Back when I use to cut firewood to heat our home, I wood ( see what I did there Capt. ) have got enough out of that one tree. I miss those day of being in the woods. I hate getting old. Any way, nice to see how much the 304 helps out. I'm sure Gary appreciated the help. God Bless you and your.
Hello Captain. I'm in the UK and have a backhoe on steep ground all much like you do. Just wondering maybe it's different over there but I picked up for £1500 and old 4 X4 dumper and have made a crane attachment using the bucket tip to use it. It has been a life changer it can go anywhere even in mud makes moving material with the backhoe easy and moving pallets of stuff easy using straps and crane. Love your videos your the best on here.
By the inch it's a cinch, you are getting there Mike and it is going to look fantastic, That's the one thing I admire about your whole county the way you all come together to help each other neighbours working with each other to achieve way more than one person can do alone. Jim from Scotland
Working in the woods and helping a neighbor when you can is what who we are Don’t forget about the tooth on the bucket to fix in your list Love your videos
On those big dirt packed root wads I like to dig a hole and stick the trunk end down the hole and let the rains was the dirt off of the roots that are sticking up. This seems to prevent the stump from sprouting and aids in decomposition.
Hi Mike. Quite a lot of Oak firewood that you have there. That tree with the schoolmarm was a particularly large old girl. Looked like pretty straight grain wood and split really nice. Looking forward to seeing the repairs on the 304!
Some times you amaze me with you versatility. Not just with the mini, but your skill with the various sized chainsaws leaves me breathless. Just one thing really scares me, you wouldn't go into a fire without your gloves, would you? so why don't you wear gloves when using your chainsaw? I know you're going to say they get in the way, but they also might just save your appendages! Just saying, cos we love the things you do and sometimes how. but think of your family sometimes too! As to your saying to your neighbour you'd look after the downed tree, well that is just typical of the man you are THANKS MIKE, YOU'RE PRECIOUS! Best wishes as always from UK.
I don't know if you've seen it... but there was one guy - John at Farmcraft101, I think - who has fabricated a log splitter he can use on the end of his excavator in lieu of a bucket... and so he can activate the splitter from inside the cab. It's pretty cool... but I bet you could come up with something like that. I guess it depends on how much log splitting you intend to do... but it might be worth it, right?
Happy Days, Mikes at it again doing some fun stuff and entertaining me and others as he does it. Keep been you Mike and keep up the good work. From kiwi land
Well, Captain, having enough projects that you can share with a neighbor is what us old folks do. So, I have a post oak a little shorter than that tree, but about twice as big around, that's been down on a fence in the Northwest Pasture since a tornado came through in May, so if you want a little more firewood, neighbor (you're probably only 14 or 15 hours away, maybe less, since you can drive 75 in Texas), feel free to bring your chainsaw and come get it. (You can use my backhoe or tractor and grapple to load it). 😁Thanks for the video, take care!
You are braver than me. I spend the fall building burn piles but don't burn until the snow flies. I'm jealous of the equipment you have. Love the videos. Happy Thanksgiving to you, the Admiral and the crew.
We’re with you Mike, whatever is next we’ll love it. What about getting one of those small all terrain trailers with the fat off road tyres for hauling firewood around? Must be a sponsor around for such a great channel?
A hot cup of Cheerful Coffee or Tea. With just a drop er two of peppermint syrup and a dash of half & half in your morning hot beverages makes the cold days go a little easier..
Now that you’ve got the excavator, check out those videos where folks convert their log splitters to work on the excavator. The lines can use the hoses from the thumb.
