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    Production Falling - Bucking length Tolerance?

    Richard and I logged a bunch of Larch about 15 years ago. One of us had a tape measure that was off by 2". ( We never found out which of us it was, because by the time the complaint from the mill rolled in, we had both switched tapes) That meant they downgraded the entire shipment to the...
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    Production Falling - Bucking length Tolerance?

    Short logs and firewood are stacked here and scaled photographically. They take a picture of both ends of the stack, a computer programme configurates it into solid mass. Hard to cheat with that. Been years and years since I've had a scaling dispute. Still feel cheated...
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    Production Falling - Bucking length Tolerance?

    That chapter really hit home with me. I remember reading it for the first time and thinking: " Yes, yes, that is it exactly". Every time I get a new apprentice, I lend them my copy of High Climbers and Timber fallers, and it totally blows their little minds away :lol:
  4. stig

    Production Falling - Bucking length Tolerance?

    Who do they work for? The forest owners or the mills.
  5. stig

    Production Falling - Bucking length Tolerance?

    Trim is simply the mills way of stealing from the fallers. Free wood for the mill.
  6. stig

    Production Falling - Bucking length Tolerance?

    +- 2" for flooring logs. +- 8" for container logs.
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