Melissa, I can relate to growing up playing in the woods or bush as we call it. My two sisters and brother would fill entire days playing hide and seek, crawling through hollowed out trees, riding our dragsters over logs and making ramps to jump over, looking for the perfect forked branch to make sling shots. I remember when I was about six years old Dad made us the best Christmas present I ever got, a tree house. I would come home from school and every afternoon take my glass of milk and jam sandwich and sit in the tree house, I still go and sit in it when I visit Mum and Dad at 61 years old only now with a cup of tea these days. Great memories.
Melissa, I bought myself a Toro 60" Titan 2000 HD with Myride suspension last late summer...I nearly "killed" myself running up one of my rock gardens, and tore the mailbox off cutting the corner too short....on my first time out! A week later, cutting close to the lake with the ground a little soggy, got stuck a little with the front wheels but got loose and applied just a bit too much power, and almost jumped into the lake....to find just the right amount of correction and the left/right/split thing was a learning curve, but after 3 weekends of mowing, I had it all down. We just lost the last of our snow so in about two weeks we will probably be ready to start mowing again! All the best...love your vids.
Melissa, if you have a moment, pls ask Mike to checkout the Channel "Swedish Homestead" and the video posted today "The Swedish Iron Horse" - I think Mike would be interested to see both the new Stihl 550i carboratorless saw and the Swedish Iron Horse mobile to pull out lumber. Enjoy!
BTW - if you burn wood, Poplar (Aspen) works great for fires early and late in the season. It burns hot and fast so you can get that quick warm up in the morning without it holding a ton of heat all day. Try it.
I recently stumbled upon your videos and enjoy watching. The partnership between you and Melissa reiminds me of my own marriage. As the father of a 13 year old son with Autism, I appreciate you including Hunter in your videos.
Melissa has great tractor safety awareness! love the way she stayed back till you made eye contact, not everyone knows to do that. I think you could really benefit with a log arch Mike, and when are you getting your Woodmizer? ;)
I thought the same thing. Too often folks don't realize that an operator has limited visibility and hearing, and approaching the equipment unnoticed can be a dangerous proposition.
Here in our neck of the woods, Central NY we call those trees Poplar which are very similar or just a different name for Aspen. It makes good fall or spring firewood when only quick heat heat is needed., as it is a soft wood species. It does make some very nice furniture lumber when sawed and dried. A lot of 1800's furniture made from it, plus buggy frames., because it was easy to bend and form. Loren
I would make a bench or two out of some of your logs and put them down by your pond. Beautiful spot. So far I'm very impressed with the RK equipment. I wish we had a RK Store in the Erie area. Tell Hunter we said hello!
As you and Melissa were going down that trail there at about the 12:00 minute mark,..I can get a good idea of how steep this is. I never noticed that before. So, good hauling for the RK-55 and that 4500+- pound red oak log.
Mike I watch so many of your videos that I can’t get anything done. So load up and come give me a hand. Another great video. Keep up the great work. Enjoy life everyday
Great video Mike and Melissa, looks like your forest is being weeded by nature. Get it in time and you have good wood, and fire wood too. Some of the trees are not fit for much. Liked the way the tractor and the three point attachment sure did a good job also. Say Hey to Hunter. Thanks for sharing.
Reminds me of my days living in Grizzly Flats, Ca cut a lot of good wood back then when I was much younger, to dang old now at age 83 but have good memories of my sons, both have been called home to be with the Lord.
Mike, I mentioned this before but I think you would be well served with a logging arch to move the heavies and keep them clean, You may find it easier to yard out lengths of firewood and buck them up in a staging area. I like the way you spread crushed stone, you make it look easy.
@@troyeager8877 I built my own street-legal log arch years ago: 4 feet wide, 10 feet long. Hauled a ~5,000 lb log (also red oak, >42" diameter, ~12 feet long) about 7 miles a few weeks ago.
I just noticed your buddies UA-cam channel just showed up in my suggested videos just from you mentioning it. There are days I miss just having a flip phone...
Its a quaking aspen,I have several on my property in WV, They are not good for anything that I know of! Love you guys videos,I have 143 acres,much of it wooded, I do alot of the same things you folks do,and love it,love the outdoors!!!
Your buddy is correct. Some sort of poplar/aspen/cottonwood--they're all in the same family. I personally don't burn it, takes too long to get it dry enough. I tried to hand split some once and it actually splashed me, lol
We have a lot of big tooth aspen in this area. Longer lived then most aspen. Gets up to 24 inch’s in diameter. Valuable spies used for making paper and wafer board. Rick Superior, WI
Felled a big tooth aspen on our site last year. Thought I was bringing down a maple, but when I could see the leaves at ground level, they weren't maple leaves ;) The wood has a distinctive, and to my mind, unpleasant, smell to it when you cut it.
