The "Not So Pro" discussion thread...of course Pros are welcome!

[northmanlogging]

I'll try... got trees to fall in my half sleep... problem with working next to houses and roads with largish trees I tend to over think them for weeks on end. Still thinking about that lightning struck Doug Fir and its looking like its going to be a no go... dude still hasn't showed up to tell us what to cut... course I'll get to said trees and cut em differently then I had been thinking all week...:msp_unsure:

 

[roberte]

I'll try... got trees to fall in my half sleep... problem with working next to houses and roads with largish trees I tend to over think them for weeks on end. Still thinking about that lightning struck Doug Fir and its looking like its going to be a no go... dude still hasn't showed up to tell us what to cut... course I'll get to said trees and cut em differently then I had been thinking all week...:msp_unsure:

that's usually the way it goes.

 

[twochains]

Thanks, I was just curious as while I think I know what the leaf looks like, I am not sure I would recognized a sweet gum tree in the wild if it bit me. Our picnic styled kitchen table, our swings and my parents' wardrobes were all made by my dad from sweet gum and cherry that he held back and had the mill saw for him. I know he built some other things from it but I can't remember what they were. The table had some pretty good bows in it. In fact if you weren't careful in my spot your whole plate could slide into your lap. My mom used to fuss about the table but I learned after my dad's death that she was really proud of his ability to built useful things. Ron

Sweet gum has a very distinctive leaf. Some what similar to a maple. I will take a pic of some leves and bark. Like HuskStihl said, they have a prickly little seed pod...the ground will be covered. I like cutting them, real soft, have a nice fresh clean smell about them. The timber is a crap shoot. I have seen them just a shell but butt off quick to solid or in worse case scenario they can be hollow all the way up. Usually pretty good running timber as far a being clear of limbs for a ways, light tops usually. When they have to strive for sunlight, they will really shoot up there, tall and slick.

I have actually come across old fence lines where rr ties were used, I have found tons of them that were hand hewn and still sound!

 

[twochains]

Here what a pole truck load of pine poles looks like. Fun...let me tell ya! (sarcasm)

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I left my camera with the LO and he was nice enough to take some pics of the load for me. Pine pole dimentions are less than 10" on the butt and down to 2" at tree length. So you can imagine the amount of saw work and limbing for one cutter! There are a blue million on that load!

g.w. near 95,000 ( short haul of 3 miles)

 

[treeslayer2003]

looks like pulp wood, they saw that stuff? that's a lotta work with a saw. husky brute loader?

 

[bustedup]

G'day troopers and trooperesses

 

[twochains]

Hey there slayer! Naw man...they don't saw that, they are literally poles. They get peeled and cut to length, the dried for 90 days and treated. This outfit sells pine poles all over the US in mass quantity, Sentinel pine.

 

[twochains]

G'day troopers and trooperesses

Hey busted! Ya have a good one?

 

[bustedup]

Hey busted! Ya have a good one?

Plan F lol

 

[twochains]

Plan "f" huh? wait ya mean things didn't go as planned in the woods for ya??? LOL!

 

[bustedup]

Plan "f" huh? wait ya mean things didn't go as planned in the woods for ya??? LOL!

something along those lines lol ......working on plan G

 

[jrcat]

something along those lines lol ......working on plan G

I vote for plan "H".... as in hell with it and drink a beer..

 

[treeslayer2003]

Hey there slayer! Naw man...they don't saw that, they are literally poles. They get peeled and cut to length, the dried for 90 days and treated. This outfit sells pine poles all over the US in mass quantity, Sentinel pine.

yep, they do that here. don't pay crap for them little sticks, I won't cut um, can't really pay for that cheap stuff. only on clear cuts, and I figure total price on them jobs.

 

[treeslayer2003]

G-cups?

 

[twochains]

Howdy jrcat! I like yer "H" plan except if I had to go all the way to "H"...a beer just ain't gonna do it! :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[jrcat]

I bring my dozer home .. to work on it and cut some off the neighbors right... My other neighbor comes over and asks me if I will skid for him on a job about 3 miles from here. .. I asked him why he didnt ask me that YESTERDAY....Ohwell .. gotta fix the trans leak before it goes anywhere. I worked the crap outta the crummy today.. MY buddies trailer is one of those goose neck tandem axle dual wheel jobs and weighs about 3 ton all by itself then add his 4x4 tractor to the mix had about 8 ton.. plus the almost 4 ton the crummy weighs ...poor poor crummy.. she worked hard today lol.

 

[bustedup]

G-cups?

behave ya get lost there lol

 

[treeslayer2003]

ah, i'm jus silly. mind punky from all this dam rain. beutifull cutting day, can't get the truck to the woods. it's wet now!

 

[jrcat]

behave ya get lost there lol

G strings?

 

[bustedup]

G strings?

wrong site bro...lol