The old tree saw more history than any of us ever will. Whenever I see a large lone tree I need the middle of a field, makes me think it was special because some farmer generations ago let it live!
I really enjoy your videos. Lived on a 115 acre "ranch" for a few years growing up and these videos take me back to watching drag lines clean out the stock tanks, cutting hay, and the joy of hard work and skill with machinery. Life took me down a different path...but these remind me of great times.
I watch quite a few equipment videos and it's real rare I see that someone really knows what they're doing. You're so fluid and efficient with all the small motions and simple tasks within the big ones it's damned impressive.
They used to graft two or three saplings together to make a really big tree. We had a beech tree that three adults could not touch hands stretching around the trunk. When it was taken down (185 years old) you could clearly see how it was done even after all that time.
We had a big bruiser like that, in our cemetery. It had basically done the same thing. Rotted from the middle, out. It took the light company 2 days, to cut it down, chip it up, and not hit any headstones. They left the base of it, for us to deal with. The main body was 7' in diameter. The two forks, were 4' each. Great video as always Chris.
Muito bom, com está escavadeira Hidráulica com concha e está garra , ajuda muito,eu trabalho aqui no Brasil litoral de são Paulo a muito tempo mas ainda não tive a chance de trabalhar com uma escavadeira Hidráulica com está garra. Você domina bem este equipamento parabéns.curto seus vídeos 👍.
Back in the day they used block ang tackle to remove the stumps from fields thats why there are a lot of fields that have one big tree remaining in them
I sure would love to go metal detecting under that stump and around where you dug all the ground out. I bet you there would be a few old coppers and silvers coin in there.
That is one big tree. I had a 100 foot eucalyptus fall over in a storm years back, the root ball stood a good 8 feet in the air and tree trunk was 4 feet in diameter. After cutting the tree up into many cords of firewood I had a massive root ball to deal with... I ended up burying the root ball under a good 8 feet of dirt with my backhoe.
Yep, thats a stump hole! HA! I winched over a large Oak that was hanging over our house. Yep, I had to dig down about 4ft, halfway around the base. But then My F250 winch pulled it right over. I uploaded the video on it. I'm letting the trunk dry out, then I'll slab it up with my chainsaw mill.
If you ever look around in old fields you will sometimes notice one tree. The reason is back in the olden days they used to use steam donkeys and pull the trees over. The steam donkey was anchored to one tree and pulling on another. This would happen until there was no more trees but the last one the steam donkey was attached to. Most times this tree would be in the middle like this video or on a shared property corner so that the other farmers could use the same anchor tree This is the reason why these trees are big and old.
Love watching your videos. Your voice is easy to listen to. No matter what situation you get into you are always stress free to listen to. Had a few laughs. It's fun watching.
I've sawed some lumber before andhadeadwood will make some decorative stuff. Some of the prettiest stuff comes out of trees like that./new subscriber, marathon time
THAT.. Is ONE BIG 🌳 Tree 🌲 But the Live Oaks we have in North Floow’da get/are MUCH bigger than that...!! 😱😳🤭 Ha, No mater What you’re working on out there, it has to go to the Other side/Across the FARM. That looks Just like we always did with the D-6 Dozers 6:47 clearing farm land in the Mt Olive area Back in the mid 1970s, then we would push up a big Ramp on one side of the tree 🌳 to go up and Keep butting against the trunk, fwd, neutral, few, neutral, lifting the blade as it hit each time for a However Long it took for the tree to come Down... Dam I miss N Carolina farm country 🤭🤔😢😰😱
I kept thinking about how nervous Tim (Cotonto3), August Hunicke, and Buckin' Billy Ray get about dead trees, and hoping it didn't fall on Chris. At the end there, I thought there is no way in hell he is going to be able to push that tree over, and if I'd seen the size of the stump at 9:30 I'd have bet serious money against it, but Chris so knows his stuff. Right down to getting the extra height to increase leverage. Impressive as always.
First thought: DY-NA-MI-TE! My wife got a little property that has about 6 trees like that in a straight line about that size. There's a single oak at one end that I am impressed with.
judging by the soil color, I would say if that was up north in those darker more dense soils, you would have been digging a while longer. but you proved your 'Mighty Mouse ' track hole put in a hard days work
Well done. However, you had a decent size excavator which simplifies the job considerably. I learned from my Dad to take those down with a Cat D6C dozer. It can take a couple of hours.
Looks more like a cluster of three trees with the separation being so low, when they grow like that they're on borrowed time as soon as the trunks start to touch. A shame really, if it had been just a single tree it could have been even more impressive.
I trust an pray there werent any baby squarrels. In that tree an or any of the trees youve cut down. But you do a. Awesome job running your exavetor keep up the great job.