Hey Captain, Watching this video a couple of things came to mind the first was after seeing that nice straight Oak tree you were cutting up and that is have you ever heard/seen a contrivance called an “Alaskan Portable Saw Mill.” My brother from another mother brought one a dozen or so years back and his worked pretty darn good when cutting 6 to 8 Quarter thick planks/boards. The thing basically holds a chainsaw horizontally and allows you cut planks/boards that you can debark and either use as is or trim and plane to suit the needs of your particular project. He used his to cut planks and beams for several bridges on his property as well as planks to repair several beams and re-floor about half of the barn as well replacing the floors on several trailers. The thing produces a fair amount of wasted wood which he feeds his wood fired boiler that he uses to heat his shop as well as his house. The second thing is cheap/basically free fire starter and that is saving your used cooking oil and or rendered fat from cooking bacon, chicken, beef. Anyway I pour my used cooking oil and rendered fat into used water or soda bottles and then soak old rags, junk mail, or newspaper in some of the used oil as well as squirt dump the remainder of oil/far in the bottle on the brush pile I am burning. Notice I didn’t use old engine oil because I save that to burn in my used oil heater that’s in my shop made from an old stainless steel hot water heater and a decorative heat sink made out used brake rotors I brought home from work that my girlfriend made while learning how to weld. Have a great day and a better tomorrow PS Wishing you and yours a very happy Thanksgiving
I agree with you, it's not that difficult to do. I usually do it immediately upon pressing the play button - ▶️ -> 👍🏻! I already know it's gonna be a good video and I like to show what support I can for these guys who spend all this time filming, editing, and posting these interesting & informative videos that we like to watch! I think part of the problem is many watch RUclips without setting up their account, & when you don't set up account nothing shows up on the bottom to like\dislike\comment. Another thing are the ones who have no idea what to do as far as technology & 'computer' stuffs and just watch RUclips cluelessly without knowing that it help the creators out. It's selfish if you ask me, people want to watch all this free video stuff and not even give the creators a like, or show support with subscriptions, notifications, etc! Good luck getting them to do anything differently! If you don't know how to do this ask any 10+ y\o in your family to set it up for you and show you how to do it to help support these free video creators who do this for us! 👌🏻👍🏻📸 📽️🎬🖥️ ✊🏻🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲✊🏻
Trying to do the right things the wrong way or trying to do wrong things the right way. Thats a conundrum that most of us have faced many times in life. Good you are trying to do the right thing.
Lovin the Captain Kleeman “ I do what I want “ hoody, definitely ordering one or two 👍 love a good bomby ( bonfire to my American friends 😁 ) Can you please in a future episode show close up ( with your new camera and all ) how you so quickly sharpen your chainsaw blades ? Also what happened to the 555 log cutting/splitting machinery, seemed to be much faster and less effort ? Excellent as always Mike , best wishes to you and yours, from Britain 👍👍🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸
You really should look up more! Did you not see that widowmaker above you as you walked along the trunk at the beginning? I'm looking forward to some maintainance on the 304, I'd like to see if you could take up some of the slop in the bucket linkages, that would drive me mad!
My neck of woods there’s red oak white oak and ifn you get ahold of a black jack tree they are chain wreckers hard hard hard sparks be flying no fun at all
@ 14:50 the bungee cord on the back of the chainsaw holding ( I assume ) the cover on is what is commonly called " A Kleeman " where as fixing it or buying the proper replacement part is called a " Neil Koch " LMAO
I do the same thing as far as burying my piles but I've started sticking about a 10ft stick of 2" iron pipe in it gives it some air and it burns down to nothing. Another benefit is if you want to kick it back off the next day put your leaf blower nozzle in the pipe and boom rager again.
Do you ever hit yellow jacket nests in those hollow logs? Boy we sure do here in the south. After Helene came through, some of my neighbors trees that fell on his house were full of them
Now that you have one of them there luxury mini excavators, it can't be too long till you have one of them there luxury skid steers. Then it's one more step to a Halverson firewood processor. By the time that happens, it won't seem like such a luxury, as your old bones just dont tolerate as much work as they used to.😸
That is how they used to make paved roads. Cut down trees, lay them side by side ten feet wide, cover it with dirt and light one end. Come back in the spring pull the dirt off, and voila, a paved road. They cut down all of the trees in New England [2nd time]. First time was for masts, third time was for agriculture.
