Well, glad i tuned in, I lernt some new phrases and words today, had the satisfaction of watch invasive bugs become history and enjoyed listening to and old diesel purr as they were intended to do. No stinking def fluid, no regens, no emissions crap. Just raw power 😁

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

As I was editing the video, when I got to editing the part of listening to the old kitty purr, it was tempting to cut out the rest and just show that. If I had any idea it was so videogenic, I might have brought it out a long time ago.

@Twobrothersoutdoors

3 ай бұрын

@@WilsonForestLands I've been working on and running Diesel's back when they had pony motors to start them. That tractor purring is a lost sound. About the same as an electric Harley......to the, well you get the point.

Fire started in the attic! House burned to the ground....well what do you know?🤣

@user-ik4fd9ny4b

3 ай бұрын

You could have used Mr. Wilson's Caterpillar to put it out!

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Aww man I missed the opportunity to put the fire out.

Great content Michael! I enjoy hanging out with you on your channel, keep the videos coming! I wouldn't like the Moon, there's no trees...lol

Nice clean 10k. Started out 53 years ago putting those into service. Good memories! Trying your suggested square files. Never to late to learn something👍

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I can only imagine operating a brand new 10k. Good luck with the square filing. 👍

The water tank looks to me like the start of a charcoal burning business !

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Interesting thought, it’s so thick it might actually last quite a while as a charcoal killn.

Now you are just showing off . Nice clean machine .

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Maybe a little.

man that dozer sounds good!!!!!!!!!!!! a perfect homestead logging and road building machine!

I’m kinda new to that idea of starting stuff from the top. Someone suggested it for my woodstove when I fire it up. Been doing it now for a couple of years, and for that small application, it works really well for me. Don’t know why, it just does. And I guess that’s enough science for me

As I listened to that Cat purring, it seemed I could hear a certain old tractor quietly weeping.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

The tractor shouldn’t be weeping, It’s the one that gets all the screen time. It took me over two years to finally put the cat on camera.

@spencerh2860

2 ай бұрын

@@WilsonForestLandswhy so long

@WilsonForestLands

2 ай бұрын

Because the last couple years most of the things I’ve been doing in the woods is salvaging scattered relatively small trees. Not really practical for this size of machine. It would be extreme overkill for anything I’ve been doing. I mostly just brought it out this time to give it a little exercise since I haven’t been using it.

i thought you were going to tip the water tank over with the dozer and wash the bio char away , lol , it would have been epic

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Aww man, talk about missed opportunity. I didn’t even think about that. Yeah that would have been much better.

Yeah, you got all the cool toys.

Now I know what you have been holding out on me. You had a new toy and didn't say anything about it. You can bring it to my house

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I have actually had it longer than I have had a channel, if that tells you how long I’ve been holding out. I will let you figure out the cost to haul one of these all the way to Georgia. 😁

@joeyrector1015

3 ай бұрын

@@WilsonForestLands right. Them things does come in handy

Nice work Mike. Thanks for the lesson in bugs, burning, and the science of hippie science 😂

Thank you for your educational video sprinkled with a dose of humor drier than sand in the Atacama Desert. I'm happy to have found your YouTbube channel and will be watching more of your videos!

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Humor drier than sand in the Atacama Desert. That is pretty dry, I like it. 😂

Good ole fashion bug burning? I am not sure that was ever a thing, but it ought to be! Thank you for setting us straight on the biochar hippie science. 🔥😀

Thanks!

Nice old 6-C. Looks well taken care of!

Cool digger Wilson.

I'd rather not be stuck in the wilderness at all. "Hippie science." Love it. Thumbs up, and thanks for posting.

Thank you Wilson. Good information. I have many piles to burn. I can't wait to see how the biochar will affect my pumpkin's growth

Top lighting also helps slow the burn rate a bit, so you don't end up with a huge raging pile of burning wood! That's great for a big party, but not so much for a controlled burn. Thanks for sharing!

looks like a fun time to me

You’re quickly becoming one of my favorite channels.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Thank you. Hopefully I can keep living up to that.

Your videos are interesting, good dozer operator like that size machine

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

It’s a good in between size for a lot of things, but a bit big for what I’ve been doing a lot of here lately. That’s mostly why it hasn’t made a showing on the channel.

