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I find coppicing and pollarding to be fascinating methods for sustainable timber production. Our European ancestors were practising those methods for many thousands of years before the First Industrial Revolution and the Closing of the Commons. A great book to get you started on the topic would be Coppice Agroforesty by Mark Krawczyk. Unfortunately the book is writing and primarily for a temperate USA climate but the concepts and principles ought to be applicable here in Oz.

Great story, love to see more, thanks

Great video. Recently completed a Master Tree Grower course with Rowan Reid in Gippsland following a very similar philosophy. Awesome stuff

Excellent video. Very informative. What brand of 3 point linkage log grapple are you running?

Great video, thanks. Really loved seeing your dad's forest, it looks fantastic. The public agencies are not putting anywhere near the same level of effort or attention to their plantations, and I think your example here should be more celebrated as something they should learn from. All that spacing, pruning and thinning is basically unknown in the Government foresty operations these days. About native forestry in NSW, they take a lot more than 15/150 trees per hectare. Actually the opposite. With current "selective logging" specifications, they leave only 12 sq. m. basal area per hectare = 15 x 50cm dia trees per hectare. The result looks pretty similar to the picture from Papua, though the coupe size is smaller. They are using massive harvesters and forwarders, smashing all the groundcover. Then they burn it off and broadscale spray to kill all regrowth. We have watched beautiful dark brown forest soil get baked for over a year in the harsh sun with no cover after FCNSW's operation in our area. It's now about 10 hectares of bright red clay, all sprayed to death with nothing growing. No grass, no undergrowth, no habitat. It's cool that you're trying to stand up for forestry but it's important to note that the true selective forestry is what's seen on this video, not what the government is doing. Felling by chainsaw and dragging each log individually is a totally different type of forestry -- what we SHOULD be supporting and expanding with all that government funding eaten up by FCNSW bureaucrats. About native fire regimes, you're right about the open woodlands however it's important to note that a lot of the Big Scrub was not burnt, it was rainforest country. Part of the Aboriginal fire regimes was no-burn country, it was definitely not everywhere. See the book Fire Country by Tagalaka indigenous fire practitioner Victor Steffensen. It is not quite as simple as burning all country. In fact there is evidence that wrong burning, especially after too-heavy logging, increases fire risk rather than reduces it. See Phil Zylstra and David Lindenmayer articles on that topic. Anyway, thanks for the nice vid and very cool forestry operation. Funny, I get the sense you guys probably hate greenies but if the greenies got their way your dad would be pretty much the forest guru teaching others how to do it properly, getting paid out of the Forest Corp budget. All the best you guys and keep up the awesome forest work.

Hey Zac would you happen to have any other videos on the setup of LiveTime. This video was super helpful. I thank you for that. Keep up the good work.

Watching this from far away (Poland). This was very interesting to be watched and made me think more / from differen perspective on the topic. Also, despite this being a 'plantation' of a sort it still has feeling of forest 😍- unlike som of tree plantations in Europe.

What a great little hobby.

What a fantastic video, you are to be congratulated on your achievements. So good to hear such commonsense ideas about forests and timber. Keep up the good work. Well done.

2 Ryans related?

What a bloody good video. Literally looking at a block with 27 year old hardwood on it currently, this answered so many of my questions. Any ideas what price ol mate would get for those poles? Would love to spend a few days working with him to learn.

Love the video. Would love to see more content there’s so much to cover. Sean makes it quite easy to understand

Great video mate I live down here in Tassie it’s amazing how many people don’t understand the forest we have here and the awesome products we can create from them and how sustainable they are 👍

Some really valid arguments, hard to ignore yet unfortunately the volume of misinformation and disinformation being produced is drowning out the valid

What a dream this guys property is. What species of tree does he grow? Too bad I don't have the property to wait out 25 years lol.

I have never heard so much good sense on forest management, fire management. thank you Sean and Zac.

Well done Zac, great idea. Thanks for putting in the time.

I want to get into it for fun. Plus ive always loveds motorcycle, cars, dirtbikes Motorsports and all forms of racing, Rc seems like the only affordable option

Hi Zac, great video. I used to race when I was a kid (the classic Traxxas Bandit), is there any kits available that you would suggest that are the same kind of thing where you have to build everything yourself, or do they all come pre made these days? Half the fun back then for me was building it up in the first place. I guess I'd be looking at Electric 1/10th scale again, if there's enough people already racing in that class..? Thanks!

very good ! this was helpful

How good!!! Awesome Zac

Very cool . Stunning views too

Like c-netic rc track

Great job boys. Thanks

Thorough and informative gents, well done 👌🏼🍻

Awesome track walk guys

great info guys specially for those that are traveling well done.

Good job Zac!!!

Very well done good Idea to put this on you tube . All the best From Paul .