Falling pics 11/25/09

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Went to the east to cut pine the last two days. Picture of some tools and my 390 with a 32" and full comp. I kinda high stumped last one right behind another.

Pretty new lookin saw! How sticky do you end up after cuttin pine all day? :yourock:

What market does the pine supply?

On another side note, has there ever been any thought given to cutting stumps flush after falling what's merchable, or do you just leave it for the next guy, just like the guy before you did?

PS, when you get tired of looking at your chains, send em my way. I could use some sharp, full comp square.
 
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Pretty new lookin saw! How sticky do you end up after cuttin pine all day? :yourock:

What market does the pine supply?

On another side note, has there ever been any thought given to cutting stumps flush after falling what's merchable, or do you just leave it for the next guy, just like the guy before you did?

PS, when you get tired of looking at your chains, send em my way. I could use some sharp, full comp square.

My second day on that saw. I love it, tons of snort and oh so fast. Had it built by a great saw builder here in Oregon. I high stumped that last tree cause I had another stump right infront of it, kinda made it tight. Stumps just rot away. Not sure what their doing with this wood, some of it is pretty decent wood. It's all about 24-36" on the stump, and fairly tall, perfect sized wood to keep you engaged and rolling all day :cheers:
 
Buncher Fellers are a dirty word to some but for speed they cannot be beat. I have seen a big John Deere wheeled one in action and I cannot walk between trees as fast as that thing could mow them down. It was capable of grabbing more than one tree as it moved through the woods. Speed is a big factor and safety is another one. Getting the operator into a safe cab can keep accidents and insurance claims down.

Just this morning I saw a feller buncher being moved on the highway that was the biggest one I have ever seen. All 4 tires were wider than the trailer it was on and it had a lead and trailing escort so it was massive. It was mostly red with some black trim. It was going the opposite direction on the highway so I did not get a good look at it, so I could not get the make and model. Anyone know what brand that beast was? As I said it was mostly red.
 
Buncher Fellers are a dirty word to some but for speed they cannot be beat. I have seen a big John Deere wheeled one in action and I cannot walk between trees as fast as that thing could mow them down. It was capable of grabbing more than one tree as it moved through the woods. Speed is a big factor and safety is another one. Getting the operator into a safe cab can keep accidents and insurance claims down.

Just this morning I saw a feller buncher being moved on the highway that was the biggest one I have ever seen. All 4 tires were wider than the trailer it was on and it had a lead and trailing escort so it was massive. It was mostly red with some black trim. It was going the opposite direction on the highway so I did not get a good look at it, so I could not get the make and model. Anyone know what brand that beast was? As I said it was mostly red.

More than one tree-- thats the "buncher" part.
Mechanized, sure its got its place in the future- $/ton, productivity, etc., hopefully there will be big timber on steep ground for atleast a few more years!!!!! Thats the bulk of us handfallers work, that and small tracts. They're called feller####ers here.
Paintjob sounds like a prentice. Maybe it had flotation tires (wide, for wet, instead of duallys)
 
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Red, my bud. good faller, heart of gold, sizing up a pretty decent red oak, then backcutting a typical poplar. We'd earned this flat!!!! Finally cutting out the ridge after weeks of the steeps. About 2 months ago.
 
nice pics

Hey Hammer, thanks for sharing the great pics. Man, I wish I was out there!
 
Brother Hammer,

Thank God you sent us that pic of Red. I'm glad to see folks out east using long bars. I was about ready to pull my hair out thinking of cutting logs with a 20" bar like all the arm chair cynics here say is best. Good deal. I know you boys got some ground out that way, it looks brushy like the PNW too. Anything poisonous out there? It looks like Laos, LOL

Hope you guys are well and be safe. I went back to the west side to our Doug Fir juice patch. four 36's or three 40's and a short, nice ass wood. That pine was slick and fairly nice too, but my roots are cutting west side Doug Fir, I'm sure Jacob J. and a few others would agree from Oregon, it's the best wood to cut day in and day out.

What do your fallers prefer in their strip for species?
 
Fashion wise you are similar too. Just replace that plaid with hickory and you'd be hard to tell apart from the guys out here. That ground is similar to here. Our slopes are a bit longer, some not so broken. Broken up slopes make for "challenging" yarding. :cry:
 
Wedge look's like some of mine :)
Where did you get that axe holder/box?
 
Ms P. yeah, a little broken, less so up in the hollers. Yarding, either a long skyline across a big span, huge deflection, skyline 2200' or so, logging near slope or opposing slope, or our little yarder where a 1200' skyline and 900' of logging is champ. We're looking at 1000' to 1400' from creek to ridgetop.

The scabbards come from Madsens (someone in Idaho makes them) They're the bomb. Best way to carry an axe. I carry a #4, everyone else has the Fiskar 2.5 or 3 pounders. But they love my "pink hydraulic tree lifter" when they see me tip a heavy topped oak over backwards. pink handle, spray paint, of course. Axe head is sentimental, carried it several years now, in several states (all Appalachian), birthday present from the best wife ever, who lets me be a logger!

Burv: Poplar poplar poplar. Not our highest value, but the best damn cutting by far. A soft hardwood. tall and straight. often comes in patches. Like mowing the grass it is. A good poplar patch and you're really going to get the wood down. Volume wise-- a good, regular poplar patch is going to run 18-24 inches dbh, and have about 70' of sawlog or peeler material and a stick of pulpwood. We'll butt off the butt at 27' if its peeler material, or another length if its sawlog and peeler material at some other 2 foot increment plus trim. And like you're talking about, we can have hug 800mbf plus oaks, veneer and all that crap, but I'd rather slam through 500' polars all day than have a handful of thousand footers in my strip, fact is they're a pain-- huge limbs, tough topping. Poplar patches are going to be on north or east facing slopes, and at the heads of hollers. Red cut a 7' dbh poplar last year!!! Nobody could take it though sits at the log yard.

poplar (aka tulip poplar, yellow poplar, TN state tree)
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Feller Bunchers

Southeast AK...by far the nastiest ground I ever encountered out of all the states that I worked in, (MT, ID, WA, OR, CA, CO, FL, AL). I would like to see Feller Bunchers that could handle these trees on this ground:

Lyman Anchorage, Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska, 1996. I was eighteen years old, falling timber for Columbia Helicopters and I never dreamed that I would be cutting trees on this kind of ground, (not to mention all of the nasty snags that I had to cut) until this. This is a picture of my chainsaw buried in a Sitka Spruce atop of about an 80' bluff (wish I would have taken more pics, especially on Dall Island).

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After I fell it, and it did not save out too good:

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Here are some more pics of some broken up yarder ground on the North end of Prince of Wales Island:

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These next couple of pics don't show it very well but there was a deep v-notch just below where I am bucking this spruce:

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Fallin a hemlock. The guy that took this pic was on a bluff above me. Typical Southeast ground:

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Cool action shots of it going over. Notice that it brushed some little trees on the bluff in the foreground; I had to knock those down with another tree cuz they were too dangerous to be under:

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Continued:

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Here is the tree that I had to use to clean up my mess:

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Nailed em:

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Here is a pic of a friend of mine, and a hell of a Timber Faller, falling a nice Sitka Spruce:

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Nice pics

Nice pictures Cody. It is sure interesting to see different terrain, different techniques, and different terminology that are inevitable with different parts of our country.:cheers:
 
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