Pinecones are fine. No problem. Pinecones are rustic. Kinda peaceful. Yay, pinecones. It's when the little lady says that the squirrels have gone militant and have started dropping grenades down the chimney because they want you OUTTA THEIR BACK YARD that you need to take action, sir! ;-)
My uncle had a golf ball driving range on twenty seven acres It had a boarder of about a hundred fifty feet all the around it with east Texas pines on it. We had a bad drought a couple of years before and it took a toll on a few hundred of these pines. We cut four hundred pines out before they went bad and we got through with it it looked as there were never anything cut out of it. It amazes me at how many trees were taken out of it and still looked as if it had never been touched
What a marriage of man and machine, ya'll do a great job! One of the most relaxing videos I've ever watched! I'm work jealous brotherman! Thanks for sharing, God bless
why would god bless someone who gloats about destroying our only source of OXYGEN and carbon sequestration?! (if you even know what that is) This is the most idiotic thing i have ever seen anyone god bless someone for!
@@Earth.Centric once the tree is grown the carbon sequestration is done And you don't know that they aren't planting new trees. Many constents request that.
I’ve seen those two-man saws in a museum on Vancouver Island with a four stroke engine at one end. Big trees and big blokes to wield it! I was a young plant fitter at the time and even I thought I wouldn’t be strong enough to run it :o)
Oh, I also appreciate the operator for using the bucket to lift the tracks and making smooth arched turns rather than tearing the s#it out of the forest floor. Cool practices guys, low impact/high yield. Totally professional, respectful and responsible!
your cutter and operator working good together... but always be careful.. i lost a good friend in 1976 doing just what they were .. back then we called them Drots. cutting fence line out and had a good hold on the tree.. J>D cut it and step back under the Droit .. hyd line blowed ..lock out valve did not work ..installed wrong from factory..and when let go tree the boom came down on him.. sad day.. old saying we had in the log woods . it not when you get hurt..it how bad are you going to be hurt. . old man talking .. i had 2 tree get me while working ..retired now . that was some fine timber...an good job!
There’s another channel, “out of the woods forestry”. He was in law enforcement and gave it up to run his own sawmill business. You might like his channel as well.
logging industry actually much more dangerous than law enforcement. you are much more likely to be injured or killed on the job in the timber/lumber industry than law enforcement. source: bureau of labor statistics.
Right Meow. Love your Texaco cat have one too. Thank you for your reply. You are a person that loves and respect the land we have and understand that we can grow without destroying everything around us. My wish is that some day a parking lot will be removed to start a forest.
If it makes you feel better, I once removed over 2 miles of roads so the forrest could reclaim the land. On the same project I placed 200 logs with their root-wads in the adjacent river for fish habitat. It's not all demolition....
Love the last comment on this video at the very end ...Be sure to send that red cedar full of ants to the mill .Yuck would have just burned it right there.. stay safe great video
Didn't realize you worked with Andy, I grew up with him and we used to work/cut together a very long time ago, Don't know how I hadn't seen this before Good vid🤘
I've seen ants and other insects in an on trees, but nothing anything like that cedar. Wow! And squirrels can make you consider another place to park. The crane operator and the sawyer work well together, a well-practiced team looks like
I like that lift move with machine to avoid binding on the back cut! Anyone butt hurt about one handing the saw doesn't understand the ergonomics of that particular situation, that saw was deep in the cut and completely under control. Nice work boys!
I like watching guys using the right equipment and knowing how to use it. I seen a video of a large dozer with a tree grinder on the front of it running over full grown trees and just grinding them into dust, but I can't find the video anymore or I would share it....this was a good video
How I would have loved to have a slab or two of some of those trees 🌲, the custom table that I could have made for my family. Pity that your are so far away, keep safe.
1 million, 600k and 1.....you're welcome! Lol! When you said the ants were pouring out like water, I didn't think it would actually be ants pouring out like water. That was crazy! It reminded me of the seen in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!
probably would be more of a light white type of wood. on certain cottonwoods theres a red darks marks on the inside. some of them have a darker core but the outer diameter is mostly white or very light of a color!
It's always sad to see trees cut down especially big ones that are many decades old but, most of those you cut down didn't look to be in particularly good shape. Anyway good clean and safe job, you two certain are a great team and very professional, all he best and stay safe. By the way I'm not an eco warrior.
You know, Ben, of the over 1.5 million people who’ve watched this, I think you’re the first person to actually realize what they’re looking at. Many of the neighbors to this site were happy to see the trees go before they fell on their houses.
@@NorthwestSawyer so? That's what people get for buying property taking a day own property they don't own shit because they pay rent on it call tax it just goes to show when you got money and power you can do whatever the hell you want some of those trees will never grow back again it's mankind as the infestation not the fucking trees
@@augustreil yes know kidding i had to read it 4 times and still dont get what all he is saying, it like that person has had a stroke and just puts some kind of words down
The sound of chain saws sped up is surprisingly musical. Ah, a new class of music; Industrial Pastoral . My hat off to these two guys working together like one. The potential for serious bloody accidents is so high if you do not have 100% situational awareness all the time....even when eating lunch. In your business you don't do anything without a reason so as to not surprise your partner. I liked seeing the ground kept clear so the excavator and the guy on the ground can move about easily and quickly when needed to avoid a situation. It was good to see such professional tree work. Great video.
