How Was This Cut? A Stump Mystery

[slowp]

While marking out trees to cut for skid trails, I saw this old stump. Most of the stumps have evidence of springboard holes in them. Not this one. It is about 8 feet tall, and is an old Doug fir. Took me a couple of minutes to figure it out. My brain was impaired by paint fumes. You won't have the advantage of seeing everything. How did they cut it without springboards?
The original shot has been cropped and brightened up.

 

[Rookie1]

Im clueless.

 

[tomtrees58]

man that's a stump my 630 b wood take a week tom trees

 

[splittah]

They stood on the backs of the woodtrolls me thinks.

:jawdrop:

 

[ShoerFast]

Is the scar in the bark facing us damage from skidding logs past?

If your marking an old skid trial, there would have been a lot of debris that they could have stood on?

Taking that tree may have been an after-thought from the damage?

 

[1I'dJak]

snow?

 

[ShoerFast]

snow?

I thought of that, once stepped off of snowshoes and fell up to my neck, my feet never hit ground and had a hard time getting back on the snowshoes!

My hats off if they did!

 

[joesawer]

Maybe like this?
Snow and debris sounds logical also.

 

[John Ellison]

Maybe a windfall that stood back up?

 

[tek9tim]

I'd be on the snow bandwagon, I've cut a few hazard trees in the winter at normal height, then come spring the stumps are taller than me. But I thought for production they usually dig out the bases of trees prior to cutting... dunno.

 

[Jacob J.]

Like in Joe's picture, I've cut a bunch of high stumps when I've had to fell trees up the hill that ended up rolling down into standing timber (for whatever reason, but it's common on thinning jobs in decent timber).

 

[slowp]

Maybe a windfall that stood back up?

We have a winner. When you look closely at the roots, they look like it was a tree that stood back up. I'm pretty sure that's what happened.

 

[Metals406]

I would have said snow too... I've seen some awful high stumps, from cuttin' in the deeps.

 

[slowp]

Nope. When the snow comes, and I think it was the same then, it is time to move to the low country and log. This area would not be low enough.

 

[Metals406]

Nope. When the snow comes, and I think it was the same then, it is time to move to the low country and log. This area would not be low enough.

I wish that was always the case here. We were on a unit 40 miles from the highway, at the top of the world... And 5 foot of fresh snow, merely made your day more "interesting". You just had to drag a grain shovel down the set with you, so you could find your logs. LOL

 

[Crofter]

Could it be a photo shop project?

 

[stihl 440]

easy

Easy....just stand on the skidder roof. Beats me WHY they would cut it that way, but maybe there was a reason.....:greenchainsaw:

 

[turnkey4099]

We have a winner. When you look closely at the roots, they look like it was a tree that stood back up. I'm pretty sure that's what happened.

I don't agree for a couple reasons.

1. The stump is standing too verticle for a 'stand-up'. I have never seen one regturn fully to original positon.

2. If it was a blowdown where they could cut it like that, why waste about 5 ft of log?

Harry K

 

[Gologit]

opcorn: With only one picture and very little description it's hard to tell. Too bad that stump is so far away. I'd like to walk all around it before I made up my mind.

 

[slowp]

What really made it look NOT like a blowdown to my nearsighted eyes was an old log chunk that looks like part of the base. It isn't. Then you walk closer and see that the roots look like the tree sat back up. Guess it is only a theory, can't prove it, don't know who cut it. But MOST of the other stumps have springboard notches that one still can see. I didn't ponder very long, I had skid trails to skip up and down and paint to slap on trees.

No, I don't have photoshop. I'm cheap.