Falling pics 11/25/09
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PNW fashion
Its after labor day so we know its gonna be gray and wet till May. So fashion manufacturers like Filson,Grudens, Carhart, will be back in fashion with materials like tin wear, gortex, neoprene, polyurethane will be back in style. Got a Filson double logger jacket for my birthday very timely indeed as its very wet and cool lately. The bonus our local small town store has the cheapest price in the country that I could find. $129 minus a fifteen percent coupon. Filson retal$170. Pants are running $109.Theyve got pretty good stock if any bodys looking,
Its after labor day so we know its gonna be gray and wet till May. So fashion manufacturers like Filson,Grudens, Carhart, will be back in fashion with materials like tin wear, gortex, neoprene, polyurethane will be back in style. Got a Filson double logger jacket for my birthday very timely indeed as its very wet and cool lately. The bonus our local small town store has the cheapest price in the country that I could find. $129 minus a fifteen percent coupon. Filson retal$170. Pants are running $109.Theyve got pretty good stock if any bodys looking,
A bit too warm for tin pants here. We've had about 4 inches of rain since Friday. I traipsed around in the rain this afternoon with a group of loggers.
We were pondering how to get trees down the steep hill to the trucks.
One said rather forlornly, "It must be Summer somewhere."
We were pondering how to get trees down the steep hill to the trucks.
One said rather forlornly, "It must be Summer somewhere."
Erock
ArboristSite Operative
Some pictures of my crew in order Blair, Me, Grant, Adam and lets not forget the saws. 046 with a 24" bar (my baby) and and 036 with a 20" bar. We hate aspen!
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bitzer
******** Timber Expert
What do you guys do?
Aspen is like cutting butter and they actually grow kinda straight too.
Metals406
Granfodder Runningsaw
Metals406
Granfodder Runningsaw
You're in the perfect place for it right now too Sam. . . We did hunting camp near Clearwater Lake a number of years ago. There's an elk migration corridor that runs through there, and at the time, it was a section that allowed you to take a spike instead of 4" brow tine.
That year, there was no snow, and full moon the whole dang time, so the hunting sucked (it's normally a great spot). . . But the fishing was awesome! The smallest cutthroat I got out'a there was 5-6 pounds. Them fish were dang near jumping on to the shore chasing my yellow and black Panther Martin.
Erock
ArboristSite Operative
Fire suppression and fuels reduction projects. Lots of Rx burns in the spring and fall and thin stands that are too crowded. Aspen are our main trees we get to play with along with all the other Boreal forest trees. I like Aspen cause i can drop about 30 trees before i have to even think about touching up the chain!
bitzer
******** Timber Expert
Thanks for the info. I guess I didn't think Minn would need a fire crew like that. I gathered thats what you were set up for just didn't realize the need up there. Shows how much I know.
Demo-ing a critter condo. The boss has a trap line set up for varmints that wreak havoc on his food plots. Hollowed out Basswoods are like a high rise apartment. I tipped one we spotted while making the rounds this am. Skidded it out and back to my real job for today. Stores are stocking up for winter fishing. Filling orders and setting up programs. Its 84 and humid today. Sept. 1 hit and it was like flipping a switch from 90 to 60. Today its back to summer.
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The son inlaw just went down to Colorado with his crew to cut bug kill trees for a few weeks. We should be done with fires up here till june as we've had a full fall rain onslaught
Erock
ArboristSite Operative
That sounds like a sweet detail. i'm hoping to land a job out west next season. I'd like to get into more fires and some bigger timber. You on a crew yourself?
RandyMac
Stiff Member
True forestry crews are fun, tons more things to do than just waiting for fires, station work really sucks.
Brian- Sounds like your son-in-law is on one of the hotshot crews. I don't think any of the regular type 2 crews went on the R2 bark beetle mitigation project.
Nope just an old fart wannabe that came from a logging family pics of grandad back in the 50's had his own gypo out fit till early 70's
Pic of the son in law last year from the PNW you wouldnt understand thread
The son in law dropping a big pine last fire season
Yup Baker river out of Concrete
STEVEGODSEYJR
ArboristSite Guru
Nope just an old fart wannabe that came from a logging family pics of grandad back in the 50's had his own gypo out fit till early 70's
Pic of the son in law last year from the PNW you wouldnt understand thread
Yup Baker river out of Concrete
Sweet pics!!! looks like hard work but also lots of fun!!
Steve
Erock
ArboristSite Operative
hey i was wondering what the advantage of doing block face cuts with a snipe. I'd never heard or seen that till i joined here. Typically I just do conventional or humbolt with the occasional boring back cut for back leaners.
RandyMac
Stiff Member
Oh Grasshopper!
Hunt around in this forum, the subject has been discussed in lurid detail.
I will give you the short version.
It is used when you need to controll how long the trunk stays on the stump, what the butt does when it hits the stump and what the tree does after it leaves the stump. When done correctly, you can control what the tree does from first tilt, to big noise. It is/was used in the big stuff, it just doesn't do to scatter a valuble tree all over a hillside.
Awesome pics guys, Thanks for posting.
That's really cool. I've worked with the Baker River crew and Entiat too.
