Pinecones are fine. No problem. Pinecones are rustic. Kinda peaceful. Yay, pinecones. It's when the little lady says that the squirrels have gone militant and have started dropping grenades down the chimney because they want you OUTTA THEIR BACK YARD that you need to take action, sir! ;-)
your cutter and operator working good together... but always be careful.. i lost a good friend in 1976 doing just what they were .. back then we called them Drots. cutting fence line out and had a good hold on the tree.. J>D cut it and step back under the Droit .. hyd line blowed ..lock out valve did not work ..installed wrong from factory..and when let go tree the boom came down on him.. sad day.. old saying we had in the log woods . it not when you get hurt..it how bad are you going to be hurt. . old man talking .. i had 2 tree get me while working ..retired now . that was some fine timber...an good job!
What a marriage of man and machine, ya'll do a great job! One of the most relaxing videos I've ever watched! I'm work jealous brotherman! Thanks for sharing, God bless
why would god bless someone who gloats about destroying our only source of OXYGEN and carbon sequestration?! (if you even know what that is) This is the most idiotic thing i have ever seen anyone god bless someone for!
@@Earth.Centric once the tree is grown the carbon sequestration is done And you don't know that they aren't planting new trees. Many constents request that.
My uncle had a golf ball driving range on twenty seven acres It had a boarder of about a hundred fifty feet all the around it with east Texas pines on it. We had a bad drought a couple of years before and it took a toll on a few hundred of these pines. We cut four hundred pines out before they went bad and we got through with it it looked as there were never anything cut out of it. It amazes me at how many trees were taken out of it and still looked as if it had never been touched
There’s another channel, “out of the woods forestry”. He was in law enforcement and gave it up to run his own sawmill business. You might like his channel as well.
logging industry actually much more dangerous than law enforcement. you are much more likely to be injured or killed on the job in the timber/lumber industry than law enforcement. source: bureau of labor statistics.
Didn't realize you worked with Andy, I grew up with him and we used to work/cut together a very long time ago, Don't know how I hadn't seen this before Good vid🤘
Right Meow. Love your Texaco cat have one too. Thank you for your reply. You are a person that loves and respect the land we have and understand that we can grow without destroying everything around us. My wish is that some day a parking lot will be removed to start a forest.
If it makes you feel better, I once removed over 2 miles of roads so the forrest could reclaim the land. On the same project I placed 200 logs with their root-wads in the adjacent river for fish habitat. It's not all demolition....
Love the last comment on this video at the very end ...Be sure to send that red cedar full of ants to the mill .Yuck would have just burned it right there.. stay safe great video
I’ve seen those two-man saws in a museum on Vancouver Island with a four stroke engine at one end. Big trees and big blokes to wield it! I was a young plant fitter at the time and even I thought I wouldn’t be strong enough to run it :o)
Oh, I also appreciate the operator for using the bucket to lift the tracks and making smooth arched turns rather than tearing the s#it out of the forest floor. Cool practices guys, low impact/high yield. Totally professional, respectful and responsible!
I like that lift move with machine to avoid binding on the back cut! Anyone butt hurt about one handing the saw doesn't understand the ergonomics of that particular situation, that saw was deep in the cut and completely under control. Nice work boys!
How I would have loved to have a slab or two of some of those trees 🌲, the custom table that I could have made for my family. Pity that your are so far away, keep safe.
The sound of chain saws sped up is surprisingly musical. Ah, a new class of music; Industrial Pastoral . My hat off to these two guys working together like one. The potential for serious bloody accidents is so high if you do not have 100% situational awareness all the time....even when eating lunch. In your business you don't do anything without a reason so as to not surprise your partner. I liked seeing the ground kept clear so the excavator and the guy on the ground can move about easily and quickly when needed to avoid a situation. It was good to see such professional tree work. Great video.
Thank you, Mr Hofmann. Days like these go buy very quickly because it’s constant concentration and focus. I appreciate your acknowledgment of what’s being shown here.
@@NorthwestSawyer I spent a few summers cutting trees in the high Sierra's years ago on a crew that practiced safety first and liked to work. Thanks for replying. Have a good holiday.
I like watching guys using the right equipment and knowing how to use it. I seen a video of a large dozer with a tree grinder on the front of it running over full grown trees and just grinding them into dust, but I can't find the video anymore or I would share it....this was a good video
probably would be more of a light white type of wood. on certain cottonwoods theres a red darks marks on the inside. some of them have a darker core but the outer diameter is mostly white or very light of a color!
