That's how my father and grandfather used to get firewood when I was younger. They'd drive the truck and the tractor to the woodlot, one would have the 12ft homemade tandem trailer and the other would have the tall single axel wagon. They'd have a big d-ring shackle mounted to the drawbar and three logs chained to that at a time. Everything was bucked up on site then they'd drive both trailers back and forth with the truck. Once the pile was big enough at home they'd split the wood there. Sometimes they'd bring the splitter along and split it on site if they were in the mood. My grandmother would bring us to the woodlot to watch them cut wood from a distance while they were working. :)
😮Hey Toby! Peggy and Tom here. We love seeing the videos and the photos that you are putting out. It's nice to remember how hard people had to work just to keep warm. We love all of your videos. And will watch them all with joy. Working on a Massey Ferguson lawn tractor right now and you showing us the minutia of the smaller parts helps to understand what we have before us. Keep putting out content and will keep watching. We love seeing senior working with you. The photos were really awesome! See you next time!
This brings back memories of my dad. We didn't have woodland so we had semi loads of hardwoods hauled in. Cut everything up into 18" lengths and then split with our stickler wood splittter. Stickler was a tapered corkscrew splitter that mounted on the left rear wheel hub of our Dodge pickup. Kind-of a sketchy setup but used that for 15-20 years as our log splitter. I don't miss the work, but wood is the warmest heat you'll ever have. Heck it gave you heat a half dozen times before it ever burnt to heat the house.
Once again allow me to comment on your (our?) show. It is as much a pleasure to see you/senior enjoying work together. Shue miss my times with my dad. These days were very precious to me but are now gone. Please keep up the same format in the future. Thanks!
M sounds so good. The ringing of the rain cap echoing brought back many fond memories. Thanks for the vintage photos of Senior as a young-in & your Grand father on their H’s. Pretty cool !!!
I grew up in North Dakota in the Red River Valley where logging was not a thing I really enjoyed seeing how this was done in the old days. Especially the pictures and hearing Sr. talk about it.. This was a nice diversion from your great restoration videos.
As a kid we spent a lot of time helping a friend of my dad. He had an injury and struggled with a lot of chores. I would spend my weekends volunteering to help him cut firewood. He had a farm all just like that and a hay wagon. I would ride on a the wagon and we would go into the woods and cut firewood. The deer in the area didn’t see people very often and the deer would come within feet of us because they were so curious about what we were doing. Had a lot of good memories with that farmall. He had a lot of belt driven accessories but my favorites were the huge circular saws he would run with it. I was too young to run the saw myself but I did get to push the sled in and make a couple cuts from time to time. We processed a lot of firewood with those belt driven saws.
These moments together side by side son and father are priceless. Spending time with your beloved father is an investment you will reap benefits of memories years to come.
I think it is really great the way Senior tips the forks on the Kubota down to get the whole fork full moving, and then quickly tips the forks back level and spread the load all the way across the trailer. Definitely NOT his first rodeo!
This reminds me of the "pulpwood" hauling days. In the winter, my brother and I would load our father's pulpwood trailer after school and then take it to school with us the next day. After school, we sold the wood at the woodyard. We didn't get rich, but it kept us from riding the school bus.
Excellent video. My dad bought a fairly new Barko 20 log loader trailer that can be pulled with a crawler or bigger farm tractor in 1978 it was only a couple of years old he wore out a G John Deere tractor loading logs and firewood and and picking rocks from our fields and around the neighborhood. Now we use a 620 John Deere tractor to pull it with and power the hydraulic pump. It will lift a 20 foot 20 inch plus diameter red pine log it got used to load my sawmill skid way before I got a regular log truck. My dad used a dray sled in the woods before the log loader trailer. When I was old enough to start helping I ran the log loader it sure saved lots of lifting. Keep up the great videos
You can never spend enough time with your family! I'm really liking your video quality. The winter colors are amazing, and the added pictures go great with the storyline!
Fun to see the old pics and hear the stories of bygone days. Nicely done. One dramatic thing in the quiet woods was the noise difference between the M and Kubota. Wow. Ear protection on the Kubota required - not so on the M.
Hey guys! This was my first watch on your channel. Pretty darn cool. I'm 68. Retired w bad health in the foothills/piedmont of NC. Just outside Hickory. I plan to come back for more. Thank you for sharing your real life. That's exactly why I'm here. I don't do crap TV. I pick good content on RU-vid. Outdoors w the Morgan's, Wild Wonderful Off Grid, Good Simple Living, and the likes. Yeah, I wonder what's next, I'll be back to find out. Thanks again.👍🚜❤️🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks and welcome aboard! Just an FYI that I give to most new viewers, check out the “playlists” tab on the main channel page, I’ve got all of the channel videos organized into separate playlists in order from earliest to most recent for one-stop convenient viewing 👍
I just absolutely love listening to old story telling like Sr. did at the end of video. You being able to add in the photos as he’s telling it (thanks new software!!) adds so much to the story!! Just like watching one of those programs on TV. Oh how it would be so cool to go back in time to visit these times long gone!
