I remember you saying you were looking for a better way to flip the ibc totes it made me think of a rotating fork lift attachment and spartan equipment sells one but they seem very expensive to me
For the know-it-all guys who are about to show up claiming “his saw is dull and it’s painful to watch,” etc: You better have some removal experience cutting borer-killed dead standing ash. This is wood. I joke with customers that it adds an hour to the job’s time (not price) when I quote one. It’s not like live, green ash. Your chain would much rather spend the day cutting oak.
The firewood community on youtube may be small, but it seems one is never far away from a youtuber wood yard regardless of where you are in the country. Great video and demonstration of cutting a tree down safely. Jake and Chris at Dude Ranch DIY do run a clean and tidy firewood operation that is for sure.
Adam, great video! Always great to see a non-arrogant professional! Wish you would have let him speak on tractor ballast, he was trying to tell you that was the secret to his tractor. Manufacturers would create/allow more lift capacity if people would weight the rear of the tractor. Thanks.
Here’s what you need to know from my rocket scientist buddy…if your picking up heavy stuff with the front of the tractor…put more weight on the back to balance it out…no formula needed!
Adam - Very cool you hook up with Jake and Chris when you’re up that way. Jake is very talented as an arborist, and Chris is a great guy for him to have as his right hand man. There channel is great to watch too…🤛🏻
I drove through that area on Tuesday en route to the in-laws on Long Island, NY. There really are firewood TH-camrs (and viewers) everywhere. I just do personal production for heating my house and my parents’ house. Running the equipment and being outside is relaxing for me. I’m getting more and more into learning about land and forest management too. We have 54 acres and my dad has an abutting property from my grandfather that’s a 200 acre woodlot in the Tree Farm system.
Thanks for another great video Adam, I've been watching for about three years now and it's been an education. I don't care if you're processing firewood, digging a pond, operating the excavator or building stuff it's all educational and entertaining. Please use your PPE more, a chainsaw doesn't cut flesh, it tears lumps out of it. You can't improve the sound of a chainsaw by playing music over it, the only music necessary is the sound of well oiled machinery doing what it was designed to do. Keep the videos coming and a happy and prosperous new year to you and your family from across the pond in Ireland. 👍👍
That’s a really tree guy there!…real tree guy’s take the mufflers right off the saws and they sell green firewood!…split it and sell it, they ain’t got time for it, just get rid of it!…they tell stories like… it’s been seasoning for a year as a log!…but the dead give away was real tree guy’s always have beer!…great video hometown…I like that guy!
Yeah Adam, watching y'all cut that ash reminds me of cutting seasoned dogwood or cherry. Alittle ruffer on the saw and the operator. All in all it worked out great thanks for the experience
Next visit you should bring a pickle ball paddle to the 55 and older neighborhood. Being 6’5” with a huge wingspan and being familiar with volleyball you’ll dominate the kitchen!!
As a content creator it’s tough to watch as much TH-cam I used to. However watching a well put together video like this with guys doing what we all love makes me want to leave work and go get to work.
Hello from Chicago! I wish you asked him what his neighbor thinks about the constant work going on in his wood yard and noise! I watch both channels, every episode and I was always curious on what type of relationship he has with the neighbor. No idea why I never asked Dude Ranch DIY myself!
My neighbor doesn’t mind, and his kids enjoy watching. Both the ash trees I took down along the road were on his property and I did it for free. He was in my video helping. I am very courteous as far as when I make loud noise and have a good relationship with him.
Adam, you are a lucky man that you have a wife that is a Connecticut native! I’m 20 minutes from Jake down in Woodbridge where there are plenty of trees. I also have family members that live in Slippery Rock and also Butler, PA which maybe near you or your sister. Nice Video…..keep doing what you’re doing. What town do your in-laws live in ? Regards
It's pretty funny that in a video about how to safely cut down a tree, Adam's bucking a tree with no chaps, no eye protection, no gloves just going balls to the wall. Classic.
Isn't it amazing? If you only did firewood videos, they would complain about you don't do other stuff, and if you do other stuff, they complain you're not just doing firewood... I like the variety, on your channel and mine and the others I watch. Keep it up.
