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361 Junkie
Soil compaction, mostly
Soil compaction in the skid runs and on the logging deck area here that the new house is built on now. Compared to the cable yarded areas done in the 1980s where there is less visible remains and the logging was done far more recently. I am busting up the compacted areas with sub-soiling and dozing with a blade, but the clay is really really hard there.
This place has logging history all over it. Old camp sites, old cable yarding equipment, buried cables all over, discarded chainsaw bars (I will post photos of a 'new' one that the dogs dug up), old giant hand saw blades, piles of sawn cedar planks milled here on site, an old saw mill on a creek (saw, blades, and rubber dam and pipes), a huge berm that was built over 100 years ago to divert the streams into a log flume, rail lines from a narrow gauge rail that ran out here in the 1920's, cedar spars 15 ft high that have springboard notches cut into them, old engines and pump housings, tons of stumps and spars, 3-4 ft logs from 10-20 ft laying here and there, several eras of skid roads, and oddball stuff.
There is also obvious evidence that the native Indians here burned this area to clear some of the pastures and fields that are still here. No stumps in there, and surrounded by oaks and maples that are old growth (200-400 years old). The only way that they could be that old and free of competing conifers is by regular burning. David Douglas noted the summer burning in this area when he was here doing surveys in the 19th century. There has been some debate that the holes in one of the upper pastures here are old teepee pole holes. Hard to say if they are that or fence post holes.
Soil compaction in the skid runs and on the logging deck area here that the new house is built on now. Compared to the cable yarded areas done in the 1980s where there is less visible remains and the logging was done far more recently. I am busting up the compacted areas with sub-soiling and dozing with a blade, but the clay is really really hard there.
This place has logging history all over it. Old camp sites, old cable yarding equipment, buried cables all over, discarded chainsaw bars (I will post photos of a 'new' one that the dogs dug up), old giant hand saw blades, piles of sawn cedar planks milled here on site, an old saw mill on a creek (saw, blades, and rubber dam and pipes), a huge berm that was built over 100 years ago to divert the streams into a log flume, rail lines from a narrow gauge rail that ran out here in the 1920's, cedar spars 15 ft high that have springboard notches cut into them, old engines and pump housings, tons of stumps and spars, 3-4 ft logs from 10-20 ft laying here and there, several eras of skid roads, and oddball stuff.
There is also obvious evidence that the native Indians here burned this area to clear some of the pastures and fields that are still here. No stumps in there, and surrounded by oaks and maples that are old growth (200-400 years old). The only way that they could be that old and free of competing conifers is by regular burning. David Douglas noted the summer burning in this area when he was here doing surveys in the 19th century. There has been some debate that the holes in one of the upper pastures here are old teepee pole holes. Hard to say if they are that or fence post holes.