I hope you can get some of the butt ends /stumps that we saw which were just big and all crotch. Love the Linkbelt-o-saurous too! enjoyed your editing on this one, the sound track was pretty cool as you tied it into the fast time action.
One thing I don't see is tree companies having heavy equipment other than a skid steer and a bucket truck. It'd make sense to have a big excavator with several attachments. Then you can manhandle the tree instead of rigging up all sorts of pulleys and ropes. Even a crane, I never see tree companies with a crane so they could just cut the tree at the base while dangling it from the top. Then you could cut 5 foot chunks out and lower it each time. Cranes are 500 grand, sure. Why not invest? A crane would be a must have if I had a tree company. Then it'd take 2 guys with chainsaws to lop it up as it got lowered. The tree would come down in a matter of hours instead of rigging up all those damned ropes.
Well, we’re an excavation contractor that is doing some logging in this video. We’re probably going after it with more iron than a regular logging operation would but it’s definitely easier with all the equipment we have at our disposal.
It's always sad to see trees cut down especially big ones that are many decades old but, most of those you cut down didn't look to be in particularly good shape. Anyway good clean and safe job, you two certain are a great team and very professional, all he best and stay safe. By the way I'm not an eco warrior.
You know, Ben, of the over 1.5 million people who’ve watched this, I think you’re the first person to actually realize what they’re looking at. Many of the neighbors to this site were happy to see the trees go before they fell on their houses.
@@NorthwestSawyer so? That's what people get for buying property taking a day own property they don't own shit because they pay rent on it call tax it just goes to show when you got money and power you can do whatever the hell you want some of those trees will never grow back again it's mankind as the infestation not the fucking trees
@@augustreil yes know kidding i had to read it 4 times and still dont get what all he is saying, it like that person has had a stroke and just puts some kind of words down
I've seen ants and other insects in an on trees, but nothing anything like that cedar. Wow! And squirrels can make you consider another place to park. The crane operator and the sawyer work well together, a well-practiced team looks like
1 million, 600k and 1.....you're welcome! Lol! When you said the ants were pouring out like water, I didn't think it would actually be ants pouring out like water. That was crazy! It reminded me of the seen in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!
I figured this was in the northwest before I saw the name Northwest Sawyer. Doug fir, Cottonwood, Maple, Cedar, Yep, thats got to be the NW. I came from 3 generations of loggers from Woodinville, WA. This is what men do in the great Northwest.
I am definitely not trying to tell you how to cut trees. i understand the Humbolt notch, However I've always wondered why you western guys don't use an open face notch. A narrow notch closes before the tree hits the ground so you end up with pulled wood and cracking on the butt log. Sure helps when you have "the CLAW" working with you!!!
Lol... I was just thinking the gallery should have finished his cut ... Or at least bucked back 4'on the sort when he scaled it. He wouldn't have gotten a deduct at the sort yard $$$$
Boy that machine sure makes falling trees alot easier and safer......nice.....that ant scene was crazy.....never seen that many in a tree in my life.......side point....whats the land being used for.....a subdivision?....stay safe my friend.
As for the ants, you would think that the feller would of got covered in them as he made his cuts. My question is was he aware of their presence as he cutting
I doubt that you get to read this for a while as it sounds super busy there. I cut cedar on the Olympic peninsula around Forks washington. I had to buck all timber standing and down were all to go. I found an insane sized cedar that must of been columbus time, I had bucked it into at the sixteen foot level/length and was walking away and it made a sound and rolled away from where it layed for a minimum two hundred years judging on what had stood on top of the tree. It never went far but you could see that splitting it into was easy peasy and so what the heck, ran a couple relief cuts and put a wedge to it and it was in half. Both laying on their backs with heart facing the sun... what was left of it as it was about half an half but there in the middles was ants! one end had some black ants but the bulk and most were at the other starting at the bottom. Boys being boys we tossed them into each others camps so there was just a few of one and hells of the other and the war was on!!! Wowzer was that a battle and of course the little red ones are the dominate winners. Those are plumb evil and I have had them go down inside my long handles and it was near insanity so I peeled all my clothes off and waded into the creek and tried to set but that water was so cold... still feel it, took clothes to the creek and rinsed them and then freezing went to the crew bus just to find out we were ready to go anyway. I got a hella cold from that one
I saw deer had to move out since you destroyed his home . Good work who needs nature. Oh smashing a spider for no reason ag all, would have been to easy to let him pass on by.
