The old tree saw more history than any of us ever will. Whenever I see a large lone tree I need the middle of a field, makes me think it was special because some farmer generations ago let it live!

experienced equipment operators are special to watch in action... smooth, calculating, and precise a pleasure to watch

My goodness didn’t realize how huge the tree was till you stood in the hole, good job, thank you for your videos.

Tell the Farmer, "Is this where you want to build the now house? I got the basement hole dug already."

Dammit Boy !! When you walked down in the Hole with it , I was like , WOW !! That was pretty awesome Chris.... Have a Great Evening...

I really enjoy your videos. Lived on a 115 acre "ranch" for a few years growing up and these videos take me back to watching drag lines clean out the stock tanks, cutting hay, and the joy of hard work and skill with machinery. Life took me down a different path...but these remind me of great times.

8:50 you forget just how big that machine is

Nice video big old tree . You did a nice job with it! Thanks for sharing

Excellent job Chris !! I love how it split the stump in half when it hit the ground !! Less work for you now in loading up the haul truck

I watch quite a few equipment videos and it's real rare I see that someone really knows what they're doing. You're so fluid and efficient with all the small motions and simple tasks within the big ones it's damned impressive.

I definitely would have metal detected around that one!

Very big tree, you can say three of them, amazing operation Chris 👍👌🌳🌳🌳

About 5 times larger than I thought when you stood next to it.

Sad for the tree. Nice done!

Wow she got bigger & bigger as you walked up on her! Nice work bud👍

I'm sure it helped to have a few thousand viewers holding our breadth and helping you push.

Putting you guys in the pictures sure gives a different perspective of the size of the trees. Holy jeebers that was a huge triple!

One thing for sure, that's the best chain saw I've seen.

They used to graft two or three saplings together to make a really big tree. We had a beech tree that three adults could not touch hands stretching around the trunk. When it was taken down (185 years old) you could clearly see how it was done even after all that time.

One word wow when you stood next to it

Excellent skills!

Make sure you got that cab door shut and you'll be alright 👌👍

Wow, some biiiiiig tree Chris!!! That's one big story to tell, made the pair of you look like toddlers!!

It was nice that big thing falling altogether and not snapping on you. Great job!

Impressive show of what that machine is capable of in the right hands.

Back in the day they used block ang tackle to remove the stumps from fields thats why there are a lot of fields that have one big tree remaining in them

Your placing the log on the trailer was a work of art.

I love all ur videos coming all the way up here from Steelton Pa right outside Harrisburg Pa here! Keep them coming!

The size was very deceptive until you stood next to it. Wow. Nice job.

Run into one of my biggest trees 2weeks ago. Around 5 or 6 feet across. Huge I mean I couldn't even hardly roll it. Great job.

Be interested to know a rough age on that tree, it might of been a sapling in the times of civil war!

Really cool watching a tree getting disassembled by a large machine ! thanks

I would love to see that old tree made into a beautiful farm table.

Wow ! That was big . When you walked in that hole -that told me the story -cool .

Great job. Massive trees.

Glad to catch that video. Pretty impressive the way you knocked that one down.

We had a big bruiser like that, in our cemetery. It had basically done the same thing. Rotted from the middle, out. It took the light company 2 days, to cut it down, chip it up, and not hit any headstones. They left the base of it, for us to deal with. The main body was 7' in diameter. The two forks, were 4' each. Great video as always Chris.

love to watch you work, you are so good at what you do: make it look so easy !!!

I have several large Live Oaks that size in my yard. But my soil is pretty much sand. That was really something to see you drop it.

Those dead limbs , we call widow makers. I took down a red oak that was 5ft. In diameter with a 690e . It looked like the tree from Avatar .

Take a few minutes and count the rings from center out.

Excellent video sir thank you for sharing an accomplishment of that size I was very impressed when you climbed down next to that stump

Bloody brilliant. Tip skills dude. I'll watch it again.

Poor old tree but that was some size a good few hundred years old.👍

Nice work mate. I don't like seeing big old trees cut down but that one was dying, needing to be put out of its misery.

A tree a day keeps the doctor away 😉 That’s some tree Chris

It would be great to watch the log cutting on this one for sure !

Holy hell!!!! I wasnt all that impressed until that 9:31 mark!!! Holy Tree!!

Its nice to see you have your CT3 shirt on for tree work day lol

That tree was suffering from Volvo Burrowing Beatles. They are quite prevalent round Chris's way.

Where most people would have thought a chainsaw and a bucket truck would have done the job, Chris comes along with his excavator and proves everyone that there's a second way of taking down a tree.

I sure would love to go metal detecting under that stump and around where you dug all the ground out. I bet you there would be a few old coppers and silvers coin in there.

That was an interesting vid , I enjoyed every minute .

"That's a lot of wood right there." I see what you did there!

