smokechase II
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Take a look at; http://www.spotfireimages.com/hs15.html
Some really great photos throughout this web site.
Some really great photos throughout this web site.
Dynamite In Tree Trunk
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Neat pictures. In the second one is the fire inside a hollow cedar?
Ed*L
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WOW!!
Great link, thanks for posting that.
Ed
Great link, thanks for posting that.
Ed
smokechase II
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hollow cedar
John:
I don't know the story behind these photos.
Just that this guy seems to be a natural photographer.
The cedar is at least being hollowed out.
I'm sure you cut a lot of these in AK.
John:
I don't know the story behind these photos.
Just that this guy seems to be a natural photographer.
The cedar is at least being hollowed out.
I'm sure you cut a lot of these in AK.
ranchjn
ArboristSite Member
smokechase II, I find the pictures you post extremely interesting and amazing. please keep them coming!! Unfortunately it looks like the board deletes old attachments. Do you have a website where you host all of this content yourself?
smokechase II
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picture posts
ranchjn:
Can't take credit for these. I also blew it, should have put these in the picture forum.
If a moderator wishes to move them, that would be great and thanks.
Send me an arboristsite message on what was deleted a ways back that you'd like to look at. Might be able to repost if the thread is still relevant or e-mail you.
ranchjn:
Can't take credit for these. I also blew it, should have put these in the picture forum.
If a moderator wishes to move them, that would be great and thanks.
Send me an arboristsite message on what was deleted a ways back that you'd like to look at. Might be able to repost if the thread is still relevant or e-mail you.
EngineerDude
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The linked page says "Holes are drilled or sawed into offending snags - standing dead trees - that threaten mayhem upon sawyers felling them by conventional means." in relation to the photo showing dynamite inside a cutout in the trunk.
Help me out here, why would this be the preferred approach? Seems to me the benefits of using dynamite are outweighed by the risks. Can't tell much from the narrow view in the photo, but from what you can see, it looks like it could be felled conventionally without difficulty.
It would also seem it would take longer to properly (safely, etc.) rig the dynamite, connect the trigger, run the wire, etc., than it would to just drop it.
Help me out here, why would this be the preferred approach? Seems to me the benefits of using dynamite are outweighed by the risks. Can't tell much from the narrow view in the photo, but from what you can see, it looks like it could be felled conventionally without difficulty.
It would also seem it would take longer to properly (safely, etc.) rig the dynamite, connect the trigger, run the wire, etc., than it would to just drop it.
EngineerDude,
I can comment on the one time that I had a snag dynamited. We were always told that anytime we did not feel comfortable falling a snag that we could get someone on the road crew to blast it. Pride and idiocy keeps you from doing it unless it is really needed.
Bad snags are pretty common in AK. and some can be a real aggravation. Shaped like a traffic cone or a tepee with no top. You have to make an under cut of halfway or more and a lot of them are rotten and full of shake (ring separation) so it is continually sitting down on your bar.On the worst of them wedges are useless. They can be a lot of work for something that has no value, but has to be fell for the safety and to make it easier for the rigging crew when it is logged.
On my strip near the top about two hundred feet below the road was a bad snag about 7 or 8 ft. thru. I looked a it every day and was dreading it. You still get paid for it even tho its cull, but I knew I would spend a lot of time on it. The road crew boss was nearby one day so I bore cut three holes in it about 1ft. dia. He and I packed in some Tovex and he blew the thing to the ground. Was nothing left but fuzz. Saved me a lot of trouble.
I dont know anything about the ones on fire, but there are snags in some parts of the country that for sure are safer to blast than to fall. But yes it did take longer.
Here is a pic of a good snag stump. The bad ones usually disappear under punk rotten wood.
I can comment on the one time that I had a snag dynamited. We were always told that anytime we did not feel comfortable falling a snag that we could get someone on the road crew to blast it. Pride and idiocy keeps you from doing it unless it is really needed.
Bad snags are pretty common in AK. and some can be a real aggravation. Shaped like a traffic cone or a tepee with no top. You have to make an under cut of halfway or more and a lot of them are rotten and full of shake (ring separation) so it is continually sitting down on your bar.On the worst of them wedges are useless. They can be a lot of work for something that has no value, but has to be fell for the safety and to make it easier for the rigging crew when it is logged.
On my strip near the top about two hundred feet below the road was a bad snag about 7 or 8 ft. thru. I looked a it every day and was dreading it. You still get paid for it even tho its cull, but I knew I would spend a lot of time on it. The road crew boss was nearby one day so I bore cut three holes in it about 1ft. dia. He and I packed in some Tovex and he blew the thing to the ground. Was nothing left but fuzz. Saved me a lot of trouble.
I dont know anything about the ones on fire, but there are snags in some parts of the country that for sure are safer to blast than to fall. But yes it did take longer.
Here is a pic of a good snag stump. The bad ones usually disappear under punk rotten wood.
xander9727
The Silverback
Properly applied, explosives can be a very safe, quick and effective means of tree removal.
This is if you don't want to log the lower section of the tree.
This is if you don't want to log the lower section of the tree.
xander9727
The Silverback
To prevent them from falling a 9.8 meter per second squared.
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