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Tree Freak
Stick around, Preston. We'll show you so many fancy cuts that you'll take all day just trying to figure out which ones to use. After you get the basics like Humboldt, Humboldt with a snipe, box face, and conventional we'll start you in on Sis-wheels, soft dutchmans, tapered hinges, side notching, springboards, wedging, jacking, and maybe even bore cutting.
How many trees do you have?
Georgia...has a LOT of trees. I just looked, 581 registered logging companies and who knows how many part timers/side job/firewood guys/farmers who do some clearing, etc there are. This is the largest state this side of ole big mud, and has tons of trees, beaucoup. You fly into hartsfield and look down and it's freeking green right up to downtown Atlanta. It's a fairly big industry here and has been for a long time, but most of it is mechanized now. Back in the old days they near destroyed the state with overlogging. Very little virgin old growth left, but since then and having better practices it has rebound and will keep getting better.
New Georgia Encyclopedia: Forest Removal in the Georgia Mountains
And you still see CCC forest all over.
The east coast used to have some really large timber, it just got mostly cut off. There just hasn't been enough centuries to regrow it back yet. I've been in an old cedar forest in michigan in a park (won a state wide essay contest back in grade school, free week at a camp prize) that is medium awesome for the sheer scale of the trees.
Our deciduous trees tend to be shorter than your west coast trees (well, duh), but very broad with heavy spreading limbs. There's some bonafide monsters here still. Like I have said, I have pulled *five* cords now just from the upper narrower limbs off the oak in my front yard that the bucket truck guys dropped. Two hundred years ago I bet the trees were twice as big. The bulk of the tree in my yard is still there. And this isn't the largest tree around here, although it is one of the largest. I know of one not far from here that is a blowdown now, some sort of oak, that makes this one look like 10 year old sapling.
And it's basically the same as you work your way up the Appalachians or straight north on up through Michigan. State after state. Very diverse forests for the most part, pockets here and there of bonafide big trees, and zillions of acres of smaller but still commercially viable trees. A lot on public forest land, a lot still held privately by individuals or companies.
Georgia Pacific wood has built a lot of homes around the US, and is pretty diverse in cellulose based products now....
Georgia-Pacific - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia