In the early 80's I was working on a housing development. They were logging a wooded section. They used log skidder that had jaws on it. It had another jaw type thing that held the tree. The machines literally bit the trees off. They were taken to an on site chipper that had along table. The chipper had a crane cab with a boom with a grabber like your excavator . The operator would pull the tree into the chipper. The chips went int open top semi trailers. They were hauled to a Homasote plant 40 miles away. The chipper could take up to a 24 inch tree. The most amazing part of the whole system was the chipper ran on two twin diesels . When they chut them down at lunch time ,they would still be winding down when lunch was over a half hour later.
They used sniper type bunchers here years then had to switch to saw head bunchers because the OSB mill can’t use wood that is cracked or shattered when it is snipped in very cold weather.
I believe that when Chris looks at the drones view of the beginning of project like this he can with his mind-eye see the finished pond. Always a great job !
Oh Chris I'm in heaven with the aerial intro. Had to go back and watch it again. Thank you. Another beautiful piece of land. Will the pond connect the fields? Wow that will be perfect.
I recall You working with Kevin at the Bealy farm. What stayed with me since was the unspoken teamwork you two pulled off. Thank you for allowing me to witness this again. 😁
That grapple skidder is much better than the old Timberjack 225 cable skidder I had the luck of using 30 years ago. Thanks for posting another addictive video Chris.
1:17 man, all that green already! Plants are only just starting to come back to life here in New England. As I type it's cold, wet, and grey outside right now.
I've been a shovel logger,and lots of other machines, for most of my life,I will say buddy,your a great operator,and seem to be a nice guy,keep on keeping on bud,loved the video of the TD 31s. Stay safe
Seems like the grapple should have some kind of teeth on the inside of the grabber claws for nonslip grappling! 🤷🏼 ole Kevin is going to town on the trees, stacking them up! He’s pretty fast on his cutter! I’ve seen you do your share on the skidder before Chris, a few times!
Looks kinda like the Bealy Good pond build. Chris is going to help the loggets clear the pond area before he can actually begin diggin' dirt. Should be a fun series to watch. Thanks Chris for a nice late Saturday afternoon episode to watch.
Nice ! See your getting the handle on using your grapple chris! Hey you can use your thumb on this machine with the grapple right? If you can grab further back on the logs and drop your thumb on them and we'll give you more control on them chirs! Give it a try. That kind of what out here we call a logging shovel it well help you pick them up and move them in to piles!
So is a lot of the pond development for stockpile purpose for farming? Im no farmer but it makes sense to have a personal reserviour. The more ponds is more insurance for crops. Just wondering if thats part of some of these ponds. I make mention of this in light of current drought conditions in other parts of the country. That bunch of trees sure looked nice out there.
You have convinced me over the years of watching that the 220 is the best machine to buy. I see why you keep buying them they are truly interchangeable with grapple, bucket or feller head.
Hey Chris, with a grab like that, just find yourself a nice piece of tree, grab it and you can use it as a rough grading beam. I work in demolition with sorting grabs and we use steel H beams to level out massive area's very quickly. Also remember the rolling over the grab on piles of brush, you'll pick up a lot more
He tried that around the 25 minute mark, it overpowers the rotate on the grapple and turns but I agree with you, doesn’t seem like it has much pressure
@@Dontworryboutit315 ye noticed it later as well, the trick is in the angle you hold it, but it's probably a single rotation motor grab, so it'll pull through it a lot easier. I'm used to the Zijtveld sorting grabs, they're amazing tbh
Well you have come onto a job without " MUD ". Lol. I did hear you state that it was a bit soft in places. This should only get better as you said that summer is on the way. Good to see you get some good use with the grappling hook. Best of luck on this pond dig.
The only reason the trees were allowed to grow is that it was too wet to get machinery in there to prepare and seed the land. This way, with the pond they will be able to irrigate in dry times, and thee crops will have full sun all day.
Trees are falling and hopefully the stumps are not 'too' in the ground - seems to be wet enough that they will be easy enough to extract. Loving the Volvo army.
Beautiful property Chris from the drone view! Thanks for sharing it! 👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻Kevin and his new excavator and I like that tree cutter, it’s cool! That’s a big tree to hook on to Chris! WOW Kevin should break her in on this job Chris! lol 😂 Now you can put your grabber to use brother!
