My Last Day of Logging This is the End
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- I have finally reached the end. I have spent this fall salvaging dead Douglas fir trees. As the weather is turning wet and wintery, It’s time to stop logging and move onto other things. In this video I cut down a Douglas fir tree, load it onto my trailers with my Massey Ferguson MF 30 MF 34 tractor.  Then haul both trailer load of logs down to my wood miser LT 15 sawmill. The plan is to mill them into lumber to use to build a small off grid cabin. 
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Yeah, I get all the fancy equipment jokes...and horsepower is always cheaper than manpower....but...i really enjoy the low impact one man operation of this channel... working at a sane pace, for yourself, without crazy deadlines and other outside distractions....
Couldn’t agree more. Prefer to work alone. I mean, I like people… just not as much as my dog!
Horsepower makes sense for many. If I was focused on more production more horsepower would make more sense. But with my focus on managing the forest, this works well. You are right about pace. I would rather work at an enjoyable pace that a keeping up with payments pace.
People tell me I shouldn’t work alone because it’s dangerous. But I have to wonder, what is more potentially damaging to my long term well being. The potential danger, or the stress from trying to hire help and deal with laborers.
I hear ya....my horsepower vs manpower is not a call to gear up...more in line of chainsaw vs whipsaw....lol... keep your brain bucket strapped on... best regards.
I appreciate the gentle way you treat your equipment and machinery. Machinery treated gently, serviced regularly, gives decades of efficient use.
From one logger to another... thank you for your time in the brush my guy!! What 99.9% of Americans fail to realize is, that without loggers, interior America would be fucked!!
And thank you from this logger back to you.
we can 3D print it :P just jokin'
Makes me realize how good I have it working in the woods here in Michigans upper peninsula. I get to work in the woods all winter on Frozen ground and snow packed skid roads. Don't even have to worry about dulling my saw chain or getting my saw logs full of dirt. Another good video.
Yeah we don’t have the hard freezing weather and snow. When we do get a hard freeze or snow it doesn’t last long and makes it even more muddy and slick when it thaws. But we don’t have the bugs and humidity in the summer. 😁 But we have wildfire danger.
I enjoyed that! Only found your vids recently. I like the way you seem to do things. No flap, no panic, no drama, no ripping the guts out of the woods to make a quick buck, just what seems to be a good, steady income. Everything I've seen you do seems considered and low impact on the woods and yourself. I also like the old machinery, kept in good shape and used gently. Top stuff. Live long and prosper. Greetings from a Dorset coppice.
Great content as always! I think I will be behind a saw until I am underground. I either have a Gibson Guitar in my hands, my Deer Rifle, or a Pro Logging Saw. I hear ya on the forest floor conditions, a lot of times I can't call the Skidder into my cutting area because it has been raining for days here in Vermont. As long as it's not an order for the Mill, and time sensitive, I just continue with the Firewood work.
I envy your work environment Mr. Wilson, as I believe you do
Thanks for hitting on something I have been trying to get some people to understand. Which is that in parts of PNW once the rains start it doesn't take massive rains to make everything soggy and squishy because we don't fully dry out till March or April. And I am sure your roads are like my long driveway rock hard through most of summer then soft and slimy over winter.
Thanks for the great videos and be safe over winter.
You described my roads perfectly. 😁
Those look like really nice logs. Really like how you show different angles on your work. Thanks for your video.
Yes most should make very high grade lumber. Thanks for the comment.
Like what you do very good video thank you for sharing stay well
Thank you.
Great video, I so enjoy your format.
Thank you, I appreciate the encouragement.
Thank you for sharing your approach to forestry. You have a great style of delivery of your knowledge. Where I live we do not have Doug fir, instead we have Hemlock fir and that is what I harvested with my ford industrial loader tractor and milled and built my cabin out of.
Very nice film production. Hard to believe you’re doing this by yourself. Shooting multiple cameras?
I’m sure the post-production work keeps you busy in the evenings. Thanks for sharing
You are remarkably efficient with those forks! We just spent an astronomical amount of 💲💲 due to the lack of ground water. Hope you get the rain you need.
So far wells around here are doing well. Pun only semi intended. The last big drought in the 80’ early 90’s lasted about 10 years. Hopefully this one is ready to be done now.
Great video Michael. You got some very nice looking logs ready for the mill.
Thank you Dave. They are very nice logs. I have plenty so you are welcome to take a few if you need any.
ALWAYS interesting. We in Southern Oregon have a "wet winter" problem too. We have 10 acres with some dead and dying Doug firs and some standing dead madrones, and the rain and steeps make it especially difficult and more dangerous to work during the winter.
Yeah Southern Oregon is a hotspot for dying first. Madrone are having a hard time too.
Good video Michael. There doesn't seem to be much understory around those areas you got the last fir...what do you expect to pop up with fewer firs?
I cleaned up most of the understory a few years ago. There are already a lot of seedlings that are already popping up. Mostly fir and cedar and some P. pine. With fewer fir the cedar will be the most prolific. Pine being second. Manzanita too but I don’t think we have got into that yet on the channel.
I'm not sure where your from but in rains to much in Kentucky
Good idea and less maintenance for you to leave before it starts raining..
And the part I forgot to mention, fewer roads to wash out when it rains because I dug ruts in them.
