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

[Lakeside53]

Now I Understand

Just outide the bathroom window this morning..

Crappy pics though a fogged window, color balance wrong, but...

 

[GASoline71]

Ahhhh... my favorite thread...:biggrinbounce2:

Great pic of the Eagle Andy!

Gary

 

[Lakeside53]

By some strange coincidence, he's sitting right above the Wood Duck nest box I put out..

 

[.aspx]

Great pictures!

I was splitting wood out back on Sunday and looked up and noticed a bald eagle about 50 feet above my house. He was close enough that I could see a fish dangling from his talons.

There is a lake across the street. Impressive to watch them fly around.

 

[royta]

I go over Greyback all the time on my to the Oregon Coast, (with a stop by Jedidiah Smith State Park). Greyback is the head of Indian Creek, up by Kelly Lake.
The wood I am speaking of is further south off 96, down towards Clear Creek. All those drainages are loaded with what I like to call "Hooters". The further south down the Klamath the more impressive the wood.

Remember in 1995 when they logged part of the old growth on Greyback? I was working for Erickson Air-Crane at the time and sent out quite a few turns there. We were issued ID's for that logging job, and we had to go through security gates due to all the protestors and such. There were a few trees that were marked as having spikes in them. A bunch of domestic terrorists those spikers were. Anyway, Erickson Air-Crane was the funnest job I ever had. I was only 22 at the time. You were flown in and out of your strip in a helicopter, and you get to run around on logs all day. I saw some big dang wood when we did a job in Trinidad. I think it was LP property, just to the South, and obviously East. The crane was limited to 25,000 pounds, and there were a few butt cuts that were ripped, and the crane still couldn't pull it. They had to send sawyers back down in the hole to quarter them.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Ahhhh... my favorite thread...:biggrinbounce2:

Great pic of the Eagle Andy!

Gary

Yes a thread that everybody on it understands. Nice shot lake. Theres a chunk of land down the road that has 5 White heads and a couple juvie eagles that live there. See um everyday. Just got back from Orlando and I gotta say theres no place like home in the green hilly PNW.

 

[NBailey]

Is the mill at Branscomb still going?

Yep, one of the last privately owned mill left in these parts. All the big boys are gone now (GP, LP) and Pacific Lumber filed for Chapter 11 this winter. The boys in Branscomb (Harwood Products) get most of their logs from BC and Washington these days by barge. Come summertime, they still buy logs locally though. Lots of trees growing here now, and I would say in 20 years there will be a ton of bigger wood (30" +). Thats what all the foresters say anyhow.

 

[Gologit]

Yep, one of the last privately owned mill left in these parts. All the big boys are gone now (GP, LP) and Pacific Lumber filed for Chapter 11 this winter. The boys in Branscomb (Harwood Products) get most of their logs from BC and Washington these days by barge. Come summertime, they still buy logs locally though. Lots of trees growing here now, and I would say in 20 years there will be a ton of bigger wood (30" +). Thats what all the foresters say anyhow.

Thanks for the reply, Nik. Glad to see they're still going.

 

[John Ellison]

Good pictures Andy. Ever see em have to swim to shore when they get ahold of a salmon that is just too big?

 

[B_Turner]

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..

Andy, I missed this post when you did it.

I went to send Timberhauler a couple sequoias, too, when I noticed that Bailey's had accidentally sent the wrong type of plug in the last batch. Supposed to be sequoias, but they were identical to the incense cedars I had on hand that I had purchased from them as well. The crosssection of the "leaves" is different. Once round, one flattish.

And the season is over so I'm out of luck. Would have brought over a few for you to try. I thought about calling Baileys, but firstly they would have thought I was mistaken (I'm not) and secondly their season to send trees was over.

 

[Lakeside53]

I bought 20 Noble firs for xmas trees.,., but after three years I noticed that they were Grand firs.. not good for what I use them for... Happens..

 

[Lakeside53]

Good pictures Andy. Ever see em have to swim to shore when they get ahold of a salmon that is just too big?

I've seen that but not in my lake - no salmon! The osprey do have to swim occasionally - tough Little beggers - they get dragged under, surface, take a breath, under again, but they won't let go! I watched one "swim" for about 15 minutes until he got the 16 inch trout to the shore... Didn't have the heart to steal it from him :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

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.

Pepperwood?....I remember in the mid 80's the Sawblade owned by Mel Byrd was in Phillipsville. Sawmill burger and fries.....mmmmm! Then there was the Blue Room[Zoo Room] in Garberville, or outside the store at Whitethorn.

 

[royta]

Pepperwood?....I remember in the mid 80's the Sawblade owned by Mel Byrd was in Phillipsville. Sawmill burger and fries.....mmmmm! Then there was the Blue Room[Zoo Room] in Garberville, or outside the store at Whitethorn.

I've got the funniest story about the Sawblade. My buddy got kicked out of Yreka High School, and finished his senior year in Garberville because he had family there. His older brother, by three years, and I drove down there with his Mom and Stepdad to watch his graduation. On the way home, I was piss drunk. What do you expect, I was 18? Anyway, I had to pee SO bad. We stopped at the Sawblade so I could go. I imagine I didn't say hello or anything, with tunnel vision I just walked down to the bathroom. Somebody must have asked who I was, because I remember hearing a gal say, "Oh, it's some boy needing to go to the bathroom." To which I replied, "I'm not a boy, I'm a man, I'm 18 years old." I'm glad it was during the day, more than likely on a Monday, because I can imagine the hooting and hollering I would have heard had the place been busy. That will be 16 years ago this June, and I still laugh about that today. By the way, I don't drink anymore. I haven't drank for around 9 1/2 years.

 

[NBailey]

Pepperwood?....I remember in the mid 80's the Sawblade owned by Mel Byrd was in Phillipsville. Sawmill burger and fries.....mmmmm! Then there was the Blue Room[Zoo Room] in Garberville, or outside the store at Whitethorn.

The sawblade was a frequent watering hole for the old man during the early years of Baileys. I used to sit up at the bar at about 5 years old and sip a soda while Dad and Mel would discuss how to sell mail order logging supplies over a cold one. Mel Byrd had quite a collection of older saws (Macs, Malls, Stihls) if I recall. One of my favorite Bailey's catalog covers is a picture of Mel with that certain grin.

 

[Pissfirwillie]

Pepperwood?....I remember in the mid 80's the Sawblade owned by Mel Byrd was in Phillipsville. Sawmill burger and fries.....mmmmm! Then there was the Blue Room[Zoo Room] in Garberville, or outside the store at Whitethorn.

Phillipsville is right. Knew it started with a "P". Drove up to the Redwood Region Logging Conference in Eureka this March and it looks like Cal Trans is bypassing the slide north of Confusion Hill. Someone took out some pumpkins clearing the right of way. The ground was so steep I am sure there were springboards and a Silvey tree saver involved. Would have been a great video opportunity.

 

[GASoline71]

A few shots of my weekend... cuttin' up a Maple... and the wood loaded in my new truck. All the wood went to my Dad's place.

Gary

 

[fishhuntcutwood]

Glad to see retirement is treating you well my friend-long hair, goatee, nice friggin truck! Good for you mang.

 

[blis]

man, whats with all that moss on that maple... must be a treat for chain,... :monkey:

 

[Lakeside53]

The PNW Big Leaf maple gets moss AND ferns on them, sometime 3 inches or more thick. This particular fern only grows on the maples... I forget the exact symbiotic relationship, but both benefit.


Yep... a bit gritty now and then.