Yes, the drone footage added a lot of value to the video. We need Chris to get into Photoshop, or similar, so he could overlay an outline of the pond and show the dam location.
Great Start, after you said you had to wait awhile, I had hoped you would have started stumping with the stumper, at least pop them up but that's another awesome video.
Always seems like those hurry up and wait kinda things huh ?? Getting a good start !! Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Evening, And On too the Next !!
Even though you say that the wood in those trees is not very goo; it will still burn and can be processed into fire wood. You don't have that business, but you could find someone who does and sell the trees to them. That way you won't have the trouble of burning them and cleaning up the unburnt stuff.
Where Kevin pushes over the reluctant tree @7:32 put me in mind of an elephant doing the same thing in some far off jungle. He's pretty good with that cutting head.
If you had a Steelwrist quickoil coupler with that grapple you could lose the thumb and gain some weight savings. Also, then you would be able to pull stumps with the right tool and still easily switch to the grapple when needed. That indeco grapple looks like a great heavy duty tool!
@@letsdig18 I get that it's a good setup, used to run it myself but i'm pretty partial to the rotating grapple now. There is definitely a great versatility to the bucket/thumb combo.
This is work for the winter. Then no birds breed and there are no leaves on the trees. The ground is frozen. Anything better for the environment even if your country is huge, it makes sense
In previous videos I see you burning brush and trees. It grieves me somewhat, firewood here in Romania is the equivalent of $85 / m3 Love this plot though and all your videos ❤️🇷🇴
I used to watch a show called swamp logger's and the skidder would go to where they were cutting the trees without a problem, as long as the skidder operator could keep it on the haul road of trees that has been dropped.
A wonderful Video begin with Drohne Picture, to the better understanding. The Work the great Tree's to cut, and then Stumping You have the Planing this and have by the Areal a better view. A Interesting Work. I gladden my of the Continuation.
Waiting patiently for the first sighting of a shiny silver orb. Don't be scratching that nice paint on the new machine. Like the counterweight on the back, usually the first thing to get it. Chris likes to keep his healthy and rejuvenated with the occasional mud pack.
I’ve been running my family’s dx35z and granted I’m like an elephant riding a tricycle in it size wise but I’m amazed at what it handles. A Volvo 220. Holy cow the power and speed must be a money maker for sure. Especially with such diverse attachments.
The first scratch 😅. I remember my brand new car I was so careful and one day sitting in traffic boom I get knocked about 3 feet forwards and a guy with a rental runs right in the back bumper 😡
I was thinking that you would go put your stumper on (to stay productive) but I like the idea of watching Kevin for a bit then heading to another site too
I watch all your video's. You are a well accomplished excavator and dozer operator your bucket/thumb dexterity skills are first class however watching you operate this grapple attachment was painful, it reminded me of my daughter playing the claw machines in the arcade's at the Jersey shore.
I have seen people use the logs to stack accross the ditch and when done with skidder work pick them back out and throw on a log truck and off to the mill they go.
Chris - is this project fairly adjacent to your farm? - also I’ve seen some forestry attachments that cut the tree then strip all the branches then chop to length ready for transport… are they prohibitively expensive and or not fit a 220?
Unless I got mixed up it's on his farm... and the harvester heads don't really work on most deciduous trees, they're for evergreen mostly, they rely on snapping the branches on blades built into the grapple arms, can't really handle big limbs. Plus like the other guy said, very very costly.
i don't know much but that grapple does not seam to have a lot of holding power unlike your bucket and thumb set up thanks for the video exultant as usual Cheers
In the early 80's I was working on a housing development. They were logging a wooded section. They used log skidder that had jaws on it. It had another jaw type thing that held the tree. The machines literally bit the trees off. They were taken to an on site chipper that had along table. The chipper had a crane cab with a boom with a grabber like your excavator . The operator would pull the tree into the chipper. The chips went int open top semi trailers. They were hauled to a Homasote plant 40 miles away. The chipper could take up to a 24 inch tree. The most amazing part of the whole system was the chipper ran on two twin diesels . When they chut them down at lunch time ,they would still be winding down when lunch was over a half hour later.
They used sniper type bunchers here years then had to switch to saw head bunchers because the OSB mill can’t use wood that is cracked or shattered when it is snipped in very cold weather.
I believe that when Chris looks at the drones view of the beginning of project like this he can with his mind-eye see the finished pond. Always a great job !
