Standing Dead Pine: Trash to Treasure

Felling and milling a standing dead pine tree.
Echo Chainsaws, Woodmizer sawmill, LT15, forestry, homesteading, DIY.

[@Sword-Shield]

That old blue car just goes to prove...ashes to ashes...dust to dust...we brought nothing into this world...and we are taking nothing out. 1 Timothy 6:7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. Ecclesiastes 12:6-8 Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed, Or the golden bowl is broken, Or the pitcher shattered at the fountain, Or the wheel broken at the well. [7] Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it. [8] "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher, "All is vanity."

[@georgepppp533]

guess you don't understand "proof". then quote fairy tales...oh well. as long as you feel better. I like to quote Exdous 21 . the true word of god.

[@Sword-Shield]

@@georgepppp533 Fairy tale ? Better read and believe the entire scripture George It is written for your understanding. The truth is still the truth even if no one believes it...and lie is still a lie, even if everyone believes it...read and heed. Romans 1:18-21 For [God does not overlook sin and] the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who in their wickedness suppress and stifle the truth, [19] because that which is known about God is evident within them [in their inner consciousness], for God made it evident to them. [20] For ever since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through His workmanship [all His creation, the wonderful things that He has made], so that they [who fail to believe and trust in Him] are without excuse and without defense. [21] For even though they knew God [as the Creator], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks [for His wondrous creation]. On the contrary, they became worthless in their thinking [godless, with pointless reasonings, and silly speculations], and their foolish heart was darkened.

[@georgepppp533]

got any evidence? support slavery (exodus 21) makes you an awful human being, or are you cherry picking.

[@danielf996451]

God loves a cheerful giver

[@lloydpowell1056]

That is one of the cutest little boys you have

[@lostwithlukee]

i love you guys, little boy reminds me of me and my pap

[@earlsmithson4749]

Nice job for dad. You are a good son.

[@nicktozie6685]

Thank you for not wasting

[@thomasboyle2300]

I always wanted to buy a small woodchipper for my yard waste. If you got decent sized one you could render that waste pile down into mulch. Mix it in with the bark. Love watching you cut logs.

[@charlesvaughn5055]

thanks for the video showing what can be done with otherwise worthless trees. have a great day. glad you could help your dad out.

[@gitatit4046]

Good to see those dying pines get put to good use Wes. And you make it look so easy - well it is from this end anyway. 😉Thanks for your time and efforts. 👍God bless you and the family.

[@strickfly]

Good video ….you have a good family show with your folks

[@naomialaniz373]

We use our slab wood for outside barrel 🪵 wood burn 🔥 😋 Great video! Thanks for sharing 👍 😊

[@DDL2728]

That was successful!! You saved your daddy about $3,000!!! 😵‍💫 God bless you and your family! ❤️ 👍

[@kenjohnson5498]

Forward thinking built a buddy of mine's brother, sister and himself a home. When his father purchased the property in the 50's he planted lodge pole pine in a few area's for harvesting later. Fast forward to the 2000's and they all built homes made from rough cut lumber milled on site. Being a machinist he took it a step farther and made a large bit that he ran the boards through creating his own baseboards.

[@saltycreole2673]

As former USAF Firefighter in the Great State of Montana, We heard tell at least once a month of fine fellas like yourself coming to a bad ending doing what you do with them pine trees. Glad you did good. Blessings.

[@sireoh]

Amazing to see more videos collaborating with your dad

[@ArrBee6]

Thanks mate, good vid.

[@nigelwylie01]

That was a twisty old dead standing tree you transformed there. It just shows what skill, experience and vision can do for a man with strength, determination and the right tools. Praise God. And it’s great to see you working with your father. Great video Wes. Thanks.

[@falllineridge]

Thanks for watching!

[@PBRStreetGang68]

This is fast becoming my favourite YT channel 👍

[@jimmowers7675]

Nice to see you getting some great lumber out of that dead tree. I’m surprised that crafters aren’t wanting any of those cut offs for different crafts. Thanks for sharing.

[@richardthornhill4630]

Nice to have a portable sawmill to be able to salvage standing timber that would normally rot in place. You Dad is happy you had the sawmill close by. Saved him some money on lumber. Good family times working together.

