We did use skyline carriages too. Lordy the air turned blue when the tail hold would come loose on occasion!
I appreciate the info and your perspective.
How big are the bigguns you cut?
Wished I could have saved those old books
900mi in 13 hr 1 way, 3rd time this winter. Math - 5400 mi 😳
Meeeeh
First time I drove that about 22 years ago I swore I never would again. Fate: ROTFL
Of course they were. Trees grew there once, they will again. You know planting is required? Some folks around here don't like clearcuts. They're ugly they say. They're so ignorant they don't realize the patch of reprod next to the clearcut used to be a clearcut.
It's farming, we're...
Afaik, cutting old growth means clear cutting it. And doing that on steep ground with big trees is more destructive to the ground due to the size and weight of the logs. I'm not a fan of any steep ground logging bc afaik it is too destructive, with the possible exception of helo logging. But...
I'm lucky I don't hardly get poison oak. I've cut timber that was 30" in diameter that you couldn't see the bark for 80ft through the poison oak vines, some maybe 2" in diameter.
Point of interest, you guys all say "back chain." All the cutters here call it back barring. You can't cut...
Thanks for the feedback.
Only old growth I've ever cut has been on private ground, or in a burn on government ground widening right of ways for safety. In both cases it has been relatively rare. The 3120 gets run every 2 to 5 years typically.
Again, there are thousands of acres of old growth...
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