I keep forgetting to add that, but I’m going to edit my pulls down to only the active pulls without any commentary. I’ll make them separate from the normal videos.
hello Brian I am so glad I found your videos. You have a great way of explaining things. Hopefully you will put one up of downing that pine tree. Pretty tough tree to bring down. Again your videos are great and you don't talk too much. haha
Your idea of using a fulcrum is excellent and it caused me to think "What could I use as a fulcrum?" and it brought to mind of using my cut up oak tree logs. I have 2' to 3' diameter logs that are about 16" to 18" wide that would work perfect as a fulcrum. So I am passing this suggestion on to you as my thanks for sharing your video with the public. I don't have a tractor but will be using a Come Along winch to pull down some trees. Again, thanks for sharing your ideas and this video!!
Good job. The a frame works bushes. When you are pulling out trees you don’t need it since the moment leverage is causing the roots to fail when the tree is a third to half way down.
I did that successfully twice, but this one just bent in half. I have the next one hooked up so hopefully it will be a better pull. Thanks for watching and for the comment.
Wow, the stump and all. I'd have a log or block by the base of the tree to be felled because that's a lot of stress on the trailer. But this is brilliant! :o
If you do like a Spanish Burton setup you can use less pulleys, or maximize the pulleys you have for a higher mechanical advantage. Love the setup and the videos!
Awesome videos !!! That fulcrum point you were mentioning, instead of using the trailer, what I find out that works best is a spare tire. The bigger the tire the better. A spare tractor tire will work perfectly. It will take horizontal force and redirect it vertical force. Trees are weak when they’re pulled out straight up opposed to sideways. Hope this helps! 😎
Thanks, man! What you said is kind of what I was thinking as well and I’ve been looking on Marketplace for an old used tractor tire and people have very high opinions of their rusty old tractor rims.
Anytime brother. The marketplace has a ton of them. Some used truck tires and some big tractor tires people use for CrossFit. I used my spare tire on my Ram 1500 to pull out a bunch of deep rooted bushes. Work incredible.
@@RJO27 what I was thinking about doing also was since I’m pulling the whole tree down, chaining a tractor tire around the trunk where the tire is standing up with the tread against the trunk. That way, when I pull the tree over before it hits the ground the tire will make contact and pop the roots out.
Definitely anchoring the tire to the tree is best. I tried it without chaining the tire to the tree and the tire was experiencing weight and slowly the strap on the treads started to slip off and the tire popped up and shot off to the side. I was thinking about finding a used tractor tire specifically designated for this type of use and cutting the tread off in the center of the tire so I would end up with a valley where the strap would lie and the remaining treads on the side would keep the strap from sliding off.
Thanks for your insight into the world of pulleys and mechanical advantage. My number 1 suggestion is you could use a large truck wheel rim as a fulcrum at base of tree. The trees should slide & roll 🎡 easier. "Man" your tractor will last you a lifetime - - - not digging stumps
Thank you for another excellent video. YES, PLEASE, make us a live broadcast of you pulling down trees. The idea of the trailer was nice because you were pulling along the tree "on wheels" and it was working very well indeed. If you want to make a fulcrum, do not use a pile of logs...they will move and spread under load (unless you peg them). You have to build a sturdy "A" frame that is going to be very heavy. You lean the A frame into the tree. Use the trees you pulled down to build the A frame. You will have to use the tractor to move the massive/sturdy A frame. For Ideas, please check the video by Sam Haraldson titled "Pulling a Stump Using a Truck and Mechanical Advantage" and Susan Dobbs titled "Pulling stump - 1". You referred the soil is too acidic and clayish, right? I suggest you speak with an agronomist and before you set those planting sites for fruit trees. I suggest you get a truck load of sand and a truck load of fine ground limestone. Mix them with the soil under those planting sites you determined for your fruit trees. Roots will go down into the soil and the trees will benefit from these improvements. About the chicken, I know it is not easy to do it, why not build the chicken coop on wheels + jacks so you can move it with the tractor from place to place? You can set a couple of fenced places, move the coop from one fence to the other and allow the soil to rest and regenerate some of the vegetation. This is how usually free range animal husbandry is made. It will keep your chicken happy every time the get to a new place with "greeneries". And you ought to get a pound and a flock of geese to roam around in your property...
