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Salvaging Spruce Blowdown on a Beautiful Autumn Day

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  • Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
  • Some beautiful scenes of one of Bombadil Tree Farms' most enticing stands plus some educational footage focusing on safe and low-impact timber salvage of two fallen trees.

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  • @seanpatrick1867
    @seanpatrick1867 Год назад

    Hey man, just moved onto 15 acres of woodland in northern NY and bought my first tractor. Your videos are great and I really appreciate all the information. An amazing forest you have!

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  Год назад

      Sean, I am glad that you find them useful. Our forest of today was not so amazing when I acquired the first parcel 46 years ago. What we have today is the result of years of working with and respecting nature's ways and nature's secrets, a pretty good definition of sound science, and avoiding trying to impose poorly informed or romanticized views upon nature. It is up to folks like you to continue such work and inspire the generation following behind you. I wish you a long and fruitful love affair with your woodlot and, above all, be safe. Vince

  • @backinthewoods2022
    @backinthewoods2022 3 года назад +2

    Some of the best videos on RUclips thanks for taking the time to do them👍

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад +1

      Good to hear from you again! Hope the winter has been good and productive for you, too. Be safe! Vince

    • @backinthewoods2022
      @backinthewoods2022 3 года назад

      @@bombadiltreefarms314 I took your advice and got a Meteor snowblower for my tractor only have used it once this year so far so good though👍

  • @yvesjolicoeur747
    @yvesjolicoeur747 3 года назад +2

    Thanks again for another great video. I was so pleased when I saw that you had a new video, I prepared a good cup of coffee and sat down to enjoy. Once again, aside from the entertainment value, I got some great advice. We continue to enjoy the forest following your advice ... but with a twist....we now use the 5 ''S''.... Safety, Safety, Safety, and Slow and Steady..... rushing can be your enemy. Thanks again

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад +1

      Yves, it's so wonderful to hear from you again, and I could not agree more and will add those final two "s" to my repertoire. I hope that the labors of love in your woodlot are going well this winter. Vince

  • @kayc621
    @kayc621 3 года назад

    Thanks for the great videos. I’ve been working on salvage of storm damaged 60 year old red pine. Safety is key. Hello from northeast Wisconsin. Randy.

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад

      Randy, I hope that your storm damage affected scattered trees instead of creating an extensive tangled mess of blowdown. That would create a major challenge. Yes, safety is key! Vince

  • @ricklarade3593
    @ricklarade3593 3 года назад

    the forest is my tranquility, nice video, thanks!!

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад

      Rick, it always brings me a special joy hearing from another who finds similar wonders and comforts in the forest. Thank you for your comment. Vince

  • @FromSteelToWood
    @FromSteelToWood 3 года назад +2

    I really enjoyed every minute of that video! My wife and I just bought an 88 acres property where the forest has been managed over the last 4 decades. I look forward to having great times logging on that land. You inspire us with the respect to the forest. BTW, I live 60km west of Ascot Corner (Dist. Payeur). Thanks!

    • @dhache1195
      @dhache1195 3 года назад

      Bonjour; émission ''La semaine verte'' du 7 février courant, reportage sur la gestion de nos forêts par Christian Messier. Salutations

    • @FromSteelToWood
      @FromSteelToWood 3 года назад

      Je viens de voir en ligne sur le web. Très bon!

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад +1

      Thank you for your comment, and may both you and your forest enjoy the blessings that mutual love and respect will bring. Vince

  • @inthewoods5640
    @inthewoods5640 3 года назад

    Thank you again for another wonderful video.

  • @sebastienweisser4839
    @sebastienweisser4839 3 года назад +1

    What a treat to watch your videos again, Vince! Thanks a lot , it's always very inspiring. Looking forward to see more!

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад

      Sebastien, if we had a competition on inspiration, I believe that you living and winter logging with a tractor in Canada's Yukon would win hands down! Nonetheless, that you for your kind words. Be safe! Vince

  • @jessenelson5769
    @jessenelson5769 3 года назад +1

    I watch your videos over and over ! There great ! I live in Northern Vermont and have a 32hp Kubota with a winch

  • @randellman
    @randellman 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for your work on producing these informative videos. I have just recently purchased 38 acres of forest in New Brunswick and am new to felling trees and managing my land. I will also look into the books and videos you have recommended. 🌲👍🏼

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад

      Thank you for your comment and, should you plan to employ a tractor and winch, I encourage you to view my three chapter video tutorial trilogy, "Logging With a Farm Tractor in the Boreal Forest of Northeastern USA." I also encourage you to download the book, "The Farm Tractor in the Forest" that I discuss in my closing remarks to Chapter 3 of the video trilogy, and also the best woodlot management course that I have ever seen produced by the good folks in Nova Scotia. Links to both the tractor book and the woodlot management course appear in a very early public comment that I added to comments following Chapter 3. If you have any problem locating those links or downloading the documents, please let me know. Both downloads are free. Enjoy your forest and be safe! Vince

  • @robintaylor-mockingeemill8223
    @robintaylor-mockingeemill8223 3 года назад

    Thanks for the great video . I have also found the BC training video's very helpful . I now manage a piece of family land in NS , that is harvested in much the same way as you use .

