Funny fact, Einari Vigren, founder of Ponsse company named his first selfmade machine after a stray dog, who wandered in same the area Einari was at. Dogs name was Ponsse. Greetings from Finland, from where Ponsse origins.
I went to school here in Finland driving these machines. It really is a nice job once you get the hang of it, then it's just second nature really. I currently drive excavators tho.
Grandpa worked in a logging camp winters of 1918 and 1919- horses, sleighs, and two-man saws. Paired with an experienced lumberjack, they logged virgin timber for building the country. He brought many stories back to the farm.
What a lovely person Evan seems to be! That was actually a very interesting video. It seems to be a very lonely job, although I suspect the people that do it don't necessarily see it that way. I imagine they get to see a lot of wildlife doing that kind of work and have a special kind of appreciation for the natural environment. I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
unfortunately you are so noisy u barely see any wildlife. done this kind job part-time in my early twenties at an operation/forest owned by a family friend in germany and it is long hours, very lonely as you said demands a lot of concentration so it can be mentally quite draining if even you are experienced at it. plus the worst part is you start in the very early hours when its still dark and u finish at very late hours when its dark as most of the work is done in winter time to do less damage to the fauna and the soil. it for sure is a long term job only for very specific people, most of the other drives i observed kind of hated to be around other humans and would barely socialize during breaks or after work when we stayed in the cabins in the forest unless it involved free beers and smokes
@CeeJay It is what you make it. I have a cellular booster and take time to keep in touch with family(especially grandparents!) and friends on the phone as well as live stream cutting occasionally.
I love getting out and seeing other parts of agriculture when I can! Very soon I'll be too busy for the season around home and won't be able to get out for a few months.
Saw that same machine in Finland. They had it remotely tied into the mill so real time, it would maximize the lengths versus what the factory needed versus what the other machines where cutting. Coolest machine to see in operation ever. Great you got to run it.
Zach, thanks for taking us along on an interesting trip to Upper Michigan for a demo on the tree harvester. Evan sure is a skilled operator on that machine. Blessings to you.
Zach and Mack, almost sounds like a radio team. It's great that you do these videos. Just as there are a small percentage of farmers growing food for the many, there are a small number in the forest industry making products for the many. There are over two thousand different types of products that have wood content in them. Lumber and paper are only two of them. As one that spent my college years in the UP, it's also nice to see a bit of it again.
A wonderful machine that makes the industry a little safer. Once again showing us something that teaches what it takes for us to get wood products at our stores. Thanks again. J.Au-en
Zach, Great video. Sitting down in that seat with those two joy sticks appeared to be rather intimidating for the first time (they were not simple joy sticks). Evan, great guy. Thanks for showing some of these other jobs that most of us did not know existed. I think the uncle probably was a sharp guy to separate and sort the different cut wood according to type without having the rest of the tree to identify it. Thanks.
Cool to see you out in the woods, logging is a part time venture for me. Harvesters are awesome. Have a tracked buncher and grapple skidder which works well for our land out here. Love hand cutting but mechanized options are faster and safer. Keep em coming Zach, thank you Becky for editing, love the videos.
Welcome to the UP. I have lived in Menominee County, Michigan all my life. I have several family members that work in logging. Thanks for turning us on to Logger Mach, I will be watching more of his channel.
That was really cool. Thank you for sharing a collaboration with Evan - never thought i'd have an interest in seeing how that works. Pretty cool stuff.
Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable. These loggers have quite the machinery. Wow. Was so interesting. I bet one of those is expensive. Thanks for taking us along. The Iowa Farm Boy.
Great to see you in Michigan, the U.P. Is gods country. So much open space and forest everywhere. It’s great to see they found a use for trees who gotten a disease and died. Lots of land owners in Michigan will sell some trees on there land. In those communities jobs are hard to come by or they make less.
John Deere harvesters&forwarders are also made here 🇫🇮. Also Logset and Sampo Rosenlew, which is a smaller company, I guess they are mostly available in Europe.
Machine is probably pretty intuitive once you get it down, but to control it the way he does quickly and efficiently probably takes awhile to master. Very impressive!
It does become second nature after a while yeah. Don't need to think of any of the myriad of buttons or movements, they just happen exactly as you think.
