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Hornbeam.

Good for him the grain was so knotty or he'd have had himself a barberchair.

And???

With that much pressure on the stem, probably the best outcome he could gave hoped for.

I'm about to plant 40,000 of them, they'll look dead until spring. Makes it kinda hard to judge the quality of the seedlings. On spruce and fir you can tell by the color of the needles if they are in good shape, Larch just looks like little sticks. I'm guessing from that stupid wedge, that the...

Yep!

I don't get it. He had a long enough bar to reach through from one side and plenty of stem thickness to bore and trip it.

Hinges, we don't need no stinking hinges!

If I ran around a tree as many times as this guy in order to fell it, maybe I should swich to being paid by mileage instead of cubic meters.

Retirement age here is 67. That is me next month. Got no plans about retiring, there are still plenty of trees need felling and plenty of apprentices need teaching.

Teach them to sharpen a saw, maybe.

Just get enough people pulling. That is how they buildt the bronce age graves here. Some of the top rocks are over 20 tons. They were going to set a rock like that up as a landmark in Lejre. Decided to do it right. Buildt a sled and had all 120 kids from the local school pull. Worked a charm...

As in :" I nailed a rethread to my feet and prayed for better weather"?

Yep and yep!

I'm guessing he doesn't have to limb and buck those.

Would it be a schoolmarm with 3 legs? A Martian one, maybe.

Spiking is not aimed at the sawyer, but at the mill saws.

Now, that is out of the box.

Out of the box tecnique for sure.

Why'nt you come log with me once. Bet you anything I can outdance you, even at my age. What you see in instructional videos is NOT how we do it in real life. In fact the forestry school has sometimes taken classes out to see us work, with the words: " Now you have been taught to do it in the...