Or more realistically, and hear me out on this one, extracting water from feces in your mineshaft bunker. Next week, how to remove radioactive contaminants from topsoil using only the parts most overlooked by amature scavvers. Coming up next: Spontaneous extra body parts and you or Do I REALLY need to amputate that?
Hey man, forestry phd here! Good job with the reforestation efforts! I only have two concerns: 1- can you use native species only? You don't want to make the austrian pine invasive in your ranch, but it may happen if you plant it all over the place. the natives are so much better connected to all the other members of the ecosystem, they will be more likely to grow and they won't ever be a problem. Not native species instead could reach a population threshold where they become unstoppable and take over everything, it's quite risky. 2- Did you consider the natural succession in your local environment? it could be that those you have there are late-succession species, and that they will hardly grow without other plants protecting them (it's called nurse effect). You should travel around in your area and look for places where natural forest regeneration is happening, to figure out what are the most suitable species nevertheless you're doing an awesome job! I really hope you'll be successful in this project!
The introduction of non native species has been a disaster in many countries. Look what Dutch elm disease introduced from imported timber did to the English elm.
Ladder fuels are always a huge concern in fire management. The ones you lost in the fire need to be cut and in contact with the ground to decompose As well. You have the right plan. As a forester I know you have your hands full with this project. Well done Cody. All you can do is try my friend.The orange is the tree trying to protect it'self by producing more food. Some call it fatwood and it can be found here and there in all species. Unfortunately fatwood is great fire starter. Crazy eh.
California has this same problem on steroids doesn't it? These land management techniques were suggested recently, but because of who said it, half of the people triggered. Clearing away the dead wood and debris is easy to understand, but keeping the grass away is a bit counter-intuitive. The alternative is bare rocks. I'd love your thoughts on that.
The real problem is firefighters haven't been allowed to backburn, people don't walk into the woods and grab deadfall, nonone wants to spend the money on carrying out dead fall. California needs to burn, but stupid humans are making it a ticking time bomb.
@@TomokosEnterprize From what I understood he blamed poor forest management, which is not necessarily the foresters fault, if they are obstructed by uninformed local government & locals having a sook about ruining their nice pretty (pretty flammable) views. We get far less opposition to back-burning in Australia because understanding its necessity is part of the culture. Though opposition does happen occasionally from rich home-builders that move from the city to buy & build homes adjacent to bushland. Irony is most of them are greens voters & accuse backburn operations of hurting the poor widdle trees & animals.
Hey cody if you have any small streams that pop up In wet weather or snow melt you should try and build natural dams to keep water in the valley. much like a beaver would in the wild. It keeps the water around longer increasing the plant and wild life in the area. I've seen valleys with and with out beavers and it's a stark difference.
The problem is that this is former Spanish land. You wouldn't think that is a problem since it is also in the USA, but water rights are severed from physical land ownership in most of the south-western states of the USA (land obtained from the Mexican War of 1847). If you build something like dams or control the water in any fashion, you need permission from downstream users too in a hugely complicated legal mess. The state legislature recently permitted property owners to finally collect rain water into cisterns for irrigation purposes that comes off of roofs, but even that used to be illegal to collect. If a beaver builds a dam, that is considered "natural", but otherwise you can run into problems. At best, this is something to tread carefully and only do after consulting a good local attorney. Otherwise, I generally agree with your sentiment and it really would make a difference. Water rights in the south-west of the USA are a minefield of problems though, which is why I suggest caution. Filming that action and posting it to TH-cam is begging for legal consequences to fire.
Hi Cody and Mr.Wambller. Australia also a desert like area. We have had prolonged droughts in areas that used to be lush. Some could say over stocking of live stock and the clearing of trees etc. True a lot of the time. I was reading about this man (damn my memory I can't remember his name), he did work on water retention in the soil. So not damming the water ways but the odd log here and there to simply slow the water down and give it a chance to seep into the ground. It did drastically improve the soil and microbe content which in turn did massively benefit the vegetation and rehabilitate the land. I would suggest the old ways and laws are counterproductive. While not actively stopping water from reaching downstream property but simply slowing water down by planting trees and leaving large rocks and logs in waterways maybe everyone's objectives can be met. I wondered also, did there used to be a native animal in your area that might have eaten the lower branches of your trees and so fire proofed the trees??
I was thinking about doing this in my area in Australia, we have a similar sort of issue where a bad bush fire clears out all the trees, which makes what little rain we do get run off easier, leading to dry land that doesn't really support the trees regrowing. It should be cheap to do, I figured a post hole auger and some bulk aggregate would be simple enough to create some pockets in the land for water to accumulate, and hopefully sink in to the ground. The holes can be later used for tree planting.
8:30 That's a very good example of the influence of growing conditions. Since the soil is visually saturated with iron, some of it will be dissolved in the water it takes up. (A cool way to test this, is to take a rose flower, and grow it for a few days in a dyed water solution.) I do believe that eucalyptus trees do a similar thing with dissolved silver in the water they take up, givinf their trunks a slight metallic sheen.
The X-ray spectrometer he used before is mainly geared more towards minerals so I wouldn’t expect it work well on the sap and wood. But It would be fun to see Cody try it.
Cody, when you were examining the growth rings on the cut limb.....it looks like you were commenting on how the tension wood hadn't grown. On a leaning limb, you have tension and compression wood. The tension wood will have narrow growth rings, and the compression wood rings will be fatter. That makes the pith off-center and the fat compression rings on the downhill side. It looked like the rings were fatter on the bottom part of the screen which would have been the downhill side of the limb. Not to say the tree wasn't stressed, but you need to look at the growth rings all the way around the trunk.
I worked one summer at forestal cleaning doing exactly this. We cut the lower branches and chipped them to fertilice the soil afterwards. We have lots of forestal fires here (Mallorca) and thats the best way to ensure the trees survive. It was a lot of work, but I had a great time working outside in the middle of the forest.
Might I recommend a cordless reciprocating saw and a few extra batteries. Go through many times what you did in much less time. It does cost some money, but one of the better investments I have ever made.
@Warrior Son yes, I did think that too, a bow saw can take down a whole bloody leylandii conifer, (I've had to do it lots of times) but a folding pruning saw is ok for smaller stuff.
This is what I want to see. Reforesting is the series, that might be better than mining. Thank you for all the nice shots, explainations and work you do out there. I'm really looking forward to what this will look like in a few years, since you told us that there was forest all over the place.
A glitch in the matrix at 1:30 I think Cody has been replaced by and android. It’s that, or Cody is attempting to delegate tasks to his robots. Edit: Another glitch encountered just past 8:35. It looks like the video shows a few frames of something else entirely before returning to the tree. If I remember correctly, the frames were you showing where the grass was burned and not burned earlier in the video. I doubt that this was deliberate.
