135. Battling A Big Fir | And Breaking Gear

[@scottswarthout8951]

The mountain tops are gold!!! That’s really cool

[@SasquatchBunyan]

I really like the bucking videos, even if there is not a big fall after a buck. Seeing the techniques and approaches is cool and educational.

[@DonReynolds-p7o]

Nice job Bjorne, thanks for the video. 👍👍🙂

[@Glen-j2f]

That is one solid piece of wood.....

[@michaelhertwig4528]

You did it! And extremely well, too.

[@Jona_Villa]

Fantastic Douglas-fir.

[@airlogic]

Awesome Bijarne

[@ianfiddes9871]

Nice one

[@VeteranTreeService]

Good battle Bjarne. Been there on a smaller scale myself. Hard work!

[@DrTubeman]

Damn that one fought you all the way ah ,laid out sweet as though, really nice solid tree it would have to be one of the best big trees I've seen you fall for a while no rot or hollow in the timber. Cheers for the reel Bjarne.

[@joegreenwood1443]

I love big fir especially when it is sound as a nut. Keep having fun and thank you for the videos.

[@davidbeebe1718]

THAT'S CALLED A MILLION DOLLAR BREEZE!

[@secondgear6079]

Never let em win ,great job brother gotta love those stumps

[@snoozinglion8596]

A Murphy tree... but you won! Good jobe Bjarne ;) Cheers!

[@alanclark1361]

that big fir tree gave you aright battle it threw every thing at youbut had too give in at the end well done Bjarne god bless you and your family

[@lisamcalpine7233]

A week and a half to New Zealand thanks again.

[@oldpete3153]

Jeez Louise...a $2000 saw backed up with a flea market axe :)

[@1944chevytruck]

good job!

[@yourawesome7127]

43:35 time stamp Put the jug on for a well deserved cup of tea cheers

[@vdpeer]

How long will it take for the forest to come back? Two hundred years?

[@johac7637]

F&G days we had a bar grinder for trueing rails, im sure the odd camp saw shop has them still, but who knows.

[@leonardryan8723]

BJarne beautiful white fir log , hard on your logging gear ⚙️ buddy . 😊

[@davefran01]

That was a lot of work , was the bar the problem at the beginning of the face cut ? thanks

[@LHW-kg9cp]

I've noticed your undercuts are always flat. When I was felling we did undercuts at right angle of tree. I'm sure you know flat undercut means tree top falls same amount off vertical as it stand off angle. So cutting undercut at right angle to tree causes tree to fall at right angles at right angle to undercut, not downhill same amount tree leans from hill. In other words, a tree leaning out on hillside with undercut angling from high on uphill side to lower on downhill side helps swing tree more up onto hillside. Hope that all makes sense. Really enjoy watching your videos. Keep up the great work.

[@b.b.1860]

WOW, Bjarne! How many logs did you get out of that one tree? I lose count after about 7 or 8 (ah... didn't wait til the end... 6 logs you said) Hope you find a yew tree for some handles. My Dendrology prof said Dogwood (Cornus Florida) is about the hardest tree around. Too bad it's an understory tree, and doesn't get really sizeable trunks/limbs very often. Makes good golf club heads.

[@CedarPass]

I've watched a few dozen of your vids thus far. Good, honest work. Wished I could do the same. Watching is the closest I can get to the outdoors / nowhere at the moment. Question I keep asking myself: How do they get the logs out of there? Helicopter? Line? Do tell! Thanks.

[@billybobs841]

Beautiful background man

[@johac7637]

I just thought of it, at Boston Bar up to Lytton we had Yew wood, if we found a big enough one we'd take it, after a few months in garage we'd wittle it for a axe handle,virtually bomb proof. Visited Australia one layoff,got a few Ironwood handles, they were even better, not sure if you can get them online. Have a Mexico friend now in NZ working, I'll see what I i find, as most of our Equipment log industry got sold to NZ, I'd love to go tour that Countries Logging.

