Hey when you guys are showing the tree trunk / branches etc... hold the camera still for a couple seconds (and continue talking over) but it just happens so fast that even trying to pause the video on a frame that doesn't have blur is hard. So, if you could, hold the camera still so we can really soak it in. Thanks
I'm from southern Idaho... trees are just a little different here but love learning about what you boys are into! Love all your videos Chris! I'm a 67 year old woodchuck, just cause I like it and truly enjoy watchin you and your crew! Keep up the awesome work!
Nice tree ID video! The wood I cut the other say, I am not so sure now it's yellow birch. Bark is smooth. Now I have no clue. Check my last couple videos and see if you can ID the wood.
Hey chris it's nice to make a video and tell people what is what wood it's a good thing to do,the tree branches I like to use for making a fire but the size is bout 2 to 3 inches branches that's nice to start the fire I just told my wife I will like a nother pig up truck load of wood when you and your brother I assume packed the wood in the basement
When you refer to red as a soft maple, are you calling it a softwood? I've never heard anyone call it a softwood before now. I've always was told it's a hardwood, which is great for firewood.
Out of the 40 some species local...What are the handful of species you will not allow in your woodyard, Kenny??? Almost all the under brush and invasive types around here make very good/hot fires but alot of work cutting 3 or 4 sticks from the mess. Thanks for the walk in the woods, Fellers!👍
Dude I just learned about Empress Splendor trees. Lighter and stronger than pine, and fully grown in ten years. Air drying lumber can happen in a month, kiln-drying in a few hours to ten percent moisture. Firewood splits would be fast too, maybe a few months. You can plant those and have a MASSIVE firewood harvest in ten years lmao I'm going to try my hardest to get some to plant when I build a house.
Definitely the hardest time of year to identify trees for sure. Usually when I have questionable bark I look up too see the leaves. I would have a hard time this time of year especially on the young trees. Well done guys👍🏻👍🏻GNI🍻
Chris as I was watching ken identify elm’s the larger alive elm tree with smoother bark looks like a red elm if you cut a branch the inside grain will be red. Good luck in your wood yard
Kenny, it's not really boring but for those of us that know it's wood and it'll burn, it's kind of overwhelming ,all the differences in the same species. Like Chris says it's all fire wood. Thanks.
I learned something....Ironwood! I have quite a few of them in the woods where I cut but I didn't know what they were. I thought they were hawthrone at first because they have similar bark but no thorns. Do you guys have hawthrones? Miserable trees. I got stabbed in the knee by a thorn back before Christmas and ended up in Emerg with a very swollen and infected knee. Two courses of IV antibiotics and a week or oral antibiotics and I was ok. I guess they have bacteria on the thorns and the doc said it got me right in the knee joint and just the right depth. Dave
They're dangerous to the deer too! If one of those thorns catch them in the eye when running, it is sometimes a long, painful death! I've spent many hours cutting hundreds of them down, trying to make the woods safer, for me and the critters! They should be treated as an 'invasive specie'! Cut them down, make room for decent, law abiding trees!!
There is over 600 other videos on my channel you can watch from 1 1/2 years of shooting and editing a new video everyday for everyone to watch and I have had dozens of requests for wood identification videos so when we where together we made three kinds. One of fresh cut logs one of old firewood rounds and one of live winter trees. I will be doing another one of live summer trees also. So there will be more. I can let you know ahead of time so you can avoid the video if you want. Thanks for watching.
I’ve watched every one of those 600+ videos too. I started watching your channel when you had 12 vids. I’m a consumer not a creator of content but can appreciate all of the extra steps it takes to make one episode. Not even OWTM can keep up with one vid/day and he’s retired from blowing stuff up, so my hat is off to you in that regard. My life will be just as rich regardless if I can identify a hard maple vs a soft maple but thanks for the master class. It’s just 3 in a week…holy balls it was like slamming my hand in a car door repeatedly! My favorite vids are when you buy something and the sarcasm starts flowing with your dry sense of humor, so stop by Fleet Farm on your way home and buy some worthless crap to review. Thanks again for the 600+.
