Depends on the part of the world you are in. In Europe we are encouraged to leave dead standing trees and fallen trees as they are an essential part of a health forest/ wood. They provide a lot of habitat for insects and birds proving shelter and food. I totally understand thinning trees and removing diseased trees.
@@edpikestone6800 Completely correct. Habitat for insects, fungi or soil in the making, nothing wrong with leaving a tree to rot on the ground. It's all about being selective which you can tell Marty is.
@@edpikestone6800especially since more deadwood and biomass covering the forrest floor in all stages of decomposition increases the ability to hold water making the trees still growing more resilient against pests. This is particularly relevant to commercial pine-tree monocultures which are dying off at an alarming rate in Germany. I don't think Marty's forrest is anywhere near that risk given the abundance of water and humidity in the area and the fact it gets "disturbed" every two decades or so.
@@eriklarson9137 Whole bunch of dumb liberals that love to create forest fires. Fire burns longer when there is available fuel. Dead trees and dead mass on the ground burns for a very very long time. Peat Bog Fires burn really really long. Let's just create a huge uncontrollable mass of kindling to be absolutely sure we destroy every damn tree in the forest when there is a fire......... Short fires are somewhat ok, long fires are devastating. But hey they like to drink the moron cool-aid
@@Sgt_Kilborn I always thought Marty was a strange visitor from another planet, who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.
Man that winch is a beast. I'm always impressed at how much work they can do. They can be hard to work on and costly too, but they pay for themselves once they're in working condition.
Every little boy’s dream. Lots of heavy equipment to play with and lots of needs and opportunities to keep them playing. My fil had a 1952 D7 Cat with that winch. He could pull huge Hemlocks and Douglas Firs long distances up steep ravines out on the Olympic Peninsula and I don’t think I ever heard that engine above an idle.
I love the way the dozer is on idle and just pulls that wood like it was feathers. Also, I love the sight of a well kept winch cable and snatch block. That's what we call them here. Gotta love them for increasing your mechanical advantage and getting into places to let them do the work for you. Good job Marty.
Still referred to as Snatch Blocks in the UK and many parts of Europe as well. That's the actual wording and how they're listed in equipment catalogues. They have more uses than just directional pulling, they also get used if you want better control of winding speed, and other things as well. One of the simplest ways of providing mechanical advantage that exists. The difference between a Pulley block and a Snatch block is, the Pulley block does not have the opening gate.
I used to burn wood, lots of it in an outside boiler. I installed the boiler and did buy some wood but I tried to cut as much as I could myself. All that work on my body was killing me as I had a serious accident in 2004 where I, bu accident crushed myself with a Bobcat loader. It left me paralyzed for years but somehow my nerves reconnected enough so I could walk again. That's when I started burning wood again. Funny part is I miss it still today. Please stay Safe Marty as accidents are always looking for a place to strike a guy.😅😅❤
I wonder if you've considered removing one link, growser from the loose track to tighten it up? It can always be put back on if you come by a replacement track some day. This method makes the Dozer safer in all conditions. 😊
As the video progressed, you became more and more ambitious. At the beginning, you pulled two trees at a time, then towards the end, you pulled half the forest at once.
Brilliant! The Old Girl didn't even break a sweat with that easy-peasy job for her, saving a back-breaker for you! If you ever had an old puriri fence post or a decent piece of dry pohutukawa to cut up, you'd have a match for manuka heat-wise, but manuka is far more plentiful and firewood merchants charge a premium for it. Thanks for sharing, Marty.
Some folks may not consider the additional work required to film and edit this video. In addition,, Marty had to lug that huge pulley, chainsaw, chain, etc. and the number of trips, back and forth. Lots of work, made much easier by the dozer. I can also appreciate how smoothly and easily the cable freewheels out on that which. Impressive!
Having gear like that makes it so easy and so much fun. Burning poplar here, having access to all that manuka would like being in heaven. Enjoyable as ever, thanks Marty.
Mr Marty you should look in to Geothermal heating and cooling. It is very expensive in the States because you need to hire someone dig up a trench and buy the hoses that run underground. And you would need and old window ac unit to modify into your heat pump. You have the digger and the land. I believe if you install this on your land you wouldn't have to burn a tree again.
Hi! love your channel! I am always glad to see your notifications come up because I know it is going to be something interesting and informative! Thanks for sharing! George from Florida, USA
I don't know what subconscious itch your videos scratch for me, but as a guy living in an apartment in Southern California , i've become addicted to your channel. One of my favorites on all of YT.
