In my high school days I provided paper companies in Wisconsin with peeled logs. Used a drawknife to open a slit then a "spud" to peel bark. The spud was an 18-inch or so section of leaf spring ground to a taper at one end. Other end had a foot long or so "T" made up of rod welded to the spring. Local blacksmith made these. I would cut the slot then force the spud under the bark. The "T" gave me leverage to peel the bark away. I peeled mostly popple and the bark would come off with a popping sound. Each log was cut into 100 inch lengths and pulled out of the woods to be piled where a truck could get at them. In the fall I would sell the logs to a trucker who picked them up and hauled them to a mill. Seeing you peel these logs brought back a lot of memories! Thank you.
Great to see you working with your dad. Best father's day is doing those types of activities. The Super M will not be denied! Love that tractor!...thanks for the videos
Glad you see the value in these days with your Dad, Toby. I sure miss my Dad, but memories of days like you just had are a precious commodity... and they can't be bought. Your going to need to start working on someone to call you Dad. Someone needs to take on all this equipment.
@@squatch253 Oh, I agree completely... didn't mean you need to be a biological father... there's lots of kids already here that need a "dad" figure... or a big brother.
@@squatch253 Glad to hear you are at peace, I was at that point a few years ago. Not like I ever intended to be single all those years. Then I found an amazing woman I wasn't looking for. Married her and gained a 20 year old son. Fast forward a few years and he's married to an amazing young lady and now I'm expecting a grand daughter in a month. You never really know what life may have in store for you. What ever it is just enjoy the ride.
The wonderful woman I married 20 years ago passed away 10 years ago but left me with a couple grown stepsons I couldn’t be more proud of. I look at some children of women I’ve courted and decided I did right by not fathering offspring of my own. I was spoiled by having two loving and full time parents.
Happy Senior day. 👍😁 Yup on paper birch ya need to pill the bark off before the tree stops vibrating from the chainsaw. Cottonwood you get a second chance once the bark start to break down, messy but it can be done.
You Guys can’t have a lazy bone in your body your garden looks perfect no weeds and nice straight rows all your equipment is in excellent shape and all the wood you cut is nicely stacked and covered well done gentlemen I really admire how much hard work you put in to whatever projects you’re working on 😀🇨🇦
Thanks for the video Toby! Yeah we’re not a card family either. I helped my dad organize the shed Saturday plus got him a couple rain caps for the Allis’s he has. Something he needed. Thanks for the update and can’t wait to see what comes next!
l am very impressed with your weed free garden!! That does not happen without alot of hard work!!! l enjoy your videos where you work the dirt!!! Very interesting watching the bark come off tree trunks seems like l remember learning about that in grade school!!! l will be watchin!!!
I lost my Dad 24 years ago and I certainly miss him. I had a neighbor that was from Germany and every summer he would send his brother a letter written on birch bark .I guess they don't have those trees in Germany
drove a farmall super m many times from the age of 12 on granpas farm he had 2 of them crank start first time usually very cold in winter i have seen some with a cushion on the saddle never saw a cushion this was in south otago nz
As I watched, I thought of the nice equipment being skillfully used. As I watched, it became apparent how much work is involved that the machinery made possible. I was thinking about a big hand saw when Senior was starting to section it off and a team of horses to roll the stump. My grandfather was born in 1901, he became very good with repairing and maintaining Altman Taylor steam traction engines and the other equipment they used as horses were being replaced. I wish I would have had the sense to learn more from him but I did get some of the the basics down. When he retired and moved to the cabin on Ten Mile lake, near Walker, he discovered that he could have as much work as he wanted, working on boat engines. Grandma could sure cook fish, never had any better. Thanks for jogging the memories!
Back when i did mountain man reenacting we made various types of buckets from birch bark.Stiched with rawhide strips and waterproofed with beeswax and pitch.I went in to selling them along with leathergoods at Rendezvous.
Superb fathers day activity. I wish my father was alive to see me do now all the work that I do. I hear the hydraulic pump making a buzzing noise? Is there a mystery air leak now in the hydraulic system? Some pumps tend to be on the whining side and noisy. In other cases it's a indication of a failure to be discovered.
