Turning a Massive Oak Tree into Firewood

[@leer-winnobbeefarms2131]

Neighbors helping neighbors! It doesn't get any better than that! Great video! Thanks Mike! Lee

[@chrishelms1967]

The "fake look at the wrist watch" as the tree slowly fell...... From one SARCASM efficienato to another.....I salute you 🫡

[@mikesorg6746]

Awesome job Captain! Always good to help your neighbors. Keeps everyone on the same page and working together when you need help.

[@kenpgh]

Happy thanksgiving to you and your family captain 🦃🥧

[@holyearth61]

Back when I use to cut firewood to heat our home, I wood ( see what I did there Capt. ) have got enough out of that one tree. I miss those day of being in the woods. I hate getting old. Any way, nice to see how much the 304 helps out. I'm sure Gary appreciated the help. God Bless you and your.

[@tomswindler64]

Nice little project,you’re a good neighbor.just keep doing your thing.be safe.good job Mike.👍👍👍😎😎😎

[@brianelliot2719]

Thanks Mike!😊

[@fransinyard891]

Good morning sunshine! Great video! It's good to have neighbors who don't mind loaning/helping out! Much love and respect from Henderson Ga USA

[@grahammctygue724]

Glad you kept message tree blessings to you and family season of joy n giving🎉🎉😊😊

[@roberthill6393]

Good morning Mike

[@jdelbrid]

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Captain fans. I hope everyone has a wonderful, thankful day.

[@joelReppe]

Very nice stack of fire wood .Joel Reppe Clear Lake SD

[@donash3199]

You keep us entertained and O so jealous. You live in a big boy’s playground. Thanks for sharing, your voice over commentary is the best on KZbin.

[@karleck1119]

Happy Thanksgiving friend. Sure was an awful nice video. Thanks for making the time to put it together

[@JohnSmith-tv5ep]

MIKE,....you need a clone ! Too many projects going on, BUT..... 'you da man' that's in demand! Carry on Cap'tn!

[@bendyboards]

Hello Captain. I'm in the UK and have a backhoe on steep ground all much like you do. Just wondering maybe it's different over there but I picked up for £1500 and old 4 X4 dumper and have made a crane attachment using the bucket tip to use it. It has been a life changer it can go anywhere even in mud makes moving material with the backhoe easy and moving pallets of stuff easy using straps and crane. Love your videos your the best on here.

[@patrikpersson9446]

I'm a bit disapointed on my fellow wievers....let's all give the feller a thumbs up when entering...it's free!!

[@alandawson2813]

Happy Days, Mikes at it again doing some fun stuff and entertaining me and others as he does it. Keep been you Mike and keep up the good work. From kiwi land

[@joycefuller9177]

Looking forward to the BIG things are coming!!!

[@songweaver6076]

Happy Holidays!

[@jilldunn1041]

You really impress me with your chainsaw work i am crap using mine compared to you cheers Jill Australia 🇦🇺

[@Fatamus]

A hot cup of Cheerful Coffee or Tea. With just a drop er two of peppermint syrup and a dash of half & half in your morning hot beverages makes the cold days go a little easier..

[@kevinkenyon7045]

Captain great video lots of work accomplished! Thanks for sharing! Kevin

[@gslope1]

You are braver than me. I spend the fall building burn piles but don't burn until the snow flies. I'm jealous of the equipment you have. Love the videos. Happy Thanksgiving to you, the Admiral and the crew.

[@doritleis2773]

Captain You make a good Work, the Wood from the old to fall Trees to clear! And the Dry Solid Wood for Firewood to make. The Work and Idea Perfect. 💪👍

[@Manoffire260]

Thought maybe you’d make a set of barn beams or something even fanciers… 😉

[@dfusit]

That’s a great use of the 305 and you get the added bonus of a lot of firewood for next season.