the deer will have so much nice feed grow up in there now that the forest floor thats been block of light that nothing grows on the ground, witch means no feed for the deer, now that it is open nice alders and new trees will pop from the ground and be ready by the next year as great feed for them, them trees should have been cut 20 years ago, they are all old and in bad shape, and not long before they all would be on the ground so to old age, people need to pull there heads out of there ass and see that things just dont live for ever, and see the huge forest fire danger
Oh nothing lives forever, really. So with that gorilla math everything should be killed. And i didnt know you were trying to help thar deer. And trees do serve a purpose for birds and other animals to make homes. But this is no matter to you.
@@jamiepoteet6712 like i said them tree are well past there time, if you notice all the center rot, it wouldnt be to many years and they would be standing dead and falling over making a perfect setting to start a huge forest fire that would burn thousand of acers and home, a new cutting area start new fresh new growth of feed that has never been there before as sun couldnt rea the ground, so everything on the ground dyes off from the canopy blocking it, if you are a tree huger get your head exsamend. it you cant see the center rot.. that tells you, there life span is long past, we need much more cutting or old stands of timber to help keep wild fires at bay, whole citys have been lost to huge forst fire started in over aged timber, and moves fast though young timber, and yes a lot of things need to be killed, many areas the timber is totaly dead because it was not cut, and to protect thwe rest of the forest, the ministry do prescribed burns in the winter to burn it off in a controlled way,, them trees would be dead before long and wasted.. cutting tres down dont kill it, new shoot prout from there roots in know time,, just go look at places that were logged 10 years ago, and you wouldnt know it was logger as new trees take over so fast, tou cant stop it, even if you buldozed every stump out, like i dide, it was take over bby new trees 30 feet tall with in 10 years, and now 30 years later it could be cut again. oh and by the way i am willing to bet like all others like you, you live in a huge fancy wood build home, with wood floors, wood studs in the walls, wood trim,, fancy fancy.. were do you think that wood comes from, the wood ferry?
Okay @ 17:50 Those are NOT ants, those are Carpenter Flies! They are much more aggressive and sexually promiscuous than their Ant counterparts and that's what makes them such a nuisance. They breed and multiply at an unbelievable rate. My Grandma told me all about Carpenter Flies, see, she had a surprise infestation just a few weeks ago, I had called her to ask if I could move in with her and take the guest bedroom for "a little while", she told me to hang on because she had to check if the room was in a state worthy of her Favorite Grandson and, as it turns out, it was not. "Total Swarm of Carpenter Flies" she told me, "And if it weren't for me you would have never found them till it was too late." I boasted in response, to which she hurriedly agreed. She told me it was probably going to take a few months to get it fixed and I shouldn't call her during that time because she's going to be really busy trying to fix everything. Ciao.
I had initially hoped for a fellerbunchers!!!!! Dont know how to say it or spell it, but you have to love a beast that can grab it, cut it, and chuck it! I like the wide jaws on this as well...
The best part was the breaking news flash concerning pinecones being dropped on the house. Loved the way you listened.
Well, Bud. That’s all that mattered at that moment. Sometimes you have to stop and listen😬
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When the boss speaks, you listen ;)
Pinecones are fine. No problem. Pinecones are rustic. Kinda peaceful. Yay, pinecones. It's when the little lady says that the squirrels have gone militant and have started dropping grenades down the chimney because they want you OUTTA THEIR BACK YARD that you need to take action, sir! ;-)
@@NorthwestSawyer I had to stop your video and give a little lady attention 🤪
your cutter and operator working good together... but always be careful.. i lost a good friend in 1976 doing just what they were .. back then we called them Drots. cutting fence line out and had a good hold on the tree.. J>D cut it and step back under the Droit .. hyd line blowed ..lock out valve did not work ..installed wrong from factory..and when let go tree the boom came down on him.. sad day.. old saying we had in the log woods . it not when you get hurt..it how bad are you going to be hurt. . old man talking .. i had 2 tree get me while working ..retired now . that was some fine timber...an good job!
jess taylor was its drott Poclain or straight drott with a funny turn table.
I watched it for the ants. So worth it!! Thanks!
