Those rounds of hollow log make fabulous planters!! I nearly cried when you cut them up.

Happy Mothers Day to your wonderful Wife and family ! Family, Community service and Fire wood , a great American indeed

I love the way children help you Mr Koch-----♥︎♡♥︎Blessed Mothers' Day

I was all puckered up when the wood was rolling out of the truck. With my luck, one of the rounds would have knocked a hole in the side of my building. Lol. Thanks for sharing my friend. Happy mother's day to all the moms out there.

My wife has the same system of time as her! Smart women make men functional!

Man the backhoe made unloading the brush trailer easy for you guys.I always dreaded unloading brush.

I love that you have the kids out helping. My teenage boys have to help with one thing around the house per day. Sometimes it a quick 10 min take the trash out and other times it is an hour of cutting brush and raking.

Happy Mom’s day!! Hard work and family time is what life is about. Great video Thank you!

Happy Mother’s Day! I see they look just like their mother too .

That log would make several very nice owl nesting boxes. Great natural look the owls will like and appreciate.

Love it when parents include the children when doing task. That builds muscle memory of what it takes to do a task. Prayers to you and your entire family 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Amen!!!

My dad found a surprise in a maple tree he was cutting up for firewood. A piece of barbed wire. The saw had no kickback safety and kicked into his face - thankfully it had almost stopped by the time it landed. Still took over 100 stitches to fix. Chainsaws are no joke and are dangerous equipment.

There is nothing like kid/power!!!❤❤

You’re an inspiration for all DIY projects! Please keep going!

Lucky man Great family time.

A work ethic in kids…duly impressed…our 4 kids started chores at 4 years old and know what ‘work’ really is…😊

Your community is awesome!

Great job I knew you hit something, that saw stopped cutting instantly. What a beautiful machine that splitter is 😮

Amazing how the tree grew around that insulator.😮🤯. 👍. God bless.

Brush removal from the trailer worked slick!

I saw the word hickory and decided to watch, I am fascinated watching the complete process although I may never do this I always like to keep open my options. Great video and watching the children work is heartwarming for this old man who's children are older than you.

I really enjoyed your video and thank you for sharing it with us😊

Great video!! Oh, and you need to strap down that tractor! 🤣🤣🤣 I couldn’t resist!

As a wood turner i sure wish i lived next door so I could help and salvage some of that tree.

It appears that the purchase of the log splitter was absolutely a correct expenditure of funds. That is the most awesome splitter in the right place for splitting and stacking the wood.

Beautiful family and hard workers. My Dad and his neighbor were always borrowing my Stihl saw. I learned quickly to keep extra chains and a bar on hand.

The ladies are beautiful and hard workers, kudos.

I would have loved a crossection of that hollow trunk for my garden. Amazing, so perfectly hollow.

Have to admit that in alot of your videos, there is something in them that make me sentimental and slightly emotional. I think it's the family values and the fact that I'm getting old sentimental. Lol Thanks for sharing and putting out great content!

Great stuff thanks Neil !

Enjoyed the. Video! You are Blessed having a beautiful helping family! 🤗❤👌

As a city gal I had no idea splitting logs was now done with a log splitter. My last impression of log splitting was an old history photo of Lincoln with an axe. That's a fantastic machine. I wondered if the logs could be used as firewood and dispaired when I saw the dump truck loading them up. It's so good that you could use the wood and not discard it. It was fun learning about all this. Thanks for sharing.

Pretty easy when have that kind of equipment and that wonderful help.

I liked to see this work, because it brought in my mind teenage time, when I did same work home 15 year old girl.

great job.happy mothers day

WOW! You have some nifty toys!

You and your family - included your grandparents, cousins, uncles, aunties, brothers, sisters, in-laws et al - are legends. well done..

Morning Neil! I feel your pain on the hidden metal!! I just did that last weekend. Hit an old deer stand climbing peg that was entirely covered. 😒. Happy Mother’s Day Kara!

“Off for a coffee and the Library” good stuff!

That was amazingly fast , congratulations!

A hand held metal detector is very useful when cutting trees. Around 20 bux at Harbor Freight. Nails are like bullets when hitting them with saws.

Happy Mother’s Day

All wood mills have a story of hitting metal in timber, when I was an apprentice in the mill we were putting 9 inch by 12 inch through our 26 inch rip saw and there was a loud clang and someone shouted "duck" and a piece of metal flew round the shop pinging and whizzing around, when we all come up from our "safe places" we found a large piece of wartime shrapnell. Many years on and in my own shop I was putting some timber through the Rip and clang, I hit the floor, waited for the all clear so to speak and after a look round found an ancient large flint arrow or spear head!

It's an insulator, @ 12:30. Very dangerous intrusion in that tree! Glad you are safe!!

You have the best helpers ever! Many hands make the work light.

Neil - truly enjoy your videos. You're like the guy we'd all like to be with your easy approach to a solid work ethic and family values. SO glad I found your channel, and couldn't wait to share it to my own friends.

Nice presentation, well done, see u next time

Really good video, well done. Thank You.

Wow !! Just wow…that was awesome watching….. I did it the old way, so blessed life is a tad easier now !!

Your daughters are adorable.

You are so blessed. Hope you know that and praise the Lord! thanks for the video

Another great video Neil as I sit here n enjoy watching with my two daughters while my wife we let relax for her day lol happy Mother’s Day Kara n Neil’s mom and all the other mom’s out there god bless

You have some good helpers. They didn't seem to mind doing all that hard work. One of them even found time to practice her dance moves.

