FAT AND ELABORATE COTTONWOOD FELL!!! One of the broadest canopies I've ever felled.
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2022
- Sending a big one with Hamm's Arborcare. Using 2 GRCSs, some wedges, a Husqvarna 572 with a 28" bar and lots of love.
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Gotta say, living in the Northeast US it is nice to finally see you dealing with trees more like the crap I'm used to. All those bone straight, butter soft fir trees in the PNW don't have much in common with something like a 1/2 frozen, sprawling red oak that's "only" 75 feet high... but also 75 feet wide.
Or the 75' high 60' wide 51' diameter white pine 20' from my house that I'm working on piecing down. Even our norway spruce and white spruce look alien compared to 90% of the stuff on youtube. SE Minnesota here.
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Close but it was Cottonwood not really known for its hardness.
My old house, 75 ft red oak with a 40" trunk 😆 massive
I prefer the evergreens
This was perfect! This is HOW to do it - slow, incremental, steady, cautious, and finally success! This is the antithesis to the tree-falling-fail videos so common on YT. Thanks for posting this. Very informational and a wonderful example of how to do it correctly. I would have used a heavier hammer for the wedges but that's just me. Also, another excellent example of how to tackle a trunk with a short (relatively-speaking) bar - get half the wedge out to see exactly where you are at. A perfect tutorial.
Hey thanks JP!
Cottonwood! I remember going to the woods, on the banks of Missoure River in Missouri. I was 4 or 5. My dad and uncle would cut gigantic Cottonwoods. Grandpa would show up with his team of horses to skid them out. My dad would build a fire to keep me warm and have me back out of the way. The trees were taken to a saw mill at some point and cut into lumber. Cottonwood was cheap but good lumber. It had a stringy texture. The secret to Cottonwood lumber is to always keep it dry. It will last forever. But, keep it dry! Then you usually had seed where you stacked the lumber. Cut it down! Seems like they draw lightning. Thanks Kevin. Another memory I hadn't thought of in a long time.
One other thing. The trees were so large they used a 2 man saw. Don't remember brand name, but it was red. Good old days. Maybe you should cut 1 for saw log, then someone skid out with horses. An interesting experience.
Sitting down with my first cup of coffee on my day off, watching you guys wrestle this beast. A good start!
Thanks for showing me how to dress up a running bowline, I will be doing that from now on. Nice work.
It’s easy and it gets the tail out of the way.
The banter between the 2 of you is so funny! I never knew felling trees could be so fun to watch!
Great to see you run though exactly what you are doing even the basics to help everyone out! Amazing work 🇦🇺
Great vid 👌 so I wouldn't go for dinner on Friday and if we never see another video will know Y 👍 great felling 🤪
That'll make a nice stack of fire wood, especially with all that white stuff around and abouts. For one minute I was thinking that worst was going to happen, as I have seen befor . Even with a crane cable tugging, this Eucalyptus just rested back on itself and flattened an un-occupied sunday school hall. Trees are nice most of the time, they give you shade, they break the winds. However when you want them down when they're not ready they can be very argumentative.
Love watching your videos brother. I live in northwest Michigan right across the lake from you guys. Are you making a U.S. tour? If so come on over. Van's Tree Service. 🌳 I'm 33 yrs. into my tree cutting journey. I'm so glad to see some professional young Tree guys. Alot of fly by nighters over here. Stay safe.
Loved the Leatherface dance while you cut those vines loose..Epic!
That was a good show guys, thanks.
Fun to see you hacking away at tree like we often deal with here in the river breaks of South Dakota. Have never had a bowline come loose but I can sure appreciate the addition of the yosemite and will use it in the future. Thanks guys for sharing
I’ve never had one come out either, it take repeated on and off side loading, but it’s so easy to finish once you decide to. Thanks for watching and commenting it all helps the channel.
I got some massive secondary oak removals that need to be climbed and rigged all the way down. I love watching you work in Wisconsin. Makes me more confident in the way I do things. Much love jacob work safe brother.
Good job guys. Y'all take care and be careful out there and have a blessed day and I'll see you on your next video.
If you are working in my yard, I want the slow and careful method! Well done, Jacob.
Yeahhh!! You did it!
Nice job. Thanks for the video and stay safe.
