timber falling in west virginia

[forestryworks]

found this neat picture here http://www.wju.edu/ai/images/L1_3.jpg

 

[Ljute]

Excellent picture. It really captures the look of the dense WV woodlands.

 

[Tzed250]

Looks like the hill right behind my house...


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[Meadow Beaver]

That looks like some tall wood for the East coast.

 

[Curlycherry1]

There are places deep in the Andarondak's of NY where the hard maple trees are over 8' across. They have never been logged. Beech trees of similar size and yellow birch up to 5-6' across. True giants. Everything near the roads has been logged over the centurys, but there are some spots 20-30 miles off the roads where one can stand there in total awe of the timber.

I got to see a few of these places when I was in college. My brother also knows a lot of them from his Forestry classes at Paul Smith's College.

 

[056kid]

Thats the east coast allright, look at that humidity...

 

[hammerlogging]

Nice find FW.

 

[DK_stihl]

Big ADK trees

There are places deep in the Andarondak's of NY where the hard maple trees are over 8' across. They have never been logged. Beech trees of similar size and yellow birch up to 5-6' across. True giants. Everything near the roads has been logged over the centurys, but there are some spots 20-30 miles off the roads where one can stand there in total awe of the timber.

I got to see a few of these places when I was in college. My brother also knows a lot of them from his Forestry classes at Paul Smith's College.

Here is some white pine near the school.

 

[wvlogger]

you can go down in some of the hollers around my house and find HUGE trees. Me and my dad do alot of jensang and yellow root digging and have found some huge oak and poplar. But these places are steep and nasty. If you fell down some of these hills you would never get out.

 

[parttime]

here's a pic. from a buddies job is Logan WV,

well that didn't work, I'll have to try something else.

 

[parttime]

second try

 

[Meadow Beaver]

Here is some white pine near the school.

Yeah I heard there's some big timber up buy Paul Smith's college.

 

[tomtrees58]

Yeah I heard there's some big timber up buy Paul Smith's college.

yup but we have big trees here on the north shore of L I 6' to 8' the norm tom trees

 

[wvlogger]

columbia helicopters cut this job and flyed the wood out
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[056kid]

you can go down in some of the hollers around my house and find HUGE trees. Me and my dad do alot of jensang and yellow root digging and have found some huge oak and poplar. But these places are steep and nasty. If you fell down some of these hills you would never get out.

Thats what dozers & cable skidders are for..

 

[hammerlogging]

Thats what dozers & cable skidders are for..

Thats alot of ginseng!!!

 

[wvlogger]

Thats what dozers & cable skidders are for..

i know this but these trees are 20 to 50 miles from even a goat trail