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

 

[rogue60]

 

[ferris]

So last of logging ‘26. Above zero here now and the rain is to come later this week.View attachment 484383View attachment 484384View attachment 484385View attachment 484386

Where do u get the „trailer“ for the buggy?

 

[woodfarmer]

Norwood sawmill makes them.

 

[davidwyby]

My old business partner with more than 60 years in the woods passes away, out story

My old logging partner passed away the past fall, I spoke at the funeral and told the story of who Paul was and how we met and came to form a life long freindship. Paul started working in the woods at 15 and stopped going to the woods every day at the age of 77, he lived to be 87 years old and...

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[singinwoodwackr]

My old business partner with more than 60 years in the woods passes away, out story

My old logging partner passed away the past fall, I spoke at the funeral and told the story of who Paul was and how we met and came to form a life long freindship. Paul started working in the woods at 15 and stopped going to the woods every day at the age of 77, he lived to be 87 years old and...

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That was absolutely wonderful to read. I hope that essay was published and shared with all who have ever run a chainsaw to make a living, for however long.

Bravo Maestro.

 

[Seachaser]

That was absolutely wonderful to read. I hope that essay was published and shared with all who have ever run a chainsaw to make a living, for however long.

Bravo Maestro.

Brought tear to my eye. Wonder if the OP is still around? Hasn't been seen on the other site in years.

 

[Loggernate]

My old business partner with more than 60 years in the woods passes away, out story

My old logging partner passed away the past fall, I spoke at the funeral and told the story of who Paul was and how we met and came to form a life long freindship. Paul started working in the woods at 15 and stopped going to the woods every day at the age of 77, he lived to be 87 years old and...

arboristsite.com

Very good!