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a whole lot of trust between you 2....impressed !
What a marriage of man and machine, ya'll do a great job! One of the most relaxing videos I've ever watched! I'm work jealous brotherman! Thanks for sharing, God bless
Thank you!
why would god bless someone who gloats about destroying our only source of OXYGEN and carbon sequestration?! (if you even know what that is) This is the most idiotic thing i have ever seen anyone god bless someone for!
@@Earth.Centric once the tree is grown the carbon sequestration is done
And you don't know that they aren't planting new trees. Many constents request that.
@@Earth.Centric it's called managed forestry and it usually has a effect on the planet
I really enjoyed this one! Those trees are huge and the bucket on that machine is awesome. That would be some fun work!
Thanks, James! Sometimes some mindless ripping and tearing is good for the soul😬
Gets rid of the pent up aggressions and hostilities.............or at least calms them a bit.
Thanks. I had not seen excavator assisted tree falling. What a great idea, expensive but what a time saver and safety enhancement. Great stuff.
I was mostly helping with the trees along the property lines or other obstacles but it really is a massive time saver.
My uncle had a golf ball driving range on twenty seven acres It had a boarder of about a hundred fifty feet all the around it with east Texas pines on it. We had a bad drought a couple of years before and it took a toll on a few hundred of these pines. We cut four hundred pines out before they went bad and we got through with it it looked as there were never anything cut out of it. It amazes me at how many trees were taken out of it and still looked as if it had never been touched
That is a lot of lumber!
Great video! The teamwork and the experience of your crew is very evident.
Fast and safe!
I spent 4 years in the lumber industry while in college, then did 28 years in law enforcement.... I enjoyed the lumber job so much more!!
There’s another channel, “out of the woods forestry”. He was in law enforcement and gave it up to run his own sawmill business. You might like his channel as well.
logging industry actually much more dangerous than law enforcement.
you are much more likely to be injured or killed on the job in the timber/lumber industry than law enforcement. source: bureau of labor statistics.
Road construction too. Which we do as well.
Didn't realize you worked with Andy, I grew up with him and we used to work/cut together a very long time ago, Don't know how I hadn't seen this before Good vid🤘
What’s your name? I’ll be working with him today.
I it brakes my heart ❤️ to see such trees go down
Right Meow. Love your Texaco cat have one too. Thank you for your reply. You are a person that loves and respect the land we have and understand that we can grow without destroying everything around us. My wish is that some day a parking lot will be removed to start a forest.
If it makes you feel better, I once removed over 2 miles of roads so the forrest could reclaim the land. On the same project I placed 200 logs with their root-wads in the adjacent river for fish habitat. It's not all demolition....
Love the last comment on this video at the very end ...Be sure to send that red cedar full of ants to the mill .Yuck would have just burned it right there.. stay safe great video
I love the kid, squarels dropping honey Combs on the house!
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I'm a cabinet and furniture builder. Several of those trees could build a whole kitchen.🤣
Wow, as a firewood cutter, and seller, my mouth waters just seeing so much firewood, and hoping it isn't going to a fire pile.
I’ve seen those two-man saws in a museum on Vancouver Island with a four stroke engine at one end. Big trees and big blokes to wield it! I was a young plant fitter at the time and even I thought I wouldn’t be strong enough to run it :o)
Great videos, you guys know what you're doing. Highly skilled crew!
Thank you!
Thanks very much for the cool video!
Good teamwork.
Thank you, Tony!
Great video! I bet handling that saw all day will wear a guy out! Those were some big trees!
He was pretty cooked after an 8 hour day but he’s an animal. 😬
He'd HAVE to be!
You were kidding about the ants! A veritable river of them.
Thanks for the video.
Oh, I also appreciate the operator for using the bucket to lift the tracks and making smooth arched turns rather than tearing the s#it out of the forest floor. Cool practices guys, low impact/high yield. Totally professional, respectful and responsible!
Thank you, sir. Lifting the tracks makes for much faster turns as well.
That triple play was cool 14:34
I miss cutting timber. I done it for nearly 30 years. Best job I ever had.
That’s man’s work right there.
Northwest Sawyer it was rough some days. I carried a 288 Husqvarna saw.
@@randlerichardson5826 288 Husky, thats almost 4 ft long isn't it.
pecker shaft yep I packed it up and down the hills here in TN several years. That’s when we had big timber here. The big stuff is gone now.
