New Job=More pics!!!

[sILlogger]

I moved to this job yesterday. cutting a bunch of beach, poplar, red&white oak, hard maple, hickory and a few others. not quite a clear cut but pretty much cutting everything down to 10-12"dbh. if memory serves me there is 32 acres of this, and should be better than 200,000 bft. im cutting down in a "bowl" surrounded by a creek, hills and a bluff with only one way out and the skid is prolly a 1/4 mile before there is a place for the skidder to turn and go up the bluff-which is pretty well a straight up cliff face. and another 1/4 mile to the log yard.

a pic of the log yard before i headed into the woods this morning

The are that i cut yesterday

a few pics of the area before i started

ACTION SHOTS!!

 

[sILlogger]

CRANK ON IT!! 4 LOGS behind the 540 G

weaving through the woods

hooking chokers

today's progress, prolly cut between 40-60 trees, not exactly sure

 

[sILlogger]

out on the log yard at the end of the day.
a few logs

logs ready for hauling to the mill tom.

log loader

 

[Peacock]

Again, great pics!

How big do the sugar maple get down there? What about white ash?

 

[sILlogger]

ive seen sugar maples around 4 ft, and ive cut 3 ft ash, but i haven't cut any ash on this job yet, did cut a few nice persimmon today(first pic, the log wth the but elevated) these pics are mainly showing red oak, beach, poplar and hickory

 

[Peacock]

Looks like a nice pignut(?) hickory in the 3rd pic.

How are the elm down there? I cut a 30" elm tonight at the farm.

 

[sILlogger]

yea, there are some pretty good hickories on this job, a few of them have been hollow(pretty common for big hickories) and yea we get some good sized elm down here, but it is often a superficial tree to the other around it, often big but swell, short bodied with alot of limbs, and often not very straight=low quality tree.

 

[beelsr]

ACTION SHOTS!!

What kind of action shot is that? You're flat on your back.....

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[sILlogger]

What kind of action shot is that? You're flat on your back.....

:biggrinbounce2: :biggrinbounce2: :biggrinbounce2:

well the skidder guy was in action!!!! was about 8 trees ahead of the skidder and was taking a break till he could get some of the logs out of the way. so i took me a lil break against a hickory..:chainsawguy:

 

[SEMOLOGGER]

What is reason for cuttin that little? The smallest we ussually go to is 18" dbh

 

[arboralliance]

Sweet...

How's that saw running?

 

[sILlogger]

to be honest im not sure for the reasoning behind the cuttng of the smaller stuff?!?!!? i just cut it, but usually we don't cut anything below around 18" also, but ive been leaving a few here and there so there are a few larger trees. and as for the saw it seems to be running pretty good, ive got a lil over 10 gallons of gas through it so far. i think ive had it two weeks today??? well have a good 'un im off to the woods

 

[Wolfking42084]

great pics man. nothing like seeing the woods and a saw. what do you all do with the persimmon? the mill buy it just like anything else? those are just so uncommon here and never big enough hardly to make firewood out of here. awesome

 

[stihl 440]

nice

Great pics Silogger! Good job! Nice skidder! Keep the pics comming!:hmm3grin2orange: :biggrinbounce2: :chainsawguy:

 

[Peacock]

what do you all do with the persimmon?

Make pudding!

 

[sILlogger]

im sorry about the mix-up but that log was blackgum, the persimmon that i cut was on a different job, sorry no pics of it. they used to use it to make wooden golf club heads, not sure what they do with it anymore. haven't cut very much of it and ive never sold any of it so im not sure if there is a special market for it,
A few pics from today

Early morning in the woods

A couple nice red oaks

 

[sILlogger]

Spur-cut white oak, how many of you guys cut like this? prolly have to explain this before it is over, let the stump war begin!!

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[stihl 440]

no face?

Spur-cut white oak, how many of you guys cut like this? prolly have to explain this before it is over, let the stump war begin!!

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OK, no face? Lemme' guess cut the front first, leave the 2 corners, then cut from the sides, leave the other back corner, then cut the front 2 sides, then the back one and away she goes. It woulda' helped if you wiped some of the DANG chips off the stump!!! Or is it........part of the plan? LOL!!! Don't worry I got a couple tricks up my sleeve also! LOL!!:hmm3grin2orange: :biggrinbounce2:

 

[sILlogger]

OK, no face? Lemme' guess cut the front first, leave the 2 corners, then cut from the sides, leave the other back corner, then cut the front 2 sides, then the back one and away she goes. It woulda' helped if you wiped some of the DANG chips off the stump!!! Or is it........part of the plan? LOL!!! Don't worry I got a couple tricks up my sleeve also! LOL!!:hmm3grin2orange: :biggrinbounce2:

yea, you pretty much got it, bore in the front till the bar comes out one of the side and bore all the way out till the other side when the bar come out, go around tree, stick saw back in kerf, bore out till the back, repeat on other side if necessary, cut the holding wood on the downhill side first-GET SAW OUT BEFORE TREE SITS DOWN, cut holding wood on other downhill side-GET SAW OUT BEFORE TREE SITS DOWN, and then turn it loose by cutting the back holding wood. all of the saw chips are on the stump because i was cutting with the top of the bar(how i do the alof of my stump cutting) thus pushing the chips into the cut rather than pulling them out. nothing special going on with the center of the stump, it was all bored alway before the tree was turned loose, alot of times i will only use 2 spurs, 1 front&1back, but i have used several on trees before, usually on red oaks due to the but swell spurs (used 7 spurs on a big red oak once) stump looked like a burger king crown. only trouble with this cutting is that it can be he!! on skidder tires, so i usually one use it in an area where the skidder won't be running. hope you all understand

 

[sILlogger]

my first day on this job i spure cut a nice white oak, prolly a couple footer, and the tree was so balanced that it just stood there-no wood holding it just stood on the stump, no breeze blowing=nothing. so i walked away from it and left it alone, went to about 100 yards down the woods and cut there for an hour or so, and once a bit of breeze started she fell over as pretty as you please right where i wanted it. puzzling it was.....had them do it before tho. was cuttng a 2' beach today right next to a 3'red oak, and the tops of them had grown together, cut the beach off and it didn't fall=hung up in red oak, so i had to lay into the red oak and drop both of them together, can make things a good bit of fun when it comes to topping two trees together. have a good 'un