Efficient Small Scale Forestry

[@RonaldLAbbey]

Looking forward to this series. That's a neat trailer!!!

[@maehay4065]

A new looking trailer for me to see actually put together! I have only seen trailers pre-assembled. I can hardly wait to see how the wood is loaded up👍

[@MrABC250]

Love that trailer!

[@JustinC905]

Great little trailer! Love the winch and boom, and how the trailer and boom extend. Nice little workhouse I bet. Early Spring about 4 years ago I helped my uncle do this. We cut down maple trees in his sugar bush where he used to run sap, and boil it. Used older, non-producing trees as firewood. He had a winch attached to the back of a tractor which ran from the PTO. You could put 3-4 trees on it, and run it 60+ feet out, release the brake and it'd slide them out. A little dangerous but worked quite well if there was line of sight. Especially when you had 4-5 feet of snow on the ground.

[@simeonandalex]

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

[@EYALAVRAHAMI]

your channel is even more interesting than wranglerstar in many ways. professionally you have big advantage over him. you're a true homesteder. you were burn into homesteading. the only thing that I miss in your videos is the atmosphere. I'm sure that you have a very special atmosphere there and I hope you'll learn how to pass it to us through editing, music etc… all in all - pleasure to watch!

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks. I hope to improve the videos all the time.

[@gregor2853]

I really like these forestry video's, keep em coming!

[@johnhirsch5923]

Hi Semion - thanks for the nice video. Its good to see you and your family working together. Im looking forward to Tim explain the tools on his logging belt. God bless

[@Brifromscratch]

Love your, "why it is good to cut down trees," video. Thanks for this one too.

[@simeonandalex]

Thank you. I love your goat videos!

[@HansQuistorff]

I remember Weyerhaeuser Timber demonstrating a chainsaw that would clamp to the tree trunk and go around and around with the blade pointed up and cut off the small dead branches. after so many turns it would reverse and come back down. This management allowed them to get more not free lumber.

[@RULERofSTARS]

Dad supervising :)

[@BumbleBeeJunction]

Very nice... Jealous of your toys !

[@finpainter1]

I need that trailer

[@newfization]

Wow! That's a heckuva trailer!

[@hgils]

Simply put! This is a great vlog! You do it all so well. Looking forward to watching the log removal and milling. ☺

[@HansBrevik]

Great filming, Simeon!

[@danielwilson6314]

your trailer is the best trailer I've ever seen! that would make life so much easier for when I cut fire wood. And I like that you have a Honda I've been using Honda's for a very long time mine is a old Foreman 400 I use for running my trap line and snow plowing it's been an excellent machine no problems with it and it's a 99. Any way great video thanks for putting it up.

[@marshallsuber9608]

one of my sons thought you had said something about how short your winter days were,but could not remember in which video.They think you said sunrise was at 9:00 am. and sunset around 3:30 or 4:00 pm. Is your winter sunlight that short? No wonder you need those headlamps. Thanks for your updates and p.s.they got a real thrill from the fact that you responded to one our comments. To quote my father "May your children and your children's children rise up and call you blessed.

[@simeonandalex]

Haha. Thanks. Yes winter days are short but now we are gaining about 30 minutes / week.

[@leonardovega9265]

love your content all the way from Tamaulipas ,Mexico I'm a teen BTW.

[@simeonandalex]

Awesome!

[@Frankie431]

Leonardo Vega que onda carnal yo soy de Jalisco

[@leonardovega9265]

genial es bueno saber que tiene seguidores de nuestro pais

[@brianphilbrook5262]

Sweet setup. My dad and my grandfather cut wood most of my childhood and they swore by Husqvarna saws. I look forward to more of these videos

[@lokes2]

Sweet thanx for sharing.

[@jumpleadsx2]

new subscriber here. really appreciate the no BS approach. also the backlog of vids!

[@USNERDOC]

Outstanding! Thank you for sharing the process with us. Looking forward to this series.

[@yellowdeer7163]

I've always said " You have to have to right tools for the job" And you sir sure do! I'm very impressed with your work ethic.

[@Mike-tg8gl]

That's a great setup.

[@SnakePliskenDK]

Cliffhanger.... :)

[@kimshelby6]

Another great vlog! Looking forward to seeing all the timber picked up and what you do with it next 😊

[@fernandoc7352]

What a nice video. Can't wait to see more of this series.greetings from Brazil.

[@murchlk]

Glad to see this series! It's obvious that you guys take great pride in your work, when you get to the video where you will be using the LT40 could you try to show in detail how the sawmill is built and how everything functions together? I know that you try to keep videos short but a video going over the details of your woodmizer would be awesome.I'm looking forward to the upcoming videos.

[@simeonandalex]

We will try... Thanks.