Mr Marty - ur videos are such a joy and relief from the cesspool of TH-cam, where political division, sensationalist news stories, and hostility thrives
@7:20 - This is a good job for a snatch block. Any bloke with a wire winch has a couple hanging about. Smarter Every Day has a great video about snatch blocks. He LOVES snatch blocks. If you have seen it, you understand.
Real, that's what I enjoy about this clip AND this channel. The fact that the equipment is OLD and second hand most of the time with the addition of some good old Kiwi ingenuity to get it running THEN putting it to use in a true and sensible way. And the jobs are (perhaps) a little bland and not as show-boaty as some channels but are much more real to us normal people, and yet still so good to view, what's with that? Love it!!
Great Video Marty T, I would debate which trees are the weed? the manuka or the pines, and fair bit of sweat and skill in this Video! thanks for sharing
Marty I’m a Kiwi living in Japan and I have been following you for a few years and I noticed in the background you have an Audi sitting there , I messaged my nephew and said it looks like his one he had … long story short , you brought my nephews car off of him and he was stoked to see it again … small world
well that took me back to my youth.. nice bit of clearing there Marty. the old dozer still has no trouble at all. great to see those old machines still working, you too mate, don't stop like i did, things start to seize up..
Wow, that's a seriously powerful winch! I love watching your videos, whether it's fixing and refurbishing old machinery or forestry stuff like this. You seem to know everything about everything! I know nothing about any of this, but it's fascinating to watch somebody who has endless patience and ingenuity to do anything that's required for the job. Ian in London, UK
I don't know what it is, but I've always loved cutting up trees, splitting and stacking firewood. Even if it's not for me, just something relaxing and satisfying about it.
As I walk, crawl, creep, and scrabble towards my 80s, I find it increasingly impossible to do any log cutting at all. The pole reach electric cutter is a challenge for my arms, and I challenged it yesterday until the battery ran down. Seeing the effortless way that bulldozer winched whole groups of dead or dying trees out of the forest amazed me. It was wonderful to see, though I suspect the machine was only a comparative youngster in years, now it appears to be right at home in its second, or would it be its Xth working life?
Man that is steep. If you was winching one tree at a time I wouldn't even bother to watch video, but since you was putting a strain on the drive train, it was fun to watch, looks like good firewood to, I'll have to google that tree. I wont be cutting up firewood til October.........
Hi Marty, Grandpa Chris from London here, you live in a very different world to the one of concrete and steel that is London, as a farm bred boy, I miss the country living, I’m a bit too old for that now, but I have happy memories of gathering firewood from my school days. Thanks for rescuing the Old Iron.
I don't know how long that took but you socked away a good bit of firewood there. That dozer winch makes things so much easier than it would be otherwise.
So happy to see you back hope you and your family are doing well and you mate c u in the next video take care and all the best mate. Great work as always mate
This is by far my favourite site! I worked In earthmoving and driving trucks in my 30-40s. I’m an old fart at 78 and remember that older machinery and the fun(?) of working on it yourself or with a good mate.
I used a 10 tone Garwood military winch with 500 ft of 9/16 " inch cable on it with 6 choker cables of 6 ft, 8ft, and 10 ft so the load would not be a big solid front. Load hung up one day and the truck was rear achored to keep it from sliding forward; I realized I was having trouble when the truck tried to roll over while suspended in the air. With the chockers; the logs could be laying down and chains area pain in that position. Cable ends will slide under if any clearance is there. and fasted together fast. Did over 60 cords a year for 15 years witha 345 cu. in. engine in a International Travellette .
We had a swamp with Manuka growing in it, nothing that size at all. This was Eastern Southland in the 60's. By mid 70's all the manuka was gone. A blight went through all the stands of the native stuff and decimated it. Brilliant fire wood too. I am in Aus now and would like to turn some bowls out of the wood but alas it's not to be. God bless.
Easy when you know what you are doing. Having the right equipment helps as well. Nice to see the family helping out as well. The dog keeping everybody on their toes too. Good job mate. 👍
Very nice job of skidding logs out sir, nice to have the equipment to allow you to do that, the wisdom of refurbishing old equipment comes to light here on this project. Thanks for the video young man.
See him pull that cable with 2 fingers. I'll bet everything on that little dozer works the same way. This dude has forgot more about fixin stuff than most folks ever knew.❤⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My father was an operating engineer. He always said that a dozer without a winch was just scrap iron. They certainly make even a small dozer much more useful.
