Falling pics 11/25/09

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Yea the bark can be a pain and it swells this time of year which really makes it a nightmare. The hinge (hold wood) is the best.
cut that one in the heat of summer, bark was just really thick and fuzzy, made me itch more then I preffer.

Wouldn't mind trucking south to spend a couple days tipping Reds and inland Fir though. If the money was right.
 
Nice stump. What's with the conventional faces all the time? I mean you do good. Just curious. Personally I like how a tree comes off the stump better with a Humboldt.
I know, what the heck is a Norcal Boy doing cutting conventional. Its just how I was brought up and has always been more comfortable and accurate for me. I cut my fair share of Humboldt's back in the day, but my production days are long behind me so I do as I please these days. I also do a whole lot of climbing and have always found conventionals to be much easier at heights.
 
Well when they start to go there's no need to hang around the stump and cut anymore, it's just not the place to be.
In my local area there's only a couple of species that slab up easily, so you just are a little more careful with them , if you hear them popping on the face cut I'll bore them from the hinge back. I cut to order so it's not often I can dawdle along as I often have the weather & time to beat.
As it was a couple of months ago I can't for the life of me remember why I bored the middle of the hinge out of that stump.
Geez Reggie it's like we're having a normal conversation now. You ever try a longer bar with skip chain on a newer saw? I can't run full comp on a 32" bar on a 90cc saw in hardwood. It binds up if the drags are anywhere you need them to be and personally I like my saw to dig without effort. I've put time in on bars from 16"-36" and I've settled on 32" as my production bar. It's amazing the reach and different things you can do with a longer bar. Also keeps you an extra step away from danger.
 
Wut makes the werld go round son...

Grease my palm and there's not much I won't do
Son? Now I appreciate the fact that you think I look young enough and handsome enough to be your son, but this mid-50's body going on 80 sure don't feel like anybody's "son".
Just playin" with you. I hope you and yours have a Merry Christmas!
 
Geez Reggie it's like we're having a normal conversation now. You ever try a longer bar with skip chain on a newer saw? I can't run full comp on a 32" bar on a 90cc saw in hardwood. It binds up if the drags are anywhere you need them to be and personally I like my saw to dig without effort. I've put time in on bars from 16"-36" and I've settled on 32" as my production bar. It's amazing the reach and different things you can do with a longer bar. Also keeps you an extra step away from danger.
I've got longer bars on my older saws which I use to crosscut the larger downed salvage timber & I used to production fall with big saws 120cc+ and 30" - 36" bars and unless you're in consistently 1 meter + timber you can't get around as quick or as easily & cut as much, its subtropical here so the understory can be jungle like with vines & crap, then add the steepness & heat you're looking at having the most efficient system to lug around, I don't think you can even imagine how hard our timber is or how the fibrous bark that covers it effects the cutting, some old guys will still axe the bark off over any cuts they are going to make.
As a matter of fact we used to and maybe still do export hardwood timber to the US which they used in the bows of freighters on your Great Lakes, it was used to reinforce behind the steel hulls at the pointy end so the ships could break ice during winter.
 
Go commando. Problem solved, plus its cheaper than a new pair britches.

Not sure I'm ok with that line of thought...

Wise man once said

Woman goes commando, dude is thinkin I'ma gonna get some tonight

Dude goes commando, woman is thinkin I'ma gonna need to warsh them pants twice.
 
Not sure I'm ok with that line of thought...

Wise man once said

Woman goes commando, dude is thinkin I'ma gonna get some tonight

Dude goes commando, woman is thinkin I'ma gonna need to warsh them pants twice.
That was one very wise man , and it kinda explains why my pants always smell so gawd awful.
 
I've got longer bars on my older saws which I use to crosscut the larger downed salvage timber & I used to production fall with big saws 120cc+ and 30" - 36" bars and unless you're in consistently 1 meter + timber you can't get around as quick or as easily & cut as much, its subtropical here so the understory can be jungle like with vines & crap, then add the steepness & heat you're looking at having the most efficient system to lug around, I don't think you can even imagine how hard our timber is or how the fibrous bark that covers it effects the cutting, some old guys will still axe the bark off over any cuts they are going to make.
As a matter of fact we used to and maybe still do export hardwood timber to the US which they used in the bows of freighters on your Great Lakes, it was used to reinforce behind the steel hulls at the pointy end so the ships could break ice during winter.

Well I guess you use what you think works. I don't doubt that about the ships. I live about 15 miles off of lake Michigan. merry Christmas Reggie.
 
NM, thought the same thing. Pick almost any thread on any forum lately. Must be stress. Maybe should try some Duluth's. Commercials are awful funny. Ron


Ron you're a good voice of reason around here. We just need the good doctor back for some shennigans and we'd be all set.
 
Arggh, EAB is no bueno. It hasn't hit here yet and we're hoping it won't. We do have the SOD but our white oaks are immune (Q. garryana); however, our bigleaf maples aren't and quite a few have perished. So far, it's limited to a few river drainages.

I think a lot of us would like to see Jon back here. I hope things are going well for him.

Agreed!
 
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