In NH we would call that a Poplar/Basswood not great for firewood but makes pretty flooring boards and great for carving when slowly cured, has a clean grain with few to no knots when milled right. Really appreciate your videography and content keep em' coming!
Steve’s right. Certainly out of the Popal family. Would need to see a leaf to be sure, Big Tooth Aspen. I live in mid Michigan and we share a very similar Forest silviculture. Cottonwood, Poplar, Aspen all very similar. The woods are great this time of year. Enjoy
Northern New York, Aspen was used for barn beams. Sawed or hued out then let dry undercover, in a few weeks, it dry's supper hard and strong. Left outside, you can actually watch it rot. People love barn beams, just an old Aspen log.
I think Steve is right about it being a large tooth aspen. It’s a very popular pulp wood for paper mills. Glad you’re getting some great weather. I get the same feeling you do when it’s nice like that. Keep on tractoring!
Be extra careful when you mill that log for gravel caught in the bark. May want to debark the whole side that was dragging on the ground as the blade will be damaged by even one piece of gravel caught in there.
Mike maybe buys a bandsaw with a spring tensioned hardmetal tooth small circular sawblade before where band get into wood? Usually fix that problem anyhow. If the stone is bigger sawblade throws it away so be careful because they usually have no tight guards.
Aspen. We call them Poplar in Eastern Canada - one of the first to grow after a harvest or opening in the canopy - grow fast, but are weak. Makes okay firewood in a pinch - burns hot but not long.
It is a poplar, aka aspen. Saw it right off... They grow like weeds in my region of VT. For the most part, many folks up here consider it junk wood, however it is a hardwood that can produce some beautiful grained boards for floors, walls, etc. as well. I throw some in the woodstove, helps clean the stovepipes. Gives off very little if any creosote. The future French drain running alongside the trail, drag a 12" or 14" log along that edge, shapes it up real quick & as I have previously mentioned, line it with some road fabric, some folks call it tiling. Lay down your stone, piping, more stone, done... Material stays here, won't head for China... Mike, you need a winch or perhaps you already have one & I haven't seen it yet. I am looking at a " Igland " tomorrow hopefully, model # 4501 ( rated t 10,160 Lbs. ) for my 3 point hitch. Comes with (3) cinches & I will invest in a " snatch block " too. Comes with 165 feet of 3/8" cable that runs on a single enclosed drum. With the blade down, you can grade with it too, forward or reverse. This will be the " game changer " for you by bringing the tree logs to you, not the other way around... Not to mention getting yourself or others unstuck! Best, Bill on the Hill... :~)
Yesterday was indeed marvelous. Although, I spent most of the day transporting Pt's, back and forth. Anyway, with my new hrs. 11:00 till 7:00p.m. So most of my yard work now is done on Saturday, if it's not raining. Enjoyed the video.
Mr Morgan; When you put a french drain along that bank where the springs are coming up, dig the trench first, lay landscape fabric in that trench, then lay your 4 inch slotted drain tile on top of the fabric, fill the trench with what we call 6A stone which is not chipped stone but rather natural rounded edges to create more air pockets, then lap over the landscape fabric to make a "sausage" so to speak, pin it all together using landscape pins to keep soil out of the trench, and you'll have the best drain system that'll never clogg up. You can lay some stone over the top, but not much because I don't trust chipped stone as it'll compress more. Kind of like pea gravel which has 100% compaction. 6A stone, is rounded, and measures from sizes 1/2 inch, 3/4 inch, 1'', up to possibly 2 inches. All that in combination will create a good air receptacle. When the drain crosses over the road perpendicular, line it in schedule 40 pvc or something else that won't crush. Or just couple the 4 inch slotted tile right into solid schedule 40 as it crosses over, so you won't need to sleeve corrugated tile across the road.
That tree looks just like an Aspen species on our property that has been described to me as "quaking aspen" but I actually think is the bigtooth leaf your friend describes, it seems common here in upstate NY in mixed maple and oak forests...not high on my list for firewood but when it's free and already on the ground we go with it
So I know I’m late to the party on this one...but as I saw you dragging that log it reminded me of the guys who drag their kayaks down the water, but they have a little wheeled contraption holding up the end to make it easier and prevent damage. Do they make something like that for logs?
