I probably have felled 50 or so trees that went 10 feet or better, a few hundred between 8 and ten feet dia, I won't bore you-all with all the rest of it.
I agree that they were very nice trees, and I wish they were still on here for all to see! Yes, we are mean!!:angrysoapbox:Like I said, sometimes I can't help myself:bang:I will try to be nicer from now on.
But Seriously, if anyone has questions about my posts, I welcome them, Just be nice!!
Yes, that tree was a lot of work; Took me all day to fall it and buck it up, and I had a partner. Sounds like you have fell a whole lot more big timber than myself. This tree was probably twice as big as anything that I had fell before! I Just got into the game way too late in life!I think the photos were gone way too soon, please post them again, I would like to see them. I don't care if they are super size trees, I just want to see a job well done.
Yo, Tarzan, a bunch of work slaying big Redwoods, isn't it.
I missed joining the 12 Foot club by a puny 4 inches, no matter how many times I measured
I am prepared for any comments good or bad.:bringit:As far as Big egos...you are bang on! Over the years it is has been funny when you start talking to a guy, and as soon as you tell him you are a Timber Faller, he starts in telling you about how good he is at falling timber:chatter:, and when you ask him when and where he has fell timber,
he says: "Oh!...um...up______mountain in _______creek drainage". And you ask who they were working for? "Oh!...er...myself!" "O.K., what logging outfit were you contracting for"? "Oh!...well...I was logging for my father-in-law...he really needed some firewood"! "I know...I have only cut firewood...but I am good at it"!
It has gotten fairly easy to pick out the Bull$@%t from reality. I have a big ego too, but my mouth does not write checks that bounce; because I only state what is real when it comes to my career as a Timber Faller. I really have had the priveledge of working with some of the best Fallers in the World, where they have no room for B.S. I wish that the individuals that I have looked up to in my career would get on this forum and share their knowledge, and pictures; all would be amazed. 
This was the unit we were double jacking in; Unfortunately we did not get a picture of the tall tree that red-lined our jacks...that was on a different day, Even though this tree was not as tall, it was still a dandy(22 bushel I think?)!I remember double-jackin with a guy in Humboldt when we fell a redwood that was only about 6 feet diameter, but we got 270 feet of logs; not counting trim; to a fourteen inch top that blew up about 30 feet of top. The wind was barely whispering on the ground but 300 feet in the air it was enough that it red-lined our jacks a couple of times:jawdrop:I did the scale that night and could not believe how many logs that tree produced!
(But he was still an excellent Timber Faller, and a good guy, and I was honored to work with him). Other guys I double jacked with would let me fall one once in a while, so as I could get some glory too!
