The forestry and logging pictures thread

[CLEARCUT]

A guy probably had that out on his strip and knocked it up with the top of a tall stick or something. A couple times I've fell a good-sized one only see that "spray" in the distance from my gas jug getting wiped out.



It's a famous local story and I'm sure you've heard it, but Dancer went over to New Zealand in the 80's to teach several companies over there how to high-lead. I know he took some of his crew with him and actually spent time logging for the government there. I'd heard he had shipped over several pieces of equipment including a yarder.

That’s definitely what could’ve happened. I’ve came close to mine, but I’m pretty paranoid about where I put my stuff.
Yeah, I have heard that story and a few related to it. Pete Jr. has shown me some pictures as well. Pretty cool stuff. It has always interested me that in New Zealand, most of the fallers are running a 660-sized saw, here, we tend towards a 460-sized saw, and in European areas, they seem to like the 60cc sized saws. This is just general, but it definitely shows the regional preferences.

 

[sawfun]

That’s definitely what could’ve happened. I’ve came close to mine, but I’m pretty paranoid about where I put my stuff.
Yeah, I have heard that story and a few related to it. Pete Jr. has shown me some pictures as well. Pretty cool stuff. It has always interested me that in New Zealand, most of the fallers are running a 660-sized saw, here, we tend towards a 460-sized saw, and in European areas, they seem to like the 60cc sized saws. This is just general, but it definitely shows the regional preferences.

I knew a faller up out of Hoquiam that said they mostly used 660 & 064 sized saws. Down here, it's as you say, 460 sized from my understanding.

 

[CLEARCUT]

I just saw some of these pictures from a couple years ago. I can’t believe they let @HYPERSAWS and I cut this instead of a buncher. This has since burned in the Archie Creek fire.

 

[Skeans1]

I knew a faller up out of Hoquiam that said they mostly used 660 & 064 sized saws. Down here, it's as you say, 460 sized from my understanding.

A lot of 390’s, 66’s and 395 still ran up here.


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[CLEARCUT]

And bar lengths are a whole other thing.

 

[jacob j.]

A lot of 390’s, 66’s and 395 still ran up here.

And bar lengths are a whole other thing.

My cousin cut for Columbia for fourteen years. The only saw he would run was an 066 with 32" and 42" bars. He never owned any other type of saw. I think he
went through about 38-40 066s in his day. I've yet to see a guy wear out an 066 the way he could.

A buddy of mine has been cutting on the August Complex since it started - they don't really care how the fallers get the trees down there. My buddy is using
a jack on a lot of the roadside stuff. Mostly he's running a Clearwater Saws 661. Their only concern is that your equipment can't be more than ten years old.

There's a contractor in Glendale that exclusively does cable-yard thinning, and he runs 361/362s with 30" bars and .325" pitch chain. He thins his stones down
so he can square-grind .325".

 

[Skeans1]

My cousin cut for Columbia for fourteen years. The only saw he would run was an 066 with 32" and 42" bars. He never owned any other type of saw. I think he
went through about 38-40 066s in his day. I've yet to see a guy wear out an 066 the way he could.

A buddy of mine has been cutting on the August Complex since it started - they don't really care how the fallers get the trees down there. My buddy is using
a jack on a lot of the roadside stuff. Mostly he's running a Clearwater Saws 661. Their only concern is that your equipment can't be more than ten years old.

There's a contractor in Glendale that exclusively does cable-yard thinning, and he runs 361/362s with 30" bars and .325" pitch chain. He thins his stones down
so he can square-grind .325".

Didn’t someone on the other site years ago talk about running 325 on his 60” bars when he cut for Columbia?

Seems like a lot of the guys that cut for Columbia ran Stihl’s I also remember some of them back about going back east cutting the hardwoods.


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[Hinerman]

Can you explain the hinge, in simple terms? Never seen one like it.

 

[HYPERSAWS]

Can you explain the hinge, in simple terms? Never seen one like it.

