Falling pics 11/25/09

[paccity]

A firewooders dream pile right there!

weyco. aint happening. and its 20+ miles out from the gate. and about a 3 mile pull up out of the canyon . lot's of fuel consumed to get it . there's lot's of it like this . and plenty close in . anyone around here that can't find fw needs to open there eye's and get off the couch. lol.

 

[OlympicYJ]

Pac you're right. There were probably easier piles to get too that were closer. Up on the Peninsula Hermann Bros. do the slash thing. They are out of Port Angeles and are hauling the chips to Port Townsend Paper. Pretty long haul the closer they got to Forks. Five years ago they sat up a portable trailer tipper in Rayoniers old yard by the office in Forks. They were using their 6X6 T800s with custom steerable Western Chip trailers. The haul from Forks cost them too much in fuel to run the 6x6s all the way to Port Townsend so they reloaded into 50 footers. Let them pull wood from farther south off more difficult to get to landings. Hogfuel is a fickle beast. I've tallied multiple slash piles that size on single units. I've seen some piles solely made of pecker pole cedar that couldn't be sold.

Weyco anymore doesn't leave a damn thing on their landings. Usually stuff you wouldn't even waste your time with for firewood; at least I wouldn't waste my time.

 

[OlympicYJ]

This is true. Although I have my own blowdown to clean up lol

 

[paccity]

can burn more myself , give away so much wood from res job's to the juvenile detention program. they just follow us around and clean up. there is so much wood around here for the picking that the firewooders sell to folk that can't or don't want to get it themselves. hell i know land owners that will give oak away you just have to go and thin it . hell id do fire wood if i was not so lazy.lol.

 

[Metals406]

can burn more myself , give away so much wood from res job's to the juvenile detention program. they just follow us around and clean up. there is so much wood around here for the picking that the firewooders sell to folk that can't or don't want to get it themselves. hell i know land owners that will give oak away you just have to go and thin it . hell id do fire wood if i was not so lazy.lol.

Give oak away? Damn!

 

[treeslayer2003]

oaks plentiful here.......they won't give it away tho lol.

 

[paccity]

Give oak away? Damn!

on fringes of valley and coastrange it's everywhere . lot's of scrub oak 8 to 24" diam, and plenty of 3' ers plus but the land owners like to keep the bigger stuff for the look. the lo's. will gladly let someone to thin it for free rather than pay some one to log it . or i'll go in and thin it and the lo can go and buck and haul it them selves.

 

[RandyMac]

 

[hammerlogging]

yeah lucky I'd say. ****.

 

[Metals406]

Fricken cedar.

 

[RandyMac]

Redwoods will do the same thing, don't ask me how I know that.

 

[paccity]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=diY0JlF24kk#t=321 interesting. from down under i think.

 

[paccity]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qcGiVGN8LJM#t=1 and from our japanize friends .

 

[Metals406]

I can't see either post Fraze, on tapatalk. :0(

 

[slowp]

I watched the Japanese one. Hope nobody posts that on any other forum or we'll soon see videos of guys running under trees as the trees are falling.
I guess our export market will go down a bit.

 

[slowp]

Nate, maybe this'll work for you. Next the Japanese falling technique.

 

[slowp]

Maybe you Monatiaks can study this during your chilly weather. By the way, we Warshington folks on the wet side might see temps in the.......20s. What should we do?? I'll put a new lightbulb in the well house, like always. Youse guys keep warm.

 

[Metals406]

Thanks Miss P. :0)

Was the first one OZ folks? Seems like they could use some chain work.

I've see that Jap one before.

All parties involved would benefit from some work time on the North American west coast.

Although, the Ace Tree guys in OZ seem to be pretty dang good with big wood and hazards.

 

[HuskStihl]

Holy ****. What's the mechanism for that? Does it start over, stall, and instead of chairing pull the rootball? Nuts!

 

[Metals406]

Holy ****. What's the mechanism for that? Does it start over, stall, and instead of chairing pull the rootball? Nuts!

He didn't have the back cut up, it was a rotten cull, so it let go when he cut the front rind. . . Essentially the only good hold-wood on the compression side.

Gravity took over and it pulled the back out.