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I'm a happy mixture, like most of us. I started out Euc and got some oaky tendencies over the years. I'm still too much of a logger type to enjoy pruning jobs, though. So probably mostly euc, still. Sometimes there is a tree where you just have to forget all the fancy shit, Euc up, and put it...

Interesting that it was 3 englishmen who read Chris's post as being angry/confrontative. Must be a cultural thing:lol: It doesn't extend to Scandinavia, I simply thought it was nice that somebody spoke up for the eucmen in the profession.

Of course it will. I just thought this was a forum for professional saw users. That is why I didn't understand the concern about tip cutting.

What is wrong with using the tip of your bar? As a veteran borecutter, I use the tip constantly.

Find a young girlfriend, go to another country and start over:D Just for the record, she is 3 months younger than me.

Indeed.

Burnham, I've planted with the hoedad in California back in my wetback days. They use it in Germany as well, but I never liked it for our flat ground. Traditionally we've used a shortened drainage spade, but that sucker is heavy as hell and very taxing on the left shoulder ( from lifting it), so...

Bend your legs, not your back. Also it is good to ease into it, like maybe start out by doing 800 a day for a couple of days, when the season starts. That is the number that pays a decent days wages, which is why we always aim for 1000. On good soil I can set 1000 in about 6½ hrs, then I quit...

Yup. It is all about rythm and cutting away unnecessary moves. Usually apprentices will hit the 1000 mark after a few weeks ( Maybe because I tell them , that someone who can't stick 1000 trees in the ground a day has no place in the woods:lol:)

In a flat country like this, it ain't that bad. We usually manage to plant about 1000 a day per person. I imagine it is a somewhat different scenario around Mount Hood.

If you add a zero to that, you get the number that I have personally stuck in the ground, ballpark figure.

Gary, they are doing the opposite of stump shot. Purposely making the tree run backwards off the stump. The vertical "blade" is to make sure it stays on the uphill side of the stump, or it'll be useless as an avalance barrier. Going up for a hike in the Berner alps yesterday, I passed several...

We plant about 7-10 times as many as we kill. Keeps our karma good. Nick, I knew you weren't dissing loggers. I just felt like pulling your chain a bit.:)

"It always stinks to cut down perfectly healthy, living trees" Beg your pardon, but some of us are loggers. That pretty much describes what I do for a living!

Working alone in a tree I'll always make sure someone, usually Richard, has the address and call in at a set time or when I'm done. We do the same thing when logging. SMS each other at fixed intervals 4 times in the day. I once got my foot pinched by a rolling log while winter logging. That was...

When I worked for the forest service I got sent out to fell a dead oak on a camp ground. Turned out it needed to be pulled, but I didn't have a winch with me. So I assembled all the campers, about 20 adults and at least as many children and had them pull the rope, backed well p with wedges. When...

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Great find, gary. I've shared it with some logging buddies.

Deadbeat more likely!

'Bout the most ridiculous way of felling a tree I've ever seen. And running apprentices for 20 years, I've seen a few. Absolutely no reason for farting around with wedges like that and not enough wind to make bore cutting necessary. No wonder he couldn't wedge it over with that chunk of hinge...