I have 150 or more big tooth aspens on my property. Cut down an eighty footer 2 weeks ago. I Strongly dislike them because when they fall the path of destruction is huge. Only being on this 100 acres for a year, I haven't had much opportunity to thin many. The firewood is a nice clean burn, half the heat of oak, but I can drop a tree in March and burn dry wood in October and you get a full bush cord from one tree. The last one I took down and the next 4 or 5 will be logs for my mill that will arrive next week. Soon I will have plenty of 1 x 4 or 5 for strapping. L
Looking for/forward to the video on that French Drain, I have a few of those springs right in the middle of my main trail that does the same thing...constant bother
Mike, It may seem like old hat to you, but you do an amazing job of spreading gravel with a loader bucket. I'd swear you could see inside the bucket. Must take a feather touch on that bucket control.
Aspen is an "early successional species": often one of the first tree species to come into a site when an old farm field is abandoned, or a disturbance happens creating a clearing. They tend to like drier sites (unlike Cottonwood, which often grow along stream shores or other wetter areas). They are fast-growing, but don't live very long. A stand of aspen will often start to decline at around 75 years old, though individual trees may live a bit longer. They are not very shade-tolerant, so once they get beat of for height in the canopy they will start to decline. The size shown in your video is a pretty good size for an Aspen. I would not be surprised if this one was old enough that it was just time for it to go. A stand of Aspen can have some tremendous wildlife benefit. The catkins are good food. A young stand of aspen saplings can provide great habitat for some species (especially Grouse), and the saplings provide browse for deer in the winter. However, if you want to keep it in Aspen, you have to cut the mature trees to promote regeneration (they sprout prolifically from the roots of old trees once the stand is opened up to let sun down to the forest floor). Mike - I'd urge you to avoid the temptation to continually "clean up" your woods. Wildlife like a mess, and coarse woody debris (i.e. large downed trees) is great for a wide variety of species. It's one thing if they are good sawlogs or a good firewood species. By all means, put them to good use. Something like that Aspen, is a good candidate to be left in the woods to rot and provide wildlife habitat.
That tree looks like an Aspen or poplar. You should never put a tree stand in one. Poplar will burn but if you tried to rely upon it for heating your house you would probably freeze to death! Best thing to do is split it and keep it under cover for at least six months. I burn it in the fall or spring when I don't need as much heat by mixing it in with oak and maple to get rid of it. Up hear in NY the furniture companies like poplar for framing couches and stuff that gets covered because its lighter and easier to work with yet is still considered a hardwood. It's worth something as a sawlog and nothing as firewood. You still need to test drive a Ferris IS 3200 zero turn. You'll be amazed!
I think your friend Steve is right about it being an Aspen. Up here in Northeastern Pa. my grandfather always called it Poplar. They can get pretty big but almost always snap off or blow over. I cut up just the log of one a year for my early spring and fall firewood. Seasoned a full year, it throws off just the right amount of heat for days when you need just a small fire and don't want to overheat the house.
FYI- they say it is in the larger genus of the Willow tree.... Just googled that bit... Lol... It's a shame really because if it were good I would have plenty to sell... But not a big deal because here in southern Ontario we have lots of good hardwood species.
You should try a Country Clipper. They use a joy stick for control, on the right side and a comfort handle on the left. Fastest blade tips in the industry. With gator blades, you can brush hog with them.
Here in Ontario we call this tree a "poplar". Other names are Aspen or Cottonwood. They are definitely water loving, fast growing trees but are always blowing over and are a very "soft" hardwood. They are garbage as far as firewood is concerned... They hold water and rot very quickly.... No one looks twice at a poplar and some people refer to them as "gopher wood" because as soon as you finish putting it in the stove you have to "gopher" more. I would say the only thing it is good for is to sell it for campfire wood along with white birch and pine....
Before I had a loader I usually put gravel in my tire tracks with a shovel. It wasn't necessary to have any in the middle of my drive way. Watching this video has given me the idea to load the bucket, attach some kind of baffle to the bucket's center to direct dumped gravel to the edges of the bucket then unload it where it's needed. Has anyone ever tried anything like that?
we have them here in new brunswick aswell, i wouldn't even bother cutting it. they hold alot of water, smell really bad, they don't burn good and take 2 years to dry.
I envy y’all ! Never had the money or finances to acquire a place like that, but I do have about 6 acres. Like you, I can’t stand to stay in the house and my wife helps when she can, but she has MS and that limits her time outside. I do plant a huge garden each year. My two kids, who are grown, gone, and married with kids of their own, say I plant enough to feed half the state of Alabama! I do end up giving a lot of produce away. It’s really funny that I don’t see our neighbors a lot in the winter but when it comes planting time they start driving by the house and waving. It’s all good though and I joke with them about it all the time. No that you are truly blessed with what you have and I really enjoy watching you and your family on the videos. Y’all have a good-un!
