I enjoyed watching the video. I like watching other people cut wood. It either shows that I'm doing it right or that I learned something. Pretty big trees to cut down, cool old Ford truck, and Stihl saws. I like it!
You boys are cutting that wood like we did here in Texas back when that ole Ford was new. I thought by now they would have found an easier way. The hard part though is the splitting with a maul. Today they have electric, gasoline and even diesel wood splitters that take all the shore nough work out of wood cutting. I have even seen people have a load of logs delivered to their back yards and cut them up and use an electric wood splitter. We heard about wood splitters back in the 60's but non of us had one or had even seen one. Enjoyed that film!
Man, this video makes me want to fire up my saw cut firewood. I used to cut firewood for a living and would do one to three cords per day depending on orders. When I used my pickup and trailer I had racks that measured one cord on the pickup and one half cord on the trailer so the brakes on the pickup weren’t overtaxed and I always added extra wood to make up for the wheel wells. I had a bigger truck with a eighteen foot bed for the three cord days. Sold a load to a state weight s and measures guy one day and he paid extra to have me stack it, he had an area marked off in his garage that measured one cord and I overfilled it. There are way too many woodcutters in my area that cheat and that is why he was checking
Here in eastern Canada I do small scale firewood. I am not near my woodlot at this time as I helped my daughter move to her new city job. Seems like I can't be away from the woods for more than a day without missing it.Your video video helped easy the pain I feel Thanks for sharing.
love that old Ford, I will be moving to ID before too long. I will miss the hardwoods here in the east, so much better than the softwoods in the upper Midwest
Good day Sir, What a wonderful video I stumbled upon. Truly enjoyed watching it and will watch the rest over the next couple of days. Have a great day. "FIREWOOD HEATS YOU TWICE"
I like how the default assumption in the comment section seems to be that you don't know what you're doing. From a fellow firewood cutter, I think you're doing great. I wish I had trees like that to work with, I'd rather split big rounds than buck small trees. It's all lodgepole pine and garbage poplar where I am.
I'm a "splitaholic !" At 3-4 AM, you'll find me mesmerized by log splitters !!! My east TN hillbilly wife says " you ain't right, you JUST ain't right." LOL Which saw are you using? Bar length?
mark marchiafava 461 and 440 with 28” bars. Got a 064 again and it will have a 32” bar. I just split with a maul, however there are some 2 1/2-3 foot trees that don’t split well.
a maul would explain why your wood is so large. When using a 27 ton hydraulic splitter, we make thinner pieces than what's on that FINE Ford truck of your's...........WAS planning to cut some more on a red oak some 4-5ft across...............but it's raining
Just beautiful I wish I had Doug fir that big that close. It's all been picked from years and new tweakers with a chainsaw. I've got good Shasta red fir though. Smells so good.
nice truck I did this a couple years with a 67 2 ton Chevy 12ft flat I would cut and split one week and haul the next made 300 bucks a load of i stacked it
Hey, cool video. Great wood truck. I am just north of the boarder from you,fir/ larch goes for around 240/cord cdn. Have an 066 that cuts and bucks surprisingly much faster than my 461. Hand split double bitter, cord in the truck 3 hours if I don't have to hunt for a good stick. Wish many pumpkins for you!
I do miss cutting fir. Left the west coast 3 years ago. Now I don't know what any tree is for certain on the east coast but I can spot an oak.. [they're usually 6+ feet in diameter over here!] Can't wait to get my hands on some hickory, ash, maple and all the others I've been hearing about. So far the only trees I've cut over here that I knew for certain what they were are cypress, oak, pine, juniper, poplar, and black walnut. Shame I'll probably never see another madrone again.
When you were cutting off logs for firewood size, you held you saw with one hand as the sharpness of the chain pulled the saw into the log. You went over a little less than halfway. I do EXACTLY the same thing when I cut logs and have the piece I am cutting out of the dirt and upright so the chain will not strike the ground or pinch. Yet I have let that saw cut MORE than halfway through the log, almost about 6 inches PAST halfway. Man, when you pull that sucka' back, and it starts to bite the back wood as you drop the saw, watch how fast that saw drops down the un-cut portion of the log....like butter. You may think I am nuts but man, I just LOVE to hold that bad baby as she "falls" down the back cut of that log. Great video though! Loved it.
Nice job man. Nice to see someone else who knows how to put an under cut in. Pretty good lookin' Douglas and tamarak too. What part of Idaho you in? I spent most my child hood in new meadows doing the same thing with my grandad.
darrenpalms I know right where your at. My dad used to do some high line falling out of Avery and St Mary's when I was a kid. Ben through there a few times tramping around the logging op' s. Your in good country bud, I miss it. Keep up the good work!!
There seems to be 119 people who must be a real pain to know as they must be perfect ! We can all find fault in any video we watch but I didn't think any here was worth a dislike ? As always a good "watch" from you.
