Logging in the Backyard Big Second Growth Fir

[@metaagyel620]

Awesome video! thanks for making it.

[@elwellboy]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@tttco]

Beautiful second growth timber!!!

[@elwellboy]

Yep

[@northmanlogging2769]

3 rivers, some good competition to me lol. (who am I kidding they walk all over my little outfit)...And that Whitehorse clip is taken about 1 mile from my folk's place.

[@elwellboy]

hahaha - Thanks for watching and commenting. Also, got your reply on Arborist. Stay tuned for progress.

[@wemovetheearthjpease]

Some nice timber man nothing like what we have in maine

[@elwellboy]

In Maine, do you have mostly pine? We have some pine here but mostly Douglas Fir and western red cedar. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@wemovetheearthjpease]

@@elwellboy we have a mix of hardwoods pine spruce and balsam fir

[@WaynesWorldGarage]

Just wondering, how old are the second growth trees? Our woods around here were cleared around the Civil War and we think the 70's, so some nice poplar and red oak, but all less than 75 years old.

[@elwellboy]

This entire area was first logged around1915. So I believe these larger second growth are probably 80- 90 years old. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@skagited9617]

LOL..... Looks like you're making a 'withdrawal' at the 'bank' to finance the new shop!! Great little vid! I was just formulating a question if the f-b had a 'blade' or 'chainsaw', when you put up the graphic.... anticipating the ???

[@elwellboy]

hahaha - Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@tttco]

A lot of nice export logs it looks like to me!

[@elwellboy]

Some good wood indeed. Actually everything went to local mills. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@TR-on9tx]

Smells 👍 good

[@elwellboy]

Nothing like the smell of fresh cut fir.

[@TimberManiac8791]

what a waste of wood... why the world do so many people cut so high when felling timber? with a proper face cut and bore cut you would have gained on the footage by cutting it right on the ground .if you cant properly cut a tree right off the top of the ground and make it fall in any direction you want it to with the equipment you use then you have no place logging. at 30" in diameter and cutting at 30" high you lost a lot of BDFT which is money lost for land owner . i have noticed most loggers have become lazy these days , dont want to bend over or get on their knees to cut a tree properly.

[@elwellboy]

Interesting comment - but this crew and their families before them have been falling timber for 5 generations so I think it's fair to say they know what they're doing. These larger second growth fir swell at the butt so that would be wasted wood at the mill because the slabber take it off before it gets to the saw. You probable noticed the smaller trees, cut by the feller-buncher are cut right at ground level. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@TimberManiac8791]

@@elwellboy swells would not be wasted wood . a lot of us loggers wouldnt be so lazy and take the time and round off the swell, not cut it completely off and waste good usable wood . that was my point . this is a major problem with a lot of timber companies. it boils down to laziness and being wastefull.

[@ernestcommerford5590]

If you don't know what your talking about one should keep one mouth shut these poeple know what there doing been doing it for generation's beside in the Pacific northwest from the cascade too the Pacific ocean is some of fasts growing timber land in the world and has the best logging practices in the world and is manged by the timber industry itself !!

[@TimberManiac8791]

@@ernestcommerford5590 you see you assumed way to much lol. im a third generation logger , was loading and dragging at 10 yo , felling timber at 14 yo , at 16 i started buying my own equipment and at 17 had bought my own brand new meadows mill all while paying more than any other mill around and still made more than any other mills around . sold my meadows at 27 and went strictly to logging and still pay more for timber than anyone else . i pay 60/40 for oak , 65/35 for barrel staves and a 75/25 split for walnut timber , look around and see where anyone pays that much to a land owner .

[@kevinjones2667]

​@@TimberManiac8791 and where might you be located??? East coast I bet.