Just subscribed to Jake's channel 👍 Another great video, Adam! You're so dedicated to do this while with family for Christmas!! Thanks!! As "my opinion" music police 😬👎 sorry...You & Jake & Chris worked very well together!! 👍 God bless y'all & your families! Happy 2024 🫶🙏🎊
Another great video Adam. Your friend seems very knowledgeable and interesting. He has a really nice setup. Have a safe and prosperous New Year. Bill H from Cranberry Township
Im 64 years old. I have asthma, a bad back and very skinny. I have no tractor. I have no trucks. Just a van. I have a Stihl ms261 , Stihl ms250 and a Stihl ms171. I have some fiskars axes and mauls. I do not have a splitter yet. I have zero savings. Yet somehow im going to make it work. I do have two acres paid for. Lots of trees. Unfortunately most are poplar . Im in Western North Carolina.
Great video! Being a one-legged guy, I use the face / bore / and trigger technique almost exclusively and pretty much that high on the stump. I'm not cutting grade or for a job, so speed when cutting isn't even on my radar. Happy New Year!
Adam, beautiful piece of property Jake has, sweet old growth trees. Love the rolling hills, motivates me to find my way. This is a great option for you at the in-law travel spot to stay connected to the woods. Sunday morning came early this week! LOL gotta 5 day cold.
i understand being in that region of the country cost of living is high and people need to make cash flow just seems high for no more wood there is offered in the self serve ,
Great video, Adam. It is nice to see all of your working together. I'm not sure if your in-laws will appreciate the hide-out comments? I really enjoy both of your channels. Jake and Chris seem to have a great working relationship.
Good to see both of you together. Good days work! I was up at my camp doing firewood yesterday and it’s getting really muddy up there. I would love to have all of his millings.
as an arborist and as someone who's worked in forestry, my advice for most people would be that the safest way to cut down a tree is to let a professional do it. After seeing and fixing so many mistakes from people who thought they knew what they were doing I shake my head every time someone goes at a tree all big balled and cocky and causes accidents or harm.
How come nobody except Buckin' Billy Ray does an undercut notch? You lose wood, make irregular splits, and get less board footage if you are milling lumber with a notch in the sawlog...I just don't get it.
Humboldt vs conventional face cut is the terminology you’re looking for. They both have their advantags, but a humboldt takes some dedicated practice to learn, and good ability to control the plane of the bar while pivoting it on the bucking spikes. A conventional face with the sloped cut first and the flat cut second is ABSOLUTELY the way I teach newer operators how to fall trees / dogs.
@@MemphisMechanicHumboldt also favors the steep terrain fellers are often dealing with out west. By having your angle towards the bottom of the notch it allows for the hinge to hold on longer past horizontal resulting in more control of the tree as it’s falling. If you look closely at the spar I dropped that was on top of the boulder, I actually used an “open face notch” with angle cuts on the top and bottom resulting in the hinge wood to hold on longer.
@@DudeRanchDIY, on the first tree you were demonstrating on, I thought you would want to use a Humboldt with such a tall stump. Since it was for safest way to cut a tree, if it was a homeowner that doesn't have access to a tractor to pull a tree over, wouldn't the Humboldt be safer? The Humboldt would allow the butt to hit the ground first instead of last, so there is less risk of the tree bouncing back. (especially if the top hasn't been limbed already.)
@@briananderson7497in this case the base of the stump was about 2.5-3’ below the grade of the asphalt Millings road so a conventional notch worked just fine as shown in the video.
I was never a fan of the 55 and over housing. I live in a place that is mainly that but not completely. I was 32 when I moved here with 6 and 3 year old kids.
