I really like the fact that you take safety so seriously. Thanks for all the useful pointers, Tim.

Outstanding video! You two did a great job of explaining and showing how to limb a tree safely and efficiently.

Tim seems to be getting use to talking to the camera, he was stiff and short with words, now he is loose and talking more. Great teaching Tim. You are improving very well too Simeon... Keep it up...Mike

The saw must rest on something (to save your back). So simple, so smart, years of knowledge presented by these two young men. Wow!!!

I am in the same business for about 20 years and working very similar as to what you guys are showing in the videos. Still enjoy watching and applying some of the good tips you are giving. Keep those videos coming !

Excellent safety tips! I especially liked Tim showing us how he rested the weight of the saw on his knee or on the trunk of the tree. He also would not advance down the trebles he had the bar on the other side of the tree to shield his lower legs. We all know that the chain should not be moving down the bar if our finger is not on the throttle. But..... we get lazy and say "I'll stop in a minuet and adjust/tighten the chain so it does not move at idle. I did notice he had the tape spooling out while he was limbing the tree. I guess that will stop him and he will cut the tree at the appropriate length. Again looking for efficiency.

I know you did this in 2016, but I still want to thank you both, and your families for sharing you with us, so we can all get just great video lessons from a real professional, Tim. You both are amazing for posting so many videos - I know it takes a lot of time and takes you away from your jobs. Your sacrifices now will alway bring you good men much more joy than any other way.. God bless you and your families and I pray He will always keep you close to His heart !

A pleasure to watch a professional, thanks f the video :-)

Tim flows like a butterfly and stings like a Bee all around that tree. super smooth and efficient work. thank you for sharing .

Awesome video. We are in Canada and have just started a commercial thinning in a red pine planation. We often refer to your videos for professional advice on how to work safely and efficiently. Thanks and please, keep making videos

Love your channel. You guys do it right. You care about and respect the forest and it shows.

I love the tips on ergonomics and safety. Well done.

Very informative and well-planned videos, guys. I usually straddle the tree trunk with my legs as I'm limbing it, but aside from that, your method looks very much like what I do.

Are you sure you are a farmer? You are a very good videophotographer.

Just found you yesterday have been busy trying to watch them all of course i subed and liked What a generous thing you are doing sharing your knowledge like that your brothers too awesome family Brings back wonderful memories for me was raised the old way in the 50s am 65 now and still spend a lot of time in the bush ATB from Canada Don

thank you again, great to finally see someone on youtube that knows how to do it properly. västerby skogsbruks skola 1978-80

Thank you for this information. I like watching this technique. It flows so smoothly.

Excellent demonstration from Tim. You both are very good at what you do and it is always worthwhile for the viewer.

Thanks for all the useful video's! Providing great information for teaching on to the young ones at my scouting group! Even though we don't have chainsaws and only use axes/hatchets. A lot of the general info you provide is really helpful! :)

Thanks so much for what you're doing, guys. Tim, you rock for taking the time out of your busy schedule. We definitely need more of these instructional videos here from real professionals. I'm thinking about getting my own saw. First i'm getting the safety gear though. I already went browsing the local farmers co-op. That grip bar is great. I shouldn't get one of the cheap models without one of those. I took the catalogues home. Now it's a matter of savings. :)

Nice to see this... It reminds me of training... I have only clean up a small number of Spruce trees...

I am a City guy moved way up North from Loa Angeles to North Eastern WA and just purchased my first chain saw. I paid pro to drop 17 large Ponderosa pines that were dangerously close to my cabin . I lined up a few but now having watched your video, I will save time and my back !!!!! Thank you!

Your a very skilled forest worker, I guess one of the biggest things is to keep your saw sharp so your not fighting against it. Yours goes through those trees like butter. Great video

I did some (amateur) chainsaw work when I was in a fishing club. I survived intact, but what always made me really nervous was dealing with storm-downed trees with their weight resting on their branches. I was acutely aware that limbing those trees would change the weight balance and there was potential for the whole thing to roll or move unpredictably. While I don't do that stuff anymore, I would really like to learn how Tim deals with such problems. Thanks for all the great videos!

good job to the both of you, thank you

Best limbong advise that I ever got, Thanks lads

Great tricks can't wait to try those next time cutting firewood ! Thanks guys !

Tim is a rock star!

Thanks for the learning. Good video for newbies to forestry and felling,delimbing.

Great video and instructions. Thanks!!

Hi Simeon, thanks for having TIm demonstrate the technique of cleaning up a fallen tree. I drop about 1-2 trees a year for landscaping and Im always looking to tips and techniques.