[@tylerbarrett6652]

I don't know if you've seen it... but there was one guy - John at Farmcraft101, I think - who has fabricated a log splitter he can use on the end of his excavator in lieu of a bucket... and so he can activate the splitter from inside the cab. It's pretty cool... but I bet you could come up with something like that. I guess it depends on how much log splitting you intend to do... but it might be worth it, right?

[@richardwhite3711]

@ 14:50 the bungee cord on the back of the chainsaw holding ( I assume ) the cover on is what is commonly called " A Kleeman " where as fixing it or buying the proper replacement part is called a " Neil Koch " LMAO

[@fsj197811]

A good day. Thanks for sharing.

[@paulbeasley5026]

I wish I could do all the things you do. To keep me occupied. Can’t wait for the things to come 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@michaelmullins1290]

All kinds of good things in this video. As always, keeping it funny and on the fly.

[@garymessina1609]

Logger Mike good job great video thanks

[@michaeld_68]

Great job once again 👍

[@clarencewiles963]

The short name for the things flying around are BUGS. 😂

[@keithsuits9792]

Great video keep them coming

[@goptools]

Hi Mike. Quite a lot of Oak firewood that you have there. That tree with the schoolmarm was a particularly large old girl. Looked like pretty straight grain wood and split really nice. Looking forward to seeing the repairs on the 304!

[@kenfrazier616]

great task accomplished, no good logs in it for some sweet board feet? She'll burn nice and give plenty of heat

[@donnacowell7415]

You need that star wood splitter.

[@michaeld_68]

I was thinking the same 😂

[@markpashia7067]

With all the hydraulics around you would think he would make a splitter to run off his backhoe's pump. Faster and stronger than the neighbor's little splitter. Just build around an old cylinder with some of his scrap steel. Oops, I suggested another project before the Yacht was finished. My bad.

[@MildMaxUW]

Wow at about 1:58 it looks like you've got one of those "on purpose bent trees" that the Indians used to point to important places for food/water etc. Follow where it goes and if it's gold I'll take 10% thanks :)

[@markpashia7067]

Yup, native marker tree for sure.

[@larsdaun1518]

You really like to play with the 304🤗

[@tbix1963]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Wishing you and your family the best.

[@NotmeGK123]

My neck of woods there’s red oak white oak and ifn you get ahold of a black jack tree they are chain wreckers hard hard hard sparks be flying no fun at all

[@markpashia7067]

Happy day Capt. and best wishes for the holidays for you and your family.

[@dansevern3291]

Well, Captain, having enough projects that you can share with a neighbor is what us old folks do. So, I have a post oak a little shorter than that tree, but about twice as big around, that's been down on a fence in the Northwest Pasture since a tornado came through in May, so if you want a little more firewood, neighbor (you're probably only 14 or 15 hours away, maybe less, since you can drive 75 in Texas), feel free to bring your chainsaw and come get it. (You can use my backhoe or tractor and grapple to load it). 😁Thanks for the video, take care!

[@gullreefclub]

Hey Captain, Watching this video a couple of things came to mind the first was after seeing that nice straight Oak tree you were cutting up and that is have you ever heard/seen a contrivance called an “Alaskan Portable Saw Mill.” My brother from another mother brought one a dozen or so years back and his worked pretty darn good when cutting 6 to 8 Quarter thick planks/boards. The thing basically holds a chainsaw horizontally and allows you cut planks/boards that you can debark and either use as is or trim and plane to suit the needs of your particular project. He used his to cut planks and beams for several bridges on his property as well as planks to repair several beams and re-floor about half of the barn as well replacing the floors on several trailers. The thing produces a fair amount of wasted wood which he feeds his wood fired boiler that he uses to heat his shop as well as his house. The second thing is cheap/basically free fire starter and that is saving your used cooking oil and or rendered fat from cooking bacon, chicken, beef. Anyway I pour my used cooking oil and rendered fat into used water or soda bottles and then soak old rags, junk mail, or newspaper in some of the used oil as well as squirt dump the remainder of oil/far in the bottle on the brush pile I am burning. Notice I didn’t use old engine oil because I save that to burn in my used oil heater that’s in my shop made from an old stainless steel hot water heater and a decorative heat sink made out used brake rotors I brought home from work that my girlfriend made while learning how to weld. Have a great day and a better tomorrow PS Wishing you and yours a very happy Thanksgiving

[@Crewsy]

Having that log round picker upper around sure takes some of the warmth out of that firewood. 😉

[@ErictheAmateur]

Now that you’ve got the excavator, check out those videos where folks convert their log splitters to work on the excavator. The lines can use the hoses from the thumb.