[@gatorsworld]

Greath video....I really enjoy look`in at your brother work....I would hire him any day....I SALUTE you sir

[@bobputman5947]

What have you done Simeon, lol...im going to stay right here in the forest until you come and get these logs.....maybe you could bring me something hot to eat......but i will be here waiting....lol

[@simeonandalex]

Lol

[@SansaStarkofWinterfell]

That's a great trailer for the 4 wheeler you guys have Simeon.

[@johnsommerfeld6889]

Looking forward to part two!

[@Flexaret]

The Kranman trailer was a surprise, I mentioned Kranman log trailers in a comment a few days ago. I haven't seen one like yours though with the hoist running off a winch. Hope to see more of the trailer in detail, it's clever the way most of the small log trailers can be extended. Did the trailer come with the hoist installed or did you fit it to the trailer yourselves? I was working recently dealing with windblown Spruce, I had the use of a quad but no trailer so I used a portable Honda engined capstan winch (PCW5000) to extract the logs out to where a larger tractor could load them, it's very labour intensive which is why I'm very interested in a log trailer to go with a quad bike.

[@simeonandalex]

I think the trailer came the way you saw it when we had assembled it. Thanks for the info.

[@jordanmunoz1813]

Loved the video thanks

[@cdg8850]

cool vid! thanks!

[@Urbicide]

The neighbor's stand needs some serious thinning. That is a perfect example of an even-aged stand, where all of the trees are of the same age & size.

[@simeonandalex]

It should have been thinned a long time ago. If you do it now chances are high it will all blow down with the next storm.

[@johnmichaellane1]

What kind of gas can was that? It looked like it actually worked, which you can't say about the ones available in the US these days!

[@SwedishAdrenalin]

John Lane its Husqvarnas own combi can, that's the "older" version.

[@johnmichaellane1]

SwedishAdrenalin we probably can't get them here then. Pity.

[@welshharlequin7722]

Forest-to-board, sounds like, 'Farm-to-table' from the US. YOU HAVE TO MARKET THIS FOR YOUR FARM. Just saying.

[@Twindadx2_]

Great videos! Keep them coming. I have a similar atv trailer but with a straight boom. woodlandmills.ca/product/woodland-trailer/ I have only used it for firewood hauling. Have been contemplating cutting cedar logs to redo our deck but do not have access to tractor or other heavy equipment. Wondering how well the trailer works with the winch to load logs.

[@beefieschannel8955]

Great videos, keep up the good work, you are doing a excellent job describing the start of the journey from woods to mill.

[@thomsen6182]

3.15 did he drop the saw? Great videos, looking forward to the equipment videos!

[@-EC002-]

3:16 .... Woah!

[@tonyc.5632]

Du gör riktigt bra video! Det enda man önskar är att dom var längre:)

[@simeonandalex]

Tack. Tyvärr så tycker de flesta att de borde vara kortare.

[@fredthorne9692]

Quite an education.

[@mugabenkunda9205]

Can you adopt me please into your family? I love what you guys are doing.

[@joesmo6962]

I like seeing you & your brother down trees. I can tell he is a professional..

[@kVjeko]

Which Honda 4-wheeler is that? Thanks

[@thomasfarkas5458]

Great video, that was a very powerful storm that came thru. Did you incur any damage to your buildings? I am always impressed by the quality of your equipment. Good to see the teamwork that goes into working the farm.

[@simeonandalex]

The buildings were unharmed. We get some strong winds when we have this mild winter weather...

[@leonardovega9265]

genial es bueno saber que tiene seguidores de nuestro pais

[@olsonoutdoors783]

man such an awesome trailer

[@Largexxl-zn4lx]

cool, get the winch on the trailer its power from the battery of the atv?

[@simeonandalex]

Yes.

[@horatio71]

Hej Simeon, I heard that windfalls should not be used for beams or boards as their integrity is supposedly not very good. Have you heard anything about that or have someone just told me BS? Cheers, John

[@horatio71]

well if it is (visibly) split then of course it pretty obvious, but I was told that sawmills avoid taking windfall. but again that could just be wrong information I was given.

[@simeonandalex]

Hi there. I have never heard of that. I couldn't imagine that the sawmills didn't mill lumber after the storm Gudrun for example. My dad says that quality control is made after milling. But I don't know for sure.

[@wiggytoyou]

I really have enjoyed your videos. It's very nice to see families working together on a homestead. You obviously enjoy what you are doing and that's great! Good Luck in the future. My family was from Denmark and Sweden, so it's interesting to see how things are done there. Not much different than here it seems. I'm from Lexington, Kentucky, USA

[@borgarknappur1997]

HI CAN MAKE B A VIDIEO BY SHOWING ALL YOU ANIMAL´S AND WHAT BREED OF ANIMAL´S YOU HAVE?

[@jlhipps]

these at the kinds of things we are doing now too. we are cutting Red oak timber for cash and Red pine for lumber on our farm. Keep up the good work. I am going to try and start doing videos soon.

