Forest Thinning 101 - Choosing the Right Trees to Cut

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  • Опубліковано 13 гру 2024

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  • @jimputnam2044
    @jimputnam2044 2 години тому +5

    As I watched this I was humming an old Kenny Rogers tune YOU GOT TO KNOW WHEN TO SAVE THEM, KNOW WHEN TO DROP THEM, AND KNOW WHEN TO RUN. Not the exact words.

    • @lesahanners5057
      @lesahanners5057 38 хвилин тому +1

      My thoughts exactly. Ol' Kenny had some good advice on when to high tail it outta there. 😂

  • @jimharrison5656
    @jimharrison5656 Годину тому +2

    More thinning and forest management videos please! This one was one of your best for showing evaluation and management thinking in a pragmatic and understandable fashion. Including other silviculture and general forest ecology management would be wonderful.

  • @timhelton5615
    @timhelton5615 15 хвилин тому

    I am learning heaps from your videos. Educational as well as entertainment. Keeps putting them out! We’ll watch them.

  • @JohnComeOnMan
    @JohnComeOnMan 3 години тому +6

    That good feller is a good feller.

  • @Gabriel.-_-.
    @Gabriel.-_-. 2 години тому +8

    I just bought a 50 acre property that hasn't seen any humans in almost 100 years, more thinning videos please!!!

    • @HubertofLiege
      @HubertofLiege Годину тому +1

      100 years?
      Let’s clear cut!

    • @zorrokitty5666
      @zorrokitty5666 Годину тому +1

      It will also depend on what type of forest you have. East coast oak/hickory means you should cut the some sweetgums, cherries, and eastern red cedar. If it’s north east forests then you’ll want to cut the birch and red maple in favor of pine and hemlock. He’s PSNW

    • @DogPrinctz
      @DogPrinctz 11 хвилин тому

      Sounds fun congrats 😊

  • @davidford694
    @davidford694 2 години тому +3

    I watch your videos to learn the craft of forest management. More please!

  • @lesahanners5057
    @lesahanners5057 10 хвилин тому

    I worked in the woods with my dad, cutting down a stand of beetle killed ponderosa pines, back in the early 70s. I haven't seen such nicely laid down tree's since, until now. Seeing you do this with such skill brought back so many memories, and made me really miss him. I lost him when I was 15. He died of a tumor of the brain, caused by an injury he got in the woods while logging years before. He was a timber faller. A choker setter didn't set his chokers right, they came loose and hit my dad in the face. Breaking his skull and busting out his front teeth. He survived then by a miracle, but later it gave him the tumor. They did surgeries, but the tumor vigorously grew back. He was only 42. They used to say in our family, "If the tree's don't get ya, the injuries will." Which was just their way of saying, if you don't die on the spot, the injuries will kill you later. The stories I could tell of folks I knew who died logging would fill a very sad book. So be safe Michael and have a very Merry Christmas! 😊

  • @johnfahey7215
    @johnfahey7215 2 години тому +2

    Every so often, I enjoy these forestry classes. Appreciate it.

  • @blaydCA
    @blaydCA 3 години тому +3

    One perfect tree feeling that only took a hundred takes over a thousand acres.
    I'm glad you nailed it.
    Cleaning up a bridged tree is a pain

  • @davebloggs
    @davebloggs 2 години тому

    Great video , thinning is very important in an over crowded forest, it also helps with removal of fuel load in the event of a fire.

  • @calebdoner
    @calebdoner 2 години тому +5

    This is incredibly important information. Keep the thinning videos coming!

  • @peterellis4262
    @peterellis4262 2 години тому +1

    Definitely interested in more thinning videos. ;)

  • @Kevin-Cruz
    @Kevin-Cruz 2 години тому +2

    Your thinning videos are the best, please keep them going!

  • @Token_Civilian
    @Token_Civilian Годину тому +1

    I've enjoyed this vid. I'd think that about 10 million acres or so, give or take a bit, of western forest could use some thinning.

  • @andysmith8544
    @andysmith8544 3 години тому +2

    We enjoy the forestry maintenance tasks as well.

  • @tylerehrlich1471
    @tylerehrlich1471 2 години тому

    I could listen to you describe why you’re doing what you’re doing when it comes to thinning all day. It’s so sensible, and in tune with what’s actually going on in any given spot. Magnificent.

  • @bob_frazier
    @bob_frazier 2 години тому

    Notice all the Ponderosa Pine seedlings in your open oak stand too! Yum.

  • @bob_frazier
    @bob_frazier 2 години тому

    And at my place it's 20 white firs dying for each Douglas fir, and the Incense Cedars are so drought resistant none have died, except in a bad ice storm taking the tops out. I'm planting Incense Cedars back in for the same reason. Keep looking up.

  • @JohnDoe-fg2oq
    @JohnDoe-fg2oq 57 хвилин тому

    New land owner here. Thanks

  • @robinelston5966
    @robinelston5966 2 години тому

    I have a lot of this to do, a very important topic. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Besides there's a lot of crackle whoosh bang, always fun.

  • @LiveFreeOrRIP
    @LiveFreeOrRIP 3 години тому +2

    tHANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK!!!

  • @johnekhaos
    @johnekhaos 2 години тому

    Excellent video.

  • @allenandmain
    @allenandmain 3 години тому +3

    Good show thanks

  • @Poppy_love59
    @Poppy_love59 3 години тому +1

    Very interested I'm fifty acres in and just starting to learn! thanks for the class Mr Wilson!

  • @bob_frazier
    @bob_frazier 2 години тому +1

    I have marked timber for a living and yet I cut a healthy Port Orford Cedar down just to realize the one left standing was already dead. Look up, and look up again.

  • @danbarrette9888
    @danbarrette9888 2 години тому

    Nice to see the domino theory working.

  • @MidwestFirecraft
    @MidwestFirecraft 2 години тому

    I would like to see more thinning videos.

  • @Dougsuchy
    @Dougsuchy 2 години тому

    I love your UA-cam site. I, myself am interested in buying some smaller wood lots for my self & grandsons. Worked two jobs for 27 years, now on the down hill slide & would like to get back to nature. Probably the Oregon coast.

  • @Tyler-rm6pw
    @Tyler-rm6pw 32 хвилини тому

    More vids like this one 🔥🔥🔥

  • @brentjenkinsdesigns
    @brentjenkinsdesigns 2 години тому

    Well sir. (I know, deep subject). I am of the mind that your subscribers really appreciate most of your content. If not they surely wouldn't be. Forest management is a subject that I am sincerely interested in. All of your other content go hand in hand with FM in one way or another. I guess i said all of that to say, I am interested in your entire channel. Not just a little bit here and there. Be well and God bless you and yours.

  • @branch_ranch
    @branch_ranch 3 години тому +2

    I like the thinning videos!

  • @toddyuill3924
    @toddyuill3924 Годину тому

    More thinning please

  • @squan3757
    @squan3757 Годину тому

    danger tree vs wildlife tree video would be cool, ive been discussing this in college recently

  • @georgesjunk
    @georgesjunk 3 години тому +1

    yes let's see more thinning

  • @XXLragequit
    @XXLragequit 35 хвилин тому

    I'm really interested in the thinning videos and related topics. Only yesterday I was at the OSU arboretum and got to see the long term thinning results on the intensively managed trails.

  • @novampires223
    @novampires223 3 години тому

    Great info Mike..

  • @kayboge4329
    @kayboge4329 3 години тому

    Another great video. Could call part of it a sanitation cut.

  • @aaronharvey6991
    @aaronharvey6991 3 години тому

    I'm interested

  • @DaytonaRider1
    @DaytonaRider1 3 години тому

    There is interest.

  • @michaelwheadon1078
    @michaelwheadon1078 3 години тому

    Like, like and five thumbs up!

  • @shanemillard608
    @shanemillard608 Годину тому

    I'm interested. I have about 4.5 acres of woods that need management

  • @Shawn-s8o
    @Shawn-s8o Годину тому

    I am learning a lot from your videos one thing I would like to request can you show close-ups of the bark and explain how to differential from each tree. In better words how to recognize a species of tree. Which I live in Southern California but we call ourselves the central California because it's Pismo Beach area. And we have Red oaks and we have White oaks up in the Paso Robles area. But I've never seen an oak tree with such a large leaf foliage unless it just wasn't a good shot from our perspective. Does oaks are very young as well they look to be a one to one and a half inch twig. Thank you

  • @sldulin
    @sldulin 2 години тому +1

    You did a good job explaining sun-scald but for the benefit of those of us up here in the Pacific Northwest rainforest, could you elaborate on what this "sun" is?

  • @ChristianScalese
    @ChristianScalese 3 години тому

    Interested

  • @liznyp6209
    @liznyp6209 38 хвилин тому

    Does the time of year you thin promote sunscald? Or just the exposure?

  • @peteanderson1714
    @peteanderson1714 3 години тому

    more thinning needs to be done in PNW

  • @ericarachel55
    @ericarachel55 3 години тому +1

    you shoot the video and I'll watch it

  • @alpine5551
    @alpine5551 3 години тому +2

    Doug free zone.

  • @nicholasbyram296
    @nicholasbyram296 2 години тому

    My hairline is probably receding because I didn't thin out the back.

  • @darrenhutchinson5435
    @darrenhutchinson5435 2 години тому

    Now

  • @kenbrown2808
    @kenbrown2808 3 години тому

    so, thinning is the process of removing the skinny trees so the fat trees can grow fatter. got it.

    • @HubertofLiege
      @HubertofLiege Годину тому

      Thinning is as thinning does. It’s all site specific.