Felling and Chainsaw Milling Junk Trees (Quaking Aspen.) Is it worth it? #28
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มี.ค. 2021
- Camping in the woods, felling trees and chainsaw milling is just about all that gets done at Ringworm. This property is mostly covered by cedar, but also many large, old, rotten quaking aspen (trembling aspen) that need to come down in order to keep the area safe. This was the final try at milling it with a chainsaw to attempt to make serviceable lumber.
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Not boring at all! You need to remember that most of your viewers would like to be there working with you!
Dont question your worth. Just keep going and we'll keep watching.
Not boring at all to me. I find this oddly refreshing. Keep the videos coming please!
You post a video, I'll watch. No matter what you are doing, a day in your life, big builds, etc. you add great humor and that's what keeps me coming back. Thanks for another great video!
I love that you say "I'm just having fun. I'm not homesteading. " When we loose our ability to laugh and have fun life is boring. Keep it up!
A day in a life of Ringmorm /Ryan is something I'd watch.
Keep making 'em! Many of us stuck in the city, or not in the woods, enjoy the vicarious living. In fact, I was wondering last night when the next Ringworm would appear.
Cool! Now I can't wait for spring to get here so I can bring my computer back out and edit videos right here. No more of this once-every-couple-week crap.
I really enjoy your everyday life the way you interact with the camera and the people that's on the other side of it. So keep making your everyday videos along with the big projects.
thanks for ur efforts in changing up the videos a little bit, i like both formats actually
glad u never suffered any injuries the time that youve spent there
Glad you like 'em.
I've definitely saved more money on band aids than I expected this year!
75% of us like hard work! We can sit here all day and watch you do it. Need more suggestions on how we would have done it if we were ambitious enough to get off this couch and do it.
I'm writing this comment during your lunchtime and am still watching the rest of it having a good time!lol You're a natural content creator! I know this video is a couple years old already but cool to watch and see all you've done.
love this type.. showing your process for choosing and what types of trees you run into.. do more!! just found your channel and cant stop watching... went back to your beginning and watching them all
Your sense of humor keeps me coming back for more. Keep the videos coming.
It never ceases to amaze me how good shelter feels when the weather is bad, even if you could see through the walls.
I have 50 acres of these same garbage trees and this was a great video.
Keep making them.. im binge watching them all in order.
Sorry for a boring comment but I'm hooked here. So far I've enjoyed every one of your vlogs...
I wouldn't say it's boring exactly, one can play it while doing something else and still be entertained by such an interesting funguy!
You remind me of my nephew, always ready for an adventure.
I made a shed using aspen lumber i ripped with my chainsaw mill. It has lasted 27 years so far.
The tripod getting hit was cool, good humour 👍🏻
Day to Day is Great! To me that's what the Chanel is about.
This channel is one of my favorites on TH-cam. My wife and I both love the easy going style of your narration. The project builds are fun, and so is this "daily" type.
Thanks Ben. It's fun to imagine a husband and wife watching the videos together. For some reason I always just picture single dudes finding them worthwhile.
@@survivingringworm2202 I’m a married woman watching, sharing the ideas to apply on our property with my hubs! I wish i had the strength and stamina to do stuff myself, like you do!
I subscribed. I’m working on my escape plan at 58 years old.
Love your channel, I'm from Adelaide, SA, Australia & just love your forests, woods & what you do. keep up the good work x
Praying for you guys down under
Yes it is interesting to watch. You get a real sense of what it is to live out in the woods. People can’t really believe it’s always exciting out there. It’s a lot of work to make things from nothing. Keep it up
You make em we will watch them Big time, Ringworm ROCKS Big time What ever is the easy est way to go for you.
Keep it!:) I'm at Trinka Davis Veteran's Village, Carrollton, GA. It's run by the VA. I'm hoping to be out of here by late 2021. I grew up in MN. It's very entertaining!:) Semper Fidelis
Gotta love MN! My favorite place in the world is the Boundary Waters. Been there?
It’s amazing to watch for people who pay so much for what you can get for free! I was stressing about buying lumber and now I want to learn to mill my own wood.
How about setting up your mill under the lean-to where you parked the ATV. Rig a stout log beam overhead from which you could rig a come-along or two to hoist the logs onto your sawhorses for milling. Your back and knees are worth saving. Good daily life vid!