It's an aspen up here in Maine we a popular tree that's the same suppose to be a hard wood but asks more like a sore wood you can burn it but I would use it more as boiler wood or burning in a out door fire pit awesome video and by the looks the tree stand had seen better days
Find youself a old car hood and drill holes in it to put your chains on it. use the hood as a skid plate under your log. How did you get so lucky to find a good looking helper like you got?
Mike the tree is what we call in Vermont a poplar tree or cottonwood other places we are cutting about three loads a day right now of these trees for whitehall plywood in new york state but that is what it is 100% sure of it
My guess would be a poplar , at least it looks like the ones on my property anyways . I believe out west they call them low land Aspen . I’m not sure what it’s called but the contraption that hauls propane tanks would work nice on hauling those logs .
Great video M&MM. It was nice here in NW Georgia, maybe 83. We were out working on the pool, couldn’t get the motor to start up; my daughter fixed it. 😄 Someone doesn’t think you have enough to do so they go around knocking down trees, 😅. Blessings to all, especially Hunter! 🤠
Hey Mike, My guess is a Quaking Aspen, I had one and it fell too, they normally rot out from inside out, bottom 10’ of trunk. Stuff doesn’t even burn, I heard they make match sticks out of the wood because of the the low flammability. From across the state , Chester County, love your videos
Here in central PA there a lot of those trees. For that whole family of trees we call them quaking aspen. They are not very good for firewood as they seem to start rotting as soon as they die. It does burn but you almost have to sit beside the stove and keep feeding the pieces in as it burns very quickly. You will find out how soft the wood is when you cut it. Say Hi to the amazing Hunter for me.
MAN YOU HAVE A GREAT HELPER , YOU ARE BLESSED
Melissa, I can relate to growing up playing in the woods or bush as we call it. My two sisters and brother would fill entire days playing hide and seek, crawling through hollowed out trees, riding our dragsters over logs and making ramps to jump over, looking for the perfect forked branch to make sling shots. I remember when I was about six years old Dad made us the best Christmas present I ever got, a tree house. I would come home from school and every afternoon take my glass of milk and jam sandwich and sit in the tree house, I still go and sit in it when I visit Mum and Dad at 61 years old only now with a cup of tea these days. Great memories.
Finally Got The Big Log Out Of The Woods!!👍👊
You are one lucky man. So very few do what they love. And, so very few have a wife that supports them.
Melissa, I bought myself a Toro 60" Titan 2000 HD with Myride suspension last late summer...I nearly "killed" myself running up one of my rock gardens, and tore the mailbox off cutting the corner too short....on my first time out! A week later, cutting close to the lake with the ground a little soggy, got stuck a little with the front wheels but got loose and applied just a bit too much power, and almost jumped into the lake....to find just the right amount of correction and the left/right/split thing was a learning curve, but after 3 weekends of mowing, I had it all down. We just lost the last of our snow so in about two weeks we will probably be ready to start mowing again! All the best...love your vids.
Melissa, if you have a moment, pls ask Mike to checkout the Channel "Swedish Homestead" and the video posted today "The Swedish Iron Horse" - I think Mike would be interested to see both the new Stihl 550i carboratorless saw and the Swedish Iron Horse mobile to pull out lumber. Enjoy!
BTW - if you burn wood, Poplar (Aspen) works great for fires early and late in the season. It burns hot and fast so you can get that quick warm up in the morning without it holding a ton of heat all day. Try it.
I recently stumbled upon your videos and enjoy watching. The partnership between you and Melissa reiminds me of my own marriage. As the father of a 13 year old son with Autism, I appreciate you including Hunter in your videos.
Aspen/poplar makes great kindling, splits easy.
Melissa has great tractor safety awareness! love the way she stayed back till you made eye contact, not everyone knows to do that. I think you could really benefit with a log arch Mike, and when are you getting your Woodmizer? ;)
I thought the same thing. Too often folks don't realize that an operator has limited visibility and hearing, and approaching the equipment unnoticed can be a dangerous proposition.
May the Lord help you with this mighty work while you are almost alone. Greetings to you and your family, Bahaa from Iraq
Here in our neck of the woods, Central NY we call those trees Poplar which are very similar or just a different name for Aspen. It makes good fall or spring firewood when only quick heat heat is needed., as it is a soft wood species. It does make some very nice furniture lumber when sawed and dried. A lot of 1800's furniture made from it, plus buggy frames., because it was easy to bend and form. Loren
I remember playing in the woods as a kid. We would be out there for hours like Melissa mentioned. Anytime outdoors is quality time!!
