As I watched this I was humming an old Kenny Rogers tune YOU GOT TO KNOW WHEN TO SAVE THEM, KNOW WHEN TO DROP THEM, AND KNOW WHEN TO RUN. Not the exact words.
More thinning and forest management videos please! This one was one of your best for showing evaluation and management thinking in a pragmatic and understandable fashion. Including other silviculture and general forest ecology management would be wonderful.
It will also depend on what type of forest you have. East coast oak/hickory means you should cut the some sweetgums, cherries, and eastern red cedar. If it’s north east forests then you’ll want to cut the birch and red maple in favor of pine and hemlock. He’s PSNW
I worked in the woods with my dad, cutting down a stand of beetle killed ponderosa pines, back in the early 70s. I haven't seen such nicely laid down tree's since, until now. Seeing you do this with such skill brought back so many memories, and made me really miss him. I lost him when I was 15. He died of a tumor of the brain, caused by an injury he got in the woods while logging years before. He was a timber faller. A choker setter didn't set his chokers right, they came loose and hit my dad in the face. Breaking his skull and busting out his front teeth. He survived then by a miracle, but later it gave him the tumor. They did surgeries, but the tumor vigorously grew back. He was only 42. They used to say in our family, "If the tree's don't get ya, the injuries will." Which was just their way of saying, if you don't die on the spot, the injuries will kill you later. The stories I could tell of folks I knew who died logging would fill a very sad book. So be safe Michael and have a very Merry Christmas! 😊
I could listen to you describe why you’re doing what you’re doing when it comes to thinning all day. It’s so sensible, and in tune with what’s actually going on in any given spot. Magnificent.
And at my place it's 20 white firs dying for each Douglas fir, and the Incense Cedars are so drought resistant none have died, except in a bad ice storm taking the tops out. I'm planting Incense Cedars back in for the same reason. Keep looking up.
I have marked timber for a living and yet I cut a healthy Port Orford Cedar down just to realize the one left standing was already dead. Look up, and look up again.
I love your RUclips site. I, myself am interested in buying some smaller wood lots for my self & grandsons. Worked two jobs for 27 years, now on the down hill slide & would like to get back to nature. Probably the Oregon coast.
Well sir. (I know, deep subject). I am of the mind that your subscribers really appreciate most of your content. If not they surely wouldn't be. Forest management is a subject that I am sincerely interested in. All of your other content go hand in hand with FM in one way or another. I guess i said all of that to say, I am interested in your entire channel. Not just a little bit here and there. Be well and God bless you and yours.
I'm really interested in the thinning videos and related topics. Only yesterday I was at the OSU arboretum and got to see the long term thinning results on the intensively managed trails.
I am learning a lot from your videos one thing I would like to request can you show close-ups of the bark and explain how to differential from each tree. In better words how to recognize a species of tree. Which I live in Southern California but we call ourselves the central California because it's Pismo Beach area. And we have Red oaks and we have White oaks up in the Paso Robles area. But I've never seen an oak tree with such a large leaf foliage unless it just wasn't a good shot from our perspective. Does oaks are very young as well they look to be a one to one and a half inch twig. Thank you
You did a good job explaining sun-scald but for the benefit of those of us up here in the Pacific Northwest rainforest, could you elaborate on what this "sun" is?
As I watched this I was humming an old Kenny Rogers tune YOU GOT TO KNOW WHEN TO SAVE THEM, KNOW WHEN TO DROP THEM, AND KNOW WHEN TO RUN. Not the exact words.
My thoughts exactly. Ol' Kenny had some good advice on when to high tail it outta there. 😂
More thinning and forest management videos please! This one was one of your best for showing evaluation and management thinking in a pragmatic and understandable fashion. Including other silviculture and general forest ecology management would be wonderful.
I am learning heaps from your videos. Educational as well as entertainment. Keeps putting them out! We’ll watch them.
That good feller is a good feller.
I just bought a 50 acre property that hasn't seen any humans in almost 100 years, more thinning videos please!!!
100 years?
Let’s clear cut!
It will also depend on what type of forest you have. East coast oak/hickory means you should cut the some sweetgums, cherries, and eastern red cedar. If it’s north east forests then you’ll want to cut the birch and red maple in favor of pine and hemlock. He’s PSNW
Sounds fun congrats 😊
I watch your videos to learn the craft of forest management. More please!