My Great Great Grandfather was a lumberjack in Northern Michigan for many years, and when he died, my grandmother said he still had all of the muscle he built from logging after all those years.
I was born in the U.P. in Houghton County. Some great grandparents came from Finland and settled up there because it reminded them of home. My great grandfather was a major logger of the day up there and sold most of his hardwood logs to Ford Motor Company in the early 1900's. They used the wood for wheels. He knew Henry Ford well. Nothing to brag about just some history I know being from there. We moved from the U.P. to Texas in 1979 because my dad had an opportunity with the job he was working at. They opened another mfg plant. Thank goodness for that! LOL
I've seen those machines in the UP while snowmobiling and always would stop to watch because it's amazing how they can process so many tree so fast. Awesome video showing how it's done!!
Thank you for introducing your audience to this new “oddly satisfying” content. For info on how the NYS Adirondack Mtn Park logging biz worked in the 30s-40s, there are a lot of new-fangled colorized movies depicting life in the isolated logging camps, dropping trees using two-man bow saws, using horse teams to drag them to a river, floating the logs down river to the mill sites, etc. Manly Man work…
Just something that you have done that very few people get the chance to do. It is a good thing to remember that if you get a chance to do something that you have never done, Then do it!!!
My grandfather harvested trees a little over 100 years ago in the Lower Peninsula of MI. When I was a teenager and in my early 20s, when I stayed at his house, he would always wake us up like they did when he was cutting lumber... "It's daylight in the swamp!". Very cool video. Hope you can get Onyx to clean the mud off the truck. 😅 God bless and Easter Blessings for all the MF Family.
Pretty cool to see you out and about Zach getting to meet new people and to try new experiences out . Pretty cool and you were only about an 1½ hr south of me . pretty amazing what those machines can do . Great job 👍
Hey Zack welcome to my state! I've seen one of those machines up north while riding. Used to call them Scorpian Kings. I've played with them in Farming Simulator too hehe. They are amazing and powerful machines
Scorpion King is a beefed up Scorpion, a wildly different machine to operate but yes it's a harvester from Ponsse as well. The one Zach gets to ride is an Ergo.
I used to do that on winter break with my dad's old Homelite chainsaw, our tractor and a pickup bed trailer. Looks like he could do more in a day with that machine than I could in 3-4 weeks.
Your my fav. to watch whats been going on? i dont see the same good old vids from you and i check every day!! Hope to see you guys back in action soon!!
Really like the different industries that you showcase. How about a mushroom farm or a salt mine next. They are harvesting carrots here right now in north Florida.😎
I need one of those on my little farm right now!!! Of course, the way things are going...I started clearing out trees on the farm with a hatchett...then upgraded to to an actual axe...then, just recently upgraded to a chain saw.
That's Michigan baby! Love my home state. Some Of those logging roads make you wonder if you're ever going to make it out alive. Especially years ago before cell coverage actually covered and none of them are on GPS. Some of the last frontier in the USA
If you ever make it to New York State. I can show you a different way of cutting bigger timber. We use feller buncher, grapple skidder, landing loader and buck saw. We cut all you normal hardwoods for lumber and rest goes to pulp mill. We go from tree to mill.
AWESOME!!! That pretty much describes this and most of your videos. HAHA Your a very lucky guy. Many of us live vicariously through you. DON'T STOP! thankyou.
This is awesome! I just started messing around with one of these in FS22 this morning. I definitely had to do a replay when I saw the Windows XP shutdown screen... The strength, capabilities, and complexity make them really intriguing to me.
Seconding this recommendation! Forestry is my favorite part of FS22, and the stuff added with the expansion just makes it even more fun and satisfying.
That's what I was playing on this morning. I recent switched my setup and run dual Thurstmaster joysticks. So, it makes running the loggers and excavators so much easier and sorta more realistic.
Its interesting that by clearing the dead wood, provides a benefit for us, but also a benefit for thag stretch of forest by giving it an opportunity to regrow into a healthy forest again. Its not just plajn destruction deforestation that we see in Brazil
I’ve never seen that done in real life. But I do, do some tree harvesting in Farming Simulator. I’ve made millions in the game. Lol. I even have the joystick 🕹️ setup just like in the actual tractor. Mines a little different though obviously. But still a lot of fun.
