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.
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.
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..
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!
Mike Enjoyed our walk through the woods. You do a great job of making us feel like we are really taking a walk with you through the woods. Martin Scorsese eat your heart out! And cannot wait to see what the pine looks like on the mill, always a treat to see a nice grain and smell. Hey Hunter! ✋🏻👴🏻
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.
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 !!!
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!
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
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.
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.
SOUTHERN INDIANA HERE…46 degrees today with rain on the way..40% Thur and 95% chance Fri 1/10/20 and 1/11. We’re back at home in Indiana now. Got home yesterday from San Diego. Anxious to watch more of your videos.
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.
Great video. When I was to Colorado I commented how few tree species they had. When the person asked me how many species of tree we had here he was nearly blown away.
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.
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.
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.!
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.
Really good to see a set of forks in the woods. I laugh because most everyone says you can’t move logs with out a grapple. Nice job! I move a lot of timber yearly with just forks thanks for helping me out there.
Growing up we had a section of woods where red pine was planted, I believe the intention had been for pulpwood, we called it the school forest because all the pine were in straight rows. It'll be interesting to see if it will make good lumber.
Heck of a fork load coming up that trail slope - 5 ~ 10 footers. Nice walk in the woods to those other trees. Good sized ones at that. Be nice now to grab some of the fallen with the winch on the RK-55. Believe you might have enough cable on it to skid them out? Stay safe out there & have a good night.
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.
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 .
Good morning Mike, enjoyed the video of you getting the pine tree out of the woods. Hope you can get some usable wood milled out of it. The RK-55 pawed it’s way right up the hill, glad it found enough bottom to get ahold of for traction. Sounds like you are enjoying the Wallenstein skidder more and more. It’s quite a handy piece of equipment to have around. Works wonders over a standard winch too. Keep up the good work and videos, we sure enjoy your channel. Hey to everyone else!
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!
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.
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.
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.
As you said you have to get down in there to harvest that softwood. It will be interesting to see if you can get down there when (if) things freeze up. Not frozen here in NE Ct yet either. Keeping me out of the 400 acre farm with my dump trailer to pick up red oak I cut up last year. That will build all your outbuildings. Pure gold. Great stuff!
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.
Hi Mike, here in the south we have a bug called pine Beatle the only way to get rid of them is to cut the tree down they can't fly the wind blows them. They will destroy pine trees.
Them spruce will make really nice 2× lumber , love the new woodmizer and wallsten winch make awesome vidjas . My dad had a woodmizer when I was growing up spent many hours tailing that mill . Love the logging keep em coming
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...
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.
Great video, where I live in Eastern Oregon we don't have any hard wood forests, we have ponderosa pine, white pine, douglas fir, spruce and larch. Really enjoy your land and what you are sharing in your videos, keep up the great work.
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....
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.
I've been cutting a lot of red pine,and milling with a chainsaw mill. It works up real nice and air dries fairly fast. Trying to cut enough for a pole barn.
Mike hope you get a bunch of the standing dead pine cut/hauled out before it gets to bad to use👍! Nice here in Texas 69 degrees this afternoon😃 but bad weather comin Friday night
Regarding spruce vs pine, in Eastern Canada only spruce is used for framing structures. Depending on your taste or design needs pine, cherry, maple etc are used for trim and finishes. Hardwood for stair cases and floors etc Black spruce is grown here for the lumber industry and some others. Luv the channel all the best !
You know, hard work with new equipment is still hard work...love the music...it starts the video off right. Happy New Year from Butch in Florence Texas
I like seeing that rk55 work. It gives me more idea for uses for mine. Im hoping to add the grapple this spring but im definitely going to buy a set of forks. Say hey to the family and yall HAVE A DAY 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
You was talking about a small wood stove for the MINI-CABIN and I saw one that is made in Idaho called Tinywoodstove.com. You may want to look into their units. Great job with you Hobby Logging.
Oh man i'm watching you walk in your forest in envy lol We logg in deep snow here. We can't keep up with the cleaning of our forest. Its falling faster that we can pick it up.
Hi Mike , the desired fire wood here in western Canada is Alder ! Here it's mostly pine, spruce, red and yellow cedar, blue spruce, MTN ash, Birch . But you would have seen this on buckin Billy Ray s channel . 😀👍🇨🇦 Craig
Mike, might want to look into getting an atv log arch for those hard to get to places. Have watched Nathan, on Out of The Woods Forestry, use one quiet a bit.
When working with different kinds of pine, don’t forget about the knotty wood, it lakes great ceilings and accent walls in cabins or even in your home!
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
Mike it looked like there might be a years worth of cutting of downed trees in the one area. As for dead and downed pine Nathen has cut some pine beams and the timber looked to have been on the ground a good while so you might want to test a few of the dead and downed red pine.
