How To Jack A Tree Over!

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• CO

  @coyotejohn3101 · 4 years ago

  Doesn't matter the trade...it's always a pleasure to watch someone with this level of knowledge and skill do their work.

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• NU

  @nunyabizness0u812 · 4 years ago (edited)

  My Family has been loggers also since they came to America from Austria and Germany years ago and they were loggers in their home countries as well so you could say easily saw dust and wood chips are honestly in my blood. <br>Now with that being said....I learned more about the proper way to jack a leaner from Anton and Gordy in this short video than I got in my previous 25+ years on the Mountain Falling ! <br> We have always used the biggest bottle jacks we could purchase and then modified them ourselves simply because of the cost of one of those jacks. I&apos;ve used the next smaller one this guy makes that a Friend of mine owns and that&apos;s where we got the basic knowledge of where to modify our bottle jacks. They work ok but not anywhere near as good as the purpose built jack does. I remember my grandfather when he was teaching me and the first time we had to jack a tree over....it was a huge ponderosa and heavy as hell....he had me grab the bottle jack from the tool box on the skidder and he brought some metal plates in his pack....I had no idea why I had to tote this heavy freaking jack up the mountain but knowing if I questioned him too much he would unleash a string of German Curse words that I didn&apos;t wanna have to bring on myself. He had no problem explaining things at the Tree or as we did things. I guess if I questioned him before we did certain things it made him feel like I was questioning him and his knowledge.....and he was old enough....nobody needed to ask him why till they could see and understand why.....anyway we measured and set the bottle jack with a plate above and plate under it and we had a long jack handle and we got the tree to fall where Grandpa wanted it with ease ...then of course Grandpa sat on the stump while I limbed and bucked the tree all the time hollering instructions or correcting me. Then when done with that one we simply picked up our stuff and moved to the next tree....and that lesson he taught me all those years ago is how I have done it.....come to find out.....everything Anton said....is nearly the exact same things my Grandfather showed me.....<br>Thank Anton and Gordy for me but most of all, thank you for this series of videos. <br>We are a small Mom and Pop logging outfit with my wife doing the bids,and running the office and &nbsp;along with Myself &amp; our Son and 2 young college guys work for us when not in school we do all the logging from falling to the landing and hauling our own logs to the mill......and I&apos;m going to have them over and I will plug my phone into the TV in our den and we are all going to watch this video again because that is how you safely jack a tree.<br>Thanks Again.<br><br>P.S. I thought you might like to share this post Script.<br>After doing just what I said (having the crew in one evening for a couple of instructional videos including the one from above we actually got to use our new knowledge the very next week. Long story short we had 2 very high grade beautiful ponderosa growing at the base of a tall granite bluff that had to be taken down and in order to save them out we decided to jack them so we could lay them down nice and gentle right where we wanted them, trouble is as you well know what we want and what the tree does are sometimes to very different things. Both were branch heavy in the wrong direction from years of growing at the base of this bluff that was perdy much straight up and down and well over 300foot tall. So both trees being protected on the one side by they bluff grew very tall and held their girth a long way up. They both were heavy side leaners of course away from the direction we needed them to go...as usual.<br>We made our measurements checked and double checked them and carefully made our cuts installed the jack and one at a time we were able to lay them exactly where we wanted them and didn&apos;t break anything that was of high value. Having that video to show them just days before all the info was fresh in their minds and it really helped them and was fun for me to be part of.

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• JD

  @Jdoe32 · 4 years ago

  Super informative series for the young guys getting in to this field. Antone is an incredibly good teacher. There is such a difference between learning from someone who genuinely knows what they&apos;re doing and why. Wish I had had this kind of mentorship coming up and thank all of you for being so giving with your knowledge.

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• KE

  @KevinsDisobedience · 4 years ago

  Safety squints all the way. &nbsp;These guys are the real deal.

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• SC

  @scottperine8027 · 4 years ago

  Antone is wealth of information and delivers it like your sitting in his living room having cocoa.

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• ER

  @ericecklund676 · 4 years ago

  Antone&apos;s story of how they used to move logs in the creeks, is probably how the Central American loggers used to move giant old growth Mahogany logs in the creeks and rivers of Belize. Great story telling Jacob!

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• KE

  @Kevin-rk1ge · 4 years ago

  gordys forearms looking menacing, dear lord

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• TH

  @TheF1shh · 4 years ago

  I&apos;m surprised there isn&apos;t more real hand logging content on yourtube. Bjarne Butler is the only one really putting the time in to get quality footage. This little series has been great.

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• WA

  @wasntme3651 · 4 years ago

  I worked in the woods in the UP for a couple years. Cutting and skidding and I have the utmost respect for these guys. It’s hard work cutting and limbing all day while carrying a big chainsaw. These guys are in the big leagues compared to what I did. Loggers are hard as nails 👍🏼

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• CL

  @ClaytonRW65 · 4 years ago

  Thank you for documenting and sharing your vocation with us. &nbsp;Even though I&apos;m not a logger or an arborist, I am hooked on your videos and I am learning so much about your trade that i was completely ignorant of. &nbsp;Thank you Jacob.

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• CH

  @chrisscutt4197 · 4 years ago

  Jacob, &nbsp;you are soo fortunate to keep coming across true professionals who are willing to share! Please keep finding the teachers of the trade.

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• KI

  @KiwieeiwiK · 4 years ago

  They used to do the thing with the dams here in NZ back in the 1800s too when Europeans first came here and started logging the big Kauri trees for ship masts. If you go hiking in the bush you can still find a lot of old dams, some that were never used and eventually rotted away and some that you can see the whole structure. I don&apos;t think they dynamited the ones here, normally they&apos;d have big gates in the dam which could be opened with a release pin of sorts I guess, and the gate timbers would fly open and release the water. Genius solution for moving huge logs before heavy machinery was around.

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