17:43 "ANTS" Is an understatement!!!
Tks dad for including your little one ❤❤
She’s a show-stealer!
Something very satisfying about watching this!
Can't believe I've never seen your channel before it's awesome. Another subscriber keep em coming 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿
Welcome and thank you, Jimmy_digz#Deep #!
Jimmy_digz#Deep # houdy Jimmy
I like that lift move with machine to avoid binding on the back cut! Anyone butt hurt about one handing the saw doesn't understand the ergonomics of that particular situation, that saw was deep in the cut and completely under control. Nice work boys!
Good operator on the excavator
Thank you!
Nice to see a youtuber in my area
How I would have loved to have a slab or two of some of those trees 🌲, the custom table that I could have made for my family. Pity that your are so far away, keep safe.
Phil Boardman especially the cedar or the walnut
25 foot long bar ( drinks extra )
Walnut slab please lol, no seriously
tis great to watch men work when they know what their doing, nice job
Thank you, James!
Great video! Thanks!
Bruce
Thank you, Bruce!
@@NorthwestSawyer : Gotta love a good excavator! Handy piece of gear!
But useless without the guy on the saw. It’s truly a pleasure to work with a master of the saw.
Your operation of that loader is so natural looking, it's like a third arm. It really shows how long you have been logging.
Thank you. Almost 28 years. 👍
Now that’s cutting lumber! Nothing beats the sound of a hi-performance two-stroke. Amazing job guys, keep up the good work and be safe.
Thank you, Michael!
Theres that 30' beam for you! Thats good stuff. Makes me want to get some more time in a big excavator again. So effortless! Good shot with the ants!
Thanks, Bus. It’s been a fun week so far. Those ants were unreal!
The ant shot is like something out of an Indiana Jones movie. Amazing to see that equipment pick up big trees like toothpicks! Thanks for taping!
Thanks, Steve!
The sound of chain saws sped up is surprisingly musical. Ah, a new class of music; Industrial Pastoral . My hat off to these two guys working together like one. The potential for serious bloody accidents is so high if you do not have 100% situational awareness all the time....even when eating lunch. In your business you don't do anything without a reason so as to not surprise your partner.
I liked seeing the ground kept clear so the excavator and the guy on the ground can move about easily and quickly when needed to avoid a situation. It was good to see such professional tree work. Great video.
Thank you, Mr Hofmann. Days like these go buy very quickly because it’s constant concentration and focus. I appreciate your acknowledgment of what’s being shown here.
@@NorthwestSawyer I spent a few summers cutting trees in the high Sierra's years ago on a crew that practiced safety first and liked to work. Thanks for replying. Have a good holiday.
It’s awesome 👏.
Seem to me that my bank account will be always empty.....I keep my job.
Good job 👍 and nice video.
Thank you sir.
1:10 I loved the news report. Lol just in. .....
Great video
Thank you!
Never seen ants POUR like liquid out of a cut! Seen ants, but not like that! Very cool video!
Oh heck yeah! Where you guys workin at? Love the excavator assist!
Canby, Oregon
Notice how well they work together, not hardly a word between them as they each know their own job!
@@NorthwestSawyer You guys hiring ?
Yes, Mike. Are you local?
I was just thinking the same about that spider!! Glad I found this channel!
Great video! A couple good-looking excavators. Those clam grapples look way more handy than a regular bucket and thumb for this application!
They are! When I’ve run one all day and switch to a bucket and thumb I find myself trying to hit the swivel button. We have three of those clams.
Good job guys that what I do on my own and I cut tree started at 10 year old ner 60 still cut 6 cords every years.
Nice movie, thank you sir. From Siberia.
Thank you!
That Machine sure does Work FAST! How do they get it to move so Quickly!
Lol
I like watching guys using the right equipment and knowing how to use it. I seen a video of a large dozer with a tree grinder on the front of it running over full grown trees and just grinding them into dust, but I can't find the video anymore or I would share it....this was a good video
Thank you, Kenneth! I appreciate the comment.
Nice vdo
I would love to see the color of a Cottonwood if you ever put one on the mill.
probably would be more of a light white type of wood. on certain cottonwoods theres a red darks marks on the inside. some of them have a darker core but the outer diameter is mostly white or very light of a color!
I hope you can get some of the butt ends /stumps that we saw which were just big and all crotch.
