Tomorrow

[slowp]

Since there are few of us around this time of year, I will be working on a small crew bucking off rootwads, and very slowly at that, and hooking and unhooking chokers to get a path cleared through this and the trees decked.

The main objective is to get a clear trail to where a bridge might go, so the bridge engineers can work. There used to be a bridge here. A very pretty one and a nice rock gorge underneath.

It'll be something new for me, and I have no idea how to keep Twinkle's chain sharp. Probably can't in mudslide stuff.

We will have an excavator coming up to help. I'm already seeing stuff I probably won't mess with unless we have a way to stabilize it. Stay tuned.

 

[forestryworks]

looks like fun! have at it.

 

[treejunkie13]

What will you be using to move the stuff? You mentioned chokers. Looks like it will be hard on the chain.

 

[Gologit]

One thing I always think about when I'm working on a slide is...Is it done sliding? If you're in a crew it's good to brief them on exit routes.

 

[hammerlogging]

If I'm cutting through mud caked logs, like bucking after muddy drags, I'll just touch the tip around the top at full speed, then let the chain speed and blowing chips clean the path of the cut down, Be safe and enjoy the practical work.

As far as the textbook cowboys go, I wish there was more fieldwork required for people in the resources departments, more ground work, nothing substitutes for time in the woods- functioning work, not just data collection.:greenchainsaw:

 

[hammerlogging]

My wifde made me do the little dude. Pretty cool. Rock on.

 

[slowp]

One thing I always think about when I'm working on a slide is...Is it done sliding? If you're in a crew it's good to brief them on exit routes.

Yes, we'll go over that. We've had a week of dry weather which should have helped. We have a tractor backhoe for skidding. Skidding will be done on the ice covered blacktop to a wide spot. I'm hoping the excavator, which is contractor supplied, is big enough to hold some of the trees for bucking off the rootwads.

I might use my broom too.

 

[Bushler]

That looks like it could be pretty dangerous. Danger, enhanced by dull saw chain. Be carefull!

 

[Humptulips]

Spend a lot of time cleaning and chopping of mud filled bark. It will save you time.. You'll still rock yuor chain but maybe less often.

 

[Gologit]

Mud? Better take a bunch of extra chains.

 

[slowp]

Spend a lot of time cleaning and chopping of mud filled bark. It will save you time.. You'll still rock yuor chain but maybe less often.

I like that idea. I'll throw in my little axe. I'm not taking my rig with everything in the world in it, but I'll try to remember an axe. We'll probably switch back and forth from bucking to chokersetting. It will be slow, cuz this is not our normal day job and we're not young.

Later on, the deck will either be sold for timber or firewood. I'd like to see the stuff up the hill sold for timber, but that will take planning, and that area is a riparian slide now. Probably have to buffer it with the down trees since there aren't any standing ones.

 

[Burvol]

This is where long bars shine. Be careful Slowp, I really like your input with the logging here, and we can't afford to loose you. I know you understand how dangerous blown down wood with more on top of it is. OK, that being said, go have fun. opcorn:

 

[forestryworks]

This is where long bars shine. Be careful Slowp, I really like your input with the logging here, and we can't afford to loose you. I know you understand how dangerous blown down wood with more on top of it is. OK, that being said, go have fun. opcorn:

+1

 

[RPM]

Since there are few of us around this time of year, I will be working on a small crew bucking off rootwads, and very slowly at that, and hooking and unhooking chokers to get a path cleared through this and the trees decked.

The main objective is to get a clear trail to where a bridge might go, so the bridge engineers can work. There used to be a bridge here. A very pretty one and a nice rock gorge underneath.

It'll be something new for me, and I have no idea how to keep Twinkle's chain sharp. Probably can't in mudslide stuff.

We will have an excavator coming up to help. I'm already seeing stuff I probably won't mess with unless we have a way to stabilize it. Stay tuned.

Hey Slowp - slow and steady in that stuff for sure. Is that a reinforced earth retaining structure through the curve - low side of the road? We did one of those last year using geotextiles and welded wire mesh. Layered the outside of the road up in compacted lifts - actually pretty easy to put in. Looks almost identical to your situation with the slide and all. Little smaller in scale - we ran into old glacial lake bottom clay - ughh what a maintenance nightmare!

Have fun...be safe!

 

[Metals406]

Stay safe and have fun slowp!

 

[371groundie]

you can also cut the near half of the log with the bottom of the bar, then cut the far half with the top of the bar. this way dirt isnt pulled through the cut. makes chains last longer.

also, a wire brush can be had dirt cheap in the clearance bin at any harware store, and rides in your back pocket with nary a care. good for scrubbing mud off wood. just make sure you take it outa your pocket before you try to sit in your pickup!

 

[slowp]

The big excavator was delivered last night so we could do it the easy and safer way. The excavator handed off the trees to the little backhoe, the engineer hooked the choker up, the backhoe skidded the log to me on our decking area, and whoever was handy unhooked, then I bucked the rootwads off and anything else...Chaserette work. Twinkle cut excellently, I filed her chain at lunch and she was good for the rest of the day. I'm done, the excavator is in the depths of the slide and it takes too long for the handoff.
Here's some pictures I took.

Twinkle takes a break to pose for a picture.

The big excavator starting out this morning.\

A salute to the purple crocs! I drove the fuel/equipment truck. It was dark when we left and I didn't look at the gearshift and then arrived up at the slide and it wouldn't back up, kept dying. Then I saw the shifting pattern on the knob and hmmmm 6 gears with reverse to the left and up.

The little backhoe tractor decking.

The excavator made it this far today.

Rootwads are still kind of tricky when on the landing. I coffeed up good and had to jump back a couple of times. I had to drive the monster truck back in this afternoon....and the music radio is poor compared to the Chevy Vortec.

 

[Burvol]

Uh oh, you put up a picture of Twinkle w/ an unflushed cut? Is that a sliver I see as well? We'll let it slide, and call it a real life picture.

Barbie's Sister wants a wrap handle

 

[slowp]

Uh oh, you put up a picture of Twinkle w/ an unflushed cut? Is that a sliver I see as well? We'll let it slide, and call it a real life picture.

Barbie's Sister wants a wrap handle

Yes, I'd have to fire me if I worked for me. I couldn't cut straight until this afternoon. Twinkle got bound up a few times, I had a hard time figuring out the bind--and I said unoriginal and inefficient language. Luckily, the guys had had me saw stuff for them before, and knew my ways because I forgot to state my beginning of the job disclaimer. "When I run a saw, bad words may spew forth, that's just the way it is, there is no offense intended and the words in no way represent the views of the agency.":biggrinbounce2: But I was a good chaserette, I gassed up Twinkle when there was a lull, filed the chain, even trotted up to unhook the logs. I was the only one not slipping on the ice, nobody else had rubber calks.

Lucky for me, we'll either sell or post the stuff as firewood, there isn't enough for a load and I had no idea what lengths to cut. So, I'll keep my day job.

 

[Gologit]

Uh oh, you put up a picture of Twinkle w/ an unflushed cut? Is that a sliver I see as well? We'll let it slide, and call it a real life picture.

Barbie's Sister wants a wrap handle

LOL...I saw that but you beat me to it. I don't know about Twinkle but Barbie cuts crooked. Sometimes. It has a mind of it's own...kinda like it's owner.