I''m 63 and have been going to the .U.P. to grouse hunt and trout fish since I was 18. Great place to get out in the woods, hunt and fish and hang with Bigfoot.
You were in my backyard! Ponsse North America is located In Rhinelander Wisconsin where I live. They are kind of the king of the industry. The logging trucks they run in upper Michigan are monsters. Thanks for the video!
Evan(Mack) seems like a great dude!!!!! Easy to teach and show his expertise with that logger machine......Hahahaha.....Harvester.....That is SICK!!!!!! Seriously Transformeresque stuff!!!!!
Holly shit Zac you were right in my back yard pretty sure you were out on all the off road trails to funny I actually took my truck mudding out there 3 weeks ago
Funny fact, Einari Vigren, founder of Ponsse company named his first selfmade machine after a stray dog, who wandered in same the area Einari was at. Dogs name was Ponsse. Greetings from Finland, from where Ponsse origins.
The story goes Ponsse wasn't the best-looking dog(ponsse sure is a good-looking machine now👌) but was the most reliable hunter
That Ergo is quite old machine nowadays. Scorpion is awesome and very good looking machine 😍 greeting from Finland and good logging 🙂
It got the dogs name because he was mixed breed and the machine was made from a lot off old wheel loaders and other machines
Einari Vigren
Evan is an everyday man, I have friends just like him. Great people!!
I went to school here in Finland driving these machines. It really is a nice job once you get the hang of it, then it's just second nature really. I currently drive excavators tho.
I work in a company that makes parts for Ponsse forestry machines. Super cool to see them in action in a Millennial Farmer video 👍🇫🇮
Grandpa worked in a logging camp winters of 1918 and 1919- horses, sleighs, and two-man saws. Paired with an experienced lumberjack, they logged virgin timber for building the country. He brought many stories back to the farm.
What a lovely person Evan seems to be! That was actually a very interesting video. It seems to be a very lonely job, although I suspect the people that do it don't necessarily see it that way. I imagine they get to see a lot of wildlife doing that kind of work and have a special kind of appreciation for the natural environment. I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
unfortunately you are so noisy u barely see any wildlife. done this kind job part-time in my early twenties at an operation/forest owned by a family friend in germany and it is long hours, very lonely as you said demands a lot of concentration so it can be mentally quite draining if even you are experienced at it. plus the worst part is you start in the very early hours when its still dark and u finish at very late hours when its dark as most of the work is done in winter time to do less damage to the fauna and the soil. it for sure is a long term job only for very specific people, most of the other drives i observed kind of hated to be around other humans and would barely socialize during breaks or after work when we stayed in the cabins in the forest unless it involved free beers and smokes
Doesn’t seem any more lonely than farming.
@@MB12116that was my thought. If you're not the owner that they're trying to sell to, your phone is quiet almost 24/7
@CeeJay It is what you make it. I have a cellular booster and take time to keep in touch with family(especially grandparents!) and friends on the phone as well as live stream cutting occasionally.
I'm glad you are showing your audience the last few vids!
The world is a lot more complicated than many people think.
I love getting out and seeing other parts of agriculture when I can! Very soon I'll be too busy for the season around home and won't be able to get out for a few months.
Saw that same machine in Finland. They had it remotely tied into the mill so real time, it would maximize the lengths versus what the factory needed versus what the other machines where cutting. Coolest machine to see in operation ever. Great you got to run it.
As a fellow Michigander, I loved this video. Thanks Zach
Zach, thanks for taking us along on an interesting trip to Upper Michigan for a demo on the tree harvester. Evan sure is a skilled operator on that machine. Blessings to you.
It's amazing what two guys can get done with advanced technology equipment! Thanks for the show!
It’s really nice to see a planter work with zero issues, Good luck with your harvest
Id love to know you better Landon, thats only if you dont mind cos you seems to be a nice and very cool person
as complicated as that machine is, Evan sure makes it look easy, awesome video Zack, thanks for taking us along..
