Increase Your Farm's Carrying Capacity With Hinge Cutting // Lee and Tiffany Lakosky

Increase Your Farms Carrying Capacity With Hinge Cutting // Lee and Tiffany Lakosky
This week, Lee demonstrates the benefits of hinge cutting and how it can increase the carrying capacity for whitetails on your farm. He talks about the different tree species to select when hinge cutting, and also how to address larger undesirable trees by using a technique known as girdling. Lee also explains how to properly mix the correct chemicals to apply when implementing the girdling method.
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  • @adventuresoutdoors2104
    @adventuresoutdoors2104 Жыл бұрын

    Great episode! Great information

  • @JackFrostTheDeerHunter
    @JackFrostTheDeerHunter Жыл бұрын

    I like what you are doing...from a safety perspective, please keep your saw below neck level. One snapped chain and you are history.

  • @tiffanylakosky7122

    @tiffanylakosky7122

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank u!!! I need all those guys safe especially Lee!!

  • @jarrodlambert3914
    @jarrodlambert3914 Жыл бұрын

    Awsome can't wait to see more videos like this

  • @CDP151
    @CDP151 Жыл бұрын

    Love these videos Lee. Very informative

  • @mikemellon80
    @mikemellon80 Жыл бұрын

    Love that denim shirt. Kids would pay a lot of money for that lived in look. Thanks for the content

  • @tiffanylakosky7122

    @tiffanylakosky7122

    Жыл бұрын

    Omg! We got that from an old rancher in MT like 15 years ago!!! It’s his fav!

  • @dustyk32
    @dustyk32 Жыл бұрын

    Great work. Thanks for the tips on cutting

  • @tiffanylakosky7122

    @tiffanylakosky7122

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank u!

  • @cameronlee2781
    @cameronlee2781 Жыл бұрын

    Learning so much from these. Things I’ve never even thought about before. Browse is so important.

  • @tiffanylakosky7122

    @tiffanylakosky7122

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank u!

  • @ericluchtenburg2818
    @ericluchtenburg2818 Жыл бұрын

    Great choice on the garlon 3a especially on locust

  • @native_landscapes
    @native_landscapes Жыл бұрын

    I rarely hinge trees, Im dropping and killing them mostly, when I do I hinge them at no more than knee height. Keeps the tree usable to deer longer. Shoots off the hinged trees can grow 6+ feet a year, quickly degrading the positive effects of the initial cutting. Better off to cut them clean and safely, and allow sunlight to encourage native plant response in the understory.

  • @carrollsanders9376

    @carrollsanders9376

    Жыл бұрын

    I usually just hollow out the front then Crack them over the trees heal and grow well. As far as these guys cutting trees they don't call them experts they don't know what they are even doing. No control over the trees at all.

  • @ronnieleonard4075
    @ronnieleonard4075 Жыл бұрын

    Loving the you tube videos. Keep ‘em coming.

  • @vailproducts
    @vailproducts Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic job, Lee. Great episode!

  • @GAGEICUS
    @GAGEICUS Жыл бұрын

    These are awesome video's, thank you for explaining in such detail.

  • @fullsendoutdoors9435
    @fullsendoutdoors943511 ай бұрын

    Those hickory trees are great firewood

  • @darinblackburn6023
    @darinblackburn6023 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent series, learning alot from it.

  • @timberg7377
    @timberg7377 Жыл бұрын

    Loving this series

  • @tiffanylakosky7122

    @tiffanylakosky7122

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank u Tim!

  • @bls3763
    @bls3763 Жыл бұрын

    Great respect for you and what you do! Keep it up!!

  • @tiffanylakosky7122

    @tiffanylakosky7122

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank u!

  • @jacobjustus9426
    @jacobjustus9426 Жыл бұрын

    Lee thanks for sharing your strategies. Could you elaborate on how you rotate your food plots and how you decide what to plant where. Thanks!

  • @tiffanylakosky7122

    @tiffanylakosky7122

    Жыл бұрын

    That’s a good question!!! I will have him touch on that!

  • @brianknoll6423
    @brianknoll6423 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome video Lee. Good to see you have the safety gear on. I've seen a bunch of videos from the hunting industry that are missing the chaps and helmet.

  • @tiffanylakosky7122

    @tiffanylakosky7122

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree!!!

  • @EpicWhitetailHabitatLLC
    @EpicWhitetailHabitatLLC Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic job, Lee! Hinge cutting is such a misunderstood tool to help enhance habitat. I love to help clients complete this great practice. Yes, it can be dangerous. Leave it to professionals such as ourselves. Great video!

  • @native_landscapes

    @native_landscapes

    Жыл бұрын

    misunderstood and mis (over) used.