[@thebradleysoncatbirdhill6849]

As always, outstanding video work and topic! Love seeing you and your dad working together!🙏👍

[@benjaminmadrigal8359]

Nice job champ, grettings from Cancun 👌

[@U_ever]

Unlike the majority here, I got a lot of pleasure watching you and your father get a day of quality "Man Pig" time hanging out together making lumber from logs. Great work as always Mr. Wes. "LIKE" button torqued to manufacturer's recommended specification. "CLICK"

[@BiscuitBoyTN]

I could watch you cut wood for hours....oh wait, I have. Hello from Knoxville, TN

[@167curly]

It's great to see that dead pine used as a good resource for lumber on your mill. I'm hoping that the off-cuts, heavy branches etc are all used as firewood and not just burnt as a waste product. That chain you used to haul out the fallen tree trunk is amazingly strong for that job as it looks so thin.

[@tomp538]

Sadly pine is a terrible wood to burn in a fire place; too dirty and burns too fast.

[@user-gu5oe3cb8s]

Good , pleasure job 🙂

[@southernyankeehomestead3230]

That tree is probably the best example of a widow maker I've seen on youtube in a while. Dead branches turn into missiles when they break, snags prevent the tree from falling clean, and then the twist on the stump when it came loose. All potentially fatal. Great job on taking that tree down safely!

[@falllineridge]

That's why I look up a lot and run like a girl when it starts falling. Lots of stuff that can go wrong.

[@trampster7306]

Great video Wes, and good to see you working with your Dad! Some nice Pine lumber there. Be great to see a video of the 'room' your Dad is going to build. Stay safe & well. 👍👍

[@HungHoang-wz9jj]

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[@tscherry70]

This is therapeutic. I moved to southern Indiana from Idaho, and boy the trees are different here. I need to get me one of those mills. Subbed!

[@Thewrightstuff777]

I don’t know why but it’s so soothing to see trees become lumber…

[@huuo2496]

Tôi rất thích công việc chế biến gỗ như các bạn

[@falllineridge]

Cảm ơn vì đã xem.

[@craigsudman4556]

Good stuff Wes! Great video thumbs up.

[@Cempaka74]

Halo selamat siang salam kenal, keren ni cara tebang kayunya

[@Oper8or]

That poor Echo saw working its butt off man. Love these vids.

[@yeagerxp]

Good job 👍👍👍Thank you for sharing. Be safe 🇨🇦

[@cuwest1]

Wes, that was perfect! Excellent video production as always.

[@falllineridge]

Thanks again!

[@mobenessa9691]

Your content is awesome. Straight up men’s stuff

[@stevt100]

You got a right smart of lumber out of that tree, and the slabs I'd wait for a nice cool winter day and build a fire and sit and drink coffee and hang out.

[@catgynt9148]

You do ot need to apologize for your methodology. You recovered a terrific amount of lumber from those twisted trunks. Autumn fires outdoors with s’mores and family will make quick use of the remaining slabs. Wishing you and your family a blessed week, gentle autumn weather and restful evenings. Peace brother

[@jimp.4531]

nice job with your Dad

[@inspiredscreens]

Thank you.

[@tinydancer7426]

Don't why it is, but I find there is something soothing and calming in the sound from a chain saw and a wood mill.

[@samvalentine3206]

Seems to be a universal lure for us similarly-minded folks!

[@kenrussell1093]

How cool to harvest your own tree, mill it into boards, then build a room with it!

[@RXRSawdustStation]

Nice fell! Nice forest maintenance! Nice sawing! Very nice product! Nice self-debarking standing dead pine (aided by your fantastic little assistant! 😉)! Thank you all for your efforts...that was very enjoyable!

[@kuronyaa-san]

Ms Cat, right at the start, finishing the equipment inspection before giving the green light.

[@edwinheredia4305]

Great job my brothers

[@jeremy1350]

Hey Mr Green Jean's !! I missed the junior boss man today !!! Guess he'd just be in the way when cutting wood !! ha ha

[@MarkWYoung-ky4uc]

That is some great looking lumber you got out of that tree.

[@paulbombardier8722]

Nice pile of boards out of that tree!!

[@johnsonlam]

Nice pieces of wood!

[@kevinashby3784]

It great if it’s all free. Nice

[@bigtlumber]

Nice leveling system. I need to upgrade mine someday.

[@falllineridge]

Makes it fast.

[@TheFishingExperience916]

Some of those off cuts look good enough to make a rustic bench out of and siding for a off grid wood shed

[@benjamincock5357]

We usually turn slag piles into woodcrafts or campfire wood bundles.

[@taftamick54]

Nice!! I hear ya boy!!

[@keithprinn720]

great return from that dead tree some of those slabs could be used as siding on a car port or shed

[@johnblake3863]

It is just a pleasure to watch you work. I know it is a lot of work but it must be great to own one of those mills.

[@falllineridge]

It's wonderful. Continues to pay for itself.