I would make a bench or two out of some of your logs and put them down by your pond. Beautiful spot. So far I'm very impressed with the RK equipment. I wish we had a RK Store in the Erie area. Tell Hunter we said hello!
As you and Melissa were going down that trail there at about the 12:00 minute mark,..I can get a good idea of how steep this is. I never noticed that before. So, good hauling for the RK-55 and that 4500+- pound red oak log.
You two look so happy at the end of the vlog. Speaks volumes! Blessings!
Mike I watch so many of your videos that I can’t get anything done. So load up and come give me a hand. Another great video. Keep up the great work. Enjoy life everyday
Looks like aspen, maybe quaking aspen. Have lots of them in Michigan. Fairly fast growing but short lifespan. Great campfire wood.
I love how you and Melissa, as well as the rest of your family, interacts with each other. True love! Have a day!
Everyone cuts their woods out so thin, I dont know why no one leaves more mature trees on their places?? Great job on the red oak log that was gutsy!!
Glad the 3 point attachment worked out that buddy Tom made. Big tooth is great camp wood dries fast. Take care.
That looks like a poplar also known as a Balm of Gilead. They use those to make pallets.
Well done getting the saw log home,
Great video Mike and Melissa, looks like your forest is being weeded by nature. Get it in time and you have good wood, and fire wood too. Some of the trees are not fit for much. Liked the way the tractor and the three point attachment sure did a good job also. Say Hey to Hunter. Thanks for sharing.
That was really cool with the call in to Steve!
Reminds me of my days living in Grizzly Flats, Ca cut a lot of good wood back then when I was much younger, to dang old now at age 83 but have good memories of my sons, both have been called home to be with the Lord.
Mike, I mentioned this before but I think you would be well served with a logging arch to move the heavies and keep them clean, You may find it easier to yard out lengths of firewood and buck them up in a staging area. I like the way you spread crushed stone, you make it look easy.
hi there do they make one for that big and heavy of a log ? thank you john
Someone please send this man a log arch. There has to be a manufacturer out there that wants some good publicity.
Do they make them that big?
I built one. 3 foot with a 6 foot slide in extension. Kinda weird the one they use.
@@troyeager8877 I built my own street-legal log arch years ago: 4 feet wide, 10 feet long. Hauled a ~5,000 lb log (also red oak, >42" diameter, ~12 feet long) about 7 miles a few weeks ago.
I have played in the woods like that too Melissa. Kids today don't know what fun is unless their parents show them.
I just noticed your buddies UA-cam channel just showed up in my suggested videos just from you mentioning it. There are days I miss just having a flip phone...
Its a quaking aspen,I have several on my property in WV, They are not good for anything that I know of! Love you guys videos,I have 143 acres,much of it wooded, I do alot of the same things you folks do,and love it,love the outdoors!!!
Hey Mike, Melissa drives the Ranger much slower in the woods when you are along LOL
Your buddy is correct. Some sort of poplar/aspen/cottonwood--they're all in the same family. I personally don't burn it, takes too long to get it dry enough. I tried to hand split some once and it actually splashed me, lol
No matter how long it dries, poplar still makes way too much creosote
Would be ok for boiler wood
Hi Morgan family! Glad to be here.
We have a lot of big tooth aspen in this area. Longer lived then most aspen. Gets up to 24 inch’s in diameter. Valuable spies used for making paper and wafer board. Rick Superior, WI
Felled a big tooth aspen on our site last year. Thought I was bringing down a maple, but when I could see the leaves at ground level, they weren't maple leaves ;) The wood has a distinctive, and to my mind, unpleasant, smell to it when you cut it.
Great job on the oak trunk. You definitely have a lot of firewood. Hi from North Wales 👍🏴
Wow, glad you weren’t in that stand when the tree folded!
In NH we would call that a Poplar/Basswood not great for firewood but makes pretty flooring boards and great for carving when slowly cured, has a clean grain with few to no knots when milled right. Really appreciate your videography and content keep em' coming!
I LOVE the denim PAINT Melissa uses for shorts! lol Love the channel you guys! John from Rochester!
Steve’s right. Certainly out of the Popal family. Would need to see a leaf to be sure, Big Tooth Aspen. I live in mid Michigan and we share a very similar Forest silviculture. Cottonwood, Poplar, Aspen all very similar. The woods are great this time of year. Enjoy
My wife and I love watching y'all from West Monroe, Louisiana.
