I HATE Getting Firewood Like This! (Trying to Make The Best of It)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- My in-laws have a terrible reason for needing to make firewood out of an 83' Oak Tree. Despite wishing that we didn't have to do it, we turn that large white oak tree into firewood. We have a lot of help from the Artillian Grapple and some favorite chainsaws. My brother-in-law Caleb Miller and his partner Maddie from the tree care company called "Tree Love" take down this giant oak tree and helps us get it worked up for firewood.
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Thanks for all the positive comments about our little tree business!
Your work was impressive!
Really impressive tree work! Rarely see a safe tree crew at work, but glad to see all the control you guys displayed taking it down.
Always nice to see a professional at work, I live in Sweden and have been using a Husqvarna chainsaw for 30 years.
Just liked & Subscribed. We are in the Ozarks. And here the oak trees will die of old age at about 75 years. And we also have a infestation of the wood Boer insect. So many trees are dying. Then there is the fact that for the last 200 years about every 25 years the timber was harvested. The very best more valuable trees where taken. leaving the cull and undesirable trees. This high Grading has resulted in most of the woods being a overcrowded stand of marginal value. So we are pretty much clear cutting our woodlands. Making firewood. Only leaving healthy young saplings and select trees like hornbeam and hollow still living post oak den trees. Too many stems per acre is determental to the growth and health of trees. We also have planted Osage Orange in the fence rows and let the cedar grow in the fence row. A hedge type fence row gives privacy. is a haven for songbirds and a wind break and can prevent erosion.
Great insight and thoughts on redevelopment of our over harvested woodlands. We face many of the same issues. Lots of clear cutting being done here for farmland or to make pallet wood. I hate seeing nice mature trees like this die.
Thanks so much for the comment and sub! Great to hear from you folks!
Neil , another 5 ⭐ video I often watch Cotontop3 Tim is amazing at at bringing trees down, it nice to see how other people in the business do it God bless y'all from Gaffney South Carolina viewer 🙏❤️💯
Awesome! I've seen some of Cotontop3's videos and he is fun to watch for sure. Thanks so much for watching! BTW we love it in South Carolina!
Thanks!
Your folks really have a beautiful, idyllic place.
Great content seeing a professional at his craft. Very cool.
I am really impressed with the variety of camera angles you used And mixing all the different audio and how cohesively edited it all was
Phenomenal job as always Neil
Thanks a bunch Brock. Yeah, this was a monster to edit but I thought it came out OK. My nephew and I both worked on this one and I bet we have 20 hours in the edit :)
Good job Caleb, and Maddie. I really learned a lot working with you guys on that big Elm you took down for my friend. You two really work well together, also good to see the new truck in action. Stay safe.
That truck is a great asset for them! Thanks Tony!
It was fun working with you!
What an absolutely stunning homestead!
It is beautiful back there.
Neil, that was a smashing job! (Almost)
Watching him choose which chunks and where to cut them was fascinating. And the wedge cut… 90degrees, perpendicular to the direction of fall and perfectly level with the ground… that tells you that your watching a pro!
Nice job all around. Safe, tidy and professional… my guess is that they never run out of work!
Neil, this is another excellently thought out, shot, edited and entertaining video! 👍👍
Thanks so much Dave! Caleb does a great job and I'm always just hoping that I've captured it well enough to do him justice. I think I learn something new every time I get to help out on a job too!
Hope you have a terrific week and thanks as always for tuning in! :)
The organization and precision is very cool. Everything is deliberate and calculated, nothing left to chance. Very nice.
Great video.
We've used Caleb's business three times. Always happy.
That's great to hear Regan! Thanks so much for checking out the video!
Your family has the prettiest houses and yards on TH-cam.....so much attention to detail. I winced a little when that gravel got kicked up by the crook in the tree and messed up the driveway!
Oh man, you and I both!!! I hated that the driveway took a beating but he's got it all fixed up again already 😂 The yard on the other hand....
Awesome video Neil ....Buckin billy ray would be proud of you !
