Gotta love restrictive zoning and mandated car dependency for the outrageous housing prices.

This is not only the case in Northamerica. Here in central Southamerica (neighbour of Brazil) it is the same problem in the diary industry. A dairy factory already closed due to the lack of milk farms and they close due to the lack of or shoddy quality of workers (no employees or people who wanna do this anymore). They say according to the census that birth rate is hovering around 2.4 children per women but the last census nobody really showed up on our side (we did not even get counted). Lots of locals move to Spain just to work there in the sex business and old folks nursing home combined (a day ship at the nursing home and at evening as a prostitute). These folks won't work anymore farm work. Hence pricing for foods is rising here dramatically like Tomatos, etc. Then the local governement has the bad use to rise anually the minimum wages which drives out legal businesses of the market (makes them economically not feasable) so around 40% of the locals now are in the drug trafficking business, dedicate themselves as robbers and thieves being in cohoots with the thousands of law firms and lawyers here which cover the criminals legally. I wonder if the mafia state of Mexico is drying up like that the cartells or the contrary. Over here the cartells and mafiosi politicians got only stronger.

Why are these sawmills not building or acquiring housing to provide affordable housing to their workforce?

Awesome

Those "noise cancelling" microphones make no sense outdoors in quiet places. Also trying to use them to pick up the sizzling of the pine cone is totally lost, man.

What if the brain and central nervous system are not to be found in the tree, but rather in the Earth?

!!!!!!PAUSE!!!!!! So, you mean to tell me, or people how a product goes from raw materials to on the shelf???!!! So to speak, lumber and all. But holy shit people. You don't get shit because there are so many $&%* in the supply chain and McDonald's employees need 14 an hour just so we can raise prices again, and nothing is better again!!!!! Now you know why u get pretty much nothing for all your work. However I do like this channel so far and gonna stick around a spell. See what happens. I'll be good.

This video gave me a lot hope. My biggest concern is centuries of desolation but I think a lot of this is going to be decades of pain. Simple laws that guarantee ownership to the general population, such as formalizing rights around making it unprofitable to do 100% automation. Or outright making it to where a human that wants to do a business, has an automatic claim to that economic position. Or maybe it is some hybrid with soft cap taxes. All in all their is sophisticated solutions to make the complicated into merely complex

okay, we probably operate in different conditions and on a different scale, but: Couldn't the trail related losses be minimised by planning where the trail should be at planting? Then you can just plant less valuable pulpwood species that stabilise the forest ecosystem along the trails, and the light - hungry species in the neighbouring rows, or just double the amount of those pulpwood species in the roadside rows bc you widened the row spacing (and those 6m is in normalrange for distance between the rows of mature trees). U can even plant some willowto be removed when making the trail Doesn't the number of trees per acre refer to the area between the trails? I don't see how leaving too much trees there directly makes up for removing trees from trails unless the extra trees u leave are all right by the trail

Now there is a bizarre economy where so many high paying jobs can be done remotely but lower paying jobs have to be done face-to-face. We're probably going to have workers prefering to take the remote jobs and face-to-face will have fewer applicants. That's going to have an interesting impact.

I watched Red Emerson start out very small! The timber used to be more valuable than the land.

Not only is this fun, but it also adds to our exercise steps everyday! 🙂I've been on my land for two years and I have not really thought about how many interesting things I have here until I came upon this awesome field. There is an old Indian meeting place on my land that I have not investigated yet, but of course, that is going to be a special Waypoint symbol. The stones they used to make the meeting place are very large. I wonder how they moved them? I've also learned that some of the trees on my land have right angle branches (elbow branches, I call them). I found out that the Indians used to train up trees with right angle branches as a means to show directions to an important spot (Waypoint 🙂 ). Be careful though, there are always hazards when it comes to nature. Wear the right clothing for protection and be knowledgeable of the kinds of wildlife in your area. For my case, I'm indicating the right boots for rattle snake season. 🙂 I also want to recommend their Tree Felling course. Even if you don't cut down trees yourself, it is valuable knowledge. And you cannot beat getting a full Tree Felling course for $19.99. I appreciate your sharing of this knowledge, and this is what we should all be adding to our lives, even if we just decide to map out our neighborhoods for the purpose of getting to know the place in which we live. Picture setting a Waypoint for a library, or your favorite donut shop. 🙂Thank you. 🙂

Damn, great explainer of demographic collapse. Terrible takes on technology tho lol.