Boy I could make alot of guitar necks out of that big ol oak!!!!!
You guys always have positive attitudes and smiling, very inspirational. Regards from the UK.
From the Morgans in Oklahoma to the Morgans in Pennsylvania. (If I’m right in that) We enjoy your videos. Thanks
Northern New York, Aspen was used for barn beams. Sawed or hued out then let dry undercover, in a few weeks, it dry's supper hard and strong. Left outside, you can actually watch it rot. People love barn beams, just an old Aspen log.
I think the tree is a pennsyloakcedarpineaspen tree :) Too bad on the crushed deer stand! That's like abuse! LOL
I think Steve is right about it being a large tooth aspen. It’s a very popular pulp wood for paper mills.
Glad you’re getting some great weather. I get the same feeling you do when it’s nice like that.
Keep on tractoring!
Such a great piece of land you guys have!
French drain is a good idea. I am still laughing about her saying "what do you think your doing " !
Be extra careful when you mill that log for gravel caught in the bark. May want to debark the whole side that was dragging on the ground as the blade will be damaged by even one piece of gravel caught in there.
Mike maybe buys a bandsaw with a spring tensioned hardmetal tooth small circular sawblade before where band get into wood? Usually fix that problem anyhow. If the stone is bigger sawblade throws it away so be careful because they usually have no tight guards.
Pressure washer!
why would he mill cottonwood? they are pretty useless and smell like crap. its very weak wood that takes a long time to try.
I’m talking about The Red Oak log which he is planning to mill. He dragged it through the new gravel he just put down.
@@madsciencegary3830 oh my bad, i didn't realised. but you are right, bandsaw blades don't go along with rocks
Hi Mike,
Here in Ontario, we call that tree a poplar which is in the same family as the aspen.
I like your videos, keep at it!
Aspen. We call them Poplar in Eastern Canada - one of the first to grow after a harvest or opening in the canopy - grow fast, but are weak. Makes okay firewood in a pinch - burns hot but not long.
they snap very easily
This sure beats politics! I love the woods. Enjoy your idyllic spring evening.
IN Canada we call that a pople tree i do beleive good luck with it.
Thanks for great videos
I had it pegged it for an Aspen as you drove up to it. We have entire mountain sides of it here in the Rockies.
It is a poplar, aka aspen. Saw it right off... They grow like weeds in my region of VT. For the most part, many folks up here consider it junk wood, however it is a hardwood that can produce some beautiful grained boards for floors, walls, etc. as well. I throw some in the woodstove, helps clean the stovepipes. Gives off very little if any creosote.
The future French drain running alongside the trail, drag a 12" or 14" log along that edge, shapes it up real quick & as I have previously mentioned, line it with some road fabric, some folks call it tiling.
Lay down your stone, piping, more stone, done... Material stays here, won't head for China...
Mike, you need a winch or perhaps you already have one & I haven't seen it yet. I am looking at a " Igland " tomorrow hopefully, model # 4501 ( rated t 10,160 Lbs. ) for my 3 point hitch. Comes with (3) cinches & I will invest in a " snatch block " too. Comes with 165 feet of 3/8" cable that runs on a single enclosed drum. With the blade down, you can grade with it too, forward or reverse. This will be the " game changer " for you by bringing the tree logs to you, not the other way around... Not to mention getting yourself or others unstuck!
Best,
Bill on the Hill... :~)
what kind of tree stand is that? A bent one. LOL. great video beautiful property you have there. Love to l watch the videos. thanks
I'd go with the Big Tooth Aspen, given the location, the bark, and the rows of lenticels around the trunk. The buds and twigs will also tell...
Yesterday was indeed marvelous. Although, I spent most of the day transporting Pt's, back and forth. Anyway, with my new hrs. 11:00 till 7:00p.m. So most of my yard work now is done on Saturday, if it's not raining. Enjoyed the video.
Mr Morgan; When you put a french drain along that bank where the springs are coming up, dig the trench first, lay landscape fabric in that trench, then lay your 4 inch slotted drain tile on top of the fabric, fill the trench with what we call 6A stone which is not chipped stone but rather natural rounded edges to create more air pockets, then lap over the landscape fabric to make a "sausage" so to speak, pin it all together using landscape pins to keep soil out of the trench, and you'll have the best drain system that'll never clogg up. You can lay some stone over the top, but not much because I don't trust chipped stone as it'll compress more. Kind of like pea gravel which has 100% compaction. 6A stone, is rounded, and measures from sizes 1/2 inch, 3/4 inch, 1'', up to possibly 2 inches. All that in combination will create a good air receptacle. When the drain crosses over the road perpendicular, line it in schedule 40 pvc or something else that won't crush. Or just couple the 4 inch slotted tile right into solid schedule 40 as it crosses over, so you won't need to sleeve corrugated tile across the road.
hi there . i will bet its hollow . any wood that burns is firewood . take care from carrol md
ehhh avoid pine, it makes sap and clogs flues .. but sure burn it
@@NotMuchHere hi three well i hear you but out west thats all they have i think john
Looks more like poplar to me and that is soft wood too. Burns extremely hot!