Might be an arborist, but you’re no qualified faller. 🙄 First thing you do as a faller is clear your two escape routes at 45 degrees to the rear - so that if it goes pear shaped you have two escape routes. In this case if your showing “the safest way” to fall a tree, you failed before you even started. You have all the tree limbs from where the tree was topped out laying on the ground underfoot on your two 45 degree escape routes. You SHOULD have cleared those first before you got anywhere near making your opening cuts on the tree with the chainsaw. Next, your property is steep in places and you use the tractor and loader attachment in your operations. At a minimum your require a ROPS (Roll Over Protection System) bar off the back axle taller than your head. Strictly speaking for falling / logging Opps - you need a FOPS cab (Falling Operation Protection System) cab on the tractor to protect you as the operator when not if a tree falls on the tractor with you in it. So while it’s admirable to try and show safe falling methods, really speaking you should be at the top of your game with qualifications, experience & skills to be teaching others on line in matters of safety. I say this as a retired Forester, who has attended two falling fatalities scenes of my faller employees over the years, with a coroners investigator. It’s never a pretty scene & having to inform their spouse & kids is the worst thing you’ll ever have to do. It pays to get this stuff right if you’re going to do it, but even more so if you’re going out to instruct safe working procedures.
You speak about the safety and training, but you also say that you have "attended two falling fatalities scenes of my faller employees over the years, with a coroners investigator." I can understand 1 fatality if an employee wasn't following instructions/training/proper procedures but how did a second fatal incident occur? Was the second not trained/supervised properly in safety? Something about your story is ???
@@mikewatson4644 I had 126 employees - most of whom were qualified fallers. Over a lot of years - the odds are stacked against you. In logging industry you get pressures to pull wood while the season allows it. Autumn & Spring if particularly wet can cause shut downs in the bush, due to dieback disease spread protocols. So mills want wood stockpiled on the landings to mill when bush operations are shut down, to keep their staff employed. The commercial fallers get paid by the volume of wood they pull, based on their fallers brand on the stump and the weight of that load. So they can and do over time start to cut corners in safety in order to fall more trees and get a bigger pay packet at the end of the fortnight, particularly coming up to Xmas shut downs where while on holidays they revert to a standard 38 hours base rate pay & they know they will have big outgoings with reduced income. The fallers tend to work harder, faster, longer to get more wood on the deck while the mills are screaming out to build their stockpiles. There’s good money to be made so they go hard to make the $ while they are there to be made. Mate “Snake” (Frank) had 30 years falling experience & he was killed while falling plantation softwood. He felled a mature (32+ years old Radiata pine, and while it was on the way down, he turned his back on it walking to the next pine to fall. The tree fell and the crown hit a hollow butt hardwood old growth tree, that was badly burnt out inside the stump / lower bole area - only standing on 3 legs. The front leg broke out and the hardwood stag fell towards Frank and hit him on the head. He never saw it coming. 2nd guy “Booga” was again hardwood falling for the mills on piecework ie paid by the volume of wood on the ground with his brand on the stump end of the log. He didn’t spot a widow maker branch that had burnt off its parent tree, and was lodged in the fork of the tree it burnt off, the other end lodged in a neighbouring tree fork. He fell the neighbouring tree, and as it went the branch pulled out of both trees and cartwheeled downwards again hitting him on the head. Both guys were wearing their hard hats when they were hit - but crowns and branches that can weigh a few tonnes falling from 40 meters up don’t respect plastic hard hats much. Forestry is a little different to tree arborist work. A commercial faller will put more wood on the deck before morning tea time than an arborist puts on the deck in a month. There’s no comparison between the industries really. Both completely different disciplines Fallers don’t just fall for commercial milling supply - they also fall rogue hardwood stags around 60 meters in height that catch alight in the crown during wildfire suppression and start burning in the hollow limbs, and can’t be put out with water from fire appliances because their marauder pumps won’t push water that high, so such trees are often felled during fire containment & mop up, to extinguish fire in the crown that can’t be reached from the ground. Arborist & Commercial / Forestry falling are two distinctly different disciplines with completely different sets of rules, especially for safety. I was able to find some stats for fatalities here in my home state (Western Australia) but they include Forestry, Agriculture & Fisheries - so not Forestry / Falling Specific. “Fatalities and injury statistics in agriculture This page is for: EmployerEmployment agent Despite relatively few hours worked compared to many other industries, the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing industry has the highest number of work-related fatalities for the period 2011-12 to 2020-21p, with 42 fatalities. The fatality frequency rate in the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing industry is three times as high as the industry with the second highest work-related fatality frequency rate (Arts and Recreation Services), and over seven times as high as the overall rate across industries. Over three quarters of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing industry work-related fatalities occurred in the Agriculture subdivision. Examples of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing work-related traumatic injury fatalities 2011-12 to 2020-21p A tree feller was fatally injured when a tree branch struck him. A farmer was kicked by an animal, which fatally aggravated an existing medical condition. A casual farm worker sustained fatal injuries when she was struck by a bull and crushed against a fence. A farmer, undertaking work activities, was repeatedly stung by bees and suffered a fatal reaction. A farm hand was fatally injured when a hydraulically supported steel bucket he was working under fell. A farmer was fatally injured after being thrown from a quad bike. A fishing vessel sank resulting in the fatalities of all three workers aboard.” Things have reduced a lot in the last couple of years because old growth hardwood logging is now totally banned so that aspect of the industry is now dead. Most harvesting is plantation based and done with feller buncher machines, Kochums etc.