Very nice !!! pretty good music too 🎶

I am glad the tree is going to be used and wasn’t thrown away.

Great video as always glad to see the kids always helping my daughter is only 3 1/2 but she helps me all the time she doesn’t realize we aren’t just doing a job but making memories

Was nice to hear the time there.

Nuthin' like a powerhouse of machine when the project presents itself! May all of you be protected from it whenever it is serving you! : )

Thank you and your family for all your work at the park. Great video

This was the first time I've come across your site. It showed things I have never seen before or had any though of. It was very interesting and enjoyable for me. I will continue watching future videos.

Great vid, tops to see the community and Family pitch in to help. From a warmer part of Aust, so snow is non-existent. At the 13.8 part, if that is a snow shovel, good use as a chip scoop.

I love that the girls work with you!

I like The teem effort and positivity. Thank you for the video I subscribed.

Very enjoyable from the uk 🇬🇧 x

I like the video 📹 ☺ ,thanks. Happy mother's day 💓 💗 💖 💛 💕 ♥ love to all mother's. 😊😊😊🎉😂😅❤❤❤

I'm a trucker's son (military (veteran) and private sector), with that said, wheeled and tracked equipment that is transported via flatbed, lowboy, etc whether by road or rail needs to be cross chained to the transport apparatus. In other words, a chain attached to the front left to tie down the point of say, a tractor is to be attached to an attachment point on the right side of the flatbed.

Beautiful family.

Again I commend you on your great work and pride in your community. I also think it's great how you include your family in so much that you do. I too feel the pain of the hidden metal in a tree. Mostly it's been barbed wire for me but once it looked like the top finial of an old fence post.

Great job love your videos thank you

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Brilliant work.

Right tools, make work speed by!😊

Got say what a great feel good watch, from the UK 👍

Great video,nicely done,but I was a little surprised you dumped that wood right between two unprotected metal clad walls,a sheet of 4x8 plywood on either side would have been my idea

As always, Neil, great video! And one time I was helping, my neighbor cut wood, and we found an old gun in a tree growing right in that octagon barrel ruined a couple chains as well. Maybe that’s what you should ask your listeners what kind of unusual things they found cutting wood.

Awesome stuff mate..!!👍😎😎

Great family project!

Interesting video, well done.

It's so nice to see such a beautiful family God bless you sir 🙏

Nicely Done! Worry about the building siding when the wood gets dumped in the splitting shed. I have hit some metal when working up some wood and it certainly never makes me or the chain very happy!

Great to see the whole family chipping in to make quick work of that tree!

I own a tree service and found about a 4ft piece of rebar in a trunk today I'm glad I had my tractor on the job. Was able to just load that whole chunk without cutting it. Need to open that face cut more in the video you can see where it closes and hangs just for a second. If it wasn't hollow it would have just stopped. Depth was good

Fist time visit and loved it.

Good video y’all

What a cool log splitter!

Neil… when you said ‘maple tree in the park’ visions of a post covered with nails and screws, like a cocklebur,popped in my mind. Think how many posters of 4th of July, family reunion, concert, etc events have been posted on that trunk. That you didn’t find them is really surprising. However, that insulator is a real find. My guess is that was where the power leg for the shed (or it’s predecessor) was hung. I’ll also venture a guess that there are some aged folks still around who remember seeing it peeking out of the bark. It made my heart glad to see another community bonding event…. Hug Kara and Mom tight because mothers make family bonding events possible!

Hello from the Netherlands Koch Family . thanks for the video Neil . Sincerely Hollandduck

I buried a stack of old coins in casted with wax in a jar in ridge way VA when I was a child. They were old and I'm 60. Good luck.

Nice work Koch family and friends. You have a great community spirit there in your town. Happy Mother's Day to Kara and Neil's Mom!!

Great job!!

Great job keep up the great work love your videos thank you need more videos

good video and job good to see wife and kids helping.. you may want to get a metal detector chains are out of reason now. happy mothers day to your mom and wife. take care, be safe and well.

Happy Mother's Day, Neil and family! Hitting metal is the quickest way to dull a chainsaw, for sure. I found a large chunk of chain link fence in a tree once. It made quite a few sparks. I like the design of your splitter. It seems having the ram vertical with a table under it gives you quite a bit more control that a horizontal splitter, even if it wa swung into a verical position. Looks like it would be easier on your back too. Thanks for the video! -mike

Those girls throw blocks like pros! Maybe try burning that stump from the inside out. Half the work is already done!

I worked on an old cam-driven splitter back in the `80`s, it was just on or off, no pedal or switch to lower the arm, so I took notice when the boss said "never grab at a stuck log, let it sort it`s self out" Good advice..

The officials running Queens Park in Invercargill (NZ) felled a few large trees. Walking by the stumps soon after I found that one of them had grown around a river stone, rounded and blobular in shape, the size of my clenched fist. The saw had very very lightly only just missed it, I dug it out with my pocket knife (took a while!) and may still have the photos somewhere. I'd heard of trees growing around things but until then didn't really believe ...

The wood with the holes in them would make awesome planters.

LOVE WATCHING THE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY COME TOGETHER TO WORK , LEARN, LAUGH AND ACCOMPLISH A GOAL. THANKS FOR SHARING , I REALLY ENJOY THE CONTENT!!!!!! 👍👍👍

brilliant work!

Enjoyed the video. Great to get the whole family involved! Do a stump burning....those videos do well.