Went yesterday to harvest one small and one medium B. Locust located on one slope of a mini canyon and needed to yard them up the opposite slope:
Chose the spar tree showing - stands right on the edge of almost a cliff. 2.5 hours rigging a 2x ma tow, try to pull, cut tree in half, get maybe 8' of the top up and cut up. Try for the rest of that top = no go. Tossed everything in truck and left empty.
Today back to it. Move to another spar tree about 20' back from the edge:
A 1x ma pull brought te rest of the top to the spar tree but then I'd have to carry/toss/roll every round about 20' to the truck. Picked another spar tree and rigged up a second 2x ma -hooked to the big end and brought the rest of the top in. gonna have to do the same to every section of log - two pulls.
Cut up and took a breather to admire the success only took 40 minutes. Looked over my shoulder and saw the biggest, blackest cloud mass rolling in up canyon. I have seen those things drop an 1" of rain in less than a minute. I'm down a fairly stiff slope in the middle of a wheat field with a 2x PU! Mad scramble to toss saws, cables, chains, snatch blocks and ladder in the truck leaving the rigging and 60' of cable hanging in the first spar tree - fairly safe there as it is a remote location - go back again tomorrow or next day to continue.
Ah well, fun is fun but I put almost 3/4 tank of gas on trips out there to harvest those two trees and haven't got one stick to show for it.
Harry K
Chose the spar tree showing - stands right on the edge of almost a cliff. 2.5 hours rigging a 2x ma tow, try to pull, cut tree in half, get maybe 8' of the top up and cut up. Try for the rest of that top = no go. Tossed everything in truck and left empty.
Today back to it. Move to another spar tree about 20' back from the edge:
A 1x ma pull brought te rest of the top to the spar tree but then I'd have to carry/toss/roll every round about 20' to the truck. Picked another spar tree and rigged up a second 2x ma -hooked to the big end and brought the rest of the top in. gonna have to do the same to every section of log - two pulls.
Cut up and took a breather to admire the success only took 40 minutes. Looked over my shoulder and saw the biggest, blackest cloud mass rolling in up canyon. I have seen those things drop an 1" of rain in less than a minute. I'm down a fairly stiff slope in the middle of a wheat field with a 2x PU! Mad scramble to toss saws, cables, chains, snatch blocks and ladder in the truck leaving the rigging and 60' of cable hanging in the first spar tree - fairly safe there as it is a remote location - go back again tomorrow or next day to continue.
Ah well, fun is fun but I put almost 3/4 tank of gas on trips out there to harvest those two trees and haven't got one stick to show for it.
Harry K