Protecting Forest Land From Incoming Powerful Storm

[@dalebrabb4756]

Vigilance promotes diligence, grasshopper...but I am very impressed at your management priorities, you are taking care of your forest land and a fine example to others IMO.

[@colinswainson9882]

Storm = fallen trees = sawmill videos , yeah ❤

[@bigfutus]

When life gives you fallen trees, make lumber.

[@HangtownDave]

This was one of the strongest, wettest storms that I have ever encountered. Hard to really get a grip on it. Extreme everything that just kept increasing minute by minute. Massive pressure changes. So much blow down. So much timber just smashed. Roads and hillsides washed away, flooding all over, lines down everywhere. Watched some of the storm from a friends place near the top of Radar Hill on the Coos County coast looking out to the west over Coos Bay. Screaming winds. Impressive display of nature to say the least. Not something that I will soon forget. Hope all are ok.

[@WilsonForestLands]

A lot of places got hit hard but it was just a bunch of rain here. Hardly any wind.

[@robertburgess7381]

You are the absolute best at information and humor. I think you could do stand up comedy about road erosion!!

[@chir0pter]

I’ve said before he should be on TikTok if he’s not already. The zoomers would eat this up

[@SilvasSmallMining]

I bet if you sample the wash that contains the quartz, you might find gold. Gold is where you find it. The old timers never found it all. Great video! Keep up your amazing work! Take care.

[@westcoaster3763]

I get a lot of satisfaction out of draining water out of roads, which I think is good since I run a road grader... and that is the main component of road maintenence.

[@chir0pter]

2:50 that’s a nice fricken dozer

[@johnglenn30csardas]

Talk about a tradition of knowledge… it’s amazing how much there is to know and how much you do know and seem to be continuing to learn. I hope the storm doesn’t do too much “teaching.” I really like your channel. Thanks for this timely video and I hope to see a follow up. All the best.

[@eamonnmckeown6770]

Irish damn cold. Hated it.

[@saltrock9642]

Peace of mind always has a calming effect for me.

[@brianparks440]

We’ve been feeling the effects of the same storm system here in northwest Montana. So today is a good day to be indoors. Might go into the shop later and file my chains.

[@hosocat1410]

After storm cleanup---my crystal ball sees more videos in your future. 😅

[@jdhtyler]

My property walk takes 20 sec if you include coming back. Today was about pointing some of the crazy paving to stop the water eroding the soil below; I am in Wales UK The flags were put down by others about 40y ago on clay with a smattering of sand and pebbles. The worms have been bringing up the soil, causing the flags to sink a bit.

[@Lazarus-aap]

I hope to one day put all I learn from you into practice. You're a good teacher

[@c0rr4nh0rn]

It is so lucky that you have all those weights right next to your tarps... I hope everything went well.

[@janhemmer8181]

Funny to see that the same influx of polar air is happening right now on the west coast of Europe also. Snow, wind and hail everywhere!

[@smaggies]

I hope the rain will be nice, great to start with light rain. :)

[@DanDito-k8t]

Nice madrone trees

[@WilsonForestLands]

I am in the heart of Madrone country. They do very well here.

[@stevecochran9078]

Coastal Alaska is an okay place to visit and gather seafood for the year, but it's a dismal place to live.

[@Carboneye7]

Who does your media editing and posting? If you are doing all this by yourself kudos to you!

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you. I do it all myself.

[@Carboneye7]

@ yarded my first few monster oaks here in coastal Virginia using your equipment advice. Pulled them with my Silverado, 😂

[@Lad733]

We had a ton of trees down on a friends property here on the coast.spent all day yesterday in the rain cleaning it up. Burned 2 gallons of saw gas. Lots more rain to come but it hasnt been as windy the last 2 says as it was on Tuesday

[@kenbrown2808]

3 down on the road home tuesday night, but someone else cleared them before my workday was done. still time to start carrying the saw, though.

[@pamelah6431]

My initial take-away is that Oregonians and Midwesterners have very different ideas regarding tying/holding things down when a storm is coming. You tossed a small branch on top of a tarp after saying you may get 40-50 mph winds and were like, "Yep, that'll do 'er." To me, that would have qualified as something expected to blow away, not hold things down. 🙃

[@WilsonForestLands]

The heavier pieces around the edges are what is holding it down. The light weight on top just minimize the flopping in the middle. I also knew this property is not a real windy place so not likely to get wind as strong as other parts of the area.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

At least the amphibians will be happy

[@TheNeurotichi]

Storms balance the land.

[@ronsilva516]

Ya live in the mountains of north California I live wear the dixi fire burned up the forest but mostly just a steady rain just a bunch of new hype as usual 👍😎

[@Shawn-s8o]

I wish you would have been my junior high English teacher. I would have been the most edumacated kid in class. Just a suggestion on that covert take take 6 3 ft concrete still steaks to write against the galvanized pipe 1 ft deep pass the pipe set one at 3:00 9:00 and then 1:00 and 11:00 rap the square chicken wire you will have to dig a level trench around each of the steaks and making a filter to keep the leaves from going into your covert pipe. You will need some bailing wire to harness the chicken wire to the metal concrete stakes even crushing in a foot at the top and making it down so it helps with stability it's a 80% filter system from keeping the pipe from plugging up. As I saw on your video some of the old tricks is to take a old or even a plastic 50 gallon barrel dig a hole on the high side retrench your covid pipe going across the road setting it 1 ft above the bottom of the 50 gallon drum and use the chicken wire as a filter but if you're going to go that far you might as well use rebar at 5 ft length that way you're at the bottom of your barrel and 3 ft above the barrel intake . Done it it does work again it's an 80% you have to keep up keep like you are showing in your video. Nothing in life works good if you don't put elbow grease into it

[@WilsonForestLands]

I think yer speeling is just find. 😂

[@Shawn-s8o]

@WilsonForestLands no I let my smartphone do all the spelling and apparently it can't take notes like a secretary. I don't know why but sometimes I forget to proofread my smartphone spelling, grammar and accurate note-taking. All those numbers were representing a clock and I sure know I said like a clock you want to put your steaks to fortify this filtering system

[@willamettehops]

We had a lot of downed trees in the bomb cyclone. Hope you fare better.