@@squatch253 I had a hydraulic pump that made the same buzzing/whining noise and it had a internal leak+ sucked air from the engine side. Might not be your case at all since your pump was rebuild. However do keep note of when the Super M engine is cold and look at the oil dipstick level. If it stays the same and dose not rise above the full mark. Your probably golden. If it dose start to slowly creep up and the oil dose not smell like gasoline. You are starting to go into the danger zone. Meaning the hydraulic pump is internally leaking into the engine. Alternatively it could be a bad connection or seal. Don't want to scare you but I had a engine almost ruined cause of a hydraulic oil leak and I'm now very paranoid with things like that. LOL
I have peeled quite a bit of bark off trees, but I have never gotten it off when the tree has just been cut down. I end up pulling it after the tree has been down for at least a year. I have heard that it is possible, but I have not been able to get the conditions right to do it. The bark I have peeled is Western red cedar. My cabin and woodshed use it for siding.
The first part of this video looked a lot like what happens when my sons help me out. Son standing there with the electronics while Dad does the heavy lifting. I kid! I kid! 😂 No, I know you were doing plenty while the camera wasn't running. And really, it's pretty nice when my boys come spend time out in the garden with me, even if they're just standing and chatting while I work. Good stuff, dude. I like seeing the tractors look good, but I like seeing them working even more.
I love my Kubota L4701 and my BH92 backhoe. fun seeing what can be done with one when you have dirt rather than 4' down basalt "gravel". Yes feet not inches... actually a fair amount of ledge too. Amazing how well stuff grows in this mess
So what applications do you use the birch bark for? I know it's waterproof and birch has medicinal properties. Nice you take care of Sr's needs. I never had a father relationship like you do and I envy you.
I learn something every time I watch one of your videos. Granted, I will probably never NEED to know any of the D2 tricks I've learned nor how to bark a beech tree as they font exist down here, but now I know.
Yeah, if you leave the intermediate layer alone, the bark regens pretty fast (at least on the ones i've seen). I don't have them, but my brother's neighbor has 30 of them lining up the border line and every few years we help him debark them. I heard it helps force the tree to stay "juvenile" and last longer, and indeed, these trees look far better and stronger than stuff i see in forests or other people's properties. The bark is smoother, it has a lot more meat, close to what that the intermediate layer on yours did on the ones that split and it's very elastic, springy almost. They certainly pop the moment we run the knife and it's actually quite a chore to score the bark all the way down fast enough so it doesn't split unevenly. I'm usually at the bottom, my brother's in the middle, my neighbor on top on the ladder and we run the blades instantly the moment the one above reaches our position, basically cutting in one go. It's neat stuff, and i love the smell. I like my Paulownia smell better (i know some people hate it) but this smells really nice. FYI, if you "feed" the trees on their opposite side of the garden, they'll disregard going for it in favor of the feed. We use a modified caulking gun with a stainless steel needle and inject nutrients (the usual mixes for tree husbandry, nothing special) about 1.5 meters away 20 cm deep. They'll send less if any roots toward the side you want. It's useful for garden stuff, but also if you start seeing them grow towards one side too much, thus endangering the stability. You guys don't have them near houses, in this case, but that's a good way to prevent them from toppling over a house in windy weather.
Thanks for sharing! You are a good son! We made it to Red Power Roundup Thursday. We got to Meet Pete. I told him that I thought you are using the same paint on your H and he said he should send you a bill for that. We had a great time chatting. A real nice guy! I hope to get to meet you yet this year. I am guessing you are done with shows for the year? Let us know. Now that I have a mobility cart I can get around much better.
The rain changes the bark and temperature hot sun we do the same thing on big birch for fire starter 8 to10 long sheets want to make video but cutting ice damage pine thanks U 2
Happy Father's Day, all two of them! If you burn birchwood, will it crack like pine and shooting sparks? I have lots of dried birch lying around in my area and want to use it in a firepit without scaring the neigbours... Thx for the vid! 👍👍👍
Nice video! The power of hydraulics are a wonderful thing! Question for you- i see all the brush and undergrowth around, do you have problems with poison ivy? That is an ongoing battle here in Michigan. How do you handle it, if so?
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In my high school days I provided paper companies in Wisconsin with peeled logs. Used a drawknife to open a slit then a "spud" to peel bark. The spud was an 18-inch or so section of leaf spring ground to a taper at one end. Other end had a foot long or so "T" made up of rod welded to the spring. Local blacksmith made these. I would cut the slot then force the spud under the bark. The "T" gave me leverage to peel the bark away. I peeled mostly popple and the bark would come off with a popping sound. Each log was cut into 100 inch lengths and pulled out of the woods to be piled where a truck could get at them. In the fall I would sell the logs to a trucker who picked them up and hauled them to a mill.