Thank you, Mr Hofmann. Days like these go buy very quickly because it’s constant concentration and focus. I appreciate your acknowledgment of what’s being shown here.
@@NorthwestSawyer I spent a few summers cutting trees in the high Sierra's years ago on a crew that practiced safety first and liked to work. Thanks for replying. Have a good holiday.
I hope you can get some of the butt ends /stumps that we saw which were just big and all crotch. Love the Linkbelt-o-saurous too! enjoyed your editing on this one, the sound track was pretty cool as you tied it into the fast time action.
As for the ants, you would think that the feller would of got covered in them as he made his cuts. My question is was he aware of their presence as he cutting
I am definitely not trying to tell you how to cut trees. i understand the Humbolt notch, However I've always wondered why you western guys don't use an open face notch. A narrow notch closes before the tree hits the ground so you end up with pulled wood and cracking on the butt log. Sure helps when you have "the CLAW" working with you!!!
Lol... I was just thinking the gallery should have finished his cut ... Or at least bucked back 4'on the sort when he scaled it. He wouldn't have gotten a deduct at the sort yard $$$$
I figured this was in the northwest before I saw the name Northwest Sawyer. Doug fir, Cottonwood, Maple, Cedar, Yep, thats got to be the NW. I came from 3 generations of loggers from Woodinville, WA. This is what men do in the great Northwest.
Boy that machine sure makes falling trees alot easier and safer......nice.....that ant scene was crazy.....never seen that many in a tree in my life.......side point....whats the land being used for.....a subdivision?....stay safe my friend.
That spider kill was a big deal .It was in it's own environment and should be given the same respect that was given to the healthy Trees --- NO RESPECT TO MOSQUITOS THOUGH.
I saw deer had to move out since you destroyed his home . Good work who needs nature. Oh smashing a spider for no reason ag all, would have been to easy to let him pass on by.
the deer will have so much nice feed grow up in there now that the forest floor thats been block of light that nothing grows on the ground, witch means no feed for the deer, now that it is open nice alders and new trees will pop from the ground and be ready by the next year as great feed for them, them trees should have been cut 20 years ago, they are all old and in bad shape, and not long before they all would be on the ground so to old age, people need to pull there heads out of there ass and see that things just dont live for ever, and see the huge forest fire danger
Oh nothing lives forever, really. So with that gorilla math everything should be killed. And i didnt know you were trying to help thar deer. And trees do serve a purpose for birds and other animals to make homes. But this is no matter to you.
@@jamiepoteet6712 like i said them tree are well past there time, if you notice all the center rot, it wouldnt be to many years and they would be standing dead and falling over making a perfect setting to start a huge forest fire that would burn thousand of acers and home, a new cutting area start new fresh new growth of feed that has never been there before as sun couldnt rea the ground, so everything on the ground dyes off from the canopy blocking it, if you are a tree huger get your head exsamend. it you cant see the center rot.. that tells you, there life span is long past, we need much more cutting or old stands of timber to help keep wild fires at bay, whole citys have been lost to huge forst fire started in over aged timber, and moves fast though young timber, and yes a lot of things need to be killed, many areas the timber is totaly dead because it was not cut, and to protect thwe rest of the forest, the ministry do prescribed burns in the winter to burn it off in a controlled way,, them trees would be dead before long and wasted.. cutting tres down dont kill it, new shoot prout from there roots in know time,, just go look at places that were logged 10 years ago, and you wouldnt know it was logger as new trees take over so fast, tou cant stop it, even if you buldozed every stump out, like i dide, it was take over bby new trees 30 feet tall with in 10 years, and now 30 years later it could be cut again. oh and by the way i am willing to bet like all others like you, you live in a huge fancy wood build home, with wood floors, wood studs in the walls, wood trim,, fancy fancy.. were do you think that wood comes from, the wood ferry?
Okay @ 17:50 Those are NOT ants, those are Carpenter Flies! They are much more aggressive and sexually promiscuous than their Ant counterparts and that's what makes them such a nuisance. They breed and multiply at an unbelievable rate. My Grandma told me all about Carpenter Flies, see, she had a surprise infestation just a few weeks ago, I had called her to ask if I could move in with her and take the guest bedroom for "a little while", she told me to hang on because she had to check if the room was in a state worthy of her Favorite Grandson and, as it turns out, it was not. "Total Swarm of Carpenter Flies" she told me, "And if it weren't for me you would have never found them till it was too late." I boasted in response, to which she hurriedly agreed. She told me it was probably going to take a few months to get it fixed and I shouldn't call her during that time because she's going to be really busy trying to fix everything. Ciao.
One thing I don't see is tree companies having heavy equipment other than a skid steer and a bucket truck. It'd make sense to have a big excavator with several attachments. Then you can manhandle the tree instead of rigging up all sorts of pulleys and ropes. Even a crane, I never see tree companies with a crane so they could just cut the tree at the base while dangling it from the top. Then you could cut 5 foot chunks out and lower it each time. Cranes are 500 grand, sure. Why not invest? A crane would be a must have if I had a tree company. Then it'd take 2 guys with chainsaws to lop it up as it got lowered. The tree would come down in a matter of hours instead of rigging up all those damned ropes.
Well, we’re an excavation contractor that is doing some logging in this video. We’re probably going after it with more iron than a regular logging operation would but it’s definitely easier with all the equipment we have at our disposal.
