Punkin Being Loaded

[slowp]

Here's a couple pictures I scanned from 1987. It was back when hazard trees in campgrounds were sold for lumber, not for firewood. This was a big tree and that is the butt log on the ground in the foreground. I believe they were loading the third log of the tree on the log truck. The Barko loader wouldn't do it so they wrapped a choker around it and used the skidder to help. The log truck cab was bouncing up and down. I wasn't there to see how long it took to load the butt on a truck.

The logger, not shown, is still alive and close to 90 years old. He was on a skidder last summer, and his brother, on oxygen, was chasing. Talk about history!

 

[Ghillie]

I love pictures like that...............Grayscale (not old!!)

 

[Zackman1801]

funny thing is i see skidders like that almost every day working around here still.

 

[mercer_me]

That is some realy big wood. I would like to get ahold of a lot with pine or oak that big on it.

 

[Burvol]

That "big stuff" unit we cut up your way a few years back that I told you about was all like that! Nice wood, is that out off Packwood?

 

[slowp]

That "big stuff" unit we cut up your way a few years back that I told you about was all like that! Nice wood, is that out off Packwood?

Nope. That was off the Randle District. Iron Creek Campground on the 25 road--Randle to Cougar. The loggers brought their go karts and kids out on the weekend and raced around the clover leaf parts. They were behind a locked gate, of course. The campground is down in a creek bottom so the wood is heavier there. Bear in mind, they had to work around outhouses, faucets, tent pads, pavement, and everything that is in a campground.

Later, the same guys did another campground and almost smashed my pickup.
But this one had the biggest trees in it.

 

[Burvol]

Nope. That was off the Randle District. Iron Creek Campground on the 25 road--Randle to Cougar. The loggers brought their go karts and kids out on the weekend and raced around the clover leaf parts. They were behind a locked gate, of course. The campground is down in a creek bottom so the wood is heavier there. Bear in mind, they had to work around outhouses, faucets, tent pads, pavement, and everything that is in a campground.

Later, the same guys did another campground and almost smashed my pickup.
But this one had the biggest trees in it.

Sounds fun. There is some very beautiful country up there.

 

[Humptulips]

Not to steal your thread but a couple pictures along the same theme. Here's a couple of pictures of a big spruce. 1st one is real poor but loading it with the yarder. Second one shows it loaded. Taken on the West fork of the Humptulips just above A&Ms camp.

 

[Bushler]

By implication, do you mean that under todays regs. those logs would have been cut into firewood?

I gotta go vomit, at the thought. Please say it isn't so. That is a beautiful log.

Thanks, ( I guess) for posting the pics...

 

[slowp]

Get your puking bag ready. Today, unless there were a whole lot of them, those hazard trees are bucked up and pushed out of the way, and then the concesssionaire turns them into campfire wood, and sells it to campers.

Sometimes a sale can be put together, but it takes a year or usually more. Most of the trees are left on the ground for wildlife, only a few go out on trucks to mills.

The fish people also want them to drop into the creeks. And yes, they are most often sold for firewood now.
Sigh.....:deadhorse:

 

[tomtrees58]

wow nice keep them coming tom trees ( the old days )

 

[Mike Van]

Firewood? - I guess the only greater loss would be letting them rot. What a waste.

 

[Meadow Beaver]

Nice logs. :greenchainsaw:

 

[redprospector]

Here's one from when we actually did some logging in New Mexico. Not much by PNW standards, but it was a nice log for around here.
I didn't take many pictures back then, I guess I figured it would last for ever.
The youngest boy on the log turned 28 the other day.

Andy

 

[Meadow Beaver]

Your boys into logging Red?

 

[redprospector]

No, one of them worked with me for a few years but I finally convinced him to take a job that had benefit's. He's realy glad he did right now.
I've got 2 son's that are heavy equipment operators, one that is a mechanical engineer, one that is a computer engineer, and one that is a welder.
All of them smarter than the old man.

Andy

 

[Meadow Beaver]

Yeah I go to Lackawanna CTC for Masonry, I'm not a big fan of it though. I wanted to go for Machine shop so I could learn how to use lathes and CNC machines ahead of time, but I didn't get in.

 

[wvlogger]

how would you split something like that:jawdrop::jawdrop:

 

[Humptulips]

how would you split something like that:jawdrop::jawdrop:

With a splitting maul and a wedge. We used to cut nothing but old growth fir for firewood. Old windfalls but sound as a nut, usually they would be 4 or 5 foot but some bigger. They actually split pretty easy. I wish I had a picture but when I was a kid my dad used to get logs dropped off in the yard for firewood. We had one big fir that was 7 foot. Culled because of pitch rings. He paid $50 at the time to get it delivered so you know that was a couple years ago.

 

[slowp]

With a splitting maul and a wedge. We used to cut nothing but old growth fir for firewood. Old windfalls but sound as a nut, usually they would be 4 or 5 foot but some bigger. They actually split pretty easy. I wish I had a picture but when I was a kid my dad used to get logs dropped off in the yard for firewood. We had one big fir that was 7 foot. Culled because of pitch rings. He paid $50 at the time to get it delivered so you know that was a couple years ago.

Yeah, they split easier than some of the knotty second growth stuff I've got now. You just work on one round a while and get a lot of pieces. There were a lot of tired guys wandering around with a limp earlier this Spring. We opened up some big blowdown to firewood cutting. They also climbed and hung blocks to get the rounds down to their pickups. I think some were reliving their rigging days.