Safely Removing Widowmakers with a Winch

we harvest firewood every year [Music] okay so that's the widow maker that's the hangar what's wrong with your ears did you get something something's got to be bugging you huh all right guys we got to head out to the woods because we've got to harvest enough firewood to last both my uncle and frankie through the entire winter and they're not short up here in northern minnesota hop in lucy let's go let's go she don't want to go get in there come on hop up you can do it i don't want to hang on all right you're not driving move over we've got to harvest about seven cord seven to ten cord for my uncle and about the same amount for frankie and we're hoping to be able to pull that off in the next two days morning frankie what's the game plan i've been out about an hour i just trimmed up some more of them getting them ready let's get it yes again okay skidding so this is the mess of trees we've got to clear out we've got a field on the outside so we're gonna use that to drag everything out so that we can unblock it and get it prepped all right this is a big one huh all right can you hold the camera while i uh pull her back and so the trees are white and a lot of people be like oh they're poplar they're no good these are actually birch and they are actually pretty decent trees to use for firewood they're considered kind of a hard wood but they la they burn pretty good give off a medium heat and they'll last about two years about the third year they get punky pretty fast when they go downhill they go downhill fast so last year frankie went through the woods and fell them all so by now they're fairly dry and can be used for firewood i'm gonna let you uh reel it in so i can go out in the woods and watch it come down that's cool with you i'm going to say i can get out of the way so the first tree we're going to tackle is one of the widow makers that we found right away yeah you're good so a widow maker is a tree that when you fell it in the woods it lands on another tree and then what happens is when guys are out working in the woods they could bump that tree or bump a different tree and that branch breaks sending that tree down on top of them hence that's why they're called widow makers and there's more than one of these out in these woods so we're going to take this one down right away lucy come on get away from there come on wrong way wrong way so at first we used the wench on the jeep to pull it out but that's kind of a slower process so then we're going to hook…