Falling pics 11/25/09

[twochains]

I was cutting this set and came across this head leaner and decided I would take a break and throw on my camera. Te 2nd tree in the vid had a bad lean probably 20ft off center of the stump and hanging over the hollar. I used a faceless bore cut to eliminate chairing the tree. This technique worked very well and came off the stump just as planned w/o making match sticks. This technique is probably dangerous and not used all that often and probably shouldn't be used...however it works very well and fairly common procedure in my area.

Funny how the camera angle flattens out the lay of the land. This was shot on a steep grade, walking the logs was slow due to the downhill angle. Like I said, I was just shooting this because of the head leaner and taking a break kinda. Thanks for watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYencgARhmg&list=UU_NjqCPS3PCA_PGz4NCZuLA&index=1

 

[treeslayer2003]

hey man great job, that looks exactly like what i'm doin,guess i'm not the only one
white oak right? never thought of measureing with saw like that guess u r grading them?
they not huge but good length. great pics, I gotta get up on this tech thing so I can show y'all what i'm doin :msp_biggrin:

 

[northmanlogging]

I totally didn't need to see the hairy man teat at the end...:msp_scared: otherwise nice work.

 

[OlympicYJ]

Twochains, I see you're kind of just topping those sticks. Are you guys bucking at the landing? I also notice even though you're buckin the tops you're still measuring. Could you enlighten me? curios As to what's going on lol

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[HuskStihl]

I was cutting this set and came across this head leaner and decided I would take a break and throw on my camera. Te 2nd tree in the vid had a bad lean probably 20ft off center of the stump and hanging over the hollar. I used a faceless bore cut to eliminate chairing the tree. This technique worked very well and came off the stump just as planned w/o making match sticks. This technique is probably dangerous and not used all that often and probably shouldn't be used...however it works very well and fairly common procedure in my area.

Funny how the camera angle flattens out the lay of the land. This was shot on a steep grade, walking the logs was slow due to the downhill angle. Like I said, I was just shooting this because of the head leaner and taking a break kinda. Thanks for watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYencgARhmg&list=UU_NjqCPS3PCA_PGz4NCZuLA&index=1

Great video TC and very good job demonstrating what you do with the hard leaners. Here's what I would have done differently:
1) I would have futzd around a lot more trying to even up my cuts and never succeeded
2) I would have fallen off that log you were walking on, probably onto something uncomfortable
3) I would have pinched my bar bucking the log and had to run to get a wedge or another saw.

Your way worked too, so I can't complain too much

Seriously, very nice stumps, extremely efficient and well thought out. You must not have much poison ivy. I cut completely covered with a work shirt and gloves, or I'm covered in itchy bumps (doesn't sound manly to be concerned with itchy bumps, but they make it tough to sleep, which I enjoy).
Nice video

 

[tramp bushler]

T C. Your cutting looks great. Nice steady pace! . But watching you makes the scars on my left hand ache. Wrap your thumb around that handle. Please. . Oh, and look up more.
I could tell it was pretty steep. But that's actually pretty standard for on the coast up here. Till it gets a lot steeper.
I've had big spruce run for close to a thousand feet.

 

[HuskStihl]

T C. Your cutting looks great. Nice steady pace! . But watching you makes the scars on my left hand ache. Wrap your thumb around that handle. Please. . Oh, and look up more.
I could tell it was pretty steep. But that's actually pretty standard for on the coast up here. Till it gets a lot steeper.
I've had big spruce run for close to a thousand feet.

I had always wondered why it is important to wrap the thumb. I figured it was, 'cause you tell everybody to do it, and I try to make it a habit now when I am cutting. Scars are some of the best teachers, but I hate bleeding

 

[twochains]

hey man great job, that looks exactly like what i'm doin,guess i'm not the only one
white oak right? never thought of measureing with saw like that guess u r grading them?
they not huge but good length. great pics, I gotta get up on this tech thing so I can show y'all what i'm doin :msp_biggrin:

Thanks! Yep, those trees were just the end of the set and I had a few more above them to cut so I was just getting them out of the way. I keep breaking my spencer tape and we have to order new tapes so I was marking my logs with the saw. We sell the small ties down to 10 1/2in to these Minonites and I am pretty sure they mill them to "switch" ties (6x8 or 7x8).

I totally didn't need to see the hairy man teat at the end...:msp_scared: otherwise nice work.

HA HA! Yeh sorry 'bout that! :msp_w00t:

Twochains, I see you're kind of just topping those sticks. Are you guys bucking at the landing? I also notice even though you're buckin the tops you're still measuring. Could you enlighten me? curios As to what's going on lol

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The tops go as "scrag" or pallet lumber, I leave it on and it gets bucked at the landing. Keeps the skidder going more efficiently. We don't buck the logs, we only haul on pole trailers.

Great video TC and very good job demonstrating what you do with the hard leaners. Here's what I would have done differently:
1) I would have futzd around a lot more trying to even up my cuts and never succeeded
2) I would have fallen off that log you were walking on, probably onto something uncomfortable
3) I would have pinched my bar bucking the log and had to run to get a wedge or another saw.

Your way worked too, so I can't complain too much

Seriously, very nice stumps, extremely efficient and well thought out. You must not have much poison ivy. I cut completely covered with a work shirt and gloves, or I'm covered in itchy bumps (doesn't sound manly to be concerned with itchy bumps, but they make it tough to sleep, which I enjoy).
Nice video

Thanks man! I haven't got poison ivy since I was about 5 yrs old, yes there is quite a bit of it around to. I even haul hay w/o a shirt.