..... Always impressed how well you and Sr work together(or you edit out colorful discussions 🤔)..... when I worked with my father, arguing started in the 1st 30sec of the project......🤨
Thanks for the video Toby! I sure enjoy Sr’s stories and seeing the old pictures was great! I’m sure you did enjoy running the Super M! Can’t wait for the next video!
Thank you! This video brought back a lot of good memories of working in the woods with my father, back about the same vintage as the photos that you included of senior. I remember chain rolling logs up onto the trailer that my father had built using a rear end from a 30’s Cadillac V-16 acquired from a local junkyard. We didn’t have a loader in those day’s, my father got his first loader after the farm was sold and I had moved away, as Senior mentioned, that allowed him to do many things by himself.
my father was born in 1913 so saw most of the early cars, trucks and tractors of the day. he saw a car setting at a dealership with the hood open so went over to take a look. he put his hand on the fender to look in at the motor and didn't feel any vibration and didn't know it was running until he noticed the fan was turning. it had a v12 in it. I saw an old truck setting in a store window so turned around to see what it was. it was a 1923 Chevrolet ton and a half. I called the business owner and he came down and let us in to see it. sheet metal hood with a wood cab. wood spoke wheels with rubber tires. my dad said he could remember when that was the latest thing. he lived to be 107 and 5 months. he got a big kick out of seeing me use my flip phone and said we didn't have those things when we were young and I reminded him, I didn't either. we had a land line with a cord on a party line when i was growing up.
@davidvogel - We too had the party line telephone line when I was still very young, I can still remember having to check the receiver first to make sure nobody else was already talking on it 👍
Love these Videos with Senior, you are preserving some Grest Memories! Wish I could go back in time and record the Stories of my Dad & Uncles. Thank You for Sharing.
Camera viewpoint expertise plus overall technical quality and editing skills combine to make this an exceptional documentary about everyday work all of us old guys took for granted many years ago. No youtube clickbait or artificial drama, just like you're an observer watching. The way it should be. Thanks!
I sure enjoy watching the M work in the woods. I miss my father and working with him. I farm with three M Farmalls, raking hay, using the Land Pride 35-90, and logging just like you. Mine are all three point hitch, 12 volt with alternators and electronic ignition. Ellis
Really like hearing stories and pictures from senior. Really resonates with your channels desire to revive history. Really cool to hear how your dad and grandpa worked back in the day!
Toby, it's awesome seeing the Super M out working. I was afraid when you got it done last year it would never be back in the field working. So next year you'll have two brand new old IH's working when you get the H finished. Great job thanks S.R. for the stories and pictures.
I sure do like the selective logging of your woodlot. The nice straight poles indicate a good canopy and this selective pruning/culling has been in play for a long time. The canopy shot at 14:00 gives a great sense of your shade density. The best of the best have plenty of sunlight and air. Looks just right.👍
Loved watching this Squatch. Back in the day, i would go with Dad to the bush, he cut trees down with an axe, and i would help drag them out to load on the wagon. The bush was thick too, no way of getting the tractor in. Dragged the trees out to load. At one time all neighbors would stockpile the trees they cut and then farmers would have a "bee" to cut it into wood blocks with a tractor pulley/belt driven circular saw. As time went by, we were the last family cutting wood for the stove, so there were no more "bees" to cut wood. By that time instead of the circular saw on a stand, Dad had mounted a saw to the front end of our John Deere Br. He still went to the bush and cut with an axe BUT it was just the 3 of us on cutting day with the tractor. Dad and i would feed the tree to the saw, while Mum held the cut off block, and threw it on the woodpile. Mom did all her cooking on the woodstove which had a tank on the right side to heat water. Mom baked bread, cinnamon rolls, canned preserves, canned pork, canned fish in the spring, milked cows, made all the meals, drove the tractor at bale hauling time in the fall while Dad and i loaded the rack. Things were a lot harder back then, but it still brings back fond memories of growing up on the farm. Course it was even harder when my parents grew up on the farm. They never even had power on the farm until it was brought thru in the early 1950's i believe.
Aaaand this is when I remember that you are young enough to be my child, and I remember when all this was "current." You are making me feel really old.
Thanks for the video and the old photos. Great seeing folks reminiscing and old pictures off the way it was when families worked together at stuff. We have lots off pictures so similar to yours but life’s just not like that any more unfortunately.