CAT window replacement: might be able to save a couple bucks by ordering the window and putting in yourself. Myself (with window replacement experience) took about 15-30 minutes to do the same fix.
I always cringe when I see a fire in the woods with vines on it. I had a neighbor that got some poison ivy in a fire then breathed the oil laden smoke and ended up with blisters in her lungs. Was in the hospital for weeks, touch and go for a while... 😼
Awesome video, Captain ! Helping a neighbor was epic. Really good at the chainsaw. Hope you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving day Thank you for sharing 👌 😊
Cut wood all my life and get burning some brush, but we always made a few brush piles for wildlife, rabbits etc. Anytime spent in the woods is time well spent, wish I could show you how to split wood with a track hoe..lol
With all the hydraulics around you would think he would make a splitter to run off his backhoe's pump. Faster and stronger than the neighbor's little splitter. Just build around an old cylinder with some of his scrap steel. Oops, I suggested another project before the Yacht was finished. My bad.
Neighbors helping neighbors! It doesn't get any better than that! Great video! Thanks Mike! Lee
The "fake look at the wrist watch" as the tree slowly fell...... From one SARCASM efficienato to another.....I salute you 🫡
Mighty neighborly of you Mike. Almost to 90,000 subs!
Slow but sure!
Back when I use to cut firewood to heat our home, I wood ( see what I did there Capt. ) have got enough out of that one tree. I miss
those day of being in the woods. I hate getting old. Any way, nice to see how much the 304 helps out. I'm sure Gary appreciated the help.
God Bless you and your.
You really impress me with your chainsaw work i am crap using mine compared to you cheers Jill Australia 🇦🇺
Now I know where the term "whipper snappers" came from. Yep! Sound about right!
Hello Captain. I'm in the UK and have a backhoe on steep ground all much like you do. Just wondering maybe it's different over there but I picked up for £1500 and old 4 X4 dumper and have made a crane attachment using the bucket tip to use it. It has been a life changer it can go anywhere even in mud makes moving material with the backhoe easy and moving pallets of stuff easy using straps and crane. Love your videos your the best on here.
Hi Mike & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Mike & Friends Randy
Awesome job Captain! Always good to help your neighbors. Keeps everyone on the same page and working together when you need help.
You keep us entertained and O so jealous. You live in a big boy’s playground. Thanks for sharing, your voice over commentary is the best on RUclips.
Happy Thanksgiving friend. Sure was an awful nice video. Thanks for making the time to put it together
Captain You make a good Work, the Wood from the old to fall Trees to clear! And the Dry Solid Wood for Firewood to make. The Work and Idea Perfect. 💪👍
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Nice little project,you’re a good neighbor.just keep doing your thing.be safe.good job Mike.👍👍👍😎😎😎
Happy thanksgiving to you and your family captain 🦃🥧
Happy Thanksgiving to all the Captain fans. I hope everyone has a wonderful, thankful day.
Good morning sunshine! Great video! It's good to have neighbors who don't mind loaning/helping out! Much love and respect from Henderson Ga USA
By the inch it's a cinch, you are getting there Mike and it is going to look fantastic, That's the one thing I admire about your whole county the way you all come together to help each other neighbours working with each other to achieve way more than one person can do alone. Jim from Scotland
MIKE,....you need a clone !
Too many projects going on, BUT..... 'you da man' that's in demand!
Carry on Cap'tn!
Working in the woods and helping a neighbor when you can is what who we are
Don’t forget about the tooth on the bucket to fix in your list
Love your videos
Thanks for watching!
On those big dirt packed root wads I like to dig a hole and stick the trunk end down the hole and let the rains was the dirt off of the roots that are sticking up. This seems to prevent the stump from sprouting and aids in decomposition.
17:15 the precision you have is so satisfying to watch... reminds me of when you did the eggscavator challenge...
That wood splitter looked faster than the skidsteer attachment one.
Hi Mike. Quite a lot of Oak firewood that you have there. That tree with the schoolmarm was a particularly large old girl. Looked like pretty straight grain wood and split really nice. Looking forward to seeing the repairs on the 304!
