The forestry and logging pictures thread

[jacob j.]

That looks like a big Cedar in Alaska, do you know where that pic was taken?

Port Alberni I think...

Here's a few falling pictures from northern BC - Travis Smyth:

 

[jacob j.]

 

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[NWWrench]

Looks like an old Thomas Ireland short logger. I bet that driver has a grin you cant erase from his face when he is hauling down the road, I know I would.
Do you know where the wood came from?

 

[NWWrench]

I always wondered if those loads ever caught up with bulls on any kind of grade, would be interesting for sure.

 

[jacob j.]

I always wondered if those loads ever caught up with bulls on any kind of grade, would be interesting for sure.

A lot of those, they tied off with 1 1/4" to 2" line and a large line brake on the steeper grades. Somewhere I have some good photos of the large line brakes used around the turn of the century.

One I reading about in southwestern Washington had 4000' of 2" line in a haul back system and the line brake had four 4' drums. It was a pretty incredible set-up...

 

[jacob j.]

 

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[RI Chevy]

I wonder how many days it took these guys to drop the tree using those double bit axes?

 

[jacob j.]

 

[jacob j.]

I wonder how many days it took these guys to drop the tree using those double bit axes?

Sometimes up to five days, from what my grandpa used to tell me. He worked on a Weyerhaeuser falling crew in the late 30's up to when he joined the Navy for WW2.

He said a layout for a bigger tree could take as long as a full week depending on what they were using and how they were building the layout and then anywhere from
two to five days for the actual felling. There were hand buckers that came in behind the falling crews to cut everything up.

 

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[RI Chevy]

Wow. Thank you sir.

 

[NWWrench]

A lot of those, they tied off with 1 1/4" to 2" line and a large line brake on the steeper grades. Somewhere I have some good photos of the large line brakes used around the turn of the century.

One I reading about in southwestern Washington had 4000' of 2" line in a haul back system and the line brake had four 4' drums. It was a pretty incredible set-up...

Thanks for the info, very cool JJ.
Ryan

 

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[NWWrench]

You know the truck is running good when it puffs black between shifts, my buddy drives this lowboy.
Ryan

 

[Nighthunter]

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You know the truck is running good when it puffs black between shifts, my buddy drives this lowboy.
Ryan

no smoke,no poke. I have to ask about that saw in your avatar pic, it eye-catching