If i had half of your skills in that machine id be very good at it. Nice video

That is one big stump. Nice logs to make lumber.

Wow!! “Objects in the field are much larger than they appear”

The 220 didn’t want any more than that lol nice tree

Chris, you ever thought about a 1-tooth ripper for digging stumps instead of a bucket? Curious to hear your thoughts on that.

Naw you going down in that hole pit it in perspective lol, that's a monster

Kinda sad in a way, seeing that old tree die off. The stories it could tell. How old would you guess it is? Well done. Thanks for the video.

Big tree have a good weekend

Awesome tree and job to fell it. I'd like to know how old that was, I can imagine counting those rings would take a while!

That certainly gave the excavator and a good work-out Chris, how did it take from start to finish?

That is one big tree. I had a 100 foot eucalyptus fall over in a storm years back, the root ball stood a good 8 feet in the air and tree trunk was 4 feet in diameter. After cutting the tree up into many cords of firewood I had a massive root ball to deal with... I ended up burying the root ball under a good 8 feet of dirt with my backhoe.

First thought: DY-NA-MI-TE! My wife got a little property that has about 6 trees like that in a straight line about that size. There's a single oak at one end that I am impressed with.

Muito bom, com está escavadeira Hidráulica com concha e está garra , ajuda muito,eu trabalho aqui no Brasil litoral de são Paulo a muito tempo mas ainda não tive a chance de trabalhar com uma escavadeira Hidráulica com está garra. Você domina bem este equipamento parabéns.curto seus vídeos 👍.

Faithful Tim with the chainsaw, 😁 thanks from the UK.

I just dug up a pine stump Friday with a Cat mini ex, I was probably 6 feet deep all the way around it before I finally got it to break loose.

You ain't kidding thers alot of wood there lol great vid bud and godbless

Farmers used to use rope and pulleys on a main big tree they left in the field to clear the rest of them out. Maybe that was the purpose of that one.

A tiny bit more work and he's got a new pond there. I know just the guy for the job!

Excellent video!

Damn that's a huge tree you never cet to amaze me Chris, the 220 strikes again excellent job as always 💯

Finally, now we can see what's happening. Terry

That’s more like a stump crater! 😮

I do believe that is some good ol poison ivy climbing up the left side of that big boy.

what pressure and speed setting do you have programmed for the thumb ? i know you can make it super quick or slow like molasses

Looks more like a cluster of three trees with the separation being so low, when they grow like that they're on borrowed time as soon as the trunks start to touch. A shame really, if it had been just a single tree it could have been even more impressive.

Wow that was huge! Jack will be happy! 😁

Back in the early seventies we used Dynamite to blow them . You didn’t have that big root ball to worry with.

I've sawed some lumber before andhadeadwood will make some decorative stuff. Some of the prettiest stuff comes out of trees like that./new subscriber, marathon time

Hell you dig out a tree and built a pond at the same time. Did I ever tell you just how good you are? Lol

Love the two views of the same fall. That’s one huge root ball. Wow

If you ever look around in old fields you will sometimes notice one tree. The reason is back in the olden days they used to use steam donkeys and pull the trees over. The steam donkey was anchored to one tree and pulling on another. This would happen until there was no more trees but the last one the steam donkey was attached to. Most times this tree would be in the middle like this video or on a shared property corner so that the other farmers could use the same anchor tree This is the reason why these trees are big and old.

never met a tree i couldn't get. nice that was on big tree.

You can see why root balls tip dozers over

"Not gonna go to waste" Fair play Chris.

Dad gum, the ground is as hard as the tree!

TIMBER!! What a big mocker!! To big to catch or throw, so you did a little balancing act 8:25 👍 You Da Man!!

Nice job that thing was a large

Damn that’s a big tree Chris

Your going to need a really big chipper!

I reckon he could pick carrots with that thing!

Amazing!!!! But all I could think the entire time was poison ivy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! eeesshhhhhh

I kept thinking about how nervous Tim (Cotonto3), August Hunicke, and Buckin' Billy Ray get about dead trees, and hoping it didn't fall on Chris. At the end there, I thought there is no way in hell he is going to be able to push that tree over, and if I'd seen the size of the stump at 9:30 I'd have bet serious money against it, but Chris so knows his stuff. Right down to getting the extra height to increase leverage. Impressive as always.

I took down a few big ones like that in my career so far and look forward to taking down many more keep digging my friend and I'll do the same 0:51

Yep, thats a stump hole! HA! I winched over a large Oak that was hanging over our house. Yep, I had to dig down about 4ft, halfway around the base. But then My F250 winch pulled it right over. I uploaded the video on it. I'm letting the trunk dry out, then I'll slab it up with my chainsaw mill.

That’s impressive.

That is a big stump! I would have had to burn it down, or the old fashioned way; Blow it up!