I am jealous so straight with not to many limbs. The trees where I live are not near this nice . we have to fight with tons of limbs. But we also dont have to drag the trees up hill .
sandman sandman we do find some limby ones at times. Firewood trees are getting harder to find every year so the majority of the time we have to pull trees uphill 😡.
Wish I had those logs for the log cabin I will be building this summer. Most of our big softwood got hit by the Bark Beatle which devastated our forest.
kyle smith kyle smith I like the Maxflow filters. They do a great job keeping out dust fines and debris. Cleaning them isn't the best but I rather have a good running saw then a blown up one. Both of my 440 and 461 are awesome!
kyle smith my 461 is ported and had some work done. She runs great! I use 7 pins. I've used 8 pins when I had a 064 and on my 2100 just to get more chain speed.
They make safety pants you can wear under your jeans most professional loggers don't wear regular chaps too hot and they get caught on everything. Kinda deadly when you're on thick brush felling trees for your chaps to get caught and cause you to fall
AT 4x4x8, looks like it. I cut mines in half so I have, 2x4x16 Two feet long (per log), stacking 4 feet high, and 16 feet long when stacked.. I have not seen a fireplace that burns 4 feet long logs as standard, have you? Wait, Ben Cartwright on Bonanza had a fireplace that big. That is 128 feet, which WAS a standard cord. I have seen people shorten it by about 34 feet, to 96 feet, and say that is a cord. Am I getting old or what the hell, have they changed the square footage of a cord of wood? That truck could carry that easily. I used a 2 ton dump and we could get two cords on it easily. If he is stacking un-split logs, he probably can get more than 2 cords.
Bill Baker some people are shorting consumers all the time. You will always get more firewood if you split it when stacking it in a pickup or truck. We built our racks so it’s exactly 2 cord to the top of the racks. We always go over just to confirm that people get at least 2 cord. Trying to cheat people out of firewood is terrible and will create problems.
biology one on one...the rings tell the age of the tree and other signs tell the stress as well....however how long do you think a very thick diameter tree took to get there?
I take it you guys are in Idaho? just asking; i do logging, tree service, and fire wood here in Pennsylvania. I have visited Wyoming several times and know they have very strict regulations on their forestry. Just wondering about Idaho; if they require permits and such? Nice truck by the way!
Not allowed to make saw logs out of them so it’s either firewood or let it rot and fall over. If it was on my property, milling would be my choice for sure.
CUT DEAD FALL, DONT BE GREEDY AND WASTFUL,THE BRANCHES ON THOSE TREES CAN MAKE GOOD FIRE LOGS , AND YOU JUST LET THEM ROT IN THE WOODS,PUMPING METHANE IN TO OUR ATMOSPHERE.
Not a tree hugger by no means & I'll be the first to tell you I know very little about logging. Which is why I'm asking wouldn't them logs be more valuable as lumber &/or slabbed out for woodworking projects. Maybe junk species of tree but what I'm seeing as a hobby woodworker is a terrible waste of wood & money just for firewood.
Glen Akers some of those tree would be make good boards however I don’t have a mill to make them. If I was doing wood work I would probably take one tree only and I wouldn’t sell it.
Oh I'm mine is probably the same as most people red or white oak,maple, would love to work with cherry would have to order cherry here if I could afford it.
the video shows trees that are not dead, nor on the ground, but full of life...so thank you for taking care of the planet and a resource that is in danger of be gone forever...
Lolitabonita it’s funny to listen to you criticize about the trees we fell not being dead but you weren’t there. We also took trees that were on the ground already but since you weren’t there you wouldn’t know that. Don’t point fingers when you don’t have ALL of the details. PS I have replanted more trees than I will ever cut down to help preserve the forestry resources.
darrenpalms Don't listen to the haters. they just waste your time. Keep doing what you're doing. You can't be personally responsible for the damage done by the big corporations.
Ya build your house out of dead rotten wood. Logging has changed a lot in the last 60 years all you probably see is what they show you on the TV. cutting big trees like this actually helps the smaller trees around it survive. He can cut one tree and potentially save 5 or 10
dead as heck those trees are, did not see one drip drop of sap running, or smeared on the stump as it was cut, and I bet you really had a talk with Mother Nature when she blew up Mt St Helens , in 1980, several thousand trees, ''full of Life'' and some streams, full of life, and some people full of life all went DEAD in SECONDS, due to her wrath and fury., and people with chainsaws, went in, cleaned up some of her mess, and utilized what she wasted, for the future generations of people, replanted some area, and others were left to recover by the same power that destroyed them, that being , NATURE
boyse69 if I need it to come off stump I cut the hinge. I’ll leave a hinge if it’s going to hit some surrounding tree limbs or if I’m falling uphill and I want it to stay on the stump. Trust me I always look at each tree because every tree is different.
boyse69 I will. Falling firewood trees is dangerous because they have no weight to them and it requires you to make a smaller hinge and wedging is scary. A lot of people get hurt. Thanks for watching.
