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Is there a concern about losing scale with the high stumps

Doh, I get it, thx for the heads up. I probably shoulda figured it out on my own.

Trees have a lot of flare, and flutes. Have to make higher stumps to get out of it. Like real high.

Take it in two pieces if you can. Fold it in half with a wide face, then again at the union. Leave room to flush your cut and still be outside the branch collar. Also, never leave such stubs level, always give an angle so it sheds as much water and snow as possible.

I don't mind leaving habitat, but those trees are at risk of smashing stuff, not worth the problems down the road.

Lotta good info there. "Stooled up", does that mean yarded out via cable towers because you are working mostly on slopes?

You guys really got going . But , the most civil discussion Ive seen on the subject . Only made it through page 1 so far tho As my primary career was fallin timber in Southeast Alaska . Using Humbolt faces was by far the norm . And its still the face I use 95+% of the time here in the...

I do have a foot ascender . I think it's a CMI . I used to do all my climbing in my corks (Viberg 105T ) then in my White Smoke Jumpers . Now I wear Scarpa Fuego's a Lot . Extremely comfortable in the spurs . And I think they will work great with the foot ascender . Im going to give it a shot...

Loaded hard , = all my weight on the hitch plus lifting something heavy like a big cut off limb to movebit around the tree to drop it in a good drop zone .

Thank you all very much for your replies . When I get some 8 mm hitch cord I will experiment with a VT and other hitch on my HH . For spruce removals , My main climbing work that I do in the area I live . I choke the tree with my climbing line with a running bowline then to my HH . These...

They would be doing that around me if the ground wasn't saturated. Orchards are being rutted up getting through with sprayers. It just starts to dry up and we get another inch or two.

Rainy, cool and possible thunder storms.

Sunny, breezy, no humidity. A rare perfect day interrupted by the roar of the 800hp Cummins in the chopper. :/:

Good question. My neighbor has two pine trees whose lower branches extend into the drop zone. They are small flexible branches and a log might be able to push them out if it’s way in its fall. I might even be able to put ropes on them and tie them back away. As my branch gets shorter it will no...

i like to leave habitat where it is possible, lots of other creatures benefit from it.

i like to leave habitat where it is possible, lots of other creatures benefit from it

Thanks! Most of the tree was picked butt heavy and vertical but two were picked horizontally. It’s a little deceptive from my pics but they were plenty butt heavy.

We didn’t get blown away and it wasn’t 100

I o no The one I took down already had a bunch of pecker tracks in it There are a lot of acorn woodpeckers there, I don’t know if they are also boreriverous