What you don't like food? I keep bees in Virginia. In this state just over 90 crops are dependent on honey bees for pollination. In the state of New Jersey the bees are so important that it is actually against the law to knowingly destroy a honey bee colony.
honey bees arent native to america and surprise surprise america was BLOOMING with life Honey bees are killing native pollinators and they wreck havoc on houses and entire towns at some points
Honey Bees are not killing native pollinators, they do not compete for the same living space and honey bees are primarily after nectar where native bees are primarily after pollen. And while yes native bees did the job prior to commercial agriculture, they just can't do the job of pollinating the quantity of crops that this nation requires now. And as far as damage, carpenter bees do hundreds of thousands of dollars more damage to the structure of wood buildings than honey bees do.
We had a length of tree that had a hive in it where we put our cut logs. Called a bee keeper and he hauled it away. Gave us some honey too. I call that a "Win-Win".
Well, I can see right quick, this ain't the first time you ever done this brother. Nice job. From a backyard beekeeper, thanks for working around the hive to save those bees.
We had a big hollow maple tree, the hive hole was 33' off the ground, chunking it down nailed plywood over the top and the hole and lowered teh chunk with the bees and nailed plywood over the bottom, right in the truck, 6' long and 3' diameter, parked it in an apple orchard and took plywood off bee hole. they lived in there like 3 years.
I own a construction business and I happen to have more respect for animals than I do people.....needless to say thumbs up on this video it's always good to see guys have respect for nature. I'm the same way
Cool skill sets brother, good looking out for the bee's. Most folks don't realize that the bee population is dwindling, without the bees to pollinate plants were fucked.
You truly have a way with the trees. you listen well. I have learnt a lot from your videos and now have the confidence to challenge those that don't listen. I have lots of diseased trees in my area, that are spread over 3 boroughs. I have called DEFRA, Natural England, The Forrest Commission and all 3 boroughs that are affected (Westminster. Camden and Islington). I have to log all concerns via their websites, more red tape. Help
I know nothing about tree trimming, but I can tell this man knows what he is doing. To get all the limbs to fall in the same pile is impressive to me. Not sure how I ended up on this video, but I enjoyed it.
Ohhhh my god man THE NEW 362!!! Did that log ever land perfectly on that front wheel.... I was just waiting for pieces to go flying. Two years ago we were tugging a massive chunk off the top of a BIG old Sugar Maple - Partner had the new 441 with 30" Bar (Brand new that day!) Tied in at 10 - 12ft with the saw unclipped from the harness just in case the saw snatched out with the chunk tied to the truck. He gave me "Give'r Shit" wave and over came the log hauled the 441 right out of his hands and mangled it. Lol, the whole gas tank/rear handle assembly smashed and some other bits of the carb/throttle linkage - I had the technology though, I did rebuild her! Few hundred bucks later she was good to go! Great work man, I was working a side job last saturday solo. Pretty heavy labour, just flopping cutting and hauling - by about 1:00 I was catching myself thinking about taking shortcuts (wedging trees over that should be rigged to the maasdam). Was supposed to be a 1 day job, going on day 3 to finish it - not defeated - but when I catch myself taking those shortcuts or not taking the time to do things right... I do a stop re-think, obviously you learned that lesson and stated so haha. Live to work another day ;) just sharing my mileage in the subject. Cheers bud!
Thanks =) Sucks about the 441 though, nice to be able to fix stuff ourselves, saves a bunch. Speaking of 441, just heard today they're going to be coming out with a 441 C-M soon, so if your looking at a current 461, buy it, because I also heard they're going up $100 in about a week.
i actually purchased my first Stihl saw the other day because of you (brand new (MS261cm).. . thanks for all you insight on these incredible saws and any other equipment advice you give out.. your actually making me want to completely change careers.. from a machinist to a tree guy lol
Grats on the new saw! Machining is awesome too though. I subscribe to AVE and regularly watch a couple of others as they run their lathes/mills. I was a welder for years, and worked alongside some amazing machinists, always had a soft spot for it.
Jay Chris I am also a machinist and was considering changing careers, did you change and did it make you happier? I hate being indoors all the time. Regards!
Dude you're awesome. You make me want to climb up and try that. Professionals make it look easy, even though it's not. I'm just gonna keep like all the videos you have.
I love that you take your time and do it right. I worked for so many people that rushed every job and always seemed to be out of money. You seem like a stand up dude and a bad ass boss.
I work for a tree service in Indiana. Seeing how much ground crew you guys have makes me jealous lol I did all of the ground crew work for a while (chipping, loading/moving wood, roping, etc.). Super envious of all these people that have 3-4 people to help rope those big limbs/logs down. It's a fun job although I feel it would be a lot more enjoyable with a full crew on the ground.
