Falling pics 11/25/09

[Skeans]

Some stuff from today down in a stream bed with a rocker log used to help save it out to 1/2" at the top.

A set of stairs I used on a maple with a board that got reused.

And an ugly little fir to finish up a load domestic.


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[paccity]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uiXl44CV6VU#t=1

 

[northmanlogging]

Well I can see em...

 

[treeslayer2003]

Nice seeing a set of full wraps on the east coast.


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i'm pretty far east

 

[treeslayer2003]

Wheelin!


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ok, i see the gap. i'v really just been doing a half block...........are you doin a gol with the stihl?

 

[treeslayer2003]

now bitz, studying your wheelin pics.......the face comes out in several chunks? that takes some time.

 

[CapitaineHaddoc]

A fewpics from a french logger, these are pretty old pics,

 

[CapitaineHaddoc]

And these are from 2014,

 

[CapitaineHaddoc]

And a great short movie from 1994,



This one will show you how we do when the skidder can't reach the logs (this method is forbidden, now, I'm sure you'll understand why )

 

[Gypo Logger]

 

[bitzer]

Mike yes I did bore the one with the Stihl. That was a while ago. I used to bore some then. That red oak was leaning pretty hard and had a heavy top. I would do that differently now. As far as the sizwheel its really only two extra cuts. You take out a triangular piece on the pull side exposing the fibers and giving them room to bend. Burvol used to say he was taking a piece of the pie. The humboldts and snipe(scarf) are just complemtary to the swing. With some of those maple block faces I was experimenting a little. Hard maple doesn't always like to hang on the stump for as long as I'd like it too.

 

[treeslayer2003]

i gotcha bitz. now in your boxin pics, what did you do on that red in lower left corner? i know bitzer ain't doin a crown lol.

 

[HuskStihl]

And a great short movie from 1994,



This one will show you how we do when the skidder can't reach the logs (this method is forbidden, now, I'm sure you'll understand why )

I bet Randy used to ride trees down the mountain for fun

 

[BeatCJ]

Some stuff from today down in a stream bed with a rocker log used to help save it out to 1/2" at the top.

1/2" ? Am I misunderstanding something? Or is it a typo, and should be 12"?

 

[bitzer]

i gotcha bitz. now in your boxin pics, what did you do on that red in lower left corner? i know bitzer ain't doin a crown lol.

This one Mike? The other three are maple. I should have called that set of pics blockin. I think of them as box faces for some reason too. I needed this red to lay out so I didn't bust the last log. Thats why I blocked it, nothing special. The biggest measurement I got on the stump was 60". It was my first block face that was over bar length. I'm still pissed about that back cut four years later. I think I bored in one side because I thought the tree was going to have some rot. Then I cut it from the other side. Now I would have walked it around and sawed back to the corner. Anyway its got that shelf. I like to see a nice flat plane. I'm a perfectionist I guess. I bucked it all at 8. It made 6 of em. I made em short so the forwardr could pick them up. It still couldn't. The first buck was over 48" I believe. That tree should have scaled better than 2mbf, but it hollowed out some after the second log. Still my biggest merch timber to date though.

 

[Skeans]

No it broke out at the very tip


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[HuskStihl]

A fewpics from a french logger, these are pretty old pics,

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That's beautiful country, and those are some big-assed trees. How do you Frenchmen measure the amount of wood in a tree. I'm gonna assume it's not board/feet

 

[madhatte]

It's almost certainly cubic meters. We're alone in the world, mostly, thinking board-feet.

 

[treeslayer2003]

i see bitz, i thought ya gutted it or some thing......looks dark inside but its just the light. meh, don't be pissed over that, its fine, no pull.

 

[treeslayer2003]

one thing i do different, maybe i'm wrong, is make much deeper faces. 40% is about right to me most times........