On the hunt for work!!! How i mark, scale and figure timber

just how i do it!! Enjoy

[@CarrotCaptain]

I appreciate this video. Going to start doing some small scale logging and this video helps. Any information on grading, marking and pricing is awesome.

[@rottiman100]

Keep on talking, your educating your viewers.

[@CaptainKleeman]

I’ve never seen this part of it. Pretty awesome. Thanks for sharing with us Pete!

[@nuts319]

Thanks captain!

[@petehendry4756]

I like these types of videos. Seems like no one else on KZbin makes them .

[@bullybluecoal1831]

Pete, I appreciate your conservation efforts. Nice to see a guy have love for the forest and respect for other's land. I'm far from a tree huger but I did cringe a bit when you first marked that shaggy in the beginning. It's just ascetically my favorite. i remember the Halloween cartoons in childhood days. There was always a shagbark in them along with a crescent moon and a good ole witch with a broom. They do make beautiful mill wood though. Nice vid! Stay safe friend.

[@timthompson5885]

Really like your logic on marking that timber! Looks like some really nice timber there Pete! Stay safe my friend!!

[@russellsimmons9284]

I’ve been searching for a video like this. I’ve been wanting to learn more about timber than just cutting for firewood. I’d love to learn forestry management to help keep the woods healthy.

[@nuts319]

Glad you like it!!

[@fortheloveoffarmingandequi3345]

Great video thanks for taking the time to show how you do it

[@andycobbcobbbroslogging7125]

In these even age stand pine plantations, you can take a good amount of plots and multiply the acres and guess accurately. We have been on tons since about 93. Before then I got paid by the cord. Good vid Pete. I enjoy watching you buddy. AC

[@nuts319]

Thanks buddy we do pine the same way here

[@tomdavis827]

I work as a forester in northern Wisconsin looks like your doing it right to me!

[@nuts319]

Thanks buddy!

[@tomdavis827]

@@nuts319 the trees you were marking looked way better than the ones I was

[@nuts319]

Lol don’t worry we probably won’t get the sale and I will have marked them for nothing

[@tomdavis827]

@@nuts319 hope not

[@MSLLOGGING]

Start your year out in nc lol..your a smart man you no what your doing lay in there pal

[@nuts319]

It would appear that I know what I’m doing but I can assure you that I do not lol

[@MSLLOGGING]

@@nuts319 lol yea u do lol

[@woodcutter6235]

@@nuts319 ha ha ya right!

[@davecrable1356]

Thanks for the refresher. Walked around with a forester marking timber, but that was many moons ago...

[@bobblenuts]

Seen u on Outdoor w/Morgan's...Randomly selected 3 videos that I thought would interest me on your channel...You Now Have A New Subscriber! Like your explanations of what your doing...Will be looking at more past videos on your list. THANKS & Great Job!

[@nuts319]

Welcome to the channel

[@waynetharp]

You are like a little kid on an Easter Egg hunt! Looks like a perfect day for walking timber anyhow...Hopefully you get the work!

[@nuts319]

Hopefully..

[@waynetharp]

@@nuts319 How many acres was this patch or did you say???

[@nuts319]

120

[@fricknjeep]

hi there interesting liked it john

[@eddyarundale1566]

Great video, helps to understand the wider business issues 👍

[@larrywilliamsii7533]

A lot of our sales have a ring around the tree. Makes em really easy to spot

[@nuts319]

I use the slash to save on paint, that stuff gets pricey

[@claytonl.covell2634]

Cool. Always like when ya share information. Need more of this & some on grading trees. Thanks.. (y)

[@willardnicholson8026]

I enjoy these videos learn alot keep them up 👍

[@glenlloyd8913]

Like the way you go about your business brother. Seems to work well for ya. Good to see you thinking about the future of the smaller trees. I see some outfits just go in and wreck everything with no regard for the future harvest.

[@fredericktownhomestead8094]

Did I miss understand? Did you say a 14" dbh hickory scaled at 300 board feet that would have to one tall tree. I use a Doyle stick.

[@davidhaley7053]

That's a lot of work to cruise every merchantable tree.

[@nuts319]

You sure ain’t kiddin there...

[@dr.giggetywhiggety9042]

Hey bud i love the videos

[@fredericktownhomestead8094]

I mark timber for one of our Amish mills. What they want is an aquurate estimate of the board footage. They then make an offer to the land owner. There is a clause in the contract about them harvesting unmarked wood. My aquracy is very important. They keep hiring me. I make them money

[@cdocter21]

Good vidja Pete! You ever get up to northwest PA at all? If so I'd love to have you timber out my woods. You do a good job and hard to find that around my parts nowadays. Keep it up 👍

[@nuts319]

I do quite often email me [e-mail]

[@billyshumate853]

Pete you got some good looking timber there. Take care and be careful. And Whatever you do don't let your meat loaf 😂😂😂😂

[@occultknowledge1085]

Great vid

[@danplanck2896]

Thanks for the vid Nutzy!

