The forestry and logging pictures thread

[Skeans1]

I think it was 3/8" but on a 60" bar you're really pushing the limits of that chassis.

I also recall someone who cut for Columbia saying they'd run full comp 3/8" on a 50" bar

I run 3/8’s on my 60 but something in my heads keeps saying 325 and I know Cannon makes them. It’s not that uncommon to see a 50” out here with full comp I’m an odd ball in running semi skip on everything 32 on up other then my 60 that’s full skip.


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[Funky sawman]

I think it was 3/8" but on a 60" bar you're really pushing the limits of that chassis.

I also recall someone who cut for Columbia saying they'd run full comp 3/8" on a 50" bar

I've ran 3/8 semi skip on one of those 50 inch cannon rollernose bars, dull that chain and I would just go home for the day lol

 

[RI Chevy]

Just curious. Do you carry a spare chain?

 

[Skeans1]

Just curious. Do you carry a spare chain?

I always have doesn’t matter on the length of the bar easier to just swap a chai vs file them no matter what.


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[RI Chevy]

Yes sir. That's kinda what I was thinking. [emoji106]

 

[~WBF]

View attachment 282292 View attachment 28229315 year old pine plantation being thinned on the farm last week.

Surprised how little foliage the front trees have? You must have cleared in front of them recently? The stand will stunt for a while due to having (as it looks) only approx 1/4 to 1/3 live crown. Another concern is strong winds snapping them off. Always good to go half your inter-tree distance on a void, when possible. It makes for a 'shelter belt' and adds more stems that won't press for crown competition.

Any Mistletoe disease? What happens to the residual in the first pic? Was that a pine?

 

[Gary Courtney]

Surprised how little foliage the front trees have? You must have cleared in front of them recently? The stand will stunt for a while due to having (as it looks) only approx 1/4 to 1/3 live crown. Another concern is strong winds snapping them off. Always good to go half your inter-tree distance on a void, when possible. It makes for a 'shelter belt' and adds more stems that won't press for crown competition.

Any Mistletoe disease? What happens to the residual in the first pic? Was that a pine?

this is the way a pine plantation grows. the next cutting will be 10 to 15 years 80 to 100 foot saw logs

 

[~WBF]

this is the way a pine plantation grows. the next cutting will be 10 to 15 years 80 to 100 foot saw logs

They would be extremely lucky to make 50ft in 30yrs of life
Gary.. Are you properly farming them or do you only have one foot in? (For discussion purposes only) I think that's a fair question.
That do you mean " This is how Pine plantations grow"? In all kindness, I didn't just fall off the turnip truck. (Its been over a week now, guys) I do know a little about softwood reforestation.
Possibly you have had 2ft+ between worls in some past years, at best. What is the next 5 yrs going to yield? Height will slow down for two reasons. #1) Because you thinned them and #2) because the live crown was reduced below 50%

Thinning produces thicker saw logs.(fact)

An over reduction in crown, stresses the trees and puts them back some years. When thinned, with an over reduced crown ...they may be made seceptable to breakage in a strong wind. Also a fact.

Is this something you may agree with? Lol

 

[Gary Courtney]

They would be extremely lucky to make 50ft in 30yrs of life
Gary.. Are you properly farming them or do you only have one foot in? (For discussion purposes only) I think that's a fair question.
That do you mean " This is how Pine plantations grow"? In all kindness, I didn't just fall off the turnip truck. (Its been over a week now, guys) I do know a little about softwood reforestation.
Possibly you have had 2ft+ between worls in some past years, at best. What is the next 5 yrs going to yield? Height will slow down for two reasons. #1) Because you thinned them and #2) because the live crown was reduced below 50%

Thinning produces thicker saw logs.(fact)

An over reduction in crown, stresses the trees and puts them back some year. When thinned, with an over reduced crown ...they may be made seceptable to breakage in a strong wind. Also a fact.

Is this something you may agree with? Lol

they are 50 ft NOW!

 

[Gary Courtney]

An over reduction in crown,

The crowns have never been touched.

 

[Skeans1]

A few off slabs off one of the butt cuts we had laying around.


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[~WBF]

they are 50 ft NOW!

So they are 43 yrs old and not 15.. did you mean 50 yrs?

The crowns have never been touched.

We have all been touched by nature.

 

[CLEARCUT]

New job up Rock Creek out of Glide. Not too steep. A few bigger trees, but otherwise this stand was at least 15 years out. They are pretty small, lol.

 

[~WBF]

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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Guys were in POW Alaska one shift and Louisiana the next.
Some guys went so for back east that they ended up in Afghanistan. That's when Columbia 'made it' 10 fold. And ya know, they even came to the BC under an assumed name.

 

[HYPERSAWS]

View attachment 283432 View attachment 283433 View attachment 283434 View attachment 283435 View attachment 283436 New job up Rock Creek out of Glide. Not too steep. A few bigger trees, but otherwise this stand was at least 15 years out. They are pretty small, lol.

Barbequed lol

 

[jacob j.]

View attachment 283432 View attachment 283433 View attachment 283434 View attachment 283435 View attachment 283436 New job up Rock Creek out of Glide. Not too steep. A few bigger trees, but otherwise this stand was at least 15 years out. They are pretty small, lol.

Are they gonna log all that? I can't imagine some of that is even worth hauling.

I drove up Rock Creek not long after the fire - it burned hot up there, even down on the flats. All that old growth on the lower end is moonscape now.

 

[CLEARCUT]

Are they gonna log all that? I can't imagine some of that is even worth hauling.

I drove up Rock Creek not long after the fire - it burned hot up there, even down on the flats. All that old growth on the lower end is moonscape now.

They might be getting paid by the hour on this one. I know they are going to go down to 4 inch on the scale end. Some parts of the unit that I saw were a little better than this, but not by much. Land-clearing job, lol.

 

[woodfarmer]

I assume that all the trees would have to come down and be removed to replant?

 

[BonScott46]

Hope they have a lot of capacity/markets for biomass.

 

[BonScott46]

View attachment 283432 View attachment 283433 View attachment 283434 View attachment 283435 View attachment 283436 New job up Rock Creek out of Glide. Not too steep. A few bigger trees, but otherwise this stand was at least 15 years out. They are pretty small, lol.

Doesn't look like there is much alive in that soil. How is the replanting going on sites like these? Too early to tell maybe. Do they plant with stock that is innoculated with beneficial fungi?