Cool, I will have to watch him sometime, maybe I will learn something.

@@WilsonForestLands at 10:12 you can see the master at work, but he wears sunglasses , I think he wants to stay incognito, a modest fella

yeah, he is really good at that

Thanks for that comment, I do put a lot into the camera work. But you probably get more done than I do since I am fooling around with the camera so much.

Thank you, I am happy to be on the list.

@@WilsonForestLands Mine too man, love the content!

Yep and if the extra hot dry summers continue, it may only get worse.

Thanks Scooter 👍

The first one is an Oregon white oak. If I remember right, those growths are related to mistletoe. I am guessing there might be stubs of old branches underneath. If I remember, when I go back to get the rest of the big tree out, maybe I will get a close up shot of them in that video. They are unusual looking. Both of the ones I cut down are California black oak. Thank you for the kind words John.

I was just trying to think of a smart a@@ comment to reply to that with, but I’ve got nothing. I will look forward to hopefully getting one from you on another video.

Let’s see, what month is this? June I think. I think it was back in February I did a little bit of sleeping. In December, sometime around Christmas, I think one evening I dozed off for a bit. Actually I do have a lot going on but I do make getting a good night sleep a priority. Thank you for the comment.

If only I could figure out how to get the tight squeeze to take off the stobs off flush with the log.

Yes those things do help. I am sure it was even easier on your end.

Thank you, kind of you to say.

when they are that far angled it is usually a previous storm (or other tree) that caused it, but they stayed rooted enough to survive for a few decades (eventually they would still die because higher trees take their light

It depends on where I am. If it’s a part of the property where I want it to be clean I will burn the slash. Otherwise I will often just lop it up into smaller pieces with the chainsaw so it will lay close to the ground and decay faster. Also reduces wildfire hazard. Over at my coast property, I usually just leave it where it is because it rots so fast over there in that damp climate and wildfire danger isn’t a big concern.

It has been a very good winch. I would offer to trade you but I’m not quite that nice of a guy. 😁

@@WilsonForestLands haha 😄,i can see in your videos you are good worker thats important!

Thank you for the comment.

Good, every once in a while I try to slip the illusion of that in somewhere.

Yeah me too, I’m not sure yet what fancy stuff I will need. I haven’t decided which way I want to drag it out yet. I am definitely not above using the self releasing snatch blocks.

I have only done a little climbing to cut the lower limbs off of trees. But not the real deal type of climbing. In my type of operation I’ve never had a need for it. Thanks for the comment.

It took about 5 to 6 hours to do this whole thing. If I wasn’t doing video I could probably do all of that in less than 2 hours. More time monkeying with cameras than actually doing the work.

@@WilsonForestLands Back in the day i did considerable photography and I understand the setting up, i do like you videos and your context.

It does add a lot of time but I enjoy doing the video part. I appreciate your comments.

The trees are busy dying so I am busy cutting them.

@@WilsonForestLands right. At least you're getting trees for your sawmill and firewood