I never had a husky saw in my life until about 2 months ago I bought one off of walkers Saw shop that is walkerized that thing rips I have a bunch of other saws from the West Coast all souped up from the saw King rich them saws also rip
Great seeing you all laughing and having so much fun out there. I was trying my hardest to not laugh too and wake my wife. i ahve a feeling I failed and will be reprimanded in the morning. Anyway, great content. Looking forward to the next.
Your channel has helped me learn so many of the trees I have trimmed and been around all my life. I always wanted to be able co correctly id them and know many now. Already in a weeks time I doubled this number. Keep on telling us the facts on them. Iven if you got to dig a bit for the hard ones. I Love your channel so you will see me again here.
Thank you 🙏
Dawns here ☀️
You don't want to murder me on a Thursday because you probably want me to work on Friday. That's funny 😄 😆 🤣 😂 😁
Hey guilty! Awesome content man nice!
Hahaha! Did he really just make a Land Before Time 5 reference with singing “friends for dinner”
Indeed I did 😂 I’ve got kids and grandkids lol
Great timing good job .
Great job Jake!
Welcome to WI and the waterlogged cottonwood! Try it again in summer on the shores of lake Winnebago. The water will run out when cutting and can smell the lake. They are definitely have a spread. Great approach and tact. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Always take your time
Bless Very nice video. Not being in a hurry means success. Thanks 😊
I think the same way Jake anytime I have a big tree I am dropping by a house a building a structure and we're pulling it over always take my time it's critical you're definitely right
Nice work!
BIG tree ! Good job
That was a ruch. Dealing with a broad sprawlers is so cool.
We have quite a few of these all along the rivers in Nebraska. In the atrium-City area there are some beasts left hidden away that are so fat 4 grown men couldn’t even link hands around some of these trees around here. The big ones are usually buried in the tree lines along the rivers or way up North in the Sandhills along bodies of water or streams.
Kevin seems like a real cool dude to work for or with definitely so do you Jake
Thank you! Feel free to apply 😄
@@kevinhammatgameoftrees7080 where you guys at I'm right outside of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania I've been cutting trees for about 20 years now I'm 39 I started when I was 18 I enjoy it most days LOL
@@kevinhammatgameoftrees7080 I had discovered your channel just before Jacob hooked up with you guys. It was the video where the guy was debating who's responsibility it would be the tree fell over after the fact. You straightened him out and let him know that you were an experienced master arborist. Pure poetic justice.
@@br-dj2ti we’re in south central Wisconsin just north of Madison been going since 98
@@kevinhammatgameoftrees7080 nice buddy yeah if I live closer I would definitely try to jump on I've been working for the company now for about 17 years hopefully my plan is to take over in the next couple years how do I get one of them coats that Jake had on
Another potential solution to wood left in the middle and getting an uneven wedge could be doing a heart cut as I know it by. Before starting your felling cut, you could cut through the middle of the wedge from the front, and thereby removing the middle and a little bit of not needed wedge in the center.
Love your channel, keep up the good work, and good luck with your new business
You guys are great. One thing please take your rings off. Years ago I lost my rind finger because I was wearing my wedding band
Wedding bands and watches come off for me… both when I’m climbing and when I use a chipper… I did change my wedding band to a silicone ring so I can still wear it when I work, and if it gets caught on anything, or I break my finger, the silicone ring will come off without my finger remaining attached.
That is a massive amount of tree! Excellent wood. No rot
Meh, wouldn’t ever use the wood for anything besides maybe pallets. Cottonwoods suck.
@@billybobthornton8553 chipwood
Great job!
Good stuff
Glad you had a good time in Wisconsin.
Holy crap! That thing looked like it was all back weight. Welcome to the place where trees tend to be as wide as they are tall.
It was huge back weight
@@kevinhammatgameoftrees7080 Yeah, it looked like it. Y'all did great. I'm just a firewood guy from western Kansas, so I don't cut trees every day, but I go through enough wood and cut enough trees to know, that was a tree you don't screw around with and get in a hurry. I just subscribed to your channel. Thanks for letting Jake tag along and make videos for us Sir. I appreciate it!
