Eli really knows how to do it! Good for him, he has skills that will serve him for a lifetime and can pass on. Awesome! I always enjoy watching loggers do their work. It's dangerous, but essential. Thanks for sharing, Wily!
Great video, Wily. The twelve year old impressed me. He will be able to get a job in the log woods any time. Thanks for sharing and have a great week!!
Thanks for another great video Wiley. It was really interesting and enjoyable to watch. Thanks for showing us this logging operation. I found that most interesting seeing the different pieces of equipment actually working. Feel free to do some more of that anytime. Was super interesting. That young man being 12 years old, looked like an older operator that had been at it for years. He did great for being 12 years old. Proud of that young man. Thanks for showing that to us Wiley. I was impressed!!!!!! Hire that young man in a minute. Appreciate you taking us along Wiley. Was super interesting. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
Ive known for yeare that logging varied regionally in the United States. Even gyppos in the Pacific Northwest of my era, 70s and 80s, wore tin hats, boots and long pants and gradually adopted safety measures used by union loggers for years (face shields, chaps, ear plugs, satety vests and so on.) I am quite surprised at the casual way Southern Loggers approach the risks and hazards of their of work. No hard hats or orange vests, frequently loggers wearing shorts and tennis shoes, no gloves or face shields. These simple satety measures are marginal costs but prevent costly and possibly debilitating injuriee. Why are they not used?
I wish him all the success in the world. This is dangerous and expensive work. A change in politics can bankrupt an operation like this. Batteries, tires, hydraulics are always needing money. Thanks for the ride along from Montgomery Al.
The sights and sounds remind me of my logging work. Seeing that youngman run the iron like that will take him far in his working career too!! Thanks wiliey
My 10 year old daughter was running my 648g3 when she was 11 she is 14 now and he'll on wheels make a drag clean up at the delimber and keep the set clear
We dont have as many running as we use too. I believe in the early 90 s we had 300 bells with dangle heads south of Montgomery working in Alabama. Them the others caught up With shear heads and Thinning pine plantations is where they thrived
We had a bell cutter back in the 80s no telling how many tons of lumber was layed on the ground and i mean swamps not this dry ground we went with that deere equipment where they said it wouldnt go
I was 15 when i got paid to run a skidder for my dad but i knew how to run it way before then I ran a skidder off bluff at 15. Thats why i have a limp today
Wily I use to work for a grading contractor in Fancy Gap VA we use to cut our on right of way. I loved to get into a patch of white pine we would notch and cut them part of the way and we would cut a row of the and fall the whole bunch at one time.
Nice to see how they logout the Timber! What type of pine are they harvesting Wiley? How soon will the open area be re-planted ? Where do they source the replants from? Thanks!
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That's my family's crew. The 12yr old is my nephew
He was something to watch. TigerCat should sponsor him now
Need more boys of twelve to get into the industries to keep the job going into the future
I agree
Eli really knows how to do it! Good for him, he has skills that will serve him for a lifetime and can pass on. Awesome! I always enjoy watching loggers do their work. It's dangerous, but essential. Thanks for sharing, Wily!
Thanks for watching.
That 12 year old is smarter than my son-in-law , he got Fired from a Lawnmowing job at a cemetery !😂
100% Truth !
😂. Geez. I don’t even know how to respond. Thanks for sharing
who complained?
Wow the 12 year old knows what's he doing he done a great job this was a good video Wily thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching. He is the real deal
Great video, Wily. The twelve year old impressed me. He will be able to get a job in the log woods any time. Thanks for sharing and have a great week!!
Absolutely. Tigercat should sponsor this kid and others like him
Thanks for another great video Wiley.
It was really interesting and enjoyable to watch.
Thanks for showing us this logging operation. I found that most interesting seeing the different pieces of equipment actually working. Feel free to do some more of that anytime. Was super interesting.
That young man being 12 years old, looked like an older operator that had been at it for years. He did great for being 12 years old. Proud of that young man. Thanks for showing that to us Wiley. I was impressed!!!!!! Hire that young man in a minute.
Appreciate you taking us along Wiley. Was super interesting.
The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
I agree with you about that kid. He took off after the biggest trees
He was the real deal
Ive known for yeare that logging varied regionally in the United States. Even gyppos in the Pacific Northwest of my era, 70s and 80s, wore tin hats, boots and long pants and gradually adopted safety measures used by union loggers for years (face shields, chaps, ear plugs, satety vests and so on.) I am quite surprised at the casual way Southern Loggers approach the risks and hazards of their of work. No hard hats or orange vests, frequently loggers wearing shorts and tennis shoes, no gloves or face shields. These simple satety measures are marginal costs but prevent costly and possibly debilitating injuriee. Why are they not used?
