I also spent a summer with a logger company falling trees, definitely a fun experience. It slightly barber chaired, but yes successful. Next time your fall some trees wear a helmet with a mesh screen, you can get them with hearing protection.
You did every step correctly, and clearly it all worked out, When I did climbing/felling in Pennsylvania one of the things they taught me was never do plunge cuts. When setting your wedges they say you should cut the back of the tree at the bottom of your face cut about 1/4 of the width of the tree(about as deep in the tree as you went on the plunge facing the camera) pound in your wedges and cut the rest of the way through.
@@SeabeeLand No problem man! It definitely comes out a near dead on accurate fall for the trees. The places I was felling them we had literally no room for errors. Yeah man I lived 30 miles south of Pittsburgh close to WV for all of my life. I recently been staying in Tennessee helping out family but I plan on coming back for visits as much as I can. Maybe someday i could come share some Seabee experience on the channel once I get some!
Great video man! Keep it up! I was excited to see the new vid since Tuesday. You did a good job on dropping that tree! Looking forward to this weeks Seabee Sunday. You should absolutely figure out how to do it live! God bless you!
God bless you as well, my friend. I'll look into it. I can't imagine it being difficult. This week's Seabee Sunday will be a typical shoot, but I'm thinking the following video will be Live.
@@SeabeeLand yeah I don't know how difficult it will be, but I accidentally go live all the time so it couldn't bee too hard if I do it by mistake! I still look forward to Seabee Sundays regardless but maybe you could do them like one week it being a typical seabee Sunday and the next week it can be a SSL(Seabee Sunday Live) that way you talk about what you want to and the next week you can answer viewer questions!
Great job cutting that tree down safely. Nice ax work too. That looks like ash. I used an ax a lot as a boy on the farm in PA. Bigger logs we have a wedge we would use with a sledgehammer. Have a great week Davey. 👍🇺🇸
Nothing wrong a echo, when i cut grass at the mersades plant here Alabama we used echos and others. When i lived in California my uncle had a tree arborists business guess what i did in my teens, after theh we're fallen, i dug up tree stomps.
Good question! It depends on the size of the home and where you are on the map. I'm in WV and live in a small home about 2000sqft. I'm aiming to have about 4 cords of wood for this winter, so I need to get moving. I'm late! It also depends on how thick the trunk is. I cut a smaller tree that probably gave me about a 1/3 of a cord. If I stick to the same size trees, I'll have to drop a total of 12 trees. That may be a lot to someone who lives on an acre of land in FL, but half my property is in forested WV. That's about 9 acres of forest.
@@SeabeeLand Yeah I want to have that way of living after my Navy career. Just living off the land you know? I'm just a privileged gen z, I wasn't raised this kind of way and I don't really know the basics every man should know. I know becoming a Seabee will change that as well as just living on my own for the first time and having struggle in my life and learning from it.
Sounds like you're ahead of the game mentally. Don't let others discourage you on your journey. All of us learn every day and it's never too late. People are liars if they say they've got it all figured out. I'm a millennial and would also say we too are a privileged generation. That doesn't stop me from learning how to live with some pride and hard work. You'll get there soon enough, my friend! I wasn't raised this way either, but my kids will be!
I also spent a summer with a logger company falling trees, definitely a fun experience. It slightly barber chaired, but yes successful. Next time your fall some trees wear a helmet with a mesh screen, you can get them with hearing protection.
Good idea!
You did every step correctly, and clearly it all worked out, When I did climbing/felling in Pennsylvania one of the things they taught me was never do plunge cuts. When setting your wedges they say you should cut the back of the tree at the bottom of your face cut about 1/4 of the width of the tree(about as deep in the tree as you went on the plunge facing the camera) pound in your wedges and cut the rest of the way through.
That's rad that you did that in PA! I appreciate your words.
I'll have to try that next time. I'll let you know how it goes!
@@SeabeeLand No problem man! It definitely comes out a near dead on accurate fall for the trees. The places I was felling them we had literally no room for errors. Yeah man I lived 30 miles south of Pittsburgh close to WV for all of my life. I recently been staying in Tennessee helping out family but I plan on coming back for visits as much as I can. Maybe someday i could come share some Seabee experience on the channel once I get some!
Great video man! Keep it up! I was excited to see the new vid since Tuesday. You did a good job on dropping that tree! Looking forward to this weeks Seabee Sunday. You should absolutely figure out how to do it live! God bless you!
God bless you as well, my friend. I'll look into it. I can't imagine it being difficult.
This week's Seabee Sunday will be a typical shoot, but I'm thinking the following video will be Live.
@@SeabeeLand yeah I don't know how difficult it will be, but I accidentally go live all the time so it couldn't bee too hard if I do it by mistake! I still look forward to Seabee Sundays regardless but maybe you could do them like one week it being a typical seabee Sunday and the next week it can be a SSL(Seabee Sunday Live) that way you talk about what you want to and the next week you can answer viewer questions!
@@Thathoobgun That is a phenomenal idea! We'll have to see how the first Live goes, but I'll definitely keep that in pocket!
Great job cutting that tree down safely. Nice ax work too. That looks like ash.
I used an ax a lot as a boy on the farm in PA. Bigger logs we have a wedge we would use with a sledgehammer.
Have a great week Davey. 👍🇺🇸
Had the wedge and sledge on standby, Curtis! Lol
And thank you! It definitely was a task.
Nothing wrong a echo, when i cut grass at the mersades plant here Alabama we used echos and others. When i lived in California my uncle had a tree arborists business guess what i did in my teens, after theh we're fallen, i dug up tree stomps.
I'm glad to hear that. I'm gonna' have a few stumps by the end, so the boys will have something to do. Lol
Build you a shed for your wood, out of wood pallets for free. Stack it high to the rafters
What's the amount people cut down to get them through the winter months?
Good question!
It depends on the size of the home and where you are on the map. I'm in WV and live in a small home about 2000sqft. I'm aiming to have about 4 cords of wood for this winter, so I need to get moving. I'm late!
It also depends on how thick the trunk is. I cut a smaller tree that probably gave me about a 1/3 of a cord. If I stick to the same size trees, I'll have to drop a total of 12 trees. That may be a lot to someone who lives on an acre of land in FL, but half my property is in forested WV. That's about 9 acres of forest.
@@SeabeeLand Yeah I want to have that way of living after my Navy career. Just living off the land you know? I'm just a privileged gen z, I wasn't raised this kind of way and I don't really know the basics every man should know. I know becoming a Seabee will change that as well as just living on my own for the first time and having struggle in my life and learning from it.
Sounds like you're ahead of the game mentally. Don't let others discourage you on your journey. All of us learn every day and it's never too late. People are liars if they say they've got it all figured out.
I'm a millennial and would also say we too are a privileged generation. That doesn't stop me from learning how to live with some pride and hard work. You'll get there soon enough, my friend! I wasn't raised this way either, but my kids will be!