The Logging Thread

[HolmenTree]

American elm is my best hingers, white spruce 2nd.

I had to re think that. In order: DED American elm, white (paper) birch, black spruce and white spruce.

 

[stig]

Last beech tree of the season:

 

[pantheraba]

Beautiful log. Beeches are one of my favorite trees.

 

[sotc]

Look at you all dapper.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

Is that a hip flask full of schnapps you're holding there Stig? Nice waistcoat too.

 

[pantheraba]

Great description!

 

[stig]

Sadly no, Ed. It is a pair of gloves.
The "Waiscoat" is a 25 year old Helly Hansen fleece vest. Not so dapper after all.
But being one of ( most likely) the two only loggers in the country to wear hickory shirts, adds a little something, I suppose

 

[MasterBlaster]

Isn't fleece a sawdust magnet?

 

[Mick!]

It's a good picture anyway.


Beech is so photogenic!

 

[Thor's Hammer]

I would advise on making a schnapps flask an essential addition to your belt.

 

[Limbrat]

Look at you all dapper.

Indeed!

 

[stig]

Isn't fleece a sawdust magnet?

Yep!
But somehow less of one than my eyes are.

Ed, it is snaps, here.
Schnapps is what they drink south of us.
Tastes way better, actually.

Danish snaps comes from a time of bad alcohol, where you needed something with a lot of taste to cover the flavour of the different alcohols that were distilled along with ethanol.
Kind of like England and gin.

Here we used caraway sedds.

HORRIBLE, I tell ya!

On the rare occasion that i drink snaps, I have a Norwegian " Linie aquavit".

Going across the equator in a sherry cask makes that stuff ever so smooth and mellow.

 

[squisher]

I thought it looked like you were digging into a pack of smokes, looking to get fired on the last day.

 

[FireFighterZero]

I have fired myself before. Asshole always hires me back.

 

[pantheraba]

I'll just laugh...resisting saying too much.

 

[Timber Tramp]

Isn't fleece a sawdust magnet?

No, but sawdust is man glitter. Lol

 

[Timber Tramp]

Last beech tree of the season:View attachment 67324

Nice looking Beech!

 

[stig]

Thanks.
Apart from the twist, it is a prime log.
It was a second generation tree in that stand, so I guess it was actually a "Son of a Beech"

 

[Marc-Antoine]

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

 

[Buddy]

Picture posting test...

Ha, it worked!

 

[cory]

Holy chit, Buddy, bring it on!!

 

[Buddy]

I never took very many logging pictures. I wish I would have taken more but it never seemed like I had the time or the energy.

 

[cory]

Hella pic.

Why is the far side treeless? That seems very much like a Western thing (trees thick as dog hair here but meadows there)but I don't understand what causes that?

 

[Buddy]

Hot, dry and rocky. This picture was taken not to far above the Salmon River in Idaho and it reaches up in the 100's in the summer. Just not an ideal growing site. The north faces are cooler and hold more moisture so they tend to grow more trees.