[@charlesroberts6965]

Awesome content as always and appreciate you sharing your day with us 😎🇺🇲😇

[@L_O_M]

It's strong wood, could have been used to deck a trailer or a yacht..

[@CaptainKleeman]

Get real

[@FredSatterfield]

When you are sharpening your chain please wear leather gloves bectif the file slips you will not get cut. Just some good advice.

[@garyfox8170]

No gloves, no slivers?

[@gwbuilder5779]

Like a good neighbor, Mike Kleeman is there.👌 Is there any other way to be?🤙

[@lancewilson457]

It’s amazing how much the 304 can pick up

[@janieweyers6230]

That wood splitter looked faster than the skidsteer attachment one.

[@brucehuff5566]

Gotta do the maintenance work if you want nice stuff. Can't wait for all videos. Stay safe

[@kylejones2075]

Fun fun fun

[@LeeintheWoods]

Tell Gary I said Hi! Hopefully he remembers the big bearded crazy guy from NY that came to visit. lol

[@raytalbot5890]

Could you put the little trailer behind the side by side?? 🙏🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@caveweta1]

We’re with you Mike, whatever is next we’ll love it. What about getting one of those small all terrain trailers with the fat off road tyres for hauling firewood around? Must be a sponsor around for such a great channel?

[@mikestrand3747]

Big ass tree

[@allensharlow7763]

Good to have firewood 👌👌😎😎🍮🍮

[@martydix4257]

How soon before you get back to the boathouse,lol

[@TairnKA]

Oops, a bit of lost audio. ;-)

[@PgP736]

❤ from Norway

[@brotherbruce]

On those big dirt packed root wads I like to dig a hole and stick the trunk end down the hole and let the rains was the dirt off of the roots that are sticking up. This seems to prevent the stump from sprouting and aids in decomposition.

[@ianmckay1780]

Some times you amaze me with you versatility. Not just with the mini, but your skill with the various sized chainsaws leaves me breathless. Just one thing really scares me, you wouldn't go into a fire without your gloves, would you? so why don't you wear gloves when using your chainsaw? I know you're going to say they get in the way, but they also might just save your appendages! Just saying, cos we love the things you do and sometimes how. but think of your family sometimes too! As to your saying to your neighbour you'd look after the downed tree, well that is just typical of the man you are THANKS MIKE, YOU'RE PRECIOUS! Best wishes as always from UK.

[@stevelalondejr2183]

Cut wood all my life and get burning some brush, but we always made a few brush piles for wildlife, rabbits etc. Anytime spent in the woods is time well spent, wish I could show you how to split wood with a track hoe..lol

[@butter262]

Good morning

[@kenfrazier616]

Mike sometime look up farmcraft 101, look how he converted his log splitter for his mini

[@garulusglandarius6126]

Lovin the Captain Kleeman “ I do what I want “ hoody, definitely ordering one or two 👍 love a good bomby ( bonfire to my American friends 😁 ) Can you please in a future episode show close up ( with your new camera and all ) how you so quickly sharpen your chainsaw blades ? Also what happened to the 555 log cutting/splitting machinery, seemed to be much faster and less effort ? Excellent as always Mike , best wishes to you and yours, from Britain 👍👍🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@jerryc3050]

👌

[@Herbybandit]

You really should look up more! Did you not see that widowmaker above you as you walked along the trunk at the beginning? I'm looking forward to some maintainance on the 304, I'd like to see if you could take up some of the slop in the bucket linkages, that would drive me mad!

