Felling timber, You do it your way, I'll do it mine.

[@JimmynVegas]

I’d like everyone to keep Billy in your thoughts and prayers.. Also weighing on my heart, along with Billy, are a lot of like minded mountain men and their families from Western North Carolina who need our prayers and support as well. A lot of chainsaws running right now in those mountain communities. God speed

[@crowtubecrozier2857]

Amen Brother!!!

[@davidorsillo2671]

Chainsaw city Down here

[@JimmynVegas]

@@davidorsillo2671 Think I’ve watched every video on KZbin on N.C. flooding damage. It’s devastating

[@efo1358]

💪❤️. Thank you for letting Everyone know! Wake Up America! We Stand Together. California has been and Will Stand for Americans Democracy, yeah they tarnished the word Democracy in California, but they can’t take Our Constitution away! 🫡💪🇺🇸❤️🙏🏌️‍♂️🦅

[@JimmynVegas]

I’m posting for empathy and understanding, like minded individuals whose calling is to do what they can to help their neighbor and make the day a better day. We don’t talk about politics because it makes people fight. It’s literally life or death helping your neighbor.

[@Thebearsalad]

My man has the sharpest chains out of all the tree guys making videos. Watching your saws cut is a thing of beauty

[@treeclimbertales]

hey buckin, started tree work 6 years ago climbing/felling/running ropes. Learnt alot from you and your videos over the years my friend. Im 29 years old running my own business making a few videos here and there and TRUSTING THE PROCESS. Thanks for everything. Was felling a small stack of Pines this week - wedging them over they were all back leaning like the tower of Pisa. SPREAD LOVE!

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Keep it up

[@brandonbutela6269]

Never ever gets old. Watching you put trees wherever they need to go and always from a place of patience and intruction. Thank you for your time and efforts to share your experience. Be safe and God bless.

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Yer welcome

[@shortguy45acp12]

I thoroughly enjoy your videos & your spirit. I'm just an amateur this. I can say that binging your videos to absorb knowledge has been beneficial. I took your lessons in & it paid off. My church assembled volunteers to serve a community south of us that was hit hard by hurricane Helene. We had a team serving meals & providing care packages to the folks there. Lunch & dinner at no charge. A lot of folks there are still without power. We ran a few cutting crews as well to handle downed trees & some problematic ones. We got a lot accomplished, but there's still a lot of work left in that community. I'm hoping we get to go back there soon to provide more assistance. I thank you for the knowledge, entertainment & good vibes.

[@Shane_Reynolds85]

I always love your excitement in teaching us how you're figuring these things out. Much love and best wishes are heading your way, Buckin. Always glad to see you, brother.

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Thx pal

[@andrewjensen5161]

Buckin, been a fan for probably 3 years. I live in North Carolina and have been a fan for years. Last week I cut multiple trees off multiple houses and used EVERY technique you taught me through the videos. Thank you sir. God bless.

[@technosamurai9825]

Absolute master class. Buckin' talks..... We listen

[@kristinejackson8268]

Man this man knows how too handle a saw like nobody else. He makes it look easy and its not. They should add chain saw competition too the olympics.

[@darylpowell4388]

You certainly make it look like an art form!!

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Hey daryl

[@rickreese5794]

It is 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@darylpowell4388]

@@BuckinBillyRaySmith good day Buckin, glad to see you are back home safe and sound.

[@gp4103]

Really enjoyed that one. Learning the nature of the species of wood.

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Yip

[@JonathanPritt-l9t]

Thanks for the video Buckin, the more I watch you the more I realize I need to learn.

[@lv2keepfit493]

I'll admit it, I never cut down a tree with a chainsaw being a city boy. But Billy and his channel is fascinating in his teachings, it's an art and hell of a skill to hone in one's lifetime. Not to mention it may not seem very dangerous but we all know it is and the amount of variables one must consider- Identify, eliminate, control! Great channel BBRS 👍

[@m2003h]

Buckin This is one You taught this West Coast guy. Thank you

[@christine_bbr]

Great video. Very cool to be able to travel and see new wood and show new techniques to people. Love you

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Love you Christine

[@derrickquintal]

The amount of knowledge this man has about tree felling is absolutely astonishing to me. There's no mistaking his is from years and years of experience.

[@stephenreiner1523]

I do it with decades of due diligence and experience. I'm 65 years old and I was taught the right way to harvest timber.

[@alanvanclief7802]

New notification from you. Stopping to say a prayer for you all.

