Work is all done with that crew now. I'm going back to grading lumber at the sawmill next week. Hopefully it lasts and can stay profitable this time!
A couple guys used brush cutters in some areas, but largely it was done with saws. One guy had a Jonsered 2186, the boss and another guy both had Husky 575s, another a Stihl 460, and another had an 038. I used my ported 371XP, but I didn't really end up spending all that much time cutting since I was skidding with the quad quite a bit. The forwarder is a Timberjack; as far as I know they make their own machines, no? I don't remember seeing any JD insignias anywhere, and I was looking because the same thought crossed my mind.
Jerry, I don't know if you remember from your trip out here last summer, but we were working around the intersection with the stop light up by the brake check on the highway a couple miles north of town, at the top of the hill. The gray in the background through the trees above the green pickup in the pictures is actually the highway. Right there we were working on the powerline that runs parallel to the highway just downhill from that intersection. Basically we were clearing out all dead and downed stuff, and most of the smaller living and standing ones as well, to reduce forest fire fuel around the houses there. We spaced the larger trees to about 6-8' give-or-take, and limbed them up about 8' as well. It looks like a park up there now. Or at least it will once the moss and everything grows back to cover up our tracks!