It's a Pacific Northwest thing... you wouldn't understand!

[wmthrower]

Thanks for the explanation on the 3/4 wrap Lakeside. That's what I thought but I've seen that style called "full wrap" before and I always questioned it myself.
The next month or two were always my favorite to get out there. You could still mow the lawn or burn without a permit. Winter isn't bad but I miss the cold and snow. I know, I'm different.

 

[SWE#Kipp]

Here is the 044 with the new 3/4 wrap installed. Plus one of me screwin' around with the camera.

Gary

Thats look really good, which they had 3/4 wrap handles to husky saws !!!
would have been sweet on my 372xpg

 

[GASoline71]

Thats look really good, which they had 3/4 wrap handles to husky saws !!!
would have been sweet on my 372xpg

That would be sweet for a 372XP.

Gary

 

[SawTroll]

That would be sweet for a 372XP.

Gary

I don't want it on mine, but as allways it is all about the application.......:taped:

 

[GASoline71]

I know Niko... you run a shorter bar too...

Gary

 

[hvy048]

Just about the same!

Hey Gary!....looks like we have about the same taste in saws.....'cept yours is longer! Don't let that go to your head!
I put mine together totally from fleabay. Saw was $625 + shipping. The 3/4 wraps cost $45, and the dogs around $30 to my front door.
I left my 32" bar on the old 048 to use when I need that extra length.....there I go again..........The mud is drying!.....Have a great day!!
Jack

 

[B_Turner]

They are about 3 inches...


If you want FAST, get Leyland Cypress.... 4 feet a year after they get going..... maybe more where you are.

Lakeside, where are you finding small noble firs? I used to have a source, but it's gone. We haven't bought a tree since we moved to this property, but we are just about out of harvestable noble firs.

If you want big, I'll give you a few plugs I have (I have too many) of giant sequoia. THey do well here if they get some sun. Take a few years to start, then start growing tall and wide.

They don't transplant well, I've found, and once they are a few feet tall they like to stay where they are.

 

[Timberhauler]

I wonder if those sequoia trees would grow here..Everyone has leyland's...I'm kind lookin' for something different.

 

[B_Turner]

I wonder if those sequoia trees would grow here..Everyone has leyland's...I'm kind lookin' for something different.

PM me your address and I will send you a couple of plugs. Try them for yourself.

 

[Lakeside53]

I wonder if those sequoia trees would grow here..Everyone has leyland's...I'm kind lookin' for something different.

The grow up here so they'd do well for you.. They like full sun though...

 

[Lakeside53]

Lakeside, where are you finding small noble firs? I used to have a source, but it's gone. We haven't bought a tree since we moved to this property, but we are just about out of harvestable noble firs.

If you want big, I'll give you a few plugs I have (I have too many) of giant sequoia. THey do well here if they get some sun. Take a few years to start, then start growing tall and wide.

They don't transplant well, I've found, and once they are a few feet tall they like to stay where they are.

I plunder the county plant sales.. Snohomish conservation plant sale is a good one..

http://www.snohomishcd.org/plant.htm


I take a couple of sequoias..

 

[RiverRat2]

They are beautiful....

Cut... Plant some each couple of years... 0.70c each now (Noble firs).. haven't had to buy a $120 Xmas tree in 12 years. Even gave a few away..

I remember last years Xmas pics,,,, Ha,,, You had a Glenfiddich buzz...........

And I didnt????????????? Ha ha,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[Pissfirwillie]

Planting Season!

Do they still plant trees here in the PNW. I thought we gave that up after the spotted owl fiasco. Everyone around here is getting ready to plant something else. There is a much better return on investment - if you know what I mean.

 

[Pissfirwillie]

Ahh,
The early spring has the locals buzzing with the distinct smell of skunk. I can already see the saw shops stocking less bar oil and more super soil. They are chasing the "green" also.

 

[Pissfirwillie]

One of the greatest bar fights I ever saw, was when someone called a Fed (USFS) a pissfirwillie, a name that goes way back to old Gifford Pinchot.
So, PFW, which corner of the triangle are you in?

Yeah, back when the feds used to cut around here, the locals were always giving em he!!. Many a story, and many of them true. I come from the southern part of the triangle: Mendonesia.

