I’ve been watching August’s videos from from the start and I love his work. And his teaching is a blessing to the new guys. So keep up the great work brother.
I really enjoy your videos. That green Ford is pretty sweet too! I have a '73 F250 Camper Special, in Bright Dark Blue Metallic. I've almost got her rebuilt and back on the road.
Nice work August and Joe! Its always good to break down the cutting techniques to us in the videos!! I love it! I always put the thought in my head and then execute the action!!! Your the man August!!!! ✌
Fascinating ! : ) Such good edits, and workmanship too of course ! Really appreciate you taking the time to go into the why and how. Sometimes I regret the opportunity I had to be an Arbourist in England. Thanks to you and Joe : )
Thanks for all the expert information, pro tips and techniques, and commentary! 21+ minutes! Good to see Joe out there working. All the best and prayers for Joe.
Did a stand of 60 assorted hardwoods a while back. Most had a hard lean towards a house, pool, and fence. Cut them all with a Swinging Dutchman multi- step cut. No rope in tree. All rotated about 160 degrees and dropped nicely much to the amazement of crew and onlookers. Fun steering and a good day for sure. Not recommended unless you have the years of hands-on and are very confident in your abilities. There is only so much holding wood. And it varies from species, time of the year, and condition. Be safe. Have a good teacher
It's really great to see you guys doing the thing! Thank you so much for the knowledge guys! Thanks for all the hard work to show the hard work we love.
Good throwing Joe. I also use the two hand cradle toss. Many people who don't understand will call it a granny throw, but they shut up when the line is installed 80' up.
Knowledge & Experience, in any Trade, Priceless. Knowledge is Power and You, August, Damien, Alex, & etc... Em-Power US ALL! Distracts me from my wife, of 40 years, Cancer Treatment. Thank U
+Damon Reuning Joseph Montferrand, dit Favre wood (would) have used his fists and boots in avenging the wrongs he and his compatriots were subjected to.
I don't have a Warn winch, but I do have a 5-to-1, and a few other pulleys, 15 to 1 on an 8 inch dead Silver Maple I didn't want to climb, plus it was between two sets of power lines and right next to a fence. Maybe someday I can drop'em like you guys, but for now I'll settle for the little victories. :)
Dang it August! You and Joe did some mighty "fine" work there. I very much enjoy watching it but, at the same time it can be a bit frustrating seeing you two make it look so easy. Thanks for another good lesson and for the effort to post it up. Be safe brother. Randy
Fun little job, needed to be done well and precisely, but not to tough, I have done a lot of logging of this sort, around houses, in subdivisions and MANY campgrounds, over the years visiting many places over and over. Some really good "shooting" men, all around, especially between the stump and butt. And yes a very good job also on the birds nest, he showed no fear and just plain got after it! It sounded like there was bug kill? or was it just cosmetic?
Nice precision! 👍👊🏼 good explanation of what I call tillering (nautical?) some think it’s bs. You and I just keep on steering em in 😉 be well Joe and August and family
Good morning August (and Joe), thank you for bringing us along throughout your work process. Nice to see you two guys working through the job together. Colour blind eh? That explains why you don't mind having' those buzzing orange things around you all day....;-) hehe. All the best, Shankers
Can you explain why you stay next to the tree during the majority of the time it's falling. I remember a video a while back saying you were going to explain but never found the follow up vid. All my co workers tell me to get out of the way once it starts going.
He's not felling in a forest where there's lots of branches overhead that could come down, so at most he might have a small branch hit him on the helmet, worst case scenario it scratches the helmet and he has a boo boo on his head for a day or two but there's not as much danger of a big branch dislodging and hitting him.
Makes sense dude! Great vid! Working in deep snow tomorrow doing the same thing. 30-40 hardwoods comin down!! Gonna be fun times!! Just gonna send it!! Lol
either good sense or the diabolical ramblings of a gravity savant! Actually really good thought process- Some colleges should be paying you to use these as teaching capsules. Keep up the good work!
Bens sawmill It is fun but it can also be very dangerous, you and your ground crew have to be on point and have your heads in the game every job. It's definitely not for everyone, I don't know how many guys have quit before lunch on us.
