Nice details of the heavy lift copter... way more tech and machinery involved in your operation than I ever encountered in the early 70's up Jervis, Bute, Toba and Knight Inlets and out of Ucluelet. Keep up the excellent real world coverage of logging in the 21'rst Century.
The way the fog is moving is like the ocean tides - safety first as always cos the trees can wait Your 592 sounds even better - could be the valley acoustics are better where you are Thank you very much for sharing this video Bjarne Can't believe that you're wearing a rain jacket 😊
Awesome as usual Bjarne, thanks for all the effort you put into this. I really love it when you explain why and what you’re doing sometimes. If you get a chance to explain a bore cut and how to make one, that would be fantastic.
I am addicted to your videos. I love working in timber and missed my calling in life due to geography and location. I love the North Country, Canada. Beautiful landscape.
Great video. I really enjoyed the ending where you explained a lot of things surrounding the actual falling. Maybe you could talk sometime about the requirements to actually pursue a falling job.
Good morning just saw your new videos and wanted to let you know it’s great seeing you still out there felling those monsters 😁🤙🏼 be safe and “ALOHA FROM HAWAII 🌴”🤙🏼🤙🏼
Hey buddy glad you're doing well and staying busy out there. Just wanted to check in and see how you are doing as always looking good out there be safe be kind and happy cutting out there
Thanks for spending some personal time with the viewers and explaining LOTS of things about your work. It was especially interesting to learn about working in fog/cloud conditions and safety protocols. Thanks again.
S-61 The workhorse used for personnel transport to and from offshore installations off the Norwegian coast. I've had my share of hours as passenger. It's good to see that you guys take safety seriously, we need you all with us for many years to come Again, there is one tree feller and all the rest
You should try a tripod called joby gorilla pod ..size: ( SLR zoom ) ..non-ball head version ..I use mine in the bush constantly, it can grab anything and stand anywhere ..and is so flexible you don't need a ball head ..also the SLR version is taller (about 1 foot)and sturdier than other versions ..so you can use your standard phone mount or go pro mount all the way up to a heavy DSLR ..the tripod can also grasp onto your belt when you hike . The SLR version is sturdy ..the smaller versions are wobbly
Peabody coal mines did the same with their strip mining in Kentucky. They Left a nice growth of trees by the road and talk about the replanted land. Drive back into the cut and it looks like the moon.
Its hard chopping down small little trees, however sometimes they are stunted old trees that have failed to get sunlight and even now they are freed up they will not grow well. It easier to plant a completely cut block. But it makes sense to just take the good stuff and leave everything else.
Yep I sure did do a lot of helicopter logging I did helicopter login for 25 years retired from it now I'm falling Timber and a firewood business I just can't keep myself out of the woods I enjoy it
These are good helicopter pilots ..dealing with fog so well .. Kobe Bryant should've hired one of these excellent pilot's on that foggy day when he crashed
Thanks for the explanation on stopping for the "fog" and the extraction process to get you out in an emergency 👍 things people like me who don't work in that environment don't think about 🤔 Be safe !! 0
I just discovered you a week ago, but I’ve been watching a vid a day and I gotta say I love you enthusiasm for falling. Your joy when a big tree goes over is priceless. I know it’s super dangerous job, but on those nice blue sky days (not like this one lol) I envy you. Question: how much pull do you guys have to call it off if it gets too foggy or too windy to fall safely? Do they push you to keep cutting, or can you call it and walk off and still come back the next day? Just curious…
Thanks for watching. It depends on the job site and the situation of that job. On a day you have too much wind, you could get moved to another location that’s not windy or you get flown to camp and everyone else that’s not affected will keep working. Other times it’s a general consensus or if the boss calls it. Everyone has their own limit on how much wind they’ll be comfortable working in. In my experience if 4 guys outta 10 are too windy and there’s no alternate to go to and it looks like it’ll be windy all day, as in a weather system is coming in, then we’ll call it a day. Because even though it’s production falling you get paid while on the hill(on the job site) so if part of your crew can’t work cuz of wind but they’re stuck in the hill your still paying them. So the company will pull the pin and call it a day. Unless there’s a deadline to meet and we really need to get the wood down so the guys blown out will buck wood or make trails, cut short stubby snags. But that’s generally for conventional blocks. Heli blocks they are more strict because the wind could get worse then we’re all shut down and now stuck on the hill, too dangerous for the chopper. Deadlines could be the big chopper is scheduled to come at a certain date or there’s a change in the season, like we need to get a high elevation job done before the snow comes or before we’re shut down for heat in the summer. This happens every year. If your the only guy that has too much wind and there’s no alternate and they need to make a deadline, then you just double up with your partner or keep busy making trails, bucking.