That's one big stump. Glad to see it's getting used. Be nice if some Civil War stuff was buried underneath it. 😯😯 I have a question, when you turn I notice that knuckle down and lift your tracks up.
Where most people would have thought a chainsaw and a bucket truck would have done the job, Chris comes along with his excavator and proves everyone that there's a second way of taking down a tree.
You see folks chipping good timber logs and it make me sad/mad. I'm happy to see what you do. Do you have the mill or do you sell the logs? Thanks, I enjoy watching you run that loader. I can run one in a pinch but it takes talent and seat time to get as smooth as you. I find it amusing when homeowners complain that a job took only a half a day or a day without thinking of travel time, maintenance time, fuel and other insadentals. To run a smooth operation with current equipment is not cheap! Thanks from Staunton Virginia
I'm glad you didn't stay below it very long i know you had to have size comparison but that dirt has the same force as and unsafe ditch. It split when it landed could of chuncked off and smashed you . Any way. Great work. Bigest one ive saw too
9:26 you just look so small compared to the stump because of perspective; the stump is closer to the camera than you are... Wait what kind of logic is that, am I getting crazy? That's a frigging big stump, that is! Hell of a job Chris!!
Question? Why not stack all the wood you removed, around the base of the tree and set it on fire.? Let the fire do the work. Remove the stump later as required
The old tree saw more history than any of us ever will.
Whenever I see a large lone tree I need the middle of a field, makes me think it was special because some farmer generations ago let it live!
I agree with you, but here other people came and destroyed the tree, it’s a pity they don’t value nature for them if only they had money ..
All trees die sometime
7:45 you call it a stump hole Chris it’s actually a stump swimming pool
experienced equipment operators are special to watch in action... smooth, calculating, and precise a pleasure to watch
I really enjoy your videos. Lived on a 115 acre "ranch" for a few years growing up and these videos take me back to watching drag lines clean out the stock tanks, cutting hay, and the joy of hard work and skill with machinery. Life took me down a different path...but these remind me of great times.
My goodness didn’t realize how huge the tree was till you stood in the hole, good job, thank you for your videos.
Glad to catch that video. Pretty impressive the way you knocked that one down.
Nice video big old tree . You did a nice job with it! Thanks for sharing
Wow she got bigger & bigger as you walked up on her! Nice work bud👍
Dammit Boy !! When you walked down in the Hole with it , I was like , WOW !! That was pretty awesome Chris.... Have a Great Evening...
yes i agree never seen a base so big that was some tree three out of one root system...
Excellent job Chris !! I love how it split the stump in half when it hit the ground !! Less work for you now in loading up the haul truck
I watch quite a few equipment videos and it's real rare I see that someone really knows what they're doing. You're so fluid and efficient with all the small motions and simple tasks within the big ones it's damned impressive.
I'm sure it helped to have a few thousand viewers holding our breadth and helping you push.
They used to graft two or three saplings together to make a really big tree. We had a beech tree that three adults could not touch hands stretching around the trunk. When it was taken down (185 years old) you could clearly see how it was done even after all that time.
We had a big bruiser like that, in our cemetery. It had basically done the same thing. Rotted from the middle, out. It took the light company 2 days, to cut it down, chip it up, and not hit any headstones. They left the base of it, for us to deal with. The main body was 7' in diameter. The two forks, were 4' each. Great video as always Chris.
It was nice that big thing falling altogether and not snapping on you. Great job!
Very big tree, you can say three of them, amazing operation Chris 👍👌🌳🌳🌳
Sad for the tree. Nice done!
Putting you guys in the pictures sure gives a different perspective of the size of the trees. Holy jeebers that was a huge triple!
Tell the Farmer, "Is this where you want to build the now house? I got the basement hole dug already."
Run into one of my biggest trees 2weeks ago. Around 5 or 6 feet across. Huge I mean I couldn't even hardly roll it. Great job.
I have several large Live Oaks that size in my yard. But my soil is pretty much sand. That was really something to see you drop it.
Impressive show of what that machine is capable of in the right hands.
love to watch you work, you are so good at what you do: make it look so easy !!!
Wow, some biiiiiig tree Chris!!!
That's one big story to tell, made the pair of you look like toddlers!!
Muito bom, com está escavadeira Hidráulica com concha e está garra , ajuda muito,eu trabalho aqui no Brasil litoral de são Paulo a muito tempo mas ainda não tive a chance de trabalhar com uma escavadeira Hidráulica com está garra. Você domina bem este equipamento parabéns.curto seus vídeos 👍.
Back in the day they used block ang tackle to remove the stumps from fields thats why there are a lot of fields that have one big tree remaining in them
Excellent video sir thank you for sharing an accomplishment of that size I was very impressed when you climbed down next to that stump
Heat
h Worsley
Bloody brilliant. Tip skills dude. I'll watch it again.