Thanks for the great comment. I am using a special raised bed soil in the tree ring area that is 0.5m deep. The blocks aren’t perfectly tight so it won’t hold water in there. With the chickens, I am looking at a moveable coop, but I’m not sure that it’s necessary for only 4 chickens when I’m giving them 2000 square feet (185 square meters) of space to run around. I’m also curious why you say to have geese as well. What positive aspect do they bring to growing chickens? I’m trying to figure out when to have the live stream, any suggestions? If I were to use the logs as a fulcrum, I would hold them tightly together with ratchet straps so they couldn’t really go away while the tree was coming down. I have no idea if that will work, but it’s my current idea.
@@brainhomestead6 I always enjoyed flocks of geese moving around one's property. It gives a "look" of grace and elegance to a place. Eventually, once in a while, when the flock grows too big, a goose jumps into the oven... But, geese also need a shelter for the night, I suppose they can sleep with the chicken. I do not think the free range area you are allocating the chicken is enough, but I know little about chicken. About the live broadcast pulling down trees, I suppose you're going to need an assistant to change camera angles or even change between cameras. It will be a first in TH-cam history pulling down trees with pulleys live. I suggest you do it on an weekend and you can make a small 1 min video that announces the date and objective of the live event. This will allow more people to tune in for the real thing. The same assistant that operates the cameras, can read in loud voice the questions from the public and who knows you can even receive some money from superchats. Like this way you can live interact with your viewers. Probably I will miss the live event, I live on the other side of the puddle and time difference is 7 hours.
@@caotropheus I don’t like geese because they always like laying eggs in a bad spot and then the male is always attacking even if you’re 5m away. I was thinking about getting some chickens just for meat as well, but I haven’t talked my wife into that one yet! I’m going to try a few practice livestreams then and see how it works. The nice thing is that my new GoPro will stream directly to TH-cam.
This is reference to the twin stumps that was rotten. The problem was , you choked the stumps to high up. If it were still a solid stump the higher the better BUT if it's rotten, cat face, damaged area then you want to lower your pulling point. Maybe 3' max from the ground.
Brain I had to pull out medium sized birch tree today and I tried your method of not cutting the tree down and then pull the stump I used 4 snatch blocks on each side tree and the anchor The straps and chain were put 7 ft high the tree came down and the root was big Thanks
@@brainhomestead6 no water needed as it has been raining here The tree was 30 meters tall 31cm diameter the root was very big 1.5 meters after cutting off the tree I have learned a great deal from your videos thanks I’m up north by the Elba river stop by on your next trip to German
@@jamesbooth4239 Elba river….. you mean southern Denmark?! I’m always in the south of Germany. I either fly into Frankfurt or Stuttgart, then go south to Schramberg. Only 45 minutes from Lake Konstanz. If that tree was 30m, that was huge. How far did you have to pull it over before it fell down?
@@brainhomestead6 no not Denmark just below Hamburg I was lucky I was driving on the road I pull 30 meters The only problem is the top got stuck in a tree, the big trees pull out much better when you leave 5 to 7 feet of tree to the root ball, but it is hard cut the top of the tree. We need to find a safe way to do this I have 64 more trees to remove before June I used to work in Stuttgart
Just a heads up. Make sure to grease the snatch blocks with good high quality grease. We found out the hard way and are going to try some ngli 3 grease. I don’t remember the other specs but it is for large open gears and sliding surfaces. We had some nasty galling on the pins and sheaves of six of the ten snatch blocks. We were using number 2 moly that we use on the tractor loader pins.
I’ll remember that because I’ve been using the same grease on the snatch blocks that I use on my tractor as well, so I may need to revisit that decision.
makes sense. you pulled from 20 ft. up, compared to about 2 ft up (pulling a stump that has been cut short) literally gives you 10 times more rotational torque on the stump!
