bushel?

[hammerlogging]

a thoroughly limbed out conifer.

 

[John Ellison]

====

Whats this mean??????????

Four sides to a log. Top, bottom and the sides. He is talking about limbing the bottom of the log, saves a lot of work on the landing.

Some guys go the other extreme and just limb the top of the log so they can walk it. They figure that there are twelve sides to a log.

 

[slowp]

Four sides to a log. Top, bottom and the sides. He is talking about limbing the bottom of the log, saves a lot of work on the landing.

Some guys go the other extreme and just limb the top of the log so they can walk it. They figure that there are twelve sides to a log.

And that makes the Chaser angry and tired.

 

[Bushler]

When I left WeyCo in 1968 I was day waging for $55/day,(+ tools, gas, and transportation), and went busheling with brother. Our first job we got $2.50/bushel, and our first week we averaged less than $50/day.

Our next unit we got $3 and some pretty good timber and started making double that. $100/day was a benchmark.

Some days we went backwards when we'd lose a saw.

We used cigarette carton paper folded lengthwise to keep our scale, and were check scaled once or twice a week by the bull buck. If you were caught cheating you got fired on the spot.

What I remember was the incredible big units and the horrible pack in. Some of the units would take well over an hour of steady walkin to get out at night. We'd pack 5 gallon gas cans in every morning. Good thing I was young then, couldn't make the hike now.

The old swede that I worked for at WeyCo called it, 'boosheling'.

Jesse, I finally got around to trying that chain you left me, the full comp. Liked it. Smooth, nice for falling, not grabby at all. I usally cut the undercut shallow and have to reach back in to cut out the dutchman, noticed immediatley that the full comp made this a lot easier than an agressive skip like I usually run. Probably buy a roll full comp when I finish off ghe roll of skip I'm running now. What did you cut the riders/rakers at? Seemed just right.

 

[WidowMaker]

Four sides to a log. Top, bottom and the sides. He is talking about limbing the bottom of the log, saves a lot of work on the landing.

Some guys go the other extreme and just limb the top of the log so they can walk it. They figure that there are twelve sides to a log.

===

That makes sense, thanks for explanation.

 

[Burvol]

I can't remember but somewhere around 25 thou maybe more as they wear out. You need a grinder now!!! You'll be happy with full comp in the timber we cut, no other chain for 105 drivers in softwood, period. Unless your talking the 440/460 saws. Your 66will pull that stuff hard.

 

[hammerlogging]

The real joys of what ya'll call bushelling came to me shortly after I started falling timber, although in this particular circumstance I was getting paid by the truck load. Landing piled sky high and plenty down in the woods for the skidder, I skipped a day of cutting to hang with some out of town friends. Drinking beer on the front steps in my one bar town in the gentle early summer sunny afternoon with a few friends, seein that big ol log truck barrell on by, money in the bank.

 

[sILlogger]

log rules

while on the subject of bushelling, what sort of log scales does everybody go off of? Around here we use the Doyle. so what is everbody else using?

 

[Bushler]

Scribner. Columbia River.