I don’t know how many times I’ve stuck my tape in the end of the log and walk down a ways and then the tape comes out . This was back in the early 80’s in Louisiana
Been a fan for some years now, and just thought, seeing you don’t seem to mind moving your camera but definitely a inconvenience. You ever think about a GoPro that you can mount either helmet chest or even on your saw handle or branch in the bush. IMO the GoPro max is superior to all GoPros as well has 360 videos. And there’s a clamp that you can buy that the GoPro mounts to and then you can clamp it almost onto anything . Learned a lot from a logger like yourself me being a tree guy in Pennsylvania 🙌🏾🙏🏽✊🏾🤝🏾
There's another logger I watch, won't name him 'coz I'm not dissin' him, each to their own, who wears a Go-pro and the footage isn't a patch on Bjarne's. Lots of close-up footage of bark and chips. I do agree a spider mount for a phone or a go-pro is a great idea.
Had to go back and watch that fog again. Less than 2 min from barely any fog until the whole mountain behind him was covered. Quick moving cloud is more like it.
hey hi Bjame how are you long time no chat just curious why you cut your stumps so high American loggers cut low stumps and they seem to follow thriugh cutting as the tree falls past apex.
Well by god you pound out vidjas like you pound wedges lol..Awesome man the 592 still cutting strong!Yessum I like it alot so that's saying alot cause I love my stihls.
In the event of bad weather where the choppers cannot land on your pad, how do they extract you. Do you have a "Back-up" to perhaps Stay overnight on your designated logging location?
Not being critical, just wondering why you don't "knock the corners off" the stumps that are in line with the lay, (angle cut the upper and lower sides of the stump so the tree slides off the stump instead of breaking)? Figured there must be a reason, good job all around and a nice patch of timber.
I check in with the local heli here that does long line extraction before I start falling. Doubtful that the equipment operators can move 10ft from there machines.
The old pilots and there are bold pilots , but there are no old bold pilots . I’ve been on recovery’s and taking chances catch up to you eventually. Helicopters kill pilots most often , more than fixed wing . 👍🇨🇦
Although it is a bit sad to xee a majectic trees life time come to a halt ,i hope the afterlife hass , and adds value in as !many ways and ppls lives as possible. I thought you might appreciate a different way of viewing your image, blending into the work .. as you become one entity together ,forming ia new vision ,at those moments of a symbiotic oneness ; a ,sort of David and Goliath vision turned upside down,inside out or uber imago ( if you will! ) .Find the pm i sent so this will make much more sense .Promise .Stay same .Peace The latin def of Imago stands better for meaning .
The skill set you have is way beyond most other Bjarne, it is amazing watching you work sir!
Nice details of the heavy lift copter... way more tech and machinery involved in your operation than I ever encountered in the early 70's up Jervis, Bute, Toba and Knight Inlets and out of Ucluelet. Keep up the excellent real world coverage of logging in the 21'rst Century.
The way the fog is moving is like the ocean tides - safety first as always cos the trees can wait
Your 592 sounds even better - could be the valley acoustics are better where you are
Thank you very much for sharing this video Bjarne
Can't believe that you're wearing a rain jacket 😊
Excellent way to start a morning , before headed out. What an adventure you are documenting. Wow. Scenery is spectacular.
