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- Todays video is part 2 scoring on some Red Pine, I used the Stihl MS 261 Chainsaw, Wallenstein FX 85 Skidding Winch, and RK 55 Compact Tractor. We also go for a little hike and look at more softwoods. Red Pine and Norway Spruce.
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Mike, Rodney here. I always enjoy watching your videos, seeing what your up to on the ranch, and quarterbacking you in the background. When it comes to Moving logs around, both in the woods, and on your landing when you load your bandsaw for cutting lumber, there is one front of big tractor I would like to see you get, is called a Frost Bite Log Grapple, I do know you have a Grapple currently, but though it can be used for moving logs, it really is a Brush Grapple. Just throwing in my 2 cents here, as always, Thank You for many hours of enjoyment.
Those are some beautiful looking logs! Man you have a nice setup, from property to equipment! Enjoy it all, God bless!
I live amongst 55 acres of woods in southern ontario north of the border. I love walking through the woods and admiring the trees as well. No red pine, but tons of eastern white pine and some old growth ones over 4' accross. Nothing beats being out there!
It would be an interesting video to have an Arborist to come in and talk about forest management. Although I think you are doing a great job of using your resource.
There are several apps that allow you to save gps coordinates, you can mark each tree with a short description as you come across them so you'll remember what you have.
Daniel Zeller that’s really cool. I would be all over that.
Nice tour. Thank you!
Gotta love having the proper tools for the job. Makes the hard work a bit more enjoyable.
Here in Colorado it’s either pine or aspen. Both are soft and light. They are going for about $180 to $250 a cord. Anyone who has hardwood like oak is selling it for $400+ a cord. Check Craig’s list for our area. Also did my part to support Buckin Billy. :)
You have a lot of work to do. Would love to send you some of our Cold weather so you don't have to mess with all the mud. Enjoy your videos. Happy New Year to you and your family if I haven't said it yet.
Thanks Mike, I needed that Had a ruff couple of days and it was nice to get home from work and sit down and watch your video. Relaxing.
Out west Fire wood is Aspen (poplar)
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I don’t know if your pine trees are far away of your backyard , I suggest don’t skid them , staked close to your site depot where they are , you can saw there , you save on transport, the debris, sawdust, and crust scraps stay in wood for spreading in the wood
Mike is there anyway to get the dump trailer out into the woods using the RK 55 tractor 🚜, if so maybe you could cut some 14 ‘ ,16’ ,18’ & longer logs and be able to haul them out without hhaving to drag them through the mud and use them for header beams on your shed buildings. Just something for you to think about
You mention that the areas where the “pines” are used to be real thick. What’s the history of the site? It would be cool to find out about how those species got there. Is the site reverting from past disturbance or old farming practice? Check out PSU’s Penn Pilot website for achieved aerial photos. May help put the puzzle pieces together.
That area must have a high site index.
Red pines are a beautiful tree.
I was going to say, when I saw all the logs you were hauling but I won't, yes I will. My thoughts were your going to need a bigger tractor Lol. Nice job
Hey you have a lot of fire wood for a long and good music relaxing
I see a new trail down the ridge to get at all the trees you need to get out.
Nice looking pine logs there buddy
Keeping those logs out of the dirt & mud will sure help keep your sawmill blade sharp longer.
Mike, please explain why you have so so many trees laying on the ground. We have nothing like this in Texas and we have a lot of pine as well as hardwood forests here. Are trees just dying off in Pennsylvania. Thanks...love your videos!!
The red pine will make some good lumber for the new workshop and drying sheds. Better fire up the mill
It's so hard to tell what size the trees are on the video, they look a lot smaller than they actually are. We need some sort of scale to compare size on the video. Once you get up to the tree with the saw, we can judge how big it is, but just looking at it from ten feet away we can't tell how big the tree is. I'm always impressed with the low light capability of your cameras. Great video Mike, thumbs up.
The RK55's strength is impressive.
Mike you need to build you and Mel a nice little "get away" log Cabin without the getting away down there with all that wood your going to cut outta there. Down in the valley away from everyone.👍
Let's see what comes of these trees. Live slabs or furniture grade?
I really like your videos and enjoy watching them but one question mike as much wood as you cut what is the secret to keeping you bar on your saw looking brand new? Mine never looks that good after a few months
Dead trees are not "going to waste" by rotting back into the ground. Harvesting timber in agriculture. Agriculture depletes the soils from extraction of nutrients. Countries in Scandinavia, who have had multiple generations of forestry harvesting, are experiencing declining yields.
Great video. Do you re plant the trees that you cut down?
Billy Ray hit 100k!