@@JimLogger-jo9ck I haven’t used those in particular. Honestly, I’ve had pretty good luck with the the 10 ton snatch blocks from Amazon. I still have never had one fail and they have grease fittings, so I keep them lubed up.
Another thing I would try not using the water just to see if it’s just a waste of water. Dry dirt won’t be so compacted and it should break into dry little pieces. Just a thought
Nice job! I tried to pull a tree similar in size to your first one. I wrapped the strap 15ft up on the tree. It bent the tree horizontally to the point that the strap slipped. The tree started splitting vertically too from the ground up. The roots never budged though. If I would have watered the ground and strapped it lower, it probably would have worked. I would like to pull a tree out similar to your last one (maybe a bit bigger in diameter) but I need to buy heavier pulleys, more straps and synthetic rope. My current rope pulley system has a rating of 7000lbs (which might be the breaking limit not working limit). What led you to believe you were only pulling 1000/1200lbs of force with the tractor? I connected a load cell to my simplicity garden tractor and was able to generate 700-800lbs of force on concrete before the wheels slipped so a tractor like yours can probably generate 5x that.
I thought it would be around that pulling force only due to the fact that the engine never dropped in RPM’s and there was never even an indication of tire slippage. I should put a force meter on it, but I don’t have one. It seemed pretty low force, but I have much bigger softwood trees to do next and then some massive hardwood trees that I’m nervous about.
Have you thought about putting a Winch on the front of your tractor? Maybe that could be a lot of help, especially in close areas where you can’t back up the tractor.
Great video! I am wanting to do something like this so my pine stumps. I feel like I and going to need a lot of pulleys and strong cables. What kind of cable are you using?
I use 3/8” synthetic cable from Amazon. It’s very light, stronger than steel braided cable and doesn’t store much energy so it is much safer if it breaks. FIERYRED Synthetic Winch Rope Cable Kit 3/8inch 100FT 26500lbs Winch Line Replacement with Forged Hook Protective Sleeve for 4WD Off-Road Vehicle SUV, Black a.co/d/5rOYXyI
Your front bar bending... Look at where you had it attached vs where it is bolted to the frame. Its the same leverage advantage as you are using on your tree. Going up high on the tree vs pulling it at the bottom.
when I was in school in Denmark, we pulled down big beech trees in the wood with a traktor, that had a vinsch. So what we did was shoting a throw line up and behind the tree. then tie the rope shoulder height @@brainhomestead6
@@nicolaisvlog8701 my buddy uses a slingshot type of thing with a throw ball which is a similar setup. Since I have the mechanical advantage I don’t have to go up as far. I think for my big trees, I will have to go up 6-7m but it “should” be ok. I’m not sure, but I’ll figure it out.
Yeah it would. I think what I’m going to try to do next is drop a really large pine, then cut 3 segments of stumps and ratchet strap them together in triangle formation to act as a much taller fulcrum for the future pulls. Not sure if it will work, but if it fails it will still teach me something.
@@brainhomestead6 Yeah using a trailer as a fulcrum and ya quickly limit the size of tree you can deal with. You may have found an actual use for stumps if that works.
Using block & tackle seems to far out weityh the cost and time needed to rent, position and set up heavy equipment for one or two trees, maybe three trees. More than that maybe heavy equipment would be the answer.
It really depends on your area what is being charged. I was quoted $8k for heavy equipment to come in and all of the equipment was $1.2k. Plus I intermittently have to remove a tree or two after a storm so I wanted my own equipment.
Honey Bee's are not the best for orchard pollination. The Mason bee & Leaf cutter bee's are 85-90% better at pollinating fruit tree's. And the support cost is much less. Hives, frames, and other needed materials are a big investment, and they must be maintained. The Mason bee and its support systems are less costly, easier to maintain, an their successful pollination rate as stated is 85 to 94% higher than the Honey Bee. Mason an Leaf cutter bee's do not produce Honey which is where alot of the money an management time is saved. Good luck with your endeavors which ever one you choose. I have one hive of each, but choose not to harvest the honey.
