Sending Down the Saw

[slowp]

I almost threw stuff at the TV last night! Was watching the drama of Ax Men, and while they were yanking on "an 80 foot log" which took 45 minutes to yard up to the landing, I couldn't figure out why they didn't send a saw down and cut it into 2 forties? Aren't Oregon rigging crews allowed to play with saws? Are delimbers also called "deliminators"?
I am quite disappointed. I thought Oregon had perfect loggers!

 

[splittah]

You know... I was wondering why they didn't get a saw and cut it also.. I still think the show is interesting to watch.

 

[LarryTheCableGuy]

Maybe they could have shipped it up to Warshington to get "chopped" into two 39 foot pieces and then sent back so that they could have yarded it.

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[2dogs]

I'd bet 90% of the people watching last night thought the same thing. I sure did.

 

[windthrown]

I almost threw stuff at the TV last night! Was watching the drama of Ax Men, and while they were yanking on "an 80 foot log" which took 45 minutes to yard up to the landing, I couldn't figure out why they didn't send a saw down and cut it into 2 forties? Aren't Oregon rigging crews allowed to play with saws? Are delimbers also called "deliminators"?
I am quite disappointed. I thought Oregon had perfect loggers!

I was befuddled with that scene myself. I thought that half way through they were going to cut it in half, since it was almost broken in half anyway. But they tried to lift it up and drop it to break it up instead, risking snapping the cables and breaking the carriage, and whatever else if half the log rolled down the hillside. Then they risked snapping the skyline again putting the gear box in low. BUT THE BEST PART WAS THAT THE LOG WAS HOLLOW! Useless. The guys at the landing were looking at it and thinking that the rigging crew was on drugs. All that time and struggle for a useless hollow hemlock log? If it was not for the hurricane, someone would have been yelled at.

Nice water feature photos later in the show though. We get that type of rain and flooding almost every year here. And we had lesser hurricane force winds here on the coast in an earlier storm about 10 days before that storm. We were spared the worst of that storm wind-wise, but we got more rain down here. I was out clearing culverts and mudslides for a week. The creek here spilled its banks and flooded the pastures. As for the Columbus Day Storm that they also covered, I lived through that one as well. Was a tyke in Portland when that one blew through from Northern California. That was the BIG one. Though I was up on Highway 26 the day it opened in late December last year, and the damage was severe, and impressive. Mighty Dougs were tipped over like dominoes, or snapped like toothpicks.

 

[woodfarmer]

what channel is the show on and what time and day?

 

[huskykid141]

axmen

it is on the history channel at 10:00pm on sundays. i think it was dumb that they didn't just cut the log in half after the first 5 minutes never mind 45 minutes. The crew was complaining about not being able to finish the job in time and then they go and waste 45 minutes on a useless hollow hemlock log.

 

[custom8726]

I missed it last night. Do they do re-runs through out the week?? I am not overley impressed with the show but anything pertaining to saws and trees generally keeps my interest.

 

[Adkpk]

Do they do re-runs through out the week??

Yes.

 

[custom8726]

Yes.

OK, and now when?

 

[slowp]

OK, and now when?

It seems to be on whenever they want. A coworkers boys are hooked on the show and watch it every time they can.

I also couldn't figure out why they didn't stage log around the tree that the guy cut while standing in the midst of the blowdown...Oh well, I'm not there so who knows? The flooding made me feel icky as we got it bad here in 2006.
The storm shown on Axmen hit the west part of our county hard with flooding and blowdown. I think our lights went out for a few hours and that was it.

 

[Humptulips]

Slowp,
I can tell you are a bit inland or you would have taken more note of that storm. SW WA and NW OR took a beating from that storm. We were without power for a week here. No phone either not even cell. I've heard estimates of 700 million feet went down on private land in WA. I would bet an equal amount in OR. Those figures don't involve public land either. There are 50 million on the ground behind my house on USFS land. I would say it was every bit as bad as the Columbus day storm from my memory but I was a little fella when that happened.

 

[turnkey4099]

OK, and now when?

Here the new episode runs at 11 pm Sunday. Prior episodes rerun during the evening on Sunday's (maybe other days too, I didn't notice).

IIANM they only have 2 more new episodes to go.

Harry K.

 

[turnkey4099]

I almost threw stuff at the TV last night! Was watching the drama of Ax Men, and while they were yanking on "an 80 foot log" which took 45 minutes to yard up to the landing, I couldn't figure out why they didn't send a saw down and cut it into 2 forties? Aren't Oregon rigging crews allowed to play with saws? Are delimbers also called "deliminators"?
I am quite disappointed. I thought Oregon had perfect loggers!

You too? I thought my wife was going to throw something at me for my yelling at the TV.

Another part of the idiocy was the discussion of how heavy, it might break something, it might pull the high line.

'That's O.K., I'll just put 'er in low gear' Is that some new physics law that says shifting gear changes the loading on the rigging?

Harry K

 

[Gologit]

I almost threw stuff at the TV last night! Was watching the drama of Ax Men, and while they were yanking on "an 80 foot log" which took 45 minutes to yard up to the landing, I couldn't figure out why they didn't send a saw down and cut it into 2 forties? Aren't Oregon rigging crews allowed to play with saws? Are delimbers also called "deliminators"?
I am quite disappointed. I thought Oregon had perfect loggers!

Too much drama. Not enough logging.

 

[slowp]

Too much drama. Not enough logging.

That sums up more than the show!

 

[tramp bushler]

you said it

Too much drama. Not enough logging.

That has been my thots on the show so far ....They kind of make a story where there is none .....

It is still fun to watch most of the time tho ...

 

[Gologit]

That sums up more than the show!

LOl...You are so right. We start hoot-owl Monday...and it's not even June yet. Spooky.

 

[slowp]

LOl...You are so right. We start hoot-owl Monday...and it's not even June yet. Spooky.

Well, I was looking for units on a sale yesterday and there was this strange red flagging tied all over that said SPOT FIRE on it. I pull over for lunch (yes other than cutting some trees out of the way it was a drive around and find stuff day) and a state guy comes driving up wanting to know if I'd seen our engine up there. There actually was a fire there. I was thinking that maybe the logger had already been there and happened to have that flagging. That's how many fires we get here and in May? But it dumped rain enough yesterday for me to get twice soaked. Too warm for raingear if you move. It is raining this morning too. I'll send some south because we can afford it this year.

 

[windthrown]

That sums up more than the show!

Indeed!

I get irritated with the 'fake competitive' numbers of truckloads of logs that they haul off the mountains at the end of the show. Its not like there is a total bag limit that ends the logging season, like in fishing or crabbing. "Oh look, the larger logging company slicked off and hauled more logs!" Imagine that!