Thanks for the great content! Could you please do a video on your logging equipment that you carry with you? I've been looking at you and your brother's belt and I want to duplicate it and learn why you carry what you carry. Thanks guys!

Thanks for the demonstration. That's given me lots to practice next time I'm slicing up spruce, I tend to use a Scandinavian forest axe and a good quality machete (I use Tramontina machetes. Cheap, durable, and made for agricultural laboureres in poorer countries, so they tend to last...) for limbing/snedding spruce, The machete makes very short work of spruce limbs up to 3/4 inch or so, and the axe is for the rest. That Scandinavian grind on the forest axe snicks through limbs and rings like a bell... I'm very far from being a professional sawyer, so I guess good handtools work faster for me, and I save on petrol and consumables. But I'll be practising with my saw now. It would be good to develop that kind of ease and ergonomic efficiency. Thanks...

You both do a good job. Thanks.

Thank you for this video you guys have great work ethics

Firstly, here in central NC, we don't have but a very few conifers. Limbing a 25-40 inch Red Oak you have to deal with limbs as large as the tree that your working on. These limbs can be bowed and under enormous tension. They can be bone breakers. I only cut the trees that die off of our property for firewood. Thank you,, great videos.

Great video guys! Thank you for the great tips! Cheers

I liked the video and thank you guys for the lesson, good tips to ease my aching back when I limb.

I have neither land nor chainsaw, but learning from you guys is fun!

Thanks Tim!

You guys rock, I learned so many things that will probably save my life. My house is far away from hospital I wouldnt make it

Wow!!! no way I’d be that high off the ground,he’s a very talented,handsome, man,you & your whole family got some very handsome genes,your mom & dad has too have them also,you are giving everyone a great lesson on farming,& tree cutting, very dangerous job, thanks for sharing 👍👍👍

Really enjoyed that! We have a lot of red pine in Wisconsin. Those little tips will make a big difference! Great shooting too!

I have cut down many trees with no problem but when limbing and cross cutting I have had some close calls. This is a useful vid.

I wish that this video would have been posted 40 years ago,when we burned wood. It would have saved me much time and effort. However, I do appreciate what you gentlemen have demonstrated.

Awesome video, good info on how to cut trees!!

excellent work. thank you so much for these. my best to your brother

You need to show this to the guys and girls in the states 😝 Great job From the 🇬🇧

Great job guys!! Stay Safe!! 👍

Thank you. I learned a lot.

Tim is awesome.

Your brother Tim is a very smart/clever man,he is well spoken and a joy to listen to. He controls his saw well, and his safety is flawless. Over here in Ireland we are thought the same method......on how to sned and brash a tree. I like when you post videos on trees chainsaws etc. What saw is Tim running..?? is it a 550 or 560xp Keep up the good work.

Excellent job

All good valid points, but I would always engage the brake before removing my hand from the saw in order to move brash out of my way!

Another thing to consider is a longer bar and chain can also help. Stress off the back. I have a 28" bar and chain on my ms441 magnum that works for myself in felling and limbing as well as bucking

great video!

Thanks ,learn a lot.

Your parents must be very proud ! Your brother shows he is very serious about being a arborist and you the farmer !!! And I love your farm isn't super neat and tidy... it's much more wildlife friendly at least those type of farms are full of wildlife in the US!!! I love your videos and my 7 year old really loves them also . He says your videos are kid friendly and exciting well not the ones about chicken breeds ... lol. Well God bless and Merry Christmas to you and yours .

Great job!

Thanks, good info for my 26 acres that I work alot

very good tips and thanks from new brunswick canada

Would you make a specific video about the first aid you have to carry when chainsawing / logging?

Nice work, good advice about resting the saw on the tree, when I was doing my chainsaw training the instructor said if he caught us not resting the saw on the tree he would make us use a large heavy saw for the rest of the day, his idea was with a heavier saw we would quickly learn to rest it.

Very informative video. Thanks

hey guys, great vid and thx. what do you do with all your branches? leave them where you cut them? chip them? burn them?

Hey Guys, Rodney here in Canada. Love the videos. I was wondering if you leave the branches and brush on the ground to rot, or whether you try to collect it and burn it? Does this make any difference in the re-growth of new trees? Thx.

New sub, love the videos. Thank you from Canada.

Amazing level of experience! How many years?

Good video. I agree.

