We have a lot of "house farms" here in Central California. I always say they are planting more houses to raise more fruits and nuts.

That's a tad more sophisticated than the skidder we used in the late 70's - a 4wd Ford 5000 with a small winch & a chain bar on the back. 😁

Makes me appreciate what a homesteader with an ax and a mule accomplished in the day.

It was good to see both of in the video. This was an awesome video. You handle the logging machinery like a pro. I have thoroughly enjoyed the logging and for including us in the experience. The aerial views are the greatest. 👍👍❤🇨🇦

They must have an mind blowing maintenance budget.

You can't dredge a pond with that Chris! Lol 😆 😆 😆

A lot of the south east was logged out then used for cotton. Once cotton was no longer viable, the less fertile land was abandoned & reverted to forest. Huge swathes of GA are just like this - kinda odd coming across a Civil War cemetery in the middle of miles of forest, with abandoned roads & farm buildings gradually disappearing back into nature.

That was cool. The loader picking up the logging trailer. Wow.

There's old growth left there just deep in the woods, awesome video Chris, thanks for sharing 🌲💪🇺🇸

These Machines are Big Bad Boys with what they’re capable of picking up and moving around.👍

Since I live in South Africa and always follow your channel, I decided to "fly" over North and South Carolina on Google earth . Very green and it explains all the ponds and trees.

Following your IG posts from the Utility Expo in Louisville. Glad to see you with the AMI folks! Looking forward to updates. This video is MEGA-awesome! Thanks for posting! 👍

How fun was that!! Chris you are Mr. Machine for sure. But OMGosh! That last one you operated, the wiggler, that thing nearly beat the stuffing out of ya!! 😳

Look at all them toothpicks you rounded up. 😆 🤣 😂

'Just back it in anywhere, I'll put it where I want it " 🤣

That's how he makes a living too! Clearing land for houses and businesses, building ponds, etc.. He might as well love it, it pays the bills and buys food.

It’s interesting to see you both do the same type of work but different styles 😊👍

Cool stuff! I'm familiar with these machines from watching Swamp Loggers from way back!

East coast Timber has been logged since the 1600s. So the " Old Growth" was cut long ago.... and fairly often.. roughly every 40-50 yrs... The last " Old Growth" I know of was cut from the Dismal Swamp during a bad drought in the late 70s when the ground got solid enough to bear the weight of machinery...

The next time someone complains about the camera picking up a lot of background noise. Feel free to remind them that this is a construction channel. Keep up the good work.

Most likely clear cut! Farms might have been there, and died off so new trees sprouted up. I see it on farms through western KS to Colorado. Families die off, or don't want to farm, taxes are owed and the states take the land. They just let things go back to original or sell it to property developers. The big commercial farms have put a lot of family farms out of business too.

👀👀 LOOK AT THEM TREES 🌲🌳

I love articulated heavy equipment.

Dang you two had fun! Thanks for sharing and was interesting to hear your thoughts on the operating of them

That was cool, look's like LD18 & DP are still having a blast...

That's some good looking logging equipment they have there! Chris, the way you and Mike like to work in a mud hole,😁, y'all should have went on to visit Bobby Goodson. He might have let y'all log in the mud and water all week. ☺ Thanks for sharing this with us. I used to work in the log woods years ago for my mom's family but our equipment was nothing like this. They did have grapple skidders and knucklebooms but cut timber with chainsaws. Enjoyed your video as usual. 👍

In Missouri, the whole southern half of the state was clear cut and no old growth trees left in the 1800’s. They were cut, milled and hauled off for railroad ties to go across the prairies to the west. During the depression, WPA paid many people to plant trees .

If you are in NC, 80-90% of furniture was made there for over 100 years, plus hardwood was used as a heat source

Well it's actually a good video I enjoyed it to see and to know that you are versatile enough to get behind the wheel of different tractors and vehicles I enjoyed the video and you did something that a lot of people never had a chance to do behind the wheel of a skidder

...i'll bet they kept you away from diesel fuel and a torch...lol...good one, keep safe..