EXCELLENT!! Glad to hear it!
What do you use to take such great 👍 video’s and how long does it takes you to edit
Mike, why does the tractor rev so hard?
Mike, this video has a Blair Witch Project quality to it... ;~)
Mike...you keep saying i need to remember this one...how about carrying small roll of flagin tape and just give it one wrap around them...it would last two years at least...just a thought...have a day...
I'm not trying to criticize you Mike but I just wanted to tell you be real cautious when you slide logs like you did off the forks onto the pile because my boss broke his thumb doing something quite similar with his firewood processer. Not being a critic just thought id let a friend know, I know your pretty cautious and safety oriented.
Mike, Do you get good GPS signal out in the woods on your property? If you do, you could set waypoints for trees you would like to come back and get. The GPS would help you find them latter. When you make the waypoints you could put in type of tree, sizes, sawmill/firewood, etc into the waypoint. Then when you are in "need" of a certain type you can look at your map and go after those trees. Also flagging as others have suggested would help so you don't have to be SO accurate with the GPS. Thanks again for another great video.
*That was a load of logs on that tractor!* #WorldsOkayestFarmer
BBR 100K WELL DONE. thanks every body....
thankyou mike....
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Time to add yet another skill. Log structure construction. Once you can establish a access logging road it looks like there are enough tall pine, spruce, and hemlock to build full log buildings. All you have to do is get cloned. Thanks always for interesting videos. Take care all.
That stamp on the dimension lumber (SPF) at the lumber yard. Spruce, Pine, Fur. 👍
Red pine makes a really nice stiff board, don't have near the flex.
Thanks for supporting Buckin'.
love your videos. I admire your family traditions, I would very much like to meet yu'all some time. I lived in Evans City way back when and still have relatives there. Keep up keeping up and God Bless.
how about carrying some flagging tape on tractors that way you can just flag it instead of needing to remember all the places
Or a can of marking paint
I was going to make that same suggestion! Makes it easier to find that tree you’ve been looking for easier on the next go around. Also you could even number them and make notes on what you wanted to do with them. Just in case your memory is like mine. 🙄
Mike you should use those rotting dead trees. To grow shitake mushrooms. Old Stony Ridge is growing them. They are delicious and expensive in stores. God bless
That's some Big logs for the mill !!👍👊
Having my morning coffee and watching Mike processing timber!!
Just went to Bucking Billy channel. I see he hit 100k.
Norway's very nice to saw for framing
Hi Mike, I did my part to help out Buckin' Billy Ray! Have a Great day and God Bless!
Hey thanks Tom, Pass the word on,
Y’all pick out good music
....maybe you'd like this idea: would you dedicate a parcel of land let's say 500 yards by 500 yards and empty, and grow on it by planting trees that you like? And then watching them grow for 15 or 20 years until when you'll retire and see your accomplishment?
Joined up on BBR, watched him cut a 5 ft Cedar
Down here in North Alabama we have been having trouble with pine beatles killing pine trees.
You may want to make cutting the vines that aren't a desirable variety out from around the trees you want a very high priority, especially near the path in the beginning. Vines destroy trees and cause a variety of dangerous conditions. You only need to cut out a foot or so from the tree hugging ones to stunt them, but the more you cut out the better. Now is the time of the year to attack them. Thanks for the entertaining videos and keep up the great work.
Hey Mike! Im a stringed instrument maker and player. that Norway spruce might make good guitar tops, or violin tops. might be a outlet for that stuff. plenty big enough. need to be at least 20 inch long chunks for guitar tops. Might ask around up your way. theres got to be builders up there.
Hey Mike, Central Sierras California, ~4,000ft mostly Ponderosa Pine, Cedar, and Oak on our property, sugar pine just up the hill. Cutting firewood put me through college cutting oak lower in the state, it's heavy. Red, white and Live Oak lower, I think they call it blue oak where I live now.
I live in the PNW on Whidbey Island and our property has almost entirely Western Hemlock, Madrone, and Alder. We have a few Douglas Fir and Big Leaf Maples as well. Most of what I cut are the western hemlocks because when this property was replanted, no one came back years later and thinned it. So everything is ~80' tall and 8-12" in diameter. Very unstable. So we have been thinning trees like a crazy since we bought the place 2 years ago.
You may need 3 Mikes to get all that ready wood out of there. No shortage for sure.
Hi Mike , if you were to carry a roll of red land surveyors tape with you when you go for a wander through your woods , then when you find a dead
or useable tree to harvest just wrap a strand of the tape around the tree at shoulder height and tie it off to itself and you'll find that tree
much more easily when you go back to get it ( days or weeks later ) / Happy New Year to Y'all .
