyone gets involved. Kisses from France!

Beautiful!

Nice work! Very productive indeed! My big project at this time is replacing a pump jack well pump which has a sucker rod with a regular submersible pump. The sucker rod comes in 21 foot lengths and my understanding is that there's 450 feet of it!

Looking good 👍 OH NO more rocks to come? Lol

beautiful work

House site looks really good after so much work to this stage. Looking forward to the root cellar digging & reinforcing or will the inevitable underground boulders form part of the walls? No doubt I will see in future video’s🙂

It might be interesting to track the amount of wood you use on the house and at some point compare what it would have cost to purchase it. It’s great to know that you have enough free wood for years to come! And not that you don’t have enough to do but what about a zip line to go with that tire swing? 😍🇨🇦

Simple things like this black hook are very effective, it is amazing! 😃

Lots of good lumber in the first tree I would cut at 16 foot and mill it

Thanks for sharing the woodpecker! 😊

Beautiful forest. It seems like that big questionable tree may be good further up to the point that you could salvage one or two good sections. The tongs really seem like a good investment. Such great trees 🌲Your kids are so helpful...you're doing something right! Another great video, fun with the swing and campfire. Thanks

I think I asked you folks previously, but I'll ask again. Do you plan to build any sort of lean-to or wood shed to protect what you mill up? Obviously you'll be tarping off the pile of un-milled logs to keep the snow off of them this winter. You did say you're going to invest in a jackhammer. Have you looked at feather&wedge technique for breaking up large rocks? Just use a standard hammer drill to punch some holes, set the feather&wedge, then have the kids bang on them until the boulder fractures. You can easily break off slabs of the biggest boulders without excavating the entire beast, too. Thanks for listening to us armchair experts.

Great way to get a lot of work done and spend quality time as a family! Love the channel and look forward to the house build. All the best going forward!!

Thanks for sharing!

Blown Away, “national forest” as much wood as you can fit on your trailer! So cool, we just don’t have personal or family saw mills as every scrap of land is owned, and even the forestry commission land and trees although publicly owned are not available to the public?We do have 3 different woodpeckers though and they sound just the same when drumming! Great to see your well into double figures with the subs, so will grow rapidly now, great family, great channel! Andy, Southern England.

Figure how many Board Feet for all. Board Foot is 1 Foot square x 1 inch. Yep more than 8

I look forward to watching your videos every Sunday after church. Keep up the good family outings.

I thought you were going to have to haul dirt in, but that is unbelievable beautiful

theres still definitely good wood left but id go up another 4' cut a round off and see how it looks

Great way to have fun and get the timber you need great land management to great content fantastic footage brilliant scenery

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You guys are making me re-,think moving to Alaska for going offgrid. Im not but 30 minutes from national forest land and the permits for getting wood arent too expensive

That isn’t a very good log for building and you are correct. But you can use lessor grade wood for constructing forms for concrete because you typically throw those in the burn pile anyway after you use them once the concrete dries.

That bad log bring it home the worst thing that that could happen would be turned into firewood

I'm almost thinking it would be easier to use those boulders as support to throw cement over for a road?? Also I ❤ how you've use them along your road imagine if you had to pay for them 🙃

Down south in the swamps of LA they drag up cypress logs sunken in the swamps for many years and they are fine, different wood absorbs different, but there is still a lot of boards to cut out of those logs, and burn the rest, why waste them ???

I use my tongs all the time to move all kinds of wood, and mine aren't the really good ones like y'all have.

Spraying Aluminum, and gosh knows what else in the air to "dim the planet" is killing the trees.

Is there a permit needed for what you're pulling? I assume that's the White Mountains somewhere. I've seen where you can pull forest materials for personal use, but they don't mention timber in the list of things you can harvest.

I am surprised there are not many more forest fires , with all the left over dead trees laying on the ground in our National Forests What a shame. it should be required that if you take a tree, you are required to take it all including branches ect.

Do you start cutting at the bottom to score a line, then second cut from the top? Second log punky too? Bummer. Firewood!

How many Logs You need for the whole house?

What kind of pine trees are those??

I hate it when you get fired from the job by family!

Are those logs free for the taking? That seems odd to me that our government would allow that.

Do you have get permission to take fallen trees?