The forestry and logging pictures thread

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[rogue60]

I really enjoyed this vid thought it was worth sharing for the guy's that have not seen it before?.
yeah it's 45min long!
From the start to the end all these guys are pro's at there jobs within the timber industry there and a dieing breed!.

 

[jacob j.]

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I cut a piece like that for H&W on the west side of Burnt Mountain in 2004. A lot of blow-down, moving rootwads, etc. The butt ends averaged about 32".

It was three of the most miserable weeks of my life.

 

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I cut a piece like that for H&W on the west side of Burnt Mountain in 2004. A lot of blow-down, moving rootwads, etc. The butt ends averaged about 32".

It was three of the most miserable weeks of my life.

Ya this piece we are cutting is in excellent shape compared to the elkton area. Last springs snow storm sure made a mess, I think the next few years we will be cleaning it up. I sure hope everyone stays safe, there are lots bad spots out there

 

[Coltont]

Finally back on my side of the US. The last picture im showing caveman timber cutting. When your trimming and the buncher guy says hey there's a few trees over there I missed can you go cut them. Of course you need a wedge or two and they are all in the truck. Whittled 2 out of a maple, got me a club and commenced to pounding. It works but isn't fancy and the tree better not have sat back hard. Gotta get one in behind the face usually to get a smidge of lift. Then take the tip of the bar and make the kerf a little wider to accept the chode your trying, mind you trying to pound in.

 

[jacob j.]

Sometimes the caveman style works pretty good. We would just cut a club if we didn't have an axe handy. A club is harder on your hands but a lot better than
walking the mile back to the pickup.

Ya this piece we are cutting is in excellent shape compared to the elkton area. Last springs snow storm sure made a mess, I think the next few years we will be cleaning it up. I sure hope everyone stays safe, there are lots bad spots out there

I saw Jensen's cleaning all up along 38/138 between Reedsport and Scottsburg and then on 138s going toward Sutherlin. They were using equipment though to pull all the stems down to the road. Those slopes around Kellogg are a real mess and I think most of that is private ground so it'll get cut soon.

 

[Skeans1]

What it’s like cutting 36’s in a thinning.

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I saw Jensen's cleaning all up along 38/138 between Reedsport and Scottsburg and then on 138s going toward Sutherlin. They were using equipment though to pull all the stems down to the road. Those slopes around Kellogg are a real mess and I think most of that is private ground so it'll get cut soon.[/QUOTE]
H&W has picked up a few of them

 

[jacob j.]

What it’s like cutting 36’s in a thinning.

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Very cool - is this a cable-yard thinning? What's the leave rate - 35 stems/acre?

 

[hoskvarna]

What it’s like cutting 36’s in a thinning.

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That view looks familiar
Although haven’t been in the cab all summer


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[Skeans1]

Very cool - is this a cable-yard thinning? What's the leave rate - 35 stems/acre?

No it’s all coming out on a forwarder we’ve been going to about 35 degrees or so, leave rate is about 180 an acre that area has some really nice big pockets of root rot so it looks like it’s thinner then what it is.


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[Skeans1]

Very cool - is this a cable-yard thinning? What's the leave rate - 35 stems/acre?

This is the same stand there’s a big variety difference lots of stuff we have to stay out as well.

As to the cable thinning I haven’t seen any done up here in almost 20 years especially with the whack them and stack them age at 40. Is there any still going on doing in the southern end?



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[jacob j.]

This is the same stand there’s a big variety difference lots of stuff we have to stay out as well.

As to the cable thinning I haven’t seen any done up here in almost 20 years especially with the whack them and stack them age at 40. Is there any still going on doing in the southern end?



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There's still a few going on down south, like just above Wolf Creek and west of Grants Pass - it's all BLM ground. They're sticking with the Shelterwood (continuing to leave 15-30 mature stems/acre)
model which I think works better in Ponderosa Pine and Shasta Fir forests than it does in Douglas Fir and Hemlock. I prefer the small clear-cut model on the west side where 8-13 acre clear-cuts are created and linked
with corridors - in most cases it seems to minimize wind damage and maintains soil stability.

I was on a big fire near Sisters in 2012 and we had good luck with the fire running up against Shelterwood sites because there was little under-story (the reprod and brush had been machine-masticated)
and there were scattered old-growth trees providing moderate cover. When the fire got into that, it fell on its' face and we got a handle on it right away. It was a 1200-acre fire that could have been a
10,000-acre fire had those treatments not been implemented.

 

[Skeans1]

There's still a few going on down south, like just above Wolf Creek and west of Grants Pass - it's all BLM ground. They're sticking with the Shelterwood (continuing to leave 15-30 mature stems/acre)
model which I think works better in Ponderosa Pine and Shasta Fir forests than it does in Douglas Fir and Hemlock. I prefer the small clear-cut model on the west side where 8-13 acre clear-cuts are created and linked
with corridors - in most cases it seems to minimize wind damage and maintains soil stability.

I was on a big fire near Sisters in 2012 and we had good luck with the fire running up against Shelterwood sites because there was little under-story (the reprod and brush had been machine-masticated)
and there were scattered old-growth trees providing moderate cover. When the fire got into that, it fell on its' face and we got a handle on it right away. It was a 1200-acre fire that could have been a
10,000-acre fire had those treatments not been implemented.

I remember when Longview Fibre did some of the tower thinnings they were 150 tpa or two sides open contractor selected, most cut as much as they could mechanically and hand fell the rest. Always fun watching the rigging crew cuss out the cutter for getting something tangled up since they weren’t allowed a burn around tree just like the mechanical sides.


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[jacob j.]

Some awesome Mt. St. Helens photos from Eric W. Cole, aka Rusty Grapple:

 

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