[@m9ovich785]

You sure discarded a LOT of Firewood. Anything 2" on up is Firewood. Thoo I being a Wood Snob for BTU's, I burn the WHOLE Damn Tree HAHAHAAHAHA.... Yes You can tilt that to Vertical. I have the 35 Ton and split 100% in the Vertical...

[@markpashia7067]

That was my thought. I use to go around behind guys like this and cut up brush piles for the small wood as I was too broken to deal with the big rounds. Oak, hickory or walnut tops would keep me all winter long. Most were last years piles so it was pre-seasoned. Had a 24x36 foot cabin with open to the roof ceilings on the river, an old fishing cabin. Burned a lot of wood because you could not insulate due to flooding and mold. Only flooded about every third year but the mold would kill you if you packed the walls. Had plywood four foot up on the inside and just removed it when wet to air dry and bleach. Lived in it full time for half a decade. Do what you gotta to survive.

[@m9ovich785]

@@markpashia7067 Sweet... Great story..

[@genesispuredeaf2390]

The size of those rounds on the log splitter was a bit shocking. That was a very big tree that produced a lot of firewood. Could have gotten some good lumber out of it but guessing that nobody close had a saw mill that could handle that size of log.

[@RandyBarber-v3e]

👍👍🔥👍👍

[@Richard-C]

Mike didn't you get one of those wood processors from C&C equipment last year? great video Mike and happy thanksgiving to you and your family 👍👍👍👍👍

[@ByronLewis-q1e]

Near beginning the is the tree near top you are cutting is it bent as a trail marker

[@utubota5522]

Mike, was there any market for the oak lumber? Locally, we have quite a market for oak.

[@RRRIBEYE]

Hey Mike...Don't you still have that firewood processor from Clint?

[@dvandkq]

Are there dentists who specialize in replacing bucket teeth?

[@10rcoleman]

Did you buy the 304?I would say you about have to have one to do all the things you are doing.

[@jackkilduff6618]

What happened to the splitter young got from C&C?

[@markpashia7067]

He had to borrow the skid steer from DP to run it. And by borrow I mean rent.

[@rhondasweeney7271]

Awesome video, Captain ! Helping a neighbor was epic. Really good at the chainsaw. Hope you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving day Thank you for sharing 👌 😊

[@ericwainwright9189]

Almost

[@paulroxby8169]

You should get a new tooth on that mini excavator before you wear out the shank .

[@mikestuart5278]

What ever happened to tha boat you were building in the woods?

[@CaptainKleeman]

All kinds of things!!

[@christerjohansson2664]

👍😅

[@jorgerivera7268]

Thank you for sharing with us your everyday ,.. I look forward to see how you do and, enjoy your sense of humor. I thought to share this idea from Farm craft 101. I could see that on the Backhoe, and.... May even push you to consider an excavator (though you pointed out on last video that such would be a luxury .. not with 20 acres of wooded land..... kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZbUqouHr7GdgJYsi=K2ab5Po4oABvNz0g Keep up and have some fun. Know that you are admired by a bunch of us.

[@vwhitfield3129]

Can you not use the logs you cut down and them that fall down to start the log cabin ?, even if its only half way up then use whatever. 😮

[@jastuff3689]

I know you are a firefighter but you're burning in the woods has me confused. Just about everyone I see on YT takes extreme precautions when burning brush and trees. They clear an area with around 30-40 yards of clean ground and only burn after it has rained. I've seen you burn right in the middle of your property in the woods without any apparent clearing done. You appear to be doing it here also. Am I missing something? I would think a firefighter would be more cautious not less.

[@markpashia7067]

Firefighter is more knowledgeable. Did you notice how muddy that area was as he scraped around? Everything is damp enough that nothing will spread fast. But notice also he is aware of the wind coming next day so he buries the embers to keep it from blowing. Having an excavator on site really is a lot of safety as you can do a lot to stop any spread.