I worked in the woods with my dad, cutting down a stand of beetle killed ponderosa pines, back in the early 70s. I haven't seen such nicely laid down tree's since, until now. Seeing you do this with such skill brought back so many memories, and made me really miss him. I lost him when I was 15. He died of a tumor of the brain, caused by an injury he got in the woods while logging years before. He was a timber faller. A choker setter didn't set his chokers right, they came loose and hit my dad in the face. Breaking his skull and busting out his front teeth. He survived then by a miracle, but later it gave him the tumor. They did surgeries, but the tumor vigorously grew back. He was only 42. They used to say in our family, "If the tree's don't get ya, the injuries will." Which was just their way of saying, if you don't die on the spot, the injuries will kill you later. The stories I could tell of folks I knew who died logging would fill a very sad book. So be safe Michael and have a very Merry Christmas! 😊
Every so often, I enjoy these forestry classes. Appreciate it.
One perfect tree feeling that only took a hundred takes over a thousand acres.
I'm glad you nailed it.
Cleaning up a bridged tree is a pain
Great video , thinning is very important in an over crowded forest, it also helps with removal of fuel load in the event of a fire.
This is incredibly important information. Keep the thinning videos coming!
Definitely interested in more thinning videos. ;)
Your thinning videos are the best, please keep them going!
I've enjoyed this vid. I'd think that about 10 million acres or so, give or take a bit, of western forest could use some thinning.
We enjoy the forestry maintenance tasks as well.
I could listen to you describe why you’re doing what you’re doing when it comes to thinning all day. It’s so sensible, and in tune with what’s actually going on in any given spot. Magnificent.
Notice all the Ponderosa Pine seedlings in your open oak stand too! Yum.
And at my place it's 20 white firs dying for each Douglas fir, and the Incense Cedars are so drought resistant none have died, except in a bad ice storm taking the tops out. I'm planting Incense Cedars back in for the same reason. Keep looking up.
New land owner here. Thanks
I have a lot of this to do, a very important topic. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Besides there's a lot of crackle whoosh bang, always fun.
tHANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK!!!
Excellent video.
Good show thanks
Very interested I'm fifty acres in and just starting to learn! thanks for the class Mr Wilson!
I have marked timber for a living and yet I cut a healthy Port Orford Cedar down just to realize the one left standing was already dead. Look up, and look up again.
I would like to see more thinning videos.
Nice to see the domino theory working.
I love your RUclips site. I, myself am interested in buying some smaller wood lots for my self & grandsons. Worked two jobs for 27 years, now on the down hill slide & would like to get back to nature. Probably the Oregon coast.
More vids like this one 🔥🔥🔥
Well sir. (I know, deep subject). I am of the mind that your subscribers really appreciate most of your content. If not they surely wouldn't be. Forest management is a subject that I am sincerely interested in. All of your other content go hand in hand with FM in one way or another. I guess i said all of that to say, I am interested in your entire channel. Not just a little bit here and there. Be well and God bless you and yours.
I like the thinning videos!
More thinning please
yes let's see more thinning
danger tree vs wildlife tree video would be cool, ive been discussing this in college recently
I'm really interested in the thinning videos and related topics. Only yesterday I was at the OSU arboretum and got to see the long term thinning results on the intensively managed trails.
Great info Mike..
Another great video. Could call part of it a sanitation cut.
I'm interested
There is interest.
Like, like and five thumbs up!
I'm interested. I have about 4.5 acres of woods that need management
I am learning a lot from your videos one thing I would like to request can you show close-ups of the bark and explain how to differential from each tree. In better words how to recognize a species of tree. Which I live in Southern California but we call ourselves the central California because it's Pismo Beach area. And we have Red oaks and we have White oaks up in the Paso Robles area. But I've never seen an oak tree with such a large leaf foliage unless it just wasn't a good shot from our perspective. Does oaks are very young as well they look to be a one to one and a half inch twig. Thank you
You did a good job explaining sun-scald but for the benefit of those of us up here in the Pacific Northwest rainforest, could you elaborate on what this "sun" is?
August
Interested
Does the time of year you thin promote sunscald? Or just the exposure?
more thinning needs to be done in PNW
you shoot the video and I'll watch it
Doug free zone.
Limu emu
My hairline is probably receding because I didn't thin out the back.
Now
so, thinning is the process of removing the skinny trees so the fat trees can grow fatter. got it.
Thinning is as thinning does. It’s all site specific.