I HATE Getting Firewood Like This! (Trying to Make The Best of It) 

Thanks for all the positive comments about our little tree business!

Just liked & Subscribed. We are in the Ozarks. And here the oak trees will die of old age at about 75 years. And we also have a infestation of the wood Boer insect. So many trees are dying. Then there is the fact that for the last 200 years about every 25 years the timber was harvested. The very best more valuable trees where taken. leaving the cull and undesirable trees. This high Grading has resulted in most of the woods being a overcrowded stand of marginal value. So we are pretty much clear cutting our woodlands. Making firewood. Only leaving healthy young saplings and select trees like hornbeam and hollow still living post oak den trees. Too many stems per acre is determental to the growth and health of trees. We also have planted Osage Orange in the fence rows and let the cedar grow in the fence row. A hedge type fence row gives privacy. is a haven for songbirds and a wind break and can prevent erosion.

Great content seeing a professional at his craft. Very cool. I am really impressed with the variety of camera angles you used And mixing all the different audio and how cohesively edited it all was Phenomenal job as always Neil

The general consensus with homeowners here is " wait ten years" To cut a dying tree. Nobody wants to admit that they need to cut down an 75 y.o. tree. The neighbor Anne was told by the tree service that she would have saved $700.00 by getting her dying tree cut down 10 years ago. That's how much prices have increased. Nice video today ,many great camera angles. Much admiration for those talented tree cutters , the skill and doing it safely is commendable.

Your family has the prettiest houses and yards on RU-vid.....so much attention to detail. I winced a little when that gravel got kicked up by the crook in the tree and messed up the driveway!

What an absolutely stunning homestead!

Trees like every living thing have a lifespan. Good job salvaging as much of the tree as you did for lumber and firewood.

Neil , another 5 ⭐ video I often watch Cotontop3 Tim is amazing at at bringing trees down, it nice to see how other people in the business do it God bless y'all from Gaffney South Carolina viewer 🙏❤️💯

Your folks really have a beautiful, idyllic place.

Neil, that was a smashing job! (Almost) Watching him choose which chunks and where to cut them was fascinating. And the wedge cut… 90degrees, perpendicular to the direction of fall and perfectly level with the ground… that tells you that your watching a pro! Nice job all around. Safe, tidy and professional… my guess is that they never run out of work! Neil, this is another excellently thought out, shot, edited and entertaining video! 👍👍

Good job Caleb, and Maddie. I really learned a lot working with you guys on that big Elm you took down for my friend. You two really work well together, also good to see the new truck in action. Stay safe.

Beautiful house! A great video with a ton of knowledge! Thank you for sharing!

Love the shirts. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

👍👌👏 2) Now you definitely need a bandsaw- mill! 😁 ;-) Best regards luck and health to all involved people.

Good thing you have all these "skilled" trades as family members brother. Caleb sent your butt to school. Without all these folks around, I could see you living in a Yurt and selling "Dream Catchers" at the Indiana State Fair for a living. That was a fun post to watch and see a job done professionally, safely and in a timely manner. it's ok to admit that you really loved wearing the storm trooper helmet with Micky Mouse ears for a couple days. Thank you for the post and all the work that went into making it. Love home brother, kiss the girls for me.

Nice Job. Should've left the jug where it was. man I hate when that happens, lol

Good job Caleb…love the family togetherness

Great video showing the “ behind the scenes “ of tree work.

The wooded setting on that home is just beautiful, you don`t realize how wide that tree was, until it hit the ground, wow. That was some great chainsaw work, you wouldn`t see me up in that bucket.

I've always enjoyed watching Caleb whenever I've had the opportunity. It both fascinates and scares me how he can climb a tree and move around in it so effortlessly, and drop limbs exactly where he wants them to go. That grapple is a game changer for cleaning up brush. That was my least favorite part of helping do firewood.

We have a few trees like this around the back of our fence line that the power company has had their way with multiple times. One drops rather large branches after storms and such, but every time I think it's ready to kiss the world goodbye, I come out with the chainsaw and somehow manage to scare it back to life. The worst one was like a sixty footer when we first moved into this house, now it's down to about 30ish but refuses to die from bugs, drought, high wind storms, etc. At this point I don't have the heart to give it the axe (so to speak) but nearly went after it during the big power outage in 2021. I like to think that it's shedding unnecessary weight to survive, kinda like my old shed. 😁

Awesome video Neil ....Buckin billy ray would be proud of you !

Beautiful home and awesome video!

This was a family event. Neil thank you for sharing a really great video! Thanks! 😊

Great job, loved it.

The organization and precision is very cool. Everything is deliberate and calculated, nothing left to chance. Very nice.