@@jeffcarnes7015 thanks for this. I haven’t gotten them yet because the maintenance was too intense. I noticed with my clementine trees, butterflies pollinate more than the bees do.
Dear Mr. DeMille (or whomever recorded this video) please STOP the rapid pan and tilt without first zooming out full. You amateurs can turn a potentially interesting video into an unwatchable piece of crap in nothing flat! LEARN HOW TO USE YOUR CAMERA. Just buying it doesn't turn you into a cinematographer. You have a choice: do it correctly, or alienate all of your viewers.
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Skip to 24:00 to see the large tree being snatched down.
I keep forgetting to add that, but I’m going to edit my pulls down to only the active pulls without any commentary. I’ll make them separate from the normal videos.
hello Brian I am so glad I found your videos. You have a great way of explaining things. Hopefully you will put one up of downing that pine tree. Pretty tough tree to bring down. Again your videos are great and you don't talk too much. haha
I appreciate it! I’m working on more right now, but running into issues. I’ll be putting another video up in a day or two.
Your idea of using a fulcrum is excellent and it caused me to think "What could I use as a fulcrum?" and it brought to mind of using my cut up oak tree logs. I have 2' to 3' diameter logs that are about 16" to 18" wide that would work perfect as a fulcrum. So I am passing this suggestion on to you as my thanks for sharing your video with the public. I don't have a tractor but will be using a Come Along winch to pull down some trees. Again, thanks for sharing your ideas and this video!!
No problem. I think after my next tree that I drop, I’m going to use the trunk as a fulcrum.
Good job. The a frame works bushes. When you are pulling out trees you don’t need it since the moment leverage is causing the roots to fail when the tree is a third to half way down.
I did that successfully twice, but this one just bent in half. I have the next one hooked up so hopefully it will be a better pull. Thanks for watching and for the comment.
Wow, the stump and all. I'd have a log or block by the base of the tree to be felled because that's a lot of stress on the trailer. But this is brilliant! :o
I’m going to try a stack of logs next time to save my trailer.
If you do like a Spanish Burton setup you can use less pulleys, or maximize the pulleys you have for a higher mechanical advantage. Love the setup and the videos!
@@ScottFox-su3gl I’ll have to look that one up. Thanks for watching.
Awesome videos !!! That fulcrum point you were mentioning, instead of using the trailer, what I find out that works best is a spare tire. The bigger the tire the better. A spare tractor tire will work perfectly. It will take horizontal force and redirect it vertical force. Trees are weak when they’re pulled out straight up opposed to sideways. Hope this helps! 😎
Thanks, man! What you said is kind of what I was thinking as well and I’ve been looking on Marketplace for an old used tractor tire and people have very high opinions of their rusty old tractor rims.
Anytime brother. The marketplace has a ton of them. Some used truck tires and some big tractor tires people use for CrossFit. I used my spare tire on my Ram 1500 to pull out a bunch of deep rooted bushes. Work incredible.
@@RJO27 what I was thinking about doing also was since I’m pulling the whole tree down, chaining a tractor tire around the trunk where the tire is standing up with the tread against the trunk. That way, when I pull the tree over before it hits the ground the tire will make contact and pop the roots out.
Definitely anchoring the tire to the tree is best. I tried it without chaining the tire to the tree and the tire was experiencing weight and slowly the strap on the treads started to slip off and the tire popped up and shot off to the side. I was thinking about finding a used tractor tire specifically designated for this type of use and cutting the tread off in the center of the tire so I would end up with a valley where the strap would lie and the remaining treads on the side would keep the strap from sliding off.
@@RJO27 that sounds like a great idea too. Now I have to look for old tractor tires again.
Thanks for your insight into the world of pulleys and mechanical advantage. My number 1 suggestion is you could use a large truck wheel rim as a fulcrum at base of tree. The trees should slide & roll 🎡 easier. "Man" your tractor will last you a lifetime - - - not digging stumps
I’ve seen that done before and I was looking at getting a large rim but even just an old rim people are asking hundreds of dollars for.