Seeing you peel these logs brought back a lot of memories! Thank you.
Great video Squatch! A hard day's work is much better than a card. Happy Father's to senior. The little kubota and super M done great. Cheers
You will always have a video to look back on and remember this day.
spend as much time as you can with Dad as mine is not here anymore. always did stuff together and miss it. you and Dad and Mom stay safe.
I know you enjoy your folks. Miss mine.
Much better than a card!
digital card forever. happy fathers day squatch sr !
Oh by the way happy belated Father's Day squatch senior
Good looking garden
Way better than a card. Time spent with your father is priceless.
Exactly
My dad i# gone wish I couid bave. Spent more timrwith him..
Love the big vegetable garden
Great to see you working with your dad. Best father's day is doing those types of activities.
The Super M will not be denied! Love that tractor!...thanks for the videos
What a great day, the garden is looking pretty good too.
6:50, Toby, I was wondering WYE, until you answered my thought... Interesting idea for the log..
Glad you see the value in these days with your Dad, Toby. I sure miss my Dad, but memories of days like you just had are a precious commodity... and they can't be bought. Your going to need to start working on someone to call you Dad. Someone needs to take on all this equipment.
@@squatch253 A-freaking-men (on *all* accounts). Very well said, sir.
Couldnt of said it any better myself. This is exactlly how I feel and Im only 32.
@@squatch253 Oh, I agree completely... didn't mean you need to be a biological father... there's lots of kids already here that need a "dad" figure... or a big brother.
@@squatch253 Glad to hear you are at peace, I was at that point a few years ago. Not like I ever intended to be single all those years. Then I found an amazing woman I wasn't looking for. Married her and gained a 20 year old son. Fast forward a few years and he's married to an amazing young lady and now I'm expecting a grand daughter in a month. You never really know what life may have in store for you. What ever it is just enjoy the ride.
The wonderful woman I married 20 years ago passed away 10 years ago but left me with a couple grown stepsons I couldn’t be more proud of. I look at some children of women I’ve courted and decided I did right by not fathering offspring of my own. I was spoiled by having two loving and full time parents.
Great Father and son day working in harmony getting the job done couldn't get any better 👍
Happy Senior day. 👍😁
Yup on paper birch ya need to pill the bark off before the tree stops vibrating from the chainsaw. Cottonwood you get a second chance once the bark start to break down, messy but it can be done.
@@squatch253 that's a good one 🤣😂🤣👍
You Guys can’t have a lazy bone in your body your garden looks perfect no weeds and nice straight rows all your equipment is in excellent shape and all the wood you cut is nicely stacked and covered well done gentlemen I really admire how much hard work you put in to whatever projects you’re working on 😀🇨🇦
Thanks for the video Toby! Yeah we’re not a card family either. I helped my dad organize the shed Saturday plus got him a couple rain caps for the Allis’s he has. Something he needed. Thanks for the update and can’t wait to see what comes next!
Great Father's day gift. My son helped me put new Freon hoses on my truck. Gona be 106 degrees here Sunday.
Excellent job
Great sound on the Solo.
That was a Great Video Dude,made me wanna jump in and help.!!!
Quality time doing something together is best.. the crops out of the garden yum.
Excellent video and excellent fathers day gift for senior
"There's your card!" Love it. :-)
Happy belated father's day to Sr.
awesome squatch and senior
Nice. 👍😎
l am very impressed with your weed free garden!! That does not happen without alot of hard work!!! l enjoy your videos where you work the dirt!!! Very interesting watching the bark come off tree trunks seems like l remember learning about that in grade school!!! l will be watchin!!!
Happy father's day senior! I really enjoy the father and son videos
I lost my Dad 24 years ago and I certainly miss him. I had a neighbor that was from Germany and every summer he would send his brother a letter written on birch bark .I guess they don't have those trees in Germany
Good for you! I am glad for you that you still have a dad to work with.
drove a farmall super m many times from the age of 12 on granpas farm he had 2 of them
crank start first time usually very cold in winter i have seen some with a cushion on the saddle never saw a cushion this was in south otago nz
Happy father's day to all. Hope you all got to spend it with your loved one's.
Happy Fathers Day to Senior! Enjoyed the video!
I like these work videos as much as the restoration ones, actually more. It's good to have some variety.
