From the treehugger trail forum about timber falling. He writes better than HBRN, but timber falling is a snap. Somebody put up a picture of some high stumps that were slant cut (but I think they were fairly small) as a bad example of trail work. The following was the wisdom from a poster.
I have seen that before when logging. Had a logout job at 3000 feet slated for early april one year, I forget which, and normally there would be only a little snow left, but this year there were tons, but we were forced to go in and log it anyways. We decided to cut all the trees down, leave them for a month while the snow melted. What was left looked almost identical to the picture above a month later except over a hundred acres.
It looks to me that those who cut them knew what they were doing or close enough as it would appear they were felled in winter or far more likely early spring in deep snow when putting in the new trail and someone forgot to go back and finish the job. Looks about average height of snow depth in early spring for Mailbox Peak. Only time I go up mailbox. Save the knees on the way down as one gets to glissade nearly all the way down. WOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo.
Anyways, someone forgot to finish. Give some kids a sharp axe and let them learn on something harmless to finish the job.
PS. Falling evergreen trees on a hillside is lead pipe simple as there is only a small direction they can fall. It ain't uphill for 99.9% of them. Its those deciduous trees on flat ground that grow haphazardly in all directions that are problem children. They are quite often rotten and barberchair unlike softwood trees. Alder
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I have seen that before when logging. Had a logout job at 3000 feet slated for early april one year, I forget which, and normally there would be only a little snow left, but this year there were tons, but we were forced to go in and log it anyways. We decided to cut all the trees down, leave them for a month while the snow melted. What was left looked almost identical to the picture above a month later except over a hundred acres.
It looks to me that those who cut them knew what they were doing or close enough as it would appear they were felled in winter or far more likely early spring in deep snow when putting in the new trail and someone forgot to go back and finish the job. Looks about average height of snow depth in early spring for Mailbox Peak. Only time I go up mailbox. Save the knees on the way down as one gets to glissade nearly all the way down. WOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo.
Anyways, someone forgot to finish. Give some kids a sharp axe and let them learn on something harmless to finish the job.
PS. Falling evergreen trees on a hillside is lead pipe simple as there is only a small direction they can fall. It ain't uphill for 99.9% of them. Its those deciduous trees on flat ground that grow haphazardly in all directions that are problem children. They are quite often rotten and barberchair unlike softwood trees. Alder
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