Draft Horse Logging for Local Lumber
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- Cedar River Horselogging owner Tim Carroll fells a massive oak tree for use in a the house building project for Ginny and Jeff Pomije, owners of Big Black Horse - a Pony, draft and carriage driving supply company in Minnesota.
Jeff hired Cedar River Logging to find, cut and mill trees for the project from the woods of their 40 acre, 100 year old family farm. Tim harvests ash, red elm, maple and, for the purpose of mantle wood and quarter sawn oak, he harvests a giant oak that was hit by lightening at some point in time.
This video follows Tim step by step from evaluating the tree to milling the log.
Tim cuts th tree using two cuts, the face cut followed by the plunge cut between the hinge and the latch. He then cuts the log into a manageable length for his horses. He demonstrates the proper method of cutting the large log to prevent splintering during the cutting.
Next Tim shows how to attach the chain properly with the slip hook on the backside of the log - giving the horses some leverage on the initial pull.
Tim points out safety tips as he is working. One important tip is to face the horses towards the work so that if they get spooked, he has a chance to get control of them, which is impossible if they are facing away and take off.
Tim's horsemanship and his well trained Percheron and Belgian team are amazing to watch. Tim maneuvers them in a very tight space to expertly skid this massive log with the team hitched three-up. the draft horse team has to skid this log out of the woods and up a significant hill before reaching the level road. The footage shows the extraordinary power of these horses.
Lastly, we see footage of the log milled on site using a portable sawmill.
Thanks Tim for a nicely done video of the cutting, and draw/skid. you and the team worked well. I can see your efforts with them paid off. Thanks again for sharing.
They’re beautiful animals and you are doing a great job with your beautiful horses they used horses years ago to do logging
An expert at work nice to follow. Thanks for letting us watch
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Very good video
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO LOVE TO SEE THE HORSES WORKING
Hi Michael!😀
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Nu -i milă de cai de-i ține-n frig, cât așteaptă să taie omul acest copac ....
When I was a child loggers would use huge mules to drag the logs out of the woods these mules would come down the mountain dragon chains behind them and go right to the barn they were very large mules and we would sit and watch them come down the mountain dragging their chains after a day's work they would go right to the barn
What an enjoyable video. No muss, no fuss, the guy just knows his stuff. At the 8:10 mark he really showed his experience in logging, where unlike 98% of other UA-cam guys, he cut two blocks and placed them to bracket his cut where he cut his butt log off. Then he could slide his chain under the first and the second logs with no problems. And, he cut a nice low stump, no wastage there. His initial chain hitch was perfect. He got the log to roll to his advantage and though he didn't mention it he was pulling the butt log from the small end, which is easiest, and pulled it initially at 90 degrees which is easier too. I need to quit going on here, but for rookies wanting to log with smaller tractors or horses where you have relatively low pulling power and you have to use every advantage you can, watch this guy's every move. He knows what he's doing.
Thankyou for your input. I learned a lot from video and your commentary.
Yup, you can tell he has a LOT of very good experience. He's a great example of who to copy!
This is very inspirational to me. I have a Wood-Mizer and a Boom Truck but I want draft horses. I'm pretty good with animals but I still wonder what the learning curve will be like. Horses are very useful and their manure is the best (in my opinion) for compost in the organic garden. Now I have to truck it in. I love and lust after your Lucas Mill but ya can't have everything! I want it for wide slabs only but the Alaska mill is too good for that to justify the expense. I'm going to cut down all the timber on a whole hill on my property and replace it with a food forest. Happy New Decade and God Bless!!!
Nice job!
Center of the log is called the cant for a reason because you cant get good board from it besides a rxr tie
I seen it and still cant hardly believe it three abreast wow.
I always worked my Belgians three abreast in the field, but only two or even one in the woods. I have Amish friends that often work five across in the field ( I am a Mennonite logger and sawmill owner ).
Very impressive video but the driver sticking his hand between the log and the cart (16:30) could easily have resulted in a painful accident.
Looks like a Farmer Brown Logging Arch. The "Cadillac" of logging arches/carts. Check them out on FarmerBrownsPlowShop website.
Yes it is thank you!
😁 cool call of duty 👍
Nice video Tim. I can tell you work with them horses alot. Nice little jiggy cart as well. I know some guys like a longer bar on there saw. I always ran a 20 inch my self. Have you tried a semi skip chain ? Thank you both for sharing with us. Be Safe and have a great Christmas.
This logging cart is Farmer Brown's Logging arch designed and built by Farmer Brown.
would doing work like this be easier with blocks and tackle systems?
Cuting dead wood with a monster 30" chain is so bad for keeping it streight Cutting its what i learned over years ill use to saws and big 36 is for only big wood seems when i start bucking with big bar it wont cut straight weather i hit dirt or any thing
Those horses had no problem with that chunk of oak
What will you do with that oak over there,girdle it??
Looks like that saw needs a scrub on the chain!!!!
hola., que arboles son esos?
A wonderful work, excuse me. There is a note. The way to pull a tree trunk is wrong. It must be lifted slightly from the front so that the friction between the tree and the ground decreases because the hor The horses are making a lot of effort, thanks
Farmer Brown's Cart...copied but never duplicated.
File the chain
LOL you ran into a tree
Your saw is dull or needs to be sharpened differently for frozen hardwood. Your face cut or what I call undercut is real bad you left a big dutchman
Not safe one step away from a runaway
All that with only a 3 horsepower sled..
That's laughable dragging that cart around get rid of it and get to work.
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Maybe 100 years old the tree n you cut out....!! I hope, you plant another tree instead? Because your family breathes the air! and.... Air, made in TREE! :) :)
Nuh you burn the wood along with old oil and used up paint tins; coal and car tyres; used up vinyl car seats; batteries creates heaps of CO2 and in turn huge vegetables and trees.
What ? why not cut trees to use, especially the dead ones ! Trees are the only renewable resource.
@@TACTTWoodworking That's a chicken poop thing to say. Keep your vulgarity to yourself!
Dead fucking tree blocking the sun for younger shit. Controlled fall instead of into the forest killing thousands. Eat fuck.