Love the Linkbelt-o-saurous too!
enjoyed your editing on this one, the sound track was pretty cool as you tied it into the fast time action.
Fast time is a very good point,otherwise can tough to watch
Very very good
One thing I don't see is tree companies having heavy equipment other than a skid steer and a bucket truck. It'd make sense to have a big excavator with several attachments. Then you can manhandle the tree instead of rigging up all sorts of pulleys and ropes. Even a crane, I never see tree companies with a crane so they could just cut the tree at the base while dangling it from the top. Then you could cut 5 foot chunks out and lower it each time. Cranes are 500 grand, sure. Why not invest? A crane would be a must have if I had a tree company. Then it'd take 2 guys with chainsaws to lop it up as it got lowered. The tree would come down in a matter of hours instead of rigging up all those damned ropes.
Well, we’re an excavation contractor that is doing some logging in this video. We’re probably going after it with more iron than a regular logging operation would but it’s definitely easier with all the equipment we have at our disposal.
It's always sad to see trees cut down especially big ones that are many decades old but, most of those you cut down didn't look to be in particularly good shape.
Anyway good clean and safe job, you two certain are a great team and very professional, all he best and stay safe.
By the way I'm not an eco warrior.
You know, Ben, of the over 1.5 million people who’ve watched this, I think you’re the first person to actually realize what they’re looking at. Many of the neighbors to this site were happy to see the trees go before they fell on their houses.
@@NorthwestSawyer so? That's what people get for buying property taking a day own property they don't own shit because they pay rent on it call tax it just goes to show when you got money and power you can do whatever the hell you want some of those trees will never grow back again it's mankind as the infestation not the fucking trees
@@charlesneely not another environMENTAL, nut.
@@charlesneely, If you wish to make a point, at least speak English so we all can understand What the fuck you're saying !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@augustreil yes know kidding i had to read it 4 times and still dont get what all he is saying, it like that person has had a stroke and just puts some kind of words down
Those ants though... wow!
right?
I think I would have had to dump gas on that one and light it! That was crazy!
I’ve never seen anything like that massive farm of ants they flowed like water. Great video!
I like that bucket! Wish I had one for my excavator .
I've seen ants and other insects in an on trees, but nothing anything like that cedar. Wow!
And squirrels can make you consider another place to park.
The crane operator and the sawyer work well together, a well-practiced team looks like
1 million, 600k and 1.....you're welcome! Lol! When you said the ants were pouring out like water, I didn't think it would actually be ants pouring out like water. That was crazy! It reminded me of the seen in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!
I’d never seen anything like it.
I lived on the upper Klickitat River in the 50's when they were cutting the first growth Ponderosa Pine
need to supply the kids with BB guns !!
Then I’d have a squirrel AND a window problem 😬
I have several old-growth Doug Fir stumps on my property with plank notches axed into them. Probably from the same era.
try explaining to kids just how big trees were then and how they were cut down ... I also lived in Sedro Woolley where the REALLY BIG 'UNS were !!
Awesome video thanks for sharing that
I appreciate you taking a look, Dave!
I figured this was in the northwest before I saw the name Northwest Sawyer. Doug fir, Cottonwood, Maple, Cedar, Yep, thats got to be the NW. I came from 3 generations of loggers from Woodinville, WA. This is what men do in the great Northwest.
This was in Canby, Oregon.
5:01 A sped up chainsaw sounds like a jazz saxophone solo.
I woulda done the same thing to that Black Widow or whatever type it was! LOL
Cutting timber is hard work. That guy with the saw knows his stuff. That machine is something else also. Both worked great together. Loved this video.
Thanks, Dennis. I love watching a good faller.
Nothing nicer than flat ground and fair weather.
Maybe the day off to enjoy it?😬
I am definitely not trying to tell you how to cut trees. i understand the Humbolt notch, However I've always wondered why you western guys don't use an open face notch. A narrow notch closes before the tree hits the ground so you end up with pulled wood and cracking on the butt log.
Sure helps when you have "the CLAW" working with you!!!
Would have saved the splintered maple butt 3rd tree in....open notch...
The sawyer definitely cracked alot of butt logs. Lost at least a grade on many. He should have followed the notch around on each side at least 6".
I thought the same thing watching the video. Alot of ripped out heart wood.
