I would only cut/ log my own timber have seen the normal damage y'all leave. so I bought my own band mill, harvest with log arch a tractor

Question: if you remove timber out of circulation from a forest, does it cause a negative effect from other trees, in the long term? Because you do remove slowly but surely vital minerals which are essential for other trees/plants. Is there any research done to this? Because it does not make sense to me that you cannot only take from a forest whiout a price tag to it. Something has to be given back.

I finally got to sign up for silvicultural i have been trying for months Thank you for putting it together and for all the info that you put on youtube It does help us little guys a lot

Loved your presentation. I am a licensed retired forester from Maine. Still love the woods.

This must be one of the most useful and informative channels on KZbin. I love your videos, and as a recently new landowner, I find the content extremely relevant to my situation. Just signed up to silvicultural, looking forward to future interesting videos! ❤️👏👏👏

Are their monitoring devices that attach to trees to measure growth?

They get big and tall faster?

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Foresters, what a useless career

I wasn't expecting the Ben Bernanke reference. 🤭

And middle men are crooks

Here in louisiana we grow what i call paper trees or pulp wood when we clear cut we burn it after cut

I like land or should I say timber is mostly because I love to hunt taxes are cheap as long as you do not build on the property I bought a piece of land in ozark mountains just under 15 acres my taxes were 18 dollars I am sure my timber grows enough to pay that lol

I have almost 100 acres in New York State. I'm enrolled in the Forestry 480a program. which gives me an 80% reduction in property and school taxes as long as the property is managed. This requires me to have a management plan written by a forester. NYS will not allow a clearcut once you are in this program. Each management area requires a minimum amount of basal area, which seems unreasonable.

Lol at Bernanke jab

My creative therapy is making madrone ladles,bowls, and spoons. I've played with black locust cutting boards. It takes time, but when I bring them to the local gas station, gift shop they sell. My partner has had an 1984 woodmizer and definitely has provided a mutual love of wood to our relationship. I can run it and target a cut list within an 1/8 inch margin. Outdoor chicken tractors, deck replacement boards, garden trellises, thin rips for steam bent hoop house end walls, fun outdoor furniture, backscratchers, shoe horns, wood buttons and earings,picture frames,kraut pounders ( one I proudly made for Oly Kraut rom an oak4by 4). Now that woodmizer doesn't sharpen blades anymore, I'll be acquiring our own sharpening system. No doubt, our sawmill becomes a hub of commodity value within our network. It is has evolved into an important understanding of making and experimenting with BIOCHAR innovation. The waste wood can become a useful additive to garden soil. With a kiln, this wood is pyrolized. The charcoal substance can be crushed, innocculated with mineral /microbial fertilizers then added to garden soil. It doesn't break down, holds moisture, improves drainage and fertility. No waste -all wood is precious.

Where are you in Mexico? We lived on the Baja peninsula for 15 years, loved it all, built houses. Only downside, not much WOOD. Recently moved back to N Calif. with 33 acres of redwood to comfort us. We have Tree Farm, bandmill, and a lovely life. Thanks for your videos. Good work.

What your doing sounds fun, I'm a modern polymath. Which is a multi tradesman or jack of trades. I sure hope that the small guy can get ahead easier in modern-day. I just finished my first year as a tree removal business, landscaper, etcetera, hoping to make it through this winter and get a living situation setup better for low cost! I hope your trip was exciting!

After purchasing the first Timbery E100 (5Hp 220v) Electric bandsaw mill in Oregon, (TimberWest magazine Nov/Dec 2019.) I know that smile of yours at the 10:00 mark. Two recommendations, if I may. One: Watch LOTS of bandsaw milling videos, such as, "Sawing with Sandy", "Northwest Sawyer", "Old Jarhead" and "Wilson Forest Lands", etc. Two: Practice. As much as possible. Save the best logs for later and use up the poorer quality to learn on. Remember to lower your log-stops! As a sawyer once told me: "There are two types of sawyers; those that have CUT a log stop, and those that WILL." Enjoying the content. Cheers! From the Willamette Valley in the Oregon Country

A lot of yakking..

Elementary Watson..🍷😎👌

Hey man, I really appreciate your work. As an owner of the proverbial “100 acres” in the WV mountains, I’ve been trying to learn about silviculture to address outside forces like wooly adelgids aling with the decisions made by prior owners in the hopes of leaving things better and more resilient than found. Deciding what “better” even looks like here is still a work in progress, but it’s been a fun and interesting journey so far and helped, in part, by your work. So thank you! Also, I recognize that you are an intelligent guy and care about your presentation, so don’t take this wrong: The word “mores” that we use to mean social rules or morally acceptable norms is pronounced “mor-reys” and is Latin for something like “manners or habits.” Because it’s a Latin word, the singular form is “mōs,” pronounced something like “mose,” and is seldom to never used, probably because Latin is weird and the two words don’t even sound related. But yeah, that word is pronounced like the eel and not the word for increased.

