Thinning Oaks to Make Food for People and Wildlife
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- Thinning out Oregon white oak to create food for people and wildlife. The trees that are cut down will be used for making shiitake mushroom logs. The logs get inoculated with shiitake mushroom spawn. A few months later they will grow shiitake mushrooms that are very edible and very tasty.
Thinning the oak trees will help the remaining oak trees grow into healthy trees with full crowns that will produce more acorns. Acorns are an important food source for many types of wildlife. They also provide many other wildlife benefits.
I am using a Stihl MS 462 chainsaw with 32” bar.
Here is the link to another video I made the talk a little bit more about shiitake mushroom logs. 
• Cutting Shiitake Mushr...
love ur dry humor at the beginning of the video.
Been watching your channel now for the past couple months. It's my go to while having my morning coffee. Keep up the good work. I am also a fellow PNWer. Be safe out there.
This is by far my favorite channel
Thank you, hopefully I can keep living up to that.
Refreshing channel, keep up the good work.
Thank you, kind of you to say.
Great video to show how we can make our forest grow and feed us and the wildlife!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Thank you David.
I found myself likin' your lichen joke. Thumbs up.
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one. 👍
Hey Wilson, when you have time a short segment on your logger tape would be great. Practically every time l pin it to the log it either comes out inadvertently or l pin it to hard and l end up having to walk back to unpin. I believe the pin l currently have is known as the Bailey's.
I did a video about my logger tape.
ua-cam.com/video/5svGQqmRNlE/v-deo.html
I am not familiar with the Bailey’s pin. I always use a traditional horseshoe nail. I think I mentioned in that video how to bend it so it is at the right angle. If it comes out too easy, bend it back toward the tape. If it’s too hard to pull out of the log, bend the pin away from the tape. maybe consider a horseshoe nail, it’s what most loggers in the Pacific Northwest use.
I've read some pretty extensive studies on the "best" time for harvesting mushroom logs. The variation is small enough that the "best" time is when it fits into your schedule best ;)
Thank you for that. I had a suspicion variation was small. The person I was cutting them for was more concerned about the timing than I was.
I say go for it Michael, liking the Lichen since you already regaled us with the developing their maximum Oakness- heck, like the Military recruiting slogan, encourage the acorns to aspire to
“ Be all the Oak you could be!”🇺🇸🇺🇸
Since we already crossed the line into cheese ball I guess we should let the cheese ball flow. 😁
I'm like-en it!! LOL
👍😁
I love the look of that land, where in the Country is this, I was assuming PNW.
Southern Oregon
Excellent forest management!
Conservation of healthy trees (and the forest as a whole) by eliminating week, redundant trees that would otherwise retard the development of the trees you retain.
Very well said.
Has someone introduced turkeys in your neck of the woods yet? Ours really like the acorns also.
Oh yeah they’ve been around here for a long time. Some of them have made appearances in my past sawmill videos. There aren’t as many here as there are in a lot of places in the area. The chicks have a low survival rate here because I think there are so many predators here. I think a lot of owls and other raptors get them. In more residential areas is where a lot of high populations are.
Good video Michael. If I were you I wouldn't try to grow mushrooms on those logs.
I don't like mushrooms.
I’m glad you told me that now Dave because I was just about to send you a huge box of mushrooms. Actually just between you and me, I haven’t actually grown the mushrooms. I am giving them to someone who does, and she is giving me some fish and beef.
DEFINITELY a fair trade.
Nice video, so where are you located
Thank you. I am in Southwest Oregon.
With all the conifer you cut, bucking hardwood like that must feel like cutting into concrete.
Actually with these ones it felt like extra high grade reinforced concrete. Since these ones are growing so close together they are slow growing with very dense tight rings.
Now that’s a new one for the books…I like mushrooms, but I’m afraid to get them from anywhere except the store. Not knowing what is what can make a BAD DAY.
No rigging ?? Just brute-force with a little back-bone.
These trees were so small it would be more work setting up the rigging than it is just to push them over.
I could tell they were small trees , I was just messing with you on the rigging 😂 😂 now if you would have rigged it all up, I would have on that to..😂😂 I think I would have been all over either way 😂
I'm curious about the technique of pushing the tree over. You seem to make part of the back cut, then push and when it starts to go, you extend the back cut. Is it for trees that are standing straight and in situations where the trunk is too small for a wedge? Or just a faster alternative to wedging? It also seems like it could be a barber chair risk, but I suppose that would depend on the species.
The ones I was pushing over by hand were leaning in the opposite direction of where I wanted them to fall. These are only about 4 to 6 inches diameter so too small to get a wedge in. When they are that small it’s easy enough to push them by hand. On most of them I just cut them the normal way. A notch in front then a back cut. When they start to tip back and pinch the saw, then I give them a push. Once they start leaning the right way enough then I finish off the cut. On the last one I only did the back cut just because I was being lazy and because the tree was so small. This kind of oak is so strong and stringy and there’s not enough weight in these small trees to cause a barberchair. it is poor form for cutting a tree but in trees this small and short it doesn’t really matter.
@@WilsonForestLands That's very helpful, thankyou.
When your friend is done with growing mushrooms are the logs still usable for firewood or are they just punky/rotten at that point??
They’re punky at that point. I know from experience
@gladebrosi6587 : So, firepit food for a relaxing Saturday night.. 😁👍
Yep they just get punky. They could be good for the fire pit or the compost pile.
I don't think the mushrooms care if all the logs are exactly thevsame length.
To many white oaks... would i love to have that problem dang..
Same here. Plenty of reds here but not so many whites. They’re hard to get going too because the squirrels like to nail them so hard when they’re just starting out.
Damn right Whites oaks high dollar out east Never Hurd of too many white oaks
Totally different forests out here in the west - he’s in Oregon. Totally different climate and everything
It’s not that I have too many white oaks, I just have too many too close together in the same spot. I wish I could just say Alakazam and instead of cutting them down they would just spread out a little bit and fill in some spots where I don’t have enough white oak.
@@WilsonForestLands Did you or someone else initially plant the oaks? or was there a total cutdown/fire in the past?