Thank you for another excellent video. YES, PLEASE, make us a live broadcast of you pulling down trees. The idea of the trailer was nice because you were pulling along the tree "on wheels" and it was working very well indeed. If you want to make a fulcrum, do not use a pile of logs...they will move and spread under load (unless you peg them). You have to build a sturdy "A" frame that is going to be very heavy. You lean the A frame into the tree. Use the trees you pulled down to build the A frame. You will have to use the tractor to move the massive/sturdy A frame. For Ideas, please check the video by Sam Haraldson titled "Pulling a Stump Using a Truck and Mechanical Advantage" and Susan Dobbs titled "Pulling stump - 1". You referred the soil is too acidic and clayish, right? I suggest you speak with an agronomist and before you set those planting sites for fruit trees. I suggest you get a truck load of sand and a truck load of fine ground limestone. Mix them with the soil under those planting sites you determined for your fruit trees. Roots will go down into the soil and the trees will benefit from these improvements. About the chicken, I know it is not easy to do it, why not build the chicken coop on wheels + jacks so you can move it with the tractor from place to place? You can set a couple of fenced places, move the coop from one fence to the other and allow the soil to rest and regenerate some of the vegetation. This is how usually free range animal husbandry is made. It will keep your chicken happy every time the get to a new place with "greeneries". And you ought to get a pound and a flock of geese to roam around in your property...
Thanks for the great comment. I am using a special raised bed soil in the tree ring area that is 0.5m deep. The blocks aren’t perfectly tight so it won’t hold water in there.
With the chickens, I am looking at a moveable coop, but I’m not sure that it’s necessary for only 4 chickens when I’m giving them 2000 square feet (185 square meters) of space to run around.
I’m also curious why you say to have geese as well. What positive aspect do they bring to growing chickens?
I’m trying to figure out when to have the live stream, any suggestions?
If I were to use the logs as a fulcrum, I would hold them tightly together with ratchet straps so they couldn’t really go away while the tree was coming down. I have no idea if that will work, but it’s my current idea.
@@brainhomestead6 I always enjoyed flocks of geese moving around one's property. It gives a "look" of grace and elegance to a place. Eventually, once in a while, when the flock grows too big, a goose jumps into the oven... But, geese also need a shelter for the night, I suppose they can sleep with the chicken. I do not think the free range area you are allocating the chicken is enough, but I know little about chicken.
About the live broadcast pulling down trees, I suppose you're going to need an assistant to change camera angles or even change between cameras. It will be a first in TH-cam history pulling down trees with pulleys live. I suggest you do it on an weekend and you can make a small 1 min video that announces the date and objective of the live event. This will allow more people to tune in for the real thing. The same assistant that operates the cameras, can read in loud voice the questions from the public and who knows you can even receive some money from superchats. Like this way you can live interact with your viewers. Probably I will miss the live event, I live on the other side of the puddle and time difference is 7 hours.
@@caotropheus I don’t like geese because they always like laying eggs in a bad spot and then the male is always attacking even if you’re 5m away. I was thinking about getting some chickens just for meat as well, but I haven’t talked my wife into that one yet!
I’m going to try a few practice livestreams then and see how it works. The nice thing is that my new GoPro will stream directly to TH-cam.
Damn Brian that was brilliant using the trailer as a mobile fulcrum. I use a Medium truck tire and its awkward to work with
I saw a few videos of guys doing that and it looks…. unstable. The problem with the trailer method is bending the frame from the weight of the tree.
This is reference to the twin stumps that was rotten. The problem was , you choked the stumps to high up. If it were still a solid stump the higher the better BUT if it's rotten, cat face, damaged area then you want to lower your pulling point. Maybe 3' max from the ground.
You’re right, but I didn’t figure that out until I started cutting it low with a chainsaw and noticed the lower part was still good.
congrats!! I felt it would break. Happily I was wrong . Good job on the presentation and successful effort.
Thanks! These were small trees, I have a lot that are much bigger that I’m still worried about but I’ll get them down one way or another.
