Replanting Australia's Burned Forests with Bulldozers!

[@MaxEvans-cz2no]

It has never occurred to me that heavy machinery and its use cases could be so interesting but you make it so. You approach these videos with a lighthearted, optimistic attitude which is awesome.

[@AaronWitt]

thanks for giving it a look!

[@rodneygillespie9212]

Yeah mate there is no cure for stupidity witch leads to wild fires.

[@garybarelli679]

Spell check you guys,jeez!!!😢😢

[@damienwalker1026]

The dozer operator giving the machine overview, knows his stuff. Give him a channel, spoke very well for an Aussie tradie.

[@brettwalkom948]

What's that supposed to mean "for a Aussie tradie"

[@bosmobramer]

@@brettwalkom948 aussie tradies are dumb. come on now

[@MichaelStokes-u8v]

Trent is a bit more involved with Forestrack than maybe you realise.

[@TimHollis3006]

And made Aaron feel like a small little weak ass boy! You could tell that intimidation factor was as thick as fog

[@Nathankraml]

21 mins of Aaron! Thank you for showing the world HD equipment and what actually makes our world work. People just think stuff ends up in stores and buildings pop up.

[@AaronWitt]

thanks for watching!!

[@Buddy89538]

Aussies don’t muck around. Big machines and a professional operator to explain the process

[@kdegraa]

Lots of Aussie landowners do not have reliable and appropriate machinery. A lot of land is going back to bush because the owner cannot stop nature.

[@Buddy89538]

@@kdegraa okayy. That’s got absolutely nothing to do with my comment but sure.

[@peterellem849]

Good to see big improvements in machine and operator safety.Hats off!!!

[@repitatl]

Yes the redneck British are great!

[@TBird89]

Aza thanks for coming back down under and open our eyes to what really happens. Those blokes working remotely and isolated at times wouldn’t be easy. ✌️

[@heatherfraserdaley460]

I like how Aaron says “OK” like he didn’t get a word of that tour of the dozer.

[@AaronWitt]

I don't get many words of anything

[@Rel1369]

I have been watching many construction type videos now and I actually understood some of what that guy said. Not bad for a 60yr old Australian woman that has never even sat in a piece of this type of equipment (though I would have enjoyed to learn when younger). Also it's nice you're enjoying seeing some Aussie operations, though Canberra is the asshole of Australia (funny it's where the pollies work).

[@surlyogre1476]

That "stick rake" is called a "root rake" here in the USA... fwiw.

[@jonh9561]

@@surlyogre1476 OK, so what do you guys call something that is designed to rake up sticks (post felling and processing work)?

[@surlyogre1476]

@@jonh9561 It's still a "root rake" .😃

[@pete7971]

The video goes by quickly. Somehow it is always interesting and I learn a lot. Great job!!😮

[@crfhoon]

Working in New South Wales. Main portion of video taken around Tumut NSW

[@TerminusCodex]

I am new to this channel and have only seen a few videos but the quality is top level! This is the best channel I've come acrossed that covers this sort of content, very thorough, very professional, and very enjoyable! Thanks for the work you do and for sharing it with us!

[@WilsonWilson-lb1wi]

Really?

[@realtalkz3930]

The problem is when you plant let's say 100,000 trees of the same species when they are fully grown nothing lives in it, it's just a perfectly spaced out tree farm for lumber and doesn't help build back habitat from the 2019-20 Black Summer you need variety to recreate a natural Forest

[@navaho5430]

Yep i have ridden dirt bikes for years through pine forests and the ground is dead cheers.

[@020Dutchy]

They don’t want a forest, just a nice row of trees

[@Seymp]

The purpose is not regeneration, it a tree farm. What was burned was a tree farm, they are just replacing like for like. I think they are allowed to do three cycles then it has to be returned to native forest when they are done with the land.

[@rodneyallancole3782]

And they will harvest them !

