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Practice.

Old , rotten, brittle roots. Demise of many an old tree. Little to no root pull at all. POP!

Wow.

Teamwork, that's how they built the pyramids.

Good to hear other stories. Worlds apart we may be, but it's still the same everywhere, bushel work is hard.

Like B says. Try and try again...

You can only do so much from the ground. Shoot for the best limb you can and cross you fingers you get it. When setting lines at those heights binoculars are a wise thing to have in your kit, because the way it appears from the ground, by eye alone, is not always the way it is once you get up...

I worked right along side Mexican families. Their kids, ages 2 years and up, were picking, too. Every prune counted. Farm labor was good summer work for kids. Yeah, today almost all of it is mechanized. In 1972 and 73, while schooling at S.R.J.C., I was pruning grapes (cane-pruning) and...

Some of my rec-climbs I'd preset a throw-line in the tree and then come back later (a week sometimes) and then pull a climb-line through and do the climb. Some of the first pitches were 175 to 200 feet. Properly managing those long lines is not a skill for the amateur. A couple of times...

All possible given the know-how, and right conditions.

That's something. Talented fellow.

In the early 1960s I was picking prunes by the lug, and peaches and apples by the bin. On a good day, from sun up to sun down, I could make $20, but averaged more like $12 to $15. By the end of the season I could save up a few hundred dollars and buy a new set of school clothes. Levi's cost...

Bummer. Everything looked good til the end.

My friend Jim Ciro, old timber faller, had a tree rigged and layout built for it. He put in the undercut, backut and the cat skinner let the line go and the tree landed in the lay. Jim is like 96 or 97 years old now. The tree was a redwood, a headleaner with about 30 thousand bf. Worked...

On good ground you can mechanize the operations, totally. Most of the ground where I live is too steep for that. In small timber / steep ground; yarder log tree lengths and process on the landing. Big trees / steep ground: you got to buck.

Sometimes the Busheler has sorts. That is a strip may have multiple species, and bucking instructions may be different for each species according to their size / diameter and quality. Sorts can be confusing and slow down a fallers production, but generally the rate of pay is the same for all...

Same here, Matt. I strive to do top end work. But sometimes, bad strips back to back, it just don't pay. My friend Andy Dockham once said, "If the logger isn't complaining about your work then you're doing to good of a job." In which case you "Test the waters" to see what you can get away...

Pretty sketchy.

It's the bane of the busheler. When you get paid for how much you produce (board feet) your mindset is a whole lot different than getting paid by the hour or day wage. The busheler mindset can bring out the absolute worst in some people. That's why policies are set to limit fallers to...