When on the Haast back in '94. We burnt some green nuky, it burnt that hot, the heat went through the 4 inch concrete and started to burn the ply floor 😮😮. Good job, well done, Marty...
Hi Marty , the old crawler is coming in handy, quite a good winch by the looks of it, thanks for another interesting video mate, stay safe, best wishe's to you and your's, Stuart UK.
Working smarter, not harder, is a great plan. Thanks for another wonderful video, always looking forward to the next one. Nice to see the family, including the pup. Great stuff Marty!
Without feeling the leaves, I can’t be sure, but they look like Kānuka rather than Mānuka. The way to tell is Kānuka leaves are soft to feel. Mānuka leaves are very scratchy. They look much too big and are multi-leadered to be Mānuka. Great firewood - I’m envious!
Always interesting to see the odd mix of old british and american made equipment in New Zeeland and Australia. Really interesting blade setup on that td9, i do wonder why they ever needed it to go up so high, pushing trees?
great to see someone willing to make sure dead or dying trees don't end up a forest fire hazard and help themselves keep warm at the same time
Depends on the part of the world you are in. In Europe we are encouraged to leave dead standing trees and fallen trees as they are an essential part of a health forest/ wood. They provide a lot of habitat for insects and birds proving shelter and food. I totally understand thinning trees and removing diseased trees.
@@edpikestone6800 Completely correct. Habitat for insects, fungi or soil in the making, nothing wrong with leaving a tree to rot on the ground. It's all about being selective which you can tell Marty is.
@@edpikestone6800especially since more deadwood and biomass covering the forrest floor in all stages of decomposition increases the ability to hold water making the trees still growing more resilient against pests. This is particularly relevant to commercial pine-tree monocultures which are dying off at an alarming rate in Germany. I don't think Marty's forrest is anywhere near that risk given the abundance of water and humidity in the area and the fact it gets "disturbed" every two decades or so.
American liberal I see...
@@eriklarson9137 Whole bunch of dumb liberals that love to create forest fires. Fire burns longer when there is available fuel. Dead trees and dead mass on the ground burns for a very very long time. Peat Bog Fires burn really really long. Let's just create a huge uncontrollable mass of kindling to be absolutely sure we destroy every damn tree in the forest when there is a fire......... Short fires are somewhat ok, long fires are devastating. But hey they like to drink the moron cool-aid
For those that do not know, Marty t was a forestry worker so he knows what he is talking about, and is a damn good guy to boot!!
I've always wondered what his background was. I honestly thought he had been a diesel mechanic or something
@@Sgt_Kilborn I always thought Marty was a strange visitor from another planet, who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.
@@Sgt_Kilborn he's quite capable at what ever he does from machining to electrical he's no stranger
Doesn't matter wether he knows what he's talking about if its his land, can do with it as he pleases
That good guy certainly comes across!
Man that winch is a beast. I'm always impressed at how much work they can do. They can be hard to work on and costly too, but they pay for themselves once they're in working condition.
I'd have bet money he was asking too much of it, but, by heck, it made easy work of it.
Greatest feature of all of your videos is NO ANNOYING over lay of music. Just the pure sounds of machinery and nature.
Every little boy’s dream. Lots of heavy equipment to play with and lots of needs and opportunities to keep them playing.
My fil had a 1952 D7 Cat with that winch. He could pull huge Hemlocks and Douglas Firs long distances up steep ravines out on the Olympic Peninsula and I don’t think I ever heard that engine above an idle.
That firewood makes me drool, don't get me started on the winch and snatch block. Thanks for capturing this Marty.
I love the way the dozer is on idle and just pulls that wood like it was feathers. Also, I love the sight of a well kept winch cable and snatch block. That's what we call them here. Gotta love them for increasing your mechanical advantage and getting into places to let them do the work for you. Good job Marty.
Haven't heard the term snatch block for many years. We called them that ( New Zealand)
@@KeithStewart-zn8mgwe called them snatch blocks in Canada as well, when I was young, back in the 1980s
@@TokyoCraftsman I worked in the Alberta oilfields for 25 years. Yep. Those were the days.
Still referred to as Snatch Blocks in the UK and many parts of Europe as well. That's the actual wording and how they're listed in equipment catalogues. They have more uses than just directional pulling, they also get used if you want better control of winding speed, and other things as well. One of the simplest ways of providing mechanical advantage that exists. The difference between a Pulley block and a Snatch block is, the Pulley block does not have the opening gate.