Thanks
That's a lot of spoon wood!
As I watched, I thought of the nice equipment being skillfully used. As I watched, it became apparent how much work is involved that the machinery made possible. I was thinking about a big hand saw when Senior was starting to section it off and a team of horses to roll the stump. My grandfather was born in 1901, he became very good with repairing and maintaining Altman Taylor steam traction engines and the other equipment they used as horses were being replaced. I wish I would have had the sense to learn more from him but I did get some of the the basics down. When he retired and moved to the cabin on Ten Mile lake, near Walker, he discovered that he could have as much work as he wanted, working on boat engines. Grandma could sure cook fish, never had any better. Thanks for jogging the memories!
Happy Farther’s day senior. Nice job getting Squatch Grafting For Two days rather than one 👊🏻
Hi U 2, well, I learnt something new - bark harvesting. Guess it could be done yearly. Presumably used for shelter building in years gone by?
Back when i did mountain man reenacting we made various types of buckets from birch bark.Stiched with rawhide strips and waterproofed with beeswax and pitch.I went in to selling them along with leathergoods at Rendezvous.
Pappy!
You sure do have beautiful soil out there, I love the H content going to be building one from 3 this winter. Keep safe Tim
Superb fathers day activity. I wish my father was alive to see me do now all the work that I do. I hear the hydraulic pump making a buzzing noise? Is there a mystery air leak now in the hydraulic system? Some pumps tend to be on the whining side and noisy. In other cases it's a indication of a failure to be discovered.
@@squatch253 I had a hydraulic pump that made the same buzzing/whining noise and it had a internal leak+ sucked air from the engine side. Might not be your case at all since your pump was rebuild. However do keep note of when the Super M engine is cold and look at the oil dipstick level. If it stays the same and dose not rise above the full mark. Your probably golden. If it dose start to slowly creep up and the oil dose not smell like gasoline. You are starting to go into the danger zone. Meaning the hydraulic pump is internally leaking into the engine. Alternatively it could be a bad connection or seal. Don't want to scare you but I had a engine almost ruined cause of a hydraulic oil leak and I'm now very paranoid with things like that. LOL
Canned Damascus tree! Peel off the outside just like Forged in Fire, lol.
Learn something new every day😊
I have peeled quite a bit of bark off trees, but I have never gotten it off when the tree has just been cut down. I end up pulling it after the tree has been down for at least a year. I have heard that it is possible, but I have not been able to get the conditions right to do it. The bark I have peeled is Western red cedar. My cabin and woodshed use it for siding.
The first part of this video looked a lot like what happens when my sons help me out. Son standing there with the electronics while Dad does the heavy lifting.
I kid! I kid! 😂
No, I know you were doing plenty while the camera wasn't running. And really, it's pretty nice when my boys come spend time out in the garden with me, even if they're just standing and chatting while I work.
Good stuff, dude. I like seeing the tractors look good, but I like seeing them working even more.
I love my Kubota L4701 and my BH92 backhoe. fun seeing what can be done with one when you have dirt rather than 4' down basalt "gravel". Yes feet not inches... actually a fair amount of ledge too. Amazing how well stuff grows in this mess
Enjoy him while he is with you. Film as much as possible.
Happy Father's day 😊 .
So what applications do you use the birch bark for? I know it's waterproof and birch has medicinal properties. Nice you take care of Sr's needs. I never had a father relationship like you do and I envy you.
Treasure every moment you get to be with you farther because when they end you will miss them.
Looks like deer fence (we call them hog panels in Iowa) on that garden. Rabbits must get lead.
Happy Father's Day take care,I look forward to seeing the next video 😊.
Happy Father Day Sr. 😎👍
I learn something every time I watch one of your videos. Granted, I will probably never NEED to know any of the D2 tricks I've learned nor how to bark a beech tree as they font exist down here, but now I know.
Yeah, if you leave the intermediate layer alone, the bark regens pretty fast (at least on the ones i've seen).
I don't have them, but my brother's neighbor has 30 of them lining up the border line and every few years we help him debark them. I heard it helps force the tree to stay "juvenile" and last longer, and indeed, these trees look far better and stronger than stuff i see in forests or other people's properties.
The bark is smoother, it has a lot more meat, close to what that the intermediate layer on yours did on the ones that split and it's very elastic, springy almost. They certainly pop the moment we run the knife and it's actually quite a chore to score the bark all the way down fast enough so it doesn't split unevenly. I'm usually at the bottom, my brother's in the middle, my neighbor on top on the ladder and we run the blades instantly the moment the one above reaches our position, basically cutting in one go.