Oh Chris I'm in heaven with the aerial intro. Had to go back and watch it again. Thank you.
Another beautiful piece of land. Will the pond connect the fields? Wow that will be perfect.
Watching these clearing vids, I'm constantly reminded what a lone homesteader could accomplish with just an ax and a mule.
That’s when men was men. And didn’t know any different. We got spoiled with machines
@@erikcourtney1834 The machines possibly made it ‘too’quick N easy to change so much !
I recall You working with Kevin at the Bealy farm. What stayed with me since was the unspoken teamwork you two pulled off. Thank you for allowing me to witness this again. 😁
That grapple skidder is much better than the old Timberjack 225 cable skidder I had the luck of using 30 years ago. Thanks for posting another addictive video Chris.
Yes I don’t miss climbing up on my old C5 treefarmer 100+ times a day and pulling mainline but if I was healthy enough I’d do it again
1:17 man, all that green already! Plants are only just starting to come back to life here in New England. As I type it's cold, wet, and grey outside right now.
I've been a shovel logger,and lots of other machines, for most of my life,I will say buddy,your a great operator,and seem to be a nice guy,keep on keeping on bud,loved the video of the TD 31s. Stay safe
Beautiful piece of property Chris!..the pond will add to it 👍..can’t wait to see the results
Seems like the grapple should have some kind of teeth on the inside of the grabber claws for nonslip grappling! 🤷🏼 ole Kevin is going to town on the trees, stacking them up! He’s pretty fast on his cutter! I’ve seen you do your share on the skidder before Chris, a few times!
The glass in your cab is spotless. It’s a beautiful day to cut the wood.
Looks kinda like the Bealy Good pond build.
Chris is going to help the loggets clear the pond area before he can actually begin diggin' dirt.
Should be a fun series to watch.
Thanks Chris for a nice late Saturday afternoon episode to watch.
I’m having flashbacks, I’m sure Chris is too lol maybe it’ll be an excuse to get a better stumper
Great you have the right attachment to help get the trees out bro. Look forward to the next video from this project. Safe travels
That aerial view looks awesome man 👌. Green green green.
Beautiful! Would working there be considered work?
Cutting clearing and logging great video thanks Chris and Kevin
Good start, the grapple along with the cutter makes for a pretty nice clearing operation. Thanks for the update sir.
Tree Cutting Attachment worked soooooooooooooo very well - it was FUN to watch and lots of Progress ! Many Cheers from Australia !!!!
Nice ! See your getting the handle on using your grapple chris! Hey you can use your thumb on this machine with the grapple right? If you can grab further back on the logs and drop your thumb on them and we'll give you more control on them chirs! Give it a try. That kind of what out here we call a logging shovel it well help you pick them up and move them in to piles!
Making some real good headway with you teaming with the cutters. Thanks for sharing.
So is a lot of the pond development for stockpile purpose for farming? Im no farmer but it makes sense to have a personal reserviour. The more ponds is more insurance for crops. Just wondering if thats part of some of these ponds. I make mention of this in light of current drought conditions in other parts of the country. That bunch of trees sure looked nice out there.
I'm hooked on this one, great team too...glad your truck will give you a relaxing drive these days too..here's to the next video UK out.
You have convinced me over the years of watching that the 220 is the best machine to buy. I see why you keep buying them they are truly interchangeable with grapple, bucket or feller head.
Hey Chris, with a grab like that, just find yourself a nice piece of tree, grab it and you can use it as a rough grading beam. I work in demolition with sorting grabs and we use steel H beams to level out massive area's very quickly. Also remember the rolling over the grab on piles of brush, you'll pick up a lot more
I'm also fairly certain looking at this that the grapple doesn't get enough oil pressure, it should hold way better on the end of the tooth
He tried that around the 25 minute mark, it overpowers the rotate on the grapple and turns but I agree with you, doesn’t seem like it has much pressure
@@Dontworryboutit315 ye noticed it later as well, the trick is in the angle you hold it, but it's probably a single rotation motor grab, so it'll pull through it a lot easier. I'm used to the Zijtveld sorting grabs, they're amazing tbh
Well you have come onto a job without " MUD ". Lol. I did hear you state that it was a bit soft in places. This should only get better as you said that summer is on the way.
Good to see you get some good use with the grappling hook. Best of luck on this pond dig.
