Simple Inexpensive Log & Firewood Harvesting System

[@chaswarren7239]

Love your dry humour & the way you tell armchair commenters that they really don't have a better view of things than you do after many years & being on the spot !

[@Chiller11]

It did my heart good to see that log roll off the trailer. Thanks for not editing that out.

[@blacklabflies]

I love your videos and sense of humor

[@MicahHughes-zv5zx]

The Geico caveman would be offended by the video title. Speaking of commercials, when Tom Bodett retires as the spokesman for Motel 6, think you would be a great replacement- “ We’ll leave the light on for you”😁

[@DanielAtkinsFirewood]

Haha. Good one today 🤣

[@WilsonForestLands]

You are not the first to tell me that. 😁

[@gunterbecker8528]

With u sense of humour you'll never get bored 😊😊 . Anyway having some land or forests for that matter will always occupy ones mind . I love being out in nature it soothes the soul ! Take care out there Wilson !

[@lpeterman]

Indeed, one should always position oneself on the "get out" side! Another video treatise on winching and a diplomatic way to tell the Wise-Guys to mind their business. Well done. Cheers from your neighbour to the North.

[@WilsonForestLands]

You turned that into a more quotable quote, “one should always position oneself on the get out side”.

[@garysnyder6020]

Had me laughing early this morning, thanks !

[@samb7652]

LMAO when log rolls off trailer... every damn time would have been my curse words...you rock dude!

[@WilsonForestLands]

That was several days ago so I don’t remember what my curse words were that time. 😁

[@grandy0406]

Love the way you critique your “know it all commentators “. I really like your common sense procedures and wry self deprecating humor. Great job. Keep the videos coming.👍🇺🇸

[@teacherhaggis6945]

I love this bloke. He "wood" be fun to have a beer with.

[@mgdubya27]

Your land looks really well managed.

[@mikecook2714]

Love your sense of humor!

[@lucasdog1]

I think I need to learn editing and get me one of those time lapse cameras. It must be great to get a whole days work done in just a quarter hour!

[@christurner1427]

What a nice easy going bloke. Speaks the truth that we all have to deal with. I would work with this chap any day without pay just to learn from his/your experience....... A very gentle, sympathetic way to approach and manage woodland, great karma.

[@michaelsinclair8279]

Thanks

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you, that was generous, I appreciate that.

[@michaelsinclair8279]

@@WilsonForestLands not at all, you deserve a beer or two!

[@LANDSCAPING-jt2bs]

more firewood videos pls

[@timothy8742]

Self relaesing snatch block pretty cool, thought I'd have one till I priced it. O well guess I'll continue to rehookand drag. Appreciate your humor.

[@samb7652]

Awesome break away block...too cool!

[@FarmBossSaws]

I am humbled that you clean the woods so well! I guess it is because of fire hazard. Here in northern Ontario, our forests are more verdant and I guess we have less fire hazard, I have to admit that I usually leave the tops and many fallen trees to rot out. Thanks for the video, and I'd like to get one of those self releasing pulleys for my Fransgard tractor winch.

[@micksoden7064]

What a woodsman.. genius.

[@ericconner9971]

I always heard that if you found a flat stump in the woods, the feller was ashamed of his hinge.

[@Dustin_the_wind]

Good eye, Wilson. Nice cuts.

[@geezerindawoods]

simple and cheap makes good exercise. Good exercise makes for longer/Happier life!!

[@mikecook2714]

You a funny man, Thanks from NW Montana!

[@edwinlikeshistractor8521]

Your editing really helped tell your story today. The shorter scene time was great for moving your story along. Also enjoyed the end of video philosophy. Cut a cord of Doug fir just before watching. I still smelled sappy, so it felt like a multimedia experience. Thank you.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I appreciate the feedback. I prefer watching videos that move along faster. Speaking of fir sap. I had a load of clothes that went through the laundry with a shirt that had hardened grand fir sap I hadn’t used since last summer. Best smelling load of laundry ever.

[@cris_m8]

13:55 Words to live by!

[@mcsawmill]

You have some awesome softwoods! We don't have anything like that in Ohio.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Here we watch eastern US videos and think you all have awesome hardwoods that we don’t have. 😁

[@ElectricDanielBoone]

Good stuff, as always Mr. Wilson. Gotta make sure there’s nothing in that root hole ya want before slamming the lid on it huh! Maybe that’s where Jimmy Hoffa ended up too. Jeez😮

[@WilsonForestLands]

Yeah you never know how many people ended up in root holes.

[@Rowan-qs4hs]

This guy is just pretty darn funny!

[@tylerehrlich1471]

Inspiring! And I love the humor!

[@waynejordan5825]

Wilson do you have any vids of making the forks for your loader? or maybe some close up photo's of it. I am interested in making forks similar to yous for my tractor and loader. I enjoy your videos and appreciate your knowledge.

[@HarrisT]

Also am interested in this… need forks

[@tmccusk1]

I learn something on all of your videos. Why not buck the logs into firewood back at where you’re going to split it? Just seems like it may save some time. Thanks again for all of your videos!! I’m not telling you what to do 😂

[@WilsonForestLands]

Mostly because most of the logs are a bunch of small logs in not the most convenient locations and positions to load with the tractor I have. If I did more than just a few cords per year it might make sense get set up with a better loader to do that. It would definitely save some labor.

[@HardRockVermont]

Great job 👍

[@VicsYard]

Good stuff man!

[@Михаил-м8з2х]

Интересно вас смотреть и слушать! Отличная работа вышла!

[@denniswilhelm1316]

Our property is very similar to yours, once not near as large. Where is the balance on cleaning/burning slash and leaving some on ground for habitat…turkeys…grouse…whitetail…etc.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Hard to know what the real balance is. A lot of what you see on video is in the places I have been working lately, which are places I am trying to clean up more than a lot of other places. Since I have had this channel I’ve been working in areas where the Douglas fir are dying, which happens to be places I want to convert to more of an open area. Outside of those areas, most places on the property I would be likely to leave the slash. But make sure it’s low enough to the ground it isn’t a huge fire hazard. I figure I can get away with creating more open space on my property, since most of the surrounding properties are mostly overgrown thick and brushy.

[@terryk3118]

Thanks for another fun-to-watch video. I'm new to the self-releasing snatch block and am rarely as successful as you at getting them to release reliably. Is there some science as to whether you position the trigger on the top or bottom?

[@flintknappingtools]

Still patiently waiting for the squatch stories!

[@WilsonForestLands]

I haven’t forgot. Been busy getting some work done before fire season.

[@flintknappingtools]

@@WilsonForestLands yes, be safe! And God bless!

[@DanielAtkinsFirewood]

Guess with a forest and uprooted stumps, you could put all kinds of stuff there and forget about it.😂

[@WilsonForestLands]

Yeah who knows how many things people have forgot about or lost under uprooted stumps. Maybe a good place to dig for hidden treasure.

[@johnvelas70]

Did youn's ever see a PA "slash cut"?

[@edwardenglish6919]

How do you find properties to purchase and what do you do with them after you are finished.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I haven’t been looking for properties. I bought what I have over 30 years ago when Forest land was less expensive than it is now. I was just at the right place at the right time. The latest one I bought when some family decided to sell a piece. I have just been hanging onto them and managing them. Maybe someday if I get too old to want them anymore I can sell them as retirement.

[@edwardenglish6919]

@@WilsonForestLands Thanks. You are living the dream of many of us.

[@ironmule]

When you worked with your dad and family in the woods did you haul the logs to a commercial mill? Do people cut pulpwood there or use the tops for something?

[@WilsonForestLands]

When I was a kid my dad had a logging business. They would bid on timber sales and sell logs to commercial mills. When that started getting more difficult to do he got into a smaller time operation cutting firewood and selling some saw logs. We don’t have the pulpwood situation that the eastern US has where people harvest specifically for pulp. Most of the pulpwood that I know of here comes from byproducts from the lumber and plywood industry. I remember one time when pulp prices were high enough my dad was going after large cull logs previous loggers left in the woods to send to the pulp mill. But that was a short lived thing.

[@dustytrails1211]

Is that red thing a breakaway snatch block?

[@WilsonForestLands]

It is. They are a little spendy but very handy when I need it.

[@HubertofLiege]

Angled back cut or the tree leaned back and changed your mind

[@hobbyfarmer62]

That area was syre a mess, you got lucky with the hole closing up when you cut the tree. I have one thewas caused by a clump of cedars that blew overshot didn't go shut when cut assume it is because it is on the edge of a swamp.

[@WilsonForestLands]

When I was cutting that stump off I was thinking there was going to be a 50-50 chance it was going to fall over. Sometimes they get some rain on them and the dirt settles around them and they don’t want to go over.

[@pettere8429]

Is this at the sawmill property or the other one? Is it possible to get just another bed for the mill and just transport the head between properties? It would save you the hassle of moving between them without spending the money on another complete sawmill.

[@WilsonForestLands]

This is the sawmill property. I probably won’t make it to the coast until July or August when we get into summer heat and high fire danger. I have thought about ways like that to get a sawmill there. There is the challenge of how to move the sawhead and place it on the rails without the tractor there. It would take more than a couple of people to move it by hand. Most of it comes down to I’m not super motivated to have the lumber there to begin with. There hasn’t been much demand for fir lumber there in the current market. The other factor now is there are only so many things I can do on top of running a KZbin channel.

[@pettere8429]

If you balance a saw log on a big firewood round, do you get a seesaw log then? (Written with my feverish toddler sleeping in my chest so I can do all the dad jokes I want.)

[@WilsonForestLands]

Nicely done 😂. Child on the chest or not, dad jokes are welcome here.

[@joeblow1934]

I see you working in the woods and think somehow that I might have missed my true calling.

[@nate-408]

And just like that you've killed your camera guy....😂

[@scottperine8027]

Looking good Mr.Wilson,now let’s get sawing some of your dry irreplaceable humor into more fun!!!

[@meirionevans5137]

That angled back-cut was definitely caveman style.....Ug.

[@LostCaper]

Did you say bad words when the log rolled off the trailer. I usually do.haha part of logging I guess.

[@Ruger41mag]

You know what you ought to do? ..... I figured you "wood" already know ...... ha ha

[@Morbius1963]

A friend helps you move house. A good friend helps you move and conceal the body.

[@mrMacGoover]

Sorry....I laughed when the log rolled off the trailer, it seems like your trailer could use removable log stops as well.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I had my removable log stops on the trailer. The problem is I only put them on one side that day. Note to self, put the log stops on the downhill side, not the uphill side.

[@janistan]

At last: good riddance of that weird stump you made last year. Now it's hidden forever!

[@PaulMarinoni]

Looks like after cutting all those rounds for firewood someone has a lot of back breaking work to do. I have a better way.

[@awldune]

You can never have too many places to hide your secret shame

[@ponchotran9004]

Hiding evidence in the forest ! Ha ha !

[@Smokey66s]

Would you go as far to say logging is so easy a politician could do it?