I've had that happen a couple of times between adjacent clips when moving them on the same media layer and resizing the latter in the sequence in vegas. Weird stuff.
This is good stuff Cody - we never face the threat of fire in Ireland, but we got a lot of storms, so the most for my land is felling/carving up fallen trees for firewood. Rreally cool to see how you go about preventing them from being destroyed.
i could be wrong but i think it can only measure certain things and cant measure everything since its not calibrated for that. in fact i dont remember him trying to measure anything but metals. organic stuff might not be possible with that thing
@@Polite_Cat you are correct. It has to be calibrated specifically for the elements you want to measure. Likely wouldn't find much to measure in tree sap.
Hi, I think some ideas for decreasing fire risk include using berms to retain water for drier periods; planting trees close together to rapidly form a canopy with a cooler, moister micro-climate (you can subsequently thin them out); limiting grazing around such clumps to allow a more wooded-style Mycorrhizal environment. Generally, this should also inhibit grass growth as natural succession occurs, but you'd be minded to create a non-grass buffer zone around your clumps of trees. Gradually you can merge your different clumps, but it's always a good idea to use a variety of species, so maybe having clumps of 5-10 specimens of one species. This means that as your forest grows, it becomes far more difficult for pests to take hold as they don't just rampage through a monoculture.
@Ken Oakleaf have you seen some of those automated systems have made? I'm pretty sure Cody could do that. also what version of Minecraft is he on? it looks so weird and round
Hope it helps! We have fires here a month ago. It was a heatwave + Dead greenlife. Clearing branches wouldn't have helped due to the fire-wave produces by the fire whirls!
@@theCodyReeder I live by the ocean, and I have... IDK, 30 to 40 thousand trees on 9 acres of land? I've got so many trees, I have to thin them out, else they grow too close together. Also, Cody: you should seriously cut those dead trees and keep their wood. The growth rings are so close together, that wood is super hard. It would make excellent boards or firewood. The growth rings on my trees are around 0.75 to 1.25 cm apart, making the wood rather soft.
To some extent minerals do tint some woods, but also lignin, sap and other molecules produced by the tree naturally combine to color the heart wood gradually as it ages. Typically, the line of darkened wood is the point where the minerals have clogged up the vascular system of the tree, which, were it like a human, would kill it, but as a plant, always making new vascular system material at the xylem, this simply serves as material to strengthen the trunk and make it resist wind and snow better as it ages. Naturally the sap will have in it everything that it takes to build the tree, so yes, the richer the mineral base, the more mineral you will find in the sap going all around the tree to where it is needed, just like you find everything a human needs [food, hormones, oxygen, etc.] flowing in our blood dissolved there until it reaches its destination where it gets processed in whatever manner our bodies need.
When you plant your new little trees cover the soil with stones this will help slow down the grass returning directly around the tree plus it will help the soil keep water during dry periods, as through the night to morning you will get condensation build up and run off. Also look in to trees that cuttings will root direct in to the soil over winter period.
Hmm. You would be lucky to have fire on the ground. Here in Australia the fire travels in the tree tops, then drops to the ground. The Eucalyptus in the leaves ignites first, making the tree almost explode into a fireball. Australian native trees are designed to survive fire, and some species actually require the fire to set seed (The Banksia for example). I understand that California has introduced some Australian natives, and with that, they are now struggling to fight fire in this new biome. Australian firefighters were sent in to help fight the fires, and teach the Americans how to fight this new kind of fire. Our bush fires can burn hot enough to melt Aluminium, and boil water in above ground 1.5m water mains.
I am from the San Francisco bay area. Eucalyptus has been introduced widely and long ago so it is now prolific. One of the worst fires ever in the bay area was in the Oakland Hills on the inland side of the bay. The eucalyptus trees burned very hot and fast just as you say. The perspective of a lot of people in California is that Eucalyptus trees are a damn menace. But they are mainly in urban and suburban areas, not in the wildlands where oak, pine, fir and redwood are more common. Redwoods are also very fire resistant or reliant on fire, as you might expect from trees that can live for hundreds of years (coast redwoods) or thousands of years (giant redwoods-- Sequoiadendron giganteum). According to wikipedia, modern fire suppression practices may even be jeopardizing giant redwoods. They set seed right after fires, normally. But I am no expert.
As a volunteer firefighter, the process of "crowning", when the fire travels from grass to trees is still a major factor. Most often fires start in dry brush and don't crown until much later, and mostly spread long distances by embers lighting more dry brush
Very interesting with the sap. Can you compare elemental compositions? Also, years ago you planted trees in tubes in order to get longer roots on them. What happened to this project?
Been a big fan for well over a 2 years, my brother and I both watch your content and you've inspired us to do our own experiments, though we're no where near as knowledgeable but we try. Loving the little tunes in the background too. Stay safe, stay curious and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
@@theCodyReeder Funnily enough, I just saw your comment on Zepherus 's video about Starlite, where you were saying that you thought that it seemed similar to Teflon. That was a year ago though.
remember, only you can prevent forest fires. but seriously this is a huge fucking task and i would never be able to even fathom doing all of that work by myself, youre an inspiration, showing what we can accomplish when we really set our minds to it
*I just wanna let you know Cody, that I'm disabled and I have the same bone disease that Sam L. Jackson plays in Mr. GLASS from* *the movie Split, & Unbreakable. I deal with SEVERE Chronic Pain, from Nerve Damage and* *Inflamation from the dozens of Past Healed Broken Bones I've had that still caused long term nerve and muscle damage over time.... but anyways..* *I just wanted to say that the few* *moments I get a day to watch one of your new videos, are the best part of my day! I can't tell you how many times I was really depressed or having a super bad day, and then my phone beeps* *letting me know theirs a new video and when I watch it, I'm instantly no longer sad and bummed out and I immediatly feel happy & excited and I'm instantly* *in a better mood and It helps me get back to having a good day again! I just wanted to say thanks for all the effort and time you put into making the videos, I know its alot of work, like writing, getting* *everything set up, filming, editing, and then running your channle on top of everything else as well! Watching these videos are the highlight of my day!!! I just wanted to let you**know all that, and also tell you how much your videos mean to me, and also to say Thank you!!! :)*
The iron as it oxidizes is able to be absorbed through the roots and makes the wood orange, which does sometimes(but not always) transfer to the sap. Commonly found in coniferous species more so than deciduous.
Cody now that most of the grass is burnt off, you could figure out a system of fire breaks. By turning up the soil(rocks in your case) you make lanes of open soil that will have no grass(fuel) will not burn. You could put in play a system of cutting your place off from the fires coming on to the place and back burn between these lanes if you have to in a real bad fire. That orange wood makes super fire start sticks.