[@samvalentine3206]

@@falllineridge - How are you managing with blade management since you got rid of the sharpening rig, Wes? Do you have someone else sharpen your blades now? Just too much work & time investment for the results?

[@falllineridge]

I've been ordering new from WM for a while. I'll probably ship a bunch off at some point and get WM to resharpen.

[@alanm3438]

Standing dead pine. I have a lot of that. The trouble is that they have been dead so long that they have no strength. If I cut them to fireplace size, my brother will burn anything. Thanks for the video. I wish I had a sawmill.

[@jimwilloughby]

Here we have an excellent example , through the magic of video and editing, what an old demolition contractor I worked for over fifty years ago , would say. "Puduction, puduction, puduction. Got to have Puduction!"

[@robinfrazier5940]

I see a lot of good firewood in that Tree Top

[@jimbo5056]

Very nice use of soon to be useless lumber/tree. The sawmill sure carries it's weight for production. Can we be expecting a story soon of the little piggies "going to market "?????😀

[@genecarr4568]

Great video. I love watching how you analyze the logs and maximize your product. I have an LT15 wide on order, hopefully I will get it before Christmas. So what really caught my attention were the jack stands and the ability to adjust with a drill. I am pretty sure my jack stands will have the conventional hand crank which I am sure is a real pain for set up. Is that a purchased modification or a DIY modification?

[@falllineridge]

I don't know much about the wides, mine of course is the LT15 GO model, so it's designed to be super mobile. Those are the jack stands that came with it. I just found the correct size socket and got an adaptor for the drill. Not much to it.

[@mga7649]

We burned pine for years in wood stoves. Cook stoves pine hot and fast

[@sharonromer6606]

❤❤❤❤

[@rodolfoplasencia4953]

When you do the first cut, do it horizontal, the second inclined towards the horizontal first cut, that way the tree will weight more than the way you did the first two cuts, the wedge will be inverted and you won't lose that amount up, by doing it downwards. Otherwise the angle of the tree will be hooked downwards it's back, like if you get the tree and hooked it down, downwards, because of the way you cut it but, if you cut the initial two cuts the tree will feel like you cut it's half, and it may even move towards the side you intended to drop it. Try it, and see for yourself. Get up to it's half, or you may risk getting the tree to grab your saw! You absolutely don't want that. Get about half it's trunk center vertically, if you do it quick you may pass it's safe center zone, but, up to half it's trunk quick you'll be able to sustain quickly cutting it, then proceed to it's back. Watch out, it may fall before you even started the back cut, any time! Thank you for your channel, your example, your life! Keep carrying your son, your children to work, keep them safe, busy, doing something. They'll be busy helping you, honoring you, and all! Thank you brother!

[@thomascoburn926]

You need a Sharpe chain on your saw.

[@dianehathcock9240]

I would look into donating some of the leftovers to makers, they could make a few bowls or pots out of those. Just a thought.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

Nothing wrong with pine or fire for firewood, it burns hot and if it is all you got better than being cold !! and you can always mix it with other firewood. Hell we burned Douglas fire for years, all that was available and it was good firewood, actually prefered it over maple or alder ! !!

[@stevenikitas8170]

These portable sawmills are a really great innovation. And it's nice to see the forest being used productively. In the Eastern United States, and even extending into Arkansas and Missouri, we have TRILLIONS of trees. The forests are growing over at an alarming rate. I live in New England, and the forests are growing everywhere into the open meadows and over the roads. The forests are generally low quality - like weed patches or trash. We should start to "manage" these forests scientifically, which would improve and strengthen them greatly. I have calculated that the wood that we could extract annually could replace 10% or more of our daily petroleum use, either in the form of methanol (wood alcohol) for home heating in converted oil burners, or as wood fuel for home heating (pellets are the best for this application) or in power plants to produce electricity.

[@buddyreed2623]

Hello Wes. That was a nice drop on that tree. I wondered how you were going to get it out of the mess until I saw the tractor with the grapple. I think you maximized the tree even using scrap to make the stickers. If local high schools have bon fires for pep rallies, your slabs would work nicely. Have good days!

[@andrewvanada52]

I'd use the slab pieces for camp fires & bonfires. It burns bright!!

[@justintime2277]

👍FROM CADILLAC MICHIGAN

[@alexandrealex4972]

Hello sir when you cut a tree 🌳. you replant behind ❓️thank you 😁👋

[@suerhea2620]

Do you teach math? You can calculate those logs with ease. Blows my mind! Do you sell lumber? Have you seen the videos of Out of the Woods? You remind of him. Anyway, your work is impressive. Are you homesteading with just you and the little boy? He’s a cutie!

[@falllineridge]

Nathan has a great channel. It's my wife and daughter too.

