The forestry and logging pictures thread

[woodfarmer]

Swing cut?

Yes sir, right on the trail. Sometimes a plan comes together.

 

[woodfarmer]

So last of logging ‘26. Above zero here now and the rain is to come later this week.

 

[woodfarmer]

just able to sneak it past the young beech, couple nice maple too

 

[bwalker]

My grandpa was a "spudder" as a kid. He peeled Cedar and Pine logs for Timber-frame builders. He got $1 a log and he could peel three or four logs in ten hours. They were called spudders because the tool was a bark spud- a long handled hoe-like thing with a blade shaped like a Platypus bill.

My logging mentor talked about peeling short wood aspen logs for the pulp in the mid 50's. Logs were around 48" long and peeled with a piece of sharpened car leaf spring attached to a wooden handle. Evidently the pulp mills didnt have debarkers back then?

 

[Int1968]

Just doing some slashing today, unusual colouration of a black or brown ash depending where you live. (Fraxinus nigra)

Still lots of healthy pockets of it in north western Ontario