 

[Pissfirwillie]

Mendonesia...LOL...yep, you are one of them, or should I say, one of us. I'm from South Humboldt, spent a great deal of time, west of Redway, 25 miles or so.
Do they still have a good logger bar in Laytonville or Willits?

Al's Redwood Room in Willits and Boomers in L'ville. Both are respectable joints now, but in the old days the wooden floors were well worn from calk boots. Nowaday's just a lot of black and white photos of the giants they used to hack on. Most of the logging trucks are hauling logs cut from Washington and Canada to the last surviving sawmill in these parts. I do remember a good logger bar up north in Pepperwood called the sawblade. Run by an old logger named Mel Byrd. All but gone now.

 

[Gologit]

Al's Redwood Room in Willits and Boomers in L'ville. Both are respectable joints now, but in the old days the wooden floors were well worn from calk boots. Nowaday's just a lot of black and white photos of the giants they used to hack on. Most of the logging trucks are hauling logs cut from Washington and Canada to the last surviving sawmill in these parts. I do remember a good logger bar up north in Pepperwood called the sawblade. Run by an old logger named Mel Byrd. All but gone now.

Is the mill at Branscomb still going?

 

[windthrown]

Noble fir source

Lakeside, where are you finding small noble firs? I used to have a source, but it's gone. We haven't bought a tree since we moved to this property, but we are just about out of harvestable noble firs.

If you want big, I'll give you a few plugs I have (I have too many) of giant sequoia. THey do well here if they get some sun. Take a few years to start, then start growing tall and wide.

They don't transplant well, I've found, and once they are a few feet tall they like to stay where they are.

Our source of trees here for the last 2 years has been Brooks Tree Nursery between Portland and Salem. Good supply of forest and Christmas trees. Plugs, bare root, small pots, various size trees, conifer and hardwoods. Good stock, don't all croak the first year after planting. Good prices too. Online:

http://www.brookstreefarm.com/index.htm

They list Noble firs, and a lot of other firs. They have also been around and they are a large, no BS operation. This time of year they have good deals and closeouts on leftover stock, and odd lots left over from big orders. They also have Doug firs and pines from western regional zoned seed stock. Last year I got a load of 4 ft. vine maples for 50 cents each and some really nice Willamette Valley zoned ponderosa pines for about a 25 cents each. They almost all lived (except the deer destroyed maples).

Fortunately our planting here is about over with. 4 years and thousands of trees later, they are all really starting to GROW! Ponderosa pine, doug and grand fir, red cedar, giant sequoia, vine and bigleaf maple, white and balck oak, ash, red alder, and willows. We are planting under a forest plan to lower property taxes. Pretty good deal in Oregon if you do not plan on cutting, you can lower your forest land taxes by 80% indefinately (they get it back when and if you cut).

 

[windthrown]

Sequoias, and coastal redwoods

PS: We have found that giant sequoia transplant rather well here. South exposure, hillside setting. The real trick to getting them to grow is releasing them from grass and weeds for the first 2-3 years. We clear a 3 ft circle with the weedwhacker before planting, and then follow up with herbicide spraying in spring. If you leave the grass growing in them they will never get a good start. Our 3-4 year old ponderosa pines and giant sequoias are actually doing better here than the 3-4 year old doug and grand firs. I would have expected the opposite, as the doug and grand firs self sow here a lot and are the most invasive. Some small areas of our sequoias died where it was hot and too dry. I have replanted that area with ponderosa pines and they are doing better.

Our real trouble here has been more with establishing red cedars. 1/3 of them croak the first year. They do not seem to like wet areas either, which seems counter intuitive. I have replaced the dead wet zone ones with coastal redwoods. I do not have a source for redwoods any more, after the SOD plant restrictions went into effect 2 years ago (on Coastal Redwoods from California). My brother has huge redwood trees up in Portland, and I took cuttings from them last year, but they are really slow to grow from heeled cuttings. Too slow, really.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Pnw Doug Fir

Gotta love the Doug Fir smells Great. Went to Elby DNR land got nice load of fir.30'' plus good pickens early in the season over looking Niqually valley and snow covered peaks. Gotta love it up here.