That thing is just too wimpy. Though pretty often I do try to imagine up a system that would allow the 4 wheeler winch to pick the logs up. Haven’t got it completely sorted in my brain yet tho.
I enjoy watching a "day in the life" videos and seeing the transformation of your property. Love your sense of humor too. You seem very "real" to me and I like the honesty.
Thanks! More coming soon.
Yes enjoying the videos. You make them I will watch them.
My suggestion for long scrap pieces of planks. Make swamp mats out of them to put in the muddy spots on the trail coming into camp.
A Day in the Life 👍🏻👍🏻
Life’s Ups and Downs, doesn’t get any better. 🤔😆
Just stumbled onto your videos. I love them.
Hi. Like the videos. All content helps me to focus on the good things about life. One day for one, can make more for many.
I love cutting down trees. So watching someone else doing it is almost as much fun. These trees you are cutting down make good lumber. The people here around Munising use them for sauna benches. They say this wood does not put splinters in your bottom. They also burn nicely as they are a hard wood but you have to dry them for a couple of years, unless you have a wood boiler. Keep the videos coming.
Def enjoyed the video. I am interested in the simple land management stuff as well as the exciting such stuff.
Not bored!
Good job Jack.
yup, I did'nt know the answer so I googled it... now I have more trivial information I did'nt have ... great fun lol
It's fun just seeing what today's adventure will be.
Its sometimes hard to find answers when you're not sure what the question is. Taking it a day at a time.
Take care
You are right. I do often stop what I'm doing and wonder "is this really what I should be doing right now?" Then because there is no answer and no way to find out, I just keep going.
15 in. Nope not bored! Pretty heart inside that one.
I enjoy your videos. I would like to see more on identifying trees and particular facts about each species. Keep up the good work!!
In Minnesota in the 80s they made a lot of Aspen log kit homes! They were beautiful!
Really! I wonder if it was the same species of aspen?
I have started to realize in the last couple weeks that not all of this type of tree is junk. It's just that the trees I am dealing with are old and no longer healthy so I'm lumping them in with younger trees that would likely produce some nice lumber.
Just keep doing what you do,it’s awesome,the worm 🪱 👊🏻👏🏻
Yeah yeah bring it on I like watching this stuff to
All is good. Thanks be safe !!!
It’s not boring. It’s interesting and you’re funny. Keep making the daily and the big projects. You could be the next Truman show!
Haha. Yeah. I do wonder quite regularly if anyone is in the woods peeping on me. Especially when stripping down for a shower. But then I figure, if they want to watch that train wreck, they can have at it!
I enjoy your productions. " It's all good, some just better than others ", lol.
this IS fun to watch, everybody wants to create their own life ring. you've got some lovely lovely stump shots bruh
Stumps look like a good start to a covered outdoor kitchen dining area!
Didn't think I was ever going to get around to taking these big dead trees down. But now I can actually build my kitchen!
@@survivingringworm2202 will be a wonderful project to watch!!!
Enjoyed it very much! Keep them coming! See you soon.
Your comments make it fun thx
enjoy watching you do good work
My Dad came from a lumberjack family from way back. The sound of a chain saw is music to my ears. Memories. Thanks.
Cool! I grew up going to the lake every summer so while the sound of the saw doesn’t have that connection, the smell of two stroke exhaust is like perfume!
@@survivingringworm2202 my father was French, ask us if we wanted to be Bush pilots. We said yes. Lol he show us how to pick up bush, log in French and pile it here. Very sneaky.
Ugh. Dads...
Keep doing what you do!! I enjoyed this immensely, thanks!!
i enjoy watching your everyday videos because i have stage 4 cancer and cant really do the things i used to do until i heal. all of your videos, as well as the "every day" videos, are interesting, and also inspire me to do something like this for mysef, in the future. thanks! by the way, i was born in Michigan and appreciate the the land and lakes there.
I like seeing this stuff more! Less manageable to watch in a sitting, so probably bad by TH-cam's algorithm's standards...But it feels more real! Like I'm actually there!
I’m guessing you are probably right about that. To make the algorithm happy, they should probably be a lot shorter and more often. Think I’ll move toward that this summer once I can bring the computer back out here and edit without having to leave the property.
