I face the same dilemma on my own property I love trees and to cut it down can be a challenging decision. Great content keep it up your neighbour in the Bogie! 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦
Fine words, Louie, from a true woodsman. I was lucky enough to join a local forest management expert in your neck of the woods a few years back when he did an initial analysis of a friend’s property. Knowledge flowed through him like sap.
So much so he probably blew his nose with a pancake right! I try to hang with those guys as often as I can, my acreage has had 3 cuts in the last 60 years, it'll be ready for another in 8 to 10 - pretty amazing. I have a vid coming out on the hypocrisy of planting trees - or is it hypocrisy....?
Sometimes they just have to go down! I rather take them down myself so i know where they're going to it the ground... instead of them being blow down by big winds and damage the small nice trees I want to keep!
If you want to manage the woods you need to get rid of the huge old canopy trees when they get that old they rarely even produce acorns yes they do provide a home for small animals but the woods becomes stagnant and also the little ironwood trees I take a small trailer and cut them it a pole and haul them out of the woods and cut to stove length close to the stove I did this about 20 years ago in the grove around my farm yard here in northern Minnesota I had huge healthy white oak trees with nothing but brush under them and never seen a deer in the yard now I see deer in the yard and the young trees are coming in beautifully now and it makes a good windbreaker. The huge white oak made beautiful lumber when I sawed them into lumber years ago and they paid many years of property taxes
Paying the bills is definitely part of it as well as resource management. Big giant trees are nice but its amazing to see what comes up after one is cut.
@@rollingupmysleeves yes that is true the ground just pops with little trees and your right about the decaying nutrients that becomes available for the new trees judging by my trees I would say around 20 years at least of a nutrients release keep up the great videos
Interesting video Lou, I admire the huge Hemlocks to sit under when I’m hunting deer. A lot of the oak around my camp rot upwards from the base of the trunk the same way - eventually dying and after many years still standing, dry enough to go right n the stove…like finding gold lol
Lots of trees like that on my property. I generally leave them, may take a few. I have some gigantic spruce that for some reason are immune to spruce budworm. When we had the last outbreak all the spruce and fir around them died but they stayed strong and healthy so re gen of those are a good thing. I always watch for things like that in my forest and I may not even live to reap all the rewards but my kids and theirs will. And may I say clearcutting sucks, sprays that kill hardwood sucks, N.B.'s forests by large are decimated thanks to Irving and the almighty dollar.
@@rollingupmysleeves Yes, but since this pandemic and the roaring lumber prices, people have been buying portable mills and there has been a lot of sawn lumber pouring out. There is a certified lumber grader/sawyer who can stamp our lumber in the area so that makes things better seeing how most everything has to be stamped.
you're lucky, the only way to get a stamp here is if you work for a mill is my understanding. although legally I think anyone can make their own stamp and use it if they can ensure the quality.
You got the right attitude for wood lot management. Keep after'r!
Thanks!
I face the same dilemma on my own property I love trees and to cut it down can be a challenging decision. Great content keep it up your neighbour in the Bogie! 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦
Thanks! Will do! Cheers bud!
Fine words, Louie, from a true woodsman. I was lucky enough to join a local forest management expert in your neck of the woods a few years back when he did an initial analysis of a friend’s property. Knowledge flowed through him like sap.
So much so he probably blew his nose with a pancake right! I try to hang with those guys as often as I can, my acreage has had 3 cuts in the last 60 years, it'll be ready for another in 8 to 10 - pretty amazing. I have a vid coming out on the hypocrisy of planting trees - or is it hypocrisy....?
Sometimes they just have to go down! I rather take them down myself so i know where they're going to it the ground... instead of them being blow down by big winds and damage the small nice trees I want to keep!
Great point - I feel the same way.
Those are some big old trees. There used to be a bunch of Elm that size around my community but Dutch Elm disease pretty much did them in.
Yes I remember the big elms in our yards.
If you want to manage the woods you need to get rid of the huge old canopy trees when they get that old they rarely even produce acorns yes they do provide a home for small animals but the woods becomes stagnant and also the little ironwood trees I take a small trailer and cut them it a pole and haul them out of the woods and cut to stove length close to the stove I did this about 20 years ago in the grove around my farm yard here in northern Minnesota I had huge healthy white oak trees with nothing but brush under them and never seen a deer in the yard now I see deer in the yard and the young trees are coming in beautifully now and it makes a good windbreaker. The huge white oak made beautiful lumber when I sawed them into lumber years ago and they paid many years of property taxes
Paying the bills is definitely part of it as well as resource management. Big giant trees are nice but its amazing to see what comes up after one is cut.
@@rollingupmysleeves yes that is true the ground just pops with little trees and your right about the decaying nutrients that becomes available for the new trees judging by my trees I would say around 20 years at least of a nutrients release keep up the great videos
Interesting video Lou, I admire the huge Hemlocks to sit under when I’m hunting deer. A lot of the oak around my camp rot upwards from the base of the trunk the same way - eventually dying and after many years still standing, dry enough to go right n the stove…like finding gold lol
lol true!
Bet that was a field edge or pasture years ago
100 percent.
I've heard some people say to leave some dead standing stuff for the wildlife, bugs n woodpeckers n such lol.
Thats true - even wood duck nests are in dead trees.
That be a case by case deal. In my experience a sick rotting tree keeps on rotting after it's cut.
No doubt about it!
There’s a say that an old apple tree dose not make old apple! 😁
Big old wolf tree, Is that not a bur oak part of the white oak family? It is far past its prime, most mill could not mill that or want to,
No we only have red oak on our property - pointy leaves. I can still mill it with my equipment and we sell live edge.
Lots of trees like that on my property. I generally leave them, may take a few. I have some gigantic spruce that for some reason are immune to spruce budworm. When we had the last outbreak all the spruce and fir around them died but they stayed strong and healthy so re gen of those are a good thing. I always watch for things like that in my forest and I may not even live to reap all the rewards but my kids and theirs will. And may I say clearcutting sucks, sprays that kill hardwood sucks, N.B.'s forests by large are decimated thanks to Irving and the almighty dollar.
That's horrible to hear - I hear they've also pretty much done away with the small sawmill owners
@@rollingupmysleeves Yes, but since this pandemic and the roaring lumber prices, people have been buying portable mills and there has been a lot of sawn lumber pouring out. There is a certified lumber grader/sawyer who can stamp our lumber in the area so that makes things better seeing how most everything has to be stamped.
you're lucky, the only way to get a stamp here is if you work for a mill is my understanding. although legally I think anyone can make their own stamp and use it if they can ensure the quality.
Well, trees grow everywhere and very much.
There is no shortage of trees.
No kidding - I thin I might drop it and as an experiment take pics and video every year of the regrowth.
@@rollingupmysleeves Interesting.
I can't believe Detroit is losing to the Blackhawks right now.
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@@rollingupmysleeves yeah they're pulling back!