Great to see you brought the drone this time Chris, let the work begin
Interesting on how you start the process. Enjoyed seeing the logging equipment.
Man, those power heads are awesome. Just need an automatic stumper on it too! 😁
I always have mixed feelings because it looks so nice the way it is. Very nice property.
I was thinking that as well.
The only reason the trees were allowed to grow is that it was too wet to get machinery in there to prepare and seed the land. This way, with the pond they will be able to irrigate in dry times, and thee crops will have full sun all day.
In my neck of the woods unless the mud is 4 foot deep or better the skidder drivers go for it and rarely ever have a problem.
Good start to the pond sir.
Mice and snakes oh my, however the cat jumping out of the cab is my favorite.
Trees are falling and hopefully the stumps are not 'too' in the ground - seems to be wet enough that they will be easy enough to extract. Loving the Volvo army.
Beautiful property Chris from the drone view! Thanks for sharing it! 👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻Kevin and his new excavator and I like that tree cutter, it’s cool! That’s a big tree to hook on to Chris! WOW Kevin should break her in on this job Chris! lol 😂 Now you can put your grabber to use brother!
Yes, the drone footage added a lot of value to the video. We need Chris to get into Photoshop, or similar, so he could overlay an outline of the pond and show the dam location.
@@TrevorDennis100 :
You mean you don't believe that Chris "has enough on his plate"?!?!
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Thanks for the video Chris 👍✅ All good 👍 nice work you guys are getting it done. Take care of yourself and Winston and be Blessed ❤️❤️❤️ it.
Great Start, after you said you had to wait awhile, I had hoped you would have started stumping with the stumper, at least pop them up but that's another awesome video.
Thanks for sharing Chris, y’all stay safe brother! Kirk from Louisiana! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I dont know if yall have ever worked together but looks like a well oiled machine. Nice project..
Always seems like those hurry up and wait kinda things huh ??
Getting a good start !! Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Evening, And On too the Next !!
Even though you say that the wood in those trees is not very goo; it will still burn and can be processed into fire wood. You don't have that business, but you could find someone who does and sell the trees to them. That way you won't have the trouble of burning them and cleaning up the unburnt stuff.
nice piece of property, 6 trees one stump that will be fun
Wow the grass is getting tall.👍😁
You’ve come a long way since busting beaver dams,,,,, enjoy your success! 🇺🇸🇨🇱
loved the drone shots with all the different shades of green.
Man, that f450 sure is a good looking truck
Cotton top be proud of you lol you can run. Anything and learn it quick ❤nice video
Where Kevin pushes over the reluctant tree @7:32 put me in mind of an elephant doing the same thing in some far off jungle. He's pretty good with that cutting head.
That grapple/saw invention is pure genius!
Too much to adjust too, I guess! But you got this brother! Good video and good job here!
If you had a Steelwrist quickoil coupler with that grapple you could lose the thumb and gain some weight savings. Also, then you would be able to pull stumps with the right tool and still easily switch to the grapple when needed. That indeco grapple looks like a great heavy duty tool!
I'll keep my bucket and thumb over anything for clearing and stacking. Way more efficient
Steelwrist will be well fecked when he gets a good sloppy pond dredging job to do. The pond silt will mess them quickoil fittings up in no time.
@@letsdig18 I get that it's a good setup, used to run it myself but i'm pretty partial to the rotating grapple now. There is definitely a great versatility to the bucket/thumb combo.
Should Weld some rakers onto the main frame of the claw to allow it to grip the logs better Chris.
This is work for the winter. Then no birds breed and there are no leaves on the trees. The ground is frozen. Anything better for the environment even if your country is huge, it makes sense
In previous videos I see you burning brush and trees.
It grieves me somewhat, firewood here in Romania is the equivalent of $85 / m3
Love this plot though and all your videos ❤️🇷🇴
I used to watch a show called swamp logger's and the skidder would go to where they were cutting the trees without a problem, as long as the skidder operator could keep it on the haul road of trees that has been dropped.
A wonderful Video begin with Drohne Picture, to the better understanding. The Work the great Tree's to cut, and then Stumping You have the Planing this and have by the Areal a better view. A Interesting Work. I gladden my of the Continuation.
