#660

Todays video is part 2 scoring on some Red Pine, I used the Stihl MS 261 Chainsaw, Wallenstein FX 85 Skidding Winch, and RK 55 Compact Tractor. We also go for a little hike and look at more softwoods. Red Pine and Norway Spruce.
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[@89brianwaterman]

Thanks for supporting Buckin'.

[@j.hankinson7803]

Thanks for posting. Small wood lot management is a big job that lots of people just don’t understand. Leaving it all to rot or fall down isn’t that great for the forest health. Taking down the mature ones before they die allows the little ones to thrive and thankfully you put some of it to work. After seeing some of the beautiful figure in your saw logs I think you have a little greater appreciation for some of the stuff you’ve relegated to burning in the past.

[@firewoodprovidersnorthwest]

Mike, Rodney here. I always enjoy watching your videos, seeing what your up to on the ranch, and quarterbacking you in the background. When it comes to Moving logs around, both in the woods, and on your landing when you load your bandsaw for cutting lumber, there is one front of big tractor I would like to see you get, is called a Frost Bite Log Grapple, I do know you have a Grapple currently, but though it can be used for moving logs, it really is a Brush Grapple. Just throwing in my 2 cents here, as always, Thank You for many hours of enjoyment.

[@davidhosmer1424]

Time to add yet another skill. Log structure construction. Once you can establish a access logging road it looks like there are enough tall pine, spruce, and hemlock to build full log buildings. All you have to do is get cloned. Thanks always for interesting videos. Take care all.

[@wayneschnare4019]

For me here in Nova Scotia , for campfire wood , it is way cheaper for me to but soft wood . And slab is real cheap . Hard wood is at a premium , so soft wood is our outdoor go to , with a little hardwood thrown in in the fall and spring for some longer burning . Hello to Hunter !!!

[@maryaldrich5982]

Need a roll of orange ribbon in your pocket. Such a pleasure to watch you work; so careful. All of my equipment shows signs of abuse.. I’ve have been running my old Allis tractor for 50 years and watching you makes me want to rebuild the ol girl.. Thank you for sharing the nice video..

[@farm_in_themiddleofthewood3339]

Red Pine is wonderful lumber but it can move a lot when drying..... We made our own pallets and we compress our boards under a lot of pressure.... sticker and stacked.... and it turns our great! Strong and straight! We build all of our buildings out of Red Pine lumber - all milled by ourselves LOL!!! Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work!

[@russellbowman8051]

That's some Big logs for the mill !!👍👊

[@jimrosesadventureinmanilap715]

When I did professional logging as a kid. In central New England... Any woodlot that was over a 100 acres... Had very little chance.. Of being all hardwood or all pine.. Have a great day

[@TKCL]

Those are some beautiful looking logs! Man you have a nice setup, from property to equipment! Enjoy it all, God bless!

[@funkybayatPK]

Enjoyed the walk in the woods!

[@cumminstbd05]

Wow! That's a big load coming up that hill. Can't believe you didn't have more issues climbing in that mud. This weather stinks! One day it's cold and the next day it's spring. I'm ready for a big freeze. Really looking forward to seeing you put these on the mill. Have a day!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Nice looking pine logs there buddy

[@darrengarlough5121]

Norway's very nice to saw for framing

[@rickharper1497]

Having my morning coffee and watching Mike processing timber!!

[@karlsoffthegrid1378]

Looks like fun!!!

[@thebradleysoncatbirdhill6849]

Thank you for the walk through the magical woods!!!! That was the perfect end to my long day. 👍

[@jimmyandkathyharrell]

Nice tour. Thank you!

[@NoSQLKnowHow]

I live in the PNW on Whidbey Island and our property has almost entirely Western Hemlock, Madrone, and Alder. We have a few Douglas Fir and Big Leaf Maples as well. Most of what I cut are the western hemlocks because when this property was replanted, no one came back years later and thinned it. So everything is ~80' tall and 8-12" in diameter. Very unstable. So we have been thinning trees like a crazy since we bought the place 2 years ago.

[@SH-gc1dq]

I live amongst 55 acres of woods in southern ontario north of the border. I love walking through the woods and admiring the trees as well. No red pine, but tons of eastern white pine and some old growth ones over 4' accross. Nothing beats being out there!

[@matthewsims359]

I like seeing that rk55 work. It gives me more idea for uses for mine. Im hoping to add the grapple this spring but im definitely going to buy a set of forks. Say hey to the family and yall HAVE A DAY 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@jakobrebeki]

BBR 100K WELL DONE. thanks every body....