You could keep the water tank and water for fire protection,

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

That’s what I’ve been doing with it so far.

The deer will be upset if you move the sawmill.😁 On the positive side, if sawdust mtn was up there you might have a longer snowboarding run and more trees to run into for comedic affect.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I think the deer would just follow it up the hill and be fine with it there. They might even prefer it because there would be more shade. I didn’t even think about the snowboard run, that would make it much better up there. Minus this whole running into trees thing, I don’t think I would enjoy that as much as the viewers would.

Oh look at you with your new toy. 😂

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Actually I’ve had that toy longer than I have had a channel. Just haven’t been using it much.

Hahaha.. you've been holding out!! Michael got a new toy! Woowhoo!! Game changer!!

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I have actually had that longer than I have had the channel. I just haven’t been using it much. It would be overkill for most of the logging I’ve been doing.

When I go into the woods,I always carry a 16” inch tire and 5 gallons of diesel to start a fire for survival 😅.Dang it man you mean all I needed was a match?Oh well maybe the TREE HUGGERS will like me now!!!!!Great video and keep em coming

Wonderful work. Thank you from Planet Earth residents! Love your efforts!

Dang I need one of those extinguishing tools too

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I’m not sure why everyone doesn’t have one.

The hippie science says until water is used on burning wood it's just charcoal. Charcoal will not last 1000's of years. Water expands the cells of the wood which give room for the soil microbes to do their thing. Then it's biochar. It holds the soil microbes and bacteria instead of them being washed away. They feed the plants, no need for fertilizers. This is a not enough coffee explanation, best I can do. 😊 Enjoyed watching the bugs burn tho..

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I think they find charcoal dating back thousands of years but I think it depends on the conditions. That’s why I say hundreds or thousands of years. I was part of a biochar study a few years ago. But I’ve heard so many things about biochar and charcoal, the one thing I do know is it’s black and it’s messy. 😁

I remembered you this morning. I went and burn the leftovers from pruning one of my very small vineyards (under 6.000 squared feet, about eleven times less in m2). There were both the pile from last year and, on top of it, all from this year. This year's was still green, some had even sprouted not realizig they had no root to be fed from, but the weather has been really humid these last few months. So much so that it took me a while to get it going. I had even gone before to a different property and got some eucalyptus bark, as if anythig is too good to be kindling, therefore too bad, as it burns way too quickly. That bark burnt and since the leftovers were really wet, I had to use some firelighter. But, hey, I did it from above as you say and it got going. Mind you, it was intertwined with grass and kind of hard to move with my fork, but it finally burnt down.

@fadetounforgiven

3 ай бұрын

P.S. I didn't have that machine so I could put the fire out, I just waited until it was not a danger anymore, as it was sorrounded by wet grass and, anyway, if I had such a machine, the property is not big enough to maneouvre ir inside.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

With material like that it might be hard to get a fire going no matter how you do it. But as long as you got it done.

Was the Cat. your grands too? I liked the info you gave on your last burn piles. (paraphrase) "To hot of a fire will kill everything in the soil".

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

No I bought the Cat myself years ago.

that looked fun lol

Using that Cat to extinguish the bio-char is akin to using a Cricket bat to swat a mosquito... But fun, nonetheless. Cheers from your proud "Hippie Science" adherent neighbour to the North.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Considering it’s also contributing to building myself a flat pad, I figured it was worth whacking the mosquito at the same time. Or you might say it’s like driving finish nails with a sledgehammer.

Now you have yourself a serious log skidding machine! Probably had it hidden away there all of the time, now we know how you get those really tuff logs out.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s been sitting there a long time. Most of the small scattered trees I’ve been dealing with the last couple years are more appropriately sized for the smaller tractor. But it’s there if I need it.

Our fire chief mentioned that buried coals can smolder for months.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Yes that can be a problem. It’s why I mixed them up with dirt and spread them around. If they were concentrated in a larger pocket together that can be a dangerous situation.

When you showed the close up of the exhaust pipe when you started the engine I was afraid that you had replaced the tin can on the tractor. It's to know it's still there!

