Falling pics 11/25/09

[treeslayer2003]

bitz, we ain't got bass wood. it is soft? dang ya got a lot of them oak rainbows there.
erock, looks good to me. lots of times our cuts ain't perfect but technique is right. look like ya got done what ya wanted. I have much respect for you guys cutting in the fire.

 

[bitzer]

Basswood is like cutting white pine. Well almost that fast. They can grow really straight with almost no taper. Just a stick and a top. They can also grow all kinds of ugly crooked and all taper.

 

[1270d]

basswood is super soft. cuts like a dream

 

[1270d]

what kind of market do you have for basswood bitz. we ship some sawlogs for door cores or some such. pulp mills dont like it due to the bark

 

[treeslayer2003]

looks kinda like our yellow poplar witch goes for veneer.

 

[HuskStihl]

Basswood is like cutting white pine. Well almost that fast. They can grow really straight with almost no taper. Just a stick and a top.

Sounds like the sweet gum which is all over here

 

[bitzer]

what kind of market do you have for basswood bitz. we ship some sawlogs for door cores or some such. pulp mills dont like it due to the bark

All the sawlogs go to the mill. I'm really not sure what they do with em. I know their trucker peels em with the log truck's grapple rather than runnin em through the de-barker. The pulp stays in the woods. My pulp mill won't take it and trying to sell it for firewood its just not worth the effort. I've heard that some guys sell it to make mulch. I can't imagine there is a lot of money in it. I know it will go for pallet wood. Also great for carving- like duck decoys I've heard.

 

[Erock]

Nice work Erock! They have lodgepole in MN?

No sir, this is in Wyoming. About an hour south of Yellowstone

 

[slowp]

OK, guyses, I took Bitzer's lecture in the firewood section to heart. I started my thinning project today, after spending time cleaning up brush in the area. I call this the micro-crummy. I can take it over the drainfield to the work area.


Here is today's area of stand improvement. It was afternoon so I didn't intend on getting much done.

First job, KILL THE VINE MAPLE. I have a question for you guys. When an vine maple is leaning, are we prone to make a slopping back cut? I am ashamed to admit that I made one on the vine maple. I am too ashamed to post the picture. The maple was bucked up and the alder was next.


I concentrated and got it cut without a slopping back cut.

Here's the butt log.

The lay.


And the damage to the residual stand.


I stood it back up. Anyway, that's it for today. Most of the afternoon was spent burning brush. I also had to cut my way out. The micro crummy was blocked in!

 

[Trx250r180]

good looking stump ,and your hinge looks way more even then i ever get

 

[northmanlogging]

Lookin good Miss P (or is it Mrs?) I slope the vineys too mostly out of laziness and just cause they are in the way anyway... Should get out of the habit though, could be unhealthy for skidder tires...

 

[Gologit]

OK, guyses, I took Bitzer's lecture in the firewood section to heart. I started my thinning project today, after spending time cleaning up brush in the area. I call this the micro-crummy. I can take it over the drainfield to the work area.
View attachment 334683

I like that sticker on your hard hat.

 

[hammerlogging]

A handful of pictures from some recent jobs.

This is all white pine

I like this site so I want to make an effort to make some posts

bucked at the stump for pickup

tall white pine

view from the job

nice and tall

face pic

white pine siswheel

 

[HuskStihl]

A handful of pictures from some recent jobs.

This is all white pine

I like this site so I want to make an effort to make some posts
View attachment 334735
bucked at the stump for pickup
View attachment 334736
tall white pine
View attachment 334737
view from the job
View attachment 334738
nice and tall
View attachment 334739
face pic
View attachment 334740
white pine siswheel

Nice pictures Joe. Is that NC or TN? Thx for posting

Mandatory judgement photo

 

[hammerlogging]

beautiful foggy morning on the north face timber, last summer

hard maple

I would bet this was hard as rock and baout 250 years old. hickory

bored and pulled witht his uphill flare release cut from the under side

big old cull with higher vale standing, probably 50" at the stump and 140' tall as is. probably a bear, a raccoon, and a possum family all vying for habitation right now

nice red oak bored through the face to get the far side cut

 

[hammerlogging]

well you asked for some pics, about time to share

 

[hammerlogging]

hickory is a pain for something like this, you need it off the stump when it hits the ground but you need an open face to protect the butt log

heres a fellow doing a good days work

shadow pic

a "mole trap" I made with the boys for fun, with help from a familiar supplier

I had a little job dumping about 2 acres of dead hemolock with these hangers all over the place

 

[Metals406]

OK, guyses, I took Bitzer's lecture in the firewood section to heart. I started my thinning project today, after spending time cleaning up brush in the area. I call this the micro-crummy. I can take it over the drainfield to the work area.
View attachment 334683

Here is today's area of stand improvement. It was afternoon so I didn't intend on getting much done.
View attachment 334684
First job, KILL THE VINE MAPLE. I have a question for you guys. When an vine maple is leaning, are we prone to make a slopping back cut? I am ashamed to admit that I made one on the vine maple. I am too ashamed to post the picture. The maple was bucked up and the alder was next.
View attachment 334685

I concentrated and got it cut without a slopping back cut.
View attachment 334686
Here's the butt log.
View attachment 334687
The lay.
View attachment 334688

And the damage to the residual stand.
View attachment 334689

I stood it back up. Anyway, that's it for today. Most of the afternoon was spent burning brush. I also had to cut my way out. The micro crummy was blocked in!

Don't forget to park where the fallers park.

 

[slowp]

Don't forget to park where the fallers park.

That doesn't work. They make you move so more fallers can park there. Then the fallers for one outfit would plug up the road on their way out, which made the rigging crew a bit angry, because they tried to get the yarder walked in and set up while the shovel was on a setting a mile away. Unoriginal language was used. That is a falling faux pas, but that's not what the rigging crew said.

 

[bitzer]

Beautiful pictures Joe! Really great stuff. Makes me want to move south. Man that pine looks like fun! I wish I had some mixed stands around here. Its all plantation. Nothing that tall around here either. Those hangers will keep you on yer toes huh? So you catch the mole?