The forestry and logging pictures thread

[ajschainsaws]

 

[ajschainsaws]

 

[ajschainsaws]

 

[ajschainsaws]

 

[RandyMac]

 

[jacob j.]

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[jacob j.]

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[jacob j.]

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[jacob j.]

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[RandyMac]

 

[quietfly]

its amazing to see the difference in size between old pics and new. It's like all we have are BABY trees now....

 

[sawfun]

its amazing to see the difference in size between old pics and new. It's like all we have are BABY trees now....

Once upon a time not that long ago, in a land, seemingly not that far away. At least for those who grew up or frequented in such areas.

 

[RandyMac]

I got some when they were gottable.

 

[KiwiBro (deleted)]

Close to home.
Are a few large Kauri left and protected.
Apart from a few isolated cases, it's akin to manslaughter to knock any over.
They are still digging ancient Kauri trunks (some many orders of magnitude larger than that picture) out of old swamps and peat though, even though that too is becoming a progressively more restricted activity. Swamp Kauri doesn't have the same finished look as felled old-growth but can still look spectacular. Don't have much time to process the logs once they are dug from their oxygen deprived resting places, before they start rotting, and the lumber has to be processed a special way to avoid damage/losses/stresses, but is still well worth it.
On one farm around here they pulled out a few, with amongst the first being a monstor that yielded over 80 m3 (over 30k bdft) of lumber.

Takes a special set of skills and gear to deal with those biggies. Really should have got a few photos because it was surreal to see this little spec down a massive hole in the ground trying to cut a log free from the butt. And to see parts of that log on a specialist truck maxing out the legal road weights and somewhat over-dimensioned.

Here's one of the protected ones I drooled over a few years ago:



And here's a sub-fossil section dating around 50k years old.

 

[ajschainsaws]

 

[ajschainsaws]

 

[ajschainsaws]

All these trucks are right hookers

 

[rocketnorton]

used to haul [early 90s] aus spec western stars built in Kelowna bc to docks for shippin there. lh shiftin no prob, havin run lots of 2 stick b4 that.

 

[jacob j.]

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