@@mikehoysler4322 Man oh man!! You're kidding right? If serious, John Wayne would consider them fightin' words, mister!! You should convene a grand jury or somethin', before you can say things like that!! I think it's called "aggravated filthy lucre"!! I can't believe anyone could, or would, even in jest, suggest that Farm Fleet sells worthless crap!! That's gotta be worth 5to&10. You gotta give'em some credit, taking their time away from firewood, walkin' around butt deep in snow, not even stopping to make snow angels, trying to pass along knowledge, to those underprivileged fw chunkers that don't already know it all!! Thank goodness, Kenny didn't try to describe all 730 species that grow in N. America north of Mexico! He IS a kind and generous teacher! And, of course, it goes without saying about Chris!! That 'slammin' your hand in the car door' thing, try lithium pills. Doesn't get your hand out of the way, but you just don't feel it so much!! hey!
Thanks Chris. I always enjoy the Chris and Kenny series. Do you guys have black/sweet birch in your neck of the woods? I love it! It coals, mid 20s btu, and dries normally in 9 months.
Always remember the acronym MADHorse (Maple, Ash, Dogwood, Horsechestnut/buckeye) all have opposite buds. Learning the bud and bud patterns will really help you learn woody plants that have no leaves yet.
@@InTheWoodyard Doesn't that opposing limbs thing depend on your age? The older you get, the more they oppose!! - The lanes and roads look to be cleared good. Is that from plows or snowblowers?
Ken said hackberry got me thinking of the old days.. back in the day i cut up around 15 cords of hackberry. Next winter i went to sell it and it was full of bore warms. Made swiss cheese out of the wood.. i couldn't sell it like that... big hot dog cook out. I burnd it all.. have good weekend wood dude. 🌳🌳🌲🌲✌
Extremely thorough and informative tree ID. Very good video fellas 👍👍opened my eyes to ironwood and yellow birch! Ive been looking at em both & didn't realize it. Thanks again
Good morning Chris and Kenny!!😀😀 I'm glad I live in Wisconsin too. I was also able to identify every tree that you guys found . Great video my friends!! 😀😀 Logger Al
We had very similar trees where I grew up in northern New Brunswick. Not much cherry and most of our elm trees were wiped out by Dutch Elm disease in the 70’s and 80’s. Do you have any Beech trees there? We don’t have much oak, either.
"Hey honey, come look at this. It's the strangest thing. Two strange men are walking through our yard touching all our trees". In FL a homeowner would be allowed to shoot you and then claim they felt threatened because there were two of you. You used the word gnarly twice when describing wood. Every time I have heard the word gnarly used in the last 20 yrs it was describing a wave by a surfer
It's great to see that you to Brothers get along great!! Love it.... Me and my brother forget about it he's just too arrogant... thanks for showing different kinds of trees. I'm not the greatest when the leaves aren't on the tree
Thanks for the naked wood ID tour. You guys did a good job helping to show us a wide variety of tree species and also how challenging it is when identifying bark on trees of differing stages of maturity. Guess I must be an old Popple…getting rough and grey on the lower parts😒
Don't worry, so did Chris. He made me stop, ...and THINK!! Aagh!! Couldn't remember any beaches in his vids!! But me bein' a quick study, I figured it out, - he miss pelled beech!!
@@InTheWoodyard Yep, farm country-not much for woodlots. Elm, ash, boxelder, maple, hackberry, cottonwood and cedar are native. Other ornamentals have been planted but not native.
Back in forestry school we learned almost every type of tree we have here in the southeastern US. But that was thirty years ago and I’ve forgotten all the ones that don’t have some type of commercial value for sawlogs or pulpwood, especially those pesky understory species. We enjoy your content Chris, GNI 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@justinoconnor6567 Ha! You had it easy!! Down at the Univ. of Science, not only did we have to remem some trees, we had to weave baskets from them, before we earned our BS!! An MS was just More of the Same. But the Ph.D. was tough!! My thesis was "Why do dogs run so fast in Siberia?" The answer, of course, is that trees are 3 miles apart!! hey!
