Attempting to take out one massive tree. Not for sure we brought enough horse power to the battle. 

Hello everyone, this is a popular tree. No I won’t grow much corn where tree come from, but the roots sucking water and shade can affect about 150’ radius around tree. For efficiency with our larger equipment it needed to go, the landowner sold timber to logger Wade and they will be here this fall after harvest and I would bet they won’t touch this tree. This farm has been in CRP program for over 20 years, landowner decided to pull out and take bids from local farmers to rent it for production ag, which at this point needed a lot of trees cleaned up and tucked away.

Mike, Jerry and Aaron what a tree to take down! Hard work determination and stubbornness got it down and tucked away! Thanks for sharing. Kevin

When the audio started, the sound of the cicadas was deafening. Nice capture if that's what I was hearing. Big honking tree. Poplar burns pretty well. It burn hot, but also burns fast. If I were closer, I wouldn't mind having that for the fireplace.

Thank you MBTS! Great videographer!

Nothing better than teamwork to get a job done! The respect you give Jerry is a true testament to who you are Mike. And you two work wonders together!

Might have been a homestead once, sure, but it used to be very common practice to leave one big shade tree in every major field so there would be a cool place for taking a break in the days before tractors with air conditioners.

Opening music, PERFECT. The 120 looked tiny next to that tree.

It's awe inspiring to watch men operate heavy equipment with such precision and skill. It's like you are one with the machine

That is an absolutely top notch video, men and machines working as a team, pushing both machines to the limit, and of course not forgetting the video master in charge of filming it all, loved it.

It sure looks like a cottonwood tree when you can see the bark. Yes that is a type of poplar. There were 2 BIG cottonwoods on the family farm. One had been hit by lighting, probably 100 years ago, and Dad said he used to play INSIDE the hollowed out trunk when he was a kid. I have a picture of him standing in front of the healed up crack in the trunk, from back in the 1980's, when Dad was about 70 years old.

"You shoulda seen it Farmer Chris! a couple of Deere came along and knocked it down!!!!!"

When I was in Boy Scouts 50 years ago there was a pile of large dead trees at the edge of a farmer’s field where we camped. We played tag,capture the flag, King of the hill on and around the trees. Running across them,climbing under them, jumping from limb to limb. We played for hours and hours. I don’t remember any broken bones but a lot of bumps and bruises and I think we all had the wind knocked out of us a time or two or three. I learned a lot about how to fall, also how to balance, not to be afraid of heights. On my 30s and 40s did quite a bit of tree removal. All those days are over for me but the memories aren’t. Beautiful country and the drone videos are great. Thanks. Greg

You need a igger boat! I had a double trunk popular tree about 25’ from my house with high voltage power lines 40’ on the other side and my house feed about 10’ on the diagonal. I hired an arborist to take it down because it was showing some rot and did a lot of squeaking when the wind blew. He showed up with a 120’ crane setup raised the crane and said I’ll be back, I need a bigger crane. He went and got his 160’ crane and his 3 man crew took it down in 10’ sections. His crew rode slings from the crane up to do the cutting.

MBTS with some good commentary and excellent standing in front of the stump. Well done. 😀

I think that MBTS did a great video of Dirt Perfect and Jerry.

FYI There is an app that you take a picture of the leaves and are bark and it tells you what tree are plant it is. Good luck 👍

Quite a project. Split screen & time lapse were done in a great sequence. Thanks, John

Wow big tree Mike! Great job taking care of it! Stay safe!🙏❤️🇺🇸

I think I’d have brought along a chain saw. Aaron did a fantastic job filming. It never could have happened without Aron👍

I worked it that size trees in alaska every day. Spruce that was fifteen feet straight across the stump when fell. Hardwood trees are seldom solid inside going all different directions plus a few gallons per foot of growth. No sign of a underground spring feeding it. We bored holes into the base of them and would put a lot of dynomite in them so to split them. Once in a while lucky with steep ground to get moving until it would take off on its own, down the bank it would roll taking small trees that looked like small bushes in comparison to it. Nice work and see where more of them in the dense overgrown forest is. Do they log in that area? Those little lumber mills might of sawed the branches up . Our big mills couldn't handle trees that size even back in my day without splitting into quarters and then sawn up .... great video, ok

Again with the music. Love it man. Get up in there with a metal detector, see if there's any relics from a old homestead MBTS!

