The world needs more guys like you Buckin! A young man's greatness is his strength, a old man's greatness is his gray hairs. Love you brother

The talking is what kept me here. I haven’t watched in quite some time mostly because life got busy but so the talking. We like it.

Ok Buckin Bill Ray. I’m 72 year old and I have decided when I grow up I want to be just like you. Thank you for putting kindness out there. 👍

Thank you Buckin for being yourself love you brother

This is the most wholesome channel on KZfaq! Great content keep up the good work and positive message brother. The longer the video the better.

You’re a legend, Buckin’! An inspiration to your own boy and to all the people. The people’s wood man, Bucking Billy Ray Smith

Love you brother, glad you’re still with us! Love you all! ❤✊

Pretty humble for a super experienced rig set up. I reference your teachings in my work pretty regularly. Great content

This place is wrapped in goodness and kindness. I’m talking about everyone here making this place so amazing.

Buckin I'm working at 69 years young but I feel you brother about not being the big dog in the yard and have finally learned to just live a calming and fulfilling life. God bless you Buckin and keep filling our hearts with love and happiness and peace.

Some would say an odd anniversary but certainly a very important one for sure. I know the feeling you have and the appreciation of life because of it. We have a guardian who is full of mercy and we all should thank Him daily. Love you brother 🙏♥️

Your a great man!!! So glad i found your channel. You give me so much inspiration. Dang!!! Your such a role model. Thank you! Thank you!

I love you opening up. I’m 56 and can relate to your position in life. Love your positivity, but also love to see the other side of Buckin 🥰. The old school tree climbing / rigging vids are great and it would be sad to see them lost to just newer techniques. Take care, from your mate in Australia, Paul

Your authenticity is the secret sauce! Great content as always. I'm 50 and a disabled power lineman. I can relate to a lot you talk about! Keep it up Brother

Always room for learning something new in a buckin video, That's why I keep watching.

Buckin Bill Ray the Bob Ross of the tree world.

Love you billy ray. Your one of the best men I ever got a chance to know and I hope one day I can leave my pride and attitude behind me and have love in my heart the way you do. I learned a lot from you and I get to cut trees like you. I have a lot to learn still but all the knowledge I have of falling trees I learned from you. I've always been a great hard worker. But I still struggle to love myself to wear I can love others how others love me. I've always struggled and learned the hard way and I'm stubborn as hell. The way you are with people is amazing, and I wanna be like you. I wanna be happy like you and love like you. Thankyou for being here in my life on KZfaq and teaching me a good skill so that I can help others just simply by running powersaw. I talk about you to everyone about how awesome you are. You are my favorite person and my favorite youtuber. And i hope one day . I can be like you. My life wouldn't be the same without you. Thankyou for everything that you do. Thankyou for being my friend it means alot. Love you buddy🙂

Always teaching on this channel, so much you can learn to do a better job. Thanks for being such a inspiration to me

The climbing videos are heart racing, you can hear in your breathing that you are working physically to accend and decend the tree. Being a hippie tree climber i climbed with no belt and no ropes and no power saw for a few years... several hand saws, lots of pruning and cutting dangerous limbs, over houses near windows and definitely close to power lines. Over the years I've acquired safety gear, belts, harness, ropes and electric chainsaws. It wasn't until 1999 that i got my first gas power chainsaw of my own. My buddy (physical trainer) reminds me that I'm not 20 anymore, just randomly blurts it out and that alone helps me to take time for recovery, and to maintain a slower pace. Sorta like saying "pace yourself " and take breaks. Got 3 giant dangerous trees to prune before I'm done, they look at me everyday and call me to climb. My ripped up shoulder is just about healed up for climbing again. Been thinking of building a web net for relaxing in the tree between prunes. Every cut needs rigging and gentle lowering, roofs and road are in the drop zone. Improvisation is super important because each tree jam is different. Thank you for your tireless effort to reach inside of each person and uplift the spirit to a higher level of gratefulness. 🐾👣🎶⛲

We all know you save what could be saved. Be safe brother man!