AWESOME SAUCE!!!!! Love your videos in-general (hu!)man, but this is great I actually have a property I manage and its owners are abroad right til maybe late-sept/early-oct, anyway one of the things I've gotta take care of is a lot of Oak limbing and one of (the largest) 'cluster' of Oaks there just so happens to have a ginormous beehive right around chest-height, I thought "maybe if I don't bother them, they won't bother me", but no they'll certainly bug(read: sting) you if you're setting-up a ladder or lines on that cluster of Oaks, I wasn't quite sure WTH to do because I know the owners would just tell me "spray them" (which I can't/won't do, even knowing they'd just get someone else to do it), need to find out how to actually get them to relocate (have >1k facebook 'friends' and made a very public plea for help, got nothing except sales-pitches from guys trying to sell bee services lol I guess if I were rich I'd pay for clearing bees from others' properties!) but, for now, this cloth-over-the-hive idea is brilliant I should be able to use that to just get-up and do the cutting needed w/o having to worry about them swarming me, wouldn't mind climbing near it if I knew it'd be limited stinging but my understanding is they can swarm and there's no way I'd be able to rely on setting up my figure-8 to descend if I were being attacked by bees!! Thanks as always man, great channel :)
2:16 You know ur a pro when you've got a special pouch for ur gatorade :) but yea, hydration is very important. It's fun watching these vids, learning quite a few things from them.
Had something similar to that happen around 2008-2009 during a winter storm, that froze everything, and knocked down the big dead tree in the front yard. Well, soon we figured out that the entire tree was hollow, and chock full of bees. Long story short, we had to call in some people to deal with the bees.
Pretty sweet watching this stuff. Dont be afraid to get one of your boys on a long tag line. toss one around the base and have a dude help u control the swing so you dont even come close to smashing a window out.
I ran into ur vids because I watch a lot of milling vids. Watching them turn lumber into nice planks! When I started watching ur vid I thought it had with milling lumber! Lol! I watch the whole thing and nothing! Lol!! But when the vid was finished I thought I'd be upset and instead I found it entertaining! This was not the first vid that I initially saw. Cool job! Nice job saving the bees!! And what the heck is up with the stapling paper to the tree??! At first I thought it was a warning, stay away sign but I guess not because I removed the stump!
Man... Wish you lots of luck. I don't know how long you have been doing this line of work but I see a lot of risk taken in your vids ? Hope all goes well for you guys ?....
Why is it that we always seem to drop or break the new tools? When you got a old tool that you want to actually break or get destroyed, it seems to last forever.
I dropped a saw once, was not even a day old when I did it. Was a brand new 550xp and it landed on patio stones. Didn't break just a few scuffs on it. I know the feeling though.
i am a tree worker as well if we find a tree with bees we call people to come for the bees and will not do anything to the tree until they are there to take the bees..if its wasps or hornets we spray a few times the boss will come back and check until there is little to no sign then we get it then..
I know that scream of SHIT!!!!!!! I've air mailed my saw 2x. my little 193 . if cry if I sent one of my big ones out.awesome saving the bees. We just run into yellow jackets and other flying assholes.
Re that big section fell by plunge-cut@3:30: The idea of the plunge-cut being the felling-cut intrigues me as I can look-back and see plenty of times I would've done that had I seen this prior, however I'm immediately left worrying about teh possibility of MAJOR chain-pinch in a circumstance like that, I mean if you're doing the plunge cut as final-cut purposefully then it's OK for some pinching (well, not for the chain exactly, but in-terms-of it not getting stuck) because it's temporary as the top-half of the pinch is about to disappear as it falls, however if you were doing plunge-as-final (purposefully), I feel like there'd be such a chance of the top getting loose-enough that your bar is pinched but not loose-enough to fall-over its hinging yet....that'd be one helluva situation! I also wonder why, if you're doing plunge-as-felling cut, why you wouldn't have scored the back of the limb a lil, I don't mean to say I know it's unsafe or anything but wouldn't there be some 'insurance' in tearing that outermost inch or two just so it snaps cleaner once the plunge-cut has let the thing fall? Can't help but think/expect that, if you'd intentionally done that plunge as final-cut /felling-cut, that you must have a method/technique to it so that the bar's movement is away-from the building-pressures in-between top&bottom (to prevent the bar getting stuck/pinched), would love seeing an explanation video of that (and all your tips&tricks for felling / cutting / notching / etc, 'the way you actually touch the saw to the tree' ;D ) Going to go check your library maybe you've got one already and I've just missed it (oh that reminds me I was going to comment in your cs2511 video that you should post updates on it, that thing's the lightest unit on the market it'd be good to know someone like you had swung it around for 4mo, 10mo etc w/o breaking it (or even if it did break, that knowledge/data is still of value!!)
I don't understand why people would want to cut down such a tree as that. Was it because of the bees? Would someone mind responding with an explanation?
