SouthSoundTree
Treehouser
Pays the bills...and that's a good thing. You can't play with a Gehl loader everyday, right?
I tractored a whole mess of chips up to an preservation project that I'm spearheading with my supervisor. There's a 5-6' DF in the middle of the one Park's group camps. Huge thing, and pretty old. We've ringed that tree and another group with logs, as a clear "island" boarder, and will have native shrubs and cedars (laminated root rot in the area, so planting an immune species) planted, and thereby do some decompacting in the process. Mulch the root zone, prevent further compaction, provide benches on the logs. Going to try to cut out some social trails, designate other trails, clearly define an access trail from the parking lot and roads. And get this, signage and interpretation, something sadly lacking from the Park system.
Easy enough day after wading through some bureaucracy in the early morning. Short day, as we worked extra while out of town.
Came home, after buying a wire rope block for trees and some compost, soil, and grass seed for the yard. Got my 12K winch electrical connections dialed in for an elm pullover tomorrow. Parks has taught me the power of winching trees. The elm won't have to be pulled too hard, but that power will come in nicely when I have a 36" fir back leaning fir to pull over. This will be the first good pulling since I got my mount well settled on the front bumper.
I underbid the elm, but hope the lumber will be worth it. I don't know much of anything about wing bark elm, but its rare around here.
I tractored a whole mess of chips up to an preservation project that I'm spearheading with my supervisor. There's a 5-6' DF in the middle of the one Park's group camps. Huge thing, and pretty old. We've ringed that tree and another group with logs, as a clear "island" boarder, and will have native shrubs and cedars (laminated root rot in the area, so planting an immune species) planted, and thereby do some decompacting in the process. Mulch the root zone, prevent further compaction, provide benches on the logs. Going to try to cut out some social trails, designate other trails, clearly define an access trail from the parking lot and roads. And get this, signage and interpretation, something sadly lacking from the Park system.
Easy enough day after wading through some bureaucracy in the early morning. Short day, as we worked extra while out of town.
Came home, after buying a wire rope block for trees and some compost, soil, and grass seed for the yard. Got my 12K winch electrical connections dialed in for an elm pullover tomorrow. Parks has taught me the power of winching trees. The elm won't have to be pulled too hard, but that power will come in nicely when I have a 36" fir back leaning fir to pull over. This will be the first good pulling since I got my mount well settled on the front bumper.
I underbid the elm, but hope the lumber will be worth it. I don't know much of anything about wing bark elm, but its rare around here.
That's the third lot. ](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/vbulletin/eusa_wall.gif "Brick wall ](*,)")
3 foot DBH between two post 8 foot apart.. I laughed when it was down and smiled at the HO.. "See", I said, "room enough for at least another log and 1/2 in there... 
It looks lonely. All those apartments and not one head sticking out telling you to stop the noise, pretty amazing.