As i am watching these videos to learn, i have a question about the tree around the 9-10 minute mark. I can see the truck with the winch behind the direction of fall of the tree. Did you attach a pulley to some further tree in the direction of fall to re-route the rope? Was the reasoning behind this because it was harder for the truck to get there, to protect the truck itself or to obtain a better angle on the rope so that it would not have a tendency to "lift" the front of the truck? ( which would be the case if the truck was further in the direction of fall and the winch cable would be anchored straight to the tree on an angle ) Thanks in advance, the vids are a great resource for people trying to understand, keep em coming!
Robert Wood In this case it was more that I steered it to the left and then cut the fibers on the left to drop it in the slot. So I was in fact cruising past the lay and then diving into it. Many inexperienced people think that once it starts tipping you have to get out of there but there’s a whole world of things that can be done as it’s falling. If I had left the hinge alone and stepped back away from the tree it would have been breaking all the limbs off that cedar and missing the intended lay.
August, I love you. Well said, not to mention true, Lol. 😉 (I commented on someone else's video, just a few days ago, that the "hard and fast rules" of which way to "automatically assume" the swinging of wood "is supposed to happen"....are not such hard and fast rules.... lots of factors...torsion, undulating flex vs. RE-flex, Wind, species, wood health, timing, etc...)
totally makes sense....lol...i tried to explain the same technique on one of my videos last week....had to swing tree around light post...then back the ipposite direction to miss shed...lol...only way i could explain it was to show it in slow-mo
Yes ! Men don't have the same color palette that women have strangely enough ! Nice non-rushed felling with the toys !! What Pulley block was used ? Thanks.
LOL! "You didn't hit yourself in the back of the head (with the throw ball)" AH has done it again! It's a quarter til 11PM, and I just woke the cat with that laugh! (My cat is not a Monkey Beaver fan)
fantastic video,👍🏻 joe respect brother nice to see you knocking them over 🌳🌲August Hunicke🦁 you big hairy 🌲🌳🌲eating monster u 🤘🏻thanks buddy I'm LERNING so much from u so so grateful ❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻✌🏻️❤️🇬🇧
What is the thinking behind continuing to cut at the fibers at the back of the hinge when the tree is already on its way over , I’ve seen this in a lot of your videos and am curious as to why you do it ?
richie1014 I answered this in a response to Robert Wood, in the comment section of this video. It’s up in there somewhere as a response to one of his comments.
August Hunicke Ok cheers , just read comment and have to say in all my years felling trees I’ve never felt the need to do this , I’d love to see you do a breakdown of the physics of this as I would be interested , thanks .
hope the rain stays away AH, its in the teens here and cutting trees is more like ice sculpting. keep on saying out loud what runs through your head, good stuff. ps - if I do that they usually call security ;)
Just saw this video. Been watching buckin billy rays videos for a few year. Both channels have similar subs and good competition. Think his videos are a bit more raw. Less fancy music
always think some of this timbers to good to buck split n burn but i think the logistics of gettin it to your yard n milling the stuff could be expensive, pity. in the uk we dont get this stuff unless you get in favour with a faller....so many regs, but i guess you,ve got a lot of timber over there you can afford to burn alot
I need a job, I'm fairly new to arborist work. But 12 years high steel rigging and rope access, certified, 4 years Arbor work. I wanna do something new with rigging. Have a bunch of my own gear. No spurs or saws sine my biz partner fd me out of my 880 and 221
Makes sense to me. Only because I've saw this when steering trees myself. I've been scolded for doing many of the same things you do. Only because my bosses had less experience than I. You can understand that ?
COOL! Have you ever videoed it? And most excellent work with these trees. I love to see precise felling like that! I can do that myself, quite often, but not every time, yet. Just love to see it done!
I’ve been watching August’s videos from from the start and I love his work.
And his teaching is a blessing to the new guys.
So keep up the great work brother.
I really enjoy your videos. That green Ford is pretty sweet too! I have a '73 F250 Camper Special, in Bright Dark Blue Metallic. I've almost got her rebuilt and back on the road.
Nice work August and Joe! Its always good to break down the cutting techniques to us in the videos!! I love it! I always put the thought in my head and then execute the action!!! Your the man August!!!! ✌
August, your chill is contagious. Love your videos. Thanks.
Always a joy to watch a true professional regardless of the occupation. You make it look easy and we all know it is not.
Nice little fallin job,August, and well explained! Your description of 'steering' made perfect sense. Well done!
