CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
WEIRD
I know...... Gremlins are about!
I know...... Gremlins are about!
Felling an outlaw
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sawinredneck
Treehouser
WEIRD
I know...... Gremlins are about!
Nope, I fingered it out in my Redmax thread, I was putting it in the movie reel box, not the text box. Head up butt!
Move along, nothing to see here, nothing to see here at all folks, keep moving.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Ohhhhhh.. the renegade left click! That splains it!
Bixler
TreeHouser
old irish
TreeHouser
I may be the only member besides Jerry that has experience with this. I will try to post a few pics. someday. To answer the question: The biggest tree that I fell was a Redwood 18' across. It contained 80,000mbf. We used a Mac.125 go cart with a 6' Cannon bar. It took my partner and I one full day to fell and with both of us bucking one full day to buck. We used a D8 to split the logs with a large steel wedge because they had to be quartered just to load them. It contained approx. 15 loads of logs. We made $800 dollars for the two days work, which wasn't bad for 1979. I still fall timber every day in Montana. If I can answer any more questions about this lost art, I would be happy to. By the way: we regularly had several climbers working, rigging these monsters.
Pat
Pat
sawinredneck
Treehouser
Now that's some history! Thank you for sharing and yes, any pictures you could share would be appreciated!
mardenm
TreeHouser
Old Irish,
Any idea how old the tree was ?
Any idea how old the tree was ?
old irish
TreeHouser
Guys the tree was approximately 2500 years old. Sad? probably to many. I am just a worker bee in a society with demands. Cory I always worked in the woods since I was 17 in N Calif. moved to Montana in the 70's to be a hunting guide, built my own log house by hand and needed to make extra money so went back to the Redwoods and started my own contracting business. I had 25 fallers working for me in 1987 and we cut 70 million in that one year.Now I have my own logging Co. in Montana my partner runs the fellerbuncher and I fall the oversize and do a little climbing etc.
old irish
TreeHouser
In addition this is a great site. I am learning a lot and want to expand my climbing skills. Thanks to Nick and all the other young guys on the climbing and gear forum and to Butch for hosting.
Mick!
TreeHouser
Old Irish, thanks for sharing, if you could rustle up some pics I'm sure we'd all love to see them.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Make yourself at home, brother!
old irish
TreeHouser
Friends one day when I have time I will tell a few stories and learn how to post a few pics. In the meantime I would be happy to answer any questions since everyone here shares their knowledge so generously.
old irish
TreeHouser
Cory I haven't had time to do much this winter because we have had a lot of work. Love to go to Teton Pass and get face shots!
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
Cool Pat. I'm a free heeler myself, are you one of those fixed heelers I always feel sorry for? Lol.
SouthSoundTree
Treehouser
When you're ready to post some pics, people will readily walk you through it.
On a side note, I recently was able to upload smartphone pictures of a printed photo with good results. A lot of good photos could be easy to share in our age of digital cameras and smartphones.
Tangents in threads are normal, and we even get back on track. Frequently, I learn a lot going down all these side roads.
Everybody's friendly here, essentially.
And there is a TreeHouse introduce yourself thread
https://www.masterblasterhome.com/s...official-quot-Welcome-New-Members-quot-thread!
old irish
TreeHouser
Yeah Squisher I still use 3 pins. Without cables. Get some weird looks. But hey, when you are skiing perfect snow why would you need all that fancy gear? Fancy gear is for climbing Right?
old irish
TreeHouser
Thanks Sean I have been following your posts. I know you work in the tall stuff. I used to pack a big set of those Silvey jacks on some steep ground!
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
old irish
TreeHouser
Jomo I don't know him. I would think that he has a cable yarding system mounted to it. That is common for some yarders. I don't think that is anywhere close to where I used to work.Thanks
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
Yarding was my forte. Rigger and choker pig for a lot of years on our coast. Then I got into res work and quickly learned I knew very little actually about climbing. The Treehouse brothers have taught me a lot.
old irish
TreeHouser
No kidding! I have learned a bunch. This site has got me pumped enough to learn the real skills. All that we used to do was spurs, one lanyard and no safety! Many, many miles from any kind of help in steep inaccessible ground. Squisher you probably worked on similar terrain.
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
And with similar equipment. I was trained to unclip to bypass obstacles and all that sort of stupid stuff. The climbing saws were a 272 or a 288. I preferred the axe mostly. Lol.
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