What you are doing is admirable! Years ago, I skirted the mesquite trees on my ranch in the monte of South Texas so that we could drive our steel wheeled tractor pulling a disc so that we could eliminate the brush growing under the trees’ overhang. I used a pair of extra long handled loppers to cut the leaf bearing limbs that I could reach that were up to an inch or so thick. Then I used a saw exactly like the one you are using to cut the limbs up close to the trunk. The small limbs could then be bunched and the bigger limbs stacked on top. After a year, I burned the piles. My terrain, climate and tree types were the opposite of yours; but, I would do the same as you. I wonder if your extended diminished rainfall will inhibit your planting of seedlings? Perhaps, since everything is on a slope, you could use the abundant supply of rocks to build a semicircle on the downhill side of each new tree to slow rain flow, etcetera?
After that weird recording thing at 7:13 in the mercury coin funnel video, and 1:30 and 8:35 of this video I think all that mercury you've been working on has gone to your head.
I know exactly where the ranch is. I found it in a satellite image. I respect Cody enough to: 1. Not tell anyone where it is. and 2. Not attempt to go there.
Dude I wanna be friends with Cody. He seems like a very chill dude that you can talk to about anything and nothing. Full of random knowledge t make conversations even more interesting.
Probably because city-dwelling people simply do not understand and think chainsaws and people who own them are evil. Those of us who live in the country get it. Sometimes trees need to be cut down, pruned, or cut up after they fall across a rode or power line. But boy, the reactions from city people. Especially if you burn the logs! They freak out.
@@danielpluck6770 I am attempting to explain why I think Cody may have initially refrained from using a chainsaw. He may have been anticipating negative reaction from some people regarding chainsaws.
@@mckenziekeith7434 I'd guess he simply didn't want to bring out a heavy tool if it wasn't specifically needed. We're not talking walking across your backyard to trim trees here.
The soil a tree grows in can affect it's colour slightly. Hardwoods are known for picking up silicates and all sorts through the soil it grows in. I can imagine it will pick up very small particles of the iron rich dirt which will give it a more orange hue.
It is actually not uncommon for Optifine to double or even triple the framerate as native Minecraft rendering is so imperformant. Even on faster PCs Optifine can make a large difference as it allows the graphics card to run more optimizations on shaders and lightning for example. Similar modifications exist for server performance where block state changes in all dimensions are synchronized on one thread in vanilla. Some mods for example enable threads per dimension as it is unlikely for a block change in one dimension to directly affect changes in another.
Perhaps you are right about the ferrous content of the tree. Speaking from experience with a vineyard some vines were able to absorb copper and gave off a green flame when burnt.
Its cause the first viewer always has to say omg I'm first guys omg omg I'm first everyone I watched this video first NO just watch the video and then comment first DeltaA123456789111315 not to u but to the idiot's that say first
Callaway et al. 1996 pointed, that Pinus monophylla grows/survives way better, when they grow underneath other shrubs, caused by the fertilisation by fallen foliage. So it might be a good idea to put the cuttings in nutritious soil (humus, fertiliser) when you'll plant them. Shading nets might be helpful, as well.
Hey Cody, I'm a few years late to this party, but you can often just break those old dead branches off. They're very dry - great for firewood. I seem to remember reading that Native Americans had long poles specifically for this purpose (to reach high up into the trees) - but I don't have a source.
It might be a good investment to get at cordless saw. They are lightweight and effective! You can also easily carry extra blades with you to change as needed.
They might watch their videos at double time, or even 1.5x. Many people do that unless it's something/one that they really want to take the time to savor. (But that probably doesn't account for all of them.)
Welcome to what living in Utah is like. Dead grass on hills trapped by mountains for hundreds of miles. No water and few big cities that only appear around the few lakes we do have. And the most water we do have is the great salt lake that has so much salt that you float and life can’t live in it other than brine shrimp and microbes. The mountains are lively though if you enjoy deadly snakes, poisonous scorpions, and predatory big cats like mountain lions and bobcats. Also bears if you’re unlucky enough to come across either a black, brown, or grizzly bear. Plus we got some of the worlds most poisonous spiders living alongside cities. We’re basically the Australia of the US without the ocean. However the worst and most terrifying part of all is the community. Tons of brainwashed Mormons that worship their religion worse than most cultists follow theirs. Verbally abusing anyone who doesn’t join them and disowning family that leaves their faith. The fact we can have a genius like Cody here in Utah is the real miracle.
@@BltchErica Unfortunately for you, I think thats an obscure reference to some of his earlier videos (one is actually called minecraft in real life) where he references creepers and other mc features... I've also seen a comment of his on a minecraft video years ago
Well if there’s one tool I’ve ever found useful (and compact) it was a little saw a mate of mine had but it was like a chain link saw with very small blades and had two handles, the thing was able to cut branches very easily and it makes t way more efficient when cutting branches with less room around them, you can wrap it round whatever way you want and then just tug from side to side, super useful little tool and it can coil up into a small container, would definitely recommend it to you for this kind of job Cody. Especially for smaller branches, it cuts faster because it has more surface area covered.
First! Edit: Omg this is the first I've ever been first! I never thought I would be able to say that I was the first one to comment on one of Cody's videos but here we are. I just wanna say thank you to my parents and my grandma for always supporting me, and putting me in the right place to get me to where I am now. If only grandpa jack was here to see this triumph. Oh well. Keep making good videos cody you are my inspiration!
It makes sense that the tree growing in the iron rich soil is the cause for the colour. I think trees or plants can show trace amounts of gold if they are in gold rich areas too, which could be a good experiment to try and test and also use it to find new deposits in the ground.
I like using a battery operated sawzall for tree trimming about. A couple of drill batteries and some of those real long blades can really improve both your reach, and the endurance of your arms. It's no replacement for a chainsaw on the big stuff, but spending $100 on a sawzall that uses batteries you may already have could really save you some time and energy, especially on the scale of this project.
Ockham's razor definitely applies here. Orange iron-y dirt causes orange iron-y tree. Everything on that land seems to grow color adjusted, so it's probably the soil.
If you are worried about infections or beetles getting into the wounds from where you've sawed the branches off, you should consider spray painting the wounds as it seals it off
I think the orange tree is just another variety. From what i know plants will only take up the nutrients the need. Before they take up to much iron they will get nutrient locked. I could not find anything specific on iron (5 minutes google) but the most prominent example would be Ca-Mg where to much of one will stop the plant from taking up the other. On the other hand peppers are known to shed excess nutrients from their leaves as little droplets.
I have the same issue in the mountains i'm reforesting. Leaf litter from eucalyptus(invasive) cause more intense fires where i am. i just cut the invasive grass species 2m around the tree or make a pile of rocks 2m around the trees. Native grasses in my area does not seem to burn easily.
