Falling pics 11/25/09

[HuskStihl]

by the way boys, I did take some pics yesterday. gotta get the wife to show me what to do with um so y'all can see um

I don't know TS, with all the cool videos TC has been posting, pics might not cut it anymore! Wives are generally very supportive and helpful, and I'm sure yours would be willing to spend a day recording videos of you falling for us to enjoy. Seriously though, I for one really enjoy seeing what my "(insert expletive of my wife's choice here) chainsaw friends" are doing. I figure if she can spend hours "friending" and "poking" all her exes on the other site, I should be able to hang out with SlowP and the boys here

 

[forestryworks]

Never lost a saw, yet, but did lose a sate-issued radio one day. A tall whippy southern pine decided it didn't like where I put its top, so it sprung a good 32' of log back at me, square in the chest. The radio broke to pieces, and the 066 and I sailed backwards down the hill. A bruised forearm and a sore elbow were the only bodily damage.

 

[RandyMac]

I lost more than one, but only one to doing something I shouldn't have. Like Bob, steep sidehill bucking got one. The other got eaten by a big Madrone I was limbing, it decided to fling it into the fire, no biggy, it was the State's Echo.

 

[Sport Faller]

That's like in the old-timey westerns when the sheriffs star badge stops the bullet from killin' him!

I'm thinkin that or Eastwood in a Fist full of Dollars with the steel chest plate when Indio tries to smoke him with the rifle

 

[forestryworks]

I'm thinkin that or Eastwood in a Fist full of Dollars with the steel chest plate when Indio tries to smoke him with the rifle

Where the hell you been, hoss?

 

[Sport Faller]

Where the hell you been, hoss?

Oh, just working and whatnot, getting a new job working in the woods

 

[tramp bushler]

Only smashed 3 saws so far. A 64 , a 44 and a 394 . . Everyone from misjudging the lean and cutting off what turned out to be the high side holding wood. . God protected several others that went down the mountain hooked to a tree. One of them went over 500' down over/thru my fell and bucked.

 

[Trx250r180]

my 10mm 044 was victim to a skidder tire once ,it wears a 440 tank now

 

[Metals406]

Oh, just working and whatnot, getting a new job working in the woods

You should PM me with how that went.

 

[Sport Faller]

You should PM me with how that went.

Hell, I'll air it out right here :hmm3grin2orange:

Going to work skidding in a couple weeks, have known the new boss for a few years now and like him quite a bit. The fam. acted like I told them I was pursuing a career in the heroin business when I told them what was up, and was repeatedly and unsuccessfully bullied and shamed into staying at my current job, it was like a scene from Rudy there for a while. LOL

 

[jrcat]

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[Gologit]

Hell, I'll air it out right here :hmm3grin2orange:

Going to work skidding in a couple weeks, have known the new boss for a few years now and like him quite a bit. The fam. acted like I told them I was pursuing a career in the heroin business when I told them what was up, and was repeatedly and unsuccessfully bullied and shamed into staying at my current job, it was like a scene from Rudy there for a while. LOL

Jake, I won't take sides here but if you want to go logging and you don't go you'll always wish you had.

If it doesn't pan out you can always go back into the steel business or something else even.

 

[Sport Faller]

Jake, I won't take sides here but if you want to go logging and you don't go you'll always wish you had.

If it doesn't pan out you can always go back into the steel business or something else even.

Thanks Bob, I think I'd panhandle at Walmart before I went back into the steel business. I got to do a pre-hiring "preview" last Saturday, ran the skidder around snatching up drags for a half day and it was a blast, kindof like driving a monster truck I imagine, but the first tall stump you drive over gets the pucker factor waay up. Plus I need to add on to my storied job history LOL, I've been a
Card Dealer
Bouncer
Construction Worker
Butcher
Office Guy
Gun Barrel Maker
and a Barely Scraping By Firewooder

 

[treeslayer2003]

my 10mm 044 was victim to a skidder tire once ,it wears a 440 tank now

can you believe I did the same thing once. same saw, ran over it with a s8 international, only bent handle bar and broke clutch cover. started right up! tuff saw

 

[treeslayer2003]

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great pics cat, looks like what i'm cutting. great job.

 

[jrcat]

The first 2 pics I was trying to get the idea of the lean. It was fairly flat ground but the tree leaned hard to one direction and the top leaned in the opposite direction. So I put my face cut to the side that the top was leaning. I didnt bore out the center I wanted to leave as much holding wood as possible, so I stayed with it to keep the center from pulling out, hence very little holding wood showing in the pic. Probably dangerous but I didn't know what else to do. I am open to criticism and pointers. I wish I could have got video.

 

[treeslayer2003]

The first 2 pics I was trying to get the idea of the lean. It was fairly flat ground but the tree leaned hard to one direction and the top leaned in the opposite direction. So I put my face cut to the side that the top was leaning. I didnt bore out the center I wanted to leave as much holding wood as possible, so I stayed with it to keep the center from pulling out, hence very little holding wood showing in the pic. Probably dangerous but I didn't know what else to do. I am open to criticism and pointers. I wish I could have got video.

looks good, I never leave much holding wood on grade logs. buyers don't like it and risk slabing.
if it went where you wanted you done fine

 

[jrcat]

It went right where I wanted it. I laid another down just after the one in the pics, same situation except on a side hill. I sacrificed a paper birch used it to cushion the fall. The log truck came right on time today just as I finished bucking up. He had a heck of a time getting those red oak monsters on..HEAVY. He had to weave them through the bunks. He got 4200 feet on that load. The land owner was over joyed when I handed him his loot lol. I like dealing with this mill. they scale it as soon as it comes in and print out the check. None of this 30 day pay schedule crap the larger mills in the area like to do.

 

[treeslayer2003]

It went right where I wanted it. I laid another down just after the one in the pics, same situation except on a side hill. I sacrificed a paper birch used it to cushion the fall. The log truck came right on time today just as I finished bucking up. He had a heck of a time getting those red oak monsters on..HEAVY. He had to weave them through the bunks. He got 4200 feet on that load. The land owner was over joyed when I handed him his loot lol. I like dealing with this mill. they scale it as soon as it comes in and print out the check. None of this 30 day pay schedule crap the larger mills in the area like to do.

yea woods heavy as lead here right now too, pops overloaded every load. 30 days?!!!? they wouldn't get no wood from me.:msp_ohmy:

 

[treeslayer2003]

Looks good TC. Unless you like lots of noise you don't need to open up the muffler.
The chain then the bar are where its at. Then the motor. . I have to admit I started laughing when you got hung in that limb. . But only because I've done it a thousand times. That's why I wear a Riggin ax.

thought of this today, he prolly filed it for hardwood