I could only hope so!
Nice Job. Should've left the jug where it was. man I hate when that happens, lol
Haha! I know. So close!!!
Excellent video. Loved the bucket truck
It's good to know someone with a bucket truck!!! Thanks Adam :)
👍👌👏 2) Now you definitely need a bandsaw- mill! 😁 ;-)
Best regards luck and health to all involved people.
Thanks!
@@digdrivediy
You're welcome, it's my pleasure. Thanks for replying and especially for another heart. I totally appreciate both very much.
Sincerely yours.
6:42 !!! LOL! Lots of Wood Pirate Club members here.
No doubt!
It was a sad day when Dolmar was purchased by Makita and shut down the gas chainsaw line. They still make only battery-operated chainsaws now. I own 23 saws and 2 are Makita and one Dolmar. The rest are Stihls. My favorite is an 038 MAG II. You have a nice truck set up. Looks great and seems to work well for you.
Yes the Dolmar gas saws were great saws!
I have a Makita gas saw that I bought 3 years ago brand new and had modded for more power and it is an awesome saw
Ya just had to move that jug, didn't ya!! Great vid and thanks for sharing.
Trees like every living thing have a lifespan. Good job salvaging as much of the tree as you did for lumber and firewood.
I knew before it fell it was going to hit that driveway. I have always had an eye for felling trees and making them land where I want them to. Especially if I had access to a tractor and the right rope. Mostly its still done with the eye and making the correct cuts. I am retired now thank goodness. Nice equipment though.
Thanks a lot Phil. Yeah, I think he knew it would likely hit the driveway as well. Fortunately it's all fixed back up now!
I started watching this video, thinking I'd watch part of it, then get on with my day. Need lest to say I watched the whole thing in one sitting. This was exciting to watch, especially near the end with felling of the trunk. Great camera work and editing. I always enjoy your postings
Hey Richard! I appreciate comments like this a bunch!
Thanks for watching! We are so excited about this video Neil made with us! It was a fun family project!
Hey Neil I loved your choice of classical music (edvard greig's morning mood) for the lead in. Wouldnt mind some more of this in future videos.
Good show to all involved, sad to loose the tree good to have the firewood. Good use of the grapple it worked well
That grapple has changed the way I think about things...
Nice video. Really surprised a pro has gone to the battery saws. I didn’t expect it.
No doubt. But the newest battery saws are getting pretty good. Still very expensive though. Thanks Jim.
The general consensus with homeowners here is " wait ten years"
To cut a dying tree.
Nobody wants to admit that they need to cut down an 75 y.o. tree.
The neighbor Anne was told by the tree service that she would have saved $700.00 by getting her dying tree cut down 10 years ago.
That's how much prices have increased.
Nice video today ,many great camera angles.
Much admiration for those talented tree cutters , the skill and doing it safely is commendable.
Thanks so much Jean. Yes, it was very tough to swallow the fact it wasn't coming back. Hate losing a piece of history like this tree. But, better to do it earlier than wait till it is causing damage, just as you suggested. Thanks so much for watching!
The oak tree in this video is every bit of 150 years old. Or more. Well it was before it died.
The wooded setting on that home is just beautiful, you don`t realize how wide that tree was, until it hit the ground, wow. That was some great chainsaw work, you wouldn`t see me up in that bucket.
I can't stand to be in the bucket either!!!
Nice Video, Tree cutting Service is very difficult & hardworking job, Respect for persons those related to this service. Love Tree Service & Firewood splitting related videos. Thanks
Thanks Jawad!
Good thing you have all these "skilled" trades as family members brother. Caleb sent your butt to school. Without all these folks around, I could see you living in a Yurt and selling "Dream Catchers" at the Indiana State Fair for a living. That was a fun post to watch and see a job done professionally, safely and in a timely manner. it's ok to admit that you really loved wearing the storm trooper helmet with Micky Mouse ears for a couple days. Thank you for the post and all the work that went into making it. Love home brother, kiss the girls for me.