Zach and Mack, almost sounds like a radio team. It's great that you do these videos. Just as there are a small percentage of farmers growing food for the many, there are a small number in the forest industry making products for the many. There are over two thousand different types of products that have wood content in them. Lumber and paper are only two of them.
As one that spent my college years in the UP, it's also nice to see a bit of it again.
A wonderful machine that makes the industry a little safer. Once again showing us something that teaches what it takes for us to get wood products at our stores. Thanks again. J.Au-en
This is the definition of “I don’t know what I’m doing but I’m gonna do it anyway” 😂
Just like a combine
@@taurus4205 😂
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Zach, Great video. Sitting down in that seat with those two joy sticks appeared to be rather intimidating for the first time (they were not simple joy sticks). Evan, great guy. Thanks for showing some of these other jobs that most of us did not know existed. I think the uncle probably was a sharp guy to separate and sort the different cut wood according to type without having the rest of the tree to identify it. Thanks.
The Ponsse can mark each cut piece with a color denoting its type, if it's a saw log or fiber or anything. Makes life for forwarders a lot easier :)
I couldn't tell the difference between most types of trees/wood out there but Evan knew them all easily. It was cool to see and learn about
Cool to see you out in the woods, logging is a part time venture for me. Harvesters are awesome. Have a tracked buncher and grapple skidder which works well for our land out here. Love hand cutting but mechanized options are faster and safer. Keep em coming Zach, thank you Becky for editing, love the videos.
I've watched more of this kind of thing than I would admit! Amazing technology!
Welcome to the UP. I have lived in Menominee County, Michigan all my life. I have several family members that work in logging. Thanks for turning us on to Logger Mach, I will be watching more of his channel.
Always interesting Zack. Thanks. and the fact that you visited the UP I love this video even more.
That was really cool. Thank you for sharing a collaboration with Evan - never thought i'd have an interest in seeing how that works. Pretty cool stuff.
Great video Zack....Thanks for having all of us out and your time Evan ✌️
Was my pleasure 👍
Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable.
These loggers have quite the machinery. Wow. Was so interesting. I bet one of those is expensive. Thanks for taking us along.
The Iowa Farm Boy.
Cool video keep the visits to other operations coming. We understand its been a long winter keep up the great work and videos.
Great to see you in Michigan, the U.P. Is gods country. So much open space and forest everywhere. It’s great to see they found a use for trees who gotten a disease and died.
Lots of land owners in Michigan will sell some trees on there land. In those communities jobs are hard to come by or they make less.
John Deere harvesters&forwarders are also made here 🇫🇮. Also Logset and Sampo Rosenlew, which is a smaller company, I guess they are mostly available in Europe.
Machine is probably pretty intuitive once you get it down, but to control it the way he does quickly and efficiently probably takes awhile to master. Very impressive!
It does become second nature after a while yeah. Don't need to think of any of the myriad of buttons or movements, they just happen exactly as you think.
I literally found myself with my mouth open watching the machine working. The operator has so much skill
That was awesome! My Dad and brother were loggers...old style. So fun to watch this, my Dad would have loved that machine! :)
Great job Zach! Evan is awesome! Thanks for sharing with us!
Welcome to Michigan! Come back when it's warmer and see more of our beautiful state! (The farming regions are in the other peninsula)
Hey now, we have quite a lot of farming in the county that Zach was visiting, lol.
My Great Great Grandfather was a lumberjack in Northern Michigan for many years, and when he died, my grandmother said he still had all of the muscle he built from logging after all those years.
Awesome video, and glad youve now made it to the Mitten State! Thanks for doing a great job and also naturally explaining the forest lifecycle!
Love watching these machines working, pretty sure there were my first videos i watched on RUclips before the vlogging was a thing😃
Been driving a Ponsse Bear for 5 years in southern Sweden, the strength in those cranes never seize to amaze me. The Finns know what theyre doing.
That was, indeed, oddly satisfying! We have some similar, not quite so sophisticated, logging machinery around the deep south here.
