Oregon timber falling

[Gypo]

Heres a video I made of me and my partner last spring. Just realized I never showed you folks.



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[treebilly]

Good stuff. Am I right in guessing these trees are on a tree farm so to speak?

 

[Gypo]

Yup. Belong to a large timber company.

Thanks for the fix MB. You da man!

 

[MasterBlaster]

No problemo, brother.

 

[SeanKroll]

Good video.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Seen your video before. Not long after you were there I am thinking. Cant remember where though.. Maybe just a You Tube link.
Good stuff man.

 

[Sgriff]

I was thinking the exact same as I watched it,nonetheless,Excellent work.

 

[sotc]

Fast wood, fun job. Why did you downhill everything? Was it mostly left tree length or did you buck it all?

 

[gf beranek]

Looks like a tree length show, Willy. Just take a butt-log off the bigger ones.

 

[sotc]

Kinda what i figured. Grapple carriage would be ideal there

 

[gf beranek]

Down the Hill!

 

[sotc]

Haha, watch em slide! I'd hate to down hill skid that though

 

[Gypo]

We tripped most of it. Had to take a run off anything over 24". They were yarding it up the hill with a Thunderbird yarder. Standing skyline and an Acme carriage.

 

[cory]

Gotta love how gravity took care of most of the limbing.

 

[sotc]

We tripped most of it. Had to take a run off anything over 24". They were yarding it up the hill with a Thunderbird yarder. Standing skyline and an Acme carriage.

:cool:

 

[stig]

Wish we still got to fall stuff like that.
Today it is all harvested.
The days of hand logging are fast coming to an end, here.

 

[Gypo]

There are a lot of mechanized sides here too. I'd say its about half and half. Most of the mechanized stuff is done during the summer here when its dry. Cable (yarder) logging goes year round.

This unit had some nice trees, but we often cut timber that is smaller, and sometimes significantly bigger. Spent a summer cutting in Alaska too. The timber up there is bigger, but most of it wasnt very good stuff.