It's neat stuff, and i love the smell. I like my Paulownia smell better (i know some people hate it) but this smells really nice.
FYI, if you "feed" the trees on their opposite side of the garden, they'll disregard going for it in favor of the feed. We use a modified caulking gun with a stainless steel needle and inject nutrients (the usual mixes for tree husbandry, nothing special) about 1.5 meters away 20 cm deep. They'll send less if any roots toward the side you want. It's useful for garden stuff, but also if you start seeing them grow towards one side too much, thus endangering the stability. You guys don't have them near houses, in this case, but that's a good way to prevent them from toppling over a house in windy weather.
Heck, I was screaming RD6 once Senior pulled out the Farmall.
The torque monster would just have thought about a sweat bead....
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So what do you make out of the bark you make paper something like that? I hope your father and you are having an excellent day
Great work gentlemen.
Thanks for sharing! You are a good son! We made it to Red Power Roundup Thursday. We got to Meet Pete. I told him that I thought you are using the same paint on your H and he said he should send you a bill for that. We had a great time chatting. A real nice guy!
I hope to get to meet you yet this year. I am guessing you are done with shows for the year? Let us know. Now that I have a mobility cart I can get around much better.
Happy Fathers Day Sr!
Great joint project
Senior seriously needs a bark spud.
A Sawzall with a 12" Diablo pruning blade would be good for those stump roots. Dirt doesn't bother that blade for quite a while and it cuts fast.
Happy Fathers Day Senior
Should have used a cat to move the stump.
start cutting that root system off put it all on the fire pile.... nice bond fire material.
I've looked and looked............what are the plans for bark skin?
Willl that garden fence keep out the moose?
Always great to see how careful you and senior are NOT to damage the tractors.
What did you use to pull the tree down?
Two days of free labour 👍
My dad had yrs of free labour.😆 Remember when I was 14yr old put up hay that summer break. I made 50$ 😁
It would seem that pulling birch skin off the trees is the farm equivalent of bubble wrap.
Apparently you can tap Birch sap like maple. It takes a lot more sap but is supposed to be better
Nice video my friend ❤♥❤❤🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜
A very creative idea ❤❤♥❤🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜
The rain changes the bark and temperature hot sun we do the same thing on big birch for fire starter 8 to10 long sheets want to make video but cutting ice damage pine thanks U 2
Happy Dad's day Senior!
Great video....question:
Why are you peeling the bark?
Are you really going to make a canoe?
--Juanster
Are you going to use the bark as firestarter or make a canoe with it? And happy father's day senior!
A nice change of Pace Toby doing some work around farm with your Dad it doesn't get a lot better than that
Very interesting. Is there a market for the bark?
Would love to see the milling of these logs.
K8nd regards Christiaan
👍
Interesting red dirt in your area.
Very interesting 😊😊😊👍👍🌅
What do you use the bark for ?
Happy Father's Day, all two of them!
If you burn birchwood, will it crack like pine and shooting sparks? I have lots of dried birch lying around in my area and want to use it in a firepit without scaring the neigbours...
Thx for the vid!
👍👍👍
No. Birch burns like a hardwood. It doesn't have the flammable pitch which makes pine and spruce crackle and spark.
I think it's time for the Torque Monster to come out of hibernation.
Nice video! The power of hydraulics are a wonderful thing!
Question for you- i see all the brush and undergrowth around, do you have problems with poison ivy? That is an ongoing battle here in Michigan. How do you handle it, if so?
Why are you peeling the bark? SO the wood will dry faster?
Do you have any storage procedures for the carburetor when you don't plan to use the tractor for a few months?
Super C would have pulled that stump 😂😂😂😂
What saw is that in the video? To me it either looks like a Dolmar or Olympyk. I do the same for Father’s Day. Labor is a good present.
@@squatch253 my dad has a 264 (I believe) from the 80s so I’m familiar with them.
Would it be more cost effective to grind the stump rather than digging and filling?
@squatch253 Sorry, I meant if you owned the grinder.
What brand of chainsaw is that ? You guys have to much fun. 👍
Why did yous peel the bark off?
The sm can't pull its self out of a mud puddle.
Not Dad’s first time with a chainsaw. 😊Steve or yours
I’m late to the party, but are there plans for the bark?