Skidding logs with a F-250 4x4, Rigging Tips!

[@coinstackertrades]

Highlight of my day seeing a new Buckin video in the inbox

[@Alexhulk]

Me too

[@benwinter2420]

Sure AI

[@Becky-zi7fo]

Agree

[@zacktaylor2678]

These skidding videos are the best buckin ! Trees , chainsaws , and old trucks I mean come on doesn't get much better than that

[@contemporaryprimitiveman3469]

The running bowline is something anyone with a rope should know. Thank you sir for your enlightenment and wisdom.

[@tome.joyner887]

Buckin you are an amazing guy. After all these years you are still teaching and loving on us and just mainly the positivity that you give out daily..who couldn't fall in love with that. I know I did many years ago and I just appreciate you so much. We've never met face to face but I count you as a dear friend and I love you!

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Appreciate you

[@davidhakes3884]

You Give Premium advice for ANYONE going out in the woods Billy Ray, I am an Old Logger/Trucker @67yrs and the advice to assess EVERYTHING is Perfect, I know that what you do Not think can happen can and sometimes Will in a heartbeat. Luckily I can count on one hand the nearest misses in the woods, my angels work overtime. Love your Videos Brother and Hope you and ALL have a Merry Christmas. Stay safe.

[@Shane_Reynolds85]

I'll be in the woods steady after Christmas. Firewood season is upon us. Good weather and I have less work in the winter, so it is time to make some heat! Aiming for 12 cord of firewood to get another couple of years ahead on the wood. Like you, I really find it all FUN!. Let's allow that guy in at the stop sign, folks. WH BK BH! Love Ya!

[@joelnitsche2979]

It’s fun watching you do your thing Buckin, cutting and rigging. I always learn something. Thanks too for breaking out the old Macs lately. It would be great to see one of the old 266’s out of the barn again for old time’s sake.

[@MrCrychlik]

Hello Master, as usual, I watch your video with baked goods on my face. I love your character, your knowledge, your kindness. Greetings from Poland.

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

You are very welcome

[@hpelisr]

Nice work Buckin, Love the saw action.

[@Northofsomething82]

Like the old school simple rope and truck skidding. That’s up my alley. Happy holiday! ✌️

[@dbikeguy]

In the state of Maine here on the far northeast USA, just cut and split a couple 60ft pine logs today into firewood and finally got the chance to drill in your side-flick you do at the at of your axe swings. Worked like a friggan charm thanks Billy Ray! Saved me a ton of bending over

[@OutdoorswThatGuy]

It just makes my day when you have a new clip out to watch , i just recently went out to get myself a longer bar on my Stihl sovi to can stand and um buck ...lol thanks to you Buckin' ...👍

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Nice

[@danbarth9421]

Well folks...here on episode 10,320...we have Macgyver in his natural state, showing us how to pull logs out with ropes and a pickup truck...and, he is running sweet powersaws that eat twice as fast as a beaver with its teeth filed by Buckin Billy Ray..😅😅LOVE YA MY FRIEND!!! awesome content and job getting those logs out❤️❤️the real Macgyver of the woods😊😊MUCH LOVE FROM THE BARTHS!!!!

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Lolololol😊

[@danbarth9421]

@BuckinBillyRaySmith 🤣🤣❤️🤝

[@richevy5224]

Great tips for skidding the trees. Thank you for sharing.

[@SusanCastelli]

I can't get enough of buckin Billy!!!!

[@Boost_Addict]

That 572XP is a Screamer! I think I need to add on to my arsenal next .

[@cameronhamer9432]

Wrapping the rope and getting thee log spinning works great , do it all the time . With a machine when I get behind a obstacle I’ll up end the log , but that takes massive power . Rope is so much easier to transport , but on the farm I never coil up my strawline , and I can pull really hard and not break it . 👍🇨🇦

[@martyrutter3630]

Those ford trucks are tough, made it look easy. 👍👍

[@tome.joyner887]

Love you Marty!

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Appreciate it! It’s a good truck

[@toddpacheco4748]

Buckin,may you and your wife also the rest of your family have a wonderful Christmas holiday together 👍😮😊❤

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Merry Christmas to you and yours!

