The Logging Thread

[Tree09]

They do pipelines like that too i guess, I've never seen it but I've had buddies that have done a bunch of it. I kinda wonder who came up with doing that for the first time, and how that conversation went. "Well you see, you're gonna hop on the hoe and drive it off this cliff, and Jimmy here is gonna hold you up with this winch... oh yeah, nothing to worry about, we'll be up here watching you making sure everything is cool"

 

[Mellow]

It worked on the Oregon Trail. It's been a while since I've played, but I seem to recall something about using ropes and winches to get your wagons up and down steep hills.

 

[pete mctree]

In the UK hand cutters seem to be limited to small parcels , oversized edge trees and larger hardwoods. I could not make a living locally just cutting 🙁

 

[stig]

Same here.
Which is why we'll be going to the southern island Møn for 2 months this summer.

 

[cory]

The vid had good info re tethered logging. I've seen a lot of it in various online sources lately.

 

[Burnham]

It worked on the Oregon Trail. It's been a while since I've played, but I seem to recall something about using ropes and winches to get your wagons up and down steep hills.

Laurel Hill, just west of Mt. Hood, on the section of the Oregon Trail Sam Barlow built to avoid running the rapids of the Columbia River. No winches there, only ropes wrapped around trees for friction to slow the descent, and only downhill , Brett.

No one went back east over the Trail, after making it to Oregon .

 

[stikine]

Why go east when you arrive nirvana

 

[Burnham]

Truth. Can you imagine rolling your wagon, livestock, and family into the Willamette Valley, after traversing central Nevada, southern Idaho, and eastern Oregon??? It would have looked like heaven...

 

[gf beranek]

Heaven indeed, