What an experience Ol Skool. I glad I have made a friendship with you and your family. Truly blessed brother! BBR come on back when ever you want! Thank you Ol Skool.
Fantastic Video OL Skool. I have nothing ,but the highest respect for Loggers. I believe it's the most important Profession on Earth. Glad Buckin helped us find your Channel. One Day at a time Friend.
There's a lot happening around the tip and end of the bar in a lot of these methods (one can observe that too in how the patterns of small circles made by end of the bar get left behind on the stump). I saw length ways along hardwoods whenever I can, when I've access to some logs just to put different bar and chain combinations into timber, and practice my sharpening game with different chains. So I'm familiar with seeing the circles left behind on dense hardwood because I cut length ways along those logs. Felling timber that is standing I've rarely gone to use my bar tip as much as that however, I tend to use straighter portions of whatever bar length I have on. But maybe it's a thing that for the tough elms I sometimes come across, I'm going to rethink my approach a bit. I can see by those circles in the walnut how hard it is (that is why Old Skool appears as though he's in a rush while felling, but if one didn't approach walnut more using a bar end, you'd find it a very long day cutting a tree using straight parts of the bar only). In fact, so long that one may have no edge remaining to the teeth a portion of way through.
In addition, if one's intention is to attack extremely dense timber using the end of the bar, at which a chain gets to maximum velocity, and one can master it through sufficient years of practice (I know I'll spend a lot longer in my lumber yard learning it, before rolling out to the field and doing it), the posture of being lower to the ground for stump height, is less a problem when using the tip and end of bar 'to cut'. Billy talks about not feeling comfortable (use of long bar, and maintaining back posture straight). Observe Bjarne Butler felling large diameter cedar on steep slope, he's faced often not only with 'a high stump' as Buck'in might be faced with, Bjarne does a lot of cutting actually above his head height. And interestingly, low stump, medium or extreme high stump. Required by very different circumstance do suit very different types of logger. Bjarne's thing is really different to Buck'in, though its both western pines, cedars. The ground is different, the conditions.
@@academicmailbox7798You’re absolutely correct about Bjarne! But what people that have never seen him or any other PNW cutting involves is almost to the point of cutting on a mountain while you’re trying to climb it AND make helicopter landing pads AND this AND that AND…. It’s an entire different world compared to many other parts of the country,
@@ToddAdams1234 A lot of what I do is putting hedges back into shape that have outgrown that original purpose, and often you'll see a young tree that you might purposefully want to cut high. It's not easy doing that (and it's odd how surprised one can be, to discover that cutting extra high stumps is difficult, the blood drains out of one's arms and you have to take breaks). Which is what you see Bjarne do, there's a good reason why his day is no longer than six hours. You're just not going to do an extreme amount of that higher stump work. The summer I came across a real high quality, older growth Elm hardwood. The reason it didn't stand out what a storm had broken it in half, and there was half a tree there I reckon a century at least. So I did my usual high stump thing not realizing. Just routine. It was when I examined the log I ended up with, it was then it dawned on me, of how wasteful it had been not to clear out the base with a pick axe and shovel. And go down as low as I could. Why? Because I easily had ten, twelve feet of top grade hardwood, had I not gone for a high stump cut. I ended up with seven or eight feet, and it was like a block of marble stone. I realized then, or it thought me a lesson about think through this aspect in dealing with hardwood. I had the makings of a great garden seat, or a window frame, a durable door frame, if I'd have used my brain. It's what Buck'in says, thinking about the next guy (and in this case, not just the log skidder driver, but the carpenter-joiner). If you want actual carpentry useful lumber from younger hardwood growth, you need to get as much of thelow stump as is practicable. I bounce back and forth though between that mindset, and the other one of repairing a shelter belt and getting shape back to it (i.e. a high stump mindset, versus a low stump).
Actually, I think the reason that I can relate to what Buck'in does, is because 'the scarce commodity' in his world is day light. And about getting the right kind of day light to the right kind of timber, in order to improve the economic viability of some of the managed plantations that he works in. Hedges are the same thing, and it's the Elm's and other voracious type of hardwoods that have larger, sprawling deciduous canopies to them, which crowd out the suitable hedgerow species. One has to even up those odds, so as to provide the more useful or valuable species with a better chance or odds. Often, as I see Buck'in do even making space for sapling Redwoods and the like. And in that type of work as Billy often explained, it's about getting the most from a tank of fuel in one's 372. Felling logs so as to walk them, and use them 'as a bridge' to get somewhere else. Rinse and repeat. That's the world of the managed forestry plantation acreage. And that's the world of the medium height stump (the humbolt being used, because Billy is doing a jigsaw puzzle of trying to drop timber in the exact right locations, and in the exact right sequence). And yeah, his trees fall fast, and yeah his fuel tank does go further. I burned two liters of fuel straight using my favorite 85cc tool today, and that's when it dawned on me. I need to go back to my stock 372, and actually get some work done (when I see a big Elm though, the 85cc is only way to go). I think 'Ol Skool' is running 90cc equipment too, which means his single litre, or couple of pints won't last either. That 70cc tool Buck'in uses is tailor made for his world.
Appreciate you ol skool! Much love. Would love to hear what’s going through your head one time. Buckin sent me and I can’t wait to see what you have to say about it
Is this accurate please? I asked my husband why you cut the tree so close to the ground and he said, so you could get the skidder over it? Is that what YOU are doing ? Thankyou.
I heard Guinea birds, and a pissed off woodpecker. You sure get every inch of tree when you cut. I always get a dull chain when I cut that low. Buckin ain’t got nothing on you!!