[@polarlab113]

My grandfather was a logger and later a millwright .He used to make his handles out of dogwood if he came across one.Rivals anything on the market .I still have a hammer with a handle he made of dogwood and a pair of oars that he fashioned out of spruce.and I’m 70 he passed in 1976.so there’s some age there.I think they get better with age

[@howardtoob]

I'm no logger but I have a mechanical mind. I could never "do school" but I can, often times, figure things out. I have a question : To control the falling tree could you put a rope around it and then put the same rope, with a turn, around the stump with the tag end tied to a fallen tree? Seems like this would allow you to control where & how far the tree travels down the hillside? Tying the rope to a fallen tree would be like a fall arrestor so the rope wouldn't snap?? A single wrap around the stump would provide friction no?

[@billybobs841]

I liked and subscribed bud good video

[@SasquatchBunyan]

Hammer down on the handle of the axe to make the head move up/onto the handle more. The other way is pretty violent for the handle, thus breaking.

[@billybobs841]

Your good man

[@valtra7878]

👍👍👍💪

[@SirensC3]

I tell you what… I love cutting trees down but if I was at that camp I wouldn’t be getting anything done with that gorgeous lake and dock there. Screw the chain saw. Where is my fishing pole?😝

[@polarlab113]

It’s the salt chuck not a lake is it?pretty sure it’s a coastal inlet

[@johnlipnicki5109]

Hi Bjarne. Love the Big Fir take down. Question. How old do fallers get when they decide/are persuaded to move on to more management/engineering oriented positions? Seems you've been at it quite a while and are getting close to figuring out your next career stage / transition? Appreciate any candor you may provide!

[@vdpeer]

I think the Doug fir is a little tougher than the cedar, eh?

[@howardtoob]

What do fallers do when they get too old/banged up to continue in this field of work? What do you guys make per year?

[@RLee-zs1ds]

Maybe try one the synthetic handles which are stronger than most woods, that is unless you can find a hickory axe handle.

[@lambadalou]

Great bucking Bjarne I’m curious what the max weight the Bird can lift? That fit has definitely got some weight to her. Nice movie 🎥 yet again Stay Safe ✊

[@navydogsadventures3500]

Dang, that one was an ass kicker. You got it, though.

[@kenbarbret6632]

You sure that fir wasn't made of iron! Goodness that thing seemed tough! Sometimes trees don't go down without a fight for sure!

[@commonsenserules7995]

Curious of the timeline when those logs will be picked up. Do they let the logs dry before being lifted out?

[@jacobperry2624]

How is your radio ran in to your muffs would like to have a set up like that

[@billybobs841]

Wats the bigest tree you have cut

[@ManifestPhil99]

Is this private or government property you cut on. I see so many rail cars loaded with dimensional lumber coming into Los Angeles and some goes East from there. Just unbelievable amounts of wood

[@polarlab113]

It’s called crown lan up here on the great white north😂it’s government owned.in reality it’s still crown land now owned by King Charles.we’re still controlled by old mother England.Can’t seem to break that bond.the crown actually has a residence called government house in most provinces.Its where royalty stays when they come to Canada.

[@gregoryjarvis000]

Glad I’m watching you cut that big fur. Would not want to take that on.

[@stevecostello4833]

How many days do you work at one time

[@Auqalungangler]

Have always found driving the head of a axe or big hammer down on the handle far better than trying to drive the handle into the head

[@polarlab113]

Driving the handle is the proper way to hang an axe handle.

[@GUS_MISSY]

Yup way more effective to drive the butt of the handle in to the stump.

[@edmartin4375]

What lengths did you buck on that fir?

[@alasdairhamilton1574]

Bjorne. with the amount of work you guys do, how long does a chainsaw motor last? 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@32SQUID]

3 years

[@johac7637]

Wore a few out, pulled a few apart too, when I fell we were supplied our saws, sadly now the industry has gone to kaka, not everybody is working for a falling contractor like in the old days of the IWA.

[@32SQUID]

@Bjarne Butler If this video was posted ~ 430pm central and it was 230pm pacific....aren't you up cutting trees on the mountain?

[@iffykidmn8170]

Preset the upload time no different than setting an alarm clock.

[@CaseyCampbell-v3b]

I see you are trying to get the Head of your axe on farther. ?? If you hit the handle on a stump, the end that you hold with your hands it will drive the axe head on farther than if you hit the Head of the axe, just a heads up.