That tree looks healthy and I'd venture to say... Majestic? Sure why not.. majestic. A Wolf tree we used to call them alone and thicker for the extra sunshine it got. Sad to see those go if they don't neet to be wiped out... should plant another somewhere else to mitigate the act. Saving the timber for furniture? Most be some fantastic wood in that old brute eh?

Awesome video Aaron you did amazing job making Jerry and DP look as good as they did

Amazing job Mike, Aaron. and Jerry. That tree had one huge root ball on it. Everything down and nothing or no one hurt makes for a good day. Great video. God Bless and Good Health.

A tree alone in a field is said to be good luck, a lot of farmer in the old days would keep a tree alone in field for superstitious reasons

My grandfather would’ve just said “git me my chainsaw and dynamite” When I was little he’d have me dig out up underneath the stumps. Then launch em.

I can remember cutting up logs from a tree about that size, the water just ran out as we cut through it, it made good pallet lumber for one time use pallets.

So just to recap: Jerry did all the work and everybody else was just moral support!

Beautiful tree... wonder how long it has stood there? Amazing that it takes no time to destroy.

On the opening drone shot I thought "sycamore." Then I saw the bark and thought "Eastern Cottonwood." Then I saw the leaves and thought, "Tulip tree," which is also called yellow poplar. Tulip poplars typically grow very straight off a single stump though.

What a TEAM! Especially 'Man Behind The Scenes'! That man is Incredible.

I can bet that tree is roughly 150 years old and in that time the root system is massive!! If you look at the canopy of the tree that is how big the root system is under ground so no wonder you had a little bit of a hard time digging

OMG, they took down the AVATAR Tree...again, but with less horsepower and no missiles! For a second, thought we may needed to call a shout out to LetsDig18, but don't worry, MBTS to the rescue, He got JERRY!

After the tree fell, three words kept coming to my mind. “GET A CHAINSAW”

Should make a tree house out of that tree, it’s huge enough for a 1 bed, kitchen, bath and a porch.

Had I not seen the drone sequence at the end I would have thought, that's so sacrilegious to take down such a beautiful tree. HOWEVER, I now believe that the decision to take it down was the right one. To grow and harvest corn etc would be a nightmare. You wouldn't be able to plant anywhere near the tree as you would have machines snagging their hoses, to go around it and taking valuable water from the ground. To see the vast number of trees in the local vicinity, they more than compensate for the loss of this one tree. But if Farmer Chris were to plant a tree near his homestead, say a fruit tree? Then that would benefit the family as well as the environment 😊👍

It’s not longer Dirt Perfect, it’s Jerry “ Dozer Perfect” show. Lol good job as always Mike, and Jerry and I guess Aaron also.

The deer’s knocked it out of the park DP

Glad to know that it was just a poplar tree and not a white oak, if it was a white oak there would have been sawyers crying! That's still a ton of board feet.

When I was in the Army, In my unit a big tree limb went through the windshield of a big truck, between the 2 soldiers in the cab . They are lucky to be alive .

Man that tree makes the 120 look like a toy. Lol God bless

Run what brung for sure I don't think it would've come out without Jerry lifting on it for sure. Good job MBTS doing what you do best supervising lol.

I like the new format... where you go straight to the project. It's so much better than the one with the red subtitles explaining what's going on in the video clip.