[@stevesmith9254]

These rigging videos are cool. Great job. Merry Christmas Buckin'

[@wrightmiddleton2706]

Merry Christmas to you and the family Buckin🤘🏽

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

You too, buddy!

[@gregm1457]

Just last weekend I used that trick with some straps and a comealong to turn big section of elm parallel to the slope and roll it up over the crest so I could buck it up top.... works great!

[@jackdawson23]

Best man on you tube You have tought me so much .. thank you for everything you do

[@michaelnewman-ds3fr]

Thanks Buckin for another awesome video!

[@matteswe]

Completely unrelated but I just watched a Les Stroud interview (just uploaded) and he reminded me of you so much in the way he talked and the gestures. You could be brothers! Maybe it's all the hanging around in the woods. You both seem like equally grounded and kind humans.

[@spencerh2860]

That 572 sounds so good

[@angelus1303]

best man on youtube...greatings from belgium!

[@academicmailbox7798]

There was an angler called Gerald Swindle, extremely renowned in his sport, who explained 'stretch' in monofilament fishing line, which was the only thing available until of late. Gerald said that you throw out twenty yards of monofilament in a fishing cast, and you have to reel back in thirty yards. Rope where logging is concerned is like that, . . I like chain, but you can use nylon doubled or trebled up, between a vehicle and the attachment chain to one's log (bearing in mind, that fishing line and nylon rope are the same basic chemistry). The advantage of chain where one is dealing with lots and lots of eight foot-ish length 'pecker poles' that one has scattered all over a floor, and one has to do house-keeping to in some way. Is the chain with two carbiners, and something like a bull ring is fast. Lightning quick. A third carbiner is used (or if you double and treble rope using nylon, additional carbiners), from the vehicle tow rope to the circular ring piece. If one uses a half dozen, or a dozen chains each which 'present' that circular steel hook-up eye to a tow rope. It's surprising how efficiently one can work. Roping won't function the minute one drags across road or hard surface, it friction wears in literal seconds. Rope over soft earth, forest floor or grassland works just fine. The minute you hit a road surface though your rope is gone.

[@edwardpriestley2747]

Smoothly done love to watch you work going to try that trick being a tuna fisherman I have plenty of rope thanks Buckin!!!

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Sweet

[@gunr44]

Hey buckin another great video, gotta love old trucks and good running saws. Can't wait on more info on your muffler.

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Kool

[@joellarock8595]

Merry Christmas to you and your family Buckin

[@dantownsend4920]

Good stuff, i love the roll on ropes, i see what you mean, to get it going.

[@EricChmelarsky]

Problem solver extraordinaire, get that log out with what you have available to you. The wedge cut out for compression buck, useful trick of the trade. Ive bewildered folks with that one. BBR muffler😮. Im in.

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Good

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

572 muffler soon

[@bobveal]

Beautiful job moving that log brother. Fantastic 850 as well!

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Thx Bob

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Appreciate that man! That thing is a workhorse!

[@charleseddy9903]

Thank you for the logging lessons, keep on teaching.God bless and Merry Christmas to you and your family

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Appreciate it! You too.

[@johnkenny2210]

Morning 🌄 Buckin nice tree 🌳 job 🪵🪓✊️ Johno Australia 🇦🇺

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Good day Johno

[@kennethmctavish248]

Merry Christmas to you and yours great video

[@Timberjack.loggers]

Great advice on taking time for looking for overhead hazards an issues on the job site before starting life safer for sure

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Hey Timber

[@danbentsen]

Very good video. You know your rigging options, & that helps make this a very good video to watch. Thanks for the watch

[@robertblacksmith4355]

That is a nice rope! & truck ! Great job Buckin Buon Natale Caro Amico !🌲🌳

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Thx happy holidays Robert

[@daviddrzewiecki8267]

Merry Christmas to you and your family, God bless and stay safe 🙏.

[@michaelwhiteoldtimer7648]

😊 Always glad to see a new video, thanks for taking us along

[@Becky-zi7fo]

Good to see you. ❤

[@saltrock9642]

528 thousand people have the opportunity to cut trees using saws and axes much safer and smarter. Tree cutting techniques, tools, saw and equipment care with an added benefit of fellowship and inspiration. I love it here. 💪

[@darvinlightner2210]

Merry Christmas to and yours

[@darvinlightner2210]

I just recently discovered your channel and I would like you to know that you are an inspiration and I truly hope that you and your family have a wonderful holiday

[@benwinter2420]

Merry Mars mass . . 'Christ' Mars closer before , when are people going to wake up from Sesame Street sleep ?