Great job. Massive trees.
About 5 times larger than I thought when you stood next to it.
Me too 🤣
That was my exact thought lol.
8:50 you forget just how big that machine is
I love all ur videos coming all the way up here from Steelton Pa right outside Harrisburg Pa here! Keep them coming!
Nice work mate. I don't like seeing big old trees cut down but that one was dying, needing to be put out of its misery.
Excellent skills!
If i had half of your skills in that machine id be very good at it. Nice video
I would love to see that old tree made into a beautiful farm table.
Your placing the log on the trailer was a work of art.
Make sure you got that cab door shut and you'll be alright 👌👍
The size was very deceptive until you stood next to it. Wow. Nice job.
Really cool watching a tree getting disassembled by a large machine ! thanks
I sure would love to go metal detecting under that stump and around where you dug all the ground out. I bet you there would be a few old coppers and silvers coin in there.
I definitely would have metal detected around that one!
That is one big tree. I had a 100 foot eucalyptus fall over in a storm years back, the root ball stood a good 8 feet in the air and tree trunk was 4 feet in diameter. After cutting the tree up into many cords of firewood I had a massive root ball to deal with... I ended up burying the root ball under a good 8 feet of dirt with my backhoe.
Poor old tree but that was some size a good few hundred years old.👍
Holy hell!!!! I wasnt all that impressed until that 9:31 mark!!! Holy Tree!!
right??? LOL i knew it w big but damn, when he stood down in the hole next to that stump ,,,,,,,holy shit is it big !
You are stupid
@@ktm-ns6we bet you don't even own a ktm or know how to ride.. id could give you some lessons one day if you'd like.
@@clayboist you're still "stupid"
Yep, thats a stump hole! HA! I winched over a large Oak that was hanging over our house. Yep, I had to dig down about 4ft, halfway around the base. But then My F250 winch pulled it right over. I uploaded the video on it. I'm letting the trunk dry out, then I'll slab it up with my chainsaw mill.
Nice video!
Love the two views of the same fall.
That’s one huge root ball. Wow
Wow ! That was big . When you walked in that hole -that told me the story -cool .
That tree was suffering from Volvo Burrowing Beatles. They are quite prevalent round Chris's way.
Wow that was huge! Jack will be happy! 😁
Dang it man! That was a big one! I could heat my shop for a while with that much wood. Probably 3 winters or more. Wow!
If you ever look around in old fields you will sometimes notice one tree. The reason is back in the olden days they used to use steam donkeys and pull the trees over. The steam donkey was anchored to one tree and pulling on another. This would happen until there was no more trees but the last one the steam donkey was attached to. Most times this tree would be in the middle like this video or on a shared property corner so that the other farmers could use the same anchor tree This is the reason why these trees are big and old.
Its nice to see you have your CT3 shirt on for tree work day lol
ya, who needs a chain saw, anyway
It would be great to watch the log cutting on this one for sure !
Love watching your videos. Your voice is easy to listen to. No matter what situation you get into you are always stress free to listen to. Had a few laughs. It's fun watching.
Kinda sad in a way, seeing that old tree die off. The stories it could tell. How old would you guess it is?
Well done.
Thanks for the video.
It probably got shot Civil War somebody hiding behind it.
It probably got shot in the Civil War.
Would guess this will disappoint some people. If a red/black oak max 190 years given 4 foot diameter.
@@awd3264 Thanks.
I bet you Google that
That is one big stump. Nice logs to make lumber.
Damn that's a huge tree you never cet to amaze me Chris, the 220 strikes again excellent job as always 💯
I've sawed some lumber before andhadeadwood will make some decorative stuff. Some of the prettiest stuff comes out of trees like that./new subscriber, marathon time
THAT.. Is ONE BIG 🌳 Tree 🌲
But the Live Oaks we have in North Floow’da get/are MUCH bigger than that...!! 😱😳🤭
Ha, No mater What you’re working on out there, it has to go to the Other side/Across the FARM.
That looks Just like we always did with the D-6 Dozers 6:47 clearing farm land in the Mt Olive area
Back in the mid 1970s, then we would push up a big Ramp on one side of the tree 🌳 to go up and
Keep butting against the trunk, fwd, neutral, few, neutral, lifting the blade as it hit each time for a However Long it took for the tree to come Down... Dam I miss N Carolina farm country 🤭🤔😢😰😱
One thing for sure, that's the best chain saw I've seen.