I thought the MBTS was going to try to push it through vet when he bear hugged it great video and that was a huge tree you and the 120 earned your money on this one

I watched Ax Men and you just pushed Farmer Chris retirement check over the hill!! That was easily a 50,000 dollar tree!😃 Team Work makes the Dream Work!👍👍👍

DP you should have thrown up a Rope swing in the tree for MBTS to swing in while you dug around on Time lapse...😏

Check the growth rings for age. Where we live a cottonwood attains that size in 30 years. They grow large enough to challenge a mid size excavator and the stumps take 3 seasons to burn. If you have cottonwoods around it is constant warfare with them.

Hoodie DP from Jamaica 🇯🇲🇯🇲. Let's get the show on the road. Lights , Camera , Action 💪💪💪💪

Next time you'll have to borrow Kleenman's log arch. Should make moving it a lot easier...

Mikey… you went from tree to pond in one fell swoop! Good thing it was a poplar… if it had been a white oak, you would have to call in someone who had two 850’s to even wiggle the leaves! Nice job all the way around… although you and Jerry did the grunt work, it looked to me like MBTS actually talked it down!

I never would have thought that was a Poplar until I saw the leaves. Ours (nw mountains of NC) are slim and tall but I guess when a tree survives that long it will branch out more. Nice job.

There were a couple of good views of the leaves. This was a tulip tree, they can be a very massive tree.

Tree put up a good fight, kinda shame to see an old beauty come down

Right now the tree isn't very Poplar , I say it looks like a son of a Beech

Taxpayers been getting scammed paying the farmer for not growing crops there for decades. Bout dam time dirt perfect showed up. Well done sir.

Wow, LOVE the music you set this video to! A most welcome change. Be well, be safe!

It looks like it used to be a “hitching tree”. The farmers used to tie a second team of draft animals to them while they worked the first set of them.

Such a beautiful old tree. Shame it was killed ( I'm not a tree hugger) Wade should have been called to take it down and save the trunk for like Aaron said table slabs You should have had a chainsaw to de limb the branches to roll it easier Farmer Chris will be fighting roots for years

Good Operators and good Machines work wonders

Awesome job, good thing Jerry was there. That tree was done in by a couple of Deere. Good video.

Looks like y'all were getting rain like we were a couple of months ago.

Trees don’t talk, they just wave and leave

The "cameraman " did an outstanding job on the angled shots

Boy that 850 love it!! has no def garbage, just pure 🏀 ⚽️ that was just what you needed you’re the only one that thought it would go!! Dinner is on them!! Think if that was oak wood it would go 😬 lol

i know there is plenty of trees but it's almost a shame to knock it down

The Tree Is A "Yellow Popular" :-)

I'm sorry but that was so funny watching the little dozer compared to the stump.it looked like a baby Beatle trying to push it's first ball uphill to lay an egg in 🚜😂. Good Job enjoyed it thanks for sharing

I've seen trees that big get overturned in the woods by wind. One of them was literally snapped about at the height you were pushing on that tree. Makes a heck of a mess when they come down.

My thoughts on the tree: if this was a city park the tree should be left standing; this is a working farm, time for it to go.

I'm always interested in trees particularly as in the UK we use different names for some trees. Oaks are not a problem as they are pretty much the same here but most of what you call poplars we probably would call aspen though this one looks a bit different. We have 4 types on poplars ( Black, white, grey and Lombardy) none of which I seem to see on USA videos. For ID purposes of trees please show us a close up of a leaf and any fruit if there is some alone with a shot of the bark. By the way, by UK standards that is not a particularly big tree - we have bigger trees in nearly every public park and in most deciduous woods, We are a small country with big trees! Actually I'm surprised that farmer could not work around that tree once it was cleared around the base.

Cottonwood ... love the sweet smell of cottonwood smoke ... under the bark is a sweet tasting gum fiber that is a treat in the woods.

Nice big damn tree. U all did great. At least u had Jerry there to help u. U guys made a great team. Thanks for sharing.

is it not easier when the tree is on the ground to cut it in to pieces???