[@homoflexual886]

Canada has had that problem for decades

[@Freedom_Half_Off]

Enjoyed seeing how the machines were modified to fit the particular way they want to use them for this job 👍

[@UncleManuel]

Crikey mate, those are noice machines! 🤘🤘

[@jascollinscork]

Great insight to getting back the Forrest Aaron 👏🏻👏🏻 the custom machinery were sooo cool but I wouldn’t be aroused about them on camera like you though 😂😂😂 and the plaster 🩹 on windows….. neat hack BUT wouldn’t have laughed at that 😬

[@justinferrill8583]

That D8 is giving me KILLDOZER vibes

[@Eisenwolf.de1]

😂😂😂

[@mcspikesky]

Komatsu baby

[@surlyogre1476]

Hmmm... you should see what the Israeli Army is doing with D11s. They refer to them as "Teddy Bears", but you don't want to make one angry.

[@Neo7CNC]

Very smart and impressive modifications to the equipment.

[@trucker9491]

John Deere green star gps has a Terain compensation module that accounts for roll to keep All lines evenly spaced it’s heavily used here to plant the hilly contours

[@louisianna01]

I wasn’t going to watch this but decided to, to waste time before work. I’m very glad I have watched this, I just went to farmfest and saw rippers for dozers didn’t really understand them but now I do. Thank you for the video

[@knowntalker135]

I like the band-aids on the lexan

[@markbickelhaupt4414]

Aaron, Another informative video. Cat & the customer know what is needed, & what works! Always enjoy custom made equipment that gets the job done! The Aussies definitely know land clearing! Their dozers are in a class, all by theirself! Another continent visited,🇦🇺, Cat Tough!!!🟨⬛💪👍🪵🌲

[@KeikoMushi]

Note that a lot of gum trees are germinated through chemicals typically released during bushfires. Pine trees commonly grown in forestry do not.

[@-PORK-CHOP-]

Fire is an integral part of Australian Native Gums, it's how they germinate, the Traditional Land Owners knew this thousands of years ago, they would burn the bush periodically to keep the scrub down and keep the new trees growing.

[@einfelder8262]

You said at the beginning that native trees don't burn like the pines, but correction - the oil in eucalypts burns, vaporises, and explodes as the fire roars through.

[@einfelder8262]

@@Hick25 Pines burn well, but nothing like eucalypts. We in Australia know this. Refer the CSIRO study which has data on Dry and Wet Eucalypts and also pine plantations.

[@einfelder8262]

@@Hick25 Then check out the 2019/2020 videos of the Australian bushfires. Educate yourself - did you look at the CSIRO paper? No, you ain't that interested in learning.

[@markhoban2696]

Maybe different weather conditions cause different species of timber to burn hotter and faster on the day

[@einfelder8262]

@@markhoban2696 Australian eucalypt fires create their own cyclonic weather fronts as the fire roars through the canopy. This front creates high winds and drops burning embers ahead of it, so the extremely hot winds fan the embers and ignite the forest floor ahead of the front. Very dangerous to be in the path of one of these fires, even 10 miles in front is not safe.

[@markhoban2696]

I know how they.burn I live victoria . Australia on the edge of a state firest what I trying to say if the conditions are extreme ie wind and.temp there not much to worry about

[@Dennismelnychuk]

My father started a land clearing and road building company in Canada after her got back from WWll. He tried the big chain, we tried the roller with blades sticking a foot out. I worked for a company that has decades no 3 generations of brush clearing in Canada, I ran a D8T LGP with a K/G blade for a couple winters. They also had D6T, D7R & H LGP with beales and Rome rakes on them to clear a strip 66M wide and over 1000 kms long for a powerline threw some of the most remote virgin rough land in the Canadian sheild. Things that work here don't work down under, Mexico or in the rain forest.

[@blueman5924]

I would like to see the mega shredder that they’re using to mulch those slash rows. Sure hope it’s not getting burned ! So much good fibre to reintroduce to the terrain.

[@Seymp]

Burning for farming is not legal here. The risk of starting a larger bush fire is too high, and locals get shitty about the smoke. We deal with it so much all summer, we don’t need any more. I’m pretty sure it’s not shredded, I think it’s left in windrows and goes back into the soil over time.

[@guyneeser2029]

Thank you as always MR WITT. What a Awesome D9 cat. Nice for scale of this SHOT.......😮

[@ryanwilliams2926]

id live to see your thoughts on the nz forestry

[@YarickZan]

Seems to me like they could use a good old Le Tourneau Tree Crusher instead of a roller for getting the leftovers cleared.

