 Guys, what do you do if you've got to get all this wood off this wood lot and you don't have a machine And you don't have anything other than yourself and a rope I'm gonna teach you how to be your own oxen your own team oxen be your own skitter be your own machine with one rope and One horsepower is what basically what it is and I'm gonna get all this wood out of here We're hauling this is all oak. It's really heavy. These ones right here are 50 inch bolts that we're gonna make in the lobster pot Runners lobster trap runners up here in Maine and they got to be a couple hundred pounds Anyway, you're not carrying that thing and you don't want to carry it Two guys would be kind of awkward and you're you're walking over all these stumps and rocks and holes and crevices So what I found is the best way to do this is just hook a rope onto it and give a hell That's all right It'll probably lose All right, so that's on there my shoulder harness is on and now Now just mark and where I want the log to be okay Now we got hook you up to a log Let's hook her up to the log What's this not called? Cloth it's clove it Now why do we use the clove it? So grips the wood better it grips the wood and then it's pretty easy to There it is Pretty much walk away look at that. That's easy. All right, we got to do a skidder for the day This is a little one here. I'm gonna see if I could really get some speed on this one. All right, you're gonna have to Show me that clove it's one more time. I'll try it. So you went under Where's your yep? Over over on the inside. Yeah, okay over on the inside and then pinch these and go around underneath underneath And back through here under oh no the other side on the top side. Yeah, let's be the bottom. Yeah, yeah That's it. I'll pull pull this one in that one and then take this Just go through there. Just to secure it. Is that last one necessary or is it just a safety? All right. I like this flow pitch because it comes apart so easy. That's the best part about right there and then it Saves on gas saves a lot of gas. We're saving gas today We're using I'm like half a horsepower Maybe a quarter horsepower. Can I try a bigger one? Yeah Let's try this one. This is a good 12 inches. The skidder is on this side of the wood lot for now All right, I can't even lift this one up to tie it. So what I'm gonna have to do is roll the rope under it Okay. All right. This is gonna be the challenge right here. This is one of the biggest ones we got. You ready? Yeah Now, show the folks at home all I gotta get around and hold the little hookups From all the brush. All right, we're gonna try to skid this monster out. This one Yeah Well, I think you're pushing another bolt out of the way too So these bolts are 50 cut 50 inches long and they're gonna be trimmed down at a sawmill and made into runners For lobster traps up here in Maine for the lobster industry. All the while he's doing this. I'm doing all the work But the cool thing is is this harness Makes it really comfortable for me to hold these giant logs down the hill because it doesn't cut into me at all and It disperses all the weight from the log around my body into strength so I can lean into it Get a little bit lower get your center of gravity lower and get a good lean on if you're standing upright like this If you hitch up a little bit, you're probably going over backwards or stopping still so so you want to get a little lower Just like a human skitter and get down and pull that thing The best trick is to be the cameraman Let's see if we can pull out some full-size or we're not full-sized well look a little bit bigger about a 12-footer We're gonna this one's gonna make me really scared Sometimes when things ain't going right you just have to crack them. Yeah Oh, it's donuts coffee and now it's donuts coffee and me I could be the ox They call me babe. Anyway, okay, can you at least feed me a carrot or something? Horses get carrots you can't do that Let me mount the pasture That's actually winter greens its mains what would you call it herb or I think it's called mains herb That's winter green and about another three weeks There'll be some nice red berries on there that you can get a lot out of You could actually make really nice tea out of this But you got to ferment it for about three days with a cover on it and it'll bubble a little bit It makes really nice tea, but if you you could chew on the leaves And tastes really good it gives you that nice taste and it makes your breath smell a little bit nicer or Take it and smell it or rub it on your nose And if you're in an area that's got a lot of smelly stuff you smell a lot better