I would recommend as a start to use a drone to spread seeds of different trees and different hardy plants ( not only flowers and such, more hardy and less likely to burn plants and things that can hold up water in the ground) just as the snow is melting, which will give you a chance of random seeding throughout the ranch, and give you potential water retention in the ground. After that, start with seeding the tree saplings you prepared when the weather is good for such things. Having a good ground with huge variety of hardy plants helps alot with preventing fires when water retention is high and reduces the dry and flamable weeds and grass and gives bees huge foraging grounds as well, its a chain reaction more hardy plants, less fire, more spreading etc...
He did a video on his first attempts to clone native trees. He explained in that video that his attempts with collecting seed was not all that successful.
Have you considered removing the topsoil and replacing it with crushed rock/gravel as well? The heat from the fire would also travel through the ground into the roots of the trees and had an impact on which trees would have burnt. The sap running through the roots could potentially get superheated and basically burn it from the inside out, at least that’s the case up north in Canada here a lot.
Use some of the debris from your mine and try to make a small dead zone 3-5' around the tree, same concept as a fire pit wall but reversed. It won't stop embers but it will increase the odds of the fire going around the tree instead of creeping towards it. A ring of big rocks and then a layer of gravel a few inches wide will help considerably. It might also help retain moisture around the trees, instead of the ground drying out quickly or the water forming a wash and simply running down hill. It won't have a massive effect but it might be enough to combat the drying climate of the area for the individual tree. Mosses and other moisture retaining plants will naturally want to grow on the rocks if it stays damp, which will also help with fire resistance. It will be a quite a chore but it's a natural method that won't have any long term negative impact for the local environment. Also, I asked you if you enjoyed Pickled Herring on your live stream, you should really try it! It's a seasonal thing for my family, we've been here since the 1500s and it's a staple holiday snack. Rye crackers (or toasted rye bread), pickled herring, and a dab of horseradish is absolutely delicious.... you really have to enjoy the flavor of fish though, herring is very fishy and oily.
“I better turn up the render distance a little more”
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when you turn up from potato to 16 chunks
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@@AnadiaShark I know this but the white fog is a direct reference tominecraft
Cody is known to be a Minecraft player. Barring a direct contradiction, it's a pretty safe guess
Fioletoviy Mewok Its confirmed, we live in a simulation.
Cody’s Lab in 15 years: Extracting platinum from an asteroid on my space station.
Or more realistically, and hear me out on this one, extracting water from feces in your mineshaft bunker. Next week, how to remove radioactive contaminants from topsoil using only the parts most overlooked by amature scavvers. Coming up next: Spontaneous extra body parts and you or Do I REALLY need to amputate that?
You can do it Cody!
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*on Cody's space station.
@@lsdzheeusi it was meant as the title of a video so Cody's ownership was implied
Hey man, forestry phd here! Good job with the reforestation efforts!
I only have two concerns:
1- can you use native species only? You don't want to make the austrian pine invasive in your ranch, but it may happen if you plant it all over the place. the natives are so much better connected to all the other members of the ecosystem, they will be more likely to grow and they won't ever be a problem. Not native species instead could reach a population threshold where they become unstoppable and take over everything, it's quite risky.
2- Did you consider the natural succession in your local environment? it could be that those you have there are late-succession species, and that they will hardly grow without other plants protecting them (it's called nurse effect). You should travel around in your area and look for places where natural forest regeneration is happening, to figure out what are the most suitable species
nevertheless you're doing an awesome job! I really hope you'll be successful in this project!
Inganno It is great when people like you share their knowledge with others. I was also concerned about the australian pine.
The introduction of non native species has been a disaster in many countries. Look what Dutch elm disease introduced from imported timber did to the English elm.
Ladder fuels are always a huge concern in fire management. The ones you lost in the fire need to be cut and in contact with the ground to decompose As well. You have the right plan. As a forester I know you have your hands full with this project. Well done Cody. All you can do is try my friend.The orange is the tree trying to protect it'self by producing more food. Some call it fatwood and it can be found here and there in all species. Unfortunately fatwood is great fire starter. Crazy eh.
California has this same problem on steroids doesn't it? These land management techniques were suggested recently, but because of who said it, half of the people triggered.
Clearing away the dead wood and debris is easy to understand, but keeping the grass away is a bit counter-intuitive. The alternative is bare rocks.
I'd love your thoughts on that.
The real problem is firefighters haven't been allowed to backburn, people don't walk into the woods and grab deadfall, nonone wants to spend the money on carrying out dead fall. California needs to burn, but stupid humans are making it a ticking time bomb.
@@jonanderson5137 I have watched it for years and last month Trump blamed us ? WHAT the ?
@@TomokosEnterprize From what I understood he blamed poor forest management, which is not necessarily the foresters fault, if they are obstructed by uninformed local government & locals having a sook about ruining their nice pretty (pretty flammable) views.
We get far less opposition to back-burning in Australia because understanding its necessity is part of the culture.
Though opposition does happen occasionally from rich home-builders that move from the city to buy & build homes adjacent to bushland. Irony is most of them are greens voters & accuse backburn operations of hurting the poor widdle trees & animals.
Yep, that's fatwood. It happens a lot when trees die and sap settles into the lower part of the trunk and the lower branches.
As an arborist I have to say I'm very impressed by your pruning cuts. Nice work and a great video!
Wait.... turn up the render distance??
I KNEW IT WE ARE IN THE MATRIX
Hey cody if you have any small streams that pop up In wet weather or snow melt you should try and build natural dams to keep water in the valley. much like a beaver would in the wild. It keeps the water around longer increasing the plant and wild life in the area. I've seen valleys with and with out beavers and it's a stark difference.
The problem is that this is former Spanish land. You wouldn't think that is a problem since it is also in the USA, but water rights are severed from physical land ownership in most of the south-western states of the USA (land obtained from the Mexican War of 1847). If you build something like dams or control the water in any fashion, you need permission from downstream users too in a hugely complicated legal mess. The state legislature recently permitted property owners to finally collect rain water into cisterns for irrigation purposes that comes off of roofs, but even that used to be illegal to collect.
If a beaver builds a dam, that is considered "natural", but otherwise you can run into problems. At best, this is something to tread carefully and only do after consulting a good local attorney. Otherwise, I generally agree with your sentiment and it really would make a difference. Water rights in the south-west of the USA are a minefield of problems though, which is why I suggest caution. Filming that action and posting it to TH-cam is begging for legal consequences to fire.