That area looks like a candidate for clearing completely out and,perhaps planting some grass. Also it would give you another opportunity to run that JD 333 and Diamond mower............i mean we know how much you hated that...........right? Lol ;-)
If your going to mill that Norwegian spruce it's better to use a brand new blade the fine dust the blade creates makes the blade wander to where the longer the board its becomes more wavy. It has good strength but the way the wood is it makes the blade finicay. My uncle cuts it for people on his mill and he will cut it a little thick and we plain it cause it's a tad bit wavy. But if your gonna use that wood from your property for personal use it wont mater cause the waves are minute it more asteically unpleasing for the customer. But an 8x8 or 6x4 or even 4x4 stands up great to weather not as good as cedar but it's better than most. If that wood is wet the people who he cut the spruce for get it off the ground debark the logs and let it sit for 6month to a year. I dont know for a 100 percent if you have to do that but that's what they do but these guys use the wood for their customers for building so I'm sure that not there preference. But good video if you do that spruce I cant wait to see you cut it down and get it out off the woods and mill it.
Our firewood out here in Washington State mostly Doug Fir, Hemlock, Spruce, Alder, Cedar mostly for kindling
Mike you want to build some buildings and this channel is amazing. Save you alot of money and there amazing building's.... Check out ( RR Buildings) There truss system and the framing is just amazing...
Hi from the SoCal mountains! We burn black, white, and coastal live oak. A cord of seasoned split oak weighs in the neighborhood of 2,000 to 2,500 lbs. I’ve weighed loads on certified land fill scales. I use a 1 ton Dodge Ram w/helper springs. I can cram a cord and a third in the bed. We have lots of Coulter Pine in the area, too many knots and twists for any structural use. Burns hot and creosotes up flues.
Need a roll of orange ribbon in your pocket.
Such a pleasure to watch you work; so careful. All of my equipment shows signs of abuse..
I’ve have been running my old Allis tractor for 50 years and watching you makes me want to
rebuild the ol girl..
Thank you for sharing the nice video..
Good Morning Morgans. Really enjoy your videos and your outlook on life. FYI - We are digging out from a snow storm up here in Eastern Newfoundland - 40 cm fell in 24hrs (that's 15" or so for you guys!). We've had almost 100 cm since Christmas Eve. Your tractors would not be useful here unless it had a Snow Blower attachment!! LOL All the best....
Red Pine is wonderful lumber but it can move a lot when drying..... We made our own pallets and we compress our boards under a lot of pressure.... sticker and stacked.... and it turns our great! Strong and straight! We build all of our buildings out of Red Pine lumber - all milled by ourselves LOL!!! Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work!
Some hefty loads Mike, you might be needing a RK74 soon! 🤣
Don't now your business model but I saw you cutting up some nice woods that could be used for smoking. Distribution could be managed thru local ACE Hardware, Lowes, etc. Don't now if additional labor equates to increased revenue but just a thought.
Mike, in reference to your comment about trucks out west with cut firewood stacked high above the cab, often times that is dead lodgepole pine. At least in my part of western Montana. You're right, it is very light in weight. Sometimes you'll see a load of Douglas-fir or ponderosa pine, but again when stacked that high it's almost always dead and very dry. Cheers!
Mike, I'd sure like to know the approximate total calculated weight of the 4 pine logs that were lifted by the RK55's forks. I also noticed that they were not near the pins where the tractor's weight calculations are determined. That was impressive. Have a productive day.
When I did professional logging as a kid. In central New England... Any woodlot that was over a 100 acres... Had very little chance.. Of being all hardwood or all pine.. Have a great day
Mike, just saw a buckin Billy video if him and his axes chopping down a tree! You need to loan him a few stihl chainsaws! I got tired just watching him! You got him beat by a mile!
Wished I was able to be there with you. Not able to do much any more . It has gotten for me . All zi do now is sleep . Can't get around that good any more . Seems as if I'm falling a lot . . That makes it more difficult to get around .
Still here in South Carolina beween Greenville, and Spartenburg.. love this country . Company moved mehere in 1979 .,been here ever since . Good hunting and fishing is this area. Most of the timber has cut that was any good . .
Now that you deal with larger tree sections than just firewood blocks, have you changed your mind on which tractor you would keep if you only kept one? Seems like the big one (55) is doing more of the work (wood bucket, winch, fork lift) now that you have the saw mill, and not just because it is winter and has a cab. Maneuverability in the woods of the mid-size tractor isn't as critical now that you have the winch for retrieving trees in hard to get places, it seems. The Saw Mill and Winch seem to have been a game changer for you. Now you can bring the tree to the tractor and not the tractor to the tree. You block on the trail and not where the tree falls.