[@poppopscarvinshop]

I Love Videos like this - Very Hands On Educational and Not Boring. Thank You Very Much!! PS - What is "Blocking Wood"? I'm not a Logger, just somebody that has cut a lot of trees for Firewood, Tornado, Hurricane & Storm Damage Volunteer Clean-up Work.

[@nuts319]

Blocking is low grade crating/ pallet wood

[@poppopscarvinshop]

@@nuts319 I've used a bunch of that stuff wood carving!

[@stevencroon]

Barkin and walkin, my favorite thing!

[@johnwarren-649]

Very interesting Pete never seen how they figured the footage before it cut

[@markhowes126]

Real good vid. But when you add in your head you don't have a tree count. Some would want to know average board feet per tree. Plus I would lose the count in my head.

[@MrYahoo74]

I agree with your thinking , not worth going into some spots for one tree, I leave stuff that a forester has marked for the same reason and explain to the landowner it’s not worth disturbing 30 saplings for one tree.

[@michaelkoop6731]

Nice to see how u do all that. Great info. Thanks Pete for this. Hell if u could u would hid ur nuts too.

[@firecaptaintom1977]

I'm walking our land with the forester and logger Wednesday. Scoot up to NW Wisconsin and kibbitz.

[@scottschaeffer8920]

Good deal, fell those polls too, we holistically need more young forests.

[@greasepit98]

Hey nutsy., when you said " I'll shut up and let ya'll just watch "" and yet you kept talking LOL

[@nuts319]

I know lol

[@pinecone5058]

I'll just shut up and keep talking, lol, when your talking I'm learning, thanks, can't wait to see 372 slinging some chips, done done on 2 da nex one, thanks Mr Pete

[@roybucheger4406]

Nice vid, though. Thanks for sharing your industry knowledge.

[@cedricgates9976]

i like the way you think nutsy!! good on ya

[@nhmountains5683]

Nice looking timber Pete. You see many shed antlers walking the woods?

[@nuts319]

Very few strangely enough

[@davidgolden6476]

Cool stuff right there Nutsy

[@terryreynolds1366]

Where do you get the measure stick SUPER THANKS PETE FOR THE VIDEO LOVE STUFF LIKE THIS

[@nuts319]

Forestry supplier

[@terryreynolds1366]

Thanks buddy keep the video coming

[@geofreeman7388]

How about finishing what you trying to teach us and tell us what percentage of the timber sold to sawmill goes back to the landowner? How much the logger gets to keep?

[@nuts319]

I just do the marking and cutting I’m not involved in the money end the company I contract for does the negotiation

[@dmalloy96]

Looks like some good timber there hope you get to cut it

[@nuts319]

Me too!

[@cyndikarp3368]

Thanks for explaining.

[@aarons3203]

Thanks for the interesting video! Where did you get your tree marking stick at?

[@nuts319]

A website called forestry suppliers

[@fredericktownhomestead8094]

The land owner is given an offer, pay before we cut. The mill does not tell him the board footage. What hurts is to scale a 60 acre lot and the land owner to sell it to another mill. The other mill won't even walk the lot! That hurts.

[@keepingitrealoutdoors8685]

done it for 21 years scale timer right in the area I'm in not done unless they're taking bids or if a big companies got it you can buy it on the stump we go scale it but private people usually 50/50 and I'm not talking about nothing but grade and tie but you got steep mountains Big Hollow tracks range of 50 acres 2000 Acres it can take awhile to scale 2000 ac that's when a lot of guesswork comes in usually four people scale landowner around here more interested how much is going to bring an acre that's hard to figure shoot low that brings more makes it look good LOL but most of us sold on 50/50

[@Ray-cv6gc]

Very helpful, thanks

[@jgolsky7687]

You should think about becoming a consultant!

[@nuts319]

I am considering

[@mlhrepairsllc6942]

I learned something today

[@dan7danjdan7]

Very interesting sir ☺️

[@oldtimerf7602]

You are doing the job of a forester. I hope you are charging for the service.

[@jeremypatton80]

Like the way u think about the marking. Have about 900 acres in the family. Say the same thing. Management

[@brucehuff5566]

Thanks for taking us on that journey. What part of PA was that. Stay safe

[@nuts319]

This was in Ohio

[@woody912a]

Have some dying ash I cannot drop without damaging good trees but if I leave them they will fall down unguided. Hard choices!

[@003fulle]

Enjoyed this. Interested in the totals from that tract. Size of tract as well. Value to the landowner?

[@nuts319]

This track with somewhere in the neighborhood of 165,000 feet over two separate parcels totaling about 150 acres I couldn’t tell you the value to the landowner I don’t get involved with the money I just scale it and cut it

[@VideosByAl]

About half the Hickory we saw is Pignut. We prefer sawing Pignut because the bark is not as abrasive as Shagbark .