I will leave my wedges loose at first then as wedges get pinched, I will stop my back cut then proceed to winching, noting that the wedge has become unstuck. This gives me peace of mind that the ropes have cotroll.
Good idea, there was so much back weight here we just chose to use the together.
Like your thinking Murdock, sometimes you don’t dare lose any ground even with the pull, in which case I keep the wedges tight and the tree firm as possible 👍
with the baclava he totally reminds me of great khali. kevin has at least the same big heart!!
Nice work gents.
Great 👍🏻 👌 job guys
Good content keep it coming
That was awesome
Good job.. Cotton sucks on the hinge it easy to have them snap off goin slow was the best move u need a better wedge banger tho lol
Dang we forgot that 6 pounder Jeff Schroeder made me.
Nice work. I know of several cotton woods in my area that would dwarf that one. I wouldn't know where to begin
Man you have worked along great guys in this series. Everyone has a lot of passion and knows their stuff.
Well done Jake bit different wood out on the way to east coast
Watching him set up lines and you just filing away....
“If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.” - Abraham Lincoln."
BOOM that thing took its time for sure! What will happen with the wood? Cheers!
DNR job, wood is on them:)
@@kevinhammatgameoftrees7080 Right on. Cotton wood not the greatest I suppose anyway.
Sometimes ya gotta spend alotta time on the rigging and the cut to make it work. I’ve personally done lots of trees this way to get it done. Sometimes slow and steady is what’s needed to bring it home safe. Nice work man 👍
Head on down to south alabama and get some of the live oaks!! Hardest, most dense and heavy wood in the us!! 150ft wide canopy with some pushing 10ft in diameter! That would be a awesome video I believe!!
Cool video.
Be safe out there
It's not tedious, it's deliberate!
Great job men!
If that thing went backwards I'm sure you would not have posted a video so I knew it was gonna fall correctly, BUT I was still nervous as hell, great job everyone!
There’s a lot of trees in the east that you can still climb an there down great vid 👊 would like to cut some out with you guys in some tall stuff
You got your channel name back? Thats awesome to see
Yeah, his old employer is discovering that Jake WAS the intellectual property and by trying to hold onto theirs, they lost his. They still get paid from his old channel but they haven’t produced anything since. No one realizes the effort in editing. Jake is a master
Have never had a Bowline come undone
Great technique my NEW FRIEND!!!
Nice.😆 mate
Just my opinion I've pulled some big trees over with a lot of lean that final last couple poles that's a lot of tension on the ropes I would have double stacked a couple wedges just to take some tension off the ropes on that final straw just me but you guys did amazing great job
They were 14,000 pound 9/16 double braid. So the ropes probably weren’t going to break :-)
Good job
I’ve had the bowline come undone in the tree before. I only fell a couple feet but still…. Now I always use the Yosemite finish.
I've been doing tree work 30 yrs never had any knot come undone
if your climbing on a knot try a double figure 8 with a stopper
The double 8 and the two around the thumb knot is what the climbing gym does.
@@jackdonkey22 you just take a climbing lesson at the gym or something?
@@tonybabineau5642 not quit 30 but same here. The Yosemite is also a great checker for the new guys to ensure they tied it right:) if it doesn’t nest right in there, you did it wrong. Have you seen a guy or two tie it wrong in 30 years?😄
Just done well cheers.
Great job guys.
Thank you
@@GuiltyofTreeson you are very welcome.
The best line of the video: “It never gets old!” (26:38)
No axe!!!!! Woooooow!!! Haha
😂 sorry Jeff
Yeah, sorry man!:)
I had a moment of comedy gold today (for the wife), getting the chain and bar stuck in the limb of a dropped willow. Had to go home for a handsaw, axe and car jack.
Never underestimate a scissor jack!
I had one save my arse on a twin hickory that SHOULD have been decently forward weighted, but was absolutely not. Pinched me HARD. Wasnt enough real estate to wedge it back up enough to release the bar. Popped the little scissor jack out of the truck and slid it between the trunks and cranked it enough to get the saw in the game, finish my backcut, and jack it the rest of the way over since it was already set up.
Sure as sheet read that one wrong.
Great that you have A wedge. You need more than one! Also, you need something besides a tack hammer to set them with! A 3-4 pound sledge works much better, and much safer.