Agreed. Felling dead trees is the devil. I got a lever instead of a wedge for dead stuff. I've had a couple tops break off from the shock of the axe hitting the wedge, aside from the showers of pine cones.
Badass Welding Videos the market for sawing slabs or lumber isn’t the best. Personally if I could afford an Alaskan mill I would cut some for my personal use.
Trees are a renewable resource you dumb fuck. Oil or propane or natural gas isn't. You know the stuff you probably heat your house with. And dead trees don't burn if they are rotted. Get a life. Heating a house with fire wood is the greenest thing you can do.
This appears to be some type of softwood. Care to elaborate? Ponderosa Pine possibly? Anyway even a dull chain is able to cut through a softwood. Try cutting some real hardwood. Like some Maple, or Oak or Beach.
kenskip1 no P pine. Almost all Douglas Fir and some Western Larch. We don’t have much for hardwood. Nice thing about softwood is splitting. I do all of mine by hand (maul). Hardwood last longer but is tough to split. We keep our chains sharp for the most part. A dull chain is not good.
Lewie McNeely creosote buildup is mainly caused by wet or unseasoned firewood. Some say high pitch trees cause creosote but it’s not true. Seasoned Tamarack or Douglas Fir burn pretty clean.
I've heard that hemlock does too but not many people use pine for anything but kindling and lumber here. I split all mine and wished I could trust pine but too many homes have burned down because of it. The rosin is hard to get rid of. Even with a 3-wall stainless pipe it'll condense at the top and smother the rest. I pass but I understand what you're saying. All my hardwood is cured out a year ahead of time under shelter and open all around. It'll 'tink' when tapped together. Little to no creosote buildup.
What are you talking about? Of course fir, birch around these parts of Canada are best options but dead pine is all over from the pine beetle, and pine burns just fine no creosote. You must be mistaken with poplar cause pine is just fine
So let me get this straight, you're cutting logs that would make great money as saw logs, yet you're using it for firewood? Why not cut the uglier trees out and let the nice ones prosper and cut the nice ones for a local mill? And learn some ergonomics and safe work.
ZombieFighterOf2001 before you criticize all of these trees (snags) are on Forest Service land and will not be harvested for years to come. Also because these trees are dead they will rot and fall to the ground causing fuel loading for forest fires. To a logger snags are nothing more then pulp or wood logs. So we remove these trees for personal use and to sell to others. I’m doing the forest and the public a good service. No need to tell me how to learn some ergonomics and how to work safe.
Well judging from 1:02, you definitely could learn a little bit about ergonomics. We always adjust to our work height with our knees, not our back. Kneel down instead of bending your back. And still, dead standing if it isn't rotten is still good for celulose wood, firewood is actually the least profitable for a business because you use extra fuel for cutting it into length and splitting it.
ZombieFighterOf2001 at the 1:02 that’s my friend who is 6’6” so getting up and down every 16” is tough. Gallon of saw gas is $4-5 with bar oil which I can cut 4-5 cords worth. I split by hand so no cost there. You don’t need to worry about my production and profits I’ll be ok.
Well since you don't have a company sure, but if you did that full time, eventually you'd notice how little profit firewood is. Spruce for mills goes for about 30-50€/m3 and you cut it at around 8,2m, an 8 meter long and 40cm wide log is about 1 m3. So you only have to bring the tree down, limb it and then buck it out. For firewood most people won't even buy softwoods and not many buy mixed hardwoods, aside from that, beech firewood goes for about 30€/m3 if there's demand, plus extra cost of having to buck it out at more frequent which uses considerably more gas, you also have to split it which still costs time (and time is money for a company). 1:02 i'd still say it would be smarter to just bend your knees a bit and rest your elbows on your legs so the weight is transferred on your legs than to work bent down which will wreck your back especially when working with a heavy saw.
ZombieFighterOf2001 in the Pacific Northwest a lot of people are burning softwood because hardwoods are less available. Making $200-$220/cord is pretty good and the demand for this firewood is great. Judging from your profile you’re not from around here and your idea of taking pulp wood to mill for profit without a loader or log truck and trailer it’s pointless. Most logging outfits deck up wood log trees and sell them for firewood because they make more money than trying to sell it for pulp.
for USDA lands: Around here permits do not allow felling, down, dead and under that size. depending on the ranger district for diameter, some are only allowed wood under 20" in diameter. I haven't been able to get a DNR permit ever, always closed. sure do with i could cut stuff like that though, your lucky to find anything that isn't alder.
