Man you see the Benjamin in the grass field . Benjamin are falling everywhere!😊😊

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

I’m not following…. But if you say so!

I wish I had that many helping me when I am cutting wood

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

I can definitely understand that!

I love that your family is a part of everything you do!

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

2 ай бұрын

That’s my favorite part too!!

Who needs a gym when your splitting wood by hand

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely! The value is ALL coming in this way!😂😂😂

Not many elm left around here, but it burns fairly well, the ash is way better, and comes down dry enough to burn in a pinch.

Ah yes, its that time here too😂 we don't have elm or ash but we do have dynamite willow ( so named because when a branch breaks in a storm or when you are felling it, or burning it, the wood splinters and sounds like a stick of rock blasting powergel going off 😬) and black poplar which is a introduced north American tree. They split easy but don't last long in a fire and i gotta cut 8 CORDS before it gets cold again. Fortunately you get a better burn if the woods green between 28-25 % moisture so it drys really fast, within 6 weeks. Great to see so many helpers i gotta do mine mostly by myself 😂

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Too bad we aren’t neighbors with you! We just might become your favorite people!😂😂😂

@valerierobinson8872

5 ай бұрын

I can tell this is an older video cause right now if you are anything like us in Fentress County,you have lots of cold wet stuff piled up everywhere. Stay safe, stay warm.

@sgtmark8844

5 ай бұрын

Fine workforce, them boys of yours are studs and are not afraid of doing what needs to be done😊

Great video love cutting firewood. You have a great hard working family!

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Yes we do! Thanks!

It’s ashamed the ash is dying it’s great burning easy on the saw and pretty easy to split by hand

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

I hope they don’t go extinct…… they are great!

Good spot for 2100XP turbo for cutting firewood 🪵. Great clean up job . Remember THINK 🤔 SAFETY and always put SAFETY FIRST. STICK on the ICE 🧊, SAW in the WOOD 🪵 and RUBBER on the ROAD . 😊😊fr. Logger Lennie . 😊

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Great point! Thanks!😎

Nice wook.good to all the kids involved

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Yes, thank you

Tractor with a grapple is nice for that.👍🏻

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

It sure is! Great for the back and the saw!

So exciting to watch Thank You‼️🌺🍍🏝️🤙🏽✝️🇺🇸🫶🏽

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

You’re absolutely welcome!

Great job on the ash tree that was leaning so bad that was a good tree to get hurt on. Not much you can’t do or won’t tackle

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

It definitely pays to know what you’re doing on those……. Any tree can get you though.

10:58 cute moment 😊 wow thay tree is older than me 76 years 😅

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

2 ай бұрын

Yes indeed!!!

The McGie army got it done 😉 great job men!

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Yes indeed!

Thank you.. for the beautiful videos..depicting.. many hands working and cooperating together..do a wonderful job !!! Allows us to see..that there are a few good people left...

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! We are very blessed to have such great neighbors and family!

Had a hickory fall on our car a few months ago. That was some hard wood to cut.

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

That’s extremely hard and heavy! I’ve been burning a lot of hickory recently.

Mcgie another awesome video, i love the way you and your boys know exactly what to do take care from uk😊

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Your just lucky that Frank was behind the scene telling you how to do it 😂😂

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

Nice load of wood, my dad burned wood so we cut trees down for people for free just for the wood, we were cutting a huge tree down probably around 6 foot in diameter, next to a house the guy wanted to save the house but if it feel on it he didn't care, it was empty, so we hooked my uncles pickup to it with chains to pull it down to make sure it didn't hit the house, he had to back out into the street and just as he was supposed to back up he had to stop because a guy stopped to watch the tree fall right behind him, the tree fell the correct way but the tips of the branches him my uncles pickup😂😂😂

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Oh my goodness! So dangerous!

Good morning Brother. A lot of wood in trees that size. Nice seeing everyone working together. Have a good day.

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Morning!!! We’ve got a snow here that would make you proud!😂😂😂

If that was a Slippery Elm (I couldn't tell) the inner bark is good to save as a medicinal. It's used in the essiac tea blend among other things.

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

I don’t know how to tell the difference. I need to get on the ball!

Team work 💪 one has to love it 😅 great video thanks for sharing keep the cameras rolling from Florida

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Always! Thanks Ken!

Now that's taking care of business!! Everyone working like a well oiled machine! Loved the video!

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!! It’s really amazing what can be done with teamwork!!!

Teamwork thank you for the video

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

You must of been a tree faller b4 a roofer, good lookin saw work

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! I really enjoy it!

Let elm season for a year when It's frozen sledge hammer and wedges but still hard to do

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Yes! Thanks!

Well Good Morning Micah McGie! Could you even imagine that with all that fine lumber jacking and wood splitting activity in this video, well by golly be jolly because the first half of January is already long gone!! I do recall when the dutch elm disease came round and decimated so many avenues lined with the stately mighty elm, one little bug really caused great havoc! Just the water pouring out of those elm splits on the splitting machine, lot of life in that tree and a long term drying process as well. Y'all do have a fine crew working up their energy needs for a good ole home style dinner spread right there by the tree felling operations too. After a wonderful day of such healthy laboring is sure to bring a good solid sleep and a wake up to another Great Day!! -Bob...

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

I’m hoping the ash trees make a comeback…. The emerald ash beetle is a bad deal!🪲

@wranther

5 ай бұрын

@@McGieHomesteadAdventures Up in these parts about the only remnants of ash trees these days would be found out by the pile of burnt ashes scattered among the hither and yon... Do you have much for hither and yon down in your part of the world?