That was pure, “left it in the other vehicle,” a nice 6 pound axe from Jeff Schroeder in Grants Pass, Or. Opportunity to display was lost:)
"You gotta sprinkle with the winkle in your possession".
AvE, paraphrased.
Great job well well
Oh, now I see that you have more wedges. Great. You still need a hammer big enough to drive them.
We new we would take heat for that shorty:)
That kind of had my cheeks clenched. Nice watching that double face cut.
Early crew 👌
Notifications for the win 🏆
try a Fremont or Rio Grande cottonwood {alamogordos}. Good bit of firewood and feed troughs.
Welcome to life for the rest of us guys Jacob🤣
You should try to take some of the trees 10ft by 3-4ft trunks as a whole piece. You can make some crazy $ selling slabs of specific trees with the rite grain and knots. Im sure a bunch of subscribers doo woodworking and would buy. Few hundred bucks for a 4ft round live edge slab of walnut and upwards of 1500 for the rite 4x10 slab. Start with chainsaw slabs and when you get enough to buy a mill with the slab $ you can get an extra slab out of each trunk if you use a band saw mill. You can make alot by selling them whole too. 5-10k to the table makers and wood workers and if it doesnt sell alot of mills will pay for it too. My unkle sells trunks and slabs to carpenters and the straight limbs in 10ftx10in± sections to a local mill. The rest he sells as firewood and the dust and chips he runs his house and shop with by turning the chips to dust and running it all through a pellet mill and screen. He does like 10 trees a year with him and his son cherry picking the jobs with the best trees and with the extra firewood, slabs and pellet sales they do well enough to have enough extra time and $ to have built 2 amazing houses in their spare time up in their mountain in the last 5 years.
That was one ugly monster!! Nice drop Jake
I was wondering if you guys could do a in depth look of the knuckle boom how it works controls all that nifty stuff. I looked to see if you already did a video on it but did not see 1 but I'm also stupid so I may have missed it. Thank you for all you do God bless you all be safe out there
When you decide to come to Arnold ca, let me know man. I'll show you around
used that knot for climbing in school 😄
Cottonwood can get pretty huge, as a kid we had one in our woods, got so big it couldn't support itself ..probable 12feet accross
Might be beneficial if you clear the base of tree before you start cutting. Safety first.👍
Good job fellas 👌 You're right, it's almost impossible to capture the lean of a tree on camera.
Just some trees gota be round the trunk for fear with back wieght n power pullin it of without the rest.
When they lean like that I like to leave a little extra holding wood on the lighter side
Not a bad practice. Thanks for your comment.
Is this not common practice?
i think the polyethylene throwlines are 100x less likely to form those rat nests in the throw bag, I like target line because you can get it in longer lengths. I retired that stringy crap
Hey Kevin do you sell them coat that Jake has on the game of Tress coat or no. man I'd love one of those
So Kevin would you say I could use the bowline with that Yosemite finish on a base anchor for SRT
That’s what I use on every climb.
@@kevinhammatgameoftrees7080 thank you I really appreciate it buddy
@@kevinhammatgameoftrees7080 so where can I get me one of them game of trees coats Jake had on them are nice
It must have eaten a lotta cheese 🤣
Still waiting for the blue vs orange saw comparison lmfao
Soon
I've figured out a way to store my throw line I almost never have any rats nests. Takes a little bit of time to stow away but it's worth it.
Is it a secret?
What's the trick? A figure 8?
And we are not allowed to know about it.
I have never used a throw line but I was wondering how a heavier fly fishing line would work? I know that stuff does not tangle up and works great for tip ups ice fishing vs the old heavy nylon stuff.
The 2.2 millimeter line works well
I'm curious with bark that thick how would you climb something like that with spurs and not sink in right up to your boot and then have to reef your spur out of the bark.
It’s very sturdy bark carvers use it to carve. The furrow’s tend to be very deep so you have to make sure your spike is on the high points of the bark
Life can be awesome for all of us. The super rich may traverse the world in their MEGA yachts sipping on champagne and playboy bunnies strutting around naked snorting cocaine, but those people will never accomplish a bonafide team effort of danger and naturalistic adrenaline like this kinda of activity.. but I'll trade a day or 2 with them 🤣