Hi Cody and Mr.Wambller. Australia also a desert like area. We have had prolonged droughts in areas that used to be lush. Some could say over stocking of live stock and the clearing of trees etc. True a lot of the time. I was reading about this man (damn my memory I can't remember his name), he did work on water retention in the soil. So not damming the water ways but the odd log here and there to simply slow the water down and give it a chance to seep into the ground. It did drastically improve the soil and microbe content which in turn did massively benefit the vegetation and rehabilitate the land. I would suggest the old ways and laws are counterproductive. While not actively stopping water from reaching downstream property but simply slowing water down by planting trees and leaving large rocks and logs in waterways maybe everyone's objectives can be met.
I wondered also, did there used to be a native animal in your area that might have eaten the lower branches of your trees and so fire proofed the trees??
I was thinking about doing this in my area in Australia, we have a similar sort of issue where a bad bush fire clears out all the trees, which makes what little rain we do get run off easier, leading to dry land that doesn't really support the trees regrowing.
It should be cheap to do, I figured a post hole auger and some bulk aggregate would be simple enough to create some pockets in the land for water to accumulate, and hopefully sink in to the ground. The holes can be later used for tree planting.
@@nfdr0kk3rz check out Geoff Lawton greening the desert projects
8:30 That's a very good example of the influence of growing conditions. Since the soil is visually saturated with iron, some of it will be dissolved in the water it takes up.
(A cool way to test this, is to take a rose flower, and grow it for a few days in a dyed water solution.)
I do believe that eucalyptus trees do a similar thing with dissolved silver in the water they take up, givinf their trunks a slight metallic sheen.
Would your scanner thingy tell you the composition of the orange sap compared to the less orange sap
I don't think that scanner works (well enough) on liquids, but maybe the wood itself could be scanned.
Oh good, I'm not the only one who thought of it.
Since the sap is solidified now, would that matter?
@@soniccookie655 Solid doesn't mean crystalline;)
I think not, because x-rays go right through the wood without interacting witch its atoms.
The X-ray spectrometer he used before is mainly geared more towards minerals so I wouldn’t expect it work well on the sap and wood. But It would be fun to see Cody try it.
Thanks for caring about trees ( again ! ), Hope the cuttings you did are doing well, been 'rootin' for them !
You should also have turned off fog.
/weather : sunny
RESPECT... This man working that much to save trees and doing all of us a favor.
Cody, when you were examining the growth rings on the cut limb.....it looks like you were commenting on how the tension wood hadn't grown. On a leaning limb, you have tension and compression wood. The tension wood will have narrow growth rings, and the compression wood rings will be fatter. That makes the pith off-center and the fat compression rings on the downhill side. It looked like the rings were fatter on the bottom part of the screen which would have been the downhill side of the limb. Not to say the tree wasn't stressed, but you need to look at the growth rings all the way around the trunk.
Good on you for taking on this project Cody. This is a massive undertaking.
Well Cody, this time you outdid yourself. This plan could, in all honesty, be fire proof.
*Sad vegemite flavoured noise*
I worked one summer at forestal cleaning doing exactly this. We cut the lower branches and chipped them to fertilice the soil afterwards. We have lots of forestal fires here (Mallorca) and thats the best way to ensure the trees survive. It was a lot of work, but I had a great time working outside in the middle of the forest.
Might I recommend a cordless reciprocating saw and a few extra batteries. Go through many times what you did in much less time. It does cost some money, but one of the better investments I have ever made.
With so many dead branches cut on he ranch he could sell them as firewood and offset the cost of the power saw.
Chainsaw... And a tank of gas And Youre all set
Or chainsaw 🤦♂️
Try an electric (battery) powered chain saw.
@Warrior Son yes, I did think that too, a bow saw can take down a whole bloody leylandii conifer, (I've had to do it lots of times) but a folding pruning saw is ok for smaller stuff.
This is what I want to see. Reforesting is the series, that might be better than mining. Thank you for all the nice shots, explainations and work you do out there. I'm really looking forward to what this will look like in a few years, since you told us that there was forest all over the place.
A glitch in the matrix at 1:30
I think Cody has been replaced by and android. It’s that, or Cody is attempting to delegate tasks to his robots.
Edit: Another glitch encountered just past 8:35. It looks like the video shows a few frames of something else entirely before returning to the tree. If I remember correctly, the frames were you showing where the grass was burned and not burned earlier in the video. I doubt that this was deliberate.
I was just going to mention 8:35 lol
a wot?
I've had that happen a couple of times between adjacent clips when moving them on the same media layer and resizing the latter in the sequence in vegas. Weird stuff.
When I first saw the 8:35 glitch I thought it was a frame of him holding the saw from earlier since he says he "saw" some sap, but I was mistaken lol
It's awesome.
This is good stuff Cody - we never face the threat of fire in Ireland, but we got a lot of storms, so the most for my land is felling/carving up fallen trees for firewood. Rreally cool to see how you go about preventing them from being destroyed.
Hey! It would be cool if you measured the contents of the sap with your x-ray spectrometer!
was about to comment this
i could be wrong but i think it can only measure certain things and cant measure everything since its not calibrated for that. in fact i dont remember him trying to measure anything but metals. organic stuff might not be possible with that thing
@@Polite_Cat you are correct. It has to be calibrated specifically for the elements you want to measure. Likely wouldn't find much to measure in tree sap.
Cody doing meaningful and proper forest/land management. Very cool!
For some reason I thought you were going to coat the trees in flex seal.
Jerry Rupprecht lol I thought the same
Jerry Rupprecht I SAWED THIS TREE IN HALF
I think that would make them more flammable!
Maybe wrap them in alluminum foil :)
This old flex seal is getting a lot of attention lately.... Can flex seal be used to graft branches back onto trees?!....
Who knows?!
Hi, I think some ideas for decreasing fire risk include using berms to retain water for drier periods; planting trees close together to rapidly form a canopy with a cooler, moister micro-climate (you can subsequently thin them out); limiting grazing around such clumps to allow a more wooded-style Mycorrhizal environment. Generally, this should also inhibit grass growth as natural succession occurs, but you'd be minded to create a non-grass buffer zone around your clumps of trees.
Gradually you can merge your different clumps, but it's always a good idea to use a variety of species, so maybe having clumps of 5-10 specimens of one species. This means that as your forest grows, it becomes far more difficult for pests to take hold as they don't just rampage through a monoculture.
bruh just give them a potion of fire resistance lmao
That'll only buy you 8m 😔
Stockpile splash potions! Or just build a water line, but you better make an infinite source to help out.
@Ken Oakleaf have you seen some of those automated systems have made? I'm pretty sure Cody could do that.
also what version of Minecraft is he on? it looks so weird and round
koohikoo judging by all the science stuff it's probably a mod pack
Awesome work, our rule of thumb is one third the drip line anytime we replant. Merry Christmas from Seattle!