Excellent video. Loved the bucket truck

Great job keep up the good work love your videos

Great job lot of work love your videos

It was a sad day when Dolmar was purchased by Makita and shut down the gas chainsaw line. They still make only battery-operated chainsaws now. I own 23 saws and 2 are Makita and one Dolmar. The rest are Stihls. My favorite is an 038 MAG II. You have a nice truck set up. Looks great and seems to work well for you.

Very cool video. I love seeing professionals talk through their work.

Great video ! Very interesting and what a Tree!

Oh, wow. Beautifully shot and edited - probably one of your best.

Nice job, more to taking down a tree than meets the eye. Safety first and always. Thanks for the ride along sir.

💥 Great team effort there! Very impressed with the audio you were able to get! Looked like a lot of grapple fun 😁 *Keep on tractoring!*

Good show to all involved, sad to loose the tree good to have the firewood. Good use of the grapple it worked well

Great stuff Neil

Great video. As usual an interesting presentation.

Great video. We've used Caleb's business three times. Always happy.

Looks like everyone had a great time and was safe.

I always say that there is a difference between those that know what they're doing in those who think they know you're one of those who knows and your professionalism shows quite well I can also tell you I hope that you have seen buckin Billy Ray Smith and his channel you would be impressed with the stuff that he does too he's a lot bigger trees but you got to expect that in Vancouver BC I will just tell you one thing join the army of kindness and be kind to all the friends and people you got around you it pays back big and it looks like that's exactly what you and your family does so thank you for your 🥰😎🤠

I love the clip at the end moving the jug!

Taking down a big tree is a lot of work. Great job!

Watching these guys work that do this for a living is incredible. It's a true artform

I knew before it fell it was going to hit that driveway. I have always had an eye for felling trees and making them land where I want them to. Especially if I had access to a tractor and the right rope. Mostly its still done with the eye and making the correct cuts. I am retired now thank goodness. Nice equipment though.

Ya just had to move that jug, didn't ya!! Great vid and thanks for sharing.

I started watching this video, thinking I'd watch part of it, then get on with my day. Need lest to say I watched the whole thing in one sitting. This was exciting to watch, especially near the end with felling of the trunk. Great camera work and editing. I always enjoy your postings

Nice Video, Tree cutting Service is very difficult & hardworking job, Respect for persons those related to this service. Love Tree Service & Firewood splitting related videos. Thanks

Great work! Interesting to see a professional company using electric saws so much.

luckily you moved the water jug out of harms way at the last moment!

Great Video looks the grapple is already paying off I see I enjoyed watching Caleb cutting that tree down I leaned a lot but the biggest lesson I leaned I don’t want to be a tree guy to high up in the sky for me

Great video 🤗.

Nice work!

Great family time. ❤

What a video great production bud

good job on your videos. I really like the content and delivery!! You will have 1m subscribers sooner than later! Keep it up!

great video! I've been using a DeWalt saw lately. I love the battery power. It's only an 18" bar, but works great! I didn't see Ethan out there helping. :) Have a great day!

This video was filled with technology from the wheels up. Neat!

Hello from the Netherlands and thanks for the video. Sincerely, Hollandduck

Did not take long to master the grapple. Great information on tree felling.

A few suggestions if I may. I thought about these helpful tips after I wrote my "novel" below... I always used a golf or hunting range finder (even the old "rake trick" which actually works and is pretty darn accurate) to determine the height of a tree prior to felling it in whole or just the pole. I also always carried a small green laser pointer with me when doing estimates and speaking with customers as well as while in the tree so I could point things out to my groundies so that we were on the exact same page. A green laser can very easily be seen in broad daylight whereas a red laser cannot (just be extremely careful not to shine it in someone's eyes). I would use it to point out certain things while answering my customer's questions. Using a green laser pointer to point out a branch, or anything at all on a tree while talking to a customer, is WAY better than pointing at something with your finger and hoping they are looking at the same thing you are pointing your finger at. Amazon and eBay are full of quality green laser pointers and they are very inexpensive. Just don't order those lasers sold by the major tree service industry suppliers like the mammoth company that starts with an S and ends in Tree. Hope this helps.

Hell of a job by all and no casualties which is important 👍

nice job.i love seeing that house.that ramp he built looks sweet

I feel your pain. Before we built our house a few years ago we had a beautiful 200+ year old huge white oak that was going to be a focal point of our back yard. The tree was well over 100’ tall almost 6’ in diameter & in great health & a beautiful canopy. Unfortunately it was blown over in a massive storm & lost. We salvaged some logs & some huge cookie slices from it plus it heated my in-laws home for a winter. We planted a tree in its place, just gotta wait 200 years now lol.

another documentary master piece !

6:42 !!! LOL! Lots of Wood Pirate Club members here.

