Falling pics 11/25/09
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Metals406
Granfodder Runningsaw
To encourage the tree to kick the opposite direction of where you placed the pie piece. The face would close on that piece first, and roll the other way. Make sense?
Burvol
Bullbuck
I was not too impressed with his axe...especially for being in that big a wood!
Here is what I carry...6 pound council with 36" handle:
You can move some wedges in some big wood with one of those...they really move in smaller timber
Ya buddy, right there with ya, except I don't have the "rib breaker" handle lol. Kinda like the saw, if it's too much to wield, then you be in the wrong business
Another One
A limby tree. For some reason, I was expecting him to vault off at the end, but he didn't. Probably a good thing too.
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A limby tree. For some reason, I was expecting him to vault off at the end, but he didn't. Probably a good thing too.
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forestryworks
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I read he cut for 40 years. Pretty sure he's retired. That's a hell of a time to be on a saw and make stumps.
I was not too impressed with his axe...especially for being in that big a wood!
Here is what I carry...6 pound council with 36" handle:
You can move some wedges in some big wood with one of those...they really move in smaller timber
Remember to keep things in perspective , your truck is a few yards from the workplace , he's in deep carrying all his service equipment on his harness so a 2 or 3lbs axe with a 26" handle would be the same as the axe that I carry all day .
When I'm doing single large trees my 8lb splitting axe with a 36" straight handle is my wedge driver of choice similar to yours .
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Burvol
Bullbuck
There is few guys like that in the PNW, in nooks and crannys here and there, quietly living out the rest of their days. I meet one every once in a while then find out who they were, or that they worked with someone in my family. Yes, a long career, no doubt. So many deserve credit that are never pictured or mentioned here. I have known some of them who never claimed any of the glory to themseleves, but gave it back to the good Lord...acknowlegding the gift they possesed, and how fast it can be taken away.
Greystoke
Tarzan
Greystoke
Tarzan
Remember to keep things in perspective , your truck is a few yards from the workplace , he's in deep carrying all his service equipment on his harness so a 2 or 3lbs axe with a 26" handle would be the same as the axe that I carry all day .
When I'm doing single large trees my 8lb splitting axe with a 36" straight handle is my wedge driver of choice similar to yours .
I do speak from experience...as I have only been doing residential tree work since 2006. I spent 13 years trampin around from the swamps of Florida to Southeast AK, most time spent on Pacific Coast, falling timber for a Helicopter, so usually was a fair distance from the pickup, but I never went there without my fallin axe....packed one for miles and miles....
I do speak from experience...I never went there without my fallin axe....packed one for miles and miles....
I seen your picture . If I had arms like that 6lbs and all the gear all day would be a walk in the park (so 3lbs it is for me )
LOL !
ChainsawmanXX
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When falling i use my Fiskars Axe. That thing will never break =D I think its got a good driving to it as well.
Orange painted handles are popular around here.
The colors in this photo are bad. The woods were dark so I had to tweak the photo so things would show up. I think the dad, swinging the axe, got bored so wandered down to help swing the tree around. It wanted to hit the road, they wanted it towards the skid trail. It went in the correct direction. Small trees can be a pain in a thinning.
Another faller went for the natural look handle, but had tape on it at inch? increments. I packed it for him while he was cutting hazard trees along a road. It wasn't light.
The colors in this photo are bad. The woods were dark so I had to tweak the photo so things would show up. I think the dad, swinging the axe, got bored so wandered down to help swing the tree around. It wanted to hit the road, they wanted it towards the skid trail. It went in the correct direction. Small trees can be a pain in a thinning.
Another faller went for the natural look handle, but had tape on it at inch? increments. I packed it for him while he was cutting hazard trees along a road. It wasn't light.
Greystoke
Tarzan
Orange painted handles are popular around here.
The colors in this photo are bad. The woods were dark so I had to tweak the photo so things would show up. I think the dad, swinging the axe, got bored so wandered down to help swing the tree around. It wanted to hit the road, they wanted it towards the skid trail. It went in the correct direction. Small trees can be a pain in a thinning.
Another faller went for the natural look handle, but had tape on it at inch? increments. I packed it for him while he was cutting hazard trees along a road. It wasn't light.
I used to always paint my handles...just for that stray tree once in a while that tops out on top of your axe...it is a lot easier to see a neon orange handle under a bunch of brush...then again, it is a lot easier to see it so that you don't gun a tree at it too
I wish everything I carry around in the woods was painted either bright orange, fluorescent Pink, or bright turquoise/teal. When something falls out, it can take a while to find it! Like staple hammers. In blowdown. On steep ground.
After crawling through a patch of blowdown, then reaching for something and finding it isn't there, it is hard to keep up spirits when you have to backtrack and hunt for something that is GRAY. Messes with productiveness and morale!
Ooops, back to falling. Except you can't fall here unless the staple hammer is fastening those boundary tags to trees.
After crawling through a patch of blowdown, then reaching for something and finding it isn't there, it is hard to keep up spirits when you have to backtrack and hunt for something that is GRAY. Messes with productiveness and morale!
Ooops, back to falling. Except you can't fall here unless the staple hammer is fastening those boundary tags to trees.
Ive heard orange is the best color, Ive heard blue is the best Ive heard broken up patterns are best so I tried this. It is very visible even in fallen red/orange maple leaves.
That pattern might be hard to deal with on a day with a hangover....
Metals406
Granfodder Runningsaw
Ive heard orange is the best color, Ive heard blue is the best Ive heard broken up patterns are best so I tried this. It is very visible even in fallen red/orange maple leaves.
I like it!!
