Greystoke
Tarzan
LOL! Sorry Pard...seems like that is always a touchy issue!
Falling pics 11/25/09
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LOL! Sorry Pard...seems like that is always a touchy issue!
coastalfaller
ArboristSite Operative
Ha, ha, no worries with me, Cody! Doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy a couple drinks, just living in a camp it's such close quarters everyone has to respect each other and some guys have a hard time doing that!!
Greystoke
Tarzan
Yeah I hear ya there...always a few bone-heads to screw it up for everyone else. Another one of those deals where if a guy keeps it on the down-low, everything was cool. It was just the bone-heads that could not keep it on the DL. I showed up to one camp, toward the end of season and there was drama every day...rigging rats fightin, bullet holes through the floor and walls of camp, one of the fallers had a bullet come into his room while he was bunkin down for the night and enter the wall about a foot above his head! Some of those guys were morons, and it sucks to have to live with morons. Last camp I was at was so full of drugs that I did not even cut a tree. Unloaded my stuff off the boat, took a look around, did not like what I saw, so I loaded my gear back up and said "get me the hell outa here"! Woulda been a bad place for me as I was goin through a divorce. That was the fastest tramp I had ever performed!
coastalfaller
ArboristSite Operative
Oh man, yep, I hear you. If the walls could talk in some of those camps! Some crazy guys doing some crazy things! A buddy of mine did that once too, didn't even get all his gear unloaded off the plane before he hopped back on!
Greystoke
Tarzan
Biggest problem I always had was gettin stuck with a room mate that snored louder than his powersaw, and was always in bed before me! That is when I started sleeping with earplugs in. I was usually roomed with older guys, so I would rather put up with snorin, rather than some of the other antics the bone-heads pulled!
coastalfaller
ArboristSite Operative
Yeah, that would not be fun. We're spoiled in that regard, most camps here are one guy to a room. Of course, the walls aren't that thick, so you still have to hope that your neighbour doesn't rattle the walls in his sleep!
Greystoke
Tarzan
That would be sweet!
Burvol
Bullbuck
I'm honest
Today I was going at a steady clip with a little wind. I came to a small (20-22 DBH 2 lengths) Pine with a bunch of rocks/dirt on the uphill side of the side lean. I chose to cut under the lean instead of highstumping. I usually practice it once or twice a week to keep the ability when needed in times like this. I rarely check my far corner in wood this size, no need usually. When your getting close to backing it up all the way, all you have to do is check your sights when they are lined up at what you gunned at, then look at how much wood you have left. That should be the same all the way across. I took my eyes off it and watched the wind blow the top around. I thought I had it sawn up enough when a pretty good gust made it jump. I pulled out and it chaired. Only lost about 6 feet of wood, not too bad. I had a tad shallow of a face for wind. My fault. It's been a while since I chaired a tree. A baby chair it was. I have one hooter under my belt,
LOL. It's been a few years. I just wanted to share some reality with you guys. No one is perfect, but it can happen. I'm sure Cody, Randy, and Bob have all had the pleasure.
Today I was going at a steady clip with a little wind. I came to a small (20-22 DBH 2 lengths) Pine with a bunch of rocks/dirt on the uphill side of the side lean. I chose to cut under the lean instead of highstumping. I usually practice it once or twice a week to keep the ability when needed in times like this. I rarely check my far corner in wood this size, no need usually. When your getting close to backing it up all the way, all you have to do is check your sights when they are lined up at what you gunned at, then look at how much wood you have left. That should be the same all the way across. I took my eyes off it and watched the wind blow the top around. I thought I had it sawn up enough when a pretty good gust made it jump. I pulled out and it chaired. Only lost about 6 feet of wood, not too bad. I had a tad shallow of a face for wind. My fault. It's been a while since I chaired a tree. A baby chair it was. I have one hooter under my belt,
LOL. It's been a few years. I just wanted to share some reality with you guys. No one is perfect, but it can happen. I'm sure Cody, Randy, and Bob have all had the pleasure.
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That woulda woke me right up, I can tell you.
Metals406
Granfodder Runningsaw
Today I was going at a steady clip with a little wind. I came to a small (20-22 DBH 2 lengths) Pine with a bunch of rocks/dirt on the uphill side of the side lean. I chose to cut under the lean instead of highstumping. I usually practice it once or twice a week to keep the ability when needed in times like this. I rarely check my far corner in wood this size, no need usually. When your getting close to backing it up all the way, all you have to do is check your sights when they are lined up at what you gunned at, then look at how much wood you have left. That should be the same all the way across. I took my eyes off it and watched the wind blow the top around. I thought I had it sawn up enough when a pretty good gust made it jump. I pulled out and it chaired. Only lost about 6 feet of wood, not too bad. I had a tad shallow of a face for wind. My fault. It's been a while since I chaired a tree. A baby chair it was. I have one hooter under my belt,
Glad you're okay brother! Those can give ya quite a pucker!