Nice video. Really surprised a pro has gone to the battery saws. I didn’t expect it.

Nice video! I love the firewood videos, excited to see some more eastonmade axis action. I sell firewood and get all my wood from a tree service, they recently dropped off some 5' across oak, luckily its cut to a length I can sell(thank goodness for big boiler customers) and it's straight so it should split good. I rent a lot from a friend and can use his backhoe when I want, I'm considering copying your backhoe splitter for his.

Sometimes a dead tree’s best use is very pretty firewood.

That’s why climbers are still needed. Little trucks can reach the big wood 😉

You guys did a great job my father-in-law does the same work in tn...neil better get that driveway fixed back-up haha

After that last frame someone is in the doghouse 😅. Thanks for taking us along! Take care my friend

That is some skill not many tree fellers can get within a foot of the target.

Gotta do a good job for the mother in law !!!!!! Great work you made it look easy

Great family project! Hope you got a stick for some white oak lumber.

A home owner did believe I could land it where I marked it because it was leaning over the other way a little so he went in hid garage and stepped out with a 5 gallon bucket with something in it. When he sat it down I told him over just a bit. Then I joked and said back 1 inch. I landed it squared on that bucket and stuff flew out every where. That dummy looked at me and said u broke every thing in that bucke t. I said I didn’t go get it and set it there

I run Makita. Good saw

Yes liked it

Nice safe job!

Best kind of fun, especially with no casualties. Too bad white oak takes so long to air-dry.

TBH I really enjoy your channel some amazing editing and shots just 100% wood and wood cutting/ splitting and entertainment and some education!

I would leave the stump. just put grain and other feed on top and enjoy watching the wildlife eat the feed.

Great drone shots and very good video. It’s a shame not much of it will be sawn for craft use, though hopefully there is a chair or something left in there yet!

Thats how i get 60 perc of my wood, of course i work for my local DPW, so the wood is easy to get to.

white oak logs are high unless something has changed. I'll admit I don't know if that's not the case for residential trees - I know a lot of larger mills won't touch anything that could have been in a yard or public area.

A friend of mine is an arborist and he uses the battery saws too. He seems to love them and seldom cranks a gas powered saw unless the diameter of the wood dictates a bigger saw. It is kinda cool that the noise level isn't what it would be with a gas saw.

Great video!! I have the single battery, top handle Makita saw with a 10" bar (looking to get a 12" bar for it, for fun) and I love it, really interesting that a pro is using the Makita's, I thought they seemed better than the typical home-owner battery saws. I choose the single battery over the double battery purely for the chain speed (4,720 FPM (SB) vs. 3,940 FPM (DB) ), that is as close to gas saw speed I could find, makes it so nice. The lighter weight and smaller size I think is a real advantage, as swapping 5 AH batteries is no big deal and actually they last quite awhile in the little saw. Quite a bit of firewood in that tree, good use of an expired tree, have a good one!!

We cut down a large Maple tree right behind our house that had been struck by lightning at one point, it had a large hole in the trunk like that from top to bottom

wish he worked in Minnesota,especially where I live,he have tons of business up here,cause the group in this area never want to work.

Battery saws have improved a lot. Great for comms, firing up an engine saw is almost a nuisance. That bucket truck the biz too.

Looks like one heck of a time! Nice cherry picker truck there! Seems to be small enough to get in to tight spots versus a giant crane!

It he had left the jug it would have nailed it! great video!

I guess we’ll see a driveway repair/grading video in a week ur so? I would have had fun there with my little 4” PTO woodland mills chipper.

I cut and split my own firewood. I had trees removed from my property. I let the pros handle the dropping. Sometimes it's just worth the money and save the potential frustration of an accident or a tree on the house. It'll be worse for saving a few bucks. Common sense should always be the first thing.

Great felling. Always amazed at Arborists!! Looking to get some arborist pants, any suggestions?? Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day

I bet the grapple made cleaning up a heck of a lot easier for this project!

Well.... at least your brother Caleb showed he had some common sense (jokingly I say that) and was using a STIHL when bucking the log.... LOL...HaHa!! You gotta get him to get rid of all those Husky's man..... :) Kind of a Ford vs. Chevy thing I suppose. So...., I have some great things to say about this video if you would like to read this comment in its entirety..... I recently commented on your firewood processing rental video as I previously owned a large firewood business. However, my main source of income, at the same time, was being a tree service business owner (hey.... I had all the free logs I could have ever used so why not get into selling firewood). I performed tree work for 25 years and I did all of my own climbing. I also owned a High Ranger lift, a really nice crane, along with chippers, bobcats, etc.... and all the tools, wraps, blocks, etc. that are an absolute necessity to do this type of work. I actually made a lot of my own equipment such as port-a-wraps and heavy duty spring latch opening blocks to name a few things. Unfortunately, I eventually had to hang up my spikes due to health issues beyond my control. I would first of all like to say that this take down was 110% perfect!! It was spot on, safe, and very professionally done. I cannot say that about too many tree service companies, but Caleb and everyone involved here had their junk together to say the least, major kudos!! A couple of things I noticed in the video that I just felt compelled to bring to your viewer's attention. These are very important aspects I observed here and unless you've devoted half of your life to tree work, these things would never be given a second look. 1- Did anyone notice that Caleb left the huge branch intact, saving it for last, that was "pointing" in the direction of the house around the 13:05 and 13:07 mark in the video and why? Did anyone notice the predominant lean of this rather massive White Oak? In addition, does anyone know about the delicate root structure characteristics of a White Oak? 2- Did anyone notice the time he spent on cutting the face notch prior to felling the pole? Did anyone take notice of the center of the tree stump at 16:43 into the video? To answer question #1: That large branch atop the tree (pointing at the house) that Caleb left until last, was actually acting as a counterweight for helping balance out the lean of the tree. Granted the tree appeared to be leaning away from the house and most of the top of the tree was already dismantled, but you can NEVER be too safe in this line of work. Yes, there are very specific things you MUST know as a tree service professional that if overlooked could have devastating, or even deadly, consequences. For example, I had a good friend many years ago, a very professional and experienced tree guy, that took off a huge branch on a 100+ year old MASSIVE White Oak who knew this very thing I'm about to tell you. The homeowners were advised that taking off the huge branch was not a good idea because it was helping maintain the tree's overall dynamic balance. A liability waiver was signed, the massive branch was cut (in several sections obviously), and you guessed it....... this gigantic tree, which was very much alive, immediately uprooted due to disrupting it's weight/balance and landed directly on the homeowner's house!!!!! True story!!! Luckily, no one was in the house and my friend was smart enough to be on the "correct" side of the tree, in his bucket truck, when this occurred. He got banged up pretty bad from some other branches below his bucket whacking him as the tree uprooted and fell, but he was ok for the most part thanks to our Lord!!! White Oaks have one of the most delicate and sensitive root systems here where I live in the southeast. White Oaks are much more susceptible to die from soil compaction and root disturbance issues than just about any other species of tree that grows in my region. I could go on and on, but I'll stop on that note.... Question #2: At 16:43 in the video you can see the rotten hole in the heartwood of the stump. Caleb appeared to have taken several small sections, one at a time, out of the face cut/notch of the tree. Good job there! I can only assume he did this due to knowing this one VERY important factor: LOSE YOUR HINGE, LOSE YOUR CONTROL!!!! That is why I ALWAYS put a pull rope atop a pole prior to dropping it. I believe Caleb alluded to this earlier, prior to felling the pole, when he said, "If he needed the rope". I have dismantled tops and have dropped poles of trees that appeared to be as healthy as possible only to discover that the entire center of the tree was rotten!! Red Oaks are really bad about this. I've cut many massive red oaks over the years that literally only had a few inches of wood, around the entire inner circumference of the bottom of the pole, that was keeping the tree standing!! Believe me....that's never a fun thing to run into when a tree like this is close to a home AND leaning towards the home. So.... I'm about done with my novel here...LOL... and I hope some folks learned a few very important aspects of the tree service trade. I could mention many more things, but RU-vid surely has a limit on the length of a comment.... haha. The hard work in tree work is not the actual cutting of the tree from top to bottom (although holding a pole saw over your head for hours at a time is extremely tiring... been there, done that) it is the cleanup that is by far the most time consuming and tedious task in tree work as you can see in this GREAT video. In closing, THE MOST IMPORTANT thing at the end of the day in tree work is this: No one got hurt!!! Tree work is obviously an inherently dangerous occupation. Our workers comp. and liability insurance premiums can prove that, I assure you. It's definitely not a job for the weak at heart or stomach. I miss tree work as it was my passion in life. Maybe I need to post some videos of some cool tree work stuff I did over the years on my pitiful little YT channel..... Hmmmm...... Thank you for this great and extremely well made video. Two thumbs up!

With the 592 having 10cc more power it will win every time, BUT not by much.

As much as I like the setup you have, unless you are running chips, no one in Europe would heat their house the way you do. Every setup that my friends use consists of a boiler and also a storage tank for excess heat and in winter they fire their boiler once a day if need be or once every second day. Most of them also only require 3 cords of wood for the season because hot water is also generated by roof top solar water panels.

Nice battery pruner Caleb has. Is Caleb running an extension, and if so how long is it? Since one of my hs classmates does tree work, I know he's got some of the same stuff. Had to be a fun stump to grind up also for a lucky person.