I'm primarily cutting logs to make timbers. I've been burned many times by huge open face cuts. Pull an extra six inches of tape if you are going to do that. Humboldt eliminates that issue.
That bloke doing the talking head stuff knows considerably less than my dog about that.
I think the thing that fascinates us about this is the ambition of the guys involved. This is a very very high risk operation performed by people who, ostensibly at least, seem to know what they’re doing...
Pollarding and coppicing are very old practices. Mulberry is food for animals. Goats will even strip the bark off for you. The long straight limbs could be made into fences, furniture, fire wood, baskets. Just another part of a harvest back when. Old willow furniture another example.
Harvest...
Osage limbs are incredibly strong. A neighboring farm had limbs put in along the road for posts. Cars would go off the road in the winter and hit a small post. Owners would be amazed the damage they did to their car.
I do use some Humboldts Logging and Felling , maybe thirty percent of the time. Climbing work that bumps up to about almost fifty percent , a real friend when piecing top , limbs , chunking stem down ... like you guys said , the way the wok comes off the cut
Another East West difference , here the money is in the Butts so ... West many times Butt Logs aren't as valuable even Culls. Think Gerry schooled us on that.
We have lots of fruitless that get hard pollarded to the same place every year, ugly while pollarded. Get all hollow and rotten and nasty and will never die. I tried to rip some small ones out with 12,000lb winch and they gave me quite the trouble.
I agree. I will put a new eye on it and use it for an extension or something. The new cable is not galv, (oily messy) and much nicer and more supple. Longer too,
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