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

That can is one of the stars of the channel. I would probably get protest from viewers if I replaced it. 😁

Wow a new toy. Do you cut fire roads for the Forest Service during the fire season as a side gig?

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I have actually had that longer than I have had the channel. The reason I got one that size was thinking I could use it as a fire cat. I never actually got around to doing it though. But the option is there.

Biochar for 'hippie science' (terra preta do indio) needs the grain structure of wood to host soil microbes. You can't get that from bugs or with the ashes of an open fire. Cone fire would work, or any way of cooking the wood around 800°F to 900 °F without letting air get to the wood. Your way is just soot, ashes and char. But good effort helping keep down the pests and showing folks how to burn wood with just some matches and a tractor.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

That’s what I have heard. But I’ve also heard some so-called biochar experts say this works well too. I’ve looked into it a lot over the years and what I have learned for sure is it is black and messy.

@bartroberts1514

3 ай бұрын

@@WilsonForestLands No doubt! The world is full of people whose confidence in what they say runs ahead of our confidence in what they say. The residue of a trash fire or clearing fire is almost never biochar, as I understand it. No pyrolysis, no biochar. Not sealed off from oxygen while it cooks, not pyrolysis. There are different grades of biochar, I'm sure you've heard, depending on wood used, cooking time and level of heat. I don't need to tell you biochar is porous and takes up compost tea during activation to make terra preta, so it hosts nitrogen-fixers and forms the equivalent of drainage tile when well-mixed (about 25%) with soil, to reduce need for irrigation and risk of flood while extending soil fertility. Plain wood ash changes soil pH, and might add some potash, which is good, too. While both can have benefits, they're not magic. My grandparents when there was wartime rationing used a pyrolysis cooker to get producer gas and biodiesel to run farm equipment, with some bonus black liquor for protecting fenceposts from rot. I suppose they could have been hippies. There are some sixty commercial uses for biochar, from activated filters to aggregate for high R-value concrete, but it'd take a big milling operation to really make it a going concern, as you only get 15%-35% dry weight as output. I'm just a guy who designs hand tools for market gardeners, so I can't really advise on an operation of your scale. People can use Google Scholar for the academic angle. North America's got some biochar businesses, but the only government-backed certificate yet is from the European Biochar Organization, which I know nothing about. Seems the comment section has plenty of people wishing you well in your biochar pursuits. Good luck with all that, on top of managing woodlands.

@bartroberts1514

3 ай бұрын

@@WilsonForestLands By the way, did you have the names of these so-called experts handy? I'd like to look into their methods.

I tried taking an old used tire with me when I went camping but it was cumbersome 🤣.

Wow, just got to the bulldozer part. I said "where'd he get that?!" very cool. When is the next live stream?

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

The plan is to do the live stream the third Saturday of every month. I believe the 20th is the next one. Two Brothers Outdoors are the ones hosting it.

Something I noticed about your top lit fire… the flames didn’t get 30 or 40 feet in the air, like mine did when I lit a pile about that big from the bottom!!!

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

The wood was also partly green and slow burning, that may have kept the flame length down.

Good video Jonathan.

@DanielAtkinsFirewood

3 ай бұрын

I see what you did there.. 🤣

@TheOldManAndTheSaw

3 ай бұрын

You may be the only one.

@DanielAtkinsFirewood

3 ай бұрын

@TheOldManAndTheSaw : The channels mom will see. 😉👍

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Mom‘s computer is broken, I think everyone is off the hook now and can call me whatever they want for a while.

Heat does not rise, however warmed air does. Providing of course that the warmed air is warmer than the surrounding air.

@dgoodman1484

3 ай бұрын

And so does the carbon monoxide, methane and hydrogen that actually burn and cause flame. But it’s not worth arguing with him about it. Even if he did add try twigs to to top of the fire to keep it going 😁👍🏼

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I put twigs on top of the fire. It would be hard to put the dry twigs underneath the fire without lifting up the fire and putting the fire out.

@dgoodman1484

3 ай бұрын

Really? One would think it was easy. You put them on before lighting. Course then they wouldn’t be above the fire. Well I guess they would if you lit the bottom like you’re supposed to. 😁😉👍🏼

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I had kindling on the bottom and the top and around the sides. The best of all worlds. All well spaced enough to get plenty of oxygen.