[@ArchyKublok]

The coolest guy iu've ever found on KZbin

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

🙏

[@robinthoms9980]

Yeah buckin is contagious

[@yesdeere1376]

I agree

[@martyrutter3630]

Nice fall and control of a very tough walnut tree. Blessings my friend you. 🙏👍

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Thanks 👍

[@TRayblades]

So much knowledge in that head of your Buckin! Fun to watch

[@crowtubecrozier2857]

Buckins got his way!! He can do that!!! Experienced grown ass man, whos been smashed to near death. God Bless Buckin, and your family. Cheers Buddy

[@Boost_Addict]

Such a good teacher and mentor for everyone learning how to get into logging and cutting. The go out with a saw and a truck to feed your family statement comes from the heart! Thank you Sir !

[@staceygandy2009]

With all years of your experience, you do your thing!

[@johnkenny2210]

Morning Buckin 🌄 top show while having my Morning coffee 👍

[@PapaRyans]

That guy Billie Ray is a real Legend💪💪💪💪 make me smile everytime I see him

[@timblankemship9698]

Bucken. I see exactly what you did there, but still it's hard to beat a man at his own game.Great job ole boy😅

[@Dylanmccutcheon747]

Those last words there buckin, love that message be his own man feed his family be free that’s why we do it brother ❤

[@AlexandreHenriques240]

Thank you Billy, for everything you teach us, and for the love you spread. Learn to love the trees and the machines youre rockin

[@mr.philmon8403]

Buckin’ we love ya brother! Been loving these videos for years and I appreciate you and your family, and hope you guys get through your hard times well!

[@stevemoore445]

That was way cool billy!! Walnut is my favorite wood.

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

Kool

[@laurarosekrug777]

That's some beautiful walnut 👍 12:38 I truly wish I understood everything you are so eloquently explaining. To you it's obvious, but to me it's rocket science, lol! Sending positive thoughts and prayers for Pops...

[@KMadSawWorks]

😮 Awesome video bucking stay positive buddy your videos always have a lot helpful points 🤘🏽

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

I appreciate that

[@yonmusak]

Very nice swing you got on her! Nice!

[@antechinuz]

You’re a super star!

[@christianhviid2167]

Naaah. Hes just a nice feller😉

[@Timberjack.loggers]

Love watching your videos ! Great to see you guys working together . Take care during your difficult situation with your dad thinking of you an your family !

[@JimmynVegas]

So blessings come in mysterious ways. The choice to take a trip, reset, and get some content saved up. Now when your spirit is tired, you have a little bank to let you be doing what you need to be doing. Things work out for the best without even necessarily having a master plan. My Dad was done..brain aneurism. We had him at home for his last 2 weeks. He was only 68. Life is short. Work hard, be honest, be kind.

[@manfredbismark6688]

Bravo, good work, good words! Rudi.

[@Mightycaptain]

Great job faller. Seems like you an good fellars got a thing going. 😂

[@Alexhulk]

Love your bar at the end ❤ Husqvarna

[@gregtaylor8327]

Nice one Buckin. Learn learn listen listen. All good advice and methods. Knowing the species would be key.

[@dadsrock4252]

Your amazing brother that was awesome.

[@margotnicaragua1289]

Love your passion at work and kindness 😊 ileana

[@mikemacwelch953]

AS always thank you, i really learn a lot

[@virginiahunter1456]

Buckin I don't know if you have, but a entire video on back cuts, a when to cut where first depending on lean etc would be great. Thanks for the tips. Prayers to your family.

[@Brianscoronet]

My condolences on the loss of your dad, prayers for your family.

[@danbarth9421]

Cool video brother❤ I have learned so much from this channel...tree cutting..all the way to being a better man...tha nks for what ya do❤love from the Barth family

[@critterg8493]

Good Friday to the Army

[@gaudenzschneider316]

Thank you 🤝 you too🤝👋

[@jonmccormick6805]

And to you too, Critter

[@Zebracat5]

Great Video Buckin. A good reference to come back to. Stay Strong Friend.

[@ejsocci2630]

Another awesome video , enjoy watching your videos

[@alanvanclief7802]

Prayers for you all.

[@danquirke443]

I totally would have cut the low side up first and been banging wedges. That was a thing of beauty. I learned something this morning.

[@Alexhulk]

Hi Buckin Nice shot ❤

[@rusta9934]

You are the best mentor bro ❤️❤️

[@jonmccormick6805]

Very good show and tell. Thanks!

[@Sailor376also]

Had one just like it the other day. Strong lean toward the street and the power lines. But a crooked bole at the bottom gave some purchase to a lateral. Same thing. Leave a tad more to the tension side of the hinge. I actually pushed it over. Thats all she took. 90 degrees to her lean. Missed the power lines and the mail box, laid her right down the road. Sweet when it works.

[@MikeStair-g6l]

Buckedn we care about you You, have a really big family here take some time for yourself and your family We will be here when you are ready

[@МаріяКарпенко-х1ч]

Like from Ukraine! Very nice. Wow

[@daviddrzewiecki8267]

Sorry for your loss Billy. My Dad passed in 88' massive heart attack, really never got the chance to say goodbye 😭🫂. God speed to you and yours!