2 words Logger wade

You pushing on that tree with the 120 was a suggestion. Lol God bless

I did a maple 🍁 tree with a bobcat and a mini excavator that was about the same size as your tree. The owner had a tree service cut it down to about twenty feet tall. I then took the rest out. What a big job.

Come On Dude. I'll take that down with my 580C an the Wench on my 1Ton

That big ole tree made the equipment look like toys. LOL 😂

That Dozer is a BEAST … might have been easier if you chainsawed a tonne of branches away first… praise be to king Gerry

A handful of that tree's relatives attacked our home a few years back. Just park beside it and wait.

Team work always wins out... Some cool camera shots (good work MBTS), split screen, close up of the base of the stump going over, and appropriate music... Thank you gents...

Yep bark looks like cottonwood but it's not. Those leaves tell the tale. It's a poplar and a crooked knarly one at that.

You have to break as many roots as you can. If that doesn't work, call Let's dig 18! Lol

Excellent dude the guy with the 580 is crazy anyway that dang thing was bigger then the mountain behind it. Love to watch yall work it just makes my day. Keep up the hard work and thank you for your time 👍👍👍👍👍

Could tell it was Popular tree by its bark. It looks like it has a lightning strike as well.

Man behind the scenes did a great camera work on that, what would you do without him? We’ll see you on the next one.

One tree, two Deeres and a cameraman...... nice footage of the drop 😁😎 Aaron, you sized up against the tree like a Lego figure, didn't matter which way you tried to do it 🤣🤣 I liked Jerry's comments, is a Sequoia or a giant redwood?? Think it made his brain kick into a different gear to give you an assist, you both seem to know what each other was doing without saying too much, sign of a good working relationship right there 👍😎💪👏

Poplar makes great paint-grade trim for houses . It is a hardwood , but , it's a medium-density hardwood . It doesn't make for good firewood . It makes for a great daytime firewood , but doesn't make for a good nighttime fire . It burns hot enough , but burns way too fast .

@DirtPerfect Great Video, Having read most of the comments and watched the video in full i wish others would understand, Yes its a lovely looking tree but unfortunately in the wrong place for the modern farming practices and field husbandry tasks. Its a common tree and ok a big one but looking at your surroundings its very dense woodland so im sure many other trees will grow up in other areas! As for your method of removal I see no issues with your methods or the job done ok bigger machines may have been faster but as you said in comments it took less than an hour and its all cleared up ! And for all those saying it should be milled or firewood etc as you said it was offered to locals in those trades and they did not want it. And all those saying Chainsaws and fell it first or such well as a Daily saw user and working on many larger trees and sites etc your chosen method was just fine gets the stump out in one go using the tree as a lever much easier and quicker than grubbing out a stump or Grinding it out ! And cutting it up after it was on the ground I saw your reason for not doing that and sorry to hear that's what took your Fathers Life :( fallen tree limb cutting etc is one of the more dangerous and sometimes unpredictable aspects of the work and Total respect to you for your choice in not going that route when you do these tasks. Thanks for the great video and also to Aron and Jerry :) Cheers David

Thanks Aaron good job

You done good. Hate to see the wood wasted, but it happens, especially with poplar and short pieces and lots of curves. Specialty mills and crafts people are the best shot, and the woods ain't full of them. That's bigger than anything I took down, but I only have a Hitachi 60. It do get interesting sometimes..

You need to see the bark n leaves up close for identification.

that was probably a sapling when the Rebs and Yankee's were there lol

You could have built a treedominium in that one for sure!

Awesome intro music. Need more.

Your sense of humor is great in this video.

At one stage I thought the videographer was sweating. Turned out to be rain water. 😂

Those two machines together is unstoppable for sure.... oh and the support guy filming did great job catching the action... mbs...

Yep - tree looks like a Poplar (as we call them in the UK). Think you call them Cottonwoods. Thought you might have got that rootin' tootin' neigbor of yours with his chainsaw.

Mighty big old tree. You accomplished to get it down with team work.