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Select and Cut Hardwood Logs

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It's So Easy! How to make Shiitake Mushroom Logs!

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What happens here

The first task is to cut down suitable hardwood trees. The presenter recommends using a lightweight chainsaw, like the Stihl MS 170, for home use. He puts on safety gear, including ear protection and a face shield. He looks for trees approximately 6 inches in diameter (about the size of a person's arm or mid-thigh), with relatively smooth bark. He identifies a 'scraggly' red oak tree that is undesirably curved and will be cut down. He explains that smooth bark is preferred as it makes it easier to hammer in the mushroom plugs.

Goal: Harvest suitable hardwood logs for mushroom cultivation.

Tools and materials

  • Chainsaw Stihl MS 170 — Cutting down trees and sectioning logs
  • Ear Protection Husqvarna — Protecting hearing during chainsaw operation
  • Face Shield Husqvarna — Protecting face from debris during chainsaw operation
  • Work Gloves — Hand protection
  • Hardwood Logs Natural — Substrate for mushroom cultivation

What they say

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insert the plugs all right first things first we're gonna drop the tailgate here on the Kubota this is our steel ms1 70 it is an awesome awesome homeowner grade saw we carry this saw on the Kubota a lot of times and it's really lightweight it's very handy it's a good saw to have and I'd see best saw that I can recommend to a homeowner that wants to buy a good saw that uses it fairly infrequently you can cut a load of firewood with this saw it'll do a good job but this is what the guy needs that just has a few trees in his backyard it's clearing up some land or cutting another maybe one load of firewood per year so we're gonna fire up the MS 170 we're gonna put our safety gear on and I'm gonna take you over here I'm going to show you the types of trees that we're looking for for our shitake mushroom logs what we're looking for is a tree that's about six inches around in other words about is round if you got a big ol arm about as round as your arm or about as round as your leg about halfway between your knee and your hip depending on how slim a person you are we're looking for logs about this big around and about four feet long something like that this tree right here is a red oak and this red oak needs to go you want to pick a tree that doesn't have a very coarse bark if it has a very coarse bark it's harder to hammer your plugs in so we'll take a look at this tree real quick so you can understand why I'm cutting this tree you can see it is bent over it winds up like this okay some people might call this a post oak this tree needs to go we want tall pretty straight trees for good timber like this not what I call scraggly trees like this guy you can see it's just kind of weaving through the brush and what's happened is this was a tiny sapling and it got a lot of shade so it grew up straight really fast we're gonna knock this tree down we're gonna cut it into links [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good deal as usual this saw cut like a champ

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