[@MetaView7]

Why do some chainsaws cost over $1,000?

[@Urbicide]

Those are the larger CC professional grade chain saws. They are built for commercial use & can take the longer bar & chain combinations that are sometimes required. They have a lot more grunt than the typical homeowner saw would ever possibly hope to have. They are also designed to be more readily serviced if required, so that there is minimal down time. Most homeowner saws use a "clamshell" style engine, which is much cheaper to produce initially, but more labor intensive to repair. A pro saw has a 2-piece crankcase with a separate cylinder which can be repaired much more easily since the saw does not need to be taken down to a hundred separate small parts.

[@tyvole2387]

As a former electronics engineer, I particularly like these forestry videos! ;-)

[@andrewkerrivan8619]

As a forestry worker I am a little curious why you would like them over another? No animosity, I just don't see the correlation. I love them too.

[@tyvole2387]

Possibly just because it's so different from how I spent most of my working life. I have done a little chainsaw work, doing bankside maintenance for a fishing club, just enough to enjoy and appreciate watching a skilled arborist, as here.

[@samurajsdzeks]

Hey there! Very nice and useful videos you got there. Question is why are you using ATV for towing forest trailer instead of small tractor?

[@TheBonnieberry]

Simeon ,if you wonder what you will look like as an older man just look at your Dad!!! Grant my hubby and I are loving every one of your videos we watch them together here in Nova Scotia...by the way my Mom's neighbours are from Sweden...

[@simeonandalex]

Haha. I konw. We are very much alike.

[@MetaView7]

is the Swedish Fire Torch really from sweden?

[@keithtraa]

no, China .

[@andrewkerrivan8619]

Haha your last comment of this video is getting too long! If these were hours long I wouldn't have to find a new one ;)

[@jerrbear7048]

You need to learn how to sharpen a saw. Cutting with a sharp chain will make the work much easier and safer

[@matthewconway7358]

Your brother knows his way around a chain saw smile.

[@kevinparker7953]

Simeon, I see you are now well past 20,000 subscribers. Bravo. I'm curious what that means in revenue? Can you say, even in round numbers, what that might be per month? You sure get your money's worth out of that ATV. What a versatle workhorse it is for you. Pretty cool trailer too.

[@simeonandalex]

Hey there. We are blessed to have that many subscribers after such a short time but subscribers by themselves have nothing to do with revenue. That is more connected with views but even that is not entirely correct. KZbinrs get payed when people click on the ads or watch them. The ad rates vary very much as well and dropped by over 70% after Christmas when advertisers pay less for their ads since there is less competition. I don't want to discuss numbers here on youtube though.

[@ВладимирГригорьев-ы5ъ]

Для таких здоровенных мужиков как-то позорно грузить на низенькую тележку что-то. 8 лет назад я с 20-летним сыном 8 свежеструбленных лиственных бревен длиной по 8 метров на кузов ЗИЛ-131. Высота пола кузова, между прочим, 1,4 метра

[@williamwalter8554]

Hi Simeon, I finally made it to the end and got caught up on all your past videos since October. I say, it is an interesting way to handle comments on videos, but that kind of makes sense with over 20,000 subscribers. It's easy to get overwhelmed otherwise. So my question is how much can you share about your homestead as far as it's location, like the nearest town? I would like to visit it on Google Earth. Also all of your camera work (and editing) being done with one camera. I hope you can get a second camera and a good microphone, and a drone. Drone footage of your farm would be amazing (maybe watching a sunrise or sunset). Cheers, Bill

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks Bill. We are in an area called Tiveden. I don't want to write the address on youtube but with this info and the info in the videos you should be able to find it. ;)

[@garymccoy2888]

Love your videos. Was wondering if you dad is retired or if he has a "town" job?

[@simeonandalex]

He works as a teacher in town right now.

[@christofmarksteiner9085]

👍,super Video.klasse Gegend wo du und deine Familie wohnen. Leider ist mein Englisch zu schlecht, dadurch verstehe ich nicht alles😑

[@charcar78]

Du kannst sicher beim Weiterschauen mehr lernen :)

[@simeonandalex]

Sorry. Vielleicht kommt ja hier und da mal was auf Deutsch.

[@christofmarksteiner9085]

Swedish Homestead ist jedoch nicht ganz so schlimm, finde eure Videos trotzdem Klasse.

[@jeffmosher433]

great videos. keep them coming.

[@Normanb15]

What do you recommend for a good quality very protective chainsaw jacket and pants?

[@zombiefighterof1987]

Anything by Pfanner, Husqy, Stihl, Profiforest etc.

[@peteraugust5295]

What the hell is he doing at @3:16? Why does he let go on the saw?

[@judgeomega]

Numb hands?

[@dahlmas]

Jag blev så välldigt sugen på att ta ner ett träd nu :) Snyggt jobbat av er alla, ni föregår med gott exempel :D