The break from the shop drywall finishing was so I could open up the knee walls in the house, pull out the plywood on the’floor’, seal up the wall to ceiling joints and wire intrusions, install soffit vent baffles and now ready to blow in R60 of cellulose.
Thanks! My guy is not the same but he is doing a little better. No this is a smaller golf course and not nearly the same scale. This one is about 20 trees with stumps and most of them are laying on the ground due to a bad storm that rolled thru at the end of their season and they wanted to wait until the ground froze. The other golf course I was hoping to be my first quarter big nut to carry me thru mud season but oh well.Hard breaks, Rajan. Sorry. Was this the same project you were mentioning, or another big golf course project?
I was working in the rain all day and feeling miserable.
Then, as I was having lunch in the truck, with both internal heaters going full ( I have two different systems in my truck, because I apparently don't understand german as well as I should)
I got a call from the forester, we did that Doug fir clear cut for.
Turns out we cut near to 90 cubic meters per man, which for trees that size is so good, that he had a hard time believing we were only 3 guys cutting.
When I cut the excess 4 meters off the logs in the deck, I noticed that the limbing and trimming was as close to perfect as you can get ( There was 8 times I had to cut a broken limb off, on more than 100 logs, beat that anybody!!!!!)
Well, I was not the only one noticing that.
The forester told me that they had a LOT of mature Doug fir going on the market the next years, and made no secret of the fact that he'd want us to log it.
Just the thing I needed on a miserable, rainy day.
The way the pricing system is set up, we really make so much more money on the large conifers than we do on hardwood logging.
My old mentor, legendary faller Paul Plewa, always told me " Do good work, then you'll be the one they call with the good jobs"
The apprentice really did well on this, so he'll be getting a grand of cool cash for x-mas.
Yep, exactly.
Local mill, Jim.
Specializing in custom jobs.
That is why the sticks had to bve so l.,ong.
As I approach retirement I realise that every working day, where one uses the skills that you learnt as a younger man, to get you through the challenges that confront you, till you finish it to the chèque writers satisfaction are a precious commodity.
Wow. 100 ticks. I get 15 or 20 being a farmer and thought that was bad. I have become quite aware of any tickles and catch them before they get attatched.
They say possums eat bunches of em. I been setting live traps out to catch coons. Caught 2 possums and let them go.
Denmark!
We don't even grow enough softwood to fill our own need.
As for hardwood, Beech especially, China, Japoan and Vietnam are the biggest buyers, with Europa next in line.
How steep?Too steep by far.
As Gery Beranek said recently, there will always be a call for hand fallers...........................................................................................on the worst ground!