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

[bustedup]

The hemlock here has a distinctive smell to it as well. A person can tell hemlock from any of the other evergreens. And it doesnt have needles like the pines and spruces do. We also have larch here in abundance. but not much of a market for it.

Larch here used to be cut for fencing and sighting .......but now most dropped for firewood

 

[jrcat]

In my area "gypo loggers" make the world turn. Even the bigger companies here do not have crews in house, they sub it out.

 

[twochains]

I sawed some 14ft cottonwood on a 2 head block mill set at 6'9" spread....absolutely riddiculous! The log was so big I had to stop sign the damn thing all the way around before I really got going on it. That's why most mills around here don't want them, if they don'e have a double overhead 60" saw set they can't really handle them. Super large magnum oak gets split in half then sawed. The cottonwoods don't split out true due to their non-grain... even with a bandsaw they saw fuzzy...

 

[twochains]

Larch here used to be cut for fencing and sighting .......but now most dropped for firewood

Larch brings good down here in the "nitch" market

 

[treeslayer2003]

Pine poles are bringing same as pine saw logs here! $41 a ton

yea, that's what i'm getting 250 a thousand. that for big uns, little uns like poles 200 and down.

 

[jrcat]

Any one here split em with black powder? We split a few big cotton wood with black powder just to get em to fit in the chipper.

 

[northmanlogging]

That's a big assed cotton wood, most of em blow over, or warsh down stream before they get that big here.

 

[bustedup]

Any one here split em with black powder? We split a few big cotton wood with black powder just to get em to fit in the chipper.

OMG they let ya loose with explosives lol

 

[northmanlogging]

watch it all and good night...How To Recognize Different Types Of Tree - Opening Sequence - YouTube

 

[treeslayer2003]

The hemlocks out here can get huge, and quick like too. Many years ago it was all passed over in favor or spruce and doug fir until one day when someone figured out that by gods it makes decent lumber, right about the time that gypo logging was starting catch on, many a gypo made his first fortune on hemlock salvage... unfortunately them days are long gone, along with the big company outfits. Makes me wonder if we're all just gypos now?

if gypo means little logger, I think we may be the future of logging. i'm starting to get jobs because people don't want the big strip an run crews on their property.

 

[treeslayer2003]

Any one here split em with black powder? We split a few big cotton wood with black powder just to get em to fit in the chipper.

yup, the little amish mills do it all the time

 

[jrcat]

OMG they let ya loose with explosives lol

On occasion they did ....it was fun

 

[HuskStihl]

Boys, I'm on vacation on the vt Canada border with spotty Internet. If you really need advice with a difficult falling situation, geography lessons, or cat diesels you can have the vt state police or the RCMP (Mounties) track me down. I'll try to monitor roberte's behavior to the best of my abilities can with a tin can and string

 

[twochains]

Any one here split em with black powder? We split a few big cotton wood with black powder just to get em to fit in the chipper.

Actually jrcat, I have heard of it before! I was speculative but once I heard who did it and talked to some old timers...alot of OG timber was blasted from what I have heard. Most split with hydraulics.

The black powder, I would like to see it done, you have to make yer splits on each end so perfect or th crack will run off too much.

 

[bustedup]

Boys, I'm on vacation on the vt Canada border with spotty Internet. If you really need advice with a difficult falling situation, geography lessons, or cat diesels you can have the vt state police or the RCMP (Mounties) track me down. I'll try to monitor roberte's behavior to the best of my abilities can with a tin can and string

Ah now you in crown jurisdiction lol...........

 

[jrcat]

yup, the little amish mills do it all the time

It was interesting figuring out where and how deep to put the charges. maple and cotton wood did well .. red oak on the other hand .... made lots of splinters.. those would then be feed to the 50/48. the pieces that were under 28" but bigger than splinters went to the model 30.

 

[twochains]

Boys, I'm on vacation on the vt Canada border with spotty Internet. If you really need advice with a difficult falling situation, geography lessons, or cat diesels you can have the vt state police or the RCMP (Mounties) track me down. I'll try to monitor roberte's behavior to the best of my abilities can with a tin can and string

Well have fun up there! Whatcha doing, fishing? Take some pics for us to drool over and have fun!

 

[bustedup]

Well have fun up there! Whatcha doing, fishing? Take some pics for us to drool over and have fun!

He means pics of trees and fishing btw lol

 

[jrcat]

Ah now you in crown jurisdiction lol...........

Long live the queen

 

[treeslayer2003]

they do it with oak to, i'm sure ther are tricks to it. my trick is to not be around