Unbelievable!

[coastalfaller]

U.S. Forest Service workers fell day's worth of trees in a second with blasts : Missoulian: News and Resources for Western Montana

Let me start by saying that I'm a huge fan of blasting danger trees, it's a hugely efficient tool and sometimes the only safe option. But this article seems grossly over exaggerated. 37 pecker poles in 10 hours??!!!! Just dumping them. Whaaaaatttttttt?????!!!!!!!!
Seems like quite the waste of resources. I guess it's a good PR spin for the general public though.

Unbelievable.

 

[Sport Faller]

U.S. Forest Service workers fell day's worth of trees in a second with blasts : Missoulian: News and Resources for Western Montana

Let me start by saying that I'm a huge fan of blasting danger trees, it's a hugely efficient tool and sometimes the only safe option. But this article seems grossly over exaggerated. 37 pecker poles in 10 hours??!!!! Just dumping them. Whaaaaatttttttt?????!!!!!!!!
Seems like quite the waste of resources. I guess it's a good PR spin for the general public though.

Unbelievable.

That's Missoula for you

 

[Gologit]

Boys and their toys. Why use an ordinary handfaller who probably would just go in there and put those trees down with a minimum of fuss when you can get a bunch of fun toys and have a little excitement?

I know, I know...I keep applying logic and common sense to things that the FS does and wind up just giving myself a headache. I keep thinking "costs" and "results" and "profit margin"...I would have been a lousy FS employee.

It does kinda look like a blast, though. :msp_wink:

 

[rodeo]

I grew up in that neck of the woods and trust me, it ain't steep. I read that article this morning and was just shaking my head. As usual though, the best part of the story is the comments at the end ("bozos" "buffoons" "waste of taxpayer money" etc.).

 

[OlympicYJ]

Prob did it cuz they wanted to play with the emulsion... its like a grown mans playdough :hmm3grin2orange:

Or maybe they were just trying to reenact that scene in we were soldiers where they blew a new LZ for choppers.... They used det cord though lol

Sounds like a waste of taxpayer money and the bureaucrats are being typical pansies...

 

[chucker]

shock & awe for the beatles, scared them to death!! lol what a bunch of jokers with the cost of demo could have given a couple out of work south of da border workers spending money?? not to mention the worry of fire in the nw drought!

 

[slowp]

There aren't many employees who want to run a chainsaw. There are fewer who can/are allowed to fall a tree. But there are even fewer who can blast....I dunno.

For a contractor--you'd have to figure in the time putting together a contract, getting it OKed, then getting bids...this could probably go on a get three bids over the phone type contract.

Nothing is easy in the Forest Service. That all goes back to somebody did something and somebody else cried foul so more rules were added.

My head will hurt thinking about it.

 

[Rounder]

Me and the bullbuck had a good chuckle after work over that one. If we were only getting 200 a man in 7 hrs the big boss would want to know what the issue was....hell the damn things in the pics still had the bark on them.

 

[tramp bushler]

:taped::msp_sleep::bang::taped:

Just a typical example .
Ya know what the word WIMP is an abreviation for . .

Worthless Incompetent Malingering Puke .

And just think . One third of my pay goes to these @#$&&*-+()?/;

 

[Oldtimer]

LMFAO!!!! I've seen it all now! What do they do if they find a whole mountain side of beetle-kill or otherwise dead trees? Drop a 40 megaton thermonuclear warhead on it?

LMFAO!!!!

 

[RandyMac]

40 MTs is too much, something in the 50KTs is plenty.

 

[Oldtimer]

40 MTs is too much, something in the 50KTs is plenty.

You're forgetting something.....

This is the government.....money is no object, and overkill is just the right amount.

 

[Dalmatian90]

But there are even fewer who can blast....I dunno.

Wonder if that's part of it...wouldn't be surprised if they have to blast X times a year to keep their certification to use the explosives and/or participate in X number of blasts to get a task book signed off on to get certification.

 

[Rounder]

The biggest kick I got out of it is the fact that they are using explosives to drop trees at the exact same time that they are making me pack fire gear in the strip......but I'm just a dumb- dumb timber faller............(I like to call them truck drivers with a paint gun)

 

[tramp bushler]

I rank them well below S B M Fs

At least SBMFs are using chain saws .

 

[RandyMac]

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