Nor Cal & North SF Bay GTG (November 11-14, 2022)

[tylerbeach3]

Long day taggin hazard trees. We only did the campground and got 21 trees tagged. Mostly for crown cleaning or small limb removal. Any climbers coming this year? 5 or 6 trees are full removals. One big nasty dead fir and a large leaner maple. I forgot to take pics. Plus four small dead firs that would be good practice for anyone that wants to. Early oct is the next day the ES can make it out ill update then when we survey the rest of the park and mill grounds.

 

[madhatte]

As I recall, there's at least a few "yeah but" challenges left from years past as well. I remember a couple of firs up in tent camp land that seem to always have somebody parked under them that would be pretty easy to fall if only there was a safe place to drop them.

 

[tylerbeach3]

Broc luno, i owe you $100. John and i got the bucket truck running, it Stops too, Boom hydraulics need attention but the harvester purrs.

 

[madhatte]

Bucket truck is a game changer. Good on ya.

 

[BrocLuno]

Broc luno, i owe you $100. John and i got the bucket truck running, it Stops too, Boom hydraulics need attention but the harvester purrs.

Naw, just apply it towards the needed hydraulic lines going to the remote control

 

[Greaser007]

I have read through the beginning and ending of this thread, and don't know what the GTG is ? what size of attendance ?
I worked in the woods chasing landing at Mount Shasta for BG Howell Logging in 1977 for a season in my 20's. Big firs and cedars. 3-log loads
For my personal use I have been running a 2100 CD since about 1984, and it has faithfully cut 6-chords of firewood most seasons. it likes to Work. (me)
Ha,
Anyway, I spent 6-years living in Fortuna, from 1998 to 2004, and on my 3.5 acres spread, there was a 14-foot diameter old growth redwood stump. That was just the largest of the stumps. It really did look like a dance floor. hahaha
I used that 2100 a few weeks back to cut-up some large 38-inch Digger Pine.
The wife and I scrounge free Digger off of the local Craigslist, buck it into rounds and tip them into the stock trailer. I am now 67, and the 'tipping' is more than expected (before touching the wood), but may be beneficial to prevent atrophy. Pabst may help keep a person limber and prevent atrophy too.
At the Eel River Bridge at Loleta, just north of Fortuna, there was a restaurant with old photos of the area when first clear-cut of old growth. You cannot tell it to look around today.

Is jon1212 driving his El Camino ?

Len

 

[RandyMac]

Hello Len.

 

[Drptrch]

I have read through the beginning and ending of this thread, and don't know what the GTG is ? what size of attendance ?
I worked in the woods chasing landing at Mount Shasta for BG Howell Logging in 1977 for a season in my 20's. Big firs and cedars. 3-log loads
For my personal use I have been running a 2100 CD since about 1984, and it has faithfully cut 6-chords of firewood most seasons. it likes to Work. (me)
Ha,
Anyway, I spent 6-years living in Fortuna, from 1998 to 2004, and on my 3.5 acres spread, there was a 14-foot diameter old growth redwood stump. That was just the largest of the stumps. It really did look like a dance floor. hahaha
I used that 2100 a few weeks back to cut-up some large 38-inch Digger Pine.
The wife and I scrounge free Digger off of the local Craigslist, buck it into rounds and tip them into the stock trailer. I am now 67, and the 'tipping' is more than expected (before touching the wood), but may be beneficial to prevent atrophy. Pabst may help keep a person limber and prevent atrophy too.
At the Eel River Bridge at Loleta, just north of Fortuna, there was a restaurant with old photos of the area when first clear-cut of old growth. You cannot tell it to look around today.

Is jon1212 driving his El Camino ?

Len

Above Simms on Girard Ridge on the Delta fire

And the result [emoji106]

Erik

 

[Greaser007]

Hi Randymac and Eric,
I was speaking with a commercial construction superintendent the other day based in Elk Grove, and he said the rebuilding of Santa Rosa is going very Slow.
His impression is that there is a lack of qualified tradesmen, and that somebody is going to have to reconsider the labor force requirement or it is not going to get any better with all of the residences lost to the fires currently in 2018.
Here in Redding, California, we lost 1,100 homes to the Carr Fire, and I wish people luck to finding a residential designer available to prepare their home plans because they are already Busy. Also, the local agency says they are rolling-back building standards to the 1997 Uniform Building Code, but will require Fire Sprinklers. The interesting thing about this is that the city and county both admitted that the infrastructure to supply the required water demand would need to be redesigned and upgraded. I am afraid the rebuilding process will go very slow, and people will be living in RV's for more than a year.

Does the increase in framing lumber demand benefit the local lumbering industry or will the lumber come from Canada ?

I have been perusing this Arboristsite forum for a few years to pick up pointers on keeping my saws running, and now my hydraulic wood splitter. with success !

Hey Eric, your upper photo looks like the back side of Castle Crags.

 

[Drptrch]

Hi Randymac and Eric,
I was speaking with a commercial construction superintendent the other day based in Elk Grove, and he said the rebuilding of Santa Rosa is going very Slow.
His impression is that there is a lack of qualified tradesmen, and that somebody is going to have to reconsider the labor force requirement or it is not going to get any better with all of the residences lost to the fires currently in 2018.
Here in Redding, California, we lost 1,100 homes to the Carr Fire, and I wish people luck to finding a residential designer available to prepare their home plans because they are already Busy. Also, the local agency says they are rolling-back building standards to the 1997 Uniform Building Code, but will require Fire Sprinklers. The interesting thing about this is that the city and county both admitted that the infrastructure to supply the required water demand would need to be redesigned and upgraded. I am afraid the rebuilding process will go very slow, and people will be living in RV's for more than a year.

Does the increase in framing lumber demand benefit the local lumbering industry or will the lumber come from Canada ?

I have been perusing this Arboristsite forum for a few years to pick up pointers on keeping my saws running, and now my hydraulic wood splitter. with success !

Hey Eric, your upper photo looks like the back side of Castle Crags.

Taken from East side of 5 above Simms and Soda Creek.
Where the “Green Dot” is
The Crags are in upper left

Erik

 

[PasoRoblesJimmy]

I'm going to try to make it to the NoCal GTG this year. Will need a spot for pitching my small tent. Hopefully, I won't get the flu. The change in time and weather about this time of year always screws me up.

 

[tylerbeach3]

tis the season for sickness. Unfortunately one of our founding fathers of the forest practices group here at the park is always sick for this gtg. Nuthin a little whiskey cant fix. Right unnamed-fpg-member?

 

[madhatte]

Look, if we've got saws, wood to cut, and a campfire to look forward to, I reckon we'll be alright. Keep an eye on those whiskey bottles, though, they're sneaky.

 

[PasoRoblesJimmy]

tis the season for sickness. Unfortunately one of our founding fathers of the forest practices group here at the park is always sick for this gtg. Nuthin a little whiskey cant fix. Right unnamed-fpg-member?

Attitude adjustment only after the saws are put away.

 

[RandyMac]

You all might be seeing me this year, getting the old wagon's pre winter service done next week.

 

[madhatte]

Hell yeah man! I'll either caravan down or back up with you if you want.

 

[RandyMac]

Deal!

 

[tylerbeach3]

I look forward to meeting you mr. Mac!

 

[Drptrch]

@tylerbeach3, how ya lookin on Oak supplies


Erik

 

[tylerbeach3]

Still loaded up. Thank for the reminder, this is the time of year i get it worse, ill get back on the technu regiment. How have you been? Can you make it over to the gtg erik? Weekend of the 10th