Ram-n_dodge that’s why Idaho is better 😊. Where we cut people are pretty good about taking dead stuff. Once in a while someone will take greener trees.
kill the music...and it is very very very sad to see those trees coming down...they took so so so so so so many years to get tall and thick and this guys just kill them in less than an hour...shame on you guys!!
skeets a cord of Douglas fir weighs around three thousand pounds so he’s got six thousand pounds on a truck with a light weight of eight thousand pounds at the most so he’s well within legal limits
I enjoyed watching the video. I like watching other people cut wood. It either shows that I'm doing it right or that I learned something. Pretty big trees to cut down, cool old Ford truck, and Stihl saws. I like it!
I love cutting, splitting, stacking! I’ve got two Stihl’s and am contemplating going into the firewood business. Great video!
You boys are cutting that wood like we did here in Texas back when that ole Ford was new. I thought by now they would have found an easier way. The hard part though is the splitting with a maul. Today they have electric, gasoline and even diesel wood splitters that take all the shore nough work out of wood cutting. I have even seen people have a load of logs delivered to their back yards and cut them up and use an electric wood splitter. We heard about wood splitters back in the 60's but non of us had one or had even seen one. Enjoyed that film!
Man, this video makes me want to fire up my saw cut firewood. I used to cut firewood for a living and would do one to three cords per day depending on orders. When I used my pickup and trailer I had racks that measured one cord on the pickup and one half cord on the trailer so the brakes on the pickup weren’t overtaxed and I always added extra wood to make up for the wheel wells. I had a bigger truck with a eighteen foot bed for the three cord days. Sold a load to a state weight s and measures guy one day and he paid extra to have me stack it, he had an area marked off in his garage that measured one cord and I overfilled it. There are way too many woodcutters in my area that cheat and that is why he was checking
Mountain Life sent me here. Love this stuff
Good work! Good felling and rigging. Loaded the old ford right up! Many times over I'm sure. I love firewood season.
Here in eastern Canada I do small scale firewood. I am not near my woodlot at this time as I helped my daughter move to her new city job. Seems like I can't be away from the woods for more than a day without missing it.Your video video helped easy the pain I feel Thanks for sharing.
Love the old truck great video
That is a sweet truck! I have a few from the seventies. Be well
Man them saws are sharp. Awesome video
love that old Ford, I will be moving to ID before too long. I will miss the hardwoods here in the east, so much better than the softwoods in the upper Midwest
Idaho isn't part of the midwest.
Good day Sir,
What a wonderful video I stumbled upon. Truly enjoyed watching it and will watch the rest over the next couple of days.
Have a great day. "FIREWOOD HEATS YOU TWICE"
I like how the default assumption in the comment section seems to be that you don't know what you're doing. From a fellow firewood cutter, I think you're doing great. I wish I had trees like that to work with, I'd rather split big rounds than buck small trees. It's all lodgepole pine and garbage poplar where I am.
Wow !!! That must be MAGIC firewood !!! One minute it's laying on the ground, NEXT minute it's split and jumped up into the truck !!! GASP
mark marchiafava next time I’ll video the splitting process.
I'm a "splitaholic !" At 3-4 AM, you'll find me mesmerized by log splitters !!! My east TN hillbilly wife says " you ain't right, you JUST ain't right." LOL Which saw are you using? Bar length?
mark marchiafava 461 and 440 with 28” bars. Got a 064 again and it will have a 32” bar. I just split with a maul, however there are some 2 1/2-3 foot trees that don’t split well.
a maul would explain why your wood is so large. When using a 27 ton hydraulic splitter, we make thinner pieces than what's on that FINE Ford truck of your's...........WAS planning to cut some more on a red oak some 4-5ft across...............but it's raining
You guys do a really nice job!!😀😀👍👍
I want a pair of those mud flaps for my truck so damn bad
Good work. You make it look easy.
Great video! Makes me want to start gathering for next year.
Great video. You guys are real professionals.
Beautiful truck you have there Sir.
Will last forever ... Looked after ..... :)
awesome video, best thing? was the old Ford truck!!! ^5s from Brian - Nor Cal
Just beautiful I wish I had Doug fir that big that close. It's all been picked from years and new tweakers with a chainsaw.
I've got good Shasta red fir though. Smells so good.
nice truck I did this a couple years with a 67 2 ton Chevy 12ft flat I would cut and split one week and haul the next made 300 bucks a load of i stacked it
Hey, cool video. Great wood truck. I am just north of the boarder from you,fir/ larch goes for around 240/cord cdn. Have an 066 that cuts and bucks surprisingly much faster than my 461. Hand split double bitter, cord in the truck 3 hours if I don't have to hunt for a good stick. Wish many pumpkins for you!
Craig Ernest I had a 064 that was great. My 461 is ported. It would probably keep up with my 064 I had. Never should have sold that 064.
I don't know how i got here, but i like to see the real deal on how to get firewood.....well done!
Cool truck too!