[@RRCCONSTRUCTIONMININGREC-tl8yf]

Awesome thanks Aron have a great day.😊😊👍👍🚜🚜🚛🚚🚧🚧🚧🌴🌴🌳🌲🌲🌲🌲🪴🪴🪴

[@BlightStorm]

So much efficiency and well planned engineering going on but no one mentions anything about the impacts with large monoculture forestry systemes on the land.

[@taylorschils1694]

I would like to visit Australia one day. Love your Australia videos including the mining one you have.

[@glennbrown1961]

It's a bloody big place mate. You won't see it all in a year! Don't forget Tasmania!

[@jimsvideos7201]

Good on you for making the trip.

[@norcanexs.g.llc.4625]

Scarifying was what they called it in the Boreal forest of northern Alberta, in winter as soon as the trees were out about ten caterpillar would go to work prepping the land for replant that would start six month later. I was there in the 1980s and 90s, its most likely different now.

[@strangefruit8776]

The beating of running over stumps all day on a dozer would suck.

[@jpwillm5252]

Très bon reportage, bien que je ne sais pas si cette culture intensive soit une bonne solution. ** Very good report, although I don't know if this intensive cultivation is a good solution.

[@FourrierTransform]

Do they not have rocks in Australia? I've been planting in Canada and cream like that is pretty rare

[@raclark2730]

That's just that spot, ive been planting in rocks for years. its surprising what grows.

[@tacitdionysus3220]

Yeah, I thought that too. Plenty of rocks in forests elsewhere in the state.

[@murdomcdonald9670]

Good video, i seriously think it would be cool if you guys would do some cut to length logging videos

[@DenisHennessy-i5m]

Excellent content 💯

[@halkesracing]

that drum doesnt seem very effective on larger things, it went up and over that stump at 18:65 instead of crushing it

[@brianbassettnumber1]

Are they replanting with fireproof trees?

[@Everythingisgoingtobealright]

That roller doesn’t look like it’s doing much, obviously it is. It would be interesting to see a close up of the ground before and afterwards.

[@einfelder8262]

I thought that too, I would have expected a giant mulcher instead.

[@thomaspinkstone7707]

That roller weighes about 40ton

[@AaronWitt]

looking at it up close it made a huge difference

[@andrewbarr1017]

It makes a huge difference if you happen to be the poor sod with a shovel and a knapsack of seedlings trying to re-plant! It also does a great job of slowing down water that often hits in big downpours in Australia. The rain catches in the cuts made by the lades and gives the water time to seep in and hydrate the land.

[@squishyhippie4059]

Love the band-aids. Sometimes low tech is the best tech :-)

[@mrMacGoover]

Why not plant Paloma and hybrid poplar?

[@trevorstewart8]

No cash return on those. This is all paid for by investors and they want to get something for their money.

[@dougbeckinsale3844]

Literally 4x4 up the hill in the first shot a month ago. Love to see Blowering Dam!

[@noonespecial9840]

Good video but sooo many details missed. I get it, this is not a details channel but would like to see longer videos with more details since i know they were shot. I am probably an outsider but I'm totally ok with a longer video if it contains more details regardless of what the algorithm says.

[@DavidSellars-b8l]

Maybe someone can make a video of the rest of the story.....the nursery production of seedlings and planting same in the units. I really question trying to work all the debris into the ground. First is carbon/nitrogen ratio as nitrogen needed by the seedlings is taken up by soil organisms working to break down the carbon. Second is there is still sufficient debris to carry a ground fire and destroy the plantation.

[@infernoking7504]

Yeah thats the problem with putting trees that werent ment to be there native life is made for therr boime at least for most

[@tacitdionysus3220]

Yeah, a lot of people 'privilege' some life forms over others. 'Go spend a night camped in a pine forest (many of them are open for that). It's not native to the area, just like most people's gardens, but there are certainly other things living there, some of it indigenous, some of it feral; and there is plenty of it. In addition there are usually bands of native vegetation along creek lines usually separated from the pine by access trails on both sides. The area is often rocky and not particularly fertile, but suited to timber. As it grows it sequesters carbon from the atmosphere which is retained in the end products.

[@bdrenfro]

Wow, I didn't know bulldozers grow if you plant them! Not sure how that's gonna help the forest, though.

[@OfficialSamuelC]

Longer vid, woo!

[@AaronWitt]

the people demanded and we listened finally

[@guyneeser2029]

Mu Big brother ran the D9 When we worked construction together, rest HIS sole if he has one!!.

