There's a Big Yarder Up The Road

[slowp]

I drove up to a lake today with The Used Dog. On the way back I spotted this.


I backed up and talked to the watchman. It was 2:00 and we're in a partial hootowl which means yarders shut down at 1:00. The watchman was not knowledgeable about logging, but he OKed picture taking and told me to wander about. Since I had on shorts and shoes, i didn't wander much. I wondered why they had such a big yarder and looked over the edge. The reason was revealed.


Note the steep bluff leading down to pancake flat land on the bottom. They needed a tall tube to get lift. I imagine there is an old road down there and it is forbidden to reopen it, but I'm not positive.


Even the carriage seemed overkill. I am curious as to what they tied off to on the bottom. That's a pretty heavy load and there is a lot of root rot in this area. The trees are very, very nice though and usually make loggers very happy to send them to a mill. I wish I'd been there to hear the happy whistles.

 

[slowp]

Oops, forgot the close up.

 

[Humptulips]

Must be a State sale. Nobody else would lay out that kind of logging show.

 

[slowp]

Must be a State sale. Nobody else would lay out that kind of logging show.

Nope. Worse. Forest Service thinning.

 

[madhatte]

Thinning to a set basal area like that always makes me wonder what the end game is. This is just a delayed clearcut. I was under the impression the FS were sort of out of that game in these parts? Ah, well, at least they're cutting something.

 

[rocketnorton]

whats with the dislikes?

 

[Gologit]

whats with the dislikes?

What about the dislikes do you dislike?

 

[slowp]

Thinning to a set basal area like that always makes me wonder what the end game is. This is just a delayed clearcut. I was under the impression the FS were sort of out of that game in these parts? Ah, well, at least they're cutting something.

There is no end game. I've asked. I couldn't get a definite answer, except from the head of the Enviro group at the time. She said that the end result is, "The forest is restored and we leave it." I'm afraid that is the answer for Late Seral Reserves. It seems to be the future for the rest of the local forest also. Nobody wants to rile the enviros.

That phrase, At Least They Are Cutting Something would make a good mission statement. It sums it all up perfectly.

The dislike is my signature. I decided to save somebody work and just have it done ahead of time. I am disliking having to explain my dislike signature.

 

[rwoods]

I thought you were being hounded. Ron

 

[rocketnorton]

What about the dislikes do you dislike?

just didn't see anything to dislike...

 

[Gologit]

just didn't see anything to dislike...

For a long time Olyman was hitting the DISLIKE button on every post of everyone he didn't like. That was a considerable number of people.
SlowP uses his DISLIKE in her signature because it didn't matter what she'd post, he'd dislike it. I admire her sense of humor.
Note that we no longer have a DISLIKE button and that Olyman. since he can't post anything negative, posts hardly at all. No big loss.

 

[Gologit]

Ah, well, at least they're cutting something.

I might get that phrase printed, enlarged, and put on my office wall. Perfect.

 

[rocketnorton]

For a long time Olyman was hitting the DISLIKE button on every post of everyone he didn't like. That was a considerable number of people.
SlowP uses his DISLIKE in her signature because it didn't matter what she'd post, he'd dislike it. I admire her sense of humor.
Note that we no longer have a DISLIKE button and that Olyman. since he can't post anything negative, posts hardly at all. No big loss.

ok, didn't get that... +1, and +1 again...

 

[slowp]

I might get that phrase printed, enlarged, and put on my office wall. Perfect.

To our northeast, in a drier climate, there was the GOTC sale. They pronounced it gotca. It stood for get out the cut.

Looks like a good example of directional falling, cept there's always one tree that becomes misdirected.
But just a little bit.

 

[Gologit]

Looks like a good example of directional falling, cept there's always one tree that becomes misdirected.
But just a little bit.

Gotta disagree. The faller obviously dropped that one across the lead to hold the rest of the trees down in case of a windstorm. Or something. Sure. Works for me.

 

[rocketnorton]

To our northeast, in a drier climate, there was the GOTC sale. They pronounced it gotca. It stood for get out the cut.

Looks like a good example of directional falling, cept there's always one tree that becomes misdirected.
But just a little bit.

now I been steered straight, like a certain line in yer sig...

 

[northmanlogging]

Nah it wasn't fell crooked the rigging rats let a choker slip and thats where it landed.

 

[madhatte]

She said that the end result is, "The forest is restored and we leave it."

*head a-splode*