Great video! Let's see some more!
awesom video, wonderful technique
I do miss cutting fir. Left the west coast 3 years ago. Now I don't know what any tree is for certain on the east coast but I can spot an oak.. [they're usually 6+ feet in diameter over here!] Can't wait to get my hands on some hickory, ash, maple and all the others I've been hearing about. So far the only trees I've cut over here that I knew for certain what they were are cypress, oak, pine, juniper, poplar, and black walnut. Shame I'll probably never see another madrone again.
Like your style that’s how it’s done
Nice old ford truck
I love the sound of a tree hittin the ground
When you were cutting off logs for firewood size, you held you saw with one hand as the sharpness of the chain pulled the saw into the log. You went over a little less than halfway. I do EXACTLY the same thing when I cut logs and have the piece I am cutting out of the dirt and upright so the chain will not strike the ground or pinch. Yet I have let that saw cut MORE than halfway through the log, almost about 6 inches PAST halfway. Man, when you pull that sucka' back, and it starts to bite the back wood as you drop the saw, watch how fast that saw drops down the un-cut portion of the log....like butter.
You may think I am nuts but man, I just LOVE to hold that bad baby as she "falls" down the back cut of that log. Great video though! Loved it.
Great choice of music
Nice ..... Work .Greetings from Germany ..Peter and the small dog -Heinz-
Come from the land of the Stihl chain saws
Beautiful lumber for firewood....
Nice job man. Nice to see someone else who knows how to put an under cut in. Pretty good lookin' Douglas and tamarak too. What part of Idaho you in? I spent most my child hood in new meadows doing the same thing with my grandad.
Jake Mesa north of Potlatch mostly. Some of it we cut up on the Palouse drainage.
darrenpalms I know right where your at. My dad used to do some high line falling out of Avery and St Mary's when I was a kid. Ben through there a few times tramping around the logging op' s. Your in good country bud, I miss it. Keep up the good work!!
Nice video man,keep it up :) Greetings from Croatia. BTW where was filmed?
Vladimir Cvjetojević northern Idaho.
Mountain Life sent me 🤙
Nice Video, i like zhis! German saws seemed to be quite apprecciated in the US and A.
Around here, in NE US, especially Dolmar. For reasons.
Look like good house logs.
There seems to be 119 people who must be a real pain to know as they must be perfect ! We can all find fault in any video we watch but I didn't think any here was worth a dislike ? As always a good "watch" from you.
I agree those are saw logs. I would put them through the wood mizer and the scraps are the firewood
Watching this I could smell the douglas fir..
The music of your chainsaw is much better then what is playing.
Edward Carberry Ted Nugent and his 10 fingers of doom?!?! Gotta love it!
good little Decca and low excellent abatement®️®️
Cool truck
Prolijo buena leňa
Excellent video! Shots and timing are awesome!
What kind of Stihl saws were you using?
Justin Lund ported 461 and a 440. Nice saws!
darrenpalms 25"?
Justin Lund 28”. They pull really well. Full skip square ground.
darrenpalms is the 440 the predecessor of the 441 cm magnum?
Justin Lund yes. The 441 phased out the 440.
I am jealous so straight with not to many limbs. The trees where I live are not near this nice . we have to fight with tons of limbs. But we also dont have to drag the trees up hill .
sandman sandman we do find some limby ones at times. Firewood trees are getting harder to find every year so the majority of the time we have to pull trees uphill 😡.
Schon Wahnsinn, was ihr als "Feuerholz" bezeichnet!!!!!
Würde hier im Gefängnis enden.
Rudibaba 1984 that’s why we are different 🙂
Excellent.
What kind of axe are you using?
H. White I have a couple mauls. One is a cheap Collins and the other is a pawn shop head that I put a fiberglass handle in. Both work good.
Beautiful 64
Cool old ford stake truck
Wish I had those logs for the log cabin I will be building this summer. Most of our big softwood got hit by the Bark Beatle which devastated our forest.
Best video you done yet. Love those 461's. How do you like the Maxflow?
kyle smith kyle smith I like the Maxflow filters. They do a great job keeping out dust fines and debris. Cleaning them isn't the best but I rather have a good running saw then a blown up one. Both of my 440 and 461 are awesome!
That 440 sounds like a beast. I need to pick up a Maxflow for my 044.
kyle smith that 440 runs nice. I need to rebuild my dads 044. He's been running my backup saw (440). Love those 044s!
You must really like the 461 if the 440 is your backup. Are they running 7 or 8 pin rims?
kyle smith my 461 is ported and had some work done. She runs great! I use 7 pins. I've used 8 pins when I had a 064 and on my 2100 just to get more chain speed.
Love your truck! Nice saws. 461's?
David Harris one is a 461 and the other is a 440. They are great saws.
nice
So beautiful logs finish in stove wood is a crime
whear stanley not if it’s making good $$
There is nothing like wood heat though!
All these video with people using chainsaws rarely have safety equipment. Eye protection, Chaps, should always be used.
Tom Pasquini Aha, I can't afford that crap. Just work safe...