[@stephenreiner1523]

It's from that rootball being on rock. I've cut big Hickory that were in the middle of a paddock sitting on solid rock. Not anymore.

[@academicmailbox7798]

On the aspect of large projects, and having weight put on to one set of human shoulders, to figure out, to do and to stand over completed work in those projects. And from a different world altogether, to the one of tree and lumber working. As an example of telling a story about such projects, and the kinds of doubts, worries, second guesses that experienced guys do have. When faced with the same. The chaps who work in the quarries in the stone crushing business in the north of Ireland (AllistarC 123 episodes on 10 tonne cast iron piece), they use a 28 pound sledge hammers and other tools to try to remove pieces from machines that are broken. The apparatus in question will process several hundred tonnes of quarried rock. Taking the machines down for any form of maintenance or outage, is to say the least, an undertaking. What is crazy is just how recognizeable all of the machine parts, how they assemble and dis-assemble is, to a two-stroke engine repair shop guy. Who has to dis-assemble and re-assemble handheld saw machinery. Except with rock crushers, there's no buying 'an OEM part' and having it courier delivered. No, you end up hiring a crane to move it from the quarry to the weld shop. You weld it back together, and re-use this 10 tonne cast iron part. It's a lot more work than a 372 with a crankseal leak.

[@alanvanclief7802]

God bless you and your family. 🎄 Merry Christmas!

[@scottbeilsmith4261]

Great video Bucking 👍. As always a lot of great content and advice. Merry Christmas to you and your family 😊.

[@davidburchfield2720]

Nicely done brother 👏 👍 👌

[@Alexhulk]

Hi Buckin Good video Tanks brother ❤

[@shapeshifter7753]

Slick move using that root system to pull👍 As always thank you for sharing your life with us and spreading positivity 💪 Happy holidays to you and yours friend ❤

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Shifter ❤

[@Alexhulk]

On the job i work beside a skidder with chokers At home i log with my 400 old Yamaha with a chaine or a rope❤❤❤

[@critterg8493]

Buckin just bought a new 250 and plow im finished with the big lake effect snow storms

[@terryfields607]

If I don't get the chance, I want to wish you and yours s very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

[@saltrock9642]

Saving this one for coffee in the morning. See you in the morning. 🙂

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

I’ll be here.

[@itllkeal]

Dang, good one, Buckin

[@MrWorldasmaya]

"Go where the love is. Just go where the love is." (Buckin' 12/19/2024) Words to live by.

[@adammeana4002]

My dad taught me how to roll logs with a log chain. Just one of many things he passed on

[@Mattytube18]

I used to do it with my dad in a ford van econoline 250 and a 14 foot trailer.

[@Becky-zi7fo]

Nice to see you on videos. ❤

[@andyd.1793]

rollin', rollin', rollin', get them loggies rollin'!🐂🎶 ✊😁

[@nickuva6508]

You ever use one of them bow bar saws? I didnt realize they were more dangerous than regular straight bars until i tried searching for one recently. My dad cut up massive southern pine and red oak for 10+ years with his stihl bow saw. Whats funny is that he was a corporate health an safety director for Honeywell so I never thought bow saws were anymore dangerous than straight lol!

[@JeanMartin-Leblanc]

keep rolling man ! 🤟

[@coopershistorygarage2804]

Love it!! What special exhaust do you have on that Pro Mac 850?