Glad to see so many views on a logging video. Can't imagine how great it'd be to own an operation like that.

I saw that. Chris is way over there and still threw saw chips almost where yaw are stranding.

Chris you never stop surprising me with your talent on any machine. Damn you re good and talented. Thanks for the deviation video and take care.

Over 30 years ago i drove a cable skidder with no brakes on hilly terrain for less than a day just to try it out. I went back to driving semi. I also ran a slasher that takes the full tree and cuts it into different lengths depending on the species. I could run a loader on a truck with the clam/claw type bucket verses the grapple pincher type. I went back to driving semi. lol One day i got to run an antique loader truck that used cables, before hydrolics were around. That was a blast throwing the bucket at what you wanted to pick up.

It s a joy to watch machines working...

My grandpa had an expression “A fartin’ horse is never tired”. From the soundtrack of this video, I reckon that skidder will run 24/7/365

Good video, different from digging mud. Strike any kind of job. Knowledge all kind machines.

I grew up in a paper mill town and I can't tell you how many hardwood forests I saw clear cut and planted in pine. I understand it's business but, it is heart breaking to see beautiful, productive hardwood stands clear cut to nothing.

Your old growth forests in the south were the longleaf pine savanna’s. Before settlers showed up it’s estimated that they covered 93million acres from Virginia to Central Florida and west to east Texas. Those pines were harvested for lumber to build the south as well as using the turpentine, rosin and tar and pitch for trade back in England and use in boat building. There are few places left where you can still see some of those hundred year old longleaf pine trees.

A Tigercat is one of the best logging machines ever!

A gigantig wood area is to feel. Chris and Mike to make a visit, and Chris to try the Tigercat out. He have fun near. This video is informative to close up and of Drohnen admission. Very good representation.

Glad you explained the grapple brake - it was pissing me off - "Grease it, damn you!" Now I get it. Cheers.

Aren't there some ponds that need building? Or equipment to work on. I know, how about convert an old military truck into a dumper? Lt. Dan is feeling neglected. Take charge, Chris.

Lol you two should co.e out here to Washington state to see how it's done. And out here the trailers ride on the truck to get to the woods or out here what we call the landing

Great video thanks a lot guys now I understand how all them big old ruts got out in the back

Just tickled to death to see you two playing so nicely together. Nice vid Chris...as always.

In the west we call these trees toothpicks. It is nice to have flat ground to work on.

Just like usual another excellent video👍👍

Reminds me of Swamp Loggers. Bit more dusty :p Peace

Very cool and very interesting. I think digging and moving dirt is more fun, but I do have a great respect for the many that work hard at all of this kind of stuff. Unfortunatly in my area (north Florida) we are seeing way too many "house farms" springing up everywhere. It makes me glad that the homestead that we bought is surrounded by woods with the neighbors and I competing to buy up anything that comes on the market to prevent "house farms" in our area.

I've always been told that every tree on the East coast, 100 miles in, was clear cut a long time ago. Many went for ship building for England ? A few were left for boundary markers ?

Thanks for sharing Chris!👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

That would be a blast to try! Good job guys.

Well Chris, when we lived there in the Raleigh area I never payed much attention to it, BUT when we Moved to N. Floow’da I was asking WHY there were so many old tobacco barns back in the woods 16:59 and I was told that when the government buyout of tobacco all the farmers swapped over to the pine 🌲 trees, mostly for the pulpwood mills. It took 17-22 years for pulpwood and 21-25 years is all they would wait for the timber going to the sawmills... but Geezz, Even THAT is going by the wayside now.😱🤔🤷🏻‍♂️

Been around logging most of my life love being around it u did great Chris

This was interesting. I watched as they clear cut timber on neighboring land. Changed my view considerably. Just scab there now. At least I have some atmosphere back. Can’t beat the Oak and Hickory. Pine and Sweetgum just aren’t the same.