[@nuts319]

Pignut is way better on the mill in my opinion too

[@garyduncan1025]

Like the fact that your considering future timber harvest & the one tree wasn't worth destroying many other trees. Do you ever need any help ? Thanks

[@nuts319]

I’m good currently thank you

[@garyduncan1025]

Did you get the skidder fixed ? As far as a helper... My dad put a chainsaw in my hand when I was 12. He wasn't a tree guy. I'm also a climber too.

[@nuts319]

@@garyduncan1025 Yes Skidder is fixed

[@garyduncan1025]

Yeah it's hard to find good help.

[@andycobbcobbbroslogging7125]

I tell ya Pete. It’s a lot easier to cruise timber in Ga. AC.

[@Ray-cv6gc]

Where do I find the best deal for one of those sticks? Do the cheap fold out ones work the same? How does the fc 78 figure into it? I just purchased 68 acres in preston county wv and wanted to get some figures.

[@nuts319]

Stahls logging supplies. The foldout ones work the same and form class 78 is the class of timber for this area there are different classes of timber all over the country

[@Ray-cv6gc]

When your figuring the # of 16' logs,is that no limbs,or how many limbs to no be marketable? I got 68 acres in wv and trying to get an idea what I got,a lot of sugar maple and cherry.

[@billwhitacre703]

@@Ray-cv6gc Worried about that $. Never mind you're clear-cutting 68 acres.

[@naturetamer]

good vid nutzy! do you by 'em standing? I wish you were closer to wi, I couldn't pass up a Walnut job and accidentally double booked us😖

[@nuts319]

Damn wish I was closer to

[@deanparks4586]

Nice video

[@joshwelner1951]

👍👍👍

[@patarmentrout9388]

Up here cherry equals morels

[@jeffhawkins1191]

What is blocking? Cribbing blocks?

[@nuts319]

Any kind of low grade material that is used for pallets, skids, cribbing and such like materials

[@ODIE-WAN]

Love the intro interesting little walk

[@nuts319]

Thanks odie

[@robintaylor-mockingeemill8223]

How do you judge the height of the standing log ? I understand if the answer is experience . Great content . THANKS .

[@nuts319]

It’s on the side of the stick it’s called a merit hypsometer

[@robintaylor-mockingeemill8223]

@@nuts319 Holy shit . Did you just make that up ? Those are big words . I will have to google it thanks .

[@nuts319]

@@robintaylor-mockingeemill8223 lol I I thought the same thing when I heard it for the first time to you stand 66 feet from the tree and you hold the stick up lining it up with where you would cut it without moving your I look up to where you would get good logs and that tells you The merchantable height of the tree

[@robintaylor-mockingeemill8223]

@@nuts319 If I can get a scale stick before Sunday I will give it a try . I am estimating some hard maple that I am going to cut .

[@KRanch-mc6jk]

Is this a clear-cut timber sale or just a thinning? I am forester down in Georgia, I wish I had a nickel for every tree I’ve marked in my career.... I would be rich!

[@nuts319]

Select cut

[@CarrotCaptain]

Do you ever sell logs for firewood?

[@nuts319]

Yes

[@dr.giggetywhiggety9042]

What was the price of 1150 bf of that cherry u cut , ???

[@nuts319]

I don’t remember

[@bigfootsboggybottomlodge4954]

Are you looking for work near Fredericksburg, Va.?

[@nuts319]

To far south thank you tho

[@rogervandergriff1851]

That's interesting

[@tomharrington1393]

👍👍

[@Adam-be7jq]

Hey Pete, do you ever bid on consulting sales? I’ve got a pretty large private sale coming up for bid if you’d like to get more info

[@nuts319]

I mean I can try I’m kind of a little guy where is the sale email me more info [e-mail]

[@nuts319]

Corrected email: [e-mail]

[@eddieward5232]

Where do you work out of, looking to have some timber cut

[@nuts319]

I personally work out of Western PA but I do have crews that travel

[@eddieward5232]

@@nuts319 .ok have a little over 300 acer been looking to get cut but it’s all hand cutting and skidding in southern wv little bit far for you.

[@nuts319]

@@eddieward5232 the crew I work with in wv is near the Summerville area they might be interested if your around there email me some contact info and I will forward it over they’re pretty good people. If they don’t want it I can put you in touch with some people

[@papaw5405]

I hate to see land that people have just let go. All that rotten stuff on the ground could have been somebody's firewood. Those dead standing trees the same before they got that way. The crowded places should be thinned and the vines all killed out. It does a forest no good to leave it unattended. Unless you want to leave it for 500 years to recover on it's own. People are smarter than trees (well a few are) and can help a forest recover. And make a valuable asset out of it in a short time if they would just use that thing between their ears (if they have one). OK, I off my stump! Who's next?

[@gordoncorey8023]

Bord feet?

[@nuts319]

1 board ft equals 1”x12”x12”

[@robertkennedy3632]

Hey Pete 👋

[@roybucheger4406]

Aw nuts...you messed up your math at 13:05 left out 100bf

[@robbobcat7286]

not paying much for wood i have 60 plus acres tree guy only want to give me 6600.00 for the trees its nuts

[@nuts319]

It all depends on the species that you have in the density per acre