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад

      Robin, I am so glad that you checked out the WorkSafeBC Faller Training Standards videos. The internet abounds with videos produced by people who received their first chainsaw for Christmas or their birthday and, before burning through the first tank of gas, are so impressed with themselves that they begin producing videos to inform the world. Thank heavens for WorkSafeBC's videos! There is another quality RUclips channel by an individual named Terry Hale. In case you have not already accessed it, I also highly recommend the "Woodlot Management Home Study Program" offered by the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources. There is none better. It is well over 500 pages long and presented in 13 separate lessons or "Modules." By its very length and depth it is for seriously interested students, and it sounds like that describes you. The download link is woodlot.novascotia.ca/content/woodlot-management-home-study-program. If you plan to do much work within your woodlot using a farm tractor, then I also encourage you to view my earlier videos on that subject and download the book, "The Farm Tractor in the Forest." It is available for free download at www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/publications/general_publications/farm_tractor_in_the_forest.pdf. Be safe! Vince

    • @robintaylor-mockingeemill8223
      @robintaylor-mockingeemill8223 3 года назад

      @@bombadiltreefarms314 I will be sure to check out The farm tractor in the forest . My dad gave me modules you mentioned and I am just starting to get through them .

  • @ryanbrowne4374
    @ryanbrowne4374 3 года назад

    Thanks for the new video Vince! I just recommended your 3 part series on tractor logging to a friend who is tractor shopping. After that I had to rewatch them just last week for personal enjoyment. So today, seeing a new Bombadil video pop up was a treat. I have a Kubota and a farmi winch myself. Mostly for harvesting firewood for personal use, but some timber stand improvement for neighboring farms when time allows. I picked up some invaluable tips from your earlier stuff. Thanks for the time it took to make this, stay safe, and have fun out there!

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад

      You are very welcome, am glad that you find them informative, and wish safety and fun in the forest to you , too! Vince

  • @nanomaine
    @nanomaine 3 года назад

    A wonderful day, on beautiful land - thank you!
    I appreciate the educational references, and have made use of them. Have a wonderful day.

  • @dhache1195
    @dhache1195 3 года назад

    Good day to you ''le professeur'', many of us miss your videos, please come back again and wish and hope to see/ear from you soon ;-D

  • @ericlee204
    @ericlee204 3 года назад

    Recently i watched your 3 first videos (for the 3rd time). Again a real treat to watch this video and how informative it is. Thanks

  • @marksparkplug7758
    @marksparkplug7758 3 года назад

    Very good job Vincent, I'm in my woods almost daily working on my small habitat. The last year and a half I have been cleaning up
    Wind burst damaged tree's mostly hard Maple. I really like your forwarding trailer. Take care buddy.

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад +1

      And you too, Mark. As you know, wind damaged sugar maple is one of the most dangerous trees to salvage. Be safe, my friend! Vince

  • @bradpj53
    @bradpj53 3 года назад

    Love seeing what you are up to! Always an inspiration as I plan work on my small wood lot.

  • @ivarwb4115
    @ivarwb4115 3 года назад

    A very enjoyable and educational video, I loved every bit of it. You obviously put a lot of effort into both forestry, work and filming, resulting in a beautiful forest and a lot of interesting videos. Thank you for all this! Greetings from Norway, in the outskirts of the Taiga belt.

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад +1

      Beowulf, thank you, especially from a man who shares the name of the famous hero of the poem that, years back as a university student, I learned to read in its original Old English, a language very similar to Old Norse of the time. I have traveled no farther north in Norway than Bergen and don't know where the arctic Taiga begins. Please tell me the town where you live. Be safe! Vince

    • @ivarwb4115
      @ivarwb4115 3 года назад

      @@bombadiltreefarms314 The city of Trondheim is my origin. The Taiga stretches into northern/central Sweden, right across the border. Here you will see a part of Scandinavia very different from the coastal areas around Bergen. The Norwegian/Swedish peninsula is indeed a diverse part of Europe, stretching from the southern parts of Sweden to the northern parts of Norway. But, in area, just a tiny fragment of the North American continent!

  • @jbelle5512
    @jbelle5512 3 года назад +1

    What is that tool that you used to pound the wedge? It doesn't look like a hatchet.

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад +1

      It is a felling bar designed with a hammer surface on the back. I seldom use the felling blade that is designed to slip into the back-cut but am constantly using the hammer surface to drive felling wedges. I chanced upon this rather pricey but unbelievably useful Swedish made tool at a forestry field day a few years ago. More than 30 years ago I bought a felling bar with cant hook of the type now offered by several manufacturers on Amazon.com and elsewhere but found it too large and cumbersome to attach to a tool belt. Moreover, its design lacked a hammer surface. The one that you ask about is a whole different story and is available through OESCO. Trouble is that OESCO calls it something quite misleading in their catalogue and displays it in an unlikely place. It is manufactured by Edsbyns Industri in Sweden and assigned tool model number 1002. Contact Howard Boyden at OESCO. He will know exactly what you are talking about. Howard's number is 800-634-5557, and his email is hboyden@oescoinc.com. Be safe! Vince

    • @jbelle5512
      @jbelle5512 3 года назад

      @@bombadiltreefarms314 thank you Vince, I did some searching with your information and found it branded by Bahco $80...you weren't kidding when you said pricey!

