The Humboldt is primarily for speed of production

[stikine]

David, your chicken scratch is way better than Kyle's 😁. A lot of it is about the root flare and the logging system that is going to be used. If you can locate the hinge near the root flare then you minimize any scale loss because that area is outside of the scaling cylinder, which is measured down from the smaller diameter of the upper log end.

Ground based logging systems definitely like low stumps. Cable is slightly more tolerant of a higher stump (at least around here).

 

[Tree09]

It is 😔








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[lxskllr]

Don't feel bad Kyle. Between the two of us, we could put on the world's worst art show. My drawings at work are the stuff of legend :^D

 

[Ed L]

I use a Humbolt most of the time...mainly for the stump shot. It helps get the tree away from the stump, thats important for me using a tractor.

Ed

 

[davidwyby]

Don't feel bad Kyle. Between the two of us, we could put on the world's worst art show. My drawings at work are the stuff of legend :^D

I should show you guys this drawing of a drive shaft one of my guys made

 

[davidwyby]

Usually when the two cuts are compared, they are drawn symmetrically, one up and one down.
In real life, a Humboldt tends to be less open and deeper and a conventional more vertical, open, and shallow.

Proponents of the Humboldt say that the conventional wastes wood off the butt log.

Guys who are harvesting hardwood with conventionals cut the face quite shallow and vertical. If you look at the log from the end once felled, you realize the what they took off is within the first cut to be milled off the log, scrap.