Brain I had to pull out medium sized birch tree today and I tried your method of not cutting the tree down and then pull the stump
I used 4 snatch blocks on each side tree and the anchor
The straps and chain were put 7 ft high the tree came down and the root was big
Thanks
That’s awesome! I’ve never done a birch before, how bad are the roots? Did you have to water the ground beforehand or was it pretty easy without?
@@brainhomestead6 no water needed as it has been raining here
The tree was 30 meters tall 31cm diameter the root was very big 1.5 meters after cutting off the tree
I have learned a great deal from your videos thanks
I’m up north by the Elba river stop by on your next trip to German
@@jamesbooth4239 Elba river….. you mean southern Denmark?! I’m always in the south of Germany. I either fly into Frankfurt or Stuttgart, then go south to Schramberg. Only 45 minutes from Lake Konstanz.
If that tree was 30m, that was huge. How far did you have to pull it over before it fell down?
@@brainhomestead6 no not Denmark just below Hamburg
I was lucky I was driving on the road I pull 30 meters
The only problem is the top got stuck in a tree, the big trees pull out much better when you leave 5 to 7 feet of tree to the root ball, but it is hard cut the top of the tree. We need to find a safe way to do this
I have 64 more trees to remove before June
I used to work in Stuttgart
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Just a heads up. Make sure to grease the snatch blocks with good high quality grease. We found out the hard way and are going to try some ngli 3 grease. I don’t remember the other specs but it is for large open gears and sliding surfaces. We had some nasty galling on the pins and sheaves of six of the ten snatch blocks. We were using number 2 moly that we use on the tractor loader pins.
I’ll remember that because I’ve been using the same grease on the snatch blocks that I use on my tractor as well, so I may need to revisit that decision.
makes sense. you pulled from 20 ft. up, compared to about 2 ft up (pulling a stump that has been cut short) literally gives you 10 times more rotational torque on the stump!
It made life much easier because then gravity does most of the work!
Might you recommend the snatchblocks that have the roller wheel integrated with the pin? Like Ambull?
@@JimLogger-jo9ck I haven’t used those in particular. Honestly, I’ve had pretty good luck with the the 10 ton snatch blocks from Amazon. I still have never had one fail and they have grease fittings, so I keep them lubed up.
Another thing I would try not using the water just to see if it’s just a waste of water. Dry dirt won’t be so compacted and it should break into dry little pieces. Just a thought
@@johnsellers9623 I discovered it kind of depends. My video #12 the roots stayed in the ground and the tree bent over about 6’ above ground.
Nice job! I tried to pull a tree similar in size to your first one. I wrapped the strap 15ft up on the tree. It bent the tree horizontally to the point that the strap slipped. The tree started splitting vertically too from the ground up. The roots never budged though. If I would have watered the ground and strapped it lower, it probably would have worked.
I would like to pull a tree out similar to your last one (maybe a bit bigger in diameter) but I need to buy heavier pulleys, more straps and synthetic rope. My current rope pulley system has a rating of 7000lbs (which might be the breaking limit not working limit). What led you to believe you were only pulling 1000/1200lbs of force with the tractor? I connected a load cell to my simplicity garden tractor and was able to generate 700-800lbs of force on concrete before the wheels slipped so a tractor like yours can probably generate 5x that.
I thought it would be around that pulling force only due to the fact that the engine never dropped in RPM’s and there was never even an indication of tire slippage. I should put a force meter on it, but I don’t have one.
It seemed pretty low force, but I have much bigger softwood trees to do next and then some massive hardwood trees that I’m nervous about.
You are becoming so good at this you will soon be out of trees to pull up
That would be awesome but we’ve only been on the front quarter of the property, so there’s waaaaaay more to do. Years worth.
Have you thought about putting a Winch on the front of your tractor? Maybe that could be a lot of help, especially in close areas where you can’t back up the tractor.
Yeah I want to do that but too expensive right now. When I get to the back part of my property, I won’t have a choice.
Dont know if he mentioned it but the higher you tie to to the tree the more leverage you have on the roots.