Enjoyed the walk in the woods!
Hello, I am a new sub. I understand why you are milling the money wood But, Why don't you clear the land of all that dead wood laying on the ground and clean it up. Surely that wood has some value? Why don't you use that for something? Please reply, thank you
Mike, the softwoods would be ideal for making timbers and beams for your building project. I have a steel building that I had to put everything inside. It is similar to a Timber frame but, I am using bolts instead of mortis and tennon. I use recycled timbers and siding from old barns. Some are hand hewn others are sawn.
Hi mike I just noticed when you went up to the house to get the release fully why didn't you takee the 2 logs you up to the yard it would have saved you a trip ? just saying . boy that lownstein winch works slick..As Eva would say have a day / Eh
One thing we didnt like about the yellow and white pines down here is the pine tar/sap that they have. Makes clean up on a chain saw quite the pain. Not sure about red pine would think it is similar. We use the downed pines for bonfire wood. Burns crazy hot. Too sappy for burning in stoves and fireplaces. Creates to much soot for my liking.
Hey mike,love your channel.first reply ever,but I believe it to be a good thing for you to mention,to maybe help protect hobby farmers from a tractor accident.i own and operate a small mobile tire service in logan ohio,and know how unstable tractors with front end loaders can be.i notice you most generally have an attachment on the back ,but I also assume your rear tires are loaded. God bless you all and thanks for sharing.
get the pine & spruce out and the hardwood will grow !
Hello Mike. ....now that you have that sawmill you can use your first cuts to put on ground when you stack your firewood. You did a great job on your earlier videos when stacking. Almost looked like a fence.!
Do you know how to make kindling, or fat lightard (a southern term)? You cut a pine tree in the dead of winter. This is when the sap is down in the stump part of the tree. Leave the stump alone long enough for the sap to dry. When you remove the stump it will be fat lightard.
Thanks for posting. Small wood lot management is a big job that lots of people just don’t understand. Leaving it all to rot or fall down isn’t that great for the forest health. Taking down the mature ones before they die allows the little ones to thrive and thankfully you put some of it to work. After seeing some of the beautiful figure in your saw logs I think you have a little greater appreciation for some of the stuff you’ve relegated to burning in the past.
As I watch this, Buckin is live and giddy as a school girl. 100K. Seem many likes and comments on his channel citing your request.
Thank you for your presence.
Thank you for sharing.
a little brush in the woods is good, I know they talk about forest fire fuel, but the birds love brush piles, and snakes too. folks that visit me always comment on my snake piles, I tell them, at least I know where they are, just stay away from the brush piles.
Mike what do you do with the pine limbs? Have you thought about chipping them for mulch and thereby cleaning up areas the allow you access further down into the woods off the trail
Be extremely careful falling trees in all that dead stuff!! Could be lots of widow makers that highbup
I enjoyed the video. You’ve sure got a beautiful place. I love those big trees. 👍👍👍❤️
Most people don't burn pine because of creosote build up in flue causing fires. A lot of stoves now have the catalyst to be able to burn pine safely. Since most of the people using your firewood is for fire pits and camp fires. Start using pine in the fire pits / camp firewood. You could test burning pine in the fire pit you have.
I am from Wyoming, and you are right those big loads on pickups are pine spruce and fer. They weigh about the same as your red pine.
What I've always thought should be done with the many fallen dead trees is to use them in a furnace, like an outdoor boiler or for power generation. Nothing significant has to be done with them except drag them out and cut them to length. It seems like such a shame to have so many dead trees on the ground cluttering things up and going to waste, and giving a home to wood eating insects.
For me here in Nova Scotia , for campfire wood , it is way cheaper for me to but soft wood . And slab is real cheap . Hard wood is at a premium , so soft wood is our outdoor go to , with a little hardwood thrown in in the fall and spring for some longer burning . Hello to Hunter !!!
You need to bring a can of bright colored spray paint with you and start marking the dead ones and the ones you want for building drying sheds. That way you can remember which ones you wanted. If you put a ring all the way around the tree, you can see it from any of your trails.
Everybody uses overloads out here. They start with 3/4 ton, then build up from that.
The pick up truck wit split wood Or rounds that go Above the cab you see hear in California wear I live in Plumas county California most of the wood they get for firewood for your self or for sale is Doug fir or ceded or Lodge pool or sugar pine or white Fir as for oak if it it on truck up to the cab it’s dry not wet for the most part if your getting wood most what we get is out of the us forest land we buy wood tags from us forest ther is Certain areas can get into because it’s from commercial login or It’s Off limits