  • @jowhi9296
    @jowhi929611 ай бұрын

    I hinge cut approximately 100 trees early spring when it started to get warm before budding. Most trees as soon as the tops touched the ground most broke, i even did it safely w a tractor pushing the trees over leavjg more sap wood and still didnt make a difference. 1-10 trees actually grew any sprouts after this

  • @craignash4736
    @craignash4736 Жыл бұрын

    I’m curious to hear why would you would cut a Hickory tree ? Does it grow nuts ? Nice video . Craig. Pa

  • @tiffanylakosky7122

    @tiffanylakosky7122

    Жыл бұрын

    I will have him address this!

  • @dennisdial7872
    @dennisdial7872 Жыл бұрын

    A millionn

  • @reddye2331
    @reddye2331 Жыл бұрын

    Tht squirrel hasn’t never seen no type tornado like tht before.

  • @Iowa_Whitetail
    @Iowa_Whitetail Жыл бұрын

    U guys are maniacs!!!! I love it!!! My favorite/first project!…. TSI!! Let’s see Donny with a chainsaw!!! Great job guys!!

  • @tiffanylakosky7122

    @tiffanylakosky7122

    Жыл бұрын

    I mean, is that smart! 😂😂

  • @scottdewitt9304
    @scottdewitt9304 Жыл бұрын

    What do you do to handle the scourge of the woods. “BUCKTHORN “

  • @ericluchtenburg2818

    @ericluchtenburg2818

    Жыл бұрын

    Buckthorn isn't usually a problem in this area more of a honey suckle and multiflora rose problem.

  • @usernamehere6061

    @usernamehere6061

    Жыл бұрын

    Can foliar treat it with 2% glyphosate just like you would bush honeysuckle or multiflora. Could also basal bark with Garlon 4a & diesel. Foliar is typically easier and faster.

  • @nicschaalma3508
    @nicschaalma3508 Жыл бұрын

    Why not hinge waist high? A. It’s safer B. The shoots from the hinge will be browse height and available now.

  • @cameronlee2781

    @cameronlee2781

    Жыл бұрын

    Seems to be working pretty well.

  • @nateuhrich3153
    @nateuhrich31535 ай бұрын

    I get hinge cutting the small ones, bit doing it to the larger ones is extremely dangerous. Eventually they are going to barber chair and if it hits you, there goes your hunting future. There’s a reason loggers don’t just do a back cut, the ones that did died…please take that in to account next time, I enjoy your channel and this puts you in unnecessary danger…

  • @jasonmorgan7939
    @jasonmorgan7939 Жыл бұрын

    Every tree felling video describes the dangers of barber-chairing a tree. This guy is literally going out and purposefully barber-chairing trees...........

  • @Briguy933

    @Briguy933

    Жыл бұрын

    He’s got no idea the destruction those cuts will do to someone.

  • @timmytuffy5344
    @timmytuffy5344 Жыл бұрын

    Personally I’d make those cuts lower, if you get kickback at face level…….

  • @dennybirchfield
    @dennybirchfield Жыл бұрын

    Jeff Sturgis says waist level and lower deer are 6ft tall

  • @usernamehere6061

    @usernamehere6061

    Жыл бұрын

    Jeff sturgis is a snake oil salesman in general.

  • @dennybirchfield

    @dennybirchfield

    Жыл бұрын

    @@usernamehere6061 lol I agree his practices do work on private land his prices to come to your house though are unreasonable and I feel like he kinda sold out and did a few companies dirty that I really like. Like exodus and John komp of North woods whitetail. And something weird went on in his personal life as he now has a 1 year old and anew wife. When 2 years ago Diane his previous wife was in the videos. Kinda a dirt bag

  • @big_Richard
    @big_Richard Жыл бұрын

    Looks dangerous!!!

  • @carrollsanders9376

    @carrollsanders9376

    Жыл бұрын

    It's deadly and they have no control, one tree away from death.

  • @dougkraemer8327
    @dougkraemer8327 Жыл бұрын

    You're laughing at destroying squirrel habitat....

  • @The_Garmin_Guru

    @The_Garmin_Guru

    Жыл бұрын

    Shut up. He didn’t destroy anything.

  • @cameronlee2781

    @cameronlee2781

    Жыл бұрын

    And it jumped to another tree. Just relax.

  • @tiffanylakosky7122

    @tiffanylakosky7122

    Жыл бұрын

    He’s got plenty of trees to go to!!!!

  • @Briguy933
    @Briguy933 Жыл бұрын

    Never drop start your saw.

  • @ricksanchez7459

    @ricksanchez7459

    Жыл бұрын

    If it has standard recoil its fine. The EZ recoils are the ones you can't.