Been Watching your channel from your big back leaning madrone vid years ago. You just do as you feel, it’s great stuff. The two in one is perfect for your style of trees you have up there.m, simple effective I sometimes run one on removals. Love your style reminds me of the fellas I learn from 20 years ago, simple effective professional. I went through all the new stuff modern gear for climbing but I just go back to simple rigging it brings me more joy. Thanks so much for what you give. I work 7 days most weeks climbing and falling, you just reminded me to say kind and grateful. Thanks mate

Got a hand me down leather saddle, and set of buckingham spikes for helping my womans uncle with his last climbing job hes ever gonna do, he gave me all his stuff for helping cause he wants out of it after all this time. I feel so blessed in this life. Thank you for what you do brother.

Impressive work old man. You still got it brother 💪👍

Hi BB. I'm never climbing a tree! Even though you make it look so easy. But I do appreciate the skill no end! I love the wood splitting at home and have bought some nice old axes thanks to your advices. Les Australia

Love you and your family 👍 God bless everyone and Cheers…

By all means just throw that content at us, Buckin' 😄👍🏻. The less time you spend editing, the more time you have to do the things you love, and I think we all want that for you ❤

A good life leaves injury, If I haven't left a little blood on a job, I wasn't working hard enough.... but now I'm over 50, I'm starting to feel the bumps and falls from 30 years ago, They hurt more now then they did then. but we can not stop, every hard worker I've watched retire , without something else to do , they don't last long. My body won't last any longer lobster fishing, so I just rigged up for tree climbing, So far I'm lovin it. Gotta keep working at something...

Good sir...... You have spoken and put into words what has been in my heart for quite a while now. I am at the point where my very best contribution is to give back and open the door for those behind me. I want to make everything easier than it was for me. Love you all...❤❤❤ Dr /Lt. Bradley

Buckin, your one of God's special people!

Thanks for sharing all your knowledge!🙏 it’s helped me so much on clearing this land . Clearing I mean safely felling and getting the dead wood out . Have a long way to go but your knowledge and videos have helped me so much and for that thank you again! Back to cutting soon as I have 7 acres . Cheers 🍻

Wow.. thank you for that brother.. remind me of my dad when he talks about not being the man he used to be..

I thought I was the only guy in the country who climbed in an old buckingham belt for almost 18 years. Gotta weaver 1035 two years ago and it's still different with the smaller d rings. Thanks for everything Buckin. Need some new spikes next Thanks again stay safe.When I saw that green tag it was a pretty warm feeling. My dates 05 . I fell in June of 2021 and I just don't believe in luck brother I just loveya

Good afternoon sir, good seeing you. Thanks for your time.

Mad Love Brother!!

As you've said before.. The hippie logger!!! ✌️Thx, another great video.

You are the most relatable person on KZfaq, talk sense, totally understand what you are saying im 39 and have all sorts of pain but not ready to slow down yet

August 20th is my day that everything changed for the worse at the time but really humbled me for a lifetime and I'm thankful and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't learn from that day or it has been able to help other ppl

Finnaly i have been wanting more ropemanship.

Hi Buckin . I love to watch you climb . Good to see you got some new equipment to keep you safe when climbing

You are being used by God to help people more than you know God Bless you

God bless bucking hope all is well my friend love the videos as always God bless

Keep on Buckin on brother. Thank you for the posotive vibes and great content. Been watchin for almost 3 yrs. You never let us down.

Deja vous. Aww, that's really awesome for you doing that as a reminder to your family.

Buckin billy ray I love you buddy ❤️

Hi BB. I'm never climbing a tree! Even though you make it look so easy. But I do appreciate the skill no end! Les Australia

I really liked this one! Keep going buckin!

I know what you mean about alpha male, had my business with seven employees, I’m 66 you can still do it but, instead of always proving you can do it, you take a back seat, and help others. My wife said I used to be a d__k, but now I try to be more of a help. It’s still fun showing off to the younger guys when they still see you can keep up, I tell them when they are 66, remember me. 😁

Hey Buckin good to hear from you brother. I'll say it like I was told, getting old aint for wussies 😂 We aint spring chickens anymore

Love you. BBR your videos keep me moving

Been awhile 👍nice new gear keeps ya safe and sound on those tree days on the vertical..