[@gracecollins8415]

Best thing reforesters could do is not plant plantation trees or eucalypt and start establishing the subtropical mixed forests that existed before Aboriginal settlement and the introduction of land clearance through fire that enabled the fast growing, shallow rooted eucalypt varieties to dominate.

[@matt45540]

They don't like that environmentalism talk over here. We should just be thankful to wipe our asses😂

[@manifold1476]

1:50 That's not a "cylinder". Cylinders are hollow. That's a ROD.

[@rensspanjaard]

doing the same thing that causing this issue, of soil degradation, plantation fire (there not forests) set you up for the same issues, could call this stupid

[@rushhookhornadventures20]

2:05 what is that sound?? Is that you saying uh huh in your breath?

[@richardwilliams1334]

I'm ex NZFS. Lots of easy country over there. Had I been 30 years younger that's where I'd be of too right now. No gold in that area, be easy to hook some kind of detector to that bullie as it covered the ground.

[@CRAIGKMSBISMARCKTIRPITZ533]

Canberra Is My Home State & Birth Place 😃. How Did You Like Canberra 🤔

[@uberorange2116]

they shoulda stuck y'all in one of those death pencils they had 🤣

[@Curtis-ev3tz]

Can make some easy money with the rolling coulter install to the ripper shanks.

[@robertdinicola9225]

Just a few more plates and ya got "KILLDOZER"!🎉🎉🎉

[@paulwatson6013]

Yeah shit coming in at you thru the glass aint fun! Reversable fan - got one on my machine, really handy to blow the shit back out. Round here it's the dust in summer.

[@clarkloewen1234]

Washbay/paint booth is best idea yet.

[@denniszablon5710]

Hello Aaron I like your content. Please enquire for me if FORESTRACK have job vacancies. I am a plant technician living in kenya but I have over 9 years experience in the field. Tia

[@adameccleston4002]

This is a pine tree farm

[@orrymaddocks6491]

Was in Australia the year of the fires i couldn't understand why they didn't create fire breaks from the road sides, make access to fire areas safer for crews.

[@---l---]

14:38 Fantastic custom work

[@Bernie5172]

a great shame that they havent replaced the pines with eucalypts

[@trevorstewart8]

Eucalypts are good for fine letter papers which is specialized small market, but not bulk uses such as framing timber and ply panels etc where the money is.

[@RandomAussie2033]

June July is the winter

[@RayT-f1d]

so its not reforestation your planting a plantation .that's if I understand correctly

[@stuartcarter3649]

Excellent, great time to put in a wind farm, cleared forests, maybe solar panels. YEA 👍

[@philwhipple4557]

How can I get a Australian accent?

[@mfrsr]

every time i watch each new vid i come away feeling like the reason Aaron's able to be so successful in doing this despite being so utterly clueless about specfics (ie: whats this part? what does it do? whats something that doesnt sound like its ripped straight from a sales brochure... ) of anything that isnt a yellow dozer, scraper or haul truck can only be down to fan-girling out on CAT's dime while they get the ad exposure. don't get me wrong its not a criticism, im kinda jealous to be honest. good on him for developing a business model that works. and the longer format is so much better imo. but all the same its just so damn frustrating to see how oblivious he is towards the knowledge & skills that the folks he interviews are decent enough share so freely. They deserve better, dont they?

[@AaronWitt]

lol Cat's never paid me a dime for this stuff

[@mfrsr]

@@AaronWitt you've gotta be shittin' me? really?

[@philjackson1722]

You must be a little slow. The reason for the whole thing is for us to know what these things do or what this thing does.

[@glennbrown1961]

Thats just a bandaid fix mate!

[@crabgundy]

2:03 caveman learning about fire

[@odenttraipser5833]

Actually, it is a snapped ram, not cylinder 🙂

[@jenniferrobinson4277]

You don't need to replant Aussie forests after fire. They regenerate even if they're a stump. Very hard to kill.

[@matt45540]

That's the problem these aren't Aussie forests. They're non-native trees

[@bmw1894]

Not much modification required to make Granby quake in their boots!

[@George-rw8ej]

As soon as you said June was Australias summer I lost interest as you haven’t researched the subject properly.

[@WilsonWilson-lb1wi]

I am disgusted to see areas where 65% of the cattle die from dehydration and starvation in country as massive as australia. I have kept it with a small "a" for a reason.