Hope it helps! We have fires here a month ago. It was a heatwave + Dead greenlife. Clearing branches wouldn't have helped due to the fire-wave produces by the fire whirls!
You are truely inspirational! Thank you for your great effort! Greetings from Austria :)
Watch as no fires come onto your ranch now that you fireproofed your trees.
Ya know I’m ok with that! Lol
@@theCodyReeder how many fires have been on the ranch?
@@theCodyReeder Lol!
@@JustinY. he replies!?!?
@@Kwoog Ofcourse it's the legendary Justin Y.
man... THIS IS MABY THE GREATEST PROJECT U EVER DO... REFORESTING !!! im so proud of you! just keep going..
You’ve got a very nice ranch
I am really enjoying the videos about reforesting the ranch👍🏻 thanks for sharing your project
Just curious Cody, can you estimate how many trees remain living on your property?
I’ve been going to look at google earth when they update but I’d say it’s between 30 and 40
@@theCodyReeder oh wow! and you have like 40 acres?
@@theCodyReeder I live by the ocean, and I have... IDK, 30 to 40 thousand trees on 9 acres of land? I've got so many trees, I have to thin them out, else they grow too close together.
Also, Cody: you should seriously cut those dead trees and keep their wood. The growth rings are so close together, that wood is super hard. It would make excellent boards or firewood. The growth rings on my trees are around 0.75 to 1.25 cm apart, making the wood rather soft.
@@theCodyReeder And here where I live, we have over 40 trees and a house on .65 acres.
@@NSaw1 I think they have a lot more than that.
Yep your on the right track, have to keep the grass cut and the trees trimmed and all the branches and other things that can fuel a fire cleared out.
To some extent minerals do tint some woods, but also lignin, sap and other molecules produced by the tree naturally combine to color the heart wood gradually as it ages.
Typically, the line of darkened wood is the point where the minerals have clogged up the vascular system of the tree, which, were it like a human, would kill it, but as a plant, always making new vascular system material at the xylem, this simply serves as material to strengthen the trunk and make it resist wind and snow better as it ages.
Naturally the sap will have in it everything that it takes to build the tree, so yes, the richer the mineral base, the more mineral you will find in the sap going all around the tree to where it is needed, just like you find everything a human needs [food, hormones, oxygen, etc.] flowing in our blood dissolved there until it reaches its destination where it gets processed in whatever manner our bodies need.
When you plant your new little trees cover the soil with stones this will help slow down the grass returning directly around the tree plus it will help the soil keep water during dry periods, as through the night to morning you will get condensation build up and run off. Also look in to trees that cuttings will root direct in to the soil over winter period.
Hmm. You would be lucky to have fire on the ground.
Here in Australia the fire travels in the tree tops, then drops to the ground.
The Eucalyptus in the leaves ignites first, making the tree almost explode into a fireball.
Australian native trees are designed to survive fire, and some species actually require the fire to set seed (The Banksia for example).
I understand that California has introduced some Australian natives, and with that, they are now struggling to fight fire in this new biome. Australian firefighters were sent in to help fight the fires, and teach the Americans how to fight this new kind of fire.
Our bush fires can burn hot enough to melt Aluminium, and boil water in above ground 1.5m water mains.
The upside is when you are camping eucalyptus makes an awesome firewood
@@batt3ryac1d it smells nice too
I am from the San Francisco bay area. Eucalyptus has been introduced widely and long ago so it is now prolific. One of the worst fires ever in the bay area was in the Oakland Hills on the inland side of the bay. The eucalyptus trees burned very hot and fast just as you say. The perspective of a lot of people in California is that Eucalyptus trees are a damn menace. But they are mainly in urban and suburban areas, not in the wildlands where oak, pine, fir and redwood are more common. Redwoods are also very fire resistant or reliant on fire, as you might expect from trees that can live for hundreds of years (coast redwoods) or thousands of years (giant redwoods-- Sequoiadendron giganteum). According to wikipedia, modern fire suppression practices may even be jeopardizing giant redwoods. They set seed right after fires, normally. But I am no expert.
This is more proof supporting the fact that Australia wants to kill you
As a volunteer firefighter, the process of "crowning", when the fire travels from grass to trees is still a major factor. Most often fires start in dry brush and don't crown until much later, and mostly spread long distances by embers lighting more dry brush
Loved the iron sap at the end! Thanks Cody.
Very interesting with the sap. Can you compare elemental compositions?
Also, years ago you planted trees in tubes in order to get longer roots on them. What happened to this project?
Been a big fan for well over a 2 years, my brother and I both watch your content and you've inspired us to do our own experiments, though we're no where near as knowledgeable but we try. Loving the little tunes in the background too. Stay safe, stay curious and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Will you ever talk about starlite?
Brendan Maxwell that’s what I thought the video was going to be about... he would need a hell of a lot of cornstarch.
I guess I’m just not all that impressed with it.
@@theCodyReeder Hey. Fair enough.
@@theCodyReeder Funnily enough, I just saw your comment on Zepherus
's video about Starlite, where you were saying that you thought that it seemed similar to Teflon. That was a year ago though.
@@theCodyReeder could do a video how it's not impressive. Like, how it's one time use, and there's better stuff than it
remember, only you can prevent forest fires.
but seriously this is a huge fucking task and i would never be able to even fathom doing all of that work by myself, youre an inspiration, showing what we can accomplish when we really set our minds to it
Roses are red,
Burnt trees are black.
Because they are dead,
And they're not coming back.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Now trees are fireproofed
And that should make do
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Shouldn’t this rhyme,
I am not sure.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
trees grow back,
so do you,
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I like weed
@@42O- cringe
*I just wanna let you know Cody, that I'm disabled and I have the same bone disease that Sam L. Jackson plays in Mr. GLASS from* *the movie Split, & Unbreakable. I deal with SEVERE Chronic Pain, from Nerve Damage and* *Inflamation from the dozens of Past Healed Broken Bones I've had that still caused long term nerve and muscle damage over time.... but anyways..*
*I just wanted to say that the few* *moments I get a day to watch one of your new videos, are the best part of my day! I can't tell you how many times I was really depressed or having a super bad day, and then my phone beeps* *letting me know theirs a new video and when I watch it, I'm instantly no longer sad and bummed out and I immediatly feel happy & excited and I'm instantly* *in a better mood and It helps me get back to having a good day again! I just wanted to say thanks for all the effort and time you put into making the videos, I know its alot of work, like writing, getting* *everything set up, filming, editing, and then running your channle on top of everything else as well! Watching these videos are the highlight of my day!!! I just wanted to let you**know all that, and also tell you how much your videos mean to me, and also to say Thank you!!! :)*
0:05 AHHAHAHAHAHAHA "I better turn up the render distance"
The iron as it oxidizes is able to be absorbed through the roots and makes the wood orange, which does sometimes(but not always) transfer to the sap. Commonly found in coniferous species more so than deciduous.