[@jakobrebeki]

thankyou mike....

[@TheHobbyFarmHomestead]

Having the right machinery sure does make things a whole lot easier. Great video Mike! Keep up the good work!

[@Z-Bart]

That stamp on the dimension lumber (SPF) at the lumber yard. Spruce, Pine, Fur. 👍

[@PatrickCPalmer]

Mike Enjoyed our walk through the woods. You do a great job of making us feel like we are really taking a walk with you through the woods. Martin Scorsese eat your heart out! And cannot wait to see what the pine looks like on the mill, always a treat to see a nice grain and smell. Hey Hunter! ✋🏻👴🏻

[@dickhansen8594]

As I watch this, Buckin is live and giddy as a school girl. 100K. Seem many likes and comments on his channel citing your request. Thank you for your presence. Thank you for sharing.

[@marciam6224]

You need to bring a can of bright colored spray paint with you and start marking the dead ones and the ones you want for building drying sheds. That way you can remember which ones you wanted. If you put a ring all the way around the tree, you can see it from any of your trails.

[@buddyseifert9507]

Hi from the SoCal mountains! We burn black, white, and coastal live oak. A cord of seasoned split oak weighs in the neighborhood of 2,000 to 2,500 lbs. I’ve weighed loads on certified land fill scales. I use a 1 ton Dodge Ram w/helper springs. I can cram a cord and a third in the bed. We have lots of Coulter Pine in the area, too many knots and twists for any structural use. Burns hot and creosotes up flues.

[@kentbomberger5786]

Great video, where I live in Eastern Oregon we don't have any hard wood forests, we have ponderosa pine, white pine, douglas fir, spruce and larch. Really enjoy your land and what you are sharing in your videos, keep up the great work.

[@baldbear5609]

Gotta love having the proper tools for the job. Makes the hard work a bit more enjoyable.

[@robertappleby4734]

Always love your music

[@veggiefarmer1]

Very impressed with loader capacity. Smooth working.

[@kentuckycowboy2]

You have a beautiful place there with some beautiful big trees.

[@thomasbrighton6159]

Happy Birthday Melissa!

[@paulrice1918]

Great video. When I was to Colorado I commented how few tree species they had. When the person asked me how many species of tree we had here he was nearly blown away.

[@badcat4707]

Hi Mike , if you were to carry a roll of red land surveyors tape with you when you go for a wander through your woods , then when you find a dead or useable tree to harvest just wrap a strand of the tape around the tree at shoulder height and tie it off to itself and you'll find that tree much more easily when you go back to get it ( days or weeks later ) / Happy New Year to Y'all .

[@WorldsOkayestFarmer]

*That was a load of logs on that tractor!* #WorldsOkayestFarmer

[@houtchens48]

a lot of good building lumber standing their

[@davidmc8110]

Growing up we had a section of woods where red pine was planted, I believe the intention had been for pulpwood, we called it the school forest because all the pine were in straight rows. It'll be interesting to see if it will make good lumber.

[@davidmoran1422]

It would be an interesting video to have an Arborist to come in and talk about forest management. Although I think you are doing a great job of using your resource.

[@jeffshearer2643]

Mike, in reference to your comment about trucks out west with cut firewood stacked high above the cab, often times that is dead lodgepole pine. At least in my part of western Montana. You're right, it is very light in weight. Sometimes you'll see a load of Douglas-fir or ponderosa pine, but again when stacked that high it's almost always dead and very dry. Cheers!

[@TheSnakeman3]

Second Act now playing. 👍🏻

[@mauricerichard3611]

Regarding spruce vs pine, in Eastern Canada only spruce is used for framing structures. Depending on your taste or design needs pine, cherry, maple etc are used for trim and finishes. Hardwood for stair cases and floors etc Black spruce is grown here for the lumber industry and some others. Luv the channel all the best !

[@johnmyers6097]

Really good to see a set of forks in the woods. I laugh because most everyone says you can’t move logs with out a grapple. Nice job! I move a lot of timber yearly with just forks thanks for helping me out there.

[@davel2223]

love your videos. I admire your family traditions, I would very much like to meet yu'all some time. I lived in Evans City way back when and still have relatives there. Keep up keeping up and God Bless.

[@jimcurrier3922]

I am from Wyoming, and you are right those big loads on pickups are pine spruce and fer. They weigh about the same as your red pine.

[@huckmiller1971]

Nice Spruce , it will saw great framing lumber !