Great video bro and thanks for taking us along. Safe travels

All Chris can think is who's going to dig up all the stumps.

They are very efficient at what they do. A crew cleared about 100 acres near me. Literally trees no trees in a matter of weeks.

Bloody hell, when I read this out of the corner of my eye I thought you said dogging.. mildly relieved when I reread it correctly.

The [CC] for this one are golden! Lots of (applause) (music) even a WoW 😳😆🤣

Here in Washington State the forests have been cut since the later mid 19th century and the trees we have now are hitting fourth and fifth growth forests. The only old growth native trees remain in the national forest and some of those are huge but they aren't like the Redwoods, they're spread out across the countryside and not in detectable stands of old growth. That said, we still average trees about 3 to 4 feet at the butt, even in residential areas.

Thanks for the logging video. Logging operations do seem like organized chaos to the outsider. Guess the crew knows what is going on

You can tell those trees are fast growth. They are 5 inches around the base and 40 feet tall. All they are good for is making paper products. There aint enough wood in em to make a 2x4 each.

Toilet paper is getting short again, time for more pulp wood!

Sickening the mess loggers leave of the forest floor when they are done, along with the endless stumps!

This was very interesting, thank you.

.smacks head off both sides of skidder cab- “we’ll, that’s a little bumpy” 😂

Yes.... Top 20, bucket list complete!!!!!

The man was born to ride all sorts of earthmovers construction equipment.

That looked like fun!!

Thank you great footage

I guess it is true the difference between men and boys is the size of their toys

The stickers were a “Perfect” idea.

So that's where toothpicks come from, small tree's!

Only one machine cooler than a Volvo excavator and that's obviously a tigercat skidder, it was completely understandable that Chris is on a job experience in the bush, 😆.

Great video Chris. Looks a big site for housing. Take care.

Your going to have fun stumping this area!

You and DP both need a lot more time in the seat to be as good as them guys. Nice video, and Thanks to the loggers for letting you guys do this.👍👍

Looks Like SO Much Fun!!!

During a break in service I found myself a new father in Great Falls Montana. There just weren't many decent paying jobs out there so I decided to try logging. I was 35 and thought I was fit. I started out as a choker-setter and worked my way up to yarder operator in 8 months. But MAAAN, running up and down 45-55 degree slopes trying to keep up with a 19 year old kid damn near killed me. It was fun and at times very dangerous but I regret getting out of the business. Hats off to you guys for learning more skills!

Love the drone films.

That’s pretty cool brother, that thing will definitely trim your toenails! lol 😂

Great to get invited to the Tigercat logging show.. watch Thomas Johnson run his logging show in LA and get some great lessons on the tricks of that trade.. upside as well as downside.

You might want to take up Bull Riding after this!!

That machine is a different kind of "tree hugger".

Chris thanks for sharing! Kevin

Those Fellar Bunchers are pretty cool how fast they can clear an area.

Chris reminds me of Heavy D, loving to operate heavy equipment.

Looks like you have a good stumping job coming up

Awesome! Just…AWESOME!

Well done!

Incredible power.

There is NO Way in GOD’s Green Earth 🌍 that you would Ever turn down that type of Invite. 😬👍

Sounds like the grease worms got to the hook swivel. 😂

I'm sure you were thinking about your grading bucket running through there!

Good video!💪 Coming from Hollister NC

Very cool video. I think you guys were having a blast. Imagine if LD18/DP had some of those big boys toys to work with. Hate to think how much for a new tyre💸💸💸 Drone footage was good as well. Take care & cheers from 🐨🦘🥰

I'd like to see the machine they use to get the stumps out. I have seen a few videos from across the pond and I saw huge tractors with kind of a giant ring and pinion that they drug along and just pops the stumps out!

As far as I know and what I have read the only old growth on the eastern sea board is in a few places in the Smokies. The northeast for homes, fuel and earlier for ship building the south for homes and farming. Very rare to find old growth