Silver maple are very prone to splitting once they reach maturity in my area of the country, it’s a good possibility this one was within reach of a house and either made the home owner nervous or was recommended for removal by a tree company.
dude you make the coolest vids keep up the good work and i love how you plan out each cut and how perfectly you execute each cut well done new sub here
Not sure what the owner was thinking. All you have to do is call a local beekeeper... any of them will trip over themselves to capture a free hive the day before you had to show up and cut. This sure is "the hard way"
I remember one time I was taking a 30 foot chunk of a fir tree. I made the same mistake as you and I cut into my face cut as I was doing the back cut. Unfortunately I had a lanyard on the saw and it jerked the crap out of me and it bent the bar.
About 6 years ago when started doing tree pruning & removal work I was getting cocky with my new ms200t in a fairly tall sugar maple. Literally, the exact same thing in your video at the 6:24 mark expect my 200 was about 60 feet up and the log flipped on top of it and punched it into the ground. Needed a new chain brake & throttle assembly but after that, it's been running like a hoss. Have you ever tried the Husqvarna 550 or 562?
LOL, close to the same thing happened to me right after I got my 201T. Watch my (first big felling) video, got it falling about 40' from three angles, thankfully though the log didn't land on top.
I'm no tree specialist, but I didn't understand the notch cut and then a plunge cut at 3:40, won't this pinch the bar? Why not a notch cut and then a back cut? Best,
I have encountered this once and it scared the s*** out of me I was about 45-50 foot up when suddenly I was at a hornet's nest inside the rotted part of the tree trunk. I could not get my ass back on the ground fast enough
Haven't really found plywood that stands up to something that size. Could rig it down, what I like to do on side jobs, at the 9-5 though, takes to long if it isn't required.
I know that you’ve got a thousand things going through your head on a job, but could you mention the saw when you change from your tcm to something else. Looked like you used a MS 261 and a 362?
Hey buddy good job I watch a lot of your videos I've been doing tree work for about 17 years I seen the part in the bucket truck where your saw got ripped out of your hands and fell to the ground why don't you use a safety lanyard and clip it to your hornist that you were in the bucket truck it would've took up to 250 pounds of force to break the lanyard you can get those breakaways and your saw would've never fell to the ground with a log that small good job though buddy because that's a nice saw
Appreciate the comment. Simply put, I was being lazy. Had my regular climbing lanyard on my 200t, which was in the bucket as well at the time, and didn't want to stop the flow to have a groundie dig out my other one. Digging they went though right after it happened, learned my lesson there.
by experience ,, never clip big chain saw up there when cutting, only your ms-201,, it happen to me ,, the chain got stock in my back cut ,,you know the rest ,, p.s i was lucky,, and good job !
That lady doesn’t have a clue as to what’s gunna happen to those bees. Lol she shook her head no when he said yes, then she just repeated everything he said 😂😂😂😂
"Only things used were a rope and a port-a-wrap" - that in and of itself is worthy of explanation because so-many think they need way more gear than they really do!! @Reg Coates has an excellent review-video on the X Rigging Rings, I've got a 4" sheave and don't intend to ever use it as top-anchor again as the superiority(and simplicity :D ), and the significantly cheaper MSRP $$, make using rings instead of a block a no-brainer. You mention how you wouldn't/aren't/whatever going to do further explanation because of lack-of-items (number-of-items) in your setup, I think that specific facet of your approach makes an explanation video by you **that much more** useful I mean unless you've slipped-in a false crotch/anchor/friction-hitch somewhere that I couldn't see then you're an experienced production guy who's clearly just found it better to do it that way - since natural-crotch rigging seems so 'unpopular' it would be cool to hear-out your thoughts on the subject / on your approach to rigging as it were!! I mean, if you had the x rigging rings with you, would you have bothered setting them up? I get the impression you're just using rope as more of "a disposable" than many do, if so I'd love to hear that that's actually your thinking (and to hear what lines you use & where you get 'em!! :D )
I find I don't often use my x-rings, mainly because I use a stihl biner at the end of my rigging rope and have to untie/tie a knot in order to reposition the anchor. If it weren't for that I'd use them much more often. Guess I'm just lazy lol
Been asked this a couple times, but I'm honestly not really comfortable giving training/lessons in anything. I'd check out ru-vid.com/show-UC7jakWKUvZqiH7q7dNJau6w and ru-vid.com They have great information.
my first fell I was banging on my wedges and she would not budge! I decide give her a little more of the saw treatment and cut right thru the hinge! Anyhoo it was brand new 271 with an 18" bar. I bet you can guess which way that tree feel, right onto my new saw. I had to dig out the ground for a good 20 min with bystanders giggiling:( sry for the long post but I cut thru that hinge be cause I lost focus on the cut due to distractions, actually that's not true. I forced the cut even when I new this was a looser move. Ive learned a lot from from your vids and thought I'd share that embarrassing moment.
Tree was down completely a little after 12:00, took awhile to send back the chip truck and pick up the skid steer though, finished up completely about 3.
it definitely was not red maple as I get a lot of that for firewood and it splits like butter. my favorite firewood is sassafras and it is easy to tell by the three different leaves and it smells like ginger when fresh cut or split
