NO CLUE What I'm Doing! Operating a Logging Harvester in Michigan
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- Опубліковано 5 кві 2023
- I had the opportunity to go visit "Logger Mack" in Michigan and operate his Ponsse Harvester for a while. It was fun to see another part of the ag industry. Check out Logger Mack on everything!
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Zach Johnson, the “Millennial Farmer” is a 5th-generation farmer who’s spent his life growing, working, and learning on his family’s farm. His wit and dry sense of humor appeal to children and adults alike. A product of the millennial generation, his appreciation of new technology blends with his old-fashioned work ethic, and he offers a unique ability to deliver his message in a way that resonates with lifelong farmers as well as those with no knowledge of agriculture. With growing consumer awareness about where their food comes from, Zach has identified the need for an independent voice from the front lines of agriculture. Zach actively promotes agriculture by sharing his day-to-day experiences in the agriculture world while providing farmer-to-farmer education to help facilitate a collaborative conversation between farmers and the public.
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Funny fact, Einari Vigren, founder of Ponsse company named his first selfmade machine after a stray dog, who wandered in same the area Einari was at. Dogs name was Ponsse. Greetings from Finland, from where Ponsse origins.
The story goes Ponsse wasn't the best-looking dog(ponsse sure is a good-looking machine now👌) but was the most reliable hunter
That Ergo is quite old machine nowadays. Scorpion is awesome and very good looking machine 😍 greeting from Finland and good logging 🙂
It got the dogs name because he was mixed breed and the machine was made from a lot off old wheel loaders and other machines
Einari Vigren
Evan is an everyday man, I have friends just like him. Great people!!
Grandpa worked in a logging camp winters of 1918 and 1919- horses, sleighs, and two-man saws. Paired with an experienced lumberjack, they logged virgin timber for building the country. He brought many stories back to the farm.
This is the definition of “I don’t know what I’m doing but I’m gonna do it anyway” 😂
Just like a combine
@@taurus4205 😂
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I'm glad you are showing your audience the last few vids!
The world is a lot more complicated than many people think.
I love getting out and seeing other parts of agriculture when I can! Very soon I'll be too busy for the season around home and won't be able to get out for a few months.
What a lovely person Evan seems to be! That was actually a very interesting video. It seems to be a very lonely job, although I suspect the people that do it don't necessarily see it that way. I imagine they get to see a lot of wildlife doing that kind of work and have a special kind of appreciation for the natural environment. I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
unfortunately you are so noisy u barely see any wildlife. done this kind job part-time in my early twenties at an operation/forest owned by a family friend in germany and it is long hours, very lonely as you said demands a lot of concentration so it can be mentally quite draining if even you are experienced at it. plus the worst part is you start in the very early hours when its still dark and u finish at very late hours when its dark as most of the work is done in winter time to do less damage to the fauna and the soil. it for sure is a long term job only for very specific people, most of the other drives i observed kind of hated to be around other humans and would barely socialize during breaks or after work when we stayed in the cabins in the forest unless it involved free beers and smokes
Doesn’t seem any more lonely than farming.
@@MackB12that was my thought. If you're not the owner that they're trying to sell to, your phone is quiet almost 24/7
@CeeJay It is what you make it. I have a cellular booster and take time to keep in touch with family(especially grandparents!) and friends on the phone as well as live stream cutting occasionally.
I work in a company that makes parts for Ponsse forestry machines. Super cool to see them in action in a Millennial Farmer video 👍🇫🇮
I went to school here in Finland driving these machines. It really is a nice job once you get the hang of it, then it's just second nature really. I currently drive excavators tho.
Saw that same machine in Finland. They had it remotely tied into the mill so real time, it would maximize the lengths versus what the factory needed versus what the other machines where cutting. Coolest machine to see in operation ever. Great you got to run it.
As a fellow Michigander, I loved this video. Thanks Zach
Zach, thanks for taking us along on an interesting trip to Upper Michigan for a demo on the tree harvester. Evan sure is a skilled operator on that machine. Blessings to you.
John Deere harvesters&forwarders are also made here 🇫🇮. Also Logset and Sampo Rosenlew, which is a smaller company, I guess they are mostly available in Europe.
as complicated as that machine is, Evan sure makes it look easy, awesome video Zack, thanks for taking us along..
It's amazing what two guys can get done with advanced technology equipment! Thanks for the show!