T C. Your cutting looks great. Nice steady pace! . But watching you makes the scars on my left hand ache. Wrap your thumb around that handle. Please. . Oh, and look up more.
I could tell it was pretty steep. But that's actually pretty standard for on the coast up here. Till it gets a lot steeper.
I've had big spruce run for close to a thousand feet.

Thanks! Yep, I saw my thumb in the vid and was like I know who's gonna say something about that You would think I would learn after "Chauffeur's break" on that same wrist. If you don't know what that is, it is a fracture caused by a thumb injury where you split your radius in half and have to get screws!...I have two. I busted it while cross country racing 4 wheelers. I never came out of the seat, gathered myself and reached up to pull the clutch and my bone popped out the skin! I duct taped it and finished 4th...I was winning the A Open class :frown:. Man you should see the pine set I am dropping 2moro! Biggest timber I have ever cut...gotta bring out the 30" for these babies! We estimate 100' +!!! I hope I can drop them w/o much breakage...they are in even steeper ground. Guess I will be making a new vid :msp_w00t: (if I don't get rained out)

 

[056kid]

Great video TC and very good job demonstrating what you do with the hard leaners. Here's what I would have done differently:
1) I would have futzd around a lot more trying to even up my cuts and never succeeded
2) I would have fallen off that log you were walking on, probably onto something uncomfortable
3) I would have pinched my bar bucking the log and had to run to get a wedge or another saw.

Your way worked too, so I can't complain too much

Seriously, very nice stumps, extremely efficient and well thought out. You must not have much poison ivy. I cut completely covered with a work shirt and gloves, or I'm covered in itchy bumps (doesn't sound manly to be concerned with itchy bumps, but they make it tough to sleep, which I enjoy).
Nice video

Fels Naptha bar soap in the laundry detergent isle. It works good for me. So I think, I might be developing an immunity to them shiny leafs!

 

[Metals406]

I bet all the locals get a good head scratch looking at a Humboldt stump. :msp_wink:

Sub'd to yer channel too.

 

[056kid]

I was cutting this set and came across this head leaner and decided I would take a break and throw on my camera. Te 2nd tree in the vid had a bad lean probably 20ft off center of the stump and hanging over the hollar. I used a faceless bore cut to eliminate chairing the tree. This technique worked very well and came off the stump just as planned w/o making match sticks. This technique is probably dangerous and not used all that often and probably shouldn't be used...however it works very well and fairly common procedure in my area.

Funny how the camera angle flattens out the lay of the land. This was shot on a steep grade, walking the logs was slow due to the downhill angle. Like I said, I was just shooting this because of the head leaner and taking a break kinda. Thanks for watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYencgARhmg&list=UU_NjqCPS3PCA_PGz4NCZuLA&index=1

Port that saw and run some good square chain and all you will have to do is back cut in that size timber.

 

[treeslayer2003]

yea we sell to a menenite too some and couple small amish mills. them butt logs not good enough to v'neer?
they would see humboltds on my job to, been doing that for years but we just say takin notch outa de stump :wink2:

 

[tramp bushler]

If you can, let those pines run themselves out of steam quartering them down hill. . If you have a big enough hillside then pour them straight down the mountain. The come to a lot genteler stop. If u get a chance try a wrap handle bar. The Weber is the best I've used on the 460 Stihl. And I think I've used them all. It gives the thumb a place to hide when the clutch cover is up.
I just about couldn't run a half wrap saw falling timber. Yuk.

 

[Plankton]

Couple of random pictures from a recent job.

Pretty steep ground for the northeast here, most stumps my sight cut is shoulder level like this one:



saving this pine out was a gamble but it worked, slowed the top down with a couple ash down at the bottom and gave it a side snipe to roll the butt in the right direction. The other lays were worse the this on and the drop off was so steep I could walk under the log after it fell, scaling was a challenge. Sure glad it worked out!

on the stump before snipe:




cut:




Edit: Pine stump is high because of defect (old basal scar)

 

[Metals406]

Couple of random pictures from a recent job.

Love me some red and black saws!

Thanks for sharing! :msp_thumbup:

 

[tramp bushler]

Couple of random pictures from a recent job.

Pretty steep ground for the northeast here, most stumps my sight cut is shoulder level like this one:



saving this pine out was a gamble but it worked, slowed the top down with a couple ash down at the bottom and gave it a side snipe to roll the butt in the right direction. The other lays were worse the this on and the drop off was so steep I could walk under the log after it fell, scaling was a challenge. Sure glad it worked out!

on the stump before snipe:




cut:




Edit: Pine stump is high because of defect (old basal scar)

Don't u wear corks. ?? What u have there is what we consider nice ground on the coast. Glad it saved out for u.
Its best if you can quarter them down the hillfor buckin purposes. Having some disposable trees to stow it down works. Its a lot better than belly ripping it.

 

[tramp bushler]

To Slow it down

 

[twochains]

I bet all the locals get a good head scratch looking at a Humboldt stump. :msp_wink:

Sub'd to yer channel too.

I sub'd your channel..hell I've actually watched some of your vids and didn't even know it was you. The "locals" get a good head scratch when you tell them the name of the notch they just put in. :msp_wink:

 

[056kid]

Enjoyable ground.

 

[rwoods]

Enjoyable ground.

:msp_thumbup: Did that one self-limb and load itself on the truck waiting at the bottom? It would have to for me or be my tree for the day. You fellas have a lot more stamina than me. :msp_smile: Ron