CAN YOU PLEASE HELP ME SELL MY TREES? I HAVE A HUGE PECAN TREE THAT I WANT TO HAVE SOLD AND REMOVED, AND THEN I HAVE SOME VERY TALL PINE TREES THAT I WANT TO SELL! PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME TO KNOW HOW TO MAKE THE HIGHEST PROFITS AND ONCE THOSE TREES ARE GONE ID LIKE TO REFERBISH OUR YARD BECAUSE ITS OVERGROWN AND OVERWHELMING TO MY DISABLED SON AND MYSELF! IVE BEEN UNWELL WITH SPINAL CHORD PROBLEMS AND HAVE BEEN HAVING MULTIPLE COMPLEX NEUROSURGERIES AND THEN MY SON HAD A BIG UROLOGICAL SURGERY AND MAY NEED TO GO TO DUKE IF HE NEEDS A MORE INVASIVE SURGERY, POSSIBLY EVEN HAVING TO GO OUT OF STATE FOR A MORE COMPLICATED SURGERY FOR HIM IF THATS WHAT IT TAKES! WERE STRUGGLING FINANCIALLY ALSO AFTER LOSING MY HUSBAND AND OUR SOLE PROVIDER. WE NEED TO MAKE THIS TREE SALES COUNT, AND NOT BE RIPPED OFF! I ALSO HAVE AN ORIENTAL MAPLE TREE FOR SALE IF I CAN GET A GOOD PRICE ON IT..OR I MAY JUST KEEP IT, IDK. CAN YOU HELP ME IN OUR ENDEAVOR?

Two perspectives: a high tech company I worked for figured out the optimal price point versus volume for a potential new product. Then if they couldn't manufacture it for less than 20% of that price they didn't make the product. The cost of sales was typically around 50%, profit was planned at 20%, R&D was 5%, and all of operations including management, facilities, non-manufacturing personnel, etc. had to be 5% in order to make room for the 20% manufacturing cost. The other perspective was that in high-tech hardware companies, R&D or engineering generally cost about 5% of the company's total expenditures. At car makers, it was down around 2% IIRC. The raw materials costs cited here are in line with lots of manufacturing businesses.

How many people come thinking this will be a shoe channel?

Sorry but the longer you talk the less I believe you are making sense.

We need to stop trying to increase the length of life artificially and recognize that life is a process and will end. Instead we should focus on the quality of care, education and life for children.

I think the financialization of western economies is an unsustainable aberration; whether that is a cause or effect of the demographic changes is hard to tell. The apparent wealth of Wall St and SV might prove to be ephemeral and fleeting in a longer term context.

when i was a young lad my wood made me money, especially from the older ladies.

Just want to throw in the colloquial 'rule of thumb/watercooler talk' I've used in the past for all markets, all goods, and all services. 50% of the gross sale price of any good goes directly to the retailer selling it. That's to cover their costs and margin. That goes down sometimes, and vertical integration can make it go up. Sure 50% an massive oversimplification but it's a good rule of thumb to help people understand how much their million dollar idea or raw materials are actually worth. 50% off the top before you even get to market, and you are the one who has to get it to the retailer to sell it, or you have to pay someone else to get it to the retailer.

Know what drives a lot of pulations drop? Education of women. The lie that women are told that they'll be happiest in their coporate carrers, when the most noble and fullfilling carrer a woman can have is one of loving wife and loving mother.

So basically, commodity cropping for wood.

KZfaq Milton Friedman How to make a pencil ✏️. It should be a mandatory watch for all school kids to understand how the world works.

One powerful advantage is payroll taxes, yes, payroll taxes! Last time I managed a payroll, it cost $1.44 in taxes and mandatory insurances per nominal pay dollar. The employees got approx $.82 per nom dollar. So a $15/hr employee that required 1/10th of a manager each cost aprox $30/hr while taking home $10ish! Work for yourself at half that speed w/o a manager, and your take home will be more than approx 2/3s of US workers!

This was awesome! Like very insightful

Very enjoyable presentations thanks

There was one country that turned it around...

Please do a video about what you would need to produce your own lumber on your own property.

Ignoring the (very relevant) macro demographic data I think it can be simplified to pure economic inputs. I'm in NJ. When I was in high school and college the highest paid jobs locally were labor - landscaping, masonry, asphalt, etc. Minimum wage at the time was ~$8. You could get double the minimum wage to hump materials around and learn a skill. My decision to do this work was purely relative earning power to doing waiting tables or office work. Minimum wage is now $15.13 and similar jobs pay $17. Many of the contractors or businesses I worked for over the years have crews of laborers in their 60s now. It is hard to prop up a business and fulfill commitments when your workforce is dying out. There is opportunity to absorb these businesses insofar as you're able to employ people. The paradox is that wages will not increase with declining population for either skilled or unskilled labor - reduced demand puts downward pressure on prices (not least of which WAGES are the price of labor).