Wow. Besides it being another day there where you can see shadows, it looks flat. 
You'll get spoiled.
You'll get spoiled.
coastalfaller
ArboristSite Operative
Today I was going at a steady clip with a little wind. I came to a small (20-22 DBH 2 lengths) Pine with a bunch of rocks/dirt on the uphill side of the side lean. I chose to cut under the lean instead of highstumping. I usually practice it once or twice a week to keep the ability when needed in times like this. I rarely check my far corner in wood this size, no need usually. When your getting close to backing it up all the way, all you have to do is check your sights when they are lined up at what you gunned at, then look at how much wood you have left. That should be the same all the way across. I took my eyes off it and watched the wind blow the top around. I thought I had it sawn up enough when a pretty good gust made it jump. I pulled out and it chaired. Only lost about 6 feet of wood, not too bad. I had a tad shallow of a face for wind. My fault. It's been a while since I chaired a tree. A baby chair it was. I have one hooter under my belt,
Been there, buddy! An older faller I once worked with, who was a hell of a good faller, had the misfortune of busting a 6ft spruce over a stump. Not only did he feel bad enough about that, but it happened right on the high side of the main line! People drove by that for over a month before it was logged. Poor guy, I thought he was going to die from embarrassment. Just goes to show you though.....it happens to the best of us!
RandyMac
Stiff Member
YEEEHAWWW!!
I love the sound of shearing wood fibers. Oh yeah, been there......
I love the sound of shearing wood fibers. Oh yeah, been there......
Glad to see you posting the real world of a timber cutter. Some of these "experts" out here have been cutting 20 years and have never had a tree chair on them, i dont know what to say about that.... Had that been a nice eastern hardwood, you would have had to back up about 15 yards to include all the damage haha. that stick there looks to have the same kind of fibers in it as our east coasty White pines. they are super fun to cut, like butter!!
You made any hunting arangements yet? As soon as you do I am gonna get mines filled out and ready to go. hopefully the tax man visits my bank account here soon cause I am Jonesin bad for a cut......
You made any hunting arangements yet? As soon as you do I am gonna get mines filled out and ready to go. hopefully the tax man visits my bank account here soon cause I am Jonesin bad for a cut......
Burvol
Bullbuck
Ya, I ain't proud of it, LOL. Just thought I'd be honest and share my day with ya. Yesterday was a better day (murdered it, but an eliquient death, it was dealt! LOL), but today was not bad. I cut out another landing ahead of our strips today, about 2 loads of gorgeous Pine and a load of nice fir kinda growing in a ring around a nice little grassy opening...all ready to turn into a mud hole filled logs! Yeehaa! I wagon wheeled it around, should of took a picture for example of what a "WW" setting, strip, or lead looks like. The new landing is just above the steep canyon I was jacking in the last few days. After I had the landing cut and bucked out, I squared the west edge of our strips up, working back to my truck. All square and opened up for Monday. I have kinda just been sharing my life with you guys at work off and on. When the fish get to running, I'll have my eggs on ice with my rod and gear ridin' shotgun everyday. I'll probably be less sharing with the photos and such. Got fish to kill. That's living right there. Cut logs all morning until 1:00, then throw on some shorts and go beat some river on the way home.
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Burvol
Bullbuck
Wow. Besides it being another day there where you can see shadows, it looks flat.
You'll get spoiled.
Your just like an old hand, seen it all...more interested in the ground! LOL
This is a fun unit. Two canyons run each side of it. One is the "Slot" and one is the "LVSH" (Can anyone guess what that stands for? I named them both)They're punching skid trails down the holes with cat, and the skidder operators jump on the 6 to go pull line and do some hand logging. Plenty of huge rocks steep cuts and snags with an RMZ the whole length. Up top is mostly nice ground.
joesawer
Addicted to ArboristSite
I did almost the exact same thing on a pine I was cutting for my dad. Boy did I hear about that. I think there is still an 8' half of a butt log that I save out of it on his yard. I will try to get a pic of it tomorrow.
hammerlogging
Addicted to ArboristSite
check yer phone
No pics from me for today, checked my messages ripping down the highway at 4:45 am on the way to work.... oops, message from last night, not working today afterall.
No pics from me for today, checked my messages ripping down the highway at 4:45 am on the way to work.... oops, message from last night, not working today afterall.
RandyMac
Stiff Member
Dang, since you are up early, go fishing. You live and work in a great part of the country, I look forward to seeing your pics.
Burvol
Bullbuck
Night shift Randy?