That helmet is something else, isn't it! For some reason my wife won't take me seriously whenever I'm wearing it! But I guess it was a little overkill for the dinner table...
We have a few trees like this around the back of our fence line that the power company has had their way with multiple times. One drops rather large branches after storms and such, but every time I think it's ready to kiss the world goodbye, I come out with the chainsaw and somehow manage to scare it back to life. The worst one was like a sixty footer when we first moved into this house, now it's down to about 30ish but refuses to die from bugs, drought, high wind storms, etc. At this point I don't have the heart to give it the axe (so to speak) but nearly went after it during the big power outage in 2021. I like to think that it's shedding unnecessary weight to survive, kinda like my old shed. 😁
Ha! I wish this tree could have made a resurgence and had a rebirth. For some reason a couple of the trees in their woods have fell to the same fate. Hate to see the big ones go like this.
Very cool video. I love seeing professionals talk through their work.
Me too! Thanks Marcus.
You guys did a great job my father-in-law does the same work in tn...neil better get that driveway fixed back-up haha
My father-in-law already beat me to that driveway repair!!
Haha its hard to keep up with the older generation 😅
Great work! Interesting to see a professional company using electric saws so much.
I'm really happy with the lower maintenance costs of the battery equipment!
I've always enjoyed watching Caleb whenever I've had the opportunity. It both fascinates and scares me how he can climb a tree and move around in it so effortlessly, and drop limbs exactly where he wants them to go.
That grapple is a game changer for cleaning up brush. That was my least favorite part of helping do firewood.
Mary, you got that right… watching a pro work safely is like watching an artist sculpt a masterpiece!
And, the grapple? Yep, it’s indispensable once you’ve used one!
He certainly makes it look easy! You should try running the grapple Mom! :)
Thanks Mary we enjoyed working on your trees!
Such a great family! Beautiful property. Beautiful saws and tractors. I love Sunday mornings because I’m excited to see what Neil has uploaded
Beautiful home and awesome video!
Thanks!
luckily you moved the water jug out of harms way at the last moment!
Great Video looks the grapple is already paying off I see I enjoyed watching Caleb cutting that tree down I leaned a lot but the biggest lesson I leaned I don’t want to be a tree guy to high up in the sky for me
I always say that there is a difference between those that know what they're doing in those who think they know you're one of those who knows and your professionalism shows quite well I can also tell you I hope that you have seen buckin Billy Ray Smith and his channel you would be impressed with the stuff that he does too he's a lot bigger trees but you got to expect that in Vancouver BC I will just tell you one thing join the army of kindness and be kind to all the friends and people you got around you it pays back big and it looks like that's exactly what you and your family does so thank you for your 🥰😎🤠
Great video ! Very interesting and what a Tree!
Thank you very much!
Hello from the Netherlands and thanks for the video. Sincerely, Hollandduck
Great to see you friend! Thanks Hollanduck!
Great video showing the “ behind the scenes “ of tree work.
This was a family event. Neil thank you for sharing a really great video! Thanks! 😊
Nice job, more to taking down a tree than meets the eye. Safety first and always. Thanks for the ride along sir.
I've always been interested in safety, and I'm always trying to mitigate risk to myself, employees, customers and their property. Thank you to all the trainers who have provided classes in our industry to improve this area of the business!
A few suggestions if I may. I thought about these helpful tips after I wrote my "novel" below... I always used a golf or hunting range finder (even the old "rake trick" which actually works and is pretty darn accurate) to determine the height of a tree prior to felling it in whole or just the pole. I also always carried a small green laser pointer with me when doing estimates and speaking with customers as well as while in the tree so I could point things out to my groundies so that we were on the exact same page. A green laser can very easily be seen in broad daylight whereas a red laser cannot (just be extremely careful not to shine it in someone's eyes). I would use it to point out certain things while answering my customer's questions. Using a green laser pointer to point out a branch, or anything at all on a tree while talking to a customer, is WAY better than pointing at something with your finger and hoping they are looking at the same thing you are pointing your finger at. Amazon and eBay are full of quality green laser pointers and they are very inexpensive. Just don't order those lasers sold by the major tree service industry suppliers like the mammoth company that starts with an S and ends in Tree. Hope this helps.