Great analysis, there is also running costs for all that equipment. I running a small excavator and charge $150 an hour, it gets so annoying when every customer tries to complain that they want a discount or that my rate seems too expensive, they never seem account for getting the machine to their site, maintenance, fuel, etc. I generally laugh and tell them to go hire a machine and wish them good luck, a small handful of them are smart enough to figure it out and call back pretty quickly.😂

Government sponsored invasion 😏

Sustainability: when you’re skeptical that old wood will look good stained.

Love your take on Mexico 🇲🇽 . Soon We'll be begging them to work here or let USAers in to work there. The country like its people are magnificent.

People will always be unrealistic! I used to buy up new car parts lots from car dealers och mechanic shops. They always claimed a value equal to what they paid for it from the whole seller or factory. But there is a reason these parts are still on the shelf. It's the left overs, things that didn't sell easy. In many cases a car dealer had to buy parts from the manufacturer not by own choice. I never paid more then 10% of the initial purchase price. Or I walked away. I mean to pay the initial price I might have just placed a order at the factory and got discount due to the bulk. Like trees, if you have one thousand rubber moldings laying in a pile. It only represents a huge amount of labor for it to change your bank statement. Now I'm old and to buy anything is just a waste of money. Different from most dreamers I know life is not lived indefinitely. My advice is that if you are older then 60, cut your trees down and do something more fun then watch treas grow!

I use a skidding winch and a front-end loader grapple for logging with my compact tractor. It's a combination that is very versatile and works brilliantly for what I need it to do. The winch is capable of pulling many times more weight than the tractor alone, which comes in handy for pulling logs out of creek bottoms and other hard-to-reach places. Wallenstein makes the FX40 skidding winch for sub-compact tractors like yours. You would find it much more effective than just using chains to pull logs with your tractor.

Software is not available for iPhone.

I’ve been using that skidding cone for a few years to drag tree length pieces to my wood yard to buck and split for firewood. I pull it with my honda foreman. As another commenter mentioned, it can lead to dirt on the logs from dragging down the trails, but other than that the system works great for my needs. The atv makes for quick hauling and turn around time as well. With a 3 point hitch you should be able to lift most of the tree off the ground if dragging behind you.

Accidentally put it on 2x speed and thought I was watching an Eminem video

here's the deal... i own farm land. it's prime expensive lettuce land (because of its water rights) and i get bout 3 cents per head of lettuce (current price at walmart is $1.98) ... you can figure my percentage... now i also own woodland (where i live) and all my beautiful ash trees were killed by bugs ... now i figured okay, ash is a great wood for furniture... i can't even give it away for firewood because it's so worthless and everyone has the same problem as me and you can't transport it because of the bugs... i hate to say it but i'm probably going to use a lot of it for land fill and burn parties...

Interesting

Gosh 4” top diameter what’s that scale at, 5 bdft? I used to run a Woodmizer and I hated anything less than 10” just so much more time per board cut

100k$ is low for a truck with grappler... That's a 10 year old truck. A new truck bare bones no carry poles or hitch or trailer is 200k$ cdn now man. Then another 30-90k to outfit the truck to just a rack with the hitch and the grapple. Then another 30-60k for a trailer.

My thoughts on your prices are wasted but this is cool.

@13:50 if you come to another country waiving your home country's flag, you're not a migrant, you're an invader

Cool video

I don't know if you ever get in the Augusta area, but if you ever want to take a walk on my land (10.7 acres) ...I'd love to hear your thoughts! 😃

You appear to be above average intelligent and totally enjoy listening to your comments! Thanks for sharing.😊

When it comes to trees , “ the future” is 60 or 100 yrs away

Great video. I've been a software developer for 15 years. I told my 30yr senior boss years ago that naturally there will come a time when we don't write code. He scoffed at me. A month ago I asked Gemini to explain an issue we were trouble shooting, and he couldn't believe the response it generated. This is no small thing. The practical side of this currently is augmenting the ability of white collar jobs. It has two results: You need fewer white collar workers to do the same amount of work (even now the learning curve to pick up a new tool has been drastically cut by having a free highly knowledgeable tutor at the drop of a hat), and you can do more advanced things with the same amount of workers. This is the technology multiplier by definition. The ability to interact with a machine in the same manner you do a human, and have the net results approximate what you would expect from that human human interaction, are staggering. All of a sudden overnight ever single human on earth became a copy editor. Every single person on earth became a graphic artist. What could everyone become given obedient tireless labor? That's why there's so much money being shoveled into the humanoid robot challenge right now along with AI. Pair those two and you've transformed the labor shortage you talked about into a wholly different kind of post scarcity nightmare. In summary I think you are underestimating the significance of AI a bit, though I agree the media can exaggerate a bit.