That tree looks just like an Aspen species on our property that has been described to me as "quaking aspen" but I actually think is the bigtooth leaf your friend describes, it seems common here in upstate NY in mixed maple and oak forests...not high on my list for firewood but when it's free and already on the ground we go with it
I grew up playing in the woods it was awesome
That tree looks like an American basswood. Very common tree in eastern forests.
So I know I’m late to the party on this one...but as I saw you dragging that log it reminded me of the guys who drag their kayaks down the water, but they have a little wheeled contraption holding up the end to make it easier and prevent damage. Do they make something like that for logs?
Nice content. God Bless.
I have 150 or more big tooth aspens on my property. Cut down an eighty footer 2 weeks ago. I Strongly dislike them because when they fall the path of destruction is huge. Only being on this 100 acres for a year, I haven't had much opportunity to thin many. The firewood is a nice clean burn, half the heat of oak, but I can drop a tree in March and burn dry wood in October and you get a full bush cord from one tree. The last one I took down and the next 4 or 5 will be logs for my mill that will arrive next week. Soon I will have plenty of 1 x 4 or 5 for strapping.
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Looking for/forward to the video on that French Drain, I have a few of those springs right in the middle of my main trail that does the same thing...constant bother
Logger Wade could probably tell you what kind of tree that is...🌲🌳🌴
I'm a new watcher I'm enjoying these videos thank you
Mike,
It may seem like old hat to you, but you do an amazing job of spreading gravel with a loader bucket.
I'd swear you could see inside the bucket.
Must take a feather touch on that bucket control.
Forester school tells me that is a big tooth aspen not good firewood. Great videos keep them coming!!!
Yep aspen it is.
Works Great in my Wood Stove, it definitely POPS A lot tho. Great starter wood just like dried out pine. For Wood Stove Only.
Aspen is an "early successional species": often one of the first tree species to come into a site when an old farm field is abandoned, or a disturbance happens creating a clearing. They tend to like drier sites (unlike Cottonwood, which often grow along stream shores or other wetter areas). They are fast-growing, but don't live very long. A stand of aspen will often start to decline at around 75 years old, though individual trees may live a bit longer. They are not very shade-tolerant, so once they get beat of for height in the canopy they will start to decline.
The size shown in your video is a pretty good size for an Aspen. I would not be surprised if this one was old enough that it was just time for it to go. A stand of Aspen can have some tremendous wildlife benefit. The catkins are good food. A young stand of aspen saplings can provide great habitat for some species (especially Grouse), and the saplings provide browse for deer in the winter. However, if you want to keep it in Aspen, you have to cut the mature trees to promote regeneration (they sprout prolifically from the roots of old trees once the stand is opened up to let sun down to the forest floor).
Mike - I'd urge you to avoid the temptation to continually "clean up" your woods. Wildlife like a mess, and coarse woody debris (i.e. large downed trees) is great for a wide variety of species. It's one thing if they are good sawlogs or a good firewood species. By all means, put them to good use. Something like that Aspen, is a good candidate to be left in the woods to rot and provide wildlife habitat.
I agree with Milessa on that one I also prefer a steering wheel sorry if I spelled her name wrong I'm only 11yrs old
That tree looks like an Aspen or poplar. You should never put a tree stand in one. Poplar will burn but if you tried to rely upon it for heating your house you would probably freeze to death! Best thing to do is split it and keep it under cover for at least six months. I burn it in the fall or spring when I don't need as much heat by mixing it in with oak and maple to get rid of it. Up hear in NY the furniture companies like poplar for framing couches and stuff that gets covered because its lighter and easier to work with yet is still considered a hardwood. It's worth something as a sawlog and nothing as firewood. You still need to test drive a Ferris IS 3200 zero turn. You'll be amazed!
I think your friend Steve is right about it being an Aspen. Up here in Northeastern Pa. my grandfather always called it Poplar. They can get pretty big but almost always snap off or blow over. I cut up just the log of one a year for my early spring and fall firewood. Seasoned a full year, it throws off just the right amount of heat for days when you need just a small fire and don't want to overheat the house.