Awesome as usual Bjarne, thanks for all the effort you put into this. I really love it when you explain why and what you’re doing sometimes. If you get a chance to explain a bore cut and how to make one, that would be fantastic.
Sweet video! Thanks! It was fun hanging out with you.
Thanks for sharing your day. I'm always impressed with your skill in falling big trees. Crazy fog day. You should also have a Tourniquet in your kit.
I am addicted to your videos. I love working in timber and missed my calling in life due to geography and location. I love the North Country, Canada. Beautiful landscape.
Just so you know, girls watch your channel too, love the mountains, love your skill and adorable personality, and my Ex was a faller : )
You make the most beautiful face cuts. It’s no wonder your trees land so gracefully
Great presentation, your narrative is fantastic. Thank you
You have the coolest vids of all
Great video. I really enjoyed the ending where you explained a lot of things surrounding the actual falling. Maybe you could talk sometime about the requirements to actually pursue a falling job.
Good morning just saw your new videos and wanted to let you know it’s great seeing you still out there felling those monsters 😁🤙🏼 be safe and “ALOHA FROM HAWAII 🌴”🤙🏼🤙🏼
Nice content again! The tips are helpful. I tune into your content while filing and dubbing around in the shop!
❤❤Thankx. Appreciate your input and explanations. I’ve learned so much and have now incorporated these techniques when I’m in the woods❤❤
Hey buddy glad you're doing well and staying busy out there. Just wanted to check in and see how you are doing as always looking good out there be safe be kind and happy cutting out there
Thanks for spending some personal time with the viewers and explaining LOTS of things about your work. It was especially interesting to learn about working in fog/cloud conditions and safety protocols. Thanks again.
I sure do like your very interesting talk about rules, regulations and heli-logging. It was excellent... thanks...
I really appreciate the footage of you getting pinched. Been there many times and its that kind of stuff thats real and honest ❤
S-61 The workhorse used for personnel transport to and from offshore installations off the Norwegian coast. I've had my share of hours as passenger.
It's good to see that you guys take safety seriously, we need you all with us for many years to come
Again, there is one tree feller and all the rest
Love the helicopter footage ……keep it coming…….thanks
From NW Montana I'm digging your channel Brother! !
BEAUTY!PINPOINT ACCURACY,GREAT JOB!👍💪🇺🇸😎
In my youth I have been flown out on the end of a long line.
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Very informative and entertaining.
An other great video. Great to know all the safety tips.
My exposure to falling is some trees on a waterfront land we used to own. Can confirm, fallers earn their paychecks and more.
Bjarne, I love the S61 heli, but C-GOJN is now nearly 50 years old! built 1975
Now this is what I've been waiting to see
You should try a tripod called joby gorilla pod ..size: ( SLR zoom ) ..non-ball head version ..I use mine in the bush constantly, it can grab anything and stand anywhere ..and is so flexible you don't need a ball head ..also the SLR version is taller (about 1 foot)and sturdier than other versions ..so you can use your standard phone mount or go pro mount all the way up to a heavy DSLR ..the tripod can also grasp onto your belt when you hike . The SLR version is sturdy ..the smaller versions are wobbly
Peabody coal mines did the same with their strip mining in Kentucky. They Left a nice growth of trees by the road and talk about the replanted land. Drive back into the cut and it looks like the moon.
Cool to see how fast those red firs turn in just a few days after being exposed to the air.
Very interesting episode
Welcome back to OUR FAVORITE CHAINSAW LOGGER! Woohoo 😊
Its hard chopping down small little trees, however sometimes they are stunted old trees that have failed to get sunlight and even now they are freed up they will not grow well. It easier to plant a completely cut block. But it makes sense to just take the good stuff and leave everything else.