Cody in a nutshell: Cyanide and Happiness
Winter, snow on the ground, Codys fighting a future wild fire...
Briliant!
Merry Christmas all, :)
That will definitely help but I think the wind is a bigger and more important deciding factor
Cody now that most of the grass is burnt off, you could figure out a system of fire breaks. By turning up the soil(rocks in your case) you make lanes of open soil that will have no grass(fuel) will not burn. You could put in play a system of cutting your place off from the fires coming on to the place and back burn between these lanes if you have to in a real bad fire. That orange wood makes super fire start sticks.
X-ray gun on the amber maybe?
What you are doing is admirable!
Years ago, I skirted the mesquite trees on my ranch in the monte of South Texas so that we could drive our steel wheeled tractor pulling a disc so that we could eliminate the brush growing under the trees’ overhang. I used a pair of extra long handled loppers to cut the leaf bearing limbs that I could reach that were up to an inch or so thick. Then I used a saw exactly like the one you are using to cut the limbs up close to the trunk. The small limbs could then be bunched and the bigger limbs stacked on top. After a year, I burned the piles. My terrain, climate and tree types were the opposite of yours; but, I would do the same as you.
I wonder if your extended diminished rainfall will inhibit your planting of seedlings? Perhaps, since everything is on a slope, you could use the abundant supply of rocks to build a semicircle on the downhill side of each new tree to slow rain flow, etcetera?
After that weird recording thing at 7:13 in the mercury coin funnel video, and 1:30 and 8:35 of this video I think all that mercury you've been working on has gone to your head.
What's wrong with 1:30
@@worker2004 voice goes robotic
nothing happens at 1 30 tho
@@SbassLaser did you not read the other reply?
@@Crowbars2 i did and i still dont notice anything happening, my audio sounds normal the whole time
Dig a swale out about ten ft either side to direct more water to the tree .
Even can pile a small rock wall to slow water down and allow snow to stop
Cody'sLab: *"Fire-proofing Trees at the Ranch"*
*_Johnny Storm would like to know Cody's location !_*
johnny storm has a great name but my girlfriends are hotter
i am the unprettiest TH-camr ever and i wish you a good day kind sir
NW Utah. Its easy to see the mountain ranges in the distance in other videos.
I know exactly where the ranch is. I found it in a satellite image.
I respect Cody enough to:
1. Not tell anyone where it is.
and 2. Not attempt to go there.
Southwest Utah
@@jollyrogerhobbies2386 with the GSL in the background of alot of his videos? nope
Dude I wanna be friends with Cody. He seems like a very chill dude that you can talk to about anything and nothing. Full of random knowledge t make conversations even more interesting.
Lets turn up the render distance lol
Great time to plant after fires usually. Maybe not in winter but clear ground
May I ask why you didn't use a chainsaw from the beginning?
Probably because city-dwelling people simply do not understand and think chainsaws and people who own them are evil. Those of us who live in the country get it. Sometimes trees need to be cut down, pruned, or cut up after they fall across a rode or power line. But boy, the reactions from city people. Especially if you burn the logs! They freak out.
@@mckenziekeith7434 what are you on about
@@danielpluck6770 I am attempting to explain why I think Cody may have initially refrained from using a chainsaw. He may have been anticipating negative reaction from some people regarding chainsaws.
@@mckenziekeith7434 I'd guess he simply didn't want to bring out a heavy tool if it wasn't specifically needed. We're not talking walking across your backyard to trim trees here.
The soil a tree grows in can affect it's colour slightly. Hardwoods are known for picking up silicates and all sorts through the soil it grows in. I can imagine it will pick up very small particles of the iron rich dirt which will give it a more orange hue.
Oh that render distance is still pretty short...
Install optifine, on my pc it no joke _doubles_ the frame rate
It is actually not uncommon for Optifine to double or even triple the framerate as native Minecraft rendering is so imperformant. Even on faster PCs Optifine can make a large difference as it allows the graphics card to run more optimizations on shaders and lightning for example.
Similar modifications exist for server performance where block state changes in all dimensions are synchronized on one thread in vanilla. Some mods for example enable threads per dimension as it is unlikely for a block change in one dimension to directly affect changes in another.
@@Life4YourGames Nice
Mate your channel. Gold just gold mate.
I like your theory about the tree sap, if only there was someone with the gear to do x-ray spectroscopy to prove it... ;-)
Perhaps you are right about the ferrous content of the tree. Speaking from experience with a vineyard some vines were able to absorb copper and gave off a green flame when burnt.
2 views but no likes? Shame on you two...
Its cause the first viewer always has to say omg I'm first guys omg omg I'm first everyone I watched this video first
NO just watch the video and then comment first
DeltaA123456789111315 not to u but to the idiot's that say first
Probbably pootube bots? Those ones responsible for false flagging etc..
Chainsaws work really well cody.
Also, that juniper wood is really nice to make things with.
Cody, you have the spectrum analysis gun... x-ray the amber and look for iron.
Tehrasha Darkon It's more meant for minerals than organic materials I think. Might just go straight through it
Callaway et al. 1996 pointed, that Pinus monophylla grows/survives way better, when they grow underneath other shrubs, caused by the fertilisation by fallen foliage. So it might be a good idea to put the cuttings in nutritious soil (humus, fertiliser) when you'll plant them. Shading nets might be helpful, as well.
#1 Merry Christmas
Hey Cody, I'm a few years late to this party, but you can often just break those old dead branches off. They're very dry - great for firewood. I seem to remember reading that Native Americans had long poles specifically for this purpose (to reach high up into the trees) - but I don't have a source.
LMAO @ the intro
It might be a good investment to get at cordless saw. They are lightweight and effective! You can also easily carry extra blades with you to change as needed.
The video was published 8 minutes ago, and its 10 minutes long.
84 People commented before even watching the video all the way through!
Sad...
Right I got here on 2 views no likes and there was somebody saying "first" at least like the video before you comment
They might watch their videos at double time, or even 1.5x. Many people do that unless it's something/one that they really want to take the time to savor. (But that probably doesn't account for all of them.)
He might have released it to patreons first?
Great observation with the soil color! That really piques my curiosity. Cheers.
That doesn’t look like a ranch that looks like a post-nuclear war wasteland
True
The Ranch would make a great filming location.
It's not a real ranch if it doesn't look like a post-nuclear war wasteland. :D
Utah just looks like wasteland in general. Pretty wasteland, but wasteland none the less.