@KeithStewart-zn8mg here in my part of the United States we call it a snatch block in the off-roading community
The power of hydraulic winches is fantastic! Nice to see this old one put to good use.
I'm sure your dog appreciates all the work you do to get it new sticks to play with.
There's nothing I love better than good 'ol hard work. I can sit and watch it all day.
I used to burn wood, lots of it in an outside boiler. I installed the boiler and did buy some wood but I tried to cut as much as I could myself. All that work on my body was killing me as I had a serious accident in 2004 where I, bu accident crushed myself with a Bobcat loader. It left me paralyzed for years but somehow my nerves reconnected enough so I could walk again. That's when I started burning wood again. Funny part is I miss it still today. Please stay Safe Marty as accidents are always looking for a place to strike a guy.😅😅❤
I wonder if you've considered removing one link, growser from the loose track to tighten it up? It can always be put back on if you come by a replacement track some day. This method makes the Dozer safer in all conditions. 😊
Now thats how to get firewood! the power of that winch is fantastic for this! its great how fast it retracts too
As the video progressed, you became more and more ambitious.
At the beginning, you pulled two trees at a time, then towards the end, you pulled half the forest at once.
Why is it that Marty's videos are so relaxing to watch?
Fantastic. That dozer is excellent and the winch makes light work of those trees.
Are you still keeping the old English dozer Marty?
I'm thinking about selling it, I don't use it now Ive got the td9
@@MartyT Thanks Marty. I wonder what it would cost to get it to Melbourne?
Brilliant! The Old Girl didn't even break a sweat with that easy-peasy job for her, saving a back-breaker for you! If you ever had an old puriri fence post or a decent piece of dry pohutukawa to cut up, you'd have a match for manuka heat-wise, but manuka is far more plentiful and firewood merchants charge a premium for it. Thanks for sharing, Marty.
The bark on those manuka trees reminds me of what junipers look like.
Some folks may not consider the additional work required to film and edit this video. In addition,, Marty had to lug that huge pulley, chainsaw, chain, etc. and the number of trips, back and forth. Lots of work, made much easier by the dozer. I can also appreciate how smoothly and easily the cable freewheels out on that which. Impressive!
Having gear like that makes it so easy and so much fun. Burning poplar here, having access to all that manuka would like being in heaven. Enjoyable as ever, thanks Marty.
Old dozer still does a days work. You worked hard on the recovery and repair: paying for itself now.
Oh, the joyous irony! Last week - restore a log hauling arch. This week - haul logs without it, and make it look easy!
The TD92 had a turbo, great machine... add some ATF to your diesel, it will slowly clean your injectors...
How much ATF
Mr Marty you should look in to Geothermal heating and cooling. It is very expensive in the States because you need to hire someone dig up a trench and buy the hoses that run underground. And you would need and old window ac unit to modify into your heat pump. You have the digger and the land. I believe if you install this on your land you wouldn't have to burn a tree again.
"Challenged" Is the channel I watched for the "Ground Sourced Heat pump."
What a great bit of kit the bulldozer is.
Despite the age, that is one powerful winch.
Pulled the trees with apparent ease.
Hi! love your channel! I am always glad to see your notifications come up because I know it is going to be something interesting and informative! Thanks for sharing! George from Florida, USA
I enjoyed seeing the pulls get more and more ambitious. I could see your confidence in the winch and efficiency grow as it went. Good show.
Particularly liked the "three tree staggered pull".
That was impressive Marty, nice work
Congrats Marty T, on using ur Td9 Dozer to wrench-out some tree's for firewood.. lv ur white bulldog/mix..
Quite the efficient operation you have going mate, 5 trees at once being pulled up!
Cheers from Newfoundland 🇨🇦
Newfoundland, huh? I'll bet you get good fish for a fraction of the price we have to pay for it! $NZ40 per kg is not uncommon in supermarkets.
that makes us 2 Marty fans from NL
If you know someone with a boat, the food fishery is currently on, you can catch 5 free per person per day until September@@peteacher52
Sitting in Rocky Harbour at moment wondering if i should go out fishing.
@@IR-nq4qv sister has a boat up in Holyrood :)
Great bit of kit that dozer and winch, saves tons of hard work
Thanks
Thank you!