It’s really nice to see a planter work with zero issues, Good luck with your harvest
Id love to know you better Landon, thats only if you dont mind cos you seems to be a nice and very cool person
A wonderful machine that makes the industry a little safer. Once again showing us something that teaches what it takes for us to get wood products at our stores. Thanks again. J.Au-en
Zach and Mack, almost sounds like a radio team. It's great that you do these videos. Just as there are a small percentage of farmers growing food for the many, there are a small number in the forest industry making products for the many. There are over two thousand different types of products that have wood content in them. Lumber and paper are only two of them.
As one that spent my college years in the UP, it's also nice to see a bit of it again.
Love the vids, Keep up the good work!!!
Thanks Zach Great Video 👍👍
That was awesome! My Dad and brother were loggers...old style. So fun to watch this, my Dad would have loved that machine! :)
Really nice. What fun! Thanks for taking us along!
That was a great video. You do good work for a farmer.
That was a cool video, thanks for sharing with us.
your work is great, i love it so much
Great video Zach, you keep the videos very interesting all year round.
Great video!
Hope you had a good trip to Michigan
Really enjoyed this thank you
Great job Zach! Evan is awesome! Thanks for sharing with us!
i like the vids you guys make keep up the good work
Cool video keep the visits to other operations coming. We understand its been a long winter keep up the great work and videos.
Is there nothing that you won't try? Thank you for once again bringing us content that is "Interestingly Satisfying."
Great to see you in Michigan, the U.P. Is gods country. So much open space and forest everywhere. It’s great to see they found a use for trees who gotten a disease and died.
Lots of land owners in Michigan will sell some trees on there land. In those communities jobs are hard to come by or they make less.
oddly satisfying as well! loved it
I love this.. this is awesome.
Great video! Thanks for sharing. Logger Mac has a new follower. And yeah it is oddly satisfying to watch those machines
Welcome to Michigan! It’s a fascinating state!! And thanks for this very interesting video. We learned a lot today.
Very interesting video. Thank You!
My Great Great Grandfather was a lumberjack in Northern Michigan for many years, and when he died, my grandmother said he still had all of the muscle he built from logging after all those years.
Fascinating..who knew there was such a machine. Thanks, Zack.
I could watch him for hours...mesmerizing!!!!!
Awesome video, and glad youve now made it to the Mitten State! Thanks for doing a great job and also naturally explaining the forest lifecycle!
I've watched more of this kind of thing than I would admit! Amazing technology!
I was born in the U.P. in Houghton County. Some great grandparents came from Finland and settled up there because it reminded them of home. My great grandfather was a major logger of the day up there and sold most of his hardwood logs to Ford Motor Company in the early 1900's. They used the wood for wheels. He knew Henry Ford well. Nothing to brag about just some history I know being from there. We moved from the U.P. to Texas in 1979 because my dad had an opportunity with the job he was working at. They opened another mfg plant. Thank goodness for that! LOL
Zach, Great video. Sitting down in that seat with those two joy sticks appeared to be rather intimidating for the first time (they were not simple joy sticks). Evan, great guy. Thanks for showing some of these other jobs that most of us did not know existed. I think the uncle probably was a sharp guy to separate and sort the different cut wood according to type without having the rest of the tree to identify it. Thanks.
The Ponsse can mark each cut piece with a color denoting its type, if it's a saw log or fiber or anything. Makes life for forwarders a lot easier :)
I couldn't tell the difference between most types of trees/wood out there but Evan knew them all easily. It was cool to see and learn about
Zach, I really like your pod casts. I wish you would do more of them.
That was really cool. Thank you for sharing a collaboration with Evan - never thought i'd have an interest in seeing how that works. Pretty cool stuff.
Welcome to Michigan! Beautiful country.
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Thank you very much I really enjoy your videos
I literally found myself with my mouth open watching the machine working. The operator has so much skill
Love watching these machines working, pretty sure there were my first videos i watched on UA-cam before the vlogging was a thing😃
Now that was cool great job Zack
Cool to see you out in the woods, logging is a part time venture for me. Harvesters are awesome. Have a tracked buncher and grapple skidder which works well for our land out here. Love hand cutting but mechanized options are faster and safer. Keep em coming Zach, thank you Becky for editing, love the videos.
This was really interesting to see how well you actually did handle a logging harvester once you got behind the controls 👏👏👍😎
Always interesting Zack. Thanks. and the fact that you visited the UP I love this video even more.
YOOO MY HOME STATE!!! hope you enjoyed your stay my dude!
Great video Zack. Very interesting
Very interesting Zach! Glad you went out there. This is my type of thing!
Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable.
These loggers have quite the machinery. Wow. Was so interesting. I bet one of those is expensive. Thanks for taking us along.
The Iowa Farm Boy.
