Hobby Farm Wood Lot Management Tip " Clean Your Stump! " Felling EAB Ash Using A Bore Cut Technique

[@HanaBasara]

Hello from Roumania 🇷🇴🙋🏻...you are the best, Walter!!

[@G-PA-2795]

Beautiful time to be in the woods

[@DPPower-cb2ow]

Good video

[@lyndonwortley6329]

The tyre chains look to be holding up well to a life in the woods Walt.

[@afleetcommand]

For what they are, they are lasting and wearing well.

[@swere1240]

my boss got a 440 stihl that had a hacked up muffer mod on it with basically 2 1 inch pipes about 2 inches long sticking straight out the front and i was cutting a stump with it one day and both of them broke off so your right about the muffler and where it should be for sure. i put a stock front muffler cover on it and i feel like it almost runs better now. its a great saw i really like the 440 mags. and yeah unless you started treating the ash trees atleast like 5 years ago there all pretty much done for. ive been cutting them down almost daily for the past 3 years its sad but it is what it is.

[@DaveyBlue32]

Yeah…it takes more time but I always ramp my four sides down to about the dirt and we did a little clearing job for a guy two years ago and when my buddy went to bid this second part the property owner asked where’s that heavy set fella is he still cutting for you or with you.., because he’s been riding his four wheeler and tractor around and driving over my stumps he said is a joy compared with some others that he has had other guys leave.., he’s been going through and cutting some side’s down…. It’s a huge difference and it’s a few more minutes to make a stump you can drive and drag across…. He noticed… he gave us the work instead of some other guy’s so I’m glad I took the grief for not going fast enough two years ago to make it what I thought was the “right way to leave it”… we both needed these two weeks of work right now…. You should never let your quality of work be less than you consider satisfactory for how you would want it to be! Too many of those guys in the world who fallow the “ it looks good from my house, theory!!! My uncle John logged in WV and 38 years ago when I started with him in the summer he would tell you to always leave a respectable stump…. He’d kinda trim and stack or sort some tops… or if the farmer or landowner was a little older we’d spend a day or a 1/2 day cutting firewood…. So that older fella could collect him a good bit and reduce his cutting…. He worked with people over his entire lifetime and I can’t remember going back through properties in 15 years for more selective cutting… I don’t know that he ever left a job that everyone wasn’t completely happy… or he would have stayed on the job until they were…. “Your Word and your Reputation is all you ever really ever got!!!” Was definitely told to me over several years!!!

[@230e4]

It sucks seeing the real nice ash trees dying. If it is any consolation I have seen very good ash regenerative in several stands were all the ash was harvested in the past couple of years and that have been managed very well with timber stand improvements, opening up the canopy. Hopefully one day it will come back. That was a very nice ash tree you harvested. I always keep my stumps low, even with a skidder it can be very frustrating and dangerous dealing with high stumps especially in an area covered in bryers. One thing property owners may want to consider in their contracts is to require all stumps be cut so they are no higher than 12" at the highest point. You will find with most full wraps that if you cut the root flare off near ground level and go up the height of your bar and chain to were you bore cut you will have room enough for the handle, bearing in mind a slopes effect on boring/getting your bar in level. I am hesitant to advise in the comments on felling tips as a picture/video is really worth a thousand words. I need to take the time to find an editing program that I can easily learn, I have hundreds of hours of footage over the years that would really help folks.

[@davidbulich1254]

Hickory paying pretty good here

[@afleetcommand]

same , but leaving that woods alone for now.

[@davidbulich1254]

@@afleetcommand roger that

[@ToddAdams1234]

When you’ve only got the 1 Ash tree left, ALL of those EAB’s will “flock” the one. It’s just to bad that “we” (as humans) haven’t figured out a way to spray our “specific” trees for preventing certain ones (but not a complete species) from being invaded and then killed. I wonder if going in a week or so after you go in and cut if it would be wise to go in with a stump grinder for taking “care” of those certain stumps.

[@ole-mariusbergesen7818]

I cut high to fell, but cut as low as possible after the fact. My grandfather said to never leave tall stumps.

[@afleetcommand]

I can get another 6-8 inches a log doing what I do vs. the online "pine" or PNW style of cutting. Actually most around here do what I do or some derivative Of GOL cutting.

[@woodfarmer8413]

Beech is best for firewood

[@johnclarke6647]

That’s a big face cut. Watch Buckin sometime. His face cuts will barely hold a wedge. I kind of agree with you on face cuts. I want 80% of the width of the tree and 30% of its diameter at about a 70 degree angle. However, I don’t sell wood. I might think differently if I were trying to maximize profit.

[@afleetcommand]

I've see what they do, and I still do the open face. My log buyer agrees with my approach. And yes I sell timber. Lesson for me is not to listen to the loud and large voices on line. Listen to the guy who pays for my logs :)

[@samzeng159]

If the face cut is as low as possible most of that face cut will be on the root flair.

[@afleetcommand]

Bingo. Thank you. I didn't explain that well.

[@backyardfirewood9852]

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[@leonardvirtue5753]

Nice 😊 👌👌👌🤙👍🤩

[@Mike_Mike_0]

Nice informative video. Everyone should listen to your comment @ 8:40 and do you think that even a mild port will outlast a stock saw due to this critical mod? Many reputable builders seem to agree on this point. I tried to point to it previously, it may have gotten lost in the translation.

[@antoniomorgado5304]

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