[@georgehill99]

You know, hard work with new equipment is still hard work...love the music...it starts the video off right. Happy New Year from Butch in Florence Texas

[@gettintheresafelywithpatf2869]

When working with different kinds of pine, don’t forget about the knotty wood, it lakes great ceilings and accent walls in cabins or even in your home!

[@Zeller007]

There are several apps that allow you to save gps coordinates, you can mark each tree with a short description as you come across them so you'll remember what you have.

[@3DCHome]

Daniel Zeller that’s really cool. I would be all over that.

[@dmorgan28]

I enjoyed the video. You’ve sure got a beautiful place. I love those big trees. 👍👍👍❤️

[@alkaufmann2039]

Hello Mike. ....now that you have that sawmill you can use your first cuts to put on ground when you stack your firewood. You did a great job on your earlier videos when stacking. Almost looked like a fence.!

[@jameswilson322]

Them spruce will make really nice 2× lumber , love the new woodmizer and wallsten winch make awesome vidjas . My dad had a woodmizer when I was growing up spent many hours tailing that mill . Love the logging keep em coming

[@gymsreviews8155]

Good job Morgan's 👍

[@rogerbamatutz1927]

This video reminds me of the woods that were behind our house in Western NY. I spent many an hour up there.

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Good morning Mike, enjoyed the video of you getting the pine tree out of the woods. Hope you can get some usable wood milled out of it. The RK-55 pawed it’s way right up the hill, glad it found enough bottom to get ahold of for traction. Sounds like you are enjoying the Wallenstein skidder more and more. It’s quite a handy piece of equipment to have around. Works wonders over a standard winch too. Keep up the good work and videos, we sure enjoy your channel. Hey to everyone else!

[@polycat7670]

In central New Mexico, the woods we burn are Pine, Juniper, Cedar and Piñon. Some oak as well.

[@regsparkes6507]

Man oh man,..you do have a 'gold mine' of tall trees for the 'hobbyist wood lot ' you have. Nice video Mike,,......keep the cameras rolling with this.

[@tmerkley6406]

Mike, the softwoods would be ideal for making timbers and beams for your building project. I have a steel building that I had to put everything inside. It is similar to a Timber frame but, I am using bolts instead of mortis and tennon. I use recycled timbers and siding from old barns. Some are hand hewn others are sawn.

[@electricitysucks5]

I'm from Oregon, most folks out here don't wanna burn Pine because it puts too much creosote in the chimney, you may be seeing Spruce or Douglas fir. We have quite a bunch of "Oregon white Oak" here in the Willamette valley but it is heavy like your red oak, I like to burn a combination of hard and softwood, I use maple frequently for the hardwood.

[@robertfuchs2049]

Thanks Mike, I needed that Had a ruff couple of days and it was nice to get home from work and sit down and watch your video. Relaxing.

[@chucklogan7296]

Our firewood out here in Washington State mostly Doug Fir, Hemlock, Spruce, Alder, Cedar mostly for kindling

[@dennismutz8221]

I've been cutting a lot of red pine,and milling with a chainsaw mill. It works up real nice and air dries fairly fast. Trying to cut enough for a pole barn.

[@jeffhartmann2469]

SOUTHERN INDIANA HERE…46 degrees today with rain on the way..40% Thur and 95% chance Fri 1/10/20 and 1/11. We’re back at home in Indiana now. Got home yesterday from San Diego. Anxious to watch more of your videos.

[@frankcadillac9151]

I'm in mass we have primarily white pine. Most of the red pine we have was planted by the WPA in groves especially around water.

[@alittleofthisandalittleofthat]

Wow that was quite a lift. 4 red pine logs. 😮

[@kendallsteckel711]

Hey Mike! Im a stringed instrument maker and player. that Norway spruce might make good guitar tops, or violin tops. might be a outlet for that stuff. plenty big enough. need to be at least 20 inch long chunks for guitar tops. Might ask around up your way. theres got to be builders up there.

[@TheSnakeman3]

You may need 3 Mikes to get all that ready wood out of there. No shortage for sure.

[@evilbrat5376]

Heck of a fork load coming up that trail slope - 5 ~ 10 footers. Nice walk in the woods to those other trees. Good sized ones at that. Be nice now to grab some of the fallen with the winch on the RK-55. Believe you might have enough cable on it to skid them out? Stay safe out there & have a good night.

[@shawndickmann8215]

Red pines are a beautiful tree.

[@johnviewer2305]

Mike...you keep saying i need to remember this one...how about carrying small roll of flagin tape and just give it one wrap around them...it would last two years at least...just a thought...have a day...