Lol... I was just thinking the gallery should have finished his cut ... Or at least bucked back 4'on the sort when he scaled it. He wouldn't have gotten a deduct at the sort yard $$$$
Boy that machine sure makes falling trees alot easier and safer......nice.....that ant scene was crazy.....never seen that many in a tree in my life.......side point....whats the land being used for.....a subdivision?....stay safe my friend.
Yes, Don. 80 houses I believe. The bees have been crazy too. My ground guy was hit 9 times in three days.
The saw guy gets my hat off and a lot of my hair. That's no baby saw he's hauling around all day. And he's probably 75 ot 80 to top it all off.
Don Motz felling*
Robert...you are wrong......in the context I used its falling.....look it up......or go back to school....... :)
Don Motz no, it’s a universal logging term idiot
Yew is absolutely astounding in its color variation between light and dark. Very striking.
cool creaking cottonwood
Nice falling and teamwork
It really helps when a guy is that good with a saw.
And someone who seans up är around the logger😉
Cleans
We really need a video on them damn squirrels dropping pine cones on the house.
Priorities my friend priorities.
I’m going to set up game cameras everywhere!
Hellova job...like the rakes and brush heads on those excavators....best way to handle alotta brush
Link Belt, my favorite ! My opinion, enough said.
Same thing as a case just like deere and hitachi they all have their quirks
How long did you grow your awesome beard ? I'm still growing mines ,👍
46 years!😬
Hai
This maybe a bigfoot throwing pine cone on your roof to tell you that your music's too loud.. KEK(lol)
Cut anough wood for ten houses wow
Equipment is impressive but the operators are truly amazing.
Thank you, Steve
For sure, very high level of skills. Made it look easy one handing the saw even. Those were some big trees, perfect cuts everytime!
Nice to have that excavator for encouragement
Tarantulas are good dude, that’s the only spider I don’t kill
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As for the ants, you would think that the feller would of got covered in them as he made his cuts. My question is was he aware of their presence as he cutting
He said he could smell something strange. I have more footage that didn’t make it into this video. Im going to make a video tonight showing it all.
He should have sent in the inspector ants, they stop carpenter ants.
Just the ones not carpentering to code🤣
@@NorthwestSawyer Did you ever get around to making that video with the ants?
Trent I started to but there really wasn’t as much footage as I thought. It’s all pretty much there.
So you quit ZZ TOP and went into lumber ? :-)
‘Cause every girl’s crazy ‘bout a sharp sawed man!
@@NorthwestSawyer You're awesome!!
Taunter Atwill I do my best 🤣
Wow, such skill of a crew
Thanks, Joe!
I doubt that you get to read this for a while as it sounds super busy there. I cut cedar on the Olympic peninsula around Forks washington. I had to buck all timber standing and down were all to go. I found an insane sized cedar that must of been columbus time, I had bucked it into at the sixteen foot level/length and was walking away and it made a sound and rolled away from where it layed for a minimum two hundred years judging on what had stood on top of the tree. It never went far but you could see that splitting it into was easy peasy and so what the heck, ran a couple relief cuts and put a wedge to it and it was in half. Both laying on their backs with heart facing the sun... what was left of it as it was about half an half but there in the middles was ants! one end had some black ants but the bulk and most were at the other starting at the bottom. Boys being boys we tossed them into each others camps so there was just a few of one and hells of the other and the war was on!!! Wowzer was that a battle and of course the little red ones are the dominate winners. Those are plumb evil and I have had them go down inside my long handles and it was near insanity so I peeled all my clothes off and waded into the creek and tried to set but that water was so cold... still feel it, took clothes to the creek and rinsed them and then freezing went to the crew bus just to find out we were ready to go anyway. I got a hella cold from that one
Wow! Now there’s a memory!
What did that poor spider do to you 😧
No kidding.
@@SWTBlazers I kill every spider I see.
I’ve watched a lot of cool interesting videos in my day and this one by far was definitely not one of them.
Great comment. Thanks for watching.
Really Travis? These guys work like a well oiled machine. Very professional and effective.
Very impressive tree falling, both men have huge respect for one another. I was a climber for 20 years, but never had the chance to work it like this.
It is a treat to work with someone who truly knows how to read a tree and handle a saw.
Hard working feller with a powerful saw awesome
Please save tha tree 🌲
Imagine being offended over the death of a single spider.
Tell me about it..
Awesome video man. I hope you realize how lucky you are to have such a good saw hand.
