Falling pics 11/25/09

[Samlock]

I think you'd like the 4-point dogs I make. :msp_biggrin:

Browsing it right now, Nate.

 

[tramp bushler]

Hatchets are good for killing panthers.

. In the camps of southeast it was pretty easy to tell the old growth fallers from the slash and dash modern bushlers. Other than their comments in the crummy the first evening. ( usually they had a dripping wet, semi bewildered cast to their face. And they all had the same question, "what do ya do with All the limbs " )
They All kept their 36" or longer handled 5 or 6 lb rafting ax with them from tree to tree.
They had their timber all laid out nice and pretty but most of them had left 50-100 $ of hemlock snag stobs left standing. . .
I always felt bad for them when they finished doing their scale. . They were exhausted And depressed ! . . But, once they figured out about just limbin a tape trail. Leaving plenty of pig ears and fallin their snag stobs.leaving their big falling saw in the saw shop they would at least make enough money to tramp.. But, they could never get away from packing their long handled ax from tree to tree.

 

[RandyMac]

Yeah, saw a bunch of limby bastards, Abies and Cedars, 2nd growth Redwoods have lots of whippy sticks.

 

[tramp bushler]

Yeah, saw a bunch of limby bastards, Abies and Cedars, 2nd growth Redwoods have lots of whippy sticks.

What's an Abie??

 

[RandyMac]

What's an Abie??

true firs, red, white, noble.....as opposed to Doug Fir, which is not a fir.

 

[Trx250r180]

true firs, red, white, noble.....as opposed to Doug Fir, which is not a fir.

whats a doug fir ? spruce family ?

 

[Metals406]

whats a doug fir ? spruce family ?

It's an evergreen.

 

[bustedup]

Spruce I think

 

[bustedup]

sorry my mistake it a member of the pine family .......hence oregon pine lol

 

[DavdH]

psudotsuga, sorta means, like but not, hemlock,

 

[Metals406]

sorry my mistake it a member of the pine family .......hence oregon pine lol

Yup! Hence you can eat the cambium and make tea and other vittles from the leaves.

"Pine needle tea" can be made from the DF.

Check out DF needles -- against LP Pine needles.

DF

LP Pine

 

[bustedup]

Yup! Hence you can eat the cambium and make tea and other vittles from the leaves.

"Pine needle tea" can be made from the DF.

Check out DF needles -- against LP Pine needles.

DF

LP Pine

Named after a scot lol David Douglas and an scots doc too lol

 

[Metals406]

I'm glad the old man named it the way he did. . . Gives us something to talk about!

 

[bustedup]

Lol guess it had something to do with who actually found it and who started cultivating it ......politics me guesses lol

 

[bustedup]

I dunno why it called Doug-fir ......guess that needs a botanist/history person ......or google lol

 

[tramp bushler]

[Qwheres one of them college edjucates when ya need one????????

Isn't it psudatosis menziesy. = false pine.

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Come on you guys And Girls. Put that high dollar edacation to work for the common good!! :msp_wink:

 

[RandyMac]

Pseudotsuga menziesii named for Archibald Menzies, a Scottish physician and rival naturalist David Douglas.

 

[bustedup]

originally found in Canada

 

[tramp bushler]

OK, my breaks over. Gotta go back to taking the starter out of my Ford.

 

[twochains]

Pseudotsuga menziesii named for Archibald Menzies, a Scottish physician and rival naturalist David Douglas.

Wow! So...can you pronounce those first two words? :msp_w00t: