Timber Fallers (Cottonwood)

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tramp bushler said:
I'll stick with skeeters, white socks, no seeums, and gnats. Deet and a head net takes care of them.
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No seeums.... I've never heard that expression before, yet I think I know what you mean. Worst of them all. I've got nothing to stop them, they're everywhere under your clothing, when you hit the right spot.

Here ticks are spreading Lyme's disease and brain fever too. Most likely paralysing or lethal brain fever, but I'm vaccinated against it. During the tick season I just check the certain spots ticks like to attach onto, pull them out and draw a circle around the biting mark with a permanent pen. That's how I can observe the biting marks a week or two. If some rash appears inside the circle, I know that may be Lyme's and I'll go to see a medicine man.
 
Here is one I dropped a month or so ago, amish guy bought it for making pallet lumber.

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tramp bushler said:
How do you deal with the ticks? ? Don't they carry some desease ?
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I was in the landing one time, and the yarder operator baled out of the machine as soon as he had the turn in the deck. Hits the ground, drops his trousers and starts digging around his backside.

Just as the turn was coming in, he felt a tick descending down his ass crack. I laughed a little.......
 
Samlock said:
No seeums.... I've never heard that expression before, yet I think I know what you mean. Worst of them all. I've got nothing to stop them, they're everywhere under your clothing, when you hit the right spot.

Here ticks are spreading Lyme's disease and brain fever too. Most likely paralysing or lethal brain fever, but I'm vaccinated against it. During the tick season I just check the certain spots ticks like to attach onto, pull them out and draw a circle around the biting mark with a permanent pen. That's how I can observe the biting marks a week or two. If some rash appears inside the circle, I know that may be Lyme's and I'll go to see a medicine man.
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Around here we have 2 basic types of ticks and I don't know the correct names but we call them turkey ticks and dog ticks. Dog ticks have been here forever and commonly found on dogs (of course) and can swell to half the size of a marble or more. The turkey ticks are a newer pest and are much worse and flat out dangerous in that they carry the Lyme disease. They are about the size of a pin head (the type of pin used to hold cloth together temporarily) and are very toxic. I've had 6 or 8 embedded in me already this year. They will raise a welt the diameter of a dime to a quarter and after removal it may take a month for the mark to disappear. Once I had nearly 100 buried in me at one time and after removal I was sick for 3 weeks with a low grade fever, constantly half asleep and aching all over. It sucked going to work every day feeling like that. Those turkey ticks are bad news. I have heard of a couple people locally with Lyme disease and they have been literally disabled for years. It is difficult to diagnose and the disease had progressed before treatment started.

I also got the vaccinations against Lyme disease many years ago (which was 2 shots a year apart) but since then I have read that the shots really do not provide the protection that was intended. I don't know what the truth is on that. I use Deet and watch for a rash or bulls eye red markings.
 
Gologit said:
I never cut much of it either...not when I could get out of it. That stuff is just plain nasty. :laugh: You go home at night smelling like you've been peed on all day.
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Some folks use cottonwood and willow to heat with, I cant see how they do it, I tried it in my shop stove and it smelled like pi$$ing on the campfire
 
I have also noticed that when cutting a big wet one, all that water kinda puts the sawdust into a slurry form. This makes it hard for the saw to clear chips, and the stuff builds up in the bar groove really quick. I've had it completely stall my 394 by plugging it up, and of course then your oiler function is severely diminished. I am getting to the point that I usually pass on the 60 inch turds (cottonwood, silver maple, and willow generally). Stuff can be so heavy that I've also seen a barko loader refuse to lift a turd 12 feet long by 5 or so feet around. PITA for sure.....
 
The big cottonwoods around here seem to always have ring shake, the smaller ones are good for pallets though. My bud from Wyoming said they loved it out there for hay wagons, he thinks the lumber would rot quickly here in WI due to the humidity. It sure does stink, kinda like septic pew.
 
I posted these pics of my crew cutting two white cottonwood clumps in Oregon. These are the non-natve ornamental kind. The local black cottonwood is more common, and they can be monsters as well -- with long straight trunks.

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I cut some black cottonwood leaners near a home, and learned that doubling the holding wood is a good idea -- every one "split the difference" between my face cut and the lean because they tore off sooner that I had expected. Still missed the house :D
 
arborealbuffoon said:
I have also noticed that when cutting a big wet one, all that water kinda puts the sawdust into a slurry form. This makes it hard for the saw to clear chips, and the stuff builds up in the bar groove really quick. I've had it completely stall my 394 by plugging it up, and of course then your oiler function is severely diminished. I am getting to the point that I usually pass on the 60 inch turds (cottonwood, silver maple, and willow generally). Stuff can be so heavy that I've also seen a barko loader refuse to lift a turd 12 feet long by 5 or so feet around. PITA for sure.....
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Kinda like this this one self cleared

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arborealbuffoon said:
I have also noticed that when cutting a big wet one...
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Oh, you're talking about trees, aren't you. For a split-second there all I could think of was a bodily function. Or MALfunction.

I'm cutting cottonwood right now. It's wet, heavy and generally a royal pain. Only thing worse than cutting it down is sawing it into lumber, which I am also doing. The stuff has so much internal tension that getting a straight dimensioned piece of lumber out of it is almost impossible.
 

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