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

My goodness yes! We have copious amounts of hither and a fair to middlin amount of yon! But a right smart amount of folk don’t give two hoots either way! To expand a bit…… the ash wood goes into the stove and the only thing left after the heat dissipates is smoke and ash…….the ashes go hither as the smoke goes yon! So next time you hear the folks down in the globular warming camp say something about greenhouse farting being the source of all our problems. Just tell em that you recon the real issue is Mcgie and his ash done smoked up everything from hither to yonder and there’s nothing they can do about it!

Weren't no bounce left in the ash. Little saws have their place... 😂

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

You must be feed them a lot of turnip greens and cornbread

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

A LOT!! With ham hock and pintos!

Everyone always split down the middle and takes everything the hard way, try splitting it from one side, and then work towards the middle, you'll be able to read the wood better and avoid or incorporate the knotty wood in certain pieces to make it easier on the machinery, even machinery deserves a easy day of work once in awhile.

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

That’s exactly right! I went over that with the boys on the hand splitting. They appreciated the pointer!

@kevbev1524

5 ай бұрын

@@McGieHomesteadAdventures I hate to see the lads struggle and why not give them all the opportunities and perspectives so they may pass it along to the next generation or fellow.

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

If you had watched this to the end you would have noticed.

Good crew you got there they work well together they ought to be ready to fight the champion of the world after all that work that's the way I like to see it done don't let it lay on the ground any longer than you have to good job men🐝

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Well said! Even from day one it starts going downhill!

One of your best videos! Great job men.

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks!

Good video

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

Keep up the great work brother!

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

3:50 no need to buy firewood when you can harvest your own.

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

2 ай бұрын

That is absolutely true! It would just rot if we didn’t utilize it!

@charlessavoie2367

2 ай бұрын

@@McGieHomesteadAdventures And it would give wood ants/termites a nesting place. Now they can hop into the fire.

Have you ever considered growing mushrooms you would do well with shitake and its cheap start up just need wax and mushroom plugs

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Ive thought about it but im afraid id get too busy and let them go to waste…. Every year I have tons of mushrooms growing in my woods that I have to let rot because I don’t have time to mess with them.

That was a nice Ash I wouldve like to had that one on the sawmill..But it will make some great firewood its one of my favorite firewoods to use

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

If I had a sawmill I’d probably have put it on it….. but as I don’t have any other source of heat I have no problem putting it in the woodshed! Especially when we have these temperatures!!!😂😂😂

@burntchurch

5 ай бұрын

@@McGieHomesteadAdventures it has been brutal cold our woodstove has been working overtime..Did yall get much snow up your way we got about 6-8 inchs here

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

We got 4-5” with -10° currently we’ve got 3°😂

@EthanPDobbins

5 ай бұрын

​@@McGieHomesteadAdventuresid think with all them boys to run it a sawmill would be a great thing to have. You can burn all the slabs with no splitting too. I got me a woodland 122 but it's been in the box since last may i think i should probably open it up and put it together eventually

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

I’m very sure we’d put a sawmill to good use!!

I thought you did these trees over a week ago

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

That’s how far behind I am with my schedule…… sorry 😞

Where is your snow at we're in east TN and have lots of it

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

This happened before the snow flew.😉

👍

I laughed when l saw old mate putting that massive folk through the log splitter. My old man would of kicked my behind if he saw me doing that with his splitter. 😉

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@sambarvictoria7788

3 ай бұрын

@@McGieHomesteadAdventures Love your videos mate. You have done a great job with your kids. They all help out. Not many do these days. From Melbourne Australia. 👍

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

3 ай бұрын

@sambarvictoria7788 Thanks! We live in the old time way!

Howdy sir, was that a 42” bar on that monster of a saw you were handed at around 1:30 and incidentally what was that chainsaw you were using after the Husqvarna? Great video btw 👍🏻

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

The saw with the long bar was 36” and it was an aftermarket Sthil reproduction. The other saw I used (the majority of the time) was a 21” bar husquvarna.

@jewelcitizen2567

5 ай бұрын

@@McGieHomesteadAdventures Those trees are coming down and your boys are sure shooting up! Glad to see you’re all doing well. I love nothing better than splitting wood, just splitting some Beech at the moment.

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Beech is one of my favorites! Very little mess and great burning hardwood!

@adammerritt

5 ай бұрын

That saw is a Farmertec/ Holzfforma G660 Pro with 36" bar. They basically clone the older Stihl 066 now that the patents are expired. We didn't want to spend the money for a new 660, but needed something larger once a year or so when something like this comes up. It was a nice compromise. The rest of the time I use a Stihl 261CM.

@jewelcitizen2567

5 ай бұрын

@@adammerritt Hey thanks very much for providing the spec, much appreciated.

Not first!

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

I can't guess how much natural gas money you saved by warming your home in cold weather by gathering your own firewood. Those chainsaws would have amazed the pioneers.

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

2 ай бұрын

The savings increase every year I am sure!

Lumberjacking

@aguyinthewoods8294

5 ай бұрын

I have definitely done the plunge cut method on heavily leaning trees before. It does work well.

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely! Not doing it can be extremely dangerous!

@aguyinthewoods8294

5 ай бұрын

For certain!!

kids don't work like that these days

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

3 ай бұрын

Very true…… if you don’t want kids to be like the other kids, you can’t raise kids like the other kids were raised!😂😂😂

@skippy6243

3 ай бұрын

@@McGieHomesteadAdventures parents these days need make kids work let them buy their own cars and stuff

@McGieHomesteadAdventures

3 ай бұрын

@@skippy6243 Exactly…. But it’ll never happen as long as they are allowed to play on mobile devices all day.

@skippy6243

3 ай бұрын

Yep yep

@skippy6243

3 ай бұрын

@@McGieHomesteadAdventures yep yep