The forestry and logging pictures thread

[Coltont]

Looks like he sniped it off for that reason. To slip it off the side.

That's what I had in mind as well

 

[jacob j.]

Joe is a good guy. I've talked to him a bunch on FB.

Joe is a great guy and really knows saws. He builds his own saws and ports saws for other guys. I think he does good work.

He's one of the few old boys out here that I've seen running a 3120 in the woods on a regular basis.

 

[CLEARCUT]

 

[Skeans1]

Out dinking around on the farm this afternoon found a few big old girls that need to come down in the near future.

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[~WBF]

Is the other stump like that cause he hit it with the tree and didnt want to break it?

No. He is falling over a peak or a change in grade and the top possibly siting flat with the majority of the weight on the flat or suspended over the peak as you see the butt is suspended in the air fairly level. I can see the bruise on the tree as he fell it over the stump deliberately. If he didn't make the snipe stump first then he was stopping the butt from dropping. If he did the snipe stump first then I would think he wanted to disrupt the physics by having the butt weight turning the tree on impact and absorbing much down force at the same time.
Looks like a bark skid mark from the lookers front left of stump? Likely what he was doing. One of the two.
He shouldn't be doing it for the back trees.
That is a waste of time and gas. You address that when it is in your gun usually and you wouldn't leave 8" square on the top? Maybe ok in this case so poles in the back don't sit on the top and you snap them with a big tree? If you hit a big cedar saw log on that it would explode into toothpicks.
Some guys get carried away so who knows?

It’s pretty standard practice to snipe the three other corners of your stump to keep from slabbing out wood.


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Don't think that was what was happening here. I don't do it much. I just do it one direction. Usually because stumps are cut low to ground on the high side and it drops off on low side. When you need to fall to the low side of a 4-6ft stump from 60ft away then that may be way to low down hill or may put you on another stump. I will just angle half the stump down if that's all I need.
I don't get the four angle thing unless they want to bounce it on the top first. Still don't need four angles, Ot is just less teeth in the cuts I guess.

 

[Skeans1]

Don't think that was what was happening here. I don't do it much. I just do it one direction. Usually because they are fell low to ground on the high side and they drop off. When you need to fall to the low side of a 4-6ft stump from 60ft away then that may be way to low down hill or may put you on another stump. I will just angle half the stump down if that's all I need.
I don't get the four angle thing unless they want to bounce it on the top first. Still don't need four angles, Ot is just less teeth in the cuts I guess.

Where you’ll see it on all 4 corners is for ground yarding, even some of the high lead jobs you’ll see it.




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[~WBF]

Where you’ll see it on all 4 corners is for ground yarding, even some of the high lead jobs you’ll see it.




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What does it have to do with yarding?

 

[Skeans1]

What does it have to do with yarding?

Gives you a slide to slip a top around without busting it in half. You’d be less likely to do that in bucked wood but with tree length wood you need all the help you can get to get the stem out in one piece with a non swinging setup.



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[~WBF]

Gives you a slide to slip a top around without busting it in half. You’d be less likely to do that in bucked wood but with tree length wood you need all the help you can get to get the stem out in one piece with a non swinging setup.



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Sort of kinda makes sense. Even if he needed the higher stump to bounce the butt off and tapered it afterwards but then it would be easier to recut the stump instead. Cutting on angles are harder. Where I come from conventional falling bids are cheap. Fallers may make $700 a day and a logger contractor have to pay 850 -$ 900 per man day through a Falling contractor but it gets done fast. You get the wood down. It it's cheap compared to Heli but even when guys are paying that much then it is amazing how much nobody cares. Pile the trees in any direction you can sometimes.

 

[CLEARCUT]

 

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[Skeans1]

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Nice thinning what age? Almost looks like state ground with how open it is.


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[CLEARCUT]

Nice thinning what age? Almost looks like state ground with how open it is.


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I believe they were approximately 60 years old or so. I can’t remember for sure though. Nice, dense stand. They were tall and clean.
Yes, this was a BLM thinning. They sure space them out.

 

[Skeans1]

I believe they were approximately 60 years old or so. I can’t remember for sure though. Nice, dense stand. They were tall and clean.
Yes, this was a BLM thinning. They sure space them out.

That’s not too bad for the age it’s probably 120 or 150 an acre, quick way to figure it out is do a half circle at 26’4” 4 per half is 180.


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[NWWrench]

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That looks like a nice patch to see a bull elk in a year or two.
Ryan

 

[NWWrench]

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Where was that picture taking? Looks like the coast for sure, wicked steep.
Ryan

 

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