I was born in the U.P. in Houghton County. Some great grandparents came from Finland and settled up there because it reminded them of home. My great grandfather was a major logger of the day up there and sold most of his hardwood logs to Ford Motor Company in the early 1900's. They used the wood for wheels. He knew Henry Ford well. Nothing to brag about just some history I know being from there. We moved from the U.P. to Texas in 1979 because my dad had an opportunity with the job he was working at. They opened another mfg plant. Thank goodness for that! LOL
You are the one who inspired me to bead down the agriculture path. I love the videos. Keep them coming
It’s really nice to see a planter work with zero issues, Good luck with your harvest
Id love to know you better Henry, thats only if you dont mind cos you seems to be a nice and very cool person
I've seen those machines in the UP while snowmobiling and always would stop to watch because it's amazing how they can process so many tree so fast. Awesome video showing how it's done!!
Thank you for introducing your audience to this new “oddly satisfying” content. For info on how the NYS Adirondack Mtn Park logging biz worked in the 30s-40s, there are a lot of new-fangled colorized movies depicting life in the isolated logging camps, dropping trees using two-man bow saws, using horse teams to drag them to a river, floating the logs down river to the mill sites, etc. Manly Man work…
Welcome to Michigan! It’s a fascinating state!! And thanks for this very interesting video. We learned a lot today.
Fascinating..who knew there was such a machine. Thanks, Zack.
Great video Zach, you keep the videos very interesting all year round.
Is there nothing that you won't try? Thank you for once again bringing us content that is "Interestingly Satisfying."
Just something that you have done that very few people get the chance to do. It is a good thing to remember that if you get a chance to do something that you have never done, Then do it!!!
The master tree feller fella..:) top guy and excellent interview as always Zach
My grandfather harvested trees a little over 100 years ago in the Lower Peninsula of MI. When I was a teenager and in my early 20s, when I stayed at his house, he would always wake us up like they did when he was cutting lumber... "It's daylight in the swamp!". Very cool video. Hope you can get Onyx to clean the mud off the truck. 😅 God bless and Easter Blessings for all the MF Family.
Pretty cool to see you out and about Zach getting to meet new people and to try new experiences out . Pretty cool and you were only about an 1½ hr south of me . pretty amazing what those machines can do . Great job 👍
Hey Zack welcome to my state! I've seen one of those machines up north while riding. Used to call them Scorpian Kings. I've played with them in Farming Simulator too hehe. They are amazing and powerful machines
Ponsse does make a machine called Scorpion King actually 😂
Scorpion King is a beefed up Scorpion, a wildly different machine to operate but yes it's a harvester from Ponsse as well. The one Zach gets to ride is an Ergo.
Welcome to Michigan! The U.P. is one of my favorite places in the world. So beautiful!
UP'rs are a rare breed for sure. Gotta be a bit crazy to brave that kind cold/ snow.
The heater worked just fine in his Finnish chariot! You might get a little muck on your dress shoes though....
Ah, it's not too bad, Its only winter for about 8 months lol.
It’s tricky driving in the UP also. Gas stations are a rare sight lol. You need a vehicle that’s easy on gas
I could watch him for hours...mesmerizing!!!!!
Welcome to Michigan. The UP is awesome. I personally love it up there.
I used to do that on winter break with my dad's old Homelite chainsaw, our tractor and a pickup bed trailer. Looks like he could do more in a day with that machine than I could in 3-4 weeks.
Now that you've been to Michigan and saw limber harvest we'll have to get you back for pickle harvest
This was really interesting to see how well you actually did handle a logging harvester once you got behind the controls 👏👏👍😎
I've seen those machines before bit the technology in that thing us amazing
The nickname in college is so useful for anyone with a channel.......GOOD one Zach!!!!!
Your my fav. to watch whats been going on? i dont see the same good old vids from you and i check every day!! Hope to see you guys back in action soon!!
Really like the different industries that you showcase. How about a mushroom farm or a salt mine next. They are harvesting carrots here right now in north Florida.😎
I need one of those on my little farm right now!!! Of course, the way things are going...I started clearing out trees on the farm with a hatchett...then upgraded to to an actual axe...then, just recently upgraded to a chain saw.
Slow before planting season so searching out and providing interesting content. That's a quality utuber.
Zach, I really like your pod casts. I wish you would do more of them.
That was a great video. You do good work for a farmer.
Thanks for the tour in Louisville. I know lots where down there from Ontario and they say it was amazing.