Fascinating ! : ) Such good edits, and workmanship too of course ! Really appreciate you taking the time to go into the why and how. Sometimes I regret the opportunity I had to be an Arbourist in England. Thanks to you and Joe : )
Thanks for all the expert information, pro tips and techniques, and commentary! 21+ minutes!
Good to see Joe out there working. All the best and prayers for Joe.
Amen
Hey August thanks for sharing your knowledge on these videos. I really enjoy them.
Did a stand of 60 assorted hardwoods a while back. Most had a hard lean towards a house, pool, and fence. Cut them all with a Swinging Dutchman multi- step cut. No rope in tree. All rotated about 160 degrees and dropped nicely much to the amazement of crew and onlookers. Fun steering and a good day for sure. Not recommended unless you have the years of hands-on and are very confident in your abilities. There is only so much holding wood. And it varies from species, time of the year, and condition. Be safe. Have a good teacher
It's really great to see you guys doing the thing! Thank you so much for the knowledge guys! Thanks for all the hard work to show the hard work we love.
Good throwing Joe. I also use the two hand cradle toss. Many people who don't understand will call it a granny throw, but they shut up when the line is installed 80' up.
Knowledge & Experience, in any Trade, Priceless. Knowledge is Power and You, August, Damien, Alex, & etc... Em-Power US ALL!
Distracts me from my wife, of 40 years, Cancer Treatment. Thank U
Great video. Have followed you since Working Man Blues. I have also learned a lot from you and improved my own tree game massively.
Great video love watching another tree guy doing tree work every chance i get keep it up man and like the new crane and cant wait to see it in action
BBR wood have used a Mac & Buckin' special. Great vid!
+Damon Reuning
Joseph Montferrand, dit Favre wood (would) have used
his fists and boots in avenging the wrongs he and his compatriots were subjected to.
Mechanics. Makes total sense. Great video, fun looking job. Where's Damien?
Good talk about steering. Makes perfect sense to me. Nice video.
I don't have a Warn winch, but I do have a 5-to-1, and a few other pulleys, 15 to 1 on an 8 inch dead Silver Maple I didn't want to climb, plus it was between two sets of power lines and right next to a fence. Maybe someday I can drop'em like you guys, but for now I'll settle for the little victories. :)
Your felling skills amaze me! I've learned a lot from your videos and always enjoy them! God bless!
Looks like you guys might have done this before ;) bullseye! Really enjoyed watching this video. Thanks for taking the time to document it for us
Dang it August! You and Joe did some mighty "fine" work there.
I very much enjoy watching it but, at the same time it can be a bit frustrating
seeing you two make it look so easy.
Thanks for another good lesson and for the effort to post it up.
Be safe brother.
Randy
Man that FORD truck is beautiful. Awsome vidios also. I'm thinking about making some. Any pointers?
Well done fun to watch someone who likes their craft
you guys are having too much fun. I love the vibe august!
Nice work August and joe love those kind of jobs 👍
Perfect sense. Great video. 2018 is of to a great start. Many thank's.
Fun little job, needed to be done well and precisely, but not to tough, I have done a lot of logging of this sort, around houses, in subdivisions and MANY campgrounds, over the years visiting many places over and over. Some really good "shooting" men, all around, especially between the stump and butt. And yes a very good job also on the birds nest, he showed no fear and just plain got after it! It sounded like there was bug kill? or was it just cosmetic?
What, you don't elbow wind your throw line....😁
Nicely done, all of it!
Thanks for the video.
absolutely bull's eye! shots clear as water from the mountains! - wow
Nice precision! 👍👊🏼 good explanation of what I call tillering (nautical?) some think it’s bs. You and I just keep on steering em in 😉 be well Joe and August and family
Makes perfect sense to me, thanks August!
Excellent display of Excellence at work...
Good morning August (and Joe), thank you for bringing us along throughout your work process. Nice to see you two guys working through the job together. Colour blind eh? That explains why you don't mind having' those buzzing orange things around you all day....;-) hehe. All the best, Shankers
Now, that's a real bumper. Distressingly hard to find these days.
Can you explain why you stay next to the tree during the majority of the time it's falling. I remember a video a while back saying you were going to explain but never found the follow up vid.
All my co workers tell me to get out of the way once it starts going.
Ryan Straker There is a time to run. That said, read my response to Robert Wood in this comment section.
