Thank you, 056, as usual, I really appreciate your input. I promise that today I won't bore cut anything and I have enlarged several of your most recent stump photos as visual reminders of what I should be striving for. Now that I know you are the $h)t I will make sure I PM you with all my questions regarding cutting and logging strategy.
As to my love or lack of, for logging, I make money several different ways and in the last 5 years, logging isn't even in the top 3 for amount of money that I have made for the effort. I'm out to make money for my family and spend time with them. I can't help it that I can (at times) make a lot, more money doing things other than logging, its not my be all, end all. I like to make money that is my top priority, I can and do make good money logging, therefore I try to be as efficient at it all the way around. I judge how good I am at something by how much money I can make at it, therefore I run it like a business, not a love affair. If it works I do it or use it, if it doesn't I don't keep on using it or doing it, just because my dad and dad's dad did it that way. It either makes money or it doesn't and that is how I decide on things on their own merits. I don't love anything in particular except my wife, everything else I do had better make money or I quit it and find something else to do that is more productive. If logging slows down or the price falls I can and do, do something else. My machines are paid for and if they sit, its no big deal to me, because whatever else I'm doing is more productive, right now, logging is working out just fine, so that is what I'm doing. Sometimes investing is hot, sometimes bull riding is hot, sometimes the machine shop is hot, sometimes the insurance work I do is hot, I only "play" whatever is going to make the money, I can't afford to be in love with anyone thing to a point of cloudy vision. So you can have the I'm a more experienced logger trophy for the year or the rest of your life, I could care less, because that isn't how I judge my success, by perfecting some cut that is known for splitting trees and uping the risk factor of my day for a few seconds of speed. I like to run the 441 as long as its within a second of the 460 or 7900 that is all I care about and it always has been and its smoother and more fuel efficient, I've never really cared and have stated that I don't care if it is the fastest. With the amount of damage to my hands and wrists due to 15 years of bull riding, I'm not really interested in "not" feeling my hands for the next week or month just because some traditionalist says the 460 is better or faster or the 441 is for wu$$ies.
Do to some of the extracuricular activities that I have been apart of for around half of my life, logging and its various "dangers" aren't really even very high up on my list of exciting things to do, so while for many or most they find some sort of life fulfilling moments with the logging and chainsaw operation .............. I don't. Therefore I can typically view various chainsaw and logging operations with a sort of clear head since I'm not the one needing it for some "adrenaline" fix ..... its just work for me. Again if that makes me an A$$ or you the super logger of the year, I don't care. You don't sign my checks and you didn't pay for the things that I have.
I simply put some photos up of the goings on of my operation, they are typically take not at the peak of my productivity for obvious reasons, therefore for you to look down you nose at me just about everytime I put some photos up and think you are or could come here and do the quality that I do, faster, based on some photos and videos that represent about 5% of what goes on in a day, makes you not only arrogant, an A$$ and a typical young know it all cutter, and you know what, I don't fault you for it, I'm sure I do the same, but as I have indicated before its just annoying for those that live here and are actually doing it to have someone as good as yourself constantly belittle our operation, when it is quite obvious we are successful and everyone from top to bottom here is happy and good at what they do. I have never said I or my operation was the best, but we are good and our final product shows it, if it takes me a day or two to finish up a good stand of timber, I'm fine with that, because I am the one that is getting asked to come back and cut it again 10-20 years from now. When the landowners friends come and look at my work they say,"I thought it would have looked worse than this." , because typically it does with hacked, tall stumps and tops everywhere........ but I don't always cut like that or need to. On this river side job it looks like a logger logged it ... and I know it, why because nobody cares about it, in a few months the river will flood it and whether I directionally fell the trees or not doesn't really matter, so we speed cut them, walk around the tree and such. You see me bore cut some quality trees or do it because I want to stop at a certain point and make a video or my kids or wife is standing nearby and suddenly you take it upon yourself to direct me to faster cutting techniques and living my life more dangerously, LOL, you don't know the first thing about danger or living life more dangerously, and I say that knowing you are a cutter, LOL.
So I don't dislike you 056/Ted, I just find you annoying, and have said as much before.
Later,
Sam
