Simple Low Cost Way to Produce Firewood & Deal With Slash
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- I recently got back in the firewood business to utilize wood from a big blowdown on my forest land. Instead of getting an expensive firewood processor, I will show the simple inexpensive way I am processing this firewood. Also how I manage the slash.
And I thought I had a big mess in my woods - couple of broken trees after storm and it'll take forever to deal with it, but seeing you dealing with a much big mess gives me a hope to clean up my woods maybe this year. :)
You need to hire a strong kid to do the hillside work while you run the splitter. The slash...leave it in piles to rot and call it wildlife habitat.
Most of the slash will be left on the ground in place. Partly for a wildlife, mostly just because I don’t want to move it.
This video is/was a parallel to me and my property with clean up and slash management after the windstorms this past winter -- likely the same storms as hit your Coastal property.
I feel your pain; like PTSD for me...
You got the remnants of the hurricane, we got a slight breeze, what a difference a couple hundred miles and two mountain ranges make...
Cheers from a (less) smoky Willamette Valley.
Fortunately here, other than right around the small area around the road, I won’t have to do much slash management. Most of it can be left in place and it will rot away. Until then it makes wildlife habitat and contributes to nutrient cycling. Hopefully the Willamette Valley is still less smoky. I have an idea it probably isn’t.
Look in the owners manual, it gives you the simple steps to shut off the seat "belt minder" 👍🏼
We've almost finished our firewood for yhe year!
Or go to a junkyard and cut the metal part from a strap and put it in
I didn’t know there was a way to shut that off, I am surprised they allow that. I wear the seatbelt out on the public roads, but it would be nice to not have the belt minder yowling at me when out in the woods. Thanks, I will look into that.
That’s a good tip too.
Stuff you can work for your age no sore back hey, what would a trailer load cost, just to compare to OZ prices cheers
Nice one boss
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You must be in great shape....a lot of calories were burned in this video!
I've done everything you just did; and I did it for years. I don't remember even ONE time where I enjoyed it. If I discount the bad memories, the video was a good one.
I keep forgetting to put warnings on these videos for you and your PTSD. I might get the PTSD too if I didn’t do this only once in a while for relatively short times
This is only 2nd of your vids I've watched. Skid steer or tractor w grapple not an option?
My other videos would probably give some context. This is a property over on the coast, hours away from my property I am at most of the time, where my equipment is. I only come here for a few weeks in the summer to escape the heat and wildfire smoke at the inland property. The amount of hand piling of slash I had to do here took less than the amount of time it would take to go get a tractor.
I'm just wondering why you didn't cut the stems from the stumps and pull the logs out whole before bucking them.
They are huge logs, too heavy to pull all at once. The way they are sitting up off the ground, it’s easy to cut them up right where they are. If I was to drag them down, the logs would get dirty, and they would pull down a bunch more slash off the hillside into the road that I would have to deal with. It’s a good question.
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Yes, I wrote that before seeing some of your other videos where you used your truck to skid them out with the snatch blocks. Which coastal state are you in, if I can ask?
Your better than me, I would have to lose the hard hat while splitting, unless of course there is a overhead hazard involved. I have to wear one at work with other ppe and I take that thing off every chance I get.
Nice work making little sticks out of big sticks!
Hardhats are really for keeping the office clowns brains from floating away when they creep out of the office to go annoy the people that are actually doing something productive
Yep little sticks out of big sticks. The suspension I bought for this hardhat is actually pretty comfortable. A lot of the time I wear it because of the wide brim gives sun protection. And the gap between the hat and suspension allows good airflow for cooling.
The answer. Teenage labour. Hahaha.
That’s what my dad did a long time ago. Back then I was the teenager. 😀
Wait, what? You have wood splitting clothes? All clothes are splitting clothes, sooner or later.
I like how tall your splitter sits. I put mine in my tractor bucket to elevate it.
I would recomend a pickaroon, it,s a back saver. Great videoes. ;)
Who was Wilson before you were Wilson forest land ?
What exactly is "slash"? Is it brush and limbs from trees? Just curious...
Yes
You need to rent a forestry mulcher, that's a mulching chipping head attached to the front of a skid steer.
That’s a lot of moving mess back and forth …
But little by little looks like you are getting it. Glad you didn’t get the hurricane, but maybe just a little rain could help. But also make for you a bigger mess. Who know ? Good job
Even if the rain didn’t help me out with my mess, we need rain here on the West Coast more than we need just about anything else. Inland from here it’s a smoky mess with fires all over the place. I am glad I have this place on the coast to escape the heat and smoke. A little hand piling of mess in this one spot, that’s the worst of it and it’s done.
Omg Mike, you will be picking up and splitting firewood for the next 4 videos. I'm getting tired just looking at the task ahead. Oh well I'll eat breakfast and watch you work😉
Maybe more than the next 4 videos. I am not sure what’s going to be more difficult, doing the actual work, or figuring out how to make that many firewood videos even remotely close to entertaining.
@@WilsonForestLands Mike, I gotta tell you, we watch your videos, we have never really worn hardhats to work unless it was mandatory. Tim started to wear a plastic one this summer while in the woods. I called him ranger tim, poking fun at him. Well after watching your videos, wife started asking why I don't wear one..I answered 🤷 so she thought it would be a good idea. I ended up ordering a cool forestry hat like yours....not cheap 🙄 After I bought the aluminum top hat Tim liked it so much he got one. Today while felling a tree another tree 30' behind us fell with the tree we cut down. The tree behind us hit us both unexpectedly. Those hats saved us from serious injury maybe even death. Our hats albeit still shiny now have scratches and dents in them. We were videoing when it happened. I feel we owe you a thanks for showing the public wearing safety equipment in the woods is necessary. Video will be out in about a week or so.
@@Twobrothersoutdoors wow Rick, I am glad you are both OK, assuming hopefully you are OK. I did a video short about a year ago telling the story about why I wear the hardhat. After reading your comment, makes me think I should do another video long form about that story. Before this comment, I never really thought much about it whenever I put my hardhat on to do a video. I’m probably going to start thinking about it more now. Thanks for the comment and I will look forward to watching that video
@@WilsonForestLands we are ok, thanks solely to the helmet ⛑️ neck and shoulders a little sore this morning but hey, no brain bleed 🩸 we will be wearing helmets, working in the woods at all times now!
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Cords of firewood there. Is this mainly pine, or is there hardwood also?
The majority of it is Douglas fir. There is a little bit of pepperwood and tanoak, which are hardwoods. when I get to the other side of the road, I will also get into some grand fir.
You're going to have a lot of firewood from all that wood
I already had a lot of firewood, fortunately it’s selling fast.
@@WilsonForestLands I bet. It's getting that time of the year for firewood to sale
I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing with you. I know that you have a mess on your hands. Wish i lived close by to help.
I know some will laugh with me, some will laugh at me. As long as I make them laugh.
No easy way around it, like the saying as unappetizing as it is , how do you eat a Elephant- one bite at a time! Take care🇺🇸🇺🇸
One bite at a time, I think of and use that saying a lot.