[@tyjones5019]

You are a lumber Ninja friend! I don't know exactly what you're talking about but I trust ya!

[@efo1358]

You did it again! 👌🫡🤙❤️🇺🇸. Is that a 395? 🤔🙃😂🦅. Love The Billy Ray! Arborists in the Californians! Learn! He’s better than a college class in Berkeley! 🤧🥞🤙🫡💪

[@sydrider6023]

You got to love this guy✊👍

[@peterellis4262]

BBR - Sittin' down on the job! :)

[@ghjacghjac4820]

I have a husqvarna 135 and i like it 😂

[@MATT.MAN-PEACE-LOVE]

A good little saw I use my one for cuttin up pallets for kindling excellent little saw I like how the air filter keeps itself clean every time I go to clean it there’s not much there at all compared to some other smaller saws I have in that cc range Have a peaceful day Happy cuttin ✌️❤️🌲🪵🪓🐝

[@rickreese5794]

Rock On, Buckin 💯👍😎👌

[@QNATURUNDHUND]

Gute Arbeit Mr. Billy Ray Smith .......Gruß aus Germany

[@robertgreen8695]

Everyone has their own way of doing things. Just because it's not like what someone is doing something similar, don't make it wrong.

[@dp1381]

You know, Buckin’ isn’t exactly the best wordsmith out there, so at first you might think he is talking nonsense. I know it took me a while to grasp what he meant about “pouring the wood” or the “plate.” Other people might refer to these things by different names. But you watch the man hit one shot after another enough times and you have to say to yourself, “he knows his stuff and I better figure out what the heck he’s talking about it I ever want to do these things myself,” and then it all starts to make sense. It’s probably better this way because this is dangerous work and there should be a barrier to entry that weeds out the people who would get themselves or the people around them killed if they tried it themselves. Knowledge should be shared, but not all knowledge is for everyone. These advanced techniques are best left to the individuals who put in the time to understand how to implement them properly.

[@nichwheelhaus7482]

Awesome work

[@johac7637]

A BC bush boy, saw our " bush " thinking, at times we cut Maple with this lean, knew exactly where you were going, no wrap around helped save some sawlog too.

[@shephusted2714]

you have a nice relaxed approach, you use good tools, you get banged up a bit here and there but it is rough work - you are safe but also try to push the envelope - the piano hinge concept is valuable lesson -- it is not immediately obvious and be one of those things you learn from experience...

[@wednesdar452]

Beautiful stump!

[@Tcw2019]

Buckin it would be awesome if at some point in videos or descriptions you put what saw you’re using. Keep up the good videos!

[@legolisp]

Nice work

[@Jengoboys603]

Excellent

[@chriscaldwell1490]

Had a poplar go sideways on me yesterday and brushed the lean to on the building. BBR means it when he says you cut that corner off and its over your shoulder. Gonna take a while to recover confidence from that one

[@boooshes]

We're always learning.

[@rene1475]

Awesome!!!

[@owenroberts212]

Awesome tutorial

[@academicmailbox7798]

The pulling chain is where 'some' additional weight or substance in your type of bar might be preferential to 'light bar' (and I'm only talking about regular .058 I'm familiar with, no experience at .063 chain). That timber is wetter by the way than earlier stumps feature in earlier PA episode. Wet wood introduces all kinds of other stuff (dry standing timber could be a bit friendlier 'to cut' using a saw, wet wood though can be brutal). I don't know what it is, except that water equals 'mass', weight. Which those small teeth has to move. In two stroke machinery weight is an enemy both at the tooth and cutting edge location, . . and literally as Iron horse explains, on the piston inside of the cylinder itself. It's robbing you of horsepower. Another reason why 80 to 90cc can be preferential to 60 to 70cc in hardwood, as an 80 to 90cc tool sometimes only has 70cc to worth with on the cutting edge of that tooth. Which brings me back 'to the bar', it's weight, rigidity and material toughness. I.e. Husqvarna standard, tough, heavy chain bar. And having a chain tension that's not loose, but not tight either. No doubt though, Old Skool is working with a different (less 'flat' and more pointed), part of his chain bar. It's a different type of art. I'd say I'm still on flatter parts of my bar, and less close to the end in my technique, but I'm looking and retaining. Glad to see Billy mention wind effects, it's a definite thing cutting in more open space. Out of the forest, and in cow grazing country. Wind is a thing, hardwoods are 'like yacht or boating sails'.