Good morning Mike
Some times you amaze me with you versatility. Not just with the mini, but your skill with the various sized chainsaws leaves me breathless. Just one thing really scares me, you wouldn't go into a fire without your gloves, would you? so why don't you wear gloves when using your chainsaw? I know you're going to say they get in the way, but they also might just save your appendages! Just saying, cos we love the things you do and sometimes how. but think of your family sometimes too! As to your saying to your neighbour you'd look after the downed tree, well that is just typical of the man you are THANKS MIKE, YOU'RE PRECIOUS! Best wishes as always from UK.
Thanks Mike!😊
You really like to play with the 304🤗
That fresh split oak smell ...hanging out in the woods burning stuff ...good times . 🦺🪵🚜⚓️
It's definitely a great smell!
I don't know if you've seen it... but there was one guy - John at Farmcraft101, I think - who has fabricated a log splitter he can use on the end of his excavator in lieu of a bucket... and so he can activate the splitter from inside the cab. It's pretty cool... but I bet you could come up with something like that. I guess it depends on how much log splitting you intend to do... but it might be worth it, right?
It’s amazing how much the 304 can pick up
Looking forward to the BIG things are coming!!!
Glad you kept message tree blessings to you and family season of joy n giving🎉🎉😊😊
Great video, thank you!
Appreciate ya watching!
Mini excavator is such a versatile machine. We use ours everyday on a golf course with so many different task. Definitely a great investment
great task accomplished, no good logs in it for some sweet board feet? She'll burn nice and give plenty of heat
All kinds of good things in this video. As always, keeping it funny and on the fly.
Thanks for watching!
Oak splits so nicely.
Absolutely!
Captain great video lots of work accomplished! Thanks for sharing! Kevin
Appreciate ya watching!!
Happy Days, Mikes at it again doing some fun stuff and entertaining me and others as he does it.
Keep been you Mike and keep up the good work.
From kiwi land
Well, Captain, having enough projects that you can share with a neighbor is what us old folks do. So, I have a post oak a little shorter than that tree, but about twice as big around, that's been down on a fence in the Northwest Pasture since a tornado came through in May, so if you want a little more firewood, neighbor (you're probably only 14 or 15 hours away, maybe less, since you can drive 75 in Texas), feel free to bring your chainsaw and come get it. (You can use my backhoe or tractor and grapple to load it). 😁Thanks for the video, take care!
You are braver than me. I spend the fall building burn piles but don't burn until the snow flies. I'm jealous of the equipment you have. Love the videos. Happy Thanksgiving to you, the Admiral and the crew.
We’re with you Mike, whatever is next we’ll love it. What about getting one of those small all terrain trailers with the fat off road tyres for hauling firewood around? Must be a sponsor around for such a great channel?
Great job Mike. It's always nice when neighbors can help each other out.
Absolutely
It's great to see neighbors helping each other.
A hot cup of Cheerful Coffee or Tea. With just a drop er two of peppermint syrup and a dash of half & half in your morning hot beverages makes the cold days go a little easier..
Very nice stack of fire wood .Joel Reppe Clear Lake SD
That’s a great use of the 305 and you get the added bonus of a lot of firewood for next season.
Protective Gear & Safety Glasses, all by Yourself!: AWSOME AGAIN my Captain ❤Thanks AGAIN for sharing 😀 👍 😊
Appreciate ya watching!!
Love cleaning up!! Nice work Mike and your a great neighbor 🤗🇺🇸
Now that you’ve got the excavator, check out those videos where folks convert their log splitters to work on the excavator. The lines can use the hoses from the thumb.