Don't need if you are not dumb or a cityidiot
If you're not dumb, there's still the concept of an "accident". PPE is always a smart idea. No matter how careful and skilled you are.
They make safety pants you can wear under your jeans most professional loggers don't wear regular chaps too hot and they get caught on everything. Kinda deadly when you're on thick brush felling trees for your chaps to get caught and cause you to fall
Such nice wood would have made great lumber but you got to get heat...
Are you on the FaceBook group "North Idaho work saws and wood cutters"? Truck looks familiar.
Nice video BTW!
Travis jellison you betcha!!! 1964 Ford one ton. Not very many guys using them today!
Sweet!
great video. just like we do it. yall in the nw area?
1na row north idaho.
ahh. just like it says in the begining.
why are you cutting toward the wedge
Charlie Charles I didn’t cut toward the wedge, I back barred the one backcut away from the wedge.
i wonder if u have a license,,, idaho right
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Lolitabonita Right
is that tamerack
D1 Big Shifter most of it was red fir or Doug fir. One load of tamarack .
Looks like you can get 2 cord on that truck??
Jim Jackson we made the racks so we could haul 2 cords. Good eye!
AT 4x4x8, looks like it. I cut mines in half so I have, 2x4x16
Two feet long (per log), stacking 4 feet high, and 16 feet long when stacked.. I have not seen a fireplace that burns 4 feet long logs as standard, have you? Wait, Ben Cartwright on Bonanza had a fireplace that big.
That is 128 feet, which WAS a standard cord. I have seen people shorten it by about 34 feet, to 96 feet, and say that is a cord. Am I getting old or what the hell, have they changed the square footage of a cord of wood?
That truck could carry that easily. I used a 2 ton dump and we could get two cords on it easily. If he is stacking un-split logs, he probably can get more than 2 cords.
Bill Baker some people are shorting consumers all the time. You will always get more firewood if you split it when stacking it in a pickup or truck. We built our racks so it’s exactly 2 cord to the top of the racks. We always go over just to confirm that people get at least 2 cord. Trying to cheat people out of firewood is terrible and will create problems.
biology one on one...the rings tell the age of the tree and other signs tell the stress as well....however how long do you think a very thick diameter tree took to get there?
In softwoods like that? 40-60 years.
Uno de Cascantes cagó aquí
3:13 the ole cut and run method, LOL.
Hindge wood looks a little small or nonexistent on some of those. Be safe
greg rupar unfortunately you have to cut small hinges because the trees are so light. Be safe is a must!
those trees look alive r they
Almost 95% of the trees we cut are snags (dead trees) except for blow downs, which are dying once they blow over.
LOVE Ted Nugent!!
I take it you guys are in Idaho? just asking; i do logging, tree service, and fire wood here in Pennsylvania. I have visited Wyoming several times and know they have very strict regulations on their forestry. Just wondering about Idaho; if they require permits and such? Nice truck by the way!
liam brooks yes from Idaho. They require permits to cut firewood. Love that one ton! Just keeps going!
Didn't see how it got from round on the ground to split in the truck.
Ken Matthews splitting pictures are silly.
If you're going to overdub music on a video, it may as well be something cool like Ted Nugents "Hibernation"!!!
Neh, Stranglehold!
Fred Bear Song!!
Personally, I like almost anything by Ted Nugent.
Please tell me that all those trees you fell were more than 2 truckloads!
stevencroon yes they were more than 2 truckloads. One tree was 4 cords in itself.
Wondering if some stihls with rusty bars are going on the market. Understandable. (Husqy/Dolmar partisan here.) Happy chips!
Jacques Blaque the rust looking material is pitch and dirt on our saw bars.
Seems like a waste of good timber. For firewood you don't need such huge and straight trees.
Not allowed to make saw logs out of them so it’s either firewood or let it rot and fall over. If it was on my property, milling would be my choice for sure.
CUT DEAD FALL, DONT BE GREEDY AND WASTFUL,THE BRANCHES ON THOSE TREES CAN MAKE GOOD FIRE LOGS , AND YOU JUST LET THEM ROT IN THE WOODS,PUMPING METHANE IN TO OUR ATMOSPHERE.
MISTERFIXIT MILLER leaving biomass for future plant growth. Thanks for watching
why no safety gear on when processing the trees on the ground? it's frightening to see how many people don't bother.
Not a tree hugger by no means & I'll be the first to tell you I know very little about logging. Which is why I'm asking wouldn't them logs be more valuable as lumber &/or slabbed out for woodworking projects. Maybe junk species of tree but what I'm seeing as a hobby woodworker is a terrible waste of wood & money just for firewood.
Ok so I read the comments after I asked my questions. Found my answers thanks for teaching this old man something.
Glen Akers some of those tree would be make good boards however I don’t have a mill to make them. If I was doing wood work I would probably take one tree only and I wouldn’t sell it.