Im on the coast of washington we cut primarily doug fir, hemlock and red alder. We do cut some spruce but try not too. Extreamly limby. Also cut some maple.
In Idaho I can haul a full cord of doug fir or lodge pole pine in a 3/4 ton pickup. As a wood worker, I would guess that oak is almost twice as heavy as pine or fir.
Good morning from No. VT. Sounds like you might want to cut a cross trail through that section when it finally freezes. Given how much potential softwood yield it is probably worth the time to do the projects you are planning. We are having a warm winter so far like you. Coffee cups is empty - Time to get back to the workshop, my wife has given me a new post-Christmas "To-Do" list.
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.
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.
Thanks for supporting Buckin'.
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..
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!
Mike
Enjoyed our walk through the woods. You do a great job of making us feel like we are really taking a walk with you through the woods. Martin Scorsese eat your heart out! And cannot wait to see what the pine looks like on the mill, always a treat to see a nice grain and smell.
Hey Hunter! ✋🏻👴🏻
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.
I enjoyed the video. You’ve sure got a beautiful place. I love those big trees. 👍👍👍❤️
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 !!!
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!
That's some Big logs for the mill !!👍👊
Enjoyed the walk in the woods!
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
This video reminds me of the woods that were behind our house in Western NY. I spent many an hour up there.
Nice looking pine logs there buddy
Very impressed with loader capacity. Smooth working.
Norway's very nice to saw for framing
Those are some beautiful looking logs! Man you have a nice setup, from property to equipment! Enjoy it all, God bless!
Thank you for the walk through the magical woods!!!! That was the perfect end to my long day. 👍
Happy Birthday Melissa!
Nice Spruce , it will saw great framing lumber !
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.
You have a beautiful place there with some beautiful big trees.
You may need 3 Mikes to get all that ready wood out of there. No shortage for sure.
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.
SOUTHERN INDIANA HERE…46 degrees today with rain on the way..40% Thur and 95% chance Fri 1/10/20 and 1/11. We’re back at home in Indiana now. Got home yesterday from San Diego. Anxious to watch more of your videos.
a lot of good building lumber standing their
Man oh man,..you do have a 'gold mine' of tall trees for the 'hobbyist wood lot ' you have. Nice video Mike,,......keep the cameras rolling with this.
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.
Having the right machinery sure does make things a whole lot easier. Great video Mike! Keep up the good work!
Looks like fun!!!
Great video. When I was to Colorado I commented how few tree species they had. When the person asked me how many species of tree we had here he was nearly blown away.
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.
Wow that was quite a lift. 4 red pine logs. 😮
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.
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.!
BBR 100K WELL DONE. thanks every body....
thankyou mike....
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.
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,
Really good to see a set of forks in the woods. I laugh because most everyone says you can’t move logs with out a grapple. Nice job! I move a lot of timber yearly with just forks thanks for helping me out there.
Growing up we had a section of woods where red pine was planted, I believe the intention had been for pulpwood, we called it the school forest because all the pine were in straight rows. It'll be interesting to see if it will make good lumber.
Heck of a fork load coming up that trail slope - 5 ~ 10 footers. Nice walk in the woods to those other trees. Good sized ones at that. Be nice now to grab some of the fallen with the winch on the RK-55. Believe you might have enough cable on it to skid them out? Stay safe out there & have a good night.
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.
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 was a load of logs on that tractor!* #WorldsOkayestFarmer
Good morning Mike, enjoyed the video of you getting the pine tree out of the woods. Hope you can get some usable wood milled out of it. The RK-55 pawed it’s way right up the hill, glad it found enough bottom to get ahold of for traction. Sounds like you are enjoying the Wallenstein skidder more and more. It’s quite a handy piece of equipment to have around. Works wonders over a standard winch too. Keep up the good work and videos, we sure enjoy your channel. Hey to everyone else!
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.
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!
Having my morning coffee and watching Mike processing timber!!
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.
Hey Mike! nice work, you got some good sticks of timber out there with the RK!
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.
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.
As you said you have to get down in there to harvest that softwood. It will be interesting to see if you can get down there when (if) things freeze up. Not frozen here in NE Ct yet either. Keeping me out of the 400 acre farm with my dump trailer to pick up red oak I cut up last year. That will build all your outbuildings. Pure gold. Great stuff!
That stamp on the dimension lumber (SPF) at the lumber yard. Spruce, Pine, Fur. 👍
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.
Hi Mike, here in the south we have a bug called pine Beatle the only way to get rid of them is to cut the tree down they can't fly the wind blows them. They will destroy pine trees.
that spruce is awesome for framing ! i,d love to come down some saturday and help ya get some of them out !