Yes you are supposed to always get clear... not run but always get away from the stump a decent distance...
August Hunicke thanks for the explanation. I figured as much with your last cut that was the situation. Good work!
He's not felling in a forest where there's lots of branches overhead that could come down, so at most he might have a small branch hit him on the helmet, worst case scenario it scratches the helmet and he has a boo boo on his head for a day or two but there's not as much danger of a big branch dislodging and hitting him.
Makes sense dude! Great vid!
Working in deep snow tomorrow doing the same thing. 30-40 hardwoods comin down!! Gonna be fun times!! Just gonna send it!! Lol
Where you at, Mitch? We got rain and dense fog in Jersey.... getting rid of all this snow....woo HOO!😂
either good sense or the diabolical ramblings of a gravity savant! Actually really good thought process- Some colleges should be paying you to use these as teaching capsules. Keep up the good work!
What kind of moss is growing all over those Oregon trees?
some kind of Lichen, there are lots of different varieties.
As always. Love the videos. What kind of wedges do you use? Been wondering for awhile.
Samuel Hawks hard heads
Truly amazing
Fun times dropping trees all day, i've done a few jobs like this, good work August & Joe.
Steering makes a lot of sense to me . Nice filming .
Nice work!... Another Stellar video!.. HollyWood!...
How do you find a job like this? Looks like a lot of fun to me.
Bens sawmill It is fun but it can also be very dangerous, you and your ground crew have to be on point and have your heads in the game every job. It's definitely not for everyone, I don't know how many guys have quit before lunch on us.
As i am watching these videos to learn, i have a question about the tree around the 9-10 minute mark. I can see the truck with the winch behind the direction of fall of the tree. Did you attach a pulley to some further tree in the direction of fall to re-route the rope? Was the reasoning behind this because it was harder for the truck to get there, to protect the truck itself or to obtain a better angle on the rope so that it would not have a tendency to "lift" the front of the truck? ( which would be the case if the truck was further in the direction of fall and the winch cable would be anchored straight to the tree on an angle ) Thanks in advance, the vids are a great resource for people trying to understand, keep em coming!
best place for the truck away from drop zone which had steep terrain.
you cut the fibers on the left to steer it to the right, right?
Robert Wood In this case it was more that I steered it to the left and then cut the fibers on the left to drop it in the slot. So I was in fact cruising past the lay and then diving into it. Many inexperienced people think that once it starts tipping you have to get out of there but there’s a whole world of things that can be done as it’s falling. If I had left the hinge alone and stepped back away from the tree it would have been breaking all the limbs off that cedar and missing the intended lay.
I dig! Thanks!
August, I love you. Well said, not to mention true, Lol. 😉 (I commented on someone else's video, just a few days ago, that the "hard and fast rules" of which way to "automatically assume" the swinging of wood "is supposed to happen"....are not such hard and fast rules.... lots of factors...torsion, undulating flex vs. RE-flex, Wind, species, wood health, timing, etc...)
Great video, I learn something new every video.
Nice video for sure. Good falling, like seeing guys using proper falling techniques. Humbolt cuts vs standard
😪😴....... (Humboldt cuts....ARE standard cuts!)
Samuel Luria ya I wish everyone thought that... here in BC they are standard with professional fallers.
Excellent video and work.
totally makes sense....lol...i tried to explain the same technique on one of my videos last week....had to swing tree around light post...then back the ipposite direction to miss shed...lol...only way i could explain it was to show it in slow-mo
How much would the homeowner get for those logs based on average market values?
What are the stihls you're working with?
The murphinator would be proud....steering the fall with the backcut...you gotta feel em in
Makes perfect sense to me i have done it many times well done
Yo bro i have been lately watching your videos a lot its fcking satisfying to see the work you do well done :D love it. Greetings from Germany
Nice shot in between stump and the tree August.
Good job everyone!.
Yep, it makes sense. Thanks for a great tutorial.
Makes good good sense. Nice shot.
Yes ! Men don't have the same color palette that women have strangely enough ! Nice non-rushed felling with the toys !! What Pulley block was used ? Thanks.
Stephen Lawlor it’s a Proto type I’ll show it sometime.
August Hunicke : Ah ! Cool ! Looking forward to seeing that block in action !! Thanks again !
Don't wait too long to show it!... Now I'm itching to see it!!!