Ok thanks for the reply
Glen Akers what’s your favorite wood species to work with?
Oh I'm mine is probably the same as most people red or white oak,maple, would love to work with cherry would have to order cherry here if I could afford it.
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Why dont yall burn hardwood
shane chambless good hardwood is limited up in the PNW so we typically cut Douglas fir or western larch (conifers aka softwoods).
Stihl commercial. Where's the firewood? What's that?.... a thumb pointing down... let me just click on that.
Such trees for firewood ?! It would be better for building timber !
the video shows trees that are not dead, nor on the ground, but full of life...so thank you for taking care of the planet and a resource that is in danger of be gone forever...
Lolitabonita it’s funny to listen to you criticize about the trees we fell not being dead but you weren’t there. We also took trees that were on the ground already but since you weren’t there you wouldn’t know that. Don’t point fingers when you don’t have ALL of the details.
PS I have replanted more trees than I will ever cut down to help preserve the forestry resources.
darrenpalms Don't listen to the haters. they just waste your time. Keep doing what you're doing. You can't be personally responsible for the damage done by the big corporations.
You make a good point, we should heat with coal instead.
Ya build your house out of dead rotten wood. Logging has changed a lot in the last 60 years all you probably see is what they show you on the TV. cutting big trees like this actually helps the smaller trees around it survive. He can cut one tree and potentially save 5 or 10
dead as heck those trees are, did not see one drip drop of sap running, or smeared on the stump as it was cut, and I bet you really had a talk with Mother Nature when she blew up Mt St Helens , in 1980, several thousand trees, ''full of Life'' and some streams, full of life, and some people full of life all went DEAD in SECONDS, due to her wrath and fury., and people with chainsaws, went in, cleaned up some of her mess, and utilized what she wasted, for the future generations of people, replanted some area, and others were left to recover by the same power that destroyed them, that being , NATURE
over cutting hinge all the time when the tree is falling is the road to hell
boyse69 if I need it to come off stump I cut the hinge. I’ll leave a hinge if it’s going to hit some surrounding tree limbs or if I’m falling uphill and I want it to stay on the stump. Trust me I always look at each tree because every tree is different.
Please stay safe Sir
boyse69 I will. Falling firewood trees is dangerous because they have no weight to them and it requires you to make a smaller hinge and wedging is scary. A lot of people get hurt. Thanks for watching.
Agreed. Felling dead trees is the devil. I got a lever instead of a wedge for dead stuff. I've had a couple tops break off from the shock of the axe hitting the wedge, aside from the showers of pine cones.
Thats not firewood......thats saw logs......what a waste.
Don Motz not very good saw logs. Limby and most of them were checked pretty good.
NP....but I've sawed worse into useable lumber and timbers....
Don Motz a log is only a saw log if you have need of lumber.
i bought an ak mill after years of cutting up primo dug fur into rounds. made several slabs this summer, pays better than the firewood does too
Badass Welding Videos the market for sawing slabs or lumber isn’t the best. Personally if I could afford an Alaskan mill I would cut some for my personal use.
good to watch but had to turn off the sound ,,
Matt Walker hibernation is a good song!! 😀
this pisses me off... takes trees that has fallen over and are dead instetad of cutting down a tree that is still alive....
Trees are a renewable resource you dumb fuck. Oil or propane or natural gas isn't. You know the stuff you probably heat your house with. And dead trees don't burn if they are rotted. Get a life. Heating a house with fire wood is the greenest thing you can do.
something more to say?
@@59FIFTYNEWERA1 wow you are a total idiot
Am I the only one smart enough to understand this was a sarcastic post? Everyone else is getting all upset.
Fuckin leftist
65 ford tk is a flat bed with wood racks V8 asking 3k for tk
Allan Sater I wish! Pictures?!?!
Allan Sater can you send pictures of truck where you located
D1 Big Shifter northern Idaho.
This appears to be some type of softwood. Care to elaborate? Ponderosa Pine possibly? Anyway even a dull chain is able to cut through a softwood. Try cutting some real hardwood. Like some Maple, or Oak or Beach.
kenskip1 no P pine. Almost all Douglas Fir and some Western Larch. We don’t have much for hardwood. Nice thing about softwood is splitting. I do all of mine by hand (maul). Hardwood last longer but is tough to split. We keep our chains sharp for the most part. A dull chain is not good.
Lewie McNeely creosote buildup is mainly caused by wet or unseasoned firewood. Some say high pitch trees cause creosote but it’s not true. Seasoned Tamarack or Douglas Fir burn pretty clean.
I've heard that hemlock does too but not many people use pine for anything but kindling and lumber here. I split all mine and wished I could trust pine but too many homes have burned down because of it. The rosin is hard to get rid of. Even with a 3-wall stainless pipe it'll condense at the top and smother the rest. I pass but I understand what you're saying. All my hardwood is cured out a year ahead of time under shelter and open all around. It'll 'tink' when tapped together. Little to no creosote buildup.
