mtngun
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Battery is kaput on the wood hauler and I needed to work on the woodshed project, anyway. This is how far I've got. At this rate, it should be finished in 5 or 10 years. 
It's 24 x 36 and will have a loft, and a gambrel roof. Just a non-level dirt floor, since there was no budget to level the site or pour a pad.
But I did go scouting for more trees to mill.
This is an area that I worked over a couple years ago. It was seed-tree logged about 3 years ago, the slash fire got way out of control, and many of the seed trees were killed by the fire and/or blown over. I hauled off quite a bit of wood until the state decided to do a salvage sale and kicked me out.
So they salvaged some of the dead wood, had another slash fire ...... and more trees got burnt, and more trees blew down. An ecologgers work of cleaning up the forest is never done.
It's practically a clearcut now.
There were several dead standing dougs, killed by the slash fires. Doug is adapted to natural wildfires. Its thick bark protects it from a "cool" fire. But if the fire gets too hot, it can burn through the bark or even burn the roots.
This one blew down because there is no longer a thick forest to block the wind. It's terribly crooked and limby, but the 26+" trunk is quite usable.
Then I drove to the top of the ridge and looked down at the Snake River at the bottom of the canyon. That's Oregon on the horizon, where all the smog is coming from. This is a south facing slope that has prickly pear cactus and rattlesnakes.
It's 24 x 36 and will have a loft, and a gambrel roof. Just a non-level dirt floor, since there was no budget to level the site or pour a pad. But I did go scouting for more trees to mill.
This is an area that I worked over a couple years ago. It was seed-tree logged about 3 years ago, the slash fire got way out of control, and many of the seed trees were killed by the fire and/or blown over. I hauled off quite a bit of wood until the state decided to do a salvage sale and kicked me out.
So they salvaged some of the dead wood, had another slash fire ...... and more trees got burnt, and more trees blew down. An ecologgers work of cleaning up the forest is never done.
It's practically a clearcut now.
There were several dead standing dougs, killed by the slash fires. Doug is adapted to natural wildfires. Its thick bark protects it from a "cool" fire. But if the fire gets too hot, it can burn through the bark or even burn the roots.
This one blew down because there is no longer a thick forest to block the wind. It's terribly crooked and limby, but the 26+" trunk is quite usable.
Then I drove to the top of the ridge and looked down at the Snake River at the bottom of the canyon. That's Oregon on the horizon, where all the smog is coming from. This is a south facing slope that has prickly pear cactus and rattlesnakes.