He is simply cutting the heart wood out for easier wedging. Less fibers to flex

 

[Hinerman]

He is simply cutting the heart wood out for easier wedging. Less fibers to flex

Interesting and makes sense. Do you take it out from the face or back cut; or does it even matter?

 

[Skeans1]

Interesting and makes sense. Do you take it out from the face or back cut; or does it even matter?

Looks like that one was taken from the face side. I’ve done it both ways in the past.


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[CLEARCUT]

My cousin cut for Columbia for fourteen years. The only saw he would run was an 066 with 32" and 42" bars. He never owned any other type of saw. I think he
went through about 38-40 066s in his day. I've yet to see a guy wear out an 066 the way he could.

A buddy of mine has been cutting on the August Complex since it started - they don't really care how the fallers get the trees down there. My buddy is using
a jack on a lot of the roadside stuff. Mostly he's running a Clearwater Saws 661. Their only concern is that your equipment can't be more than ten years old.

There's a contractor in Glendale that exclusively does cable-yard thinning, and he runs 361/362s with 30" bars and .325" pitch chain. He thins his stones down
so he can square-grind .325".

Pete is always having me try his chains out. Sometimes they cut great, but they seem grabby on the undercut, at least with how I cut.

 

[stikine]

Interesting to see the lift tree guy backs appear to be Amsteel or equivalent synthetic lines instead of wire rope. Heck of a lot easier to pack around and handle if so. Thanks for sharing JJ!

 

[jacob j.]

Pete is always having me try his chains out. Sometimes they cut great, but they seem grabby on the undercut, at least with how I cut.

He showed me a couple square-ground .325" chains after he got his grinder tuned down - they looked pretty good but I never cut with one. Chip clearance I think would be the big thing, that and chassis stretch
on longer bars.

I never really wanted to try it - I had 3/8ths dialed in too well. For the younger trees on those thinning jobs, I was decreasing the back slope and running the rakers a little higher - I could get pretty good cheese
curls on the younger Fir and Cedar. I was also cleaning out just behind the rakers with a 13/64" round file.

 

[jacob j.]

Didn’t someone on the other site years ago talk about running 325 on his 60” bars when he cut for Columbia?

Seems like a lot of the guys that cut for Columbia ran Stihl’s I also remember some of them back about going back east cutting the hardwoods.

I'm not sure if I heard of anyone cutting timber with .325" on a 60" bar, but years ago there was a member in Texas milling hardwoods with an 088 and .325" on a 60" bar. He
said it worked pretty good for the thinner kerf and the smoothness in the cut.

I knew of a few guys from here that cut in West Virginia and Georgia on jobs for Columbia. I don't know if they were helilog jobs. My cousin ended up in North Carolina on one
of their skidder jobs in the late 90's.

 

[woodfarmer]

He showed me a couple square-ground .325" chains after he got his grinder tuned down - they looked pretty good but I never cut with one. Chip clearance I think would be the big thing, that and chassis stretch
on longer bars.

I never really wanted to try it - I had 3/8ths dialed in too well. For the younger trees on those thinning jobs, I was decreasing the back slope and running the rakers a little higher - I could get pretty good cheese
curls on the younger Fir and Cedar. I was also cleaning out just behind the rakers with a 13/64" round file.

Do you have any pics of your filing this way?

 

[jacob j.]

Do you have any pics of your filing this way?

I can come up with some.

 

[woodfarmer]

Now to central southern Ontario. A large maple and a few more Ash. Felling with the 500i and limbing/bucking with the CFB 2171.

Square on the 500 and chisel on the 2171. I took the rakers down lots. Have to get the saw up to speed just before hitting the wood and then hang on cause it pulls like a freight train.

 

[woodfarmer]

This one I had to swing a long ways so it wouldn’t get hung up in a big maple. Used a piece of the notch wood placed in the right corner of the face cut.

 

[RI Chevy]

Nice! Where's all the vids??? Come on now. You know the rules...lol