Harvesting Lumber From Oak Trees: Part 1

Seems like you, Nate and Cy got the jump on "essential"...made me remember a silly subscription to a finance newsletter that gets 5 bucks from me each month - I'd rather you get it.

As always poetry in motion as you work explain and demonstrate the value of as you call it “ top hand “craftsmanship”
Love these series
don’t stop
we absolutely enjoy them and learn new things each time
Thanks to Nate and your team

Your friends neighborhood Vocational
welding
Metal fabrication
sheet metal
And blacksmith teacher from north east part of the country

I KNOW you like doing this.
However...your skills as an ESSENTIAL CRAFTSMAN are needed more than you doing lumberjack stuff.

Leave some work for other people. Sheesh

That bar bend to get the chain back on was slick👌🏻

I found Buckin' Billy Ray because you mentioned him in your log splitting video. After watching his channel for a few months, this video makes a lot more sense to me. I see why you did things the way you did.

I don’t think you’re supposed to go both ways when sharpening

Nice post install.

Awesome video. Looks like Northern California, maybe Mendocino or Humboldt.

I used to Pooh-pooh the idea of wearing chaps, until I read an article that said that the one pair of safety-chaps cost about the same as getting a single suture at the ER... and I've never heard of a chainsaw accident that only required a single stitch.

I worked in the woods for years and guys would drop like flies around me from poison oak. God seems to have blessed me with an immunity to the stuff. Have never been effected by the stuff. Luca

That description of White Oak is foreign to me in the Midwest state where I live.

Nice felling!!

Nice work…..but those saws are hard on a guy’s hearing. I encourage younger guys that hunt and run equipment to wear hearing protection whenever they can.

This guy is bad ass! God bless y’all

From a Colorado guy who is addicted to falling... You're like the family elder I never had. Most of what you say I agree with, some of it makes me cringe. But regardless, I understand your situation and thought process. I can appreciate how other folks see and do things differently than the ways I was trained. Overall, I just love your mannerisms and explanations. Thanks for sharing your opinions and perspectives, it's great to see how older folks do these things and especially why they use the tools and processes they do.

The right tools, the right skills, and the right people. Do you have thoughts on barter and trade?

I was helping clear a lot a lot - 16 years old - shirtless. Cut through a 3-4” poison vine with a stihl 044 magnum and it sprayed my entire upper body. Z pak and a month of looking like freddy kruger later, I didn’t cut wood shirtless anymore and learned what those vines actually were!

How long it takes to have such trees grown this tall?

What can't this man do

very sad that wonderful trees are cut down and no others are planted

I learned to operate a saw from my dad. He never let me operate it. I could only observe. Luckily the only time it kicked back on him i wasn’t there. He drove himself to the emergency room. He made a common mistake most folk make running a saw. The approach to this type of machinery is to respect it. A chain saw can kill you quick. More so than miss use of a firearm.

Where is part2 enjoyed this so much I need the 2nd fix.

Great cutting! Thanks for sharing.

At EXACTLY the moment that you took the time to thank your local shop for getting your saw runnin' right, I was literally thinking to myself, "That old Stihl is gettin' the job done nice." and I instantly thought about Guy Clark's "Stuff That Works".

Oak is such a rarity out in BC and it pains me to understand that some of the limb wood is being burned ( I do understand the quality of the heat it produces etc .still !!! ). Do you ever use any limb wood for other types of projects ?

We need a video showing all those great sharpening tips!

never chopped a tree in my life don't plan to but I watched the whole thing and enjoyed it

Great content

Awesome

Never really understood why people think they need a 36-in bar for cutting Hardwood I've cut trees far far bigger(4+ft) than any of these with a 24-in bar all day long and never split our Barber chair one.

Will be there New trees planted?

why😭🌳

The most profitable technique for forest harvesting is Selective logging. Talking about New Hampshire, if you’re looking for Logging Services New Hampshire then you can check William A. Day Jr. & Sons Logging & Firewood.

what's the name of the song at the end. It was so enjoyable

064 stihl????

You da man. Wish I could work with you.

🤘

Amazing.

Never knew poison oak got the big hen's the name I guess

Rule of thumb for the strength of the wood fibers, I was told by someone when I worked on a skyline years back, 1 ton per square inch.

Been watching your videos for years now.. I had no idea you were a logger. You should look into a pair of bucking pants thats what all us loggers in the PNW of Canada wear. They arnt cheap but you'll look back and laugh at a pair of chaps everytime you see them afterwards 🍻

It just seems wrong to cut down an oak tree.

What model Kubota you got? Seems like it has served you well thru the years

As in most things there’s more than one way to skin a cat, or fall a tree. I certainly like the Humboldt face cut but the back cut I would change. Rather than starting out with a plunge cut, I would make the back cut 2” above the face. Secondly, I would place a wedge or two into the cut when half way thru to keep the log from “sitting back”. Then finish the back cut. When you start to get close to the hinge watch the top of the tree as you slowly advance the cut. Stop periodically and listen. You will simultaneously begin to see the top move while hearing the fibers break. You’ll then have plenty of time to move safely away. Another trick is before the tree starts to move, stop cutting and hammer the wedge into the cut with the butt end of an axe. This will push the tree to the falling point. If you are premature with this last step you can always advance the cut a fraction more.

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Escape path, escape path, can't say it enough, escape path

Too many words for a simple job. Go back to the city and talk your way into another iob