Good to hear, I was going to ask you what you thought about those trees
Them spruce will make really nice 2× lumber , love the new woodmizer and wallsten winch make awesome vidjas . My dad had a woodmizer when I was growing up spent many hours tailing that mill . Love the logging keep em coming
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...
Nice tour. Thank you!
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.
Great video, where I live in Eastern Oregon we don't have any hard wood forests, we have ponderosa pine, white pine, douglas fir, spruce and larch. Really enjoy your land and what you are sharing in your videos, keep up the great work.
Mike must be a good feelin rollin wood you cut on wood you sawed all off your land! Enjoy!!!
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....
That winch is a blessing for you & yours... Safety 1st 💪🇺🇸
Always love your music
In central New Mexico, the woods we burn are Pine, Juniper, Cedar and Piñon. Some oak as well.
I'm in mass we have primarily white pine. Most of the red pine we have was planted by the WPA in groves especially around water.
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.
Our firewood out here in Washington State mostly Doug Fir, Hemlock, Spruce, Alder, Cedar mostly for kindling
I've been cutting a lot of red pine,and milling with a chainsaw mill. It works up real nice and air dries fairly fast. Trying to cut enough for a pole barn.
Mike hope you get a bunch of the standing dead pine cut/hauled out before it gets to bad to use👍! Nice here in Texas 69 degrees this afternoon😃 but bad weather comin Friday night
Thumbs up
Gotta love having the proper tools for the job. Makes the hard work a bit more enjoyable.
Down here in North Alabama we have been having trouble with pine beatles killing pine trees.
Regarding spruce vs pine, in Eastern Canada only spruce is used for framing structures. Depending on your taste or design needs pine, cherry, maple etc are used for trim and finishes. Hardwood for stair cases and floors etc Black spruce is grown here for the lumber industry and some others. Luv the channel all the best !
You know, hard work with new equipment is still hard work...love the music...it starts the video off right. Happy New Year from Butch in Florence Texas
I like seeing that rk55 work. It gives me more idea for uses for mine. Im hoping to add the grapple this spring but im definitely going to buy a set of forks. Say hey to the family and yall HAVE A DAY 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
When you got some good good Big Trees don't get snowed in have a good night
You was talking about a small wood stove for the MINI-CABIN and I saw one that is made in Idaho called Tinywoodstove.com. You may want to look into their units. Great job with you Hobby Logging.
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.
Oh man i'm watching you walk in your forest in envy lol We logg in deep snow here. We can't keep up with the cleaning of our forest. Its falling faster that we can pick it up.
Hi Mike , the desired fire wood here in western Canada is Alder ! Here it's mostly pine, spruce, red and yellow cedar, blue spruce, MTN ash, Birch . But you would have seen this on buckin Billy Ray s channel . 😀👍🇨🇦 Craig
Μου αρέσουν πολύ τα βιντεάκια σου πολύ ωραία μπράβο!!!!!
Boy if I had that red pine down here in Texas; I'd be a pig rolling in slop! That's premium lumber here!
Joined up on BBR, watched him cut a 5 ft Cedar
get the pine & spruce out and the hardwood will grow !
Red pine makes a really nice stiff board, don't have near the flex.
Mike, might want to look into getting an atv log arch for those hard to get to places. Have watched Nathan, on Out of The Woods Forestry, use one quiet a bit.
When working with different kinds of pine, don’t forget about the knotty wood, it lakes great ceilings and accent walls in cabins or even in your home!
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
Mike it looked like there might be a years worth of cutting of downed trees in the one area. As for dead and downed pine Nathen has cut some pine beams and the timber looked to have been on the ground a good while so you might want to test a few of the dead and downed red pine.
Im on the coast of washington we cut primarily doug fir, hemlock and red alder. We do cut some spruce but try not too. Extreamly limby. Also cut some maple.
In Idaho I can haul a full cord of doug fir or lodge pole pine in a 3/4 ton pickup. As a wood worker, I would guess that oak is almost twice as heavy as pine or fir.
Good morning from No. VT. Sounds like you might want to cut a cross trail through that section when it finally freezes. Given how much potential softwood yield it is probably worth the time to do the projects you are planning. We are having a warm winter so far like you. Coffee cups is empty - Time to get back to the workshop, my wife has given me a new post-Christmas "To-Do" list.
I have been watching for just a little while now and I was beginning to think you didn't have any pine trees at all. I'm from NC and we "ALOT"!!!!
I see a new trail down the ridge to get at all the trees you need to get out.
Red Pine tongue and grove paneling is nice. has to be kiln dried though or air for couple years
Have a Day, Morgans!
Hi Hunter!!