Thanks Mike, that's my son in the picture, that one was a little big for me.That is an impressive pic transporting that log! Trust me when I tell ya we don't move Oak logs that size like that!
Beautiful area though!
Nice to have help like that!Thanks Mike, that's my son in the picture, that one was a little big for me.
Ain't that the truth.That is an impressive pic transporting that log! Trust me when I tell ya we don't move Oak logs that size like that!
Beautiful area though!
That is an impressive pic transporting that log! Trust me when I tell ya we don't move Oak logs that size like that!
Beautiful area though!
David, had a big forest fire go through the area about 8 years ago.
If the sap is burned in they last darn near forever. We have white pine snags that were cut in 1912 and were burned slightly that are still standing.Foreign to me, those conifers. Do they maybe last longer standing when burned, maybe sap in the bark boiled and of no interest to insects and of course woodpeckers? I thought the smaller limbs would burn more.
Snow melted enough to get to our high ellavation scrounge area
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View attachment 505665 Sure nice to have my helper this time, he's been mia last 4 loads (has girl friend now).View attachment 505666 standing trees still pretty solid even though they have been dead for 8 years. Thanks to my 6' 3" log loader ended up with a nice load.
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Yes it is! Very thankful for my son, he really is a great kid (young man) always been very helpful, not a trouble maker at all, and my best friend, been differant now that he has girl friend though hardly ever see him anymore, lol. Sure glad he waited this long he's 18 now.Nice to have help like that!
Kind of like that one fellow on Crocodile Dundee. "I don't need a gun mate, I've got a Donk."
Yes it is! Very thankful for my son, he really is a great kid (young man) always been very helpful, not a trouble maker at all, and my best friend, been differant now that he has girl friend though hardly ever see him anymore, lol. Sure glad he waited this long he's 18 now.
The bark fell off most of these after the fire, and it's dryer there, other area's that were wetter and the bark stayed on the trees started to get pretty rotten after the second year, even standing trees.Foreign to me, those conifers. Do they maybe last longer standing when burned, maybe sap in the bark boiled and of no interest to insects and of course woodpeckers? I thought the smaller limbs would burn more.
That pic was my avatar for several years on here. Then Ctyank started giving me crap about it so I changed it. Ironically his is a kitty looking in a mirror and seeing a lion in the reflection which is painfully fitting for him.
It's strange how some of the spruce I've scrounged up was dead standing in a swamp with no bark but still had a solid white core and yet dead standing in high ground with bark was no good .The bark fell off most of these after the fire, and it's dryer there, other area's that were wetter and the bark stayed on the trees started to get pretty rotten after the second year, even standing trees.