Lots of btu's laying there. Saw this on the web and figured you guys would have your jaw drop like mine did!
Brought some wood in today..now to work it up
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Lots of btu's laying there. Saw this on the web and figured you guys would have your jaw drop like mine did!
066blaster
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Looks like they got sprinklers going on it. I guess you wouldn't want it to catch fire.
olympyk_999
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Pulp yard...they don't want it drying before it can be used...
ChoppyChoppy
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The mill my Dad works at makes OSB and they have sprinklers on the logs decks in the summer as well as a large heated pond the logs soak in before going in for processing.
My Dad was saying they use about 600 cords a day, or roughly 15,000 cords a month.
My Dad was saying they use about 600 cords a day, or roughly 15,000 cords a month.
KenJax Tree
Terraphobic
600x30=18K
Here's a link to the story and a video as well. Heck of a loading system and at least they are not letting it all go to waste. We could learn something from them with all the ash bore dead we have.
http://gizmodo.com/5909847/you-have-never-seen-so-much-wood-in-your-entire-life
http://gizmodo.com/5909847/you-have-never-seen-so-much-wood-in-your-entire-life
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absolutely incredible
olympyk_999
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those particular piles are very long, but that amount of wood in a pulpwood stock yard is pretty common, its just spread out with more piles...the bigger operations use overhead cranes with huge grapples to move the wood. they have the biggest equipment in the industry for those little logs
zogger
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It should be part of a new welfare program. In order to get a "wage", you should have to help provide fuel for energy that they also give away and get. No show, no "wage".
mallardman
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When I went to Alaska several years ago I saw piles of spruce similar to this that was killed by beetles. I was told it was being loaded on Japanese factory ships to be made into OSB.
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The good thing about cutting all those trees down is that several walmarts& royal farms took their place which creates a better habitat for obese people and illegal aliens.
mga
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makes you wonder, don't it?
ChoppyChoppy
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Allegedly
Dalmatian90
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Connor's Pond, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA following the '38 Hurricane -- hauling logs out onto the frozen pond in winter, so they'll sink and be covered in water until they can later be retrieved to be milled. Lest beetles and the like got to them in the several years it took to process the windfall. (And if WWII didn't come along and ramp up lumber purchases for military bases, who knows how many more years it would've taken.)
That is pretty cool. Did they have chain saws in '38?
olympyk_999
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That's only 2 towns over from me...i haven't been up there in a long time thoughConnor's Pond, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA following the '38 Hurricane -- hauling logs out onto the frozen pond in winter, so they'll sink and be covered in water until they can later be retrieved to be milled. Lest beetles and the like got to them in the several years it took to process the windfall. (And if WWII didn't come along and ramp up lumber purchases for military bases, who knows how many more years it would've taken.)
Dalmatian90
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Rudimentary ones.
The work would have been done almost entirely by hand saws and axes.
I do remember reading a USFS study clearing portage trails in the Boundary Waters National Forest(?) following a large blow down. The hand saw crew *nearly* equalled the chainsaw guys -- it was something like 15 miles of trails cleared by chainsaws v. 14-1/2 miles by human-powered tools over the two weeks. Now that was experienced crews with properly maintained tools, stuff the guys clearing the Harvard Forest would have had, but not necessarily your local farmers.
Folks also used somewhat different techniques back then to take advantage of what they had for power -- that's why a lot of smaller stuff was cut to 4' lengths and hauled out that size, then cut on cord wood saws powered by horses or a tractor back at the farm yard.
I'd almost suspect the bigger issue labor wise wasn't sawing -- it's that they didn't have chippers!
All that brush had to be hauled away and stacked up by hand somewhere to rot, or stacked up and burned.