Welcome to what living in Utah is like. Dead grass on hills trapped by mountains for hundreds of miles. No water and few big cities that only appear around the few lakes we do have. And the most water we do have is the great salt lake that has so much salt that you float and life can’t live in it other than brine shrimp and microbes. The mountains are lively though if you enjoy deadly snakes, poisonous scorpions, and predatory big cats like mountain lions and bobcats. Also bears if you’re unlucky enough to come across either a black, brown, or grizzly bear. Plus we got some of the worlds most poisonous spiders living alongside cities. We’re basically the Australia of the US without the ocean. However the worst and most terrifying part of all is the community. Tons of brainwashed Mormons that worship their religion worse than most cultists follow theirs. Verbally abusing anyone who doesn’t join them and disowning family that leaves their faith. The fact we can have a genius like Cody here in Utah is the real miracle.
Fire-Proofing Existing Trees...puts snow everywhere...job well done!
0:08 That Minecraft refference...
Umm, Minecraft isn't the only game that has a setting for the render distance. It's just a reference to games in general.
@@BltchErica Well You're right.
We're living in a simulation :3
@@rahulsawant_pikachu that is true
@@BltchErica Unfortunately for you, I think thats an obscure reference to some of his earlier videos (one is actually called minecraft in real life) where he references creepers and other mc features... I've also seen a comment of his on a minecraft video years ago
Well if there’s one tool I’ve ever found useful (and compact) it was a little saw a mate of mine had but it was like a chain link saw with very small blades and had two handles, the thing was able to cut branches very easily and it makes t way more efficient when cutting branches with less room around them, you can wrap it round whatever way you want and then just tug from side to side, super useful little tool and it can coil up into a small container, would definitely recommend it to you for this kind of job Cody. Especially for smaller branches, it cuts faster because it has more surface area covered.
First!
Edit: Omg this is the first I've ever been first! I never thought I would be able to say that I was the first one to comment on one of Cody's videos but here we are. I just wanna say thank you to my parents and my grandma for always supporting me, and putting me in the right place to get me to where I am now. If only grandpa jack was here to see this triumph. Oh well. Keep making good videos cody you are my inspiration!
KempQ first on first
I'm second.
Nice 10 hp ironman btw
Whats the point of saying first of u weren't
@@benhabermann7938 there first
It makes sense that the tree growing in the iron rich soil is the cause for the colour.
I think trees or plants can show trace amounts of gold if they are in gold rich areas too, which could be a good experiment to try and test and also use it to find new deposits in the ground.
He literally hacked nature. Epic.
I good you know you’re ridding the depression out of me every video I watch from you.
hire some finnish people to rake the floor! ;)
There are waiting hundreds of South americans on the mexican/american border maybe some of them are gardeners 🤔
rake america great again
@@marcoh.3467 No we only want white people /s
@@MrSHADEKILLA that is racist!
I like it 😅😂
Excellent work you are doing, love to see it!
Fire proof wood can not burn. Remember that
would that be inflammable? lol
@@jusb1066 ......
Warrior Son even though semantically it should be opposite. Why, English, why?
@Warrior Son .......
@Warrior Son flammable and inflammable is not the same.
I like using a battery operated sawzall for tree trimming about. A couple of drill batteries and some of those real long blades can really improve both your reach, and the endurance of your arms. It's no replacement for a chainsaw on the big stuff, but spending $100 on a sawzall that uses batteries you may already have could really save you some time and energy, especially on the scale of this project.
Ockham's razor definitely applies here. Orange iron-y dirt causes orange iron-y tree. Everything on that land seems to grow color adjusted, so it's probably the soil.
love your approach and I'll say it again great project, looking forward to more episodes! makes me want to reforest something :)
If you are worried about infections or beetles getting into the wounds from where you've sawed the branches off, you should consider spray painting the wounds as it seals it off
I think the orange tree is just another variety.
From what i know plants will only take up the nutrients the need.
Before they take up to much iron they will get nutrient locked.
I could not find anything specific on iron (5 minutes google) but the most prominent
example would be Ca-Mg where to much of one will stop the plant from taking up the other.
On the other hand peppers are known to shed excess nutrients from their leaves as little droplets.
Merry Christmas, Cody. And a Happy New Year to you and your remaining trees.
I have the same issue in the mountains i'm reforesting. Leaf litter from eucalyptus(invasive) cause more intense fires where i am. i just cut the invasive grass species 2m around the tree or make a pile of rocks 2m around the trees. Native grasses in my area does not seem to burn easily.
I would recommend as a start to use a drone to spread seeds of different trees and different hardy plants ( not only flowers and such, more hardy and less likely to burn plants and things that can hold up water in the ground) just as the snow is melting, which will give you a chance of random seeding throughout the ranch, and give you potential water retention in the ground. After that, start with seeding the tree saplings you prepared when the weather is good for such things.
Having a good ground with huge variety of hardy plants helps alot with preventing fires when water retention is high and reduces the dry and flamable weeds and grass and gives bees huge foraging grounds as well, its a chain reaction more hardy plants, less fire, more spreading etc...
He did a video on his first attempts to clone native trees. He explained in that video that his attempts with collecting seed was not all that successful.
Have you considered removing the topsoil and replacing it with crushed rock/gravel as well? The heat from the fire would also travel through the ground into the roots of the trees and had an impact on which trees would have burnt. The sap running through the roots could potentially get superheated and basically burn it from the inside out, at least that’s the case up north in Canada here a lot.
I am incredibly invested in the survival of these trees.
that was some fine risk analysis and prevention.
Use some of the debris from your mine and try to make a small dead zone 3-5' around the tree, same concept as a fire pit wall but reversed. It won't stop embers but it will increase the odds of the fire going around the tree instead of creeping towards it. A ring of big rocks and then a layer of gravel a few inches wide will help considerably. It might also help retain moisture around the trees, instead of the ground drying out quickly or the water forming a wash and simply running down hill. It won't have a massive effect but it might be enough to combat the drying climate of the area for the individual tree. Mosses and other moisture retaining plants will naturally want to grow on the rocks if it stays damp, which will also help with fire resistance. It will be a quite a chore but it's a natural method that won't have any long term negative impact for the local environment.
Also, I asked you if you enjoyed Pickled Herring on your live stream, you should really try it! It's a seasonal thing for my family, we've been here since the 1500s and it's a staple holiday snack. Rye crackers (or toasted rye bread), pickled herring, and a dab of horseradish is absolutely delicious.... you really have to enjoy the flavor of fish though, herring is very fishy and oily.
I love pruning my trees. I like going up into them, maybe with binoculars, and trimming the dead branches.
Cody, a battery powered saws-all works great for trimming tree branches.
If it's below freezing out it can be very difficult to prune as the sap is frozen. Makes a big difference.