I've seen those machines in the UP while snowmobiling and always would stop to watch because it's amazing how they can process so many tree so fast. Awesome video showing how it's done!!
Amazing video Zach!
thank you
AWESOME!!! That pretty much describes this and most of your videos. HAHA Your a very lucky guy. Many of us live vicariously through you. DON'T STOP! thankyou.
I've seen those machines before bit the technology in that thing us amazing
Thank you for introducing your audience to this new “oddly satisfying” content. For info on how the NYS Adirondack Mtn Park logging biz worked in the 30s-40s, there are a lot of new-fangled colorized movies depicting life in the isolated logging camps, dropping trees using two-man bow saws, using horse teams to drag them to a river, floating the logs down river to the mill sites, etc. Manly Man work…
Heck Zack, that's the best way to learn, Hands On experience.
Been driving a Ponsse Bear for 5 years in southern Sweden, the strength in those cranes never seize to amaze me. The Finns know what theyre doing.
Great video Zack....Thanks for having all of us out and your time Evan ✌️
Was my pleasure 👍
I like when you show us different professions. Cool video
Zack that was a great video
Aaaaaay that was a great video!
Glad you came to see Michigan! UP is very beautiful place! Just not this time of the year :D
Welcome to Michigan. The UP is awesome. I personally love it up there.
Welcome to Michigan! The U.P. is one of my favorite places in the world. So beautiful!
Welcome to the UP. I have lived in Menominee County, Michigan all my life. I have several family members that work in logging. Thanks for turning us on to Logger Mach, I will be watching more of his channel.
Machine is probably pretty intuitive once you get it down, but to control it the way he does quickly and efficiently probably takes awhile to master. Very impressive!
It does become second nature after a while yeah. Don't need to think of any of the myriad of buttons or movements, they just happen exactly as you think.
Your my fav. to watch whats been going on? i dont see the same good old vids from you and i check every day!! Hope to see you guys back in action soon!!
Pretty cool to see you out and about Zach getting to meet new people and to try new experiences out . Pretty cool and you were only about an 1½ hr south of me . pretty amazing what those machines can do . Great job 👍
Cool machines..also great ep on Drinking brothers
WOW, Zach !! - that was sure different from your usual video !!
But, still enjoyable !! Thanks for sharing, ol' Buddy !!
At 4:47 It predicts the best lenght of long to cut, by using data that has been researched by smart people on how certain species grow length and diameter wise. the diameter at the base it can detect and then it just kinda predicts the approximate diameter at the end of the log. and then by predetermined charts of log value .it can evaluate if its more economical to cut one longer log or two smaller ones.
What a cool video thank you
Love the vids keep going
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My grandfather harvested trees a little over 100 years ago in the Lower Peninsula of MI. When I was a teenager and in my early 20s, when I stayed at his house, he would always wake us up like they did when he was cutting lumber... "It's daylight in the swamp!". Very cool video. Hope you can get Onyx to clean the mud off the truck. 😅 God bless and Easter Blessings for all the MF Family.
The nickname in college is so useful for anyone with a channel.......GOOD one Zach!!!!!
Thank you for sharing this Evan 😄
Slow before planting season so searching out and providing interesting content. That's a quality utuber.
Thanks for coming to my home state of Michigan. I hope you felt welcomed.
That’s so cool Zack. You need one of those on the farm
Return of the Mack!!
great content. I watched a lot of the same thing on the family 80 last winter in west central wisconsin.
That was sweet to watch
Now those i LOVE LIKE and,, keep em comming.
Milennial Farmer out of his comPfy ZONE......😍
This video was awesome.
Well that was definitely cool never seen one of them Harvesters operate before behined the seens well in the cab good stuff zack cheers .
Welcome to Michigan! Come back when it's warmer and see more of our beautiful state! (The farming regions are in the other peninsula)
Hey now, we have quite a lot of farming in the county that Zach was visiting, lol.
You are the one who inspired me to bead down the agriculture path. I love the videos. Keep them coming
It’s really nice to see a planter work with zero issues, Good luck with your harvest
Id love to know you better Henry, thats only if you dont mind cos you seems to be a nice and very cool person
Thanks for the tour in Louisville. I know lots where down there from Ontario and they say it was amazing.
Fascinating.
That was, indeed, oddly satisfying! We have some similar, not quite so sophisticated, logging machinery around the deep south here.
Great video. Lots of control buttons. I hope he gets a big bump in subs after your visit.
This is honest work, by hard working men!
Love to get insight into unfamiliar working fields and this is an extremely specialized vehicle, that takes a lot of practice to master!