HuskStihl
Chairin'em for the sound
Profanity was actually my native tongue.
Falling pics 11/25/09
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In case anybody is wondering that hung snag in the short video was not broken, it is where I was demonstrating to blitz that no face high cuts are the right way to do things - saves time, saves the back, puts them on the ground eventually, and leaves a stump the skidder can see. Also puts any chair at eye level so you won't miss it. Or is it miss you??? Better go back to 
. I'll report back once I figure it out.
Enjoyed the videos.
Ron
. I'll report back once I figure it out. Enjoyed the videos.
Ron
Nice work bitz, good sound too, I like when they thump real good... just never seem to catch that on video, that our when a snag detonates with lots of crash, smash and crackle...
However you make me look like a gimpy ole man with a cane...
However you make me look like a gimpy ole man with a cane...
Not yet... need some more parts...
HuskStihl
Chairin'em for the sound
With all his smart talkin, it's easy to forget that Bitz is a kid. A big, funny-lookin, foul-mouthed kid with a bad baby-making habit, but a kid nonetheless.
I'm glad he is, cause I doubt my old, broken body would have gotten out of the way of the "hang up of death."
I would have been 10 feet ahead of Northman, however.
mingo
ArboristSite Operative
Nice looking work.
bitzer
******** Timber Expert
Come on guys I'm 33 and with 5 kids and hand cutting that handicaps me to about 50! That swamp had several inches of ice as you can see. We had a dozer push it out to freeze it down. I'll bet thats why I got such good thumpin sounds. I thought the same thing. I wouldn't have wanted to cut that job without corks. Even then if I stepped on a big enough stick I'd wind up on my ass! Good timber for soft maple. It averaged 400bf per tree and there were many thousand bf sticks in there. I cut and landed 87mbf plus 60 cords in 14 days.
HuskStihl
Chairin'em for the sound
Is ice pick still with ya?
bitzer
******** Timber Expert
Mike- yeah I know about that snag. Honestly I probably cut 6-12 bad ones like that per year. I had a lot of time to think about that one and it was really the best way to do it. I couldn't grab it safely with the forwarder and yank it down and it was too high to get anything on it to drag it down. I cleared a good escape, left the one tree as a backstop, and got it all cut up right before the camera was rolling. It was my only option. I couldn't leave it. Yeah that muffler rattled off 3 trees before that. I just gave the carb more juice and kept at it. It was the last day. You really need to get sound man! You're missin half the story!
bitzer
******** Timber Expert
I still talk to him from time to time, but no he has not been cutting for me for a while. I know he still checks in here so I can't bad mouth him too bad!
Oh and the wife is talkin about number 6
HuskStihl
Chairin'em for the sound
Sounds like you might need a new old apprentice!
I still talk to him from time to time, but no he has not been cutting for me for a while. I know he still checks in here so I can't bad mouth him too bad!
Oh and the wife is talkin about number 6
SIX hel I'm just trying to talk mine into getting a dog... which I think I have her around the corner on...
treeslayer2003
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axe rig sir, i need details on that axe rig
bitzer
******** Timber Expert
Yeah I was gonna wait til I had a pic for you. Its a cordless drill holster. Leather with a strap and machine screws with stop nuts to cinch it in the right places. I will still get a pic for ya. This has been my best axe holder to date. Probably on a year or more now with it.
bitzer
******** Timber Expert
I got mine a dog to keep the baby numbers down. That was three kids ago.
bitzer
******** Timber Expert
Buy the ticket Jon. You can fly right into Milwaukee. I'm 45 min north.
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
Michelle, my super streetwise daughter fooling a falling cut on overshadowing day. She's a chip off the ole block and will always be.Its great to have kids.
Skeans
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Got some more to cut the next few years.
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bnmc98
ArboristSite Guru
Hey, I have always enjoyed this thread. Am usually too busy to post anything of my own, let alone actually get any pics and stuff.
But... I had some time and my son's video camera the last couple days and took a few pics and videos.
Here's what I'm in now. Nice for where we are.
Loading some up
I've got a few videos too if anyone is interested.
But... I had some time and my son's video camera the last couple days and took a few pics and videos.
Here's what I'm in now. Nice for where we are.
Loading some up
I've got a few videos too if anyone is interested.