Now that’s a big toy !! 😂

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s a big toy. It hasn’t been getting much use lately since it’s a bit overkill for most of what I’ve been doing lately

apparently there's a direct line from the moon to the whitehouse...🤔

You are one of my favorite people that I don't really know. Take that for what it's worth. 😁

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Sometimes I find that people who I don’t know, make the best people. 😁

"Hippie Science" perfect.

I feel like you could have shown a picture of the bug you were talking about but otherwise fun video

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I have shown them in previous videos. But yeah I could have done it in this one too.

Nice dozer. My guess is you called a friend, and he is leaving you borrow it..

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I have actually had it longer than I have had the channel. I just haven’t been using it much. it would be overkill for most of the work in the forest I’ve been doing the last couple years.

Ok, when did you get the dozer? you've been holding out on me here!!

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Well, um, maybe since before I even had a channel? Yeah I may have been holding out a little bit. 😁

Hippie science 😂😂😂

Nice

Carbon sequest-what?

I see Mr wilson finally bought a brand new dozer! .......... er wait is that new?

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

No it’s been here longer than I’ve had a channel. It doesn’t get out much lately. It would be extreme overkill for most of the forest work I’ve been doing since the channel started. Salvaging scattered small bug killed trees, etc.

I’m going to steal the term Hippie Science,if you don’t mind.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I don’t mind. I made it up as a variation from the term bro science.

wait... whats that dark green 90's era Ford lurking in the woods?????

@Wrangler98JPTJ

2 ай бұрын

looks like a green twin to the burgundy one we see often

How many acres do you own?

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

This place is 160

Nah, you're supposed to use the old tire and diesel to start a rx burn down a holler

You could turn the water tank into a whirlpool and cut the trees to get a view. I wouldn’t do that but someone might.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Or it could trade places with the sawmill. The sawmill would have the flat spot, then it would have the view.

So you switched genre to videos of big, purring CATs?

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

The big purring cat doesn’t get used much lately. It’s overkill for most of what I’ve been doing lately but it might get more showing when things dry out and they start doing more road work.

“Hippie Science “ didn’t they perform right before Jimi Hendricks at Woodstock?

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I don’t know but it sounds like a good name for a band.

where is this land

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Southwest Oregon

I'm turning 3 cases of brisket into smoked brisket.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Now you are making me hungry.

Can you use some help? I have a sawmill I built in Southern California but only urban timber . I would trade or buy logs from you. Thanks for your consideration. Good videos

@robwells354

3 ай бұрын

I’m heading north soon

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I haven’t actually been doing enough in the woods lately to justify help. I have quite a few viewers asking me if I need help. I like keeping things simple and not having the complications that come with other people and liability.

@spencerh2860

2 ай бұрын

Could I visit and provide free labour or help just for the experience?

@WilsonForestLands

2 ай бұрын

I have people asking me that all the time. I am still not sure what to do about all the people who want to come help. I have some liability concerns to straighten out before I ever consider that.

@spencerh2860

2 ай бұрын

@@WilsonForestLands thank you for your reply, I understand and respect your answer Much respect from the uk

So did you rant the bulldozer or is that a new toy?

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

It’s been here for years. I haven’t been bringing it out much since it would be extreme overkill for most of what I’ve been doing since the channel started. Salvaging small scattered trees, etc.

After talking about your 3K gallons of water in a heavy solid steel tank, and how you just didnt know what to do with it, I was sure you were going to tip it over the fire with the dozer. I think you missed a fun video there.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Someone else mentioned the same thing. For some reason that just went over my head and I didn’t even think about it. Definitely missed opportunity.

i do find it irritating

Definitely not a oxymoron hippiedozer!

I had a hippy friend who bought an enormous Teepee and moved into the woods. Thought he was so smart until it got cold and he discovered there is a difference between radiant heat and convectional heat ("I have to stay up all night feeding the fire, all the heat goes right out the hole in the top of the teepee").......Of course, this jewel also believed Al Gore, so we know that critical thinking wasn't part of his repertoire! Bird Dog Tom

@realairplane261

3 ай бұрын

Time will tell.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I have wondered about the heat situation in a teepee. it seems like all the heat might just rise out the hole in the top.