[@neobailey5268]

Nice work

[@martyrutter3630]

That was a lot of cookies shooting out of that log 😂😂

[@critterg8493]

Hi Marty how you doing

[@martyrutter3630]

@ Doing just fine. Just put some wood in the stove and I am going to kick back for the evening. 7:15 in Delaware. We are to have a cold snap this weekend , temperature in the teens which is rare for us. Was thinking about you this morning wondering what you would get into today. 😂

[@critterg8493]

@ bringing in wood for my dad tomorrow maybe jump on saw a bit got some big ash rounds to cut up cold here this weekend also

[@JohnBrunner-ym6qj]

Buckin that 850 is a lovely machine was that also a tinman saw

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Indeed

[@bigmoustacheal3295]

Hey Buckin! I've yarded not thousands but hundreds of trees with a pickup. Also use rope as the twists and the material gives it shock absorption. I never thought of buckin a couple of rounds off to clear an obstacle!😢 Thanks again for another lesson! Best of the season to you and yours❤

[@johnwinner8511]

Use a pulleye too tied to other trees. Pull the tip less dig in if you can. Or other trees to drag on top of. Bevel cut the tip some guys use cones for the tip. Lifting the tip off the ground with a rope pulleye system.

[@EC_ATV_Outdoors]

Your doing great, but if you don't want the snap on your struck that can do damage, add a bubba rope aka a kinetic rope. And you can add it to that rope you have so you still get the snap on the log, but not your truck

[@erburke]

Billy, Out of curiosity … what made you cut on what I would consider the compression side ? I heard you say you “didn’t want the tree to drop … that you wanted to pull it back” … I’ve been climbing/cutting for a bit and I am seriously asking out of curiosity for your experience and wisdom … I have faced this situation a good many of times and always made an undercut for fear of getting pinched … typically the tree will drop and the stump will flop back into place … but please share your thoughts and wisdom … that “roll method” is gold … and I love ropes as well … rope slings in particular when doing crane work … ✌️And ❤ … happy holidays smith family … your boy is a huge assets to the tree industry btw …

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

If it were compression, it wood of pinched right ? There for it definitely was not the compression side as it opened up and pulled the tree a bit with it . So what you thought was compression was actually tension . Hope this helps

[@erburke]

@@BuckinBillyRaySmiththat’s why I was so confused … it looked like compression … when it reality it was actually tension … copy that !!! … thanks for the help !!! ✌️and. ❤

[@d.ahwooomazenkas8075]

Hehe Ahwooo 👍

[@longbar105d]

Heck yeah 👍

[@ericarachel55]

is that bull rope braided Dacron?

[@JJawsyW]

WOW that is a long tree.

[@rogerdarev7374]

What video has the beginning in it where he cuts the 3 trees down at once? Ive seen it a few times and have been waiting on the video but seems like I've missed it.

[@rickhanson1955]

Thanks!

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Rick , thank you 🙏

[@matthewens509]

Where can you get rope like that?

[@matthewens509]

I wanna pull like Buckin but my friends tell me to use a winch.

[@Sean-hg4mt]

Superhero with a chainsaw.

[@joecnewimage2019]

Niceeeeee,.💪

[@1944chevytruck]

BE KIND

[@NorthWestTrails]

Keep a pillow in the truck to secure to the steering wheel when yarding. Will save you some teeth

[@leonardvirtue5753]

Nice 😊 mate bro teacher 🫵🤠👌👌🤙🤙🤙💯💯💯💪🪓🪵😁

[@naturundhund]

😎

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Thanks pal!

[@leonardvirtue5753]

@ 🫵🥰🤠👌🤙👍🪓🪵

[@critterg8493]

Show time

[@alecmcjarison999]

I get you're trying to give information but you don't need to explain everything.. we can see what's going on

[@wrightmiddleton2706]

And you are the kind that would get hurt or killed instantly in this scenario. It’s a giving information and explaining video, as are most of buckins videos..keep scrolling to the know it all channel.

[@alecmcjarison999]

@ settle down princess

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I’m a princess, I need everything explained, join the channel, become a member we love you🙏🙏🙏🪓

[@KN-vh5xp]

Be kind

[@llP_Tc]

Your two cents was worth nothing here

[@jirusjirus9322]

The Wood Wizard demonstrates the laws of physics in the bush with Crewkie standing in wait for the next move. Assess everything...use your imagination, even if you've never seen it happen, it can happen. Great use of ropes 👍🌲🪵

[@jirusjirus9322]

Buckin Billy Ray...10 years in archives, coming up on 4,000 videos....👀 Congratulations on your healthy recovery and giant blessings to you and your family and your team and all the Buckin Army. 🪵🪓🔥💜

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

JJ ❤️