Been that way for years I wear steel toed boots and green or orange t shirt. Only time only wear a hard hat when I'm in the mill.
It is mostly mechanized down here
Insurance man comes around he probably wonders how they keep the safety equipment so clean
Starting helping my dad when I was 10, running a crawler and wheel tractor
Thanks for sharing
I wish him all the success in the world. This is dangerous and expensive work. A change in politics can bankrupt an operation like this. Batteries, tires, hydraulics are always needing money. Thanks for the ride along from Montgomery Al.
Thanks
This kid has got the skills
The sights and sounds remind me of my logging work. Seeing that youngman run the iron like that will take him far in his working career too!! Thanks wiliey
This kid has it
In England you have to be thirteen to drive a tractor for farm/forestry work. I guess it’s different in the USA.
My 10 year old daughter was running my 648g3 when she was 11 she is 14 now and he'll on wheels make a drag clean up at the delimber and keep the set clear
Is family exempt? This kid is a family member. None paid too
@@DBW4Starts don't even worry about it try and leave him home and he will. Be sneaking into the crew truck. Ask me how I know
I have not seen a 3 wheeled feller buncher in forever
I saw a bell the other day with saw bar
We dont have as many running as we use too. I believe in the early 90 s we had 300 bells with dangle heads south of Montgomery working in Alabama. Them the others caught up
With shear heads and Thinning pine plantations is where they thrived
@@DBW4Starts saw one with tracks in a video the other day pretty cool
Thanks for another great video, and enjoyed watching the operations of logging.
Thanks 👍
Thank for taking us along wiley!
Thanks for coming along
This is insanely good!
Very nice job and God bless y'all
Thanks
All that wood is small compared to what we have on the west coast Oregon and Washington
Yeah the difference we can log it instead of letting it burn thought
Yea sir. Nothing like it.
Hello wily loved the video enjoyed watching and listening I learned some things about logging thank you ken
Thank you , Ken
I needed the English translation on to understand them, but a good explanation!
We had a bell cutter back in the 80s no telling how many tons of lumber was layed on the ground and i mean swamps not this dry ground we went with that deere equipment where they said it wouldnt go
Great video. Hope OSHA doesn't see this.
Farm kids learn how to work and make a living early also. We need more of this.
I agree
Reminds me of the 80s i was driveing 648ds 640ds 544bs 544cs 544ds 544es and everything from a 4020 to a 4840 to the newer tractors 4955s to the 8400s
Those were the days.
Enjoyed you making the video
Thanks 👍
How many years have you been in logging wily you are very knolageble
I was 15 when i got paid to run a skidder for my dad but i knew how to run it way before then
I ran a skidder off bluff at 15. Thats why i have a limp today
Go with ur bad self young man was just like u in the 80s my dad taught me to drive it all
a lot of my mates went into timber, all chain saw,s back then, I went into construction
I was like your mates. You made the right decision 😂
Wily I use to work for a grading contractor in Fancy Gap VA we use to cut our on right of way. I loved to get into a patch of white pine we would notch and cut them part of the way and we would cut a row of the and fall the whole bunch at one time.
Thank you for sharing that
just awesome
Thanks
@@DBW4Starts anytime Wiley
Thanks for the adventure wily
Thank you
Nice to see how they logout the Timber! What type of pine are they harvesting Wiley? How soon will the open area be re-planted ? Where do they source the replants from? Thanks!
Probably will replant jan- feb 2025. I think it was Slash. Maybe some loblolly
Dam good video thanks who delim the trees and how
Do they replant the land after clearing the trees and how long does it take to regrow the trees.
They do. I would estimate it would be 12-15 yr for first thinning
A real good video alittle of everything
Thank you
Yes, if i was a boss, i would fire anyone who marks up a machine
Drive that bell cutter lol
I am sure he could. I think he ask if i wanted him to go and run it
Very interesting 👍
Thank you
What model was the Timbercat feller buncher? Thanks. Take care.
720. I think
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I wonder, (honestly), how many trees/forests are left?
More than we had 100 years ago. Not as big but more stems per acre than ever. Thanks to reforestation programs
@@DBW4Starts but they plant all the same type.
Thats a vidoe game want to play
Big saw.
12year old with 6years experience
Yes
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The 12yr old is my step cousin, his name is Eligh
Thanks for sharing. He is the real deal on that machine
Good recipe for a bad back when you get older.
Thanks for sharing
Looks like the seat has seen better days.
Sure leaves the land a mess…
It will be replanted in plantation pine in 10 years you won't be able to tell
Like he said. In 10 yrs you will never know
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