Hey Captain, Watching this video a couple of things came to mind the first was after seeing that nice straight Oak tree you were cutting up and that is have you ever heard/seen a contrivance called an “Alaskan Portable Saw Mill.” My brother from another mother brought one a dozen or so years back and his worked pretty darn good when cutting 6 to 8 Quarter thick planks/boards. The thing basically holds a chainsaw horizontally and allows you cut planks/boards that you can debark and either use as is or trim and plane to suit the needs of your particular project. He used his to cut planks and beams for several bridges on his property as well as planks to repair several beams and re-floor about half of the barn as well replacing the floors on several trailers. The thing produces a fair amount of wasted wood which he feeds his wood fired boiler that he uses to heat his shop as well as his house. The second thing is cheap/basically free fire starter and that is saving your used cooking oil and or rendered fat from cooking bacon, chicken, beef. Anyway I pour my used cooking oil and rendered fat into used water or soda bottles and then soak old rags, junk mail, or newspaper in some of the used oil as well as squirt dump the remainder of oil/far in the bottle on the brush pile I am burning. Notice I didn’t use old engine oil because I save that to burn in my used oil heater that’s in my shop made from an old stainless steel hot water heater and a decorative heat sink made out used brake rotors I brought home from work that my girlfriend made while learning how to weld.
Have a great day and a better tomorrow
PS Wishing you and yours a very happy Thanksgiving
Good to have firewood 👌👌😎😎🍮🍮
Having that log round picker upper around sure takes some of the warmth out of that firewood. 😉
The short name for the things flying around are BUGS. 😂
I wish I could do all the things you do. To keep me occupied. Can’t wait for the things to come 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I'm a bit disapointed on my fellow wievers....let's all give the feller a thumbs up when entering...it's free!!
I'm with you people need to smash that like button🤘🏼🇺🇸
I agree with you, it's not that difficult to do. I usually do it immediately upon pressing the play button - ▶️ -> 👍🏻! I already know it's gonna be a good video and I like to show what support I can for these guys who spend all this time filming, editing, and posting these interesting & informative videos that we like to watch! I think part of the problem is many watch RUclips without setting up their account, & when you don't set up account nothing shows up on the bottom to like\dislike\comment. Another thing are the ones who have no idea what to do as far as technology & 'computer' stuffs and just watch RUclips cluelessly without knowing that it help the creators out. It's selfish if you ask me, people want to watch all this free video stuff and not even give the creators a like, or show support with subscriptions, notifications, etc! Good luck getting them to do anything differently! If you don't know how to do this ask any 10+ y\o in your family to set it up for you and show you how to do it to help support these free video creators who do this for us! 👌🏻👍🏻📸 📽️🎬🖥️
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Also please comment..even just a smiley face which he deserves!
A good day. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Wishing you and your family the best.
Trying to do the right things the wrong way or trying to do wrong things the right way. Thats a conundrum that most of us have faced many times in life. Good you are trying to do the right thing.
Appreciate ya watching!n
Awesome content as always and appreciate you sharing your day with us 😎🇺🇲😇
Always appreciate ya watching!
Logger Mike good job great video thanks
"It's coming - you're gonna love it!" OK! Thumbs up! Stay safe.
Excavator envy. Nice job
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Happy day Capt. and best wishes for the holidays for you and your family.
You as well!
Happy Holidays!
Love a good chain saw with a sharp chain, I can smell the leaves and the wood smoke all the way to AUS. Happy Thanksgiving.
Thanks!
Lovin the Captain Kleeman “ I do what I want “ hoody, definitely ordering one or two 👍 love a good bomby ( bonfire to my American friends 😁 ) Can you please in a future episode show close up ( with your new camera and all ) how you so quickly sharpen your chainsaw blades ? Also what happened to the 555 log cutting/splitting machinery, seemed to be much faster and less effort ? Excellent as always Mike , best wishes to you and yours, from Britain 👍👍🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸
Great job once again 👍
Near beginning the is the tree near top you are cutting is it bent as a trail marker
It is not. Probably from a downed tree
Great video keep them coming
Glad to see ya with cutting chaps- now I won’t ping on ya about that today - take care😁😁
You really should look up more! Did you not see that widowmaker above you as you walked along the trunk at the beginning?
