A few more boards

[mtngun]

Another doug fir blowdown. Small, knotty, and crooked, but I will put it to good use.

Limbed.

Hauled up to the skid trail, where it'll be much easier to work on.

After bucking to length, it yielded 3 straight logs.

Milling standing up, to make BobL happy. Then after taking the picture, I resumed my normal sitting position. I stand up at my job all week, so it feels good to spend some time sitting down.

 

[mtngun]

9 boards and one 8x8 post, plus the usual complement of firewood.

I'll add some data later, after the wood is unloaded.

 

[smokinj]

You are getting the work done, cant seem to stay off my kayaks long enough to get much done. Been a wet season here normally the water pretty low right now.

 

[betterbuilt]

nice haul. I like how you take the whole thing home. You must burn pine for heat. I never thought about it but not having access to hardwoods has never crossed my mind. How much wood do you burn in a year?

 

[mtngun]

How much wood do you burn in a year?

I haven't kept track, but let's say 6 cords.

BTW, the slabs may get used for barn siding. If not, they'll end up as firewood.

Some data, in chronological order:

-- lo-pro pass #3, 15 1/4" wide, 0.39 inch/sec.

-- lo-pro pass #4, 14" wide, 0.46 inch/sec.

-- lo-pro taken off after 0.9 hours, injecta-sharp installed

-- injecta-sharp pass #2, 13" wide, 0.37 inch/sec.

-- total 1.8 hours run time on 066.

-- about 1 1/2 gallons fuel and 1 gallon bar oil.

The 066 felt like it was running a little slow today, and the speed tests bear that out. During the last couple of passes, it was intermittently stumbling. It'll need a good checking out before heading to the woods again.

I've been using an FOP on the rakers lately, and as with the 3/8" FOP, the lo-pro FOP is a little too aggressive for this powerhead. Revs are not as high as I think they should be. I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'll stop filing the rakers for a while.

 

[BobL]

Milling standing up, to make BobL happy. Then after taking the picture, I resumed my normal sitting position. I stand up at my job all week, so it feels good to spend some time sitting down.

SWEET - way to go!

 

[Brmorgan]

nice haul. I like how you take the whole thing home. You must burn pine for heat. I never thought about it but not having access to hardwoods has never crossed my mind. How much wood do you burn in a year?

Well, that's Douglas Fir, but yeah we burn pine out west here too. Burns nice and hot and clean (unless pitchy), just doesn't last a long time. D Fir is a good compromise between pine and the more common hardwoods. I have access to Birch, but that's about it for native hardwood, and I can probably assume it's the same in the mountains of Idaho, since his pics always look like they could have been taken up in the mountains here (except for the Ponderosas).

 

[mtngun]

No birch here. Ponderosa, White/Grand Fir, Douglas, and Tamarack, in that order.

Tamarack is supposed to be the best of the bunch, but it doesn't seem to get blown down like Douglas, or get bug killed like pine, so I have yet to come across a dead specimen that I could legally harvest.

 

[ChainsawmanXX]

No birch here. Ponderosa, White/Grand Fir, Douglas, and Tamarack, in that order.

Tamarack is supposed to be the best of the bunch, but it doesn't seem to get blown down like Douglas, or get bug killed like pine, so I have yet to come across a dead specimen that I could legally harvest.

Is the Pine Beatle getting bad out there? we were asked by a fellow horse logger to go up in the mountains and extract all the Beatle kill with the horses into piles for helicopters to come and buzz em away.. would have been VERY lucrative. But I guess they deiced to not do it

 

[mtngun]

Is the Pine Beatle getting bad out there?

Not too bad on the Ponderosa. There are many dead Ponderosa, but they are scattered here and there. It's not like the entire forest is dead.

The state does a pretty good job of managing their land for bugs. If the bugs start taking over in a spot, the state will have it logged, and burn the slash, before the bugs can spread.

In some parts of the state, the lodgepole forests are supposed to be in rough shape, but there are no lodgepole on my mountain.

 

[ChainsawmanXX]

Not too bad on the Ponderosa. There are many dead Ponderosa, but they are scattered here and there. It's not like the entire forest is dead.

The state does a pretty good job of managing their land for bugs. If the bugs start taking over in a spot, the state will have it logged, and burn the slash, before the bugs can spread.

In some parts of the state, the lodgepole forests are supposed to be in rough shape, but there are no lodgepole on my mountain.

YAY FOR THE STATE! haha

 

[Brmorgan]

Is the Pine Beatle getting bad out there? we were asked by a fellow horse logger to go up in the mountains and extract all the Beatle kill with the horses into piles for helicopters to come and buzz em away.. would have been VERY lucrative. But I guess they deiced to not do it

The pine beetle is pretty much gone here; they've already annihilated our pine forests and moved on to the east and south. They were "bad" here about 6-10 years ago; now probably 80% or more of the Lodgepoles are dead standing or fallen over. They took everything down to even the little ~2" dia. trees that were planted 20-odd years ago, so there are entire cutblocks where they might have to go in, clear, and plant all over again. The upshot to the beetles hitting the small trees is that they can't survive winters in those trees because they can't get away from the cold in them, so they get wiped out easier. The old wisdom was that it took a few days at near -40° to really kill a significant amount of them, and we don't get that kind of weather very often anymore compared to what the old-timers say we used to.

 

[BIG JAKE]

It's good to be out in the sun. I have yet to cut this year I'm thinking I'll go out today. I need some more 1x's and 8''x8's plus I need to get some firewood cut as last year I cut too late so the wood didn't dry out well in time for winter.
Hope your saw isn't going off the deep end Mtngun I've been enjoying the milling pics. Are you currently running the lo-pro on a 3/8'' sprocket nose bar or what's the current set-up?

 

[mtngun]

Hope your saw isn't going off the deep end Mtngun I've been enjoying the milling pics. Are you currently running the lo-pro on a 3/8'' sprocket nose bar or what's the current set-up?

Yep, lo-pro on the thinned 3/8" tip.

Took a look at the 066 yesterday, P&C look like new, plug was tan. Fuel filter LOOKED clean yet I could hardly blow through it. A new filter could be blown through easily. Dunno if that fixed the problem since the problem was intermittent.

 

[Ted J]

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Milling standing up, to make BobL happy. Then after taking the picture, I resumed my normal sitting position. I stand up at my job all week, so it feels good to spend some time sitting down.

Yea, but can you copy Bob in this sitting position while cutting? Seems the only thing missing in this pic is

 

[smokinj]

Lol now thats funny!