[@CeceliaGilbert-f4e]

Band Aid We Call That Shade Tree./ Home Made..

[@betes1]

can you color grade and remove the white lining from vid please

[@josephmccorkel7021]

Who burned the forest

[@vincentgrinn2665]

its abit surprising they took 5 years to start replanting a tree farm, i mean theyre financially incentivized to do it faster if it was a native forest of trees that needed replanting because they arent fire germinating it would have made sense to wait so long, because why would they spend time on that if it doesnt make money

[@anthonyj7989]

You do know that the ground has to be cleared and the pine seedlings have to be grown. Only about 40 million seedlings have to be planted and I am certain that all this would take more that one year.

[@crfhoon]

This area was burnt in 2019/2020, most if it wasn't logged until late 2020/21, even into 2022. Then you need time to clear it again and regrow the seedlings to plant again, there simply wasn't enough machines to log it and clear it again, or seedlings to replant the area that was burnt at once

[@watchthe1369]

The Plating is to keep the Emu's out!

[@tadolph82]

Plantation, not a forest. Big difference.

[@jamesmatheson5115]

Thy were planting Pine but then they started planting Blue Gum.

[@StubbyPhillips]

14:55 Perspective is a funny thing.

[@elcorconstruction]

This is awesome, keep up the great work Aaron! 🦾

[@TimHollis3006]

Didn’t need to go to Australia to see a drum chopper…go to any Southern timberland & you’ll find them

[@aleksanderkuncwicz7277]

You need canels like the middle east in Australia.

[@matt45540]

So you're not saving a forest, You're planting one that got destroyed because it shouldn't have been there in the first place.

[@AaronWitt]

bro you better use a bidet because if you use toilet paper you outta shush

[@MaxEvans-cz2no]

@@AaronWitt 🤣

[@RamminRanch]

Matt. You must think this comment section is full of cocks because your mouth is moving.

[@calebz1448]

​@AaronWitt while I partially agree with him my issue is when people complain about forest fires when they choose to live in said unnatural forests. I doubt there's much of that California nonsense in Australia so rock on with some cool equipment man!

[@calebz1448]

​@@AaronWitt mind mentioning to KZbin that I can't tag in over 1 sentence?

[@kdegraa]

June and July will be the winter.

[@Sepp440]

Only Pine? Monocultures never work out in the long run especially now with the Climate doing what it wants.

[@timfagan816]

That drum on the back of the d8 wasn't doing shit.😂 what a waste of fuel dragging that around. It should have a hydraulic power source or something on it, so it spins just slightly faster than the dozer is traveling. So the grousers actually tear and rip into the ground. Destroying the surface and breaking the sticks and stumps because it's fighting the weight of the dozer. All it was doing was leaving lines. Absolute joke.😂😂😂

[@Pvosinc]

buddy's blowing hot air - it's known as FOPS Falling Object Protection System- it's the same as mining -- nothing to do with forestry gear ..

[@KRM_2010]

a band-aid solution

[@duaneayers6117]

Heavy D has nothing on this shop / fabricators.

[@anthonyjohnson100]

Wish the U.S. forest service would do this to our burnt forests. Letting it sit there is a disgrace

[@DazBochiz]

This is not a natural forest/bush in australia - this is a non - native tree plantation for future logging - our natrual forests are left to self-regenerate because (in most cases) that is what they do best with out our help

[@267BISMARK]

TREES like carbon.

[@matt45540]

Yes but there can be too much. You like water but you can drink too much of that

[@salttea8926]

Corbon Dioxide...

[@matt45540]

​@@salttea8926exactly not monoxide, Sulfur, or any of the other fun things that come out of an exhaust

[@roberthumberston8803]

ahhh palmetto chopper

[@matt45540]

Replanting the same monoculture will lead to the same issue. Here's a great video from those darn Europeans kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWq4oaWAjbiJicksi=hlg6U7ebtzxo8ZU9 Bugs, water issues, non-native plants that aren't designed for the climate. It's a lot like people growing crops out west in the desert that need a ton of water. Maybe don't.

[@netrabantawa3439]

Shocking 😢

[@Xerdoz]

Not really forests. Those are just tree farms.

[@tomlorenzen4062]

No kidding, that's exactly what he said.