I see you still like the old tautline buddy, thats real old school. I have tried the tautline for the experience, but i did have some creeping with it - perhaps because i was using a split tail? I use the blakes hitch for my set up. Great content as always Billy! God bless you sir and thank you for all you do. Love the positivity

I wish I could enter to win that saw so bad that saw is absolutely beautiful I would love love to have it especially from you like I said buddy money is hard right now times are different never had problems in my life with money I always worked hard I always worked 6 7 days a week now everything is so expensive I have a family it's crazy I don't even know how a lot of people are even doing it all we can do is keep pushing forward do the best we can and be happy we're alive and healthy God bless everybody I wish nothing but the best for everybody God bless you

Set up a ground camera. Mad skills, much respect

Buckin I’m 56 and I know exactly how you feel friend

Great content love it the climbing thing looks dangerous bigtime if you screwed up your rigging . It hits home to hear you talk about your 2006 injury I had something similar happen four years ago all good now but it wasn’t good for awhile ! Be safe

Ahwoooo get one 👍❤️

Great tutorial Buckin’ thank you fine sir! Thank you

I freakin love you brother i would love to meet you in person shake your hand look you dead in the eye and say thank you! Your such an amazing humble man. You have no idea what youve done for me and my family i hope one day i can meet you and talk to you face to face. Your an inspiration to my boys and I. Im alao glad your goin back to long form i really enjoy the longer ones

Enjoyed the video so far. Waiting to see the cut and fall of the tree. Let's see how the rigging worked.

Hang safe and tough , cool cat !! Mo cow bell 🔔 🤣

Awesome rigging brother, ya maker look easy😊😊 and I'm definitely gonna be popping into the store to get a set or two😊 of those false tongues!! WICKED SWEET! thanks for what ya do brother

Peace and Happiness to everyone. Have a great day

We don't stop we just slow down

hopefully, in july, when i get my N, im thinking about seriously finishing off my forestry story with climbing again. When i first started, i did climbing, and i did groundsmen now. I'd like to finish off with climbing, so im pushing for it hard. because right now not being in the tree industry isn't making me feel accomplished or useful like i did when i was climbing

You’re welcome Buckin’ Thank you. I’m entered. My company sure use a big saw from you.

I love your channel thank you so much for sharing

I'm impressed you fit in a medium

We recognize immortality as something palapable.

God I love u man!

GOOD CHOICE ON THE NEW GEAR SAFETY FIRST ,,NICE TO SEE YOU BACK CLIMBING 😁👍👍STAY SAFE BUDDY ,,,WELCOME ALL NEW COMERS HOPE EVERYONE IS DOING WELL

Did a white oak a few weeks ago that i couldn't get my 15 foot 2n1 to hook back to my harness had to rope walk the first 30 feet lol

You would love the monkey bever saddle

Goooood Monday friends

THEM ALDER TOPS SNAP OFF JUST BY BEING LOOKED AT OR LESS THAN THAT

So, those spurs. Are they more comfortable on the shins then? Enjoy the new equipment ✊🏻☺️🌳🌲

If any of these big old trees you knock down have any decent grain structure, would love to see them get sawed proper to make a guitar, make music if you can for somebody. Cool to hear you are a "tree man" and not an aborist but use some common sense... A very old oak was deemed unsafe for the state park...and sure enough...the aborist said just build a fence around it for safety and it should last another 100 years :) It must be hard to let go of some of these beauties.

i use the 1081

Climbing gear and methods old and new are always interesting. I wonder if aluminum pads can be retrofitted to my Klein spurs that have L pads currently. Or are those actually Buckinghams? Opsal might fit both Buckingham and Klein steel spurs.

Just Baby Step, the rest of your career and you will be just fine. I like the slower style, people learn more.

Shaclank!

BE KINDER

When are you going live chat again? I'd love to say hello

Hi bother hope your well your an inspershon to and everone lobe u bother

Dose your chili have beans?

Hey bucket, Billy rice, it's me again Bradlee knight You were asking me how old I was. Well, I'm 19 years old. Yeah, i'm still trying to find the mcculloch super two fiftyYou were asking me how old I was. Well, I'm 19 years old. Yeah, I'm still trying to find the McCulloch super 250. I'm probably going to go after a McCulloch. 1010 Pro math. Then I wanna go after a McCullough weed whacker.

Nice video bill, stopped watching you a while ago as didn’t like content. It was like you’d gone soft trying to hang onto the past of what you used to be. Think that affects men mentally a lot but rarely spoken about. Keep your head up

When are you coming to North Georgia to buck and cut old Red Oak windfall for charity. It’s a different animal than North West softwood.

That’s about as old skool as putting leeches on someone with high blood pressure because they had too much blood in em….

Why are you Spiking a tree that's not being removed