Laser pointer is a great idea. Caleb uses one a lot for client consultation.
Yes I actually have a blue laser i use for the same thing! Works great! Good tip
wish he worked in Minnesota,especially where I live,he have tons of business up here,cause the group in this area never want to work.
What part of Minnesota? I may have a friend i could recommend
Hell of a job by all and no casualties which is important 👍
After that last frame someone is in the doghouse 😅. Thanks for taking us along! Take care my friend
😁 Thanks Mike!
Best kind of fun, especially with no casualties. Too bad white oak takes so long to air-dry.
great video! I've been using a DeWalt saw lately. I love the battery power. It's only an 18" bar, but works great!
I didn't see Ethan out there helping. :)
Have a great day!
I'll have to get me one of those battery saws eventually. For now it is pretty handy to just have Caleb over to help me! We probably could have put Ethan to work on this one!
Great job keep up the good work love your videos
Thanks so much Ed! I appreciate you watching!
Good job Caleb…love the family togetherness
Great video. As usual an interesting presentation.
Thanks BG!
Thats how i get 60 perc of my wood, of course i work for my local DPW, so the wood is easy to get to.
This video was filled with technology from the wheels up. Neat!
The headsets really have been great for us, a little communication goes a long ways towards safety, productivity, and less yelling and frustration. We use intercoms designed for motercycle helmets!
I love the clip at the end moving the jug!
I should have trusted my original position of the jug!
Great stuff Neil
Thank you kindly
Sometimes a dead tree’s best use is very pretty firewood.
A home owner did believe I could land it where I marked it because it was leaning over the other way a little so he went in hid garage and stepped out with a 5 gallon bucket with something in it. When he sat it down I told him over just a bit. Then I joked and said back 1 inch. I landed it squared on that bucket and stuff flew out every where. That dummy looked at me and said u broke every thing in that bucke t. I said I didn’t go get it and set it there
Taking down a big tree is a lot of work. Great job!
Yes, it sure is. Caleb and Maddie did much of the work but the tractor and grapple were a huge help to cut down on labor. Thanks for checking out the video!
white oak logs are high unless something has changed. I'll admit I don't know if that's not the case for residential trees - I know a lot of larger mills won't touch anything that could have been in a yard or public area.
I do have a mill that will take "yard trees" , we will be taking the best log there!
Great family project! Hope you got a stick for some white oak lumber.
He had one stick left for some lumber! :)
I feel your pain. Before we built our house a few years ago we had a beautiful 200+ year old huge white oak that was going to be a focal point of our back yard. The tree was well over 100’ tall almost 6’ in diameter & in great health & a beautiful canopy. Unfortunately it was blown over in a massive storm & lost. We salvaged some logs & some huge cookie slices from it plus it heated my in-laws home for a winter. We planted a tree in its place, just gotta wait 200 years now lol.
Oh man, that's awful. Yes, we were all just sick about this tree. Worked around it during all the construction and even had a perimeter roped off around it to keep from compacting over the drip line. Wish we knew for sure why it died.
Firewood from that tree for only one winter?
@@wfemp_4730 In the coldest part of the winter, that tree will only last me about 2 months. Max
(@wfemp) Plus, as I said we tried to salvage as much of the tree as possible to live on in other forms than just a heat source. Thank you Neil 👍🏼
That is some skill not many tree fellers can get within a foot of the target.
A friend of mine is an arborist and he uses the battery saws too. He seems to love them and seldom cranks a gas powered saw unless the diameter of the wood dictates a bigger saw. It is kinda cool that the noise level isn't what it would be with a gas saw.
I agree, I would like to try the Stihl battered powered saws sometime.
@@calebmiller1875 That's what my friend uses. He loves that thing. I told him if I was going to keep helping him he had to buy one for the ground/chipper man (me). Lol. You do great work.