[@academicmailbox7798]

I've looked back over it a number of times. Yeah, with the right amount of experience and confidence to go deep (enough, not too deep, . . as said, take the undercut just into 'the low side', as opposed to stopping short of that), one can utilize 'the weight' of this tree. What's different about these hardwoods is their 'weight relative to size'. It's not a giant tree, but it is a giant weight. That timber has got moisture in it, and that is not 'static air', the breeze was moving some against the sail, which 'that crown' was. The hardwood Elm's are not unlike this. Because of the amount of weight per cubic foot in that sort of timber, the lean doesn't mean what it would otherwise, in much lighter timber. Yeah, fiber strength for definite will help (and a lot of the 'fiber strength we're talking about here isn't just fiber strength under tension, it's compressive strength of the timber's fiber in the remaing 'holding timber', that Billy used to good effect I'm thinking). Like that dead tree in BC too a while back, the tree had not strength under tension in terms of holding timber. But the compressive strength of fibers in the holding timber is there to be utilized. One is not having to think in terms of Dutchmen, or rolling the stem around. Dutchmen I feel is much more dependent on fiber strength under tension (which loggers in pine wood stands can rely on having at their disposal more). It's one thing I'd hate to have to rely on with hardwoods, is fiber strength under tension, because I don't think it's there in the same measure as you'd have in live pinewood (and it's not in dead or partially dead standing pinewood either).

[@academicmailbox7798]

My guess is that with ever-green species the resin content in the timber is responsible for some strength being present under tension in those fibers. In hardwoods moisture in the timber may not equate to strength, especially under tension, but just the opposite. When the resin becomes dry and loses it's properties in dead ever-green timber. It's maybe the reason why those tree fellers have to be additionally careful. Because one has to think a totally different way about one's timber. One thing which didn't arise in this 'Walnut' species felling, is where one gets into legitimate Walnut mature forestry land. The 'crowns' of those Walnut trees interlock with each other, above at 'upper stories'. The result of which is, when doing the very 'low' stump cuts (the obtain best financial return from the timber, the best wood often being down near the stump). The sheer 'lead weight' of that base-of-stem timber, combined with steel-like, 'hardness' property of the timber itself. Along with the stump height down around the forest floor level. Those large trees can just pick themselves up and pendulum swing suddenly (using the crown above as a pivot hanging point). It won't obviously happen where the trees aren't inter-locked at crown level above. But I've seen examples of it on footage (where experienced guys, so elevated to have such a nice piece of timber to fell, they could become complacent and make a mistake).

[@jessewintersteen4740]

Sittin down on the job old man! LoL

[@Jengoboys603]

I smashed 2 cords of maple into the excursion with my kids today. I got a big leaner sidehill I gotta smash. I found thru this channel that I was using too small a file changed my game.

[@nicholasgrover2993]

Well said sir

[@rock_machine01]

Maybe we should call you a surgeon!

[@peterlubbers5947]

When Buckin stops the saw for an interjection it's time for me to sling out the notebook because there's learning to do!🤔📒🔎

[@BJ-lw3vz__Björn_sweden]

Felt like You actually were inside the tree, when cutting it. Now I get it, different fibers-Different mindset. Yeah listen to the older guys makes difference.

[@patrickbass3118]

Appreciate the demonstration on felling with a heavy lean - we are encouraged to bore cut most of our trees here now, do you ever use that at all Billy? Blessings from Muskoka Ontario ❤️

[@jeffmeyers3837]

As a noob to this, I feel like I'm in college on my first day and accidentally walked into a senior-level advanced class, and am just nodding along as if I understand anything that's being said.

[@ascotty9796]

Can you do a shop white board explanation of that cut? Way over my head plus the footage was of the treetop

[@SUF-py4ix]

Good stuff. What was the necessity of having the logs felled in the same direction rather than with the lean of that leaning stem into the gap? It’s all good when there are no buildings and properties under the drop zone to practice techniques but taking chances when there is can be overly risky

[@1944chevytruck]

BE KIND

[@shpresashaheed9679]

Hi buckin

[@nichwheelhaus7482]

You did say, “Watch the crown!”

[@HairlipButcher]

The chainsaw is like his arm, i swear😂

[@julianalderson3938]

Great vid i wouldnt do it no rope. Very good'

[@gaudenzschneider316]

Hi Buckin❤🫂 Thank you for your New Video 🤝 Anyway my Friend im thinking you and your Sad Situation a lot .....stay healthy and strong....i gave you a big hug🫂 best regards Gaudenz

[@UncleGo67]

Nice B B R …👍😎

[@lorengonzales8917]

Why didn’t you just cut with the back of the bar instead of trimming the other stump down low to clearance the wrap handle?

[@ctbsancho2516]

I think it's because he wanted the chain to be pulling not pushing if that makes sense.

[@naturundhund]

😎👍🤓🕶

[@45Unit]

Buckin Billy Ray is BITCHEN awesome dude!

[@BrianMagee-ci1md]

BRAVO