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I remember you saying you were looking for a better way to flip the ibc totes it made me think of a rotating fork lift attachment and spartan equipment sells one but they seem very expensive to me
For the know-it-all guys who are about to show up claiming “his saw is dull and it’s painful to watch,” etc:
You better have some removal experience cutting borer-killed dead standing ash. This is wood. I joke with customers that it adds an hour to the job’s time (not price) when I quote one.
It’s not like live, green ash. Your chain would much rather spend the day cutting oak.
My local arborist won't touch dead/standing ash. I just let nature take care of it - as long as they are not in the line of fire.
Oh man, I love the dude ranch diy channel - just got their hoodie! This is a great collaboration
The firewood community on youtube may be small, but it seems one is never far away from a youtuber wood yard regardless of where you are in the country. Great video and demonstration of cutting a tree down safely. Jake and Chris at Dude Ranch DIY do run a clean and tidy firewood operation that is for sure.
Banquet beer taste better in a tidy woodyard!
Working on getting it going good where I am. There’s not a firewood TH-camr near me yet so I’ll be the first 🤙🏼
Three of my favorite people on TH-cam! KC Don 😉
That was one of the nicest cuts and best explanation of how and why. Then to watch it in slow motion showed exactly what you explained.. TY
2 of my favourite channels working together 👌 well done boys👍
My man! Enjoying that banquet beer after a day of cutting firewood. I could hang out with him.
Come on over
You're going to mess around and make neighbor Doug jealous! LOL!
He “stepped out on me” I think as they say. 😂 he will still need my help when he gets back.lol
@@OneEyeCustoms That made me spit coffee! LOL! Happy New Year!
Love seeing to TH-cam creators I watch get together to make videos. Been watching both of your channels for few years now. Great job.
A classic to watch. Thank You.
Awesome collaboration video.
What a great setup Jake has, efficiency is key. Thank you for sharing this, Adam!
Great collaboration! And it's nice that you have a place to go for some firewood therapy when you visit.
Just subscribed to Jake's channel. Thanks for the introduction Adam! Nothing like getting together with guys who love the same stuff you do!!! 😁👍
Good video, cool to see the collaboration with Dude Ranch. And everytime I see a 500i it makes me want one even more.
Thanks Adam very good information.
Nice, good to see another CT native
Fabulous video from the three amigos!! Happy New Year!!
Adam, great video! Always great to see a non-arrogant professional! Wish you would have let him speak on tractor ballast, he was trying to tell you that was the secret to his tractor. Manufacturers would create/allow more lift capacity if people would weight the rear of the tractor. Thanks.
Ballast is everything
Here’s what you need to know from my rocket scientist buddy…if your picking up heavy stuff with the front of the tractor…put more weight on the back to balance it out…no formula needed!
Love his idea of using the two trees to cut on!
Thanks for bringing us along!
Love the sound of a saw echoing in the woods.. he makes it look like alot of fun..