They aren't real hardwoods, try some redgum or iron bark here in Australia. They make those look like softwood
A man has to cut what he has access to. In my area Doug Fir is the main source. When fully dries makes a nice fir and is a joy to split even by hand.
pine wood is bad to much soot and creasote will get in the chimmey
Tim Bolt the wood cut in this video is Douglas fir or Western Larch. If you season pine it won’t creosote near as bad.
What are you talking about? Of course fir, birch around these parts of Canada are best options but dead pine is all over from the pine beetle, and pine burns just fine no creosote. You must be mistaken with poplar cause pine is just fine
So let me get this straight, you're cutting logs that would make great money as saw logs, yet you're using it for firewood? Why not cut the uglier trees out and let the nice ones prosper and cut the nice ones for a local mill? And learn some ergonomics and safe work.
ZombieFighterOf2001 before you criticize all of these trees (snags) are on Forest Service land and will not be harvested for years to come. Also because these trees are dead they will rot and fall to the ground causing fuel loading for forest fires. To a logger snags are nothing more then pulp or wood logs. So we remove these trees for personal use and to sell to others. I’m doing the forest and the public a good service. No need to tell me how to learn some ergonomics and how to work safe.
Well judging from 1:02, you definitely could learn a little bit about ergonomics. We always adjust to our work height with our knees, not our back. Kneel down instead of bending your back. And still, dead standing if it isn't rotten is still good for celulose wood, firewood is actually the least profitable for a business because you use extra fuel for cutting it into length and splitting it.
ZombieFighterOf2001 at the 1:02 that’s my friend who is 6’6” so getting up and down every 16” is tough. Gallon of saw gas is $4-5 with bar oil which I can cut 4-5 cords worth. I split by hand so no cost there. You don’t need to worry about my production and profits I’ll be ok.
Well since you don't have a company sure, but if you did that full time, eventually you'd notice how little profit firewood is. Spruce for mills goes for about 30-50€/m3 and you cut it at around 8,2m, an 8 meter long and 40cm wide log is about 1 m3. So you only have to bring the tree down, limb it and then buck it out. For firewood most people won't even buy softwoods and not many buy mixed hardwoods, aside from that, beech firewood goes for about 30€/m3 if there's demand, plus extra cost of having to buck it out at more frequent which uses considerably more gas, you also have to split it which still costs time (and time is money for a company). 1:02 i'd still say it would be smarter to just bend your knees a bit and rest your elbows on your legs so the weight is transferred on your legs than to work bent down which will wreck your back especially when working with a heavy saw.
ZombieFighterOf2001 in the Pacific Northwest a lot of people are burning softwood because hardwoods are less available. Making $200-$220/cord is pretty good and the demand for this firewood is great. Judging from your profile you’re not from around here and your idea of taking pulp wood to mill for profit without a loader or log truck and trailer it’s pointless. Most logging outfits deck up wood log trees and sell them for firewood because they make more money than trying to sell it for pulp.
It's pine. Soft wood Not hard wood. Not firewood.
Wayne Verellen it’s Douglas Fir and Western Larch. It’s firewood.
I'm not sure what you mean...pine is firewood.
It's not like ash or maple. It burns to quick. Good outside wood. Not much for a stove.
In Wa that kinda shit is is illegal, don't know what kinda of stupid laws you have going on out there.
Ram-n_dodge why is it illegal? We have permits and none of the trees are green and not on a active timber sale.
for USDA lands: Around here permits do not allow felling, down, dead and under that size. depending on the ranger district for diameter, some are only allowed wood under 20" in diameter. I haven't been able to get a DNR permit ever, always closed.
sure do with i could cut stuff like that though, your lucky to find anything that isn't alder.
Ram-n_dodge that’s why Idaho is better 😊. Where we cut people are pretty good about taking dead stuff. Once in a while someone will take greener trees.
kill the music...and it is very very very sad to see those trees coming down...they took so so so so so so many years to get tall and thick and this guys just kill them in less than an hour...shame on you guys!!
Lolitabonita trees are dead already. Shame on you for not liking Ted Nugent ...thanks for watching.
Lolitabonita rings in a tree do not correspond to years but rather stresses. We have no way of telling a trees age.
Lolitabonita lol all the trees he cut were already dead
darrenpalms where did you get that info, of course the rings indicate the age of the tree, each ring indicates the wood added each year
By killing those old trees he made plenty of space for young trees to grow
Yeah and if the PoPo stopped you I bet it would take a year to pay off that fine for being over loaded, even if it is only pine
skeets it’s licensed to 16,000 LBS so I’m good.
Looks like Douglas Fir to me.
skeets a cord of Douglas fir weighs around three thousand pounds so he’s got six thousand pounds on a truck with a light weight of eight thousand pounds at the most so he’s well within legal limits