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад

      @@jbelle5512 My first one cost me $65 something like five years ago so $80 today sounds about right. I found it so useful, however, that I bought another one when I saw the OESCO table set up at another field day a couple years later. Without doubt I get far more than fifty cents worth of use out of it each day. With that logic it was paid for the first winter. If your believe that, like me, you would seldom if ever use the felling blade and don't think you'd notice a little added weight on your tool belt, a fiberglass handle hatchet does just as well or better, especially if your way of doing things often calls for a blow or two from the sharp side of an axe. I have a 17-inch Fiskars splitting axe that does very well but I find it a bit more awkward to get in and out of my belt holster. The advantage of a fiberglass handle axe for this purpose is not the handle itself but the fact that the steel head is solid without an oblong eye through which a wooden handle mounts. I'm sure that you have seen distorted axe heads as a result of people using them as hammers. You avoid that problem with a solid head like Fiskars uses. By the way, never forget that a great way to obtain something that you'd like to have except for its price is to encourage family and friends to pool their nickles and dimes and buy it for you for Christmas or your birthday. Be safe! Vince

    • @michaelgroves3460
      @michaelgroves3460 4 месяца назад

      @@bombadiltreefarms314 Thanks for more great instructional videos. I'm a greenhorn in true forestry, though I have dropped hundreds of trees over the years. I have a relatively healthy fear of the risks involved that will hopefully help keep me safe. I've been studying for the past year working on upping my understanding of forestry. I was a contractor, so I have a good understanding of risks involved with heavy weights and have run lots of equipment, though I still have lots to learn about running a tractor. I look forward to making the time to review all of your videos and instructional content, likely many times. I was going to ask about the tool as well... but, this time I read the comments before asking. Thanks for the answer. I also have a stand of Norway spruce on my property that has started blowing down, so I will likely be making use of your instructions soon to salvage some of the wood and untangle the mess. Do you know if they would be good for building a log cabin on my homestead? So much to learn and so little time. At least this old man has lots of projects ahead of him to improve the health of the forest and hopefully manage to put together a homestead. Nothing I love much more than forests, nature, good projects, orcharding and a healthy lifestyle. Thanks again for all you do to help the community.

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 месяца назад

      @@michaelgroves3460Michael, it is so good to hear from you again. Regarding your Norway spruce, they make wonderful dimensional lumber and, if straight with minimal taper like my Norways, wonderful log cabin stock. It is a wonderful, wonderful tree, and the most valuable species in the famous Black Forest of Germany and also in Austria, Poland, and Scandinavia. The best single publication in English on Norway spruce that I have ever been able to find is downloadable for free at www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=one.oecd.org/document/ENV/JM/MONO(99)26/en/pdf&ved=2ahUKEwip2cXL7cyFAxWa38kDHV57AvE4HhAWegQIChAB&usg=AOvVaw0nNBmK5WLT_Ly6dUtlAjNg
      There is a huge amount of information on the species written in German, Swedish, and Finnish. Unfortunately, I am not aware of any of those classic works having been translated into English. If you do work through my other videos, especially the series on logging with a farm tractor, you will find in at least one of my comments or my replies to comments the direct link to the book that I consider to be the bible on logging with a farm tractor and also a link to a fabulous home study series on private woodlot management produced by the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources. If you can't locate those links, let me know and I will hunt them down for you. Yes, life is far to short to ever begin to satisfy the hunger for knowledge. My father used to say that you should always leave the dinner table a little hungry. I hope to leave the dinner table of life still hungry to learn more. I hope that you will agree that that will be a satisfying way to say farewell to our short time on this earth. Be Safe! Vince

  • @Luke_Otis_Logging
    @Luke_Otis_Logging 3 года назад

    Great vids I cut in central maine 👍

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад +1

      Lucas, it is always great to receive a comment from a fellow Maniac. Be safe in the woods! Vince

  • @jerrylittle8922
    @jerrylittle8922 3 года назад

    You Husky saw is that the 550xp model? Sure does fine job.

    • @bombadiltreefarms314
      @bombadiltreefarms314  3 года назад

      Hi Jerry, it is a 562. I have two, a 562XP and 562XPG. The only difference is that the XPG has heated handles that do add a degree of cold weather comfort and a winter kit for the engine that supposedly improves winter performance. Yes, it does do a fine job, is well balanced, and designed and manufactured in Sweden where much if not most of the best forestry equipment has been developed. Be safe! Vince

    • @jerrylittle8922
      @jerrylittle8922 3 года назад

      @@bombadiltreefarms314 Thank you Sir and good to hear from you. 👍🇺🇸

  • @Tom-gs7yk
    @Tom-gs7yk Год назад

    Speak like your talking to adults my friend not children .
    Be natural don’t speak like a robot. It’s RUclips not a star wars

  • @Tom-gs7yk
    @Tom-gs7yk Год назад

    Dude,
    Your not a poet