Looks like a great day at it guys.
Awesome video, thanks so much for it and thanks for introducing me to Dude Ranch DIY
That neighbor-Doug intro music is the Pitts.
Good collab. 👍 old rope in the tree trick good 👍
Adam - Very cool you hook up with Jake and Chris when you’re up that way. Jake is very talented as an arborist, and Chris is a great guy for him to have as his right hand man.
There channel is great to watch too…🤛🏻
I drove through that area on Tuesday en route to the in-laws on Long Island, NY. There really are firewood TH-camrs (and viewers) everywhere. I just do personal production for heating my house and my parents’ house. Running the equipment and being outside is relaxing for me. I’m getting more and more into learning about land and forest management too. We have 54 acres and my dad has an abutting property from my grandfather that’s a 200 acre woodlot in the Tree Farm system.
Great video Adam and it was so nice meeting you and Lana!! Can’t wait til you guys come back to CT.
Thanks for another great video Adam, I've been watching for about three years now and it's been an education. I don't care if you're processing firewood, digging a pond, operating the excavator or building stuff it's all educational and entertaining. Please use your PPE more, a chainsaw doesn't cut flesh, it tears lumps out of it. You can't improve the sound of a chainsaw by playing music over it, the only music necessary is the sound of well oiled machinery doing what it was designed to do. Keep the videos coming and a happy and prosperous new year to you and your family from across the pond in Ireland. 👍👍
That’s a really tree guy there!…real tree guy’s take the mufflers right off the saws and they sell green firewood!…split it and sell it, they ain’t got time for it, just get rid of it!…they tell stories like… it’s been seasoning for a year as a log!…but the dead give away was real tree guy’s always have beer!…great video hometown…I like that guy!
Thanks for tuning in 🍻
Excellent video production Adam! This is great!
Love your videos Adam, and maybe it’s just me, but please reconsider this music, thanks!
Dude Ranch :) I still listen to this amazing Blink album, their best one! Back when they were Skater Punk :)🤪🤟
Nice to have friends. Stay safe.
Welcome to CT Adam. Great video by you and Jake.
Good to see you in a wood yard again, even if you are just "borrowing" it. Would love to get a pond update please.
That looks like a top notch and well thought out operation. I’ll have to go check their channel out. 👍🏼
Yeah Adam, watching y'all cut that ash reminds me of cutting seasoned dogwood or cherry. Alittle ruffer on the saw and the operator. All in all it worked out great thanks for the experience
this an awesome collab! i love to see it
Good morning 🌞
Nice video Adam
Hoping y’all had a very nice Christmas. May it be a Happy & Healthy New Year for Yinz too.
Have a day
Next visit you should bring a pickle ball paddle to the 55 and older neighborhood. Being 6’5” with a huge wingspan and being familiar with volleyball you’ll dominate the kitchen!!
Great video Adam thumbs up.
As a content creator it’s tough to watch as much TH-cam I used to. However watching a well put together video like this with guys doing what we all love makes me want to leave work and go get to work.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it
Hello from Chicago! I wish you asked him what his neighbor thinks about the constant work going on in his wood yard and noise! I watch both channels, every episode and I was always curious on what type of relationship he has with the neighbor. No idea why I never asked Dude Ranch DIY myself!
My neighbor doesn’t mind, and his kids enjoy watching. Both the ash trees I took down along the road were on his property and I did it for free. He was in my video helping. I am very courteous as far as when I make loud noise and have a good relationship with him.
It would be nice to know what make and type of chains your friend recommends. Nice video on tree take down as well.
Subscribed to Jake’s channel. 👍
Great video Adam.
Dude’s got a great setup.
I don't usually get excited when I here the word "Connecticut" but knew instantly it was a Jake collab. Awesome!
Adam, you are a lucky man that you have a wife that is a Connecticut native! I’m 20 minutes from Jake down in Woodbridge where there are plenty of trees. I also have family members that live in Slippery Rock and also Butler, PA which maybe near you or your sister. Nice Video…..keep doing what you’re doing. What town do your in-laws live in ? Regards
It's pretty funny that in a video about how to safely cut down a tree, Adam's bucking a tree with no chaps, no eye protection, no gloves just going balls to the wall. Classic.
Great job guys!
Great informative video. Well done.
Jake has a great channel. I'm a couple of towns west of him in CT. Plenty of trees for firewood around here.
next time you're in CT, I'm in the same town as your inlaws. We have more here than 55 and older housing.
Isn't it amazing? If you only did firewood videos, they would complain about you don't do other stuff, and if you do other stuff, they complain you're not just doing firewood... I like the variety, on your channel and mine and the others I watch. Keep it up.
Just subscribed to Jake's channel 👍 Another great video, Adam! You're so dedicated to do this while with family for Christmas!! Thanks!! As "my opinion" music police 😬👎 sorry...You & Jake & Chris worked very well together!! 👍 God bless y'all & your families! Happy 2024 🫶🙏🎊
Another great video Adam. Your friend seems very knowledgeable and interesting. He has a really nice setup. Have a safe and prosperous New Year. Bill H from Cranberry Township
Im 64 years old. I have asthma, a bad back and very skinny. I have no tractor. I have no trucks. Just a van. I have a Stihl ms261 , Stihl ms250 and a Stihl ms171. I have some fiskars axes and mauls. I do not have a splitter yet. I have zero savings. Yet somehow im going to make it work. I do have two acres paid for. Lots of trees. Unfortunately most are poplar . Im in Western North Carolina.
You got Big Cheese (Chris) workin Nice!!! Another wonderful video Adam and always love the stuff the guys are doing at Dude Ranch DIY!!!
Great video! Being a one-legged guy, I use the face / bore / and trigger technique almost exclusively and pretty much that high on the stump. I'm not cutting grade or for a job, so speed when cutting isn't even on my radar.
Happy New Year!
Happy Holidays Adam!!!❤😊
Once Christmas is over, it's on like Donkey Kong!!!
Great video!!
Recognized where we were going straight away 😂 great video you guys
Adam, beautiful piece of property Jake has, sweet old growth trees. Love the rolling hills, motivates me to find my way. This is a great option for you at the in-law travel spot to stay connected to the woods. Sunday morning came early this week! LOL gotta 5 day cold.
That's not a home away from home. That's a vacation spot! Looked like fun.
I might have missed it, but what saw was he using? Awesome, content! Hope your family and you have a Happy New Year and a great 2024! 🎉🎉
Sorry, it was a 500i. Missed that the first time.
Great video, you two! What's the tool that is used at minute 18:38?
I'm curious about the paint marker as well
How much are you making, on average, per week at the wood stand?
That kubota tractor is a little tank 😂
I didn’t know you were 6’ 5”. That’s amazing. Take it away Doug.
I feel like there's a "drinking game" we can start for every time he mentions his height! LOL
i understand being in that region of the country cost of living is high and people need to make cash flow just seems high for no more wood there is offered in the self serve ,
You’re in my neck of the woods!
That has a intresting head an ear protection set on. lookeg like had a two way comm system an a whistle as well
My helmet is fully integrated with a Sena 30k Bluetooth communication and phone system 👍🏼
Great video, Adam. It is nice to see all of your working together. I'm not sure if your in-laws will appreciate the hide-out comments? I really enjoy both of your channels. Jake and Chris seem to have a great working relationship.
@@johnmalecki713 No, Dude Ranch DIY and Hometown Acres.
Good to see both of you together. Good days work! I was up at my camp doing firewood yesterday and it’s getting really muddy up there. I would love to have all of his millings.
Very interesting :)
Firewood is a way of life
If you watch this backwards, the video is about two hippies healing the forest with a magical chainsaw.
Adam put all the clips in the wrong sequence, I am actually a tree doctor 😂
The safest way is indeed to have a professional do it
great video except that loud crappy overlay music
No chaps?🇺🇸
How many times have chaps saved your life?