Great video Toby! It's always nice to hear stories of days gone by. I always enjoy hearing my grandfather's stories of when he was a boy skidding logs by horse for his grandfather's saw mill. Some of the pictures of their old mill is pretty neat. Cheers
Beautiful and heartwarming video, Squatch. I will watch it a few times because this kind of content (backwoods action, father + son teamwork and a little family history ) is the best out there on RU-vid, bar none. Great camera angles and photographs from years past. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Been waiting for this episode many moons. Hearing Senior speak how things where done back in the day was very interesting to listen. Got also a few interesting ideas from this episode on that I can utilize for myself.
Good video, love hearing Seniors stories of the old days! Its really is getting soft: WI put their road restrictions on the gravel roads, I’m sure MN won’t be far behind.
Similar to hauling highline poles only we had trip down stakes. Reminiscent of cleaning barn. Dad would srop, and talk about growing up around draft teams. Thank you for the memories.
Always nice to see you and Sr. out working together. The new editing software seems to be really working out nice, the photo inserts and voiceovers in the last couple of videos really adds to them. It’s incredible to see how much you and Sr. look alike on that first photo of him on his H. Thanks for the quality entertainment as always!
Thanks for doing the extra work with the cameras to get all those shots in your videos. I appreciate it it’s really hard work and takes time but we all appreciate it thanks!
I like the intro and outro, love hearing those old stories from senior and to say it going to be a weird year for weather its soft for this time of year and we are about to get are frist rain tomorrow night and over the weekend
Neat video! I can't believe how mild the winter has been in Minnesota this year. I look in on the camera at the St Paul Union depot and the Mississippi still hasn't fully frozen over. The barge navigation channel that goes under the former CGW lift bridge/Roberts St bridge has stayed free of ice all winter so far.
i used to help my grandfather llog in the woods and we would take the cull hardwood and take a load home on a side loader log truck and bust it with an axe..I don;t know what i would have done with a wood splitter. Bad feeling when you sunk that axe in a big piece and it bounced off. You never had to worry about keeping warm..AHH the good old days.
Nice video I like a lot of people working out the woods good exercise I'm still doing it and I'm 72 I got one of them tracked their stuff mine just a M tractor What a wide Front end You'll stay safe stay healthy stay happy and enjoy the video have a good day
Glade to see your strength is coming back since your enforced lazy period. This video took me back to the 1950,s when this was the normal sounds around the local district, men and simple machinery.
Looks like you got quite a nice load of firewood from that loop. The picture of senior on the farmall from78 brought back memories, that’s the year that I graduated and the last year that I have been in Minnesota. My family would travel every summer up to Moorhead to visit my Grandfather. Keep the videos coming, I enjoy every one of them and I don’t even own a tractor 😂 take care
Monica said that after I retire, she is going to send me up there to work with you guys for a week to whip me into shape. I told her I would probably get in the way.😂 Enjoyed watching the old school logging with the tractors. The drone footage is spectacular, like watching a professional documentary. Although you are definitely a pro at making videos. Neat old pictures too. Thanks Squatch!🚜👍
I've said it before. Time with your dad. Oh so important. As I recall you told me we are about the same age. 74. We are in the country. We have two boys. The one next door is about your age. He is handy to have close. Haha
Lots of work to maintain a beautiful piece of land like that. Add to that a bop-till-you-drop job like a busy automotive or heavy equipment tech and you'd really have your hands full.
Remember doing all that for my cousin down the mountain 30 ft. logs on a log trailer made from a 1 1/2 ton truck frame smallest logs were 10 ft. Each log was from 28" to 55" across we logged the farm for nearly 4 years,and even pulled flag stone for another 5 years as well as scrapping old automobiles that were left on the farm from his dad's day.
Lol thinking back I kind miss those days skidding logs out with gordoes old Massey Harris tractor with a 283 small black Chevy with an auto tranny and an auxiliary trans 3speed between the automatic and the tractors trans and drives that thing was a beast,i recall him towing a 14x70 house trailer from one side of town to the next township no speedo on the tractor but he was hauling along about 72 mphi finally got ahead of him to regulate his speed for safety. Oh such great days back then.
I have the same McCormick loader back in the buckthorn at dad's, used to be on his B414 diesel I inherited. Yep have a trailer similar from the back frame of a '60 Chevy Apache truck. Did a lot of firewood/logging very much how you did it. Only time I ever got along with dad involved working in the woods. Amazing what you did with the equipment you had, but those one way loaders and trip buckets were an upgrade from a team of horses! I still have a Case SC with a trip bucket, hard to go back to that after running my inlaw's Kubota with the joystick loader for sure.