I'm looking forward to some maintainance on the 304, I'd like to see if you could take up some of the slop in the bucket linkages, that would drive me mad!
My neck of woods there’s red oak white oak and ifn you get ahold of a black jack tree they are chain wreckers hard hard hard sparks be flying no fun at all
❤ from Norway
We do love it ❤❤🎉🎉 so good keep it coming Captain
Appreciate ya watching!
@ 14:50 the bungee cord on the back of the chainsaw holding ( I assume ) the cover on is what is commonly called " A Kleeman " where as fixing it or buying the proper replacement part is called a " Neil Koch " LMAO
Gotta do the maintenance work if you want nice stuff. Can't wait for all videos. Stay safe
Enjoyed the video
Isn’t black oak good for decorative wood slabs?
Good for burning too lol
Thought maybe you’d make a set of barn beams or something even fanciers… 😉
I do the same thing as far as burying my piles but I've started sticking about a 10ft stick of 2" iron pipe in it gives it some air and it burns down to nothing. Another benefit is if you want to kick it back off the next day put your leaf blower nozzle in the pipe and boom rager again.
Hey captain you and your family have nice turkey -day ,stay safe now! Mike Peabody,Massachusetts 0:00
You as well!!
Do you ever hit yellow jacket nests in those hollow logs? Boy we sure do here in the south. After Helene came through, some of my neighbors trees that fell on his house were full of them
On occasion. Definitely not a great experience
Now that you have one of them there luxury mini excavators, it can't be too long till you have one of them there luxury skid steers. Then it's one more step to a Halverson firewood processor. By the time that happens, it won't seem like such a luxury, as your old bones just dont tolerate as much work as they used to.😸
Your bucket pin is about to sneak away on a holiday. 🥳🥶
That is how they used to make paved roads. Cut down trees, lay them side by side ten feet wide, cover it with dirt and light one end. Come back in the spring pull the dirt off, and voila, a paved road. They cut down all of the trees in New England [2nd time]. First time was for masts, third time was for agriculture.
Could you put the little trailer behind the side by side?? 🙏🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧
Mike didn't you get one of those wood processors from C&C equipment last year? great video Mike and happy thanksgiving to you and your family 👍👍👍👍👍
It's strong wood, could have been used to deck a trailer or a yacht..
Get real
@@CaptainKleeman Thanks Mike, a Happy Thanksgiving to you too
Like a good neighbor, Mike Kleeman is there.👌
Is there any other way to be?🤙
Tell Gary I said Hi! Hopefully he remembers the big bearded crazy guy from NY that came to visit. lol
Love the Beagle, what is his name?
He has several names lol
Mike, was there any market for the oak lumber? Locally, we have quite a market for oak.
Im not in the timber business.
@@CaptainKleeman Sorry, I didn't mean to offend. I understand that firewood makes more economic sense for your circumstances.
CAT window replacement: might be able to save a couple bucks by ordering the window and putting in yourself. Myself (with window replacement experience) took about 15-30 minutes to do the same fix.
I always cringe when I see a fire in the woods with vines on it. I had a neighbor that got some poison ivy in a fire then breathed the oil laden smoke and ended up with blisters in her lungs. Was in the hospital for weeks, touch and go for a while... 😼
Awesome video, Captain ! Helping a neighbor was epic. Really good at the chainsaw.
Hope you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving day
Thank you for sharing 👌 😊
Maybe replace the bucket and thumb pins?? Thanks
They don't need it
Cut wood all my life and get burning some brush, but we always made a few brush piles for wildlife, rabbits etc. Anytime spent in the woods is time well spent, wish I could show you how to split wood with a track hoe..lol
What ever happened to tha boat you were building in the woods?
All kinds of things!!
You need that star wood splitter.
I was thinking the same 😂
With all the hydraulics around you would think he would make a splitter to run off his backhoe's pump. Faster and stronger than the neighbor's little splitter. Just build around an old cylinder with some of his scrap steel. Oops, I suggested another project before the Yacht was finished. My bad.