Use the tank to put out the fire. Low tech compared to dozer.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Yeah but the tank doesn’t contribute to building my flat spot the way the dozer did.

Great and best way to start a fire. 😅😅😅 as I'm writing this msg you mentioned tires and 5gal of diesel. Lol easy on the commenter hahaha

A bulldozer? That’s a dirty bit of cheating Mick!

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Maybe a little. 😁

You need to have someone censor comments for you All large YT have that buffer

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Then I wouldn’t get material from them to poke a little fun at.

Something’s not adding up….. Dude… need back story on the dozer!!!!!

@kurtlanford1448

3 ай бұрын

His mother gave it to him because he was sad that people called him Mike ! That is a very nice dozer !

@billyrayvalentine9360

3 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing, what gives Mr. Wilson? I saw the exhaust pipe start and no tin can flew off like the Massey tractor.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I’m not sad from people calling me Mike, she is the sad one. Maybe someone should be buying her a dozer. 😁

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

It’s been sitting up here since before I had a KZread channel. I haven’t been using it much lately. It would be overkill for the small scattered dying trees I’ve been salvaging the last couple years.

@VicsYard

3 ай бұрын

@@WilsonForestLands it’s a really nice machine. I’ve seen them worked hard and take tons of abuse. Try to keep running and hold it as long as you can. Almost non replaceable now.

Biochar??????? All you did was make lye for soap. Way too much oxygen and ashes. You have the perfect set up for making biochar. 1.Tee-pee the wood like you did , cover 3/4 of the way up with earth , light from the top, let it get to burning real good, then cover the whole thing with a good mound of soil. 2. Fill up that steel pot with as much wood as it will hold . Light from the top. Let it get going real good. Cover the top with a huge mound of soil. This method might be a pain to clear out the pot but it is definitely the most efficient and the most safe. Scattering burning embers through the woods is not the most safe way to extinguish a fire.

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

Some people consider charcoal to be biochar. I believe lye is made from ash, not charcoal. There was a lot more charcoal than ash. I was part of a Biochar study a few years ago. It determined that top lit fires retained a lot of charcoal without turning it into ash if you extinguish it soon enough. Because of the way they burn, the charcoal is shielded from oxygen much of the burn. No this is not an efficient way to make it. Yes a lot of it does get consumed. But a lot of it doesn’t. For someone who doesn’t want to go through a bunch of process, this is a way to make charcoal. It’s the way I make charcoal for grilling. Minus the dozer and the dirt part. They were not spread around the forest. They were spread around then buried in wet to muddy mineral soil. A safe distance from any forest material. Much less dangerous than everyone who is burning debris in the forest right now. The wet season is a safe time to do that when it’s too wet here for wildfires.

@williejohnson5172

3 ай бұрын

@@WilsonForestLands Charcoal and biochar are the same thing. One you throw in the dirt. The other you cook with. Look, that dozer makes the prospect of you making biochar into a very profitable business and you have to do minimal work. Just dig a huge cone shape hole , do the wood and lighting it just as you did before. The tee-pee ensures the wood falls in on itself , pushing burnt wood to the bottom and fresh wood on top. Lighting from the top robs the bottom of the cone of oxygen. All the air stays at the top to feed the fire. So the charcoal is actually formed at the bottom of cone since it drops to the bottom. Again, once its burning at a nice rate just cover everything with a mound of soil. You can leave the char there until you need it.

New Age ciąg dalszy. Ty coś mówiłeś o chrześcijańskiej Polsce kiedyś? Żenada.

i know here you do need a fire permit to burn and all fire bands are in place right now I did hear that the fire department was a fine handout on fire million bucks that that people he was that one started it all last year with the wildfire season we had he did not ever have a permit previous year or on this year the firefights did say the police was not gentle on him when they arrested him he is being sentenced on 15 of this month more like will spend a year or more in jail for being stupid fire permits are easy to get and they are free too here

@WilsonForestLands

3 ай бұрын

I have a notice of operation with the department of forestry for doing forest work. With that I can burn here until fire season starts. Usually in May or the first of June.