Glad you came to see Michigan! UP is very beautiful place! Just not this time of the year :D
fun in the deep woods of Michigan, with a new type of TOY,, Great idea.
I love how this dude is just holding a conversation and just chopping the mess out of trees
Thank you. I've been curious as to the "inside" part of the process.
That's Michigan baby! Love my home state. Some Of those logging roads make you wonder if you're ever going to make it out alive. Especially years ago before cell coverage actually covered and none of them are on GPS. Some of the last frontier in the USA
If you ever make it to New York State. I can show you a different way of cutting bigger timber. We use feller buncher, grapple skidder, landing loader and buck saw. We cut all you normal hardwoods for lumber and rest goes to pulp mill. We go from tree to mill.
AWESOME!!! That pretty much describes this and most of your videos. HAHA Your a very lucky guy. Many of us live vicariously through you. DON'T STOP! thankyou.
This is awesome! I just started messing around with one of these in FS22 this morning. I definitely had to do a replay when I saw the Windows XP shutdown screen... The strength, capabilities, and complexity make them really intriguing to me.
If you like forestry, I highly recommend FS22's Platinum edition/expansion! It is absolutely amazing, and very beautiful!
Seconding this recommendation! Forestry is my favorite part of FS22, and the stuff added with the expansion just makes it even more fun and satisfying.
@@EBT1987 WOO!
That's what I was playing on this morning. I recent switched my setup and run dual Thurstmaster joysticks. So, it makes running the loggers and excavators so much easier and sorta more realistic.
@@GeekyDad84 ooh that sounds awesome!
Heck Zack, that's the best way to learn, Hands On experience.
Thanks for coming to my home state of Michigan. I hope you felt welcomed.
Its interesting that by clearing the dead wood, provides a benefit for us, but also a benefit for thag stretch of forest by giving it an opportunity to regrow into a healthy forest again. Its not just plajn destruction deforestation that we see in Brazil
1:29 Saw that first time in clarkson's farm 😮😮
I’ve never seen that done in real life. But I do, do some tree harvesting in Farming Simulator. I’ve made millions in the game. Lol.
I even have the joystick 🕹️ setup just like in the actual tractor. Mines a little different though obviously. But still a lot of fun.
Ponsse made in finland, so cool to see it in USA
I love your machine, Evan.
Me too 🌲
Really nice. What fun! Thanks for taking us along!
I''m 63 and have been going to the .U.P. to grouse hunt and trout fish since I was 18. Great place to get out in the woods, hunt and fish and hang with Bigfoot.
You were in my backyard! Ponsse North America is located In Rhinelander Wisconsin where I live. They are kind of the king of the industry. The logging trucks they run in upper Michigan are monsters. Thanks for the video!
I can’t even remember which light is which on a 4x switch at home - Evan is amazing 🤩
Great video! Thanks for sharing. Logger Mac has a new follower. And yeah it is oddly satisfying to watch those machines
This what i work with here in northern Sweden , i was driving an Ponsse Ergo for several years but nowadays mostly Komatsu.
Evan(Mack) seems like a great dude!!!!! Easy to teach and show his expertise with that logger machine......Hahahaha.....Harvester.....That is SICK!!!!!! Seriously Transformeresque stuff!!!!!
Welcome to Michigan! Beautiful country.
Menominee was just a few miles from where I film trains!
The machinery we make in this day and age is amazing... What a beautiful dance
Heck yea welcome to Michigan Zack I'm from the lower part of Michigan.
Same here
Cool machines..also great ep on Drinking brothers
I am Finnish Guy who drives these thing and its fun and relaxing
Holly shit Zac you were right in my back yard pretty sure you were out on all the off road trails to funny I actually took my truck mudding out there 3 weeks ago
Nice to see a forestry machine in action instead of just farm machinery it makes a nice change
I like when you show us different professions. Cool video
WOW, Zach !! - that was sure different from your usual video !!
But, still enjoyable !! Thanks for sharing, ol' Buddy !!
Greetings from Finland! Hope it was a nice ride, at least that looks ! :D
We called them feller bunchers in the early days of them type machines.
Great video. Lots of control buttons. I hope he gets a big bump in subs after your visit.