I did in some videos, but yeah, the higher the better usually, but there are some exceptions.
Great video! I am wanting to do something like this so my pine stumps. I feel like I and going to need a lot of pulleys and strong cables. What kind of cable are you using?
I use 3/8” synthetic cable from Amazon. It’s very light, stronger than steel braided cable and doesn’t store much energy so it is much safer if it breaks.
FIERYRED Synthetic Winch Rope Cable Kit 3/8inch 100FT 26500lbs Winch Line Replacement with Forged Hook Protective Sleeve for 4WD Off-Road Vehicle SUV, Black a.co/d/5rOYXyI
My first video called Stump Removal Preparation has a link to everything and shows how to put a different end on the synthetic rope.
Nice. It would be great you make some videos of your stump pulling and post here on TH-cam for us to see it.
@@caotropheus I agree, I always like seeing others too.
Your front bar bending... Look at where you had it attached vs where it is bolted to the frame. Its the same leverage advantage as you are using on your tree. Going up high on the tree vs pulling it at the bottom.
I know, I just over estimated hot tough the steel was and how much pulling force was actually required. I pull from the tow bar on the tractor now.
pretty good idea with the first one 😁👌
I am going to get one of the bigger softwood trees to act as a fulcrum in the future.
when I was in school in Denmark, we pulled down big beech trees in the wood with a traktor, that had a vinsch. So what we did was shoting a throw line up and behind the tree. then tie the rope shoulder height @@brainhomestead6
@@nicolaisvlog8701 my buddy uses a slingshot type of thing with a throw ball which is a similar setup. Since I have the mechanical advantage I don’t have to go up as far. I think for my big trees, I will have to go up 6-7m but it “should” be ok. I’m not sure, but I’ll figure it out.
You should add a hook to your bucket I added 3
I’m not following, are you talking about just a hook from the end of a chain welded onto the bucket where the teeth are?
Bravo, maybe a trailer that's a bit taller Wouldn't that help your fulcrum math?
Yeah it would. I think what I’m going to try to do next is drop a really large pine, then cut 3 segments of stumps and ratchet strap them together in triangle formation to act as a much taller fulcrum for the future pulls. Not sure if it will work, but if it fails it will still teach me something.
@@brainhomestead6 Yeah using a trailer as a fulcrum and ya quickly limit the size of tree you can deal with. You may have found an actual use for stumps if that works.
@@muskegonhunterscamp that’s what I’m hoping for.
@@muskegonhunterscamp I’m hoping the softwoods will be enough because the hardwood stumps are way too heavy!
Using block & tackle seems to far out weityh the cost and time needed to rent, position and set up heavy equipment for one or two trees, maybe three trees. More than that maybe heavy equipment would be the answer.
It really depends on your area what is being charged. I was quoted $8k for heavy equipment to come in and all of the equipment was $1.2k. Plus I intermittently have to remove a tree or two after a storm so I wanted my own equipment.
Honey Bee's are not the best for orchard pollination. The Mason bee & Leaf cutter bee's are 85-90% better at pollinating fruit tree's. And the support cost is much less. Hives, frames, and other needed materials are a big investment, and they must be maintained. The Mason bee and its support systems are less costly, easier to maintain, an their successful pollination rate as stated is 85 to 94% higher than the Honey Bee. Mason an Leaf cutter bee's do not produce Honey which is where alot of the money an management time is saved. Good luck with your endeavors which ever one you choose. I have one hive of each, but choose not to harvest the honey.
@@jeffcarnes7015 thanks for this. I haven’t gotten them yet because the maintenance was too intense. I noticed with my clementine trees, butterflies pollinate more than the bees do.
Dear Mr. DeMille (or whomever recorded this video) please STOP the rapid pan and tilt without first zooming out full. You amateurs can turn a potentially interesting video into an unwatchable piece of crap in nothing flat! LEARN HOW TO USE YOUR CAMERA. Just buying it doesn't turn you into a cinematographer. You have a choice: do it correctly, or alienate all of your viewers.
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