The spring box is a Burris Signature rifle scope ring box, it's the kind I use have 4 of them, pretty neat..Great Vid🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓👍👍👍👍
Donnie walkerized my 660 it sure rips they even have there own walker light bars now
Yep I sure did do a lot of helicopter logging I did helicopter login for 25 years retired from it now I'm falling Timber and a firewood business I just can't keep myself out of the woods I enjoy it
These are good helicopter pilots ..dealing with fog so well .. Kobe Bryant should've hired one of these excellent pilot's on that foggy day when he crashed
Thanks for the explanation on stopping for the "fog" and the extraction process to get you out in an emergency 👍 things people like me who don't work in that environment don't think about 🤔 Be safe !! 0
I just discovered you a week ago, but I’ve been watching a vid a day and I gotta say I love you enthusiasm for falling. Your joy when a big tree goes over is priceless. I know it’s super dangerous job, but on those nice blue sky days (not like this one lol) I envy you. Question: how much pull do you guys have to call it off if it gets too foggy or too windy to fall safely? Do they push you to keep cutting, or can you call it and walk off and still come back the next day? Just curious…
Thanks for watching. It depends on the job site and the situation of that job. On a day you have too much wind, you could get moved to another location that’s not windy or you get flown to camp and everyone else that’s not affected will keep working. Other times it’s a general consensus or if the boss calls it. Everyone has their own limit on how much wind they’ll be comfortable working in. In my experience if 4 guys outta 10 are too windy and there’s no alternate to go to and it looks like it’ll be windy all day, as in a weather system is coming in, then we’ll call it a day. Because even though it’s production falling you get paid while on the hill(on the job site) so if part of your crew can’t work cuz of wind but they’re stuck in the hill your still paying them. So the company will pull the pin and call it a day. Unless there’s a deadline to meet and we really need to get the wood down so the guys blown out will buck wood or make trails, cut short stubby snags. But that’s generally for conventional blocks. Heli blocks they are more strict because the wind could get worse then we’re all shut down and now stuck on the hill, too dangerous for the chopper. Deadlines could be the big chopper is scheduled to come at a certain date or there’s a change in the season, like we need to get a high elevation job done before the snow comes or before we’re shut down for heat in the summer. This happens every year.
If your the only guy that has too much wind and there’s no alternate and they need to make a deadline, then you just double up with your partner or keep busy making trails, bucking.
hope you had a good haloween
Sawdust for a knee pad ……sweet!!
watch that break away bar, the days over
Wow back ground of the first tree you can see the fog rolling in
I don’t know how many times I’ve stuck my tape in the end of the log and walk down a ways and then the tape comes out . This was back in the early 80’s in Louisiana
Good lookin ol saw…I got a 94 and 5…94 was ported by rich at myrtle cr…it’s a screamer
Been a fan for some years now, and just thought, seeing you don’t seem to mind moving your camera but definitely a inconvenience. You ever think about a GoPro that you can mount either helmet chest or even on your saw handle or branch in the bush. IMO the GoPro max is superior to all GoPros as well has 360 videos. And there’s a clamp that you can buy that the GoPro mounts to and then you can clamp it almost onto anything . Learned a lot from a logger like yourself me being a tree guy in Pennsylvania 🙌🏾🙏🏽✊🏾🤝🏾
There's another logger I watch, won't name him 'coz I'm not dissin' him, each to their own, who wears a Go-pro and the footage isn't a patch on Bjarne's. Lots of close-up footage of bark and chips. I do agree a spider mount for a phone or a go-pro is a great idea.
Pretty sure Bjarne has a go pro. I much prefer the stationary shots for most of the time,
@@neild7971 yeah, I agree. He has a good eye for selecting us a position to watch him work. A good balance of talk and and work too.
That sucks when the bar gets pinched. Be careful not to break the bar.👍
Had to go back and watch that fog again. Less than 2 min from barely any fog until the whole mountain behind him was covered. Quick moving cloud is more like it.
best thing is don't hurt yourself
The comments below… haleluja… take Bjarne for all that stuff and your videos, cheers from Luxembourg 🇱🇺 europe 40% of wood
hey hi Bjame how are you long time no chat just curious why you cut your stumps so high American loggers cut low stumps and they seem to follow thriugh cutting as the tree falls past apex.