You better wrap that thumb around the handle Adam, before you lose it. You’ve been told before
as an arborist and as someone who's worked in forestry, my advice for most people would be that the safest way to cut down a tree is to let a professional do it. After seeing and fixing so many mistakes from people who thought they knew what they were doing I shake my head every time someone goes at a tree all big balled and cocky and causes accidents or harm.
Wouldn’t That Log have been a good one for the Saw mill instead of firewood?
My sawmill was 500 miles away
That chain needs to be sharpened. The saw was screaming to get through that tree.
Which grapple does he have on his tractor?
Everything attachments wicked 55
Safely ,,, No Chaps.???
You’ve cut your leg open before…I can tell!
How come nobody except Buckin' Billy Ray does an undercut notch? You lose wood, make irregular splits, and get less board footage if you are milling lumber with a notch in the sawlog...I just don't get it.
Humboldt vs conventional face cut is the terminology you’re looking for. They both have their advantags, but a humboldt takes some dedicated practice to learn, and good ability to control the plane of the bar while pivoting it on the bucking spikes.
A conventional face with the sloped cut first and the flat cut second is ABSOLUTELY the way I teach newer operators how to fall trees / dogs.
@@MemphisMechanicHumboldt also favors the steep terrain fellers are often dealing with out west. By having your angle towards the bottom of the notch it allows for the hinge to hold on longer past horizontal resulting in more control of the tree as it’s falling. If you look closely at the spar I dropped that was on top of the boulder, I actually used an “open face notch” with angle cuts on the top and bottom resulting in the hinge wood to hold on longer.
@@DudeRanchDIY, on the first tree you were demonstrating on, I thought you would want to use a Humboldt with such a tall stump. Since it was for safest way to cut a tree, if it was a homeowner that doesn't have access to a tractor to pull a tree over, wouldn't the Humboldt be safer? The Humboldt would allow the butt to hit the ground first instead of last, so there is less risk of the tree bouncing back. (especially if the top hasn't been limbed already.)
@@briananderson7497in this case the base of the stump was about 2.5-3’ below the grade of the asphalt Millings road so a conventional notch worked just fine as shown in the video.
Probably 7 hundred dollars a cord up there
Is it just me or is his saw very dull?
I was never a fan of the 55 and over housing. I live in a place that is mainly that but not completely. I was 32 when I moved here with 6 and 3 year old kids.
Mmmm professional arborist not wearing chaps eh
That’s why he’s a professional…he knows what he’s doing!
Stuff happens, doesn’t matter if you are a professional
Might be an arborist, but you’re no qualified faller. 🙄
First thing you do as a faller is clear your two escape routes at 45 degrees to the rear - so that if it goes pear shaped you have two escape routes.
In this case if your showing “the safest way” to fall a tree, you failed before you even started.
You have all the tree limbs from where the tree was topped out laying on the ground underfoot on your two 45 degree escape routes.
You SHOULD have cleared those first before you got anywhere near making your opening cuts on the tree with the chainsaw.
Next, your property is steep in places and you use the tractor and loader attachment in your operations.
At a minimum your require a ROPS (Roll Over Protection System) bar off the back axle taller than your head.
Strictly speaking for falling / logging Opps - you need a FOPS cab (Falling Operation Protection System) cab on the tractor to protect you as the operator when not if a tree falls on the tractor with you in it.
So while it’s admirable to try and show safe falling methods, really speaking you should be at the top of your game with qualifications, experience & skills to be teaching others on line in matters of safety.
I say this as a retired Forester, who has attended two falling fatalities scenes of my faller employees over the years, with a coroners investigator.
It’s never a pretty scene & having to inform their spouse & kids is the worst thing you’ll ever have to do.
It pays to get this stuff right if you’re going to do it, but even more so if you’re going out to instruct safe working procedures.
You speak about the safety and training, but you also say that you have "attended two falling fatalities scenes of my faller employees over the years, with a coroners investigator." I can understand 1 fatality if an employee wasn't following instructions/training/proper procedures but how did a second fatal incident occur? Was the second not trained/supervised properly in safety?
Something about your story is ???
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@@mikewatson4644 I had 126 employees - most of whom were qualified fallers.
Over a lot of years - the odds are stacked against you.