[@wednesdar452]

Just getting to us in Central Cali. Half inch so far...

[@dimtsio9200]

Hallo sir You are doing a very good job. What is your average year precipitation over there?

[@WilsonForestLands]

Around 40 inches per year but on a good year we can get 50.

[@ElectricDanielBoone]

Snow level was lower and stayed lower than they predicted huh. I was up Kane Creek Rd doing my fuel reduction thing yesterday. I think we were at about 3500’ and there was plenty of snow and it snowed all day. Maggie (our dog) and I got soaked, but our warming fires🔥 kept the hypothermia away.

[@eamonnmckeown6770]

Any recommendations for ' wellington ' boots? Waders such as the ones you're wearing in the video.

[@pamelah6431]

My sister likes Muck brand.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I have a video coming out this week about those boots.

[@eamonnmckeown6770]

@@WilsonForestLands awesome.

[@bryanbradford2742]

We just got over 10 inches of rain in the last 48 hours over here in the redwoods in Occidental, Ca😆

[@WilsonForestLands]

Yeah, I know you got nailed with rain in California. I got about 3 inches that night.

[@devinmahoney3777]

Where you get that 4”-0? Advanced-Gold Hill?

[@WilsonForestLands]

Knife River in Gold Hill. I’ve been happy with their material.

[@jackdawg4579]

Bit premature with the gum boots! ;)

[@bard44]

They call it Typhoon on the other side of the Pond.

[@JBlow-ip7hf]

How are your big leaf maple trees doing? Our big leaf maple trees here in western washington have a blight of some kind. Soon they will all be gone.

[@WilsonForestLands]

They are doing fine here so far, but I have heard they are having problems in some areas.

[@nearlynormal2293]

At about 10:26 I saw something in the background in those yellow leaves. Do Sasquatch ever get that far south?

[@WilsonForestLands]

According to the Sasquatch people this is prime Sasquatch country and they are here. I have never seen one though. maybe because I’m always looking at the trees.

[@joeblow1934]

You had better tighten the tarp on that saw, brother.

[@WilsonForestLands]

It’s tighter than it looks.

[@kenbrown2808]

it's not the heat, it's the humidity. and this wasn't a 1 in ten years storm. this was a a few times a winter storm.

[@littlerayofsunshine69]

I ran across a snapshot of a satellite image I took from September last year of the same type of "once in ten years" storm as this one hovering off the coast off Washington. Short memories are becoming a pandemic. Either that or news stations love pushing fear. Probably both.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Seattle might view that differently. they got hit hard, but it ended up being just a normal storm here.

[@kenbrown2808]

@WilsonForestLands yeah, my road only had three trees come down.

[@hobbyfarmer62]

Snapped off a large cedar by my house got electrician due out tomorrow to make repairs

[@magunco]

rock for road top it is better to use round rock verse brocken it binds better with the native soil

[@WilsonForestLands]

Opinions on that seem to be different in different areas. Around here the standard is to use crushed with fines. The fines help lock the pieces together. In this soil round rock eventually gets pushed down into the soil and disappears. I think it depends on soil.

[@mtsarch]

It's called vegimitation. They use it down in Australia to make some kind of fermented sandwich spread.

[@OutbackCottageOz]

Vegemite.

[@scottperine8027]

Your attempt at humor is insipid,I think that you’re late for home room school boy.

[@magunco]

do you have enough maple trees to make syrup ?

[@WilsonForestLands]

I don’t know because I don’t know how many it takes. I don’t have a lot of them and it’s not that common to make syrup out of our West Coast maple. I have heard it can be done with big leaf maple, but takes a lot more sap to get the syrup.

[@darrenhutchinson5435]

Mate you need to go to VAGAS , for one day or fun

[@littlerayofsunshine69]

I've been to vegas. Nothing fun about it.

[@OutbackCottageOz]

Yogi & Boo 🐻🐨 say "Get your Hard Hat on!!" ⛑️ ⛏️🧸

[@allenandmain]

Batten down

[@Gordon_L]

The forecasts I've seen show the low pressure system rapidly losing its strength , hopefully the land will get a nice drink without any serious flooding and not too much wind .

[@WilsonForestLands]

Some places got hit really hard, but we got just what you described. Just a nice drink and little wind.

[@Gordon_L]

@@WilsonForestLands That's great Michael , I'm happy for you , nature has smiled 👍

[@HubertofLiege]

IT’S A BOMB CYCLONE!!!

[@kenbrown2808]

only to the trendy people. us old timers still call it "pineapple express"

[@wickedpete6873]

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

Vaushing away? better protect your horses

[@u92element4]

stay viligant of vegigitation!

[@DanDito-k8t]

Fresh road kill

[@efo1358]

I never got the Pinapple Express from the Rain Storms In California. But I’m still wondering if Pineapples actually come here in the BayArea? 🤔🦆😂❤️💪🫡

[@WilsonForestLands]

We get the pineapple express up here, but I have looked around afterward, and I have never seen a single pineapple. It’s disappointing, because I really like pineapple.