Well by god you pound out vidjas like you pound wedges lol..Awesome man the 592 still cutting strong!Yessum I like it alot so that's saying alot cause I love my stihls.
In the event of bad weather where the choppers cannot land on your pad, how do they extract you. Do you have a "Back-up" to perhaps Stay overnight on your designated logging location?
Excellent question,I wished he'd answer!
He did say he was able to hike down to the road, it would have taken a couple hours
I’m thinking that if something medically should happen you are going need to much more than a band aid or gauze pad. Great videos stay safe.
By the way NICE NEW SAW!!
Bjarne how long have you been doing this? Thanks again for sharing.
Heck Yeah!!!!!
1:20:47 Sikorsky S-61N, civilian model of the SH-3 Sea King.
Not being critical, just wondering why you don't "knock the corners off" the stumps that are in line with the lay, (angle cut the upper and lower sides of the stump so the tree slides off the stump instead of breaking)? Figured there must be a reason, good job all around and a nice patch of timber.
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Great video 👍 👍 How much do cutters like u make?
Weather can move in fast that's for sure.
That's some low visibility helicopter flying! Looks like the last helicopter is a H-52 that the USCG used for search and rescue.
I see your using a break away tip bar. not a good bar for me do you like them
Cool
Where did you get your back pack Bjarne
That clear curing they do it in Northern California like you was saying don’t cut every thing there’s no sense it cutting trash trees
Was just going to write that the saw sounds like it picked up a bit when I saw the description.
Bjarne what’s the max lift on the big heli
Is 1/2 days pay more or less than $500 ...?
I check in with the local heli here that does long line extraction before I start falling. Doubtful that the equipment operators can move 10ft from there machines.
Buddy said when they would get shut down helli logging buddy over radio would say eeeassssssy monnnnney white gold boys haha
Excuse me for asking, but how do you get paid? By the hour or by the amount felled?
Pretty sure it’s a day rate
Did that rock have big ass paw prints on it?
What length are you cutting to size and why?
10 meters, at least....😘
Cutting them to a weight limit of the helicopter I think
What happen's if the fog stays long after your shift is over ?
The old pilots and there are bold pilots , but there are no old bold pilots . I’ve been on recovery’s and taking chances catch up to you eventually. Helicopters kill pilots most often , more than fixed wing . 👍🇨🇦
Guess I'm not the only one using my knee on the saw...
There are no “Old Bold Pilots”
So are you guys heli logging or is there a tower, or both
This is all heli logging
Cool man
How do they remove the logs?
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Te pniaki są przerażające, w Polsce nie do przyjęcia.
Old pilots and bold pilots but no old bold pilots.😉Might there be a reason this old saying still circulates in the aviation community?
Hear the wedge get hard and the bounce of his ax
Another very interesting video, thanks Bjarne. What's your postal address, I'd like to send you something small for your kit.
I hate it when they break
Although it is a bit sad to xee a majectic trees life time come to a halt ,i hope the afterlife hass , and adds value in as !many ways and ppls lives as possible. I thought you might appreciate a different way of viewing your image, blending into the work .. as you become one entity together ,forming ia new vision ,at those moments of a symbiotic oneness ; a ,sort of David and Goliath vision turned upside down,inside out or uber imago ( if you will! ) .Find the pm i sent so this will make much more sense .Promise .Stay same .Peace The latin def of Imago stands better for meaning .
I can see him reach for ax if defending self. There in trouble
I can only imagine how the fuel price is cutting in to every body pockets iam sure those helicopters eat the fuel
Bjarne, I think you are wrong in that helicopter pilots makes more than you.
It's not a bee. It's a creature coming from the mist to suck your blood.