[@theoisaac3564]

Hey you have a lot of fire wood for a long and good music relaxing

[@barryespeseth7355]

As you said you have to get down in there to harvest that softwood. It will be interesting to see if you can get down there when (if) things freeze up. Not frozen here in NE Ct yet either. Keeping me out of the 400 acre farm with my dump trailer to pick up red oak I cut up last year. That will build all your outbuildings. Pure gold. Great stuff!

[@stevetew631]

Hi Mike, here in the south we have a bug called pine Beatle the only way to get rid of them is to cut the tree down they can't fly the wind blows them. They will destroy pine trees.

[@thomasakaminski]

Hi Mike, I did my part to help out Buckin' Billy Ray! Have a Great day and God Bless!

[@hpelisr]

Hey thanks Tom, Pass the word on,

[@jasoncaspersen139]

Here in Colorado it’s either pine or aspen. Both are soft and light. They are going for about $180 to $250 a cord. Anyone who has hardwood like oak is selling it for $400+ a cord. Check Craig’s list for our area. Also did my part to support Buckin Billy. :)

[@deibert1]

Im on the coast of washington we cut primarily doug fir, hemlock and red alder. We do cut some spruce but try not too. Extreamly limby. Also cut some maple.

[@johnfroese7158]

You have a lot of work to do. Would love to send you some of our Cold weather so you don't have to mess with all the mud. Enjoy your videos. Happy New Year to you and your family if I haven't said it yet.

[@carmineiadeluca935]

That winch is a blessing for you & yours... Safety 1st 💪🇺🇸

[@ransomtester9535]

When you got some good good Big Trees don't get snowed in have a good night

[@skroggy66]

Looks like your getting pretty good with that Wallenstein skidding trees right where you want them. Great work as always.

[@craigupiter3716]

See

[@PatrickWagz]

Have a Day, Morgans! Hi Hunter!!

[@slamsshenanigans2296]

Hey Mike, Central Sierras California, ~4,000ft mostly Ponderosa Pine, Cedar, and Oak on our property, sugar pine just up the hill. Cutting firewood put me through college cutting oak lower in the state, it's heavy. Red, white and Live Oak lower, I think they call it blue oak where I live now.

[@jamesharless5357]

Mike, great video!

[@glen748]

Mike, Do you get good GPS signal out in the woods on your property? If you do, you could set waypoints for trees you would like to come back and get. The GPS would help you find them latter. When you make the waypoints you could put in type of tree, sizes, sawmill/firewood, etc into the waypoint. Then when you are in "need" of a certain type you can look at your map and go after those trees. Also flagging as others have suggested would help so you don't have to be SO accurate with the GPS. Thanks again for another great video.

[@darrengarlough5121]

Red pine makes a really nice stiff board, don't have near the flex.

[@piledriver141]

Mike hope you get a bunch of the standing dead pine cut/hauled out before it gets to bad to use👍! Nice here in Texas 69 degrees this afternoon😃 but bad weather comin Friday night

[@buddysimcox754]

Boy if I had that red pine down here in Texas; I'd be a pig rolling in slop! That's premium lumber here!

[@jacobmaynor1889]

One thing we didnt like about the yellow and white pines down here is the pine tar/sap that they have. Makes clean up on a chain saw quite the pain. Not sure about red pine would think it is similar. We use the downed pines for bonfire wood. Burns crazy hot. Too sappy for burning in stoves and fireplaces. Creates to much soot for my liking.

[@janskoropinski10]

Might need to make a few more forest management access roads.

[@rickcassell9613]

Another great one, 👍

[@finpainter1]

Red Pine tongue and grove paneling is nice. has to be kiln dried though or air for couple years

[@revd6239]

Oh yea Mike have you every thought about marking your trees with a ribbon or spray paint it might make it easier to remember which ones you have to take down. Just a thought. Great video!!!

[@meandnature6452]

will make some nice lumber!

[@allenhenry1113]

Down here in North Alabama we have been having trouble with pine beatles killing pine trees.

[@StumpjumperVideosPA]

holy man now thats impressive ! that red pine is heavy ! 4 sticks wow !

[@revd6239]

I have been watching for just a little while now and I was beginning to think you didn't have any pine trees at all. I'm from NC and we "ALOT"!!!!

[@dougmoore7116]

Thumbs up

[@jerrymorgan9602]

The RK55's strength is impressive.

[@benscoles5085]

a little brush in the woods is good, I know they talk about forest fire fuel, but the birds love brush piles, and snakes too. folks that visit me always comment on my snake piles, I tell them, at least I know where they are, just stay away from the brush piles.