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All my Trees DIED! 4K

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Video by Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

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This project details the process of removing dead ash trees infested by the Emerald Ash Borer using heavy machinery and chainsaws, followed by initial processing of the felled logs. The video highlights the danger of dead ash trees and the efficiency of using an excavator to assist in felling and de-rooting.

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[Music] good morning one and all dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead that's for all from the emerald ashb taking all these out and then as we look this way almost every tree in there is an ash tree i y got to go conservative estimate 100 trees now let's take a look at this so if you have trees as we look at the bark if you have trees that here's a great example you can see the holes that's from the emerald ashbo that's from the emerald ashbo right there you can see that the missing bark although it's winter time you can still easily identify trees that have uh got the emerald ashbo in and these are just dead you you've got to either treat them or you got to take them down if you're going to take them down have a professional take them down cuz they're dead and a dead tree doesn't drop the same way that alive tree drops so what we're going to be doing we're just going to take an excavator we're going to direct everything take a chainsaw drop everything hike it over this is going to be a log processing Adventure today what's up Santa Claus yeah we can we don't need to we're going to put the cars back here right that's where you yeah where would you like them they're your cars I can't Dr them and put them in my pocket I wish lot stage yeah that's fine all right we're going to start moving stuff around then we'll start dropping trees we'll go from a bench oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we'll put the bench in first we're refinishing a wood completely wood bench that's Frankie's wood bench look at it's even got a wood Vice look at that thing how old is this bench Frankie I don't know I've been probably a kid when I first seen it probably 10 12 years old when I when I first seen it so it's about 25 years old yeah I wish Zach open up the garage will you we'll stick that wood bench in there uh Frankie I'm going to start taking down trees okay uh I'll just start concentrating on that if you want to get your chainsaws ready and one ready and the other one I stopped and got a bar and chain for it oh okay well we got like a half a dozen of them in here too so if you want putting fuel in them getting running yeah yeah and then uh we we're going to use the new wood splitter too okay we going to use the wood that's under tarps right here you know I had to drain that gas out of my uh chaina that stuff that you got you know one run I don't know if there was just something in my can or something I dumped it out put my mix in there on the Aspen yep see this the one run was it the premixed Aspen yeah yeah three cycle the stuff unless there was something in my gas can but I was using it through the whole time but once it got cold run on it huh interesting Aspen's the best of the best you got something that won't run on Aspen I don't know or I'm wrong or I'm wrong it's not the best of the best everything I've done says it's the best of the best what is that this is part of the bench that's part of the bench found the second wood [Music] north it was cold here it was 17 this morning according to my thing well yeah but we had a 50 mph win I'm sitting down jum you good or do you need help no no I I got it two you want me to park yeah yeah we're going to take down these front trees first which ones oh we'll take these down we'll just start processing them and then we'll just start working our way around to the back all right as we go make sense [Music] yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh no [Music] it's just faster to drop them I'll I'll yank the stumps later we got to process wood hey this way [Music] [Laughter] [Music] oh [Music]

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