Pondering A Bucked Tree

[slowp]

I hiked into a lake today. Part of the trail is in wilderness, and I suspect this was bucked using a crosscut saw. There was no slabbing. Just one part high in the air with the bark chopped off like they were going to do another cut. Was it an OH EXCREMENT! moment? Or did they know what it was going to do?
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Then there was this cedar slab from the past winter's damage. I really wanted to take it home with me.
I guess it will make a good spot to sit.
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Lots of trees across the trail for me to crawl under, over, and around. It will probably get logged out soon.
The Used Dog and I stopped here and did lunch.
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[northmanlogging]

I like reading into other peoples work, figuring how'd they do that kinda stuff. I find myself asking why or what the Hel where they thinking though, I learn allot from others mistake too.

 

[bert0168]

Beautiful place. My new desktop

 

[slowp]

There was a resort up there at one time. I sat on a log foundation of one of the cabins to eat lunch. There is still an old Forest Service guard station. It was and I guess still is, in the process of restoration.
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There is a gated road into there too. A dam is at the outlet of the lake and water is steered into a pipe where it flows downhill and is harnessed for power.

I may camp up there around the Fourth of July with The Used Dog. He doesn't like fireworks and it would be quiet. No fireworks allowed in the forest.

On the way back to the pickup, a cloud cap had formed at the top of The Mountain. That means it might rain soon.:biggrin:

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[bert0168]

Aw man, now I have to choose....

How long of a hike is it to get to these places and what is the name of the mountain in the photos?

 

[slowp]

Don't move here. Too many people already have.

It was a fairly flat, 4.5 mile hike into the lake--9 mile round trip. Most of the other spots are still snowed in. The Mountain is Mt. Rainier, which is one of our volcanoes and can be seen from many places throughout the state on the few clear days we get. We're having an unseasonably dry week. It ends tomorrow.

 

[northmanlogging]

There is even a spot on my way home from work where you can get a quick glimpse of rainier along a power line road, but it has to be a very clear day. Its a whole lot smaller from here though.

 

[paccity]

there are times up in the coastrange on a very clear day i can see it. usually only to adams.

 

[AT sawyer]

The airborne end of that tree was also debarked. Likely they planned to make two cuts starting with the far end and didn't realize how much tension the rootball was still exerting on the tree. Chances are the sawyers heard a significant amount of snap-crackling as the release cut was being made and finished with a single buck. Lack of slabbing also indicates that they underbucked some of the compression wood before finishing with an offset top cut on the downhill side.

I hiked into a lake today. Part of the trail is in wilderness, and I suspect this was bucked using a crosscut saw. There was no slabbing. Just one part high in the air with the bark chopped off like they were going to do another cut. Was it an OH EXCREMENT! moment? Or did they know what it was going to do?
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