Keep making them! I like watching them all.
Love it. Keep it coming!! I'm enjoying your outdoor life
I'd love to see weekly videos showing your past weeks adventures. Keep up the good work, my friend!
Love seeing the process. Plus your sense of humor, makes it enjoyable!
Loved it! Sometimes simple is best-est!
Love all your videos. Nothing boring about living the good life in the forest. Definitely want those widow makers down, good wind can ruin you and the day! Great fire wood if nothing else! Thanks for a great vid!
Honestly everything from tree identification to milling / building is interesting to me! Keep making the 24 hour vids!!
Thanks! Will start putting them out more often once it warms up too.
This Florida boy loves these video's so keep them acoming, daily tasks and big projects and bless you for doing them. I'm curious why you don't do the native thing and use a Teepee made from the local flora, long thin pines stacked in a cone shape covered with the local sod and greenery. A small fire would keep you warm all night. Opened at the top in summer and mostly closed in winter. Plenty of head room and no nails or screws needed, you have everything you need in nature and thousands of years of proven worth.
Not to get to meta on you, but I believe you are changing the world in an interesting way. First of all you are showing how it’s possible to live a very fulfilled life with almost nothing but a engaged and positive attitude. Secondly you are providing an example of that very rare sub species of a human being who is genuinely humble and realistic about their impact on the world and refuses to take themselves too seriously. This is a super constructive role model to those who find you!
What a nice thing to read. I certainly don't see myself as a model of anything except that of a guy that doesn't get much joy from anything but screwing around in the woods. Guess it's a bit hard to take yourself seriously when what you do every day is by no measure what the world would find "of use."
But then I never met an inspirational speaker that had a lasting impact on my life. On the other hand, I have met several weirdos that made me think, "yup. That looks about right."
Ya just never know who will find your way of living worth looking into, I guess.
Well posted, Rod. Very supportive post. Great to hear a positive from another Rod. Thanks.
@@rodrigodelaconcepcion7478 Thanks my friend!
I watch because you're entertaining. You're doing what I'd love to do. Plus I love your personality, humor, determination, the daily chores on the land. You want to see boring, just shoot a video of someone in an office working on the computer. Now THAT would be boring. Your video's are FAR from boring. That's why you have a few thousand views. Ya, it's fun to watch the daily chores. Interesting about those crappy trees, huh? Well then - make a lot more. I can hardly wait until the next one! I'm serious. I love this. I forwarded your link to my son and nephew cause they love this kind of stuff too! I'm getting old now, 70 and I still want to do this. I've been looking online at U.P. land. I've been there like 4 times camping. It's beautiful.
It’s not too late Susan! I mean, we don’t all have to go at this the same way, with chainsaws and ropes and flamethrowers. Just spending time in the woods under a tree in a lawn chair can easily be as pleasurable and building silly junk 12 hours a day.
@@survivingringworm2202 You're absolutely right! thanks for the encouragement! I'm not making excuses anymore. :)
Enjoyed the video. Keep them comming.
Recently found your video's and am hooked. Keep up the good work! I live in the deep country and I love this kind of stuff!🐓🦌🐔
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
YES ... keep - em coming .
Really like the big builds but also like the 24 hours day to day videos. Great entertainment for me. Keep up the good work and stay safe from Arkansas.
Ryan dude, absolutely loving your stuff!!! You're a very talented guy and I hope you keep at it! Greetings from NorCal
Fun to watch, keep cutting down the rotten trees, do what you want and your running commentary is entertaining.
I have been enjoying all of your videos keep it up
I like what I see you can tell you think about what you’re going and you’re being safe about it! Id be doing the same if I was 25 years younger!
Love your videos brother, stay happy my man!
It’s awesome work.
I enjoy all your videos, so far. I like to see what it takes to live the lifestyle you live and also how you spend time. I learn from everything you do. Even if it is wrong. I have a few channels I watch. They are all educational and enjoyment for me.
Keep going we enjoy watching.
Plenty wood for a wood burner /camp fire you could always sell it but transportation would be horrendous, or barter with the Woodpeckers for eggs, you've probably worked out I'm a little weird, I love work I could watch it all day. I would give you a hand but my spinal injury won't cooperate, pre injury, I was a commercial Tyre fitter, so I do know what heavy hard graft is, and I put in some heavy lifting from my late teens until my 40s, stay safe out there. I enjoyed the video.
