Falling pics 11/25/09

[056kid]

That's what I call presetting chokers!!

Just give the fallers 200 chokers a day to set before they fall the trees. :jester:

I think you'd find the chokers in a pile exactly where they where given to the fallers.

Perhaps this shot will help those with learning disabilities regarding high stumps.

Perhaps if the stump had been backed up. Without that it has more of the opposite effect. Like,"i wonder if he hit something in the back?"

 

[northmanlogging]

one 20' choker is only about 25 lbs right so 200 of em should be right around 500 lbs, not a problem... Hel I carry in the dozer every day whats a few more pounds :msp_biggrin:

 

[forestryworks]

Had a big fir snap off in this latest storm. My 36" 3 rivet on my 372 wouldn't go through all the way lol

Hope everyone has had a good Thanksgiving.

Looking almost like a Jerry Beranek photo in that last one.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Sport Faller]

Looking almost like a Jerry Beranek photo in that last one.

Thanks for sharing.

Damn Son, where you been?
h'aint seen you in an age

 

[tramp bushler]

Ile Just an up date. 44 below this morning in Glennallen
28 above in Valdez.
In 115 highway miles there's 72 degrees temp difference.

So I'm not cutting today but on Saturday I have to go cut firewood .. not optional.

 

[redprospector]

Valdez sounds a lot better to me.

Andy

 

[tramp bushler]

Ya, a friend said it was 40 above in Ketchikan today. I've seen more than 100 degrees of temperature difference many times up here.

To be a True Alaskan I feel a guy should be just as useful in both places. But I'm tired of thedark and rain+ snow on the coast. BIG difference between 3' of snow and 30 feet. Of snow. If anyone wants to be a professional snow shoveler, Valdez Alaska is the place to do it that's for sure ...

 

[slowp]

I got my Happy Light out yesterday. It is on right now. The days are dark and short here. I don't know how I'd do farther north.

 

[tramp bushler]

44 below again this morning.

 

[Gologit]

This has been posted before but I just like watching this guy work.


[video=youtube;e2uVPp6mg74]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2uVPp6mg74[/video]

 

[forestryworks]

This has been posted before but I just like watching this guy work.

Always a good'n.

And that's a strong 044 he's got rumbling around.

 

[bitzer]

The grounds been holding out more or less. Hope everyone else is putting wood on the landing!

The outskirts of the golf course job. Pretty narrow corridors between the course and the roads.

Swampin! Lots of thorny #### in here.

The only good things about this job- its flat and there are tons of trails that offer some relief.

One of the many things I've come to appreciate with my Franklin roof mount.

About 40 hours worth of wood minus about 4 cords of pulp scattered around the swamp yet. If the wood had any length to it there'd be several thousand more out there. I will not be sad when the skidder hits the highway after this one.

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[forestryworks]

Swampin! Lots of thorny #### in here.

JFC! Does anyone do prescribed burns up there? :bang:

 

[Gologit]

JFC! Does anyone do prescribed burns up there? :bang:

And if not, why not?

 

[tramp bushler]

Bob; thanks for posting that vid. Ya, that guy is nice and smooth. I think that outfit is around Darrington, I think.
Jamison, that's what2 of my 044s cut like. And he's running chisel ground chain. They really make a saw fun to run.

Bitzer; looks great as usual. It looks like your in a tough show. You must really like your 390 . Seems all your falling pics since you got it have stared it. :msp_smile:

41 below this morning. I burned a half cord of wood last week in a 300 sq.ft. 3sided log cabin. The heat pad on the pickle barrel propane tank has been plugged in for a week.

 

[slowp]

And if not, why not?

The Washburn FS district was starting to do controlled burns despite the protests of the paper company. Paper manufacturers did not like to get any char in their chips. The paper industry bought a lot of timber sales.

I don't know if that is still the case. I suspect more paper companies have gone out of business?

By the way, the lighters of the burns were two young women who were also distance runners. They wore out the guys who were trying to keep up.

 

[bitzer]

JFC! Does anyone do prescribed burns up there? :bang:

According to the local ancient farmer this swamp had never been cut. These private landowners either don't have the resources or the know how or even the why to. State and other public lands they will, but this state is full of people who do not understand what a well-managed forest means. Hell, when I say I'm a logger to someone they figure I clear-cut everything and when I'm in the right kind of mood I go along with it. Yep, clear-cut for strip mining, thats my game! This woods is the thickest I've ever swum in.

 

[bitzer]

Bob; thanks for posting that vid. Ya, that guy is nice and smooth. I think that outfit is around Darrington, I think.
Jamison, that's what2 of my 044s cut like. And he's running chisel ground chain. They really make a saw fun to run.

Bitzer; looks great as usual. It looks like your in a tough show. You must really like your 390 . Seems all your falling pics since you got it have stared it. :msp_smile:

41 below this morning. I burned a half cord of wood last week in a 300 sq.ft. 3sided log cabin. The heat pad on the pickle barrel propane tank has been plugged in for a week.

Thanks Tramp! Yes I do like that 390. Running full skip now on a 32" bar. I'm planning on making that my next saw too. How much light you gettin these days? Late sun up makes me lazy.

 

[bitzer]

The Washburn FS district was starting to do controlled burns despite the protests of the paper company. Paper manufacturers did not like to get any char in their chips. The paper industry bought a lot of timber sales.

I don't know if that is still the case. I suspect more paper companies have gone out of business?

By the way, the lighters of the burns were two young women who were also distance runners. They wore out the guys who were trying to keep up.

The DNR does have quite a strangle-hold on this state. That may have more to do with it. The paper mills are doin fine. There have been some gatewood shut downs, but they were takin damn near everything that showed up last summer.

 

[Rounder]

I never have a camera when I need one...Waiting on a green truck to approve cooridors this morning (last minute block switcharoo), standing outside the car in a bit of a blizzard to properly acclimate and a big squirrel ran down the cut and dinked around in the road a bit. Too big. Walked up to where it went over the fill, and there sat a Pine Marten about ten feet away on the limbs of a fir at eye level, just like a man standing on a ladder. We had a staring contest for about 25 minutes.....Kind of makes a ####ed up day worthwhile.

Hope you all are well - Sam