Falling pics 11/25/09

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Pasture Tipping Dead Oaks.
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That is a 41” .404” Bar on a MS661R for comparison.
 
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Working on my sawmill yard today and thought I’d let you guys critique a couple of my stumps. First pic is the 85 Komatsu I borrowed from the company I mechanic for. I just spent a couple hundred hours rebuilding the chassis and making all kinds of repairs on it. It pushes like crazy again now, just like a new machine.

First stump was a hard leaner 90* to where I cut the hinge. I’ve been using the technique someone mentioned a while back where you bore through the face and set your wedge on small diameter trees quite a bit. It seems to really work well for me. I’ve been setting up a sis about 1/3 to 1/2 hinge and the boring through next to it but only if there is enough hinge remaining to not let the compression side collapse. I don’t have enough experience yet to really know when they are going to crush the wood on that side so I’ve only been playing with this stuff when there is little consequence but a crappy lay. I had the dozer today so if this started going sideways I woulda walked away and shoved it over. Anyway, it pulled around and in smooth as butter, perfect lay.

Next one was just a siswheel. I overcut the face to about 50%, but it still worked out. I need more saw time, my accuracy in my cuts still isn’t great. Gotta get my skidder running though first before I’ll get a bunch. Then I’ve got another 80 acres to fall so I should get a bunch more saw time there. Having a blast every time I pick up the saw though, really taking my time and forcing myself to look up every time I move or strike a wedge.
 


Fell a couple of the snags we bypassed last winter today. Busy waiting for our new loader and other equipment and things to fall into place so we could start assembling our mill. Plus I’m headed to camp to do some wrenching for a week so I wanted to have some fun before I left.
 


Here’s a fatty spruce, this is a huge tree for our area! May have maxed out dad’s firewood permit ha ha. Couple stump shots and one of my wife on the stump. She’s 5’3” for comparison and that’s a 28” on the saw. Dad said most of what he fell here in the 70s was like this. My boy sure thoughtit was neat. Most of what we are logging at the farm for the mill is much smaller than this and they are poplar so this was a nice treat. Saw some elk on the way out too but was too slow to fill the deep freeze too today. Oh well next time...9CAE06B1-01FE-4EF4-8E12-D2B9A8600110.jpeg265BFEF2-7F65-470E-B676-402163DD37D6.jpeg29847CBA-D62E-478F-8ECF-74F480521DB2.jpeg3EA7767C-6A5A-40FE-A9B0-FD77205CF123.jpeg65255FEE-8189-4E74-A0D0-1E3C5F16091B.jpeg
 
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