FYI- they say it is in the larger genus of the Willow tree.... Just googled that bit... Lol... It's a shame really because if it were good I would have plenty to sell... But not a big deal because here in southern Ontario we have lots of good hardwood species.
You should try a Country Clipper. They use a joy stick for control, on the right side and a comfort handle on the left. Fastest blade tips in the industry. With gator blades, you can brush hog with them.
Man you have lots of toys to use outside. New to your channel.
We always called them Quakin Aspen. We sold a bunch to pallet makers.
I'm impressed by the RK 55, with that mud I was sure it won't work
Here in Ontario we call this tree a "poplar". Other names are Aspen or Cottonwood. They are definitely water loving, fast growing trees but are always blowing over and are a very "soft" hardwood. They are garbage as far as firewood is concerned... They hold water and rot very quickly.... No one looks twice at a poplar and some people refer to them as "gopher wood" because as soon as you finish putting it in the stove you have to "gopher" more. I would say the only thing it is good for is to sell it for campfire wood along with white birch and pine....
I live in southern Manitoba and we have what we call a poplar tree. The beavers really like it. And it is a softwood it’s not good for anything.
I like what Melissa said about playing make believe. We would do that for hours.on end. Great fun. Do kids play make believe any more?
soft trees...oyster mushrooms grow on these..yummy.
Before I had a loader I usually put gravel in my tire tracks with a shovel. It wasn't necessary to have any in the middle of my drive way. Watching this video has given me the idea to load the bucket, attach some kind of baffle to the bucket's center to direct dumped gravel to the edges of the bucket then unload it where it's needed. Has anyone ever tried anything like that?
Definitley an aspen. Here in northern Ontario Canada we call them Poplar.
we have them here in new brunswick aswell, i wouldn't even bother cutting it. they hold alot of water, smell really bad, they don't burn good and take 2 years to dry.
@@ryy597 I agree, Mike has enough on his plate as is . Processing crap popple is a waste of time in his case.
@@junkersish exactly!
I envy y’all ! Never had the money or finances to acquire a place like that, but I do have about 6 acres. Like you, I can’t stand to stay in the house and my wife helps when she can, but she has MS and that limits her time outside. I do plant a huge garden each year. My two kids, who are grown, gone, and married with kids of their own, say I plant enough to feed half the state of Alabama! I do end up giving a lot of produce away. It’s really funny that I don’t see our neighbors a lot in the winter but when it comes planting time they start driving by the house and waving. It’s all good though and I joke with them about it all the time. No that you are truly blessed with what you have and I really enjoy watching you and your family on the videos. Y’all have a good-un!
It's an aspen up here in Maine we a popular tree that's the same suppose to be a hard wood but asks more like a sore wood you can burn it but I would use it more as boiler wood or burning in a out door fire pit awesome video and by the looks the tree stand had seen better days
pretty much useless if you ask me lol
Grass is looking pretty good. I seem to remember u doing an early "frost seeding". Does that seem to be working?
Yes it did! Worked well
Find youself a old car hood and drill holes in it to put your chains on it. use the hood as a skid plate under your log. How did you get so lucky to find a good looking helper like you got?
Mike the tree is what we call in Vermont a poplar tree or cottonwood other places we are cutting about three loads a day right now of these trees for whitehall plywood in new york state but that is what it is 100% sure of it
Looks like some Quaking Aspen on my property. Very similar to the Big tooth Aspen.
My guess would be a poplar , at least it looks like the ones on my property anyways . I believe out west they call them low land Aspen . I’m not sure what it’s called but the contraption that hauls propane tanks would work nice on hauling those logs .
Great video M&MM. It was nice here in NW Georgia, maybe 83. We were out working on the pool, couldn’t get the motor to start up; my daughter fixed it. 😄 Someone doesn’t think you have enough to do so they go around knocking down trees, 😅. Blessings to all, especially Hunter! 🤠
PHONE A FRIEND!!! Hey Steve!
Hey Mike, My guess is a Quaking Aspen, I had one and it fell too, they normally rot out from inside out, bottom 10’ of trunk. Stuff doesn’t even burn, I heard they make match sticks out of the wood because of the the low flammability.
From across the state , Chester County, love your videos
Here in central PA there a lot of those trees. For that whole family of trees we call them quaking aspen. They are not very good for firewood as they seem to start rotting as soon as they die. It does burn but you almost have to sit beside the stove and keep feeding the pieces in as it burns very quickly. You will find out how soft the wood is when you cut it. Say Hi to the amazing Hunter for me.