[@GaryMerrick]

Change your bar out Dude!!! that drive me NUTS

[@rooster3019]

Bjarne could make good use of a GROSS of good straight grain hickory axe handles.

[@michaelknobel164]

An old timer once told me to soak the axe in antifreeze, it won't dry out as fast as water.

[@johac7637]

On Arizona we soak our wooden handle on garden tools in used oil, that hellish hot, dry weather eats a shovel handle for a snack, we'd soak our axes in the used cooking oil in the dry room , the cooks didn't care, they'd give it to us. Saw the bush mills in Kentucky where the milled Hickory for the handle factories, didn't look to closely, but it was a cottage industry in Warren County in between Tobacco fields, some were fallow and got paid for that, as the Tobacco took a few years to leach out for other crops.

[@iffykidmn8170]

I found that starting out with a 10% kiln dried handle before hanging makes the wood less likely to shrink up.

[@andrewbarker9586]

G'day Bjarne, Hey why do you cut the second half of the face cut up the 3 to 4 inches from the bottom from the first half? Love your video's, i have my 80yr old mother watching them now and she is fascinated. She asked me the other day how's my favorite Bjarne going today? In other words can you put you tube on.

[@robertsmith-fj2rx]

As someone with limited tree felling experience on the farm I am guessing it would be so as the tree falls it would tend to fall and twist towards the lowest part of the cut. In this case encouraging it to land across the slope rather than pivoting down hill. He said in the beginning the head of the tree was hanging on the downward side of the slope so normally that would be the way the tree wanted to drop. So if the scarf had been the same level all the way across the head would have twisted the whole tree down the slope as it fell.

[@oldytlogger]

Try soaking that axe head/handle in antifreeze. Little to no evaporation.

[@fasx56]

Very difficult tree to cut down on that steep slope. Handling a heavy saw is bad enough. To have to hold the saw over your head full length and have the sawdust flying in your face is pushing Bjarne to the limit, he is earning His money and more on this tree.

[@2blueband]

hit your ax on the end of the handel

[@CaseyCampbell-v3b]

😂 if you hit the other end of the axe on a stump it will drive the Head of the axe on farther than hitting the head of the axe on a stump. Just a heads up.

[@eddyarundale1566]

👋🏼

[@TimberPower]

you're my idol, pls reply me, Bjorne 🥰

[@rooster3019]

Factory chain does seem a bit less sharp than filed chain, but the bigger issue for cedar and hemlock is how the depth rakers are a bit too high on new chain.

[@32SQUID]

Yarne, you guys ever eat fish from the ocean?

[@johac7637]

Hey, the camps get food flown in, we did fish, offered, they'd fry some up for us, on a personal level, but it's not generally our meals. We used to can , smoke and dry lots, was our past time to kill time, awesome life, I'd do it again

[@marcduclos9789]

Remember to drink water.

[@Eric-kc2vw]

I told ur 😂lol broken chains haha 😂

[@robertodebeers2551]

I wonder how Donnie Walker is doing? Plus, I broke a fingernail and am really upset.

[@BjarneButler]

I haven’t seen Donnie in a while

[@dougsoderstrom4331]

Don't know if you've seen Gordies. WCS episode with Organ saw engineers . Talked about how often to change drive sprockets. 2.5 chains.. just wondered how often you change sprockets. I know alot of guys run em for years. But does wear out bars , chains faster. I've noticed.?

[@johac7637]

I'm thinking of taking my low hour wall hanger 090 to him to restore, F&G gave it to me when they shut down, ran it on Charlotte's since new, the 060's various were a good saw, less weight, almost same power, almost, when we ran the 60" bars we packed those arm stretching beasts.

[@robertodebeers2551]

@@BjarneButler Donnie fell a while back and broke his heel. Very bummed, as you can imagine.

[@robertodebeers2551]

@@dougsoderstrom4331 I still have the original sprockets on my two 044 Stihls and they have a ton of hours, with no rebuilds. I'd never think it necessary to change sprockets every 2.5 chains.

[@hjrrothe]

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