In logging industry you get pressures to pull wood while the season allows it.
Autumn & Spring if particularly wet can cause shut downs in the bush, due to dieback disease spread protocols.
So mills want wood stockpiled on the landings to mill when bush operations are shut down, to keep their staff employed.
The commercial fallers get paid by the volume of wood they pull, based on their fallers brand on the stump and the weight of that load.
So they can and do over time start to cut corners in safety in order to fall more trees and get a bigger pay packet at the end of the fortnight, particularly coming up to Xmas shut downs where while on holidays they revert to a standard 38 hours base rate pay & they know they will have big outgoings with reduced income.
The fallers tend to work harder, faster, longer to get more wood on the deck while the mills are screaming out to build their stockpiles.
There’s good money to be made so they go hard to make the $ while they are there to be made.
Mate “Snake” (Frank) had 30 years falling experience & he was killed while falling plantation softwood.
He felled a mature (32+ years old Radiata pine, and while it was on the way down, he turned his back on it walking to the next pine to fall.
The tree fell and the crown hit a hollow butt hardwood old growth tree, that was badly burnt out inside the stump / lower bole area - only standing on 3 legs.
The front leg broke out and the hardwood stag fell towards Frank and hit him on the head.
He never saw it coming.
2nd guy “Booga” was again hardwood falling for the mills on piecework ie paid by the volume of wood on the ground with his brand on the stump end of the log.
He didn’t spot a widow maker branch that had burnt off its parent tree, and was lodged in the fork of the tree it burnt off, the other end lodged in a neighbouring tree fork.
He fell the neighbouring tree, and as it went the branch pulled out of both trees and cartwheeled downwards again hitting him on the head.
Both guys were wearing their hard hats when they were hit - but crowns and branches that can weigh a few tonnes falling from 40 meters up don’t respect plastic hard hats much.
Forestry is a little different to tree arborist work.
A commercial faller will put more wood on the deck before morning tea time than an arborist puts on the deck in a month.
There’s no comparison between the industries really. Both completely different disciplines
Fallers don’t just fall for commercial milling supply - they also fall rogue hardwood stags around 60 meters in height that catch alight in the crown during wildfire suppression and start burning in the hollow limbs, and can’t be put out with water from fire appliances because their marauder pumps won’t push water that high, so such trees are often felled during fire containment & mop up, to extinguish fire in the crown that can’t be reached from the ground.
Arborist & Commercial / Forestry falling are two distinctly different disciplines with completely different sets of rules, especially for safety.
I was able to find some stats for fatalities here in my home state (Western Australia) but they include Forestry, Agriculture & Fisheries - so not Forestry / Falling Specific.
“Fatalities and injury statistics in agriculture
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Despite relatively few hours worked compared to many other industries, the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing industry has the highest number of work-related fatalities for the period 2011-12 to 2020-21p, with 42 fatalities.
The fatality frequency rate in the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing industry is three times as high as the industry with the second highest work-related fatality frequency rate (Arts and Recreation Services), and over seven times as high as the overall rate across industries.
Over three quarters of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing industry work-related fatalities occurred in the Agriculture subdivision.
Examples of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing work-related traumatic injury fatalities 2011-12 to 2020-21p
A tree feller was fatally injured when a tree branch struck him.
A farmer was kicked by an animal, which fatally aggravated an existing medical condition.
A casual farm worker sustained fatal injuries when she was struck by a bull and crushed against a fence.
A farmer, undertaking work activities, was repeatedly stung by bees and suffered a fatal reaction.
A farm hand was fatally injured when a hydraulically supported steel bucket he was working under fell.
A farmer was fatally injured after being thrown from a quad bike.
A fishing vessel sank resulting in the fatalities of all three workers aboard.”
Things have reduced a lot in the last couple of years because old growth hardwood logging is now totally banned so that aspect of the industry is now dead.
Most harvesting is plantation based and done with feller buncher machines, Kochums etc.
If you are making money doing youtube videos you should be OSHA correct if the title of your video is "Safest Way to cut down a tree."@@mikewatson4644
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