Yes I do enjoy the lower noise of the battery saws
Great drone shots and very good video. It’s a shame not much of it will be sawn for craft use, though hopefully there is a chair or something left in there yet!
Yes I hope we can do something with the log , maybe another video on what we make out of it?
Thanks Jeremy. Yes, I hate that there wasn't as much as they'd hoped to use for craft wood. But at least there was a bit left for something. I bet Rick will come up with a good plan for it. Thanks for watching!
Did not take long to master the grapple. Great information on tree felling.
Oh, wow. Beautifully shot and edited - probably one of your best.
Hey thanks a million James! I'm really glad you liked it.
nice job.i love seeing that house.that ramp he built looks sweet
The ramp is a back saver, previous to welding the 4 of them into a single unit i would handle they so many times a day by hand, its a much more stable platform now also
That ramp is super cool!
We cut down a large Maple tree right behind our house that had been struck by lightning at one point, it had a large hole in the trunk like that from top to bottom
Love the shirts. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Battery saws have improved a lot. Great for comms, firing up an engine saw is almost a nuisance. That bucket truck the biz too.
Its an older truck but was well taken care of and certified last year
Ty!
💥 Great team effort there! Very impressed with the audio you were able to get! Looked like a lot of grapple fun 😁
*Keep on tractoring!*
Thanks a lot Jon! That was some real good tractor fun for sure!
Beautiful house! A great video with a ton of knowledge! Thank you for sharing!
Nice work!
Thanks!
Nice video! I love the firewood videos, excited to see some more eastonmade axis action. I sell firewood and get all my wood from a tree service, they recently dropped off some 5' across oak, luckily its cut to a length I can sell(thank goodness for big boiler customers) and it's straight so it should split good. I rent a lot from a friend and can use his backhoe when I want, I'm considering copying your backhoe splitter for his.
Thanks! I'm glad that folks like firewood videos. I've already split up about half of this by now with the Eastonmade. It was a true test for it, but so far so good.
How long have you sold firewood? Do you make any of the campfire wood bundles?
@@calebmiller1875 about 6 years now, no bundles, mostly boiler wood.
What a video great production bud
Thanks Cliff!
Great family time. ❤
Looks like everyone had a great time and was safe.
It he had left the jug it would have nailed it! great video!
No kidding! Gotta go with your gut! :)
Great job lot of work love your videos
That’s why climbers are still needed. Little trucks can reach the big wood 😉
Climbers are Definitely still needed in the tree industry!
Great video!! I have the single battery, top handle Makita saw with a 10" bar (looking to get a 12" bar for it, for fun) and I love it, really interesting that a pro is using the Makita's, I thought they seemed better than the typical home-owner battery saws. I choose the single battery over the double battery purely for the chain speed (4,720 FPM (SB) vs. 3,940 FPM (DB) ), that is as close to gas saw speed I could find, makes it so nice. The lighter weight and smaller size I think is a real advantage, as swapping 5 AH batteries is no big deal and actually they last quite awhile in the little saw.
Quite a bit of firewood in that tree, good use of an expired tree, have a good one!!
Those makitas seem to be just the ticket.
Yes I have enjoyed the lower maintenance of the battery saws, less shop time, more work time so far! I hope they well prove themselves long term so far so good!
@@calebmiller1875 That's awesome, I am hoping the same long term as well, have a good one!!👍
I guess we’ll see a driveway repair/grading video in a week ur so? I would have had fun there with my little 4” PTO woodland mills chipper.
My father in law already has the driveway all patched up and looking good again. The yard lays in wait however until the stump is gone.
good job on your videos. I really like the content and delivery!! You will have 1m subscribers sooner than later! Keep it up!
Thanks so much Patrick. I hope you're right 👍🏻
Great video 🤗.
Thanks!
Gotta do a good job for the mother in law !!!!!! Great work you made it look easy
That's right! She takes great care of all of us so always nice to return a favor to the in-laws!
