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slowp

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You guys, TAKE PICTURES! Why am I saying this? Well, I have 3 poster boards with 8x10 pictures of logging on them. I use it if I am included in a school or educational program which is not often. I had to move them out of their hidey hole when we got new carpet put in.

So, a few guys have seen them for the first time. They comment on how we should have taken more pictures during the 80's here when the big stuff was being logged. I'm one of them who didn't. It was too hard to pack a good camera down into the brush, keep it in one piece (and yourself) and then to get the film developed, and we thought that logging the big stuff would keep on going. It didn't.

With the new, small digital cameras being easy to put in the pocket or pack, we need to keep on taking pictures. Your style of logging may be history some day too. It is good to have pictures of it.
 
slowp said:
You guys, TAKE PICTURES! Why am I saying this? Well, I have 3 poster boards with 8x10 pictures of logging on them. I use it if I am included in a school or educational program which is not often. I had to move them out of their hidey hole when we got new carpet put in.

So, a few guys have seen them for the first time. They comment on how we should have taken more pictures during the 80's here when the big stuff was being logged. I'm one of them who didn't. It was too hard to pack a good camera down into the brush, keep it in one piece (and yourself) and then to get the film developed, and we thought that logging the big stuff would keep on going. It didn't.

With the new, small digital cameras being easy to put in the pocket or pack, we need to keep on taking pictures. Your style of logging may be history some day too. It is good to have pictures of it.
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I totally agree! Wish that I would have made more of an effort to get pictures. Usually always seemed like I was wasting time, especially when I was busheling, but now when I look back and see the ones that I do have, I get nostalgic and can't believe how much scenery, and memorable moments I have passed up that I would love to recall with a good picture!
 
Sooooo, you want pictures like the Dead Ash I dropped yesterday? Perfectly placed, exactly where is was supposed to go......until it caught another tree and rolled 90 degress into a clump of Soft Maples? Only took me another hour (and 1 Maple) to get the damn thing on the ground............

Gotta believe someone would have gotten a laugh out of it.

Ed
 
I did take a bunch .

But now I don,t have a scanner . Heck , I still havn,t even developed some rolls of film ............. I need to scann a hundred or so and post them ....I have some great ones of the guy who broke me in ...Some jackin timber , climbin and topping ect .. Some SPOOKY trees .. ...
.Just need to get them posted ...
 
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following another load of poplar out of the job a while back
 
Polly, if you are interested you can use any of my posted photos. If you do, let me know which ones and I can give you dates, location.
I gotta get another scanner and dig through the archives, I won't show most of them, your going to have to buy the book.

October 1977, some nameless creek in the Van Duzen River drainage.
A D8K with a 60"X32' Redwood.
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cant touch that pic,but i got some decent ones that i cant post apparently?windows vista sucks if you ask me!my girlfriend agrees,we could get no cooperation,it would be cool to show you guys im not all mouth,but for now i guess im just text:chainsaw:
 
Unfortunately I too have Windows Vista. I bought the cheapest photo program I could find and although more complicated, can shrink photos on it to post on here. So, IF we ever get some logging going on, I can continue to bore you guys with pictures of our peckerpoles getting logged. :)
 
We skipped Vista, went from XP to 7, it works just fine.

I dropped that tree on the road, you can see the scattered remains of the tops on the bank on the upper left. That log was the third cut, I was standing on the second log, the tree was 102" at the stump.

Typical landing, 1977 VanDuzen River.
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Several years ago I used to cut quite a bit of Doug fir 36-48" diameter never thought to take any pics cause I wasnt cutting any big trees. By todays standards they would be huge but back then they still had occasional single log loads and 3 log loads. When I dropped a 56 incher I thought it was picture worthy but didnt have a camera around when I fell and bucked it. These wernt logging jobs just lot clearing logs were sent to the mill so I guess it was wannabe logging.
 
I took gobs and gobs of photos when I was young and hustling firewood. One set of pictures taken from the roof of our barn every year showing the piles of wood actually saved my brother from a lawsuit and allowed him to stay in business when his neighbor sued him a few years ago.

Problem is the photos were not always put in safe places and most of them have been lost. So not only take lots of pics, but put them or their data in a safe place.

Here is an oldie but goodie Polaroid from my woodchuck firewood days.

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