That TD9 is the business, what a winch, makes short work of hauling up those trees. that will keep the home fires burning!
Great to see someone else pull the chain off their saw too!!
very smart the way you manage your forest
Snap, crackle, pop! Lol😅 looks like the dog is having fun too!
Still my favorite YT channel. Thanks man.
I don't know what subconscious itch your videos scratch for me, but as a guy living in an apartment in Southern California , i've become addicted to your channel. One of my favorites on all of YT.
saving that bulldozer paid off. the idea that the trees should be carried by hand. powerful helper for various jobs. 😎👍
Work smarter not harder is what we learn as we grow older! That manuka wood looks like our cedar here in the South with the red inner color.
You always do an efficient job
Man Marty, what a mess, and what a job! But you can't beat FREE wood!!
Mr Marty - ur videos are such a joy and relief from the cesspool of TH-cam, where political division, sensationalist news stories, and hostility thrives
@7:20 - This is a good job for a snatch block. Any bloke with a wire winch has a couple hanging about. Smarter Every Day has a great video about snatch blocks. He LOVES snatch blocks. If you have seen it, you understand.
It's nice to see the dozer having a good retirement , just a little exercise to keep it mobile ,
Nothing quite like a Marty T video in the morning.
It must make a I've difference ha ing the right gear, that shackle block is great
Real, that's what I enjoy about this clip AND this channel. The fact that the equipment is OLD and second hand most of the time with the addition of some good old Kiwi ingenuity to get it running THEN putting it to use in a true and sensible way. And the jobs are (perhaps) a little bland and not as show-boaty as some channels but are much more real to us normal people, and yet still so good to view, what's with that? Love it!!
Great Video Marty T, I would debate which trees are the weed? the manuka or the pines, and fair bit of sweat and skill in this Video! thanks for sharing
With that hammer - ur nickname should be “Lighting”
… you never strike the same place twice
What a great haul of firewood. Hard graft for sure
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You and the old dozer made short work of that well done sir Marty
Marty I’m a Kiwi living in Japan and I have been following you for a few years and I noticed in the background you have an Audi sitting there , I messaged my nephew and said it looks like his one he had … long story short , you brought my nephews car off of him and he was stoked to see it again … small world
Haha nice
well that took me back to my youth.. nice bit of clearing there Marty. the old dozer still has no trouble at all. great to see those old machines still working, you too mate, don't stop like i did, things start to seize up..
Wow, that's a seriously powerful winch!
I love watching your videos, whether it's fixing and refurbishing old machinery or forestry stuff like this. You seem to know everything about everything! I know nothing about any of this, but it's fascinating to watch somebody who has endless patience and ingenuity to do anything that's required for the job.
Ian in London, UK
I don't know what it is, but I've always loved cutting up trees, splitting and stacking firewood. Even if it's not for me, just something relaxing and satisfying about it.
I love those days you can get the whole family involved.
Such a bad ass winch that came with that old tractor.
Helping nature along and staying toasty at the same time. Hard work but a win,win.
Excellent of on bridling multiple trees on each pull thereby saving time and money.
They look a bit like a jarrah tree
No stopping the old dozer or that winch 👍👍🇦🇺
As I walk, crawl, creep, and scrabble towards my 80s, I find it increasingly impossible to do any log cutting at all. The pole reach electric cutter is a challenge for my arms, and I challenged it yesterday until the battery ran down. Seeing the effortless way that bulldozer winched whole groups of dead or dying trees out of the forest amazed me. It was wonderful to see, though I suspect the machine was only a comparative youngster in years, now it appears to be right at home in its second, or would it be its Xth working life?
Man that is steep. If you was winching one tree at a time I wouldn't even bother to watch video, but since you was putting a strain on the drive train, it was fun to watch, looks like good firewood to, I'll have to google that tree. I wont be cutting up firewood til October.........
That old TD was an awesome find Marty, a beast of a machine
👍👍👍🏴🇬🇧
Hi Marty, Grandpa Chris from London here, you live in a very different world to the one of concrete and steel that is London, as a farm bred boy, I miss the country living, I’m a bit too old for that now, but I have happy memories of gathering firewood from my school days. Thanks for rescuing the Old Iron.
I didn't realize you were a kiwi, till you said what tree that was. Then I said to myself what the heck is that, lol. Good lord that winch is STRONG!
That's Very hard work.. good fire wood..
