Falling pics 11/25/09

[Skeans]

I was always taught to keep your stuff in lead with low stumps, unless it's special order wood then all that goes out the window and it's all about the lay.


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[treeslayer2003]

oh yea, 1000 dollar sticks get to do almost what ever long as they go down safe. it is nice to back up to a nice lay........goes quick to.

 

[Skeans]

I love when the pole buyer comes down and will always pick the one down in some hole and give me the specs for something longer then the lays their are so the jack have to come out or the drum line of the D7.


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[treeslayer2003]

gawd........i called a buyer from up north once.........dude walked all over the woods to mark one load and then he didn't want but only the butt logs. waste of time.

 

[Skeans]

That's the way poles and those sailing masts are but they pay good enough for them it's worth it, then we normally can export a good share of the rest plus a domestic. Seems like some of those special order stuff can be a hassle for what the pay can be sometimes especially if they call one they don't hardly pay you for it.


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[treeslayer2003]

yea, the freight was a killer on what more i would have made.
we used to get mast orders once in a while......that seems to have dried up.............or, they just pick one out of a load and pay no extra.

 

[Skeans]

They pay our trucking with those masts, poles they use to but they were 5' on the butts single log loads 150' to 175' and pay all the tickets but those days are gone they tell us our wood is getting too big for the new specs.


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[treeslayer2003]

lol, now that i cut at 52' that kinda screws um on the big masts..........oh well, i ain't payin a fine for no more pay.

 

[Skeans]

No point too, they were almost doubling our price of export for ours but it's a really tight grain.


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[treeslayer2003]

some thing killed pine export here. not quite sure but i herd some thing about bugs. i didn't think any of your wood had tight rings? grows really fast? im sure thats not true, our wood grows faster than up north but some has really tight rings.

 

[Skeans]

Half way from the hearts it'll have any where from 8 to 12 rings an inch, this is older stuff not the 40 year cycle stuff like the companies are cutting on, is it pine beetle?


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[treeslayer2003]

not sure, i just herd it was not legal to export any more. prolly some crap the gov't come up with. plenty of bugs came here that way.

 

[Skeans]

We all complain or think we're in big stuff, that just looks like a bad day.


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[treeslayer2003]

well i like falling big trees......but that looks like a pain in the arse lol.

 

[Skeans]

Yeah it does, it says it's 24' on the stump, it came off the Madsens album. And two gallons of gas no thank you


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[RandyMac]

I remember falling DF for piling, spent half a day busting them up, can't do the steep and deep, the top third folded on the way down, made a mess.

 

[Skeans]

Yeah it never fails no matter how hard you try you always fold up the top trying to slow it down on the way down or they shatter.


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[RandyMac]

There were OG, very tall, very skinny, very close together, most ran 30" dbh, could get 3 40s with a 12" top.

 

[Skeans]

Yeah most of the stuff I'm in is second growth and 4 to 5 40 wood


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[Skeans]

Is there any red alder down there Randy?


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