Well done; stay dry.
Cheers from a soggy Linn County
Finally getting soggy down south too.
Good thinking and good work mate
That is an awesome little flatbed trailer!
You have a good bit of logs to keep you busy for a while.
Yep should help make sawdust mountain bigger.
@@WilsonForestLands right. Just don't make it to big. The deer may just like it to much and then you won't get anything out of them
Good job
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Great videos! Never mind all the people talking shit about your equipment. It gets the job done right? I’m with you. All my equipment is old and well used, but it gets the work I need done! I got mining claims to maintain, so your experience and knowledge really helps me. Take care and keep up the good work!
Thank you. A part of me thinks I could catch the mining bug easily if I got into it.
@@WilsonForestLands I didn’t choose the mining life…..IT chose me. Perhaps someday, you could visit my claims and check it out and see for yourself. I’ll have these claims for the rest of my life. I made a promise to a good friend of mine that I would take care of the claims, right before he died in my arms.
Left side flatbed trailer tyres look a little down too. 😉
Definitely getting a NAP stamp for all my lumber.
I see you do not beat the tar out of your dump trailer.
I try not to. The beds on some of these dump trailers are disturbingly thin.
I don’t blames you one bit of stop logging when the rainy season set in. Ain’t no fun playing in the mud.
To big of a mess
To much cleanup to do
And can get dangerous
Thanks for sharing
And maybe the most important part, an excuse to take time off.
unfortunately i don't have enough logs out to finish my hay barn here in eastern ky and the rains have started , man i hate peeling bark off when its muddy
Do you get freezing weather to freeze the ground that far south?
yea we get as low as -5 sometimes but its mostly just mud untill march and the ground around here is pretty steep so a log dolly is out for the tractor , i just drag the whole tree about a 1/4 mile with the dozer and chip the bark off with a double bit axe@@WilsonForestLands
Good. Maybe you can do a short video or two about some of those neat little gadgets you use while videoing your wood/lumber havesting routine, for my dumb a$$.
This is the second time I've asked. Don't make me come out there! 🤣👍🍻
Do you mean the video equipment or the logging tools? They say 3rd times a charm. Maybe the 3rd time you ask will make it happen. 😁
@@WilsonForestLands Tools! But the video equipment would be cool too.
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Are these trees subject to pine bark beetles?
Nice One Thanks again
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You know if you put tracks and chains on your tractor and a front differential for 4 track drive, you could work through the winter rains. 😂 on a serious note, what bar do you run on your 462? I have the same saw and find it’s best with a 28 or less in our hardwoods. Keep up the great channel!
Yeah now you’re talking! Currently running a 32” bar. I have spent a lot of time using a 24” on a 362 and Husky equivalents. That is also a good combination. Ever since I got the light bar I gravitate to the 32.
I'm sure you have considered it but I haven't heard you mention it. How about buying a grapple for your front end loader?
I have thought about it. Some say the weight of the grapples seriously reduce the amount you can lift. It would take some plumbing modification to operate the grapple. Maybe some modification to get this old loader to fit one. If I spent more time logging than I do, it may be worth looking into. For what little I do, it hasn’t been a priority. But if I got one, it may be one of those, why didn’t I do this sooner type things. 😁
you need a mill shed
Probably so. That was supposed to be a temporary spot for the mill. I still haven’t got what may be the permanent spot excavated out of the hill and the road rocked to that area. After that I may start thinking about a shed.
Are you drawing your cabin plans?
So far only in my head. Maybe now that we are getting rainy days I can start drawing.
utilizing trees as they age out or die off - planting new species "on spec" - seeing what grows - a mixed species forest -
a path forward
Much different than what we used to believe here. It used to be take out the hardwoods and grow Douglas fir. Now we are trying to fix the results from doing that.
@@WilsonForestLands Got to love Douglas fir where they will grow well.
Looking at the trees and the terrain, I have to ask.... Are you a Humboldt grad or an OSU grad?
No, all of my degrees are from the school of hard knocks. You got your terrain in the right place. I am between both of those places.
Great " click bait " title. Had me worried there.
Guilty as charged. 😁
Do you have a use for the sawdust? Do you sell it?
I use it in the garden.
Thank you, looking for a source for that reason. Have a feeling these hot summers are gonna be tough on my garden. Just moved here from Mt Hood area. A bit different here I think.
Is that a 460 or a 500i. I use a Husqvarna...when I can't find my Stihl. 😂
462. I used to use Husky but got tired of all the hard start problems I was having with them.
If you would spent a small sum of only $400-450k you could get a Tigercat 615 bogie and get rid of that 2 WD tractor and just keep logging all winter. 😉. It’s a joke!!!!
I get it and approve. 🤣😁👍
With a heated cab, Yeah now you’re talking! 😂
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I always wonder how these guys got the land ,inherited from daddy, double pension from government, wife has the money????
jealous?
Maybe he played his cards right. Didn’t get strapped with a quarter million dollars worth of college debt at 21 years old, got educated and started investing in the stock market, didn’t spend money on frivolous things, lived within his means and saved for a lot of years…
Work hard for a good company that pays well. Make wise decisions, don't try and keep up with the Jones's, save instead of spend, good credit... if you can't figure out what I'm saying there's no hope
A whole lot of work and a whole lot of sacrifice over a lot of years.