A Visit To The Tillman Side

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They added another Luke to the crew. He was chasing.
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Here are the two Lukes and the boss, spooling in the guyline.

A couple more pictures taken during the sucker hole.

 

[Jacob J.]

Nice pictures. Are you doing select cut here or open cut with a few leave trees/acre?

 

[schmuck.k]

goog pictures slowp keep them coming.

 

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Nice pictures. Are you doing select cut here or open cut with a few leave trees/acre?

It was laid out quite a while ago. It is a thin from below. When the yarder is doing a wagon wheel setting, we get an opening by the yarder. You probably already knew that.

The current trend is to thin in a circle of death around the largest tree at 4 to 8 inches--stump height. It is not a way to choose the best trees, nothing
else matters except that diameter. So, on one unit, we have some mistletoed hemlocks as the leave trees.

I believe the logic is that this makes for more "diversity" in the forests. Of course, we don't count the millions of uncut acreage around the units as part of the forest. Ooops, sarcasm beginning to take effect--eject, eject, eject...
Outta here.

 

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The Tillman is done. Waiting for the lowboy to come and pick it up. Instead of a video watching the tube come down, for which you would best be tipsy or stoned, here is a still picture.

Walking with a guide.