Did he pay you to say that, Matthew?🤣
The skill of his driving is unbeleivedable kudos to them both amazing technical ability and knowing there tools hats off to you.
Thank you, Max!
ants at 17:50
Right???
Thank you, sir!
327 people disliked this video bc you killed a spider on camera.
That’s my best guess. Lol.
I think you may be on to something, Spencer.
People feel more empathy for spiders than for ants, seems obvious (and for tress).
Watched this just before heading to bed... now I hear squirrels conspiring, and feel all those ants crawling around... :-)
JH
I hear ya, Jeff. After we spilled the ants, everything that touched me the rest of the day was ants! I was certain! 😬
I would have made table top , out of that, and lots of furniture from rest of tree
I did mill some of the hardwood from this site. Unfortunately a lot of the big fir trees had heart rot and were only good for pulp.
I saw deer had to move out since you destroyed his home . Good work who needs nature. Oh smashing a spider for no reason ag all, would have been to easy to let him pass on by.
I don’t like spiders..(I know they have a place in nature)...but I laughed when the spider got it.
the deer will have so much nice feed grow up in there now that the forest floor thats been block of light that nothing grows on the ground, witch means no feed for the deer, now that it is open nice alders and new trees will pop from the ground and be ready by the next year as great feed for them, them trees should have been cut 20 years ago, they are all old and in bad shape, and not long before they all would be on the ground so to old age, people need to pull there heads out of there ass and see that things just dont live for ever, and see the huge forest fire danger
Oh nothing lives forever, really. So with that gorilla math everything should be killed. And i didnt know you were trying to help thar deer. And trees do serve a purpose for birds and other animals to make homes. But this is no matter to you.
@@jamiepoteet6712 like i said them tree are well past there time, if you notice all the center rot, it wouldnt be to many years and they would be standing dead and falling over making a perfect setting to start a huge forest fire that would burn thousand of acers and home, a new cutting area start new fresh new growth of feed that has never been there before as sun couldnt rea the ground, so everything on the ground dyes off from the canopy blocking it, if you are a tree huger get your head exsamend. it you cant see the center rot.. that tells you, there life span is long past, we need much more cutting or old stands of timber to help keep wild fires at bay, whole citys have been lost to huge forst fire started in over aged timber, and moves fast though young timber, and yes a lot of things need to be killed, many areas the timber is totaly dead because it was not cut, and to protect thwe rest of the forest, the ministry do prescribed burns in the winter to burn it off in a controlled way,, them trees would be dead before long and wasted.. cutting tres down dont kill it, new shoot prout from there roots in know time,, just go look at places that were logged 10 years ago, and you wouldnt know it was logger as new trees take over so fast, tou cant stop it, even if you buldozed every stump out, like i dide, it was take over bby new trees 30 feet tall with in 10 years, and now 30 years later it could be cut again. oh and by the way i am willing to bet like all others like you, you live in a huge fancy wood build home, with wood floors, wood studs in the walls, wood trim,, fancy fancy.. were do you think that wood comes from, the wood ferry?
Okay @ 17:50 Those are NOT ants, those are Carpenter Flies! They are much more aggressive and sexually promiscuous than their Ant counterparts and that's what makes them such a nuisance. They breed and multiply at an unbelievable rate. My Grandma told me all about Carpenter Flies, see, she had a surprise infestation just a few weeks ago, I had called her to ask if I could move in with her and take the guest bedroom for "a little while", she told me to hang on because she had to check if the room was in a state worthy of her Favorite Grandson and, as it turns out, it was not. "Total Swarm of Carpenter Flies" she told me, "And if it weren't for me you would have never found them till it was too late." I boasted in response, to which she hurriedly agreed. She told me it was probably going to take a few months to get it fixed and I shouldn't call her during that time because she's going to be really busy trying to fix everything. Ciao.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I hope she got to them in time!
They're just winged ants.
@@lmbarak Wrong! These are Carpenter Flies. Totally different from "Winged Ants"
@@rrfields65 Wrong! These are Carpenter Flies. Termites are a totally different species. Ciao.
@@AbrahamNixons Whatever
Oh my goodness, those darn squirrels and their pine cones.
I had initially hoped for a fellerbunchers!!!!! Dont know how to say it or spell it, but you have to love a beast that can grab it, cut it, and chuck it! I like the wide jaws on this as well...
What pops out that stump???