Enormous bummer about the spinal injury. I’ve been laid up for the majority of the last month with spinal problems. MRI in a few days to find out what’s going on back there...
@@survivingringworm2202 sorry to hear that hope MRI gives you the answer to you problem, spinal surgery is such a gamble, as even successful surgery can leave long lasting problems, hope it goes well.
These posts are curiously interesting and even relaxing to watch. Like seeing the life style so different from city living. It’s refreshing to see someone living a life that works so well for them. btw - not boring inmo.
Thanks for the comment, Jim. Funny, after a while nothing about living out here seems out of the ordinary. How quickly we get used to our surroundings and forget how others live!
I totally love what you do brother I'm living in a 10 by 10 shed on 50 acres my brother and I are building a custom design mill and skidding out a road
Nice! What area of the country?
Yes do more... it is realistic and that’s what makes it interesting! Life is mostly little mundane things and seeing your life makes it interesting.
Keep it coming awesome you ask for ideas well they sound crazy a barrel sauna or old style wooden windmill ,lighthouse
Oh man. Lighthouse!
Both types of videos are great! Keep it up as I sit here writing code on another database project.
I personally enjoy all your videos so far , daily things , project programs , even the cooking parts . I’m fine with what ever you post . I mean man it’s like living every kids dream but as a adult , chainsaws ,big building blocks , fort building, camping it’s all cool Bud .
Thanks for sharing
Thanks so much. Very glad people are out there enjoying a variety of videos.
The way you described it, is just how I do- a playground for kids that use grownup tools.
I like each video regardless of the content. Keep filming and sharing.
Keep them coming. I enjoy watching, heck even my wife has really enjoyed watching your videos (where she wont watch many others I watch) and has started learning stuff also. We really enjoy your sense of humor, and always seems to catch us off guard. I have been following ever since the Deer Stand cabin. I love camping in the cold, my wife does not, so I get to kinda live vicariously thru you.
Thanks! You are the second person that recently mentioned watching with their wives. Blows me away! I guess I always just pictured single guys as the only viewers. Oh, and my girlfriend. But I pay her to watch.
@@survivingringworm2202 My wife and I just recently purchased 20 ac of solid trees. So I am trying to show her things that can be done fairly cheap an inexpensive with using what we have on the land and chainsaw. I grew up in the trees where she did not. She has been watching others for tiny cabin ideas, and yours was one that popped up that I showed her and she was immediately drawn in by your humor. So, keep it coming! I have to admit, I have done a tone of winter camping, but not winter living like you are doing up there. And there have been many things you have shown that I honestly never thought or being frozen when typically here in the Texas area, we thaw out during the day.
20 acres is perfect! On thing I have learned the hard way in respect to significant others- if you really want to get them excited about something you are really into, spend a good chunk of time up front making sure they are having fun. Even if you have to go out of your way the first half dozen times you go out there- do whatever it is she wants to do whether it’s picking flowers or hiking around or laying in the sun. If ya don’t make it enjoyable right up front, there’s no way to later change her view of the place/activity.
Just two cents from a guy that screwed himself over once or twice in that regard.
Great video.
i enjoy all of it.
thank you.
Thank you too!
These r great videos. Continue w them
I really like all you have done, keep them coming! Coyote´s in southern TN sound the same!
Great Video, loved it
Fascinating to see "real world" forestry with rotten trees, lightning strikes, fungi etc. The risk of barber chair etc must be extreme. I watched from beginning to end with interest. Thanks for sharing
Glad it kept your attention anyway. Barber chair is definitely something to watch out for. For that reason I always get well away from the tree as it goes down. No standing around to get a close up of the action.
Keep em coming dude
I like your daily video content too. Good job
You know your trees. They’re like neighbors.
Trees are like neighbors; sometimes you gotta take a chainsaw to them before they kill you. Is that what you meant?
Ryan, yes, just keep doing your daily tasks/chores. You lead an interesting life. Keep the Faith. Continue to "Ride to the Sound of the Guns!" And when you get there, "Keep Up the Fires!" Scouts Out. AATW!