August Hunicke : ah ! The birth of "The Beaver Block" a historic event ! Looking forward to that ! Thanks Steve !
LOL! "You didn't hit yourself in the back of the head (with the throw ball)" AH has done it again! It's a quarter til 11PM, and I just woke the cat with that laugh! (My cat is not a Monkey Beaver fan)
Good felling August huniky and some nice wood there and it makes sense to me
fantastic video,👍🏻 joe respect brother nice to see you knocking them over 🌳🌲August Hunicke🦁 you big hairy 🌲🌳🌲eating monster u 🤘🏻thanks buddy I'm LERNING so much from u so so grateful ❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻✌🏻️❤️🇬🇧
Makes sense. Nice work.
What is the thinking behind continuing to cut at the fibers at the back of the hinge when the tree is already on its way over , I’ve seen this in a lot of your videos and am curious as to why you do it ?
richie1014 I answered this in a response to Robert Wood, in the comment section of this video. It’s up in there somewhere as a response to one of his comments.
August Hunicke Ok cheers , just read comment and have to say in all my years felling trees I’ve never felt the need to do this , I’d love to see you do a breakdown of the physics of this as I would be interested , thanks .
Great vid and excellent work thanks for sharing.
Cheers
Your Face Cuts, Always look like a Happy Face, from the side's. No wonder you LOVE, what You Do.
nice video mate👍
Whoa!! Thread the needle on that last one ☝️. Very nice job!! And yea makes sense to this guy 👈🏼
Just watched the A team vid cheesy as tho fun to watch lol' ps do more tree talk vids if u get the time all the best from 🇬🇧👍🏻
Make since to me! We call it the steering wheel technique! when you put the tree right where you want it to go. Peace,Health,Wealth & Happiness
Educational as always .Great Vid
Eye protection???
hope the rain stays away AH, its in the teens here and cutting trees is more like ice sculpting. keep on saying out loud what runs through your head, good stuff. ps - if I do that they usually call security ;)
Makes perfect sense here
Just saw this video. Been watching buckin billy rays videos for a few year. Both channels have similar subs and good competition. Think his videos are a bit more raw. Less fancy music
Gregs Mowing yeah he and I are the same age with similar backgrounds but a bit different too haha
Love the vid guys.
Saya suka...
I like...
Saya dari Indonesia...
I from Indonesia...
👍
Good job !
Tree reading at it's best:)
Yep thank you got it .
Makes sense !!
Makes sense to me! Lots of bulls-eyes there :-)
Awesome
I am terrible with throwing a line but got mad skills with a big shot.
Which chainsaw
Christoph Mayer Modded 460. I think Joe was using a 660 stock.
Thx August from Austria
Y'all are some Damn good tree fellers
Good looking truck
always think some of this timbers to good to buck split n burn but i think the logistics of gettin it to your yard n milling the stuff could be expensive, pity. in the uk we dont get this stuff unless you get in favour with a faller....so many regs, but i guess you,ve got a lot of timber over there you can afford to burn alot
roofin tony this is all going to the mill.
nice 1 theres a lot of match,s there
roofin tony haha,
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nice 1
Nice Drops. Make sense to me 😉 Greetings
it makes sence ..
I need a job, I'm fairly new to arborist work. But 12 years high steel rigging and rope access, certified, 4 years Arbor work. I wanna do something new with rigging. Have a bunch of my own gear. No spurs or saws sine my biz partner fd me out of my 880 and 221
Ye makes sense. Lol takes alot of trees to learn to steer tho buddy. ALOT .
It's dangerous to be this good at something. It is very entertaining though.
Hey man I love your video editing poor choice music and a little laxidasical on the exit when you drop something like that
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Nice shootin you guys! Great stuff as always.
Hat down, gentlemen.
Makes sense to me. Only because I've saw this when steering trees myself. I've been scolded for doing many of the same things you do. Only because my bosses had less experience than I. You can understand that ?
Mike Laporte haha, yeah.
You really should build yourself a pvc spud gun for shooting that throw ball into the trees.
selador11 I have one but I don’t need it for these low attachments.
COOL! Have you ever videoed it? And most excellent work with these trees. I love to see precise felling like that! I can do that myself, quite often, but not every time, yet. Just love to see it done!
selador11 Lots of times, here’s one…
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Big Shot® 😉
Ausgezeichnet!!!! Thank you! :)