Falling pics 11/25/09

[treeslayer2003]

y'all export small stems out there?

 

[Skeans]

Anymore they do, then it was for the companies. Now it's down to 9" to a 8" top depending on markets that are there. 32" butt is the prime size for Doug fir and white is up to 46" if I remember right but they don't pay as well same with anything over 32" Doug fir for export.


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[Skeans]

The cycle around here is roughly 40 years clear cut maybe 35 years for Weyerhaeuser it's changed a lot so the bigger stuff is kind of sol anymore.


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[northmanlogging]

get a little north, and they like up to 36" butts, and down to 8" with 6-7" going for chip and saw, Hemlock, Doug Fir, and White Fir all having more or less the same specs.

They pay less for the big butts bd ft wise, but you more then make up for it in volume, largest Doug I've sent in was 46"?, but I've sent Hemlocks that where at 48"...

Weyco cuts too early in my opinion but I'm not a forester... or a mill dude... Kinda **** it all up for the rest of us...

For the really big stuff there are still 2 mills here that will take up to 9 feet.

 

[treeslayer2003]

the bigger the better for me, seems like a big poplar or white oak will export even with some defect where as a smaller log with defect will go for a lesser grade.

 

[Skeans]

We have for domestic mills one is speced at 32" max but on Doug fir, then an oversize mill up to 8' but they take and screw you hard on the scale. Then the two other domestic mills have a max butt size of 22". Chips anything goes with no chip and saw unless we're running in the valley. For export we have sent up to a 46" butt Doug Fir that was ring count wood 6+ rings an inch measured halfway out from the heart and anything over 32" butt anymore has to be a ring counter unless Korea is buying then it's 36".


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[Samlock]

i got to have it

Copy it and take it to a printing shop, Mike. I just came up with the design yesterday. I don't know how your local Angels club would take the 'Filthy Few' - label, though.

 

[Cfaller]

I guess I'm not familiar with this. Do you mean cutting the the undercut with a snipe so that it rolls off to one side as it goes over? What are you exactly doing when you do it (cut wise I mean)?

It should look something like this.

 

[bitzer]

I've always liked Jacks videos. Hes given me a lot of ideas. I haven't watched em in a while. If you put in a narrow face, gut the heart and put a shallow dutchman across the width of the face she'll pop off the stump pretty quick. Gotta have er cut up tight tho. I'm not sure thats what he did there, but he did stay on it till the face nearly closed.

 

[treeslayer2003]

oh i see............well, yea..........thats close to a sort of a jump. i guess i have done something like that but a little different.....if i was on a hill that steep here the stick would have to go up hill.

 

[bitzer]

Too bad we can't hear what hes sayin. Probably had to slip it off to save the length.

 

[HuskStihl]

Huh....a great many of mine slide off the stump sideways. I had no idea I was such an advanced faller.

 

[1270d]

By post count your one of the best around.

 

[HuskStihl]

By post count your one of the best around.

Troofy!

 

[northmanlogging]

Too bad we can't hear what hes sayin. Probably had to slip it off to save the length.

Seem to remember him saying that he was trying to miss another stump a little up the hill... Bout the only reason I can see for side slipping.

 

[coltont]

Whoops. I'm Colton and 27

 

[treeslayer2003]

Whoops. I'm Colton and 27

happy birthday!

 

[coltont]

Hey thanks.

 

[bnmc98]

It should look something like this.

Pretty slick, I might find a use for that sometime. But then you have to buck the end

This was my day

 

[bitzer]

Well at least it ain't rainin or snowin. Yeah turning wrenches sucks. People are always shocked when they hear I do my repairs in the field. Yeah I'm guna pay to have it hauled to a shop and back while I'm already losing money. Sweet ride by the way.