[@DavidRobinson-mx6cl]

Still useable for firewoo4 !!!!!!!

[@tomp538]

A wood chipper would make good mulch out of the off cuts, slabs and branches. I've said before is pains me to see pine waste put in pile and burned.

[@teddie_schaefer1963]

Glad that tree didn't just die to rot.

[@raywilson800]

GROOVY❤🐘🇺🇸

[@roberto.peterson9917]

The mill looks like capable of longer logs than most set up that stop at 12ft

[@falllineridge]

It will do 17 footers. But we only needed 8' out of this one.

[@billflatter8342]

I burn that slab stuff in my woodstove for the shop, works great.

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

Iv always was told that about pine as fire wood especially in the south but now I'm hearing long as it's good and dry it's not an issue..

[@falllineridge]

Yep, I've heard both. Not sure which is true.

[@roberto.peterson9917]

Them larger limbs make good kitchen firewood provide have wood cooking stove then they still good firewood

[@lesabre1972]

you got some big logs out of that tree.

[@ahmedbujar]

اشعر بان هناك متعة كبيرة في عمل النجارة في الهواء الطلق

[@roberto.peterson9917]

Suggestion maybe try carbide tip blade reference Matthew Cremona channel has by accidentally cut his quarter inch thick log stop off and continue to cut satisfactory rest of slabs with same blade and he cutting hard woods

[@markfleming9073]

Amazing how .much you can get out of dead trees nice to see you get a good load out wasted otherwise great content

[@thelazygardener6420]

Pulling the bark off should be an ASMR video.

[@monicareid8858]

Cool video! I’ve often wondered if a bucket and burlap sack could be tied up to the sawdust output for dust collection. Sawdust is such a useful thing, but not when it gets into your lungs. What are your thoughts? Would it be an impediment?

[@dennisatkins9837]

Great video! Can you smell the bacon yet?

[@falllineridge]

Had sausage for breakfast and pork chops for dinner today.

[@jdollar5852]

Now I need a sawmill. Are y'all eating pork chops yet?

[@roberto.peterson9917]

Let them burn hot in heater stove and use some soot devil to clean burn soot now not time to get very picky waste not at minimum save for emergency firewood or offer up to those who may be in need due to hard times

[@user-xh8mi5db6g]

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[@webecamping0056]

Man, if I lived close I’d ask you for the slab pieces for our beach bon fires. I said it before and I’ll say it again, mesmerized watching and listening to wood being cut.👍🏽

[@samvalentine3206]

I was going to say, that looks like pretty good kindling... chop it up and split it, use it to start a fire... I imagine any creosote production of kindling to be minor in a chimney in the grand scheme of things. Then there's always the bonfires at the beach! Sounds like a good way to burn that stuff up!

[@garybessey2184]

Don't stop at beach bonfires. Aren't there any public camp facilities in the area ? Couldn't that slab wood be sold for vacationers' campfires ? Maybe need to cut up some sample wood and split for bundled firewood, sell it at country stores.

[@webecamping0056]

@@garybessey2184 oh yeah I’d bundle and sell at beach camp grounds, use for kindling too

[@rowman12]

🤙🤙

[@frankbagbey8372]

Many would be glad to have slab wood for heat! All wood is fuel wood! Shame to waste it !

[@brandong6242]

Would love to burn those mill off cuts here in Washington state!

[@divinenonbinary]

Dent understand what’s exactly the issue with turning them into firewood?

[@Jcrackman]

would have been a good cut if you wernt high on the notch. to much hinge plus trees slowing its decent. if it was a level notch with 2inch hinge she would have fell and broke threw those tops.

[@need100k]

I have a question: Doesn't leaving the cut slabs in place as you continue to cut cause too much stress on the saw due to all that weight? It seems to handle it ok, but long term I would think it will wear the machine out quicker.

[@falllineridge]

It does seem that way, but it does not. The cutting edge going through the log creates a kerf. This is a 1/8 inch wide gap which the rest of the sawblade passes through. The blade itself barely touches the log at all, just the teeth.

[@davidkilbourne5422]

I always like to watch your videos. That pine was put to good use and it had wood your dad can use for his shop. I wanted to ask your opinion on a chainsaw and I'm wanting to buy a new chainsaw, either a huskquvarna or I'm leaning towards a sthil farm boss. what would you by if had the chance?

[@falllineridge]

I am partial to Husqvarna saws if I had to choose between those two. However, this Echo Timberwolf I'm using in this video has been an amazing saw. I don't think you can go wrong with any of the three.

[@RD_Piesins]

Chain needs a lot of sharpening😅