I can watch you cut down trees deal with the logs getting them to the mill all day long , cutting up trees is what I like and have all my life , love that kind of work since I was four years old !
@@WilsonForestLands my dad took my hatchet away when I was seven, I had to many trees across the creek, he would give it back when he was cutting trees, he restricted me to the branches.
You are lucky to have a pickup truck with an eight foot bed as most pickup trucks on the market today are 4 door sedans disguised as pickup trucks with a six foot or less bed.
Even with your Mom watching you (and us in the comments), you just be you, and we will watch. As for you milling up the "same log" thats impossible as once you cut it its not gone..🤣😉👍
I think the geese are like the deers, there waiting on you to get the heck done talking to yourself and get out of the road so they can land in the sawdust pile. You say you cut your logs to 8’ exact ? I always cut mine 8’6” . 6” for and checking. Not say you have to 😂 just saying I do. I just got off Amazon and ordered a case of tooth picks. It was cheaper than the Visine. We appreciate you putting some clean log videos on, we’re tired of the dirt log videos 😂
Love your videos, I am in yamhill county, 5 acres, on a hill, cedar, fir, maple, heavy brush load of vine maple. No tractor or winch, just a truck, cable and block pulley’s, some heavy rope. Lotta work. I envy your tractor/winch setup. And your sawmill. Appreciate your sense of humor.
Greetings from Ireland ... I don't work with trees or woodmills or similar, but I do have 1200 trees in my front field that I planted about 25 years ago to assist with poor drainage. Now they have become a beautiful young woodland and being local deciduous forest species supply me with firewood and will coppice. I enjoy your videos immensely😊 so thank you for taking the time to do them so well.
It's the dry sense of humour that keeps me coming back. LOL. Seems loggers need to wear eye glasses when trimming up their logs. 6" for a trim cut is a waste of good lumber.
The mills usually require about a foot trim on the logs. After they cut off the checked ends and cut a 32 foot log into 8 foot pieces, it doesn’t leave them a lot to play with.
I’m a mobile sawyer with a lt40 wide. It’s amazing how fast the sawdust builds. In two days we have a pile as big as yours. Not knocking anything I just realized how fast it builds. Happy sawing.
Hello from NZ. Interesting to watch someone work with tall trees and break them down. My foolish advice is to think about adding some tree smash proof mesh around your tractor radiator. Might not stop a big log going through it, but might stop a little 'bop'.
I couldn't get a good look, from the little bit I went back to look at, but most tractors here have some sort of guard for that, so I assume his also has it.
Nice video and lumber work. I can smell that lumber from here. How many board feet can you get through before changing the blade on the LT15? I am still running an old M14 circular saw with IP teeth that last for years. I know the kerf makes too much sawdust.
I always seem to be in a pinch. Cutting logs and / or limbs I get my chain saw pinched way to often. Maybe an instructional video from you would be helpful. Also, do you have cherry tress in your neck of the woods? Not the ornamental kind...but full size trees. I've been told the bark resembles a pine bark kinda thing. Sure need some help on finding a few cheery trees here in middle Virginia. Love your videos. I'm a big fan.
That might be a good suggestion. I will put a pinched video on my list of possible ideas. Cherry is not native to this area. I don’t think they would do well in our area without irrigation in our hot dry summers. I see a lot of videos of people on the East Coast milling cherry. They say the wood smells good. I have wanted to mill some but we just don’t have it here.
You were saying that you need to lumber the logs before the bugs come out and spread etc. Do you treat the lumber to kill the bugs? I'm thinking of your customers noticing bugs flying around after they have built something...
Michael, you found my lost geese. Just hell at em to get back home please. I'm almost out of eggs. Howinthehell did they get way over there. I live in Wisconsin.
I watch your vids to see an old geezer (greetings from another such in the UK) doing what he does, making sense and making a living without flogging himself to death or asset stripping his forests. And for the language. We don't yard stuff out, we skid it. We don't buck butts like those, we section them. Buck is what horses do or what you'd do to your Dad to get a clip 'round the lug 'ole - now outlawed in Scotland. We don't buck firewood, we ring it up or log it. Fell trees, not fall them. We cut 4x2s not 2x4s despite having gone metric in 1969. The metric equivalents are big no. millimetres x smaller big no. millimetres. A logger is a scientific instrument that makes a remote record of environmental parameters such as temperature, salinity or whatever. The latest ones download remotely but the earlier ones you have to go and get which can be fun if they're placed on a reef in 20m of water. Yes, we have reefs in the UK. Finding a logger after a year can be awkward and they are expensive to lose. (Bu99er, there goes the data, that was really expensive and maybe pop goes the research project). Are your bugs Douglas fir bark beetle? Are they hitting your trees because they are stressed by drought? Apols if I've not seen a vid where you tell the viewer.....
I always like to hear what people in the UK call things. People there have such a way with the English language. The Douglas fir here are mostly dying from flat headed fir borers. They are borers but they act like bark beetles. The trees are stressed from drought and even more so from the excessively hot summers we have been having the last few years. The bugs are taking out those stressed trees. There are also some other forest management problems that are contributing to stressed trees. Since there are a lot of new people coming to the channel maybe I should do another video about that situation. Maybe after I catch up with salvaging these trees.
@@WilsonForestLands Thanks for the reply. I'd be interested in a video on boring beetles. :) Over here we are 'eagerly' awaiting the arrival of the emerald ash borer, which is apparently coming west across Europe. It had better hurry up as our ashes are carking it in great numbers from ash dieback disease - a fungus brought in across our 'moat' on nursery stock. Which was grown from British seed in Poland and similar places (where wages are low and people are skilled and work hard) in response to demand for native species of British Isles provenance. A p*x on the moneybags who thought up that little wheeze and on the t*ssers in government who acquiesced to it happening. There you go, some more Britspeak. I look forward to more of your videos. I have actually subscribed, which is a very rare thing.
Careful of Geese, they will poop on your Mill Mike....lol Our local Commercial Mill Specs are a lot shorter, 10 ft. 8 inches for hardwood here in Vermont, which varies depending on what they are looking for. Sometimes it 12 to 14 feet with overlap, and they have a Driver come with a Cherry Picker to pick them up.
What is your tractor's name? She sure is a good one! Have you ever cut your tape measure in two? Looks like it might be easy to do if you're not careful. Good video!
Hi Michael, my husband and I are RU-vid TV people. We very much enjoy watching your videos and if you did do a video of you watching paint to dry we'd certainly watch it, we alread know the paint would be everywhere and would be quite funnny to watch it dry with you. lol However, if you are looking for a videos to do, my husband and I are Always Saying you'd make a great producer and camera man! Your videos are some of the best videos we watch on youtube. They don't drag! Unless your hauling a tree out of the forest. Lol We think if you did a video on How To Set Up Your Cameras and Edit Your Videos For RU-vid, we think you would get some serious views. I mean more then 9 million is nothing to shake a stick at.. But a video of you making a video for us, that would be an interesting video. Keep up the great work Michael, we look forward to your next video. R & R