Thank you Simeon very much for making this video, thank youTim very much for mediation advanced chainsaw working. Chain saw in Tim´s hands looks to be ingrowing with his hands together with his ergonomic body moving compile a ballet. WOOD WORKING BALLET. I hope it will encourage many to be better in chainsaw working and me personally to empower to start with chainsaw using. BIG CHALLENGE :-)

Very Helpful

Like that tip of only taking the step forward when running the chain if the bar is on the other side of the log.

Good stuff!

please if Tim has free time ? ide like to see him in more of the uploads . . he is very good

This is pure schooling. Great instructional.

He made it look easy....which I'm sure it's not.

well done, subscribed,,

*Thanks Simeon and Tim!* As usual you have produced one of the best instructional video on the topic found on the net. Professionally done. It was just unfortunate that you didn't have the chance to make any "bench trees" to get the logs off the ground. Tim explained it excellently, but for a novice logger it would have been perfect if he was able to show the complete cutting technique also cutting the branches facing down, ie forward right - backward on top - forward on left - backward under - rest saw on top or left - step forward - new cycle (ufff, for a left-handed guy these saws are a nightmare). Just one comment. When I logged myself and used this same technique I seldom packed so much gear in my belt. I would always lose a wrench or a file. If I hit a rock or logged dead bark beetle trees and need to sharpen the chain it was faster to toss the saw, get #2 or 3, and then re-sharpen during coffee break at the fire. A big belt as Tim is using would also easily get caught on a branch - especially in rougher terrain, in deep snow, and with trees with more branches -- and in fact make it more hazardous to move around. In addition, the extra weight wasn't something I liked much. Any thoughts?

very nice thx!

Can you make a video showing everything on Tim's belt and their uses?

very good stay safe from uk guys.

I got Stihl MS 241 C-M myself, and a couple of Fiskars axes. And Massey 135.

Great stuff Fellas! Just came across your KZfaq Channel looking for tips and tricks to managing my forest for firewood, trails, maple syrup etc. Also looking for different techniques for saw work when doing this on your own. Could you guys list some of the equipment that you use that we can purchase on like say amazon.ca? I noticed your brother with some useful tools on his waist especially the hand spike tool for rolling the logs after it was cut. Techniques for felling trees on your own would be good too. I have a really tight forest where I am always dealing with hung up trees. No tractor, just an atv and woodland mills logging trailer on my homestead in Ontario Canada

Excellent explanation on how to use the chainsaw on the branches of a downed evergreen. Great job!

So are those trees going to be firewood or lumber? Great demonstration by Tim on limbing tree. There was no wasted motion there.

If you get a hung up tree, could you video Tims procedure to take it down? I realize he good enough to lay the tree where he wants. Maybe a storm tree tho

Tim has a great relaxed speaking style.................... then he starts the saw and turns in Bruce Lee! :-)

Is there going to be more forest videos? Thanks

Very good tech 20 years as a master chain saw artist. One thing not covered is to be very cautious of rynauld syndrom! Use a good saw with a good antivibration system! Maybe you could cover this on your next vid! Cheap saws have poor vib systems. Give yourself breaks and massage your fingers when sawing for long periods of time.

The term "best way" should never be used in tree work. This is ONE way. Works awesome on small trees on flat ground. Good video guys. Enjoy your vids alot. Keep Em coming. Just don't use that term :P

is this the method that soren errikson developed? also what was the sharpening gauge your brother was using in the beginning? great video as always.

Do you attach your tape measure to every length you cut? Cant you just attach it once at the base of the trunk and cut notches at the appropriate lengths as you work upwards then complete the cuts as you go back down?

Great chainsaw tips...one question..Sometime when your brother has time explain what tools he has on his belt and what are they used for? I am curious what tool he was using when he moved the log in this video

Would be nice to see how your brother sharpens the teeth on his saw.

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I heard somewhere, and am unsure if this is true, that after felling a tree, say a large pine, it can help to let it sit for some weeks and let the branches draw out the moisture and sap from the main tree. I heard it that the branches don’t “know” the tree is no longer using its root system, and will continue to suck it out making it dryer before bucking? I’ve googled like crazy and see very little on this and nothing authoritative.

At 5:49 we forgot what we said earlier, we walked forward on the near side of the stem without the chainbrake on! Good informative video though!

In the beginning when your brother is sharpening his saw, he is using some sort of guide for his file. I have never seen one of those before. It looked far less crappy than the full length file guides and super simple. Any chance you could tell me what that is please?

What lengths do you cut them too? And does a forewarder come get them all for logs or is the smaller ones pulp?

I'm wondering about his saw bar; it seems a bit short for him. I'm a bit taller than average and I find that a longer bar makes work a lot easier and the chains seem to stay sharp longer as well. Great video, thanks for sharing.