I can see one of these tree cutter attachment in the future for Chris. Greetings from that Old Jarhead in WNC
great video, nice stacking of logs for the skidder
Great to see the grapple in action😊
that 220 with the cutter head on it makes quick work of them trees
Look like you will have a lot of topsoil for sure in the woods.
Impressive work. Robin Hood would be looking for new digs with you lot about.
That 450 is awesome!!
Big Blue Oval for the Win!!
Waiting patiently for the first sighting of a shiny silver orb. Don't be scratching that nice paint on the new machine. Like the counterweight on the back, usually the first thing to get it. Chris likes to keep his healthy and rejuvenated with the occasional mud pack.
I’ve been running my family’s dx35z and granted I’m like an elephant riding a tricycle in it size wise but I’m amazed at what it handles.
A Volvo 220. Holy cow the power and speed must be a money maker for sure. Especially with such diverse attachments.
Sure looks neat from your drone 😇😇😇
Dang, the wheat is heading out already. Here in sw Idaho fall wheat is 12" tall.
That's a good size farm,
It's a Volvo party. Yall made pretty quick work. He's very good with the cutter head.
Love your new truck! Much better than a F250
The first scratch 😅. I remember my brand new car I was so careful and one day sitting in traffic boom I get knocked about 3 feet forwards and a guy with a rental runs right in the back bumper 😡
The drone footage sure show's why your removing that stand of tree's, you should end up with a really nice looking field once your done.
And everyone says window screens, cab guards and limb risers are useless add ons - first tree and “bang”! - case proven
I always knew eventually Chris would've become a forestry contractor, processing head is definitely the bee's knee's 😂😮😊.
I was thinking that you would go put your stumper on (to stay productive) but I like the idea of watching Kevin for a bit then heading to another site too
Chris you got a lot of stumps to get out .
Its a skidder! For logging! A little ditch and some wet ground ain't nothing. Flat landers,,,
When you do your drone overview on new projects can you draw out where the pond is going to be.
Chris, Love music you play during the drone flights. Wish I knew what it is.
I hear ya looks like they grow extra trees in one that makes a good mess and not very easy to get threw 🤔😎🇺🇸NY
Love watching you work you are a absolute pro great work
Great Video Chris Thanks!!👍👍
Very cool video I look forward to the rest of them thanks
Those are some big ass white pines !
Love the intro,music fantastic, had to play again.😊
Always like ur videos keep up the good videos sir 💯🔥🤙🤙🤙
I watch all your video's. You are a well accomplished excavator and dozer operator your bucket/thumb dexterity skills are first class however watching you operate this grapple attachment was painful, it reminded me of my daughter playing the claw machines in the arcade's at the Jersey shore.
Well, lot to do! Nobusiness. 😆
Use those brush tops to fill in the wet areas so the skidder can drive across them.
Then I had a muddy pile of sticks to try to burn.
I have seen people use the logs to stack accross the ditch and when done with skidder work pick them back out and throw on a log truck and off to the mill they go.
Man your getting really good with the grapple almost having fun actually
Those cutter heads are so awesome!! How long before Chris orders one??
What kind of pond is this gonna be? Irrigation, fish, or ? Thanks for bringing us along.
The mill used to save hollow trees to use as crossing drains. For skidders.
Now THIS is what I need up at my property in Idaho!!!
Chris - is this project fairly adjacent to your farm? - also I’ve seen some forestry attachments that cut the tree then strip all the branches then chop to length ready for transport… are they prohibitively expensive and or not fit a 220?
Probably a $100,000 cutter head. So ya they are expensive.
Unless I got mixed up it's on his farm... and the harvester heads don't really work on most deciduous trees, they're for evergreen mostly, they rely on snapping the branches on blades built into the grapple arms, can't really handle big limbs. Plus like the other guy said, very very costly.
@@Luke-Orr you’re mixed up.
@@Luke-Orr
Not his farm, it's a job.
i don't know much but that grapple does not seam to have a lot of holding power unlike your bucket and thumb set up thanks for the video exultant as usual Cheers
Grapple makes sense now 👍
tellement mieux que le gapillage de bois que j ai vue dans d atres video bravo vraiment
that first group of trees is gonna a stump that is gonna be a BEAR to take out!
Great video. Really enjoyed.
I wish we had those trees in se New Mexico I would never cut em down. 😢😢😢😢
If that felling head had bark wheels and grab sheers you’d be spitting logs out like No tomorrow