You ain't kidding thers alot of wood there lol great vid bud and godbless
Admirable SKILL And strenght of excavator
I kept thinking about how nervous Tim (Cotonto3), August Hunicke, and Buckin' Billy Ray get about dead trees, and hoping it didn't fall on Chris. At the end there, I thought there is no way in hell he is going to be able to push that tree over, and if I'd seen the size of the stump at 9:30 I'd have bet serious money against it, but Chris so knows his stuff. Right down to getting the extra height to increase leverage. Impressive as always.
TIMBER!! What a big mocker!! To big to catch or throw, so you did a little balancing act 8:25 👍 You Da Man!!
Nice job that thing was a large
Be interested to know a rough age on that tree, it might of been a sapling in the times of civil war!
Naw you going down in that hole pit it in perspective lol, that's a monster
I took down a few big ones like that in my career so far and look forward to taking down many more keep digging my friend and I'll do the same 0:51
That’s more like a stump crater! 😮
I just dug up a pine stump Friday with a Cat mini ex, I was probably 6 feet deep all the way around it before I finally got it to break loose.
Hell you dig out a tree and built a pond at the same time. Did I ever tell you just how good you are? Lol
No. Not a pond. The basement hole is dug. Ready for the new house build to begin.
Chris, you ever thought about a 1-tooth ripper for digging stumps instead of a bucket? Curious to hear your thoughts on that.
First thought: DY-NA-MI-TE!
My wife got a little property that has about 6 trees like that in a straight line about that size. There's a single oak at one end that I am impressed with.
That is a big stump! I would have had to burn it down, or the old fashioned way; Blow it up!
Excellent video!
Those dead limbs , we call widow makers.
I took down a red oak that was 5ft. In diameter with a 690e .
It looked like the tree from Avatar .
judging by the soil color, I would say if that was up north in those darker more dense soils, you would have been digging a while longer. but you proved your 'Mighty Mouse ' track hole put in a hard days work
Take a few minutes and count the rings from center out.
Thats not very accurate. You have to count the rings from the outside - in.
@@timothyball3144 - and it would probably be longer than a few minutes to do that ...
Well done. However, you had a decent size excavator which simplifies the job considerably. I learned from my Dad to take those down with a Cat D6C dozer. It can take a couple of hours.
One word wow when you stood next to it
Faithful Tim with the chainsaw, 😁 thanks from the UK.
Here in BC Canada we call that a shrub
The 220 didn’t want any more than that lol nice tree
A tiny bit more work and he's got a new pond there. I know just the guy for the job!
Back in the early seventies we used Dynamite to blow them . You didn’t have that big root ball to worry with.
Looks more like a cluster of three trees with the separation being so low, when they grow like that they're on borrowed time as soon as the trunks start to touch. A shame really, if it had been just a single tree it could have been even more impressive.
I trust an pray there werent any baby squarrels. In that tree an or any of the trees youve cut down. But you do a. Awesome job running your exavetor keep up the great job.
That's one big stump. Glad to see it's getting used. Be nice if some Civil War stuff was buried underneath it. 😯😯
I have a question, when you turn I notice that knuckle down and lift your tracks up.
That my friends was a widow maker waiting to happen nice job Chris so glad everything went your way and that your safe from that job 😎👍👍
Where most people would have thought a chainsaw and a bucket truck would have done the job, Chris comes along with his excavator and proves everyone that there's a second way of taking down a tree.
You see folks chipping good timber logs and it make me sad/mad. I'm happy to see what you do.
Do you have the mill or do you sell the logs?
Thanks, I enjoy watching you run that loader. I can run one in a pinch but it takes talent and seat time to get as smooth as you.
I find it amusing when homeowners complain that a job took only a half a day or a day without thinking of travel time, maintenance time, fuel and other insadentals. To run a smooth operation with current equipment is not cheap!
Thanks from Staunton Virginia
I'm glad you didn't stay below it very long i know you had to have size comparison but that dirt has the same force as and unsafe ditch. It split when it landed could of chuncked off and smashed you . Any way. Great work. Bigest one ive saw too
Holy 💩 that's a a big 🌲
9:26 you just look so small compared to the stump because of perspective; the stump is closer to the camera than you are...
Wait what kind of logic is that, am I getting crazy?
That's a frigging big stump, that is! Hell of a job Chris!!
COUNT THE RINGS~!!
Would be cool to know that Goliath was still being carried by squirrels! LOL
That certainly gave the excavator and a good work-out Chris, how did it take from start to finish?
Love sound of a straining hydraulic pump and cracking wood.
Maybe you can show the boards coming off this tree. I can see some awesome tables coming out of that end piece
That was a Large Marge. He could turn that hole into a stock tank.
Question? Why not stack all the wood you removed, around the base of the tree and set it on fire.? Let the fire do the work. Remove the stump later as required
Your going to need a really big chipper!