I love how your dog always wants to be close to you whatever you’re doing. He or she is lovely ☺️
Hi Marty from across the ditch it is great to see the use of waste dead trees. It is a pity that you couldn't mill the timber instead of firewood.
I was given a Snatch Block like that many years ago, by my wife's step dad. It sure is a handy thing to have when you need it.
Pulling out six trees, at an angle, at once. Yes.! This is the way to gather firewood.! Thank you for a great video.
Love the smell of fresh cut manuka in the morning!
I don't know how long that took but you socked away a good bit of firewood there. That dozer winch makes things so much easier than it would be otherwise.
It took 2 days, I got around 10 cubic metres of wood
@@MartyTwhat do you typically burn in a season?
Cheers fromTokyo.
So happy to see you back hope you and your family are doing well and you mate c u in the next video take care and all the best mate. Great work as always mate
This is by far my favourite site!
I worked In earthmoving and driving trucks in my 30-40s. I’m an old fart at 78 and remember that older machinery and the fun(?) of working on it yourself or with a good mate.
Marty you did a great job cleaning out the dead and dying trees from the your land at same time getting more firewoods for next winter.
Glad to see you checking the fluids, mate.
Another cool video. A day in the life
Those dozer winches really are something impressive, always neat to see them in action.
I used a 10 tone Garwood military winch with 500 ft of 9/16 " inch cable on it with 6 choker cables of 6 ft, 8ft, and 10 ft so the load would not be a big solid front. Load hung up one day and the truck was rear achored to keep it from sliding forward; I realized I was having trouble when the truck tried to roll over while suspended in the air. With the chockers; the logs could be laying down and chains area pain in that position. Cable ends will slide under if any clearance is there. and fasted together fast. Did over 60 cords a year for 15 years witha 345 cu. in. engine in a International Travellette .
Ultimate multi tool! Hauls wood whilst widening the road! Good work lots of firewood!
We had a swamp with Manuka growing in it, nothing that size at all. This was Eastern Southland in the 60's. By mid 70's all the manuka was gone. A blight went through all the stands of the native stuff and decimated it. Brilliant fire wood too. I am in Aus now and would like to turn some bowls out of the wood but alas it's not to be. God bless.
Love you Marty
Easy when you know what you are doing. Having the right equipment helps as well. Nice to see the family helping out as well. The dog keeping everybody on their toes too. Good job mate. 👍
Impressive as usual....grading and dragging at the same time
14:40 a masterpiece!!
Very nice job of skidding logs out sir, nice to have the equipment to allow you to do that, the wisdom of refurbishing old equipment comes to light here on this project. Thanks for the video young man.
See him pull that cable with 2 fingers. I'll bet everything on that little dozer works the same way. This dude has forgot more about fixin stuff than most folks ever knew.❤⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My father was an operating engineer. He always said that a dozer without a winch was just scrap iron. They certainly make even a small dozer much more useful.
People just don't realize how great some of the older equipment is perfect example with this wench dozer excellent job
Thanks Marty
Great clean up!! Plus firewood!!
When on the Haast back in '94. We burnt some green nuky, it burnt that hot, the heat went through the 4 inch concrete and started to burn the ply floor 😮😮. Good job, well done, Marty...
Hi Marty , the old crawler is coming in handy, quite a good winch by the looks of it, thanks for another interesting video mate, stay safe, best wishe's to you and your's, Stuart UK.
What a wonderful little machine, well worth the salvage effort... 👍👏😻
Working smarter, not harder, is a great plan. Thanks for another wonderful video, always looking forward to the next one. Nice to see the family, including the pup. Great stuff Marty!
I am in love with your bulldozer Marty!
Without feeling the leaves, I can’t be sure, but they look like Kānuka rather than Mānuka. The way to tell is Kānuka leaves are soft to feel. Mānuka leaves are very scratchy. They look much too big and are multi-leadered to be Mānuka. Great firewood - I’m envious!
Always interesting to see the odd mix of old british and american made equipment in New Zeeland and Australia. Really interesting blade setup on that td9, i do wonder why they ever needed it to go up so high, pushing trees?
They used it to put up power poles
As an expat Kiwi living in Oz I really appreciate how you can just walk around in all that undergrowth and never have to worry about snakes! 😁
Same. Definitely a thing.
Pigs on the other hand.
And are there no poison ivy, poison oak nor chiggers?
@@branchandfoundry560 Ongaonga, you know it's bad when you say it twice.
@@stewartlee8858 Yikes