Watching these guys work that do this for a living is incredible. It's a true artform
Great job, loved it.
Looks like one heck of a time! Nice cherry picker truck there! Seems to be small enough to get in to tight spots versus a giant crane!
Its a 57' could have used a little taller on this job, but yes it is a little lighter on the turf than the bigger units!
I would leave the stump. just put grain and other feed on top and enjoy watching the wildlife eat the feed.
Certainly no shortage of wildlife around here and my in-laws love watching the deer and birds play in the yard. The stump was removed so that they could level up the yard and plant a new tree in it's place!
Great job! Now, what about the stump? Removing that stump would be as tough as taking the tree down
Someone is supposed to be coming to grind it out I guess.
@@digdrivediy that would have been a massive hole for sure
Smart people don't remove stumps. They let the stump remove itself. Take a mattock and dig around the stump until it's level with grade and cut the stump off even with the grade. Throw some dirt on it and it will rot out by itself. No heavy machinery needed.
What plans do you have for the stump? Have you heard of the “charcoal” method? I have done this on the same species of tree, but a much larger diameter. A few bags of charcoal on top of the stump, maybe down inside as well. Light it and let it go. It burns hot, we didn’t have any flame like a campfire would though. Even though it rained it kept going and disappeared in a week. Craziest thing I’ve ever seen, as it was the first time I’d done it. Two scoops of dirt on the trailer and you wouldn’t even know it was there.
I think they were gonna have someone grind it out. I'd love to see that charcoal method though. I bet my father in law would like that approach.
@@digdrivediy when I was told about it I thought it was crazy. But it really works. I was shocked, and no clean up.
I would like to see that charcoal method, I need to check it out, I’ve still got 2 stumps to get rid of
@@tonynieuwlandt5407 it’s easy to do. At the moment I’m “stumpless”, lol. But try it on one of them and see what you think. The stump that I used was as big around as a dining room table. So I used two big bags of charcoal.
Great felling. Always amazed at Arborists!! Looking to get some arborist pants, any suggestions?? Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
I really like the new chainsaw apparel from Stihl. The ones I was wearing are from Klein I believe. I'm not sure what brand my arborist Brother-in-law was wearing. My next pair will hopefully be the Stihl brand as they look really cool and are very light weight. Expensive though...
There are lots of great brands, my favorite brand is Cloggers they have several types to choose from cold weather, hot weather, medium weather and also different styles and colors. They are made in New Zealand
I cut and split my own firewood. I had trees removed from my property. I let the pros handle the dropping. Sometimes it's just worth the money and save the potential frustration of an accident or a tree on the house. It'll be worse for saving a few bucks.
Common sense should always be the first thing.
100% there’s a widow maker infront of the kitchen that mum wants removed, imma leave that one to the professional as it’s gonna get caught up on all sides from the bigger eucalyptus either side of it
Half a winters heating right there though
I bet the grapple made cleaning up a heck of a lot easier for this project!
It made it almost enjoyable to clean up!!! :)
The grapple is great sure beats the Wheelbarrow !
As much as I like the setup you have, unless you are running chips, no one in Europe would heat their house the way you do. Every setup that my friends use consists of a boiler and also a storage tank for excess heat and in winter they fire their boiler once a day if need be or once every second day. Most of them also only require 3 cords of wood for the season because hot water is also generated by roof top solar water panels.
That is certainly the smarter way to do it.
TBH I really enjoy your channel some amazing editing and shots just 100% wood and wood cutting/ splitting and entertainment and some education!
Thanks Cameron!
@@digdrivediy Your welcome my friend love the channel and the work you give into each video. TBH off the charts good!
I run Makita. Good saw
Why is white oak firewood bad? My family has been burning white, post, and red oak in stoves and ovens for hundreds of years with great results. Rocket mass heaters run great on brush, I have several just for burning storm damage.
It isn't bad. The title was meant to say that it was a shame that we were only using this big nice white oak for firewood. Most of it was rotten.
Nice safe job!
another documentary master piece !
Wow, thanks!