Why do you refer to this as Nuclear Option? Really want to thank you for showing the effects of taking out only certain trees and what can happen to what's left. I live in Arkansas where the majority of trees are pines for pulp and lumber . The timber companies have convinced ignorant hunters in this state and others that this monoculture is beneficial to deer and other wildlife but I know the truth. I want to find a way to express to these people how they have been dupted into believing this . By clearcutting areas and promoting stands of pines they have drastically altered the availability of most indigenous species of understory fruting plants that are a benefit to everything. I have to say that the day is coming when a virus, bacteria or insect targets these pine trees and throws the entire region into poverty and chaos. You would think people would pay attention to what is happening to many species of trees around our country and take action. The ignorance of southern people is devastating. 😂

Historical data shows that the cost of lumber has increased while the stumpage prices have remained flat. Your discussion ignores that the stumpage price is determined locally by just a few companies.

Thank you as always, enjoy the vids

I've already got both. As a kid I did orienteering with a baseplate compass, and in the army I shot bearings and patrolled using a lensatic compass. Another big advantage of the baseplate compass is that it has it's own built in protractor so can be used for plotting. You kind of can do plotting in the field if your lensatic compass is a Commenga as you showed, however it's less than ideal and should not be your primary method. Compass and ruler still beats both for plotting, but a baseplate compass is OK for field use.

I love how well read you are on economics. :)

Wont the stagnant trees pop up a lot now with more air & light?

Here in Pa in the state forest system we use the term overstory removal instead of clearcut. This is teo fold.. it does not need the secondary definition of cc to justify what is happening in the removal. And it allows us to define the harvest. Whether it be a removal of residuals after a shelterwood or a salvage operation or staight to a cc because the regeneration will carry that prescription. Simply, the term clear cut has a negative connotation which implies creating a moonscape without the thought or management of the understory and future forest.

im super skeptical that 40 percent of the stand could be damaged by a cable skidder, ive worked in the woods my whole life and seen some pretty rough jobs but id say youd have to really spend a lot of time in order to skin up 40 percent of a remaining forest!!!!! those or some rough loggers for sure

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I own a landscaping/tree service and once had someone who lives in an urban-type town contact me and wanted a couple spruce trees removed that appeared to be growing with branches over structures, with no room to drop trees, so I'd have to climb them and lower branches and sections of the trunk down in pieces. Alternatively, a lift or crane could be used (we own neither). They asked if we could do it for free if we kept the wood. I explained that almost nobody would do that, how residentially grown spruce is nearly worthless, and that we just dump the wood, and that it is time consuming to work in a tight space like that, and gave her a ballpark price without having to show up in person to look at it. Then she wanted to check to see if her home insurance would cover the tree removal! I don't think thry will pay to remove healthy standing trees. Needless to say, I never heard anything more. Some people are downright cheap.

I purchased one. It works well.

Timber pimp scamming landowners to fill his pockets.. He only profits from ripping off the fruit of the land owner's hard work while raping the land.. Punks like him are what's wrong with the timber industry.. Id rather let the worms eat my trees than give them to this worm..🐍⚖️😎👌

Professional arborists use top handle ‘topper’ saws and often use one hand while cutting in the tree. Sometimes you’re holding the piece you’re cutting to catch it or holding the spar while blocking it down. All of which puts your left hand dangerously close to the bar. Most of these injuries are probably industry injuries.

Thank you! Just another one of your great videos!

I would never cut any of my timber except for a home

Moss grows on the north side of trees

Excellent supply chain breakdown! You nailed it

Gold is finally catching up, it just moves SLOW. That's the selling point for a lot of folks. :) For me, I like diverse hedges, preferably ones with inverse correlations. Lumber and gold are complimentary in my eyes.

Still plugging away at the backlog of videos! :) (Commenting for the algo.)

Great video. I'm a firefighter, and I'll use this video to start showing guys this part of the saw maintenance.

Selling you timber for firewood pays better.

Pulp hook has a removable tip which is designed to go into the wood and not get pulled back out very easily and they are replaceable tips mine has lasted over five years I have not replaced it so you don’t have to replace them very often mine are made in Canada look them out they’re awesome

Yeah about 30 yrs ago a guy gave my dad 750 bucks for 2 acres to supposedly thin out. He said not worth much and not much there. He came out with 7 logging trucks all hardwood.

Great video and I’m a New Englander, thanks for sharing

Nice drone captures those are my favorite

Make a lot more money making and selling wood products I have 40 acres black walnut and white oak hickory little bit cedar hopefully in my 50s I can retire early and make sell wood products slabs fire wood table mantles things like that

My Ecoworks chainsaw started doing this on the second cut. I thought all the smoke was coming from the motor. But then I read somewhere that it’s just the bar cutting wood and was normal. Then it started throwing sparks, which really scared me, especially as we’re in a drought situation and burn ban here. I’ve been checking the oil, but maybe it’s clogged. I think it’s time to take it to a repair shop. I don’t know why this is happening on a nearly brand new chainsaw that really hasn’t gotten that much use.

Thats not a fully correct interpretation about production. For instance a wide band sawmill can with adequate horsepower can go through alarge or small log lots faster due to the fact that if there is enough horsepower to witthstand cant crowd the band with fast carriage travel . That doesn’t include the speed of a double cut sawmill band cuts both ways nearly eliminating travel speed. Returning to the cutting position .