Morning. I'm glad I'm not a faller today! Rain on snow makes for heavy bombs out of trees.
Falling pics 11/25/09
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Burvol
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Making coffee, looked outside to see a big dump last night....I bet I have 16" of fresh at work. Hopefully there will be no wedging 
Our snow decreased to what looks like a half inch of slush, here. I will be throwing things in the circus pickup to add weight, it was sliding around a bit yesterday. It seems like we just finished the snow season and here it is again... I do not like to work in it, only play! Have a good day.
Burvol
Bullbuck
Ok, OK....we'll probabaly have more like 8". I'll find out. Leaving now, enjoy your day!
Greystoke
Tarzan
Glad I'm not a Faller too...Have fun 
Curlycherry1
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Well. at least you had youth and inexperience for an excuse Brian. . . We had fallers playing pick-up-sticks out of pure laziness (or stupidity?). I mean, why wedge a tree when you can just fall it the way it wants to go??
I was about 17 working on a clearcut with a cable skidder and there was another cutter there that was a "professional." He commented one day that I was walking past trees to get to drop some and then walking back to get ones I passed by and he said I was wasting footsteps and time and of course money. Never mind I was making almost 2X what he was. Then at lunch one day he starts to get a bit more loud about it and the skidder operator said to him "you shut the blank up because the way he lays things out saves me tons of work and makes me money compared to that jumbled mess you leave behind!" The skidder operator had figured out that if he looked for it could could find a single pull of 4-8 logs, all within about 30' of his skidder and none of the logs for that pull would be buried by other logs. It was a clean pull if he just looked for it and he found every one of them. The other feller just let everything drop where it leaned and he cut the trees in the order he came to them. So he often left lumber trees buried under firewood logs and then more lumber logs on top of that.
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Can easily see southeast on it !!!!!!! .. Nice looking outfit ..... especially the Toyo stove .......That is the 2nd biggest problem with Southeast , # 1 , Rust . # 2 No place to park stuff till you get time to fix it or use it .... Start chasing the cutting around and stuff gets scattered from one end of The Panhandle to the other ...... The trailer your shop is sitting on looks good and skookum !!!
Wife likes this pic she say its a macho pick. Making an under cut on a cedar that shared a stump with the one in the lower right. used a conventional cut as the owner wanted to put a statue on it so made a flat top. The back cut side was close to ankle level. Last tree of a 5 hour day dropping cedars one was 40+ inches across still sitting on the ground. Wearin the wifes plastic lid for the ear muffs. Thought I was done but guy decided wanted the last one out. Hes a Triad logging equipment sales man so I even got a couple free hats plus 50 bucks an hour out of the deal.
Hey Jesse this was the job that convinced me to get a ported 70cc saw with an RW bar. The camera batteries were low so didnt get much for pics. Gonna try and get in there next summer and make some shingle and shake bolts, he just wanted them down for his view. Hes got about 20 cottan woods he wants me to come and drop. I hate cotton wood yuck.
A big maple I started that day with. Was a hot muggy day.
Hey Jesse this was the job that convinced me to get a ported 70cc saw with an RW bar. The camera batteries were low so didnt get much for pics. Gonna try and get in there next summer and make some shingle and shake bolts, he just wanted them down for his view. Hes got about 20 cottan woods he wants me to come and drop. I hate cotton wood yuck.
A big maple I started that day with. Was a hot muggy day.
Burvol
Bullbuck
Cedar can be cut with a slightly smaller saw. It's so soft. I bet you thought about that when you had that tall stump? I knew old boys around here that slaughtered pine with 044's till everyone headed up the big stand of Dougies, they got left in the dust, but could cut that big pine all day long, but most of it was strap cut, so I really don't know what to think other than you definetly made the right choice for a light set up that still kicks.
Burvol
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The logger called me and said don't come to work today. Solid ice. Ok...so here I am in the 5 o'clock hour waiting for Bob and Patty to come out
ROOTSXROCKS
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Calling for 80 degrees here today.
Yes Cedar is soft. Spent years cuttin the stuff with 044. Used to drag flutes out of the woods that were left from back in the day and buck into shingle and shake bolts. Amazing how well those flutes would last in the woods I was like a legal Cedar pirate made some great money selling them by the chord. My shirts and pants looked like they were splatterd red from all the cuttin. Skip chain also does great on Cedar as well. We got into some 50 inch fir thats when I decided I wanted an 064/066 that was some serios cutting with my little 044. Enough of my babling Ill let the real pros have some turns.
Greystoke
Tarzan
Wife likes this pic she say its a macho pick. Making an under cut on a cedar that shared a stump with the one in the lower right. used a conventional cut as the owner wanted to put a statue on it so made a flat top. The back cut side was close to ankle level. Last tree of a 5 hour day dropping cedars one was 40+ inches across still sitting on the ground. Wearin the wifes plastic lid for the ear muffs. Thought I was done but guy decided wanted the last one out. Hes a Triad logging equipment sales man so I even got a couple free hats plus 50 bucks an hour out of the deal.
Hey Jesse this was the job that convinced me to get a ported 70cc saw with an RW bar. The camera batteries were low so didnt get much for pics. Gonna try and get in there next summer and make some shingle and shake bolts, he just wanted them down for his view. Hes got about 20 cottan woods he wants me to come and drop. I hate cotton wood yuck.
A big maple I started that day with. Was a hot muggy day.
Nice pics man! I miss the smell of fresh cut Red Cedar...Dont miss the limbs, or the holding wood though
Greystoke
Tarzan
Greystoke
Tarzan
Looking forward to more pics of the shop as you work on her. . . Remember, you know a guy up here that can weld a little.
If you need help in that area.
You bet man!
Greystoke
Tarzan
Is it heated? I think a fridge might be a good thing too.
Pardon me, I've been looking for a tiny trailer to go camping in and just spent a lot of time looking at websites.)
Good night all.
I have a toyo stove in it for heat, although it is not hooked up right now. Had a wood stove, sink, and fridge in it one time when my Dad and I used it for a huntin camp, a long time ago.
Yea Cody Cedar limbs make for entertainment too many and springy is what Im thinkin your referring to.
Greystoke
Tarzan
Southeast and steel are not too good of a mix are they? Yes that thing is a tank!
Nice pics man! I miss the smell of fresh cut Red Cedar...Dont miss the limbs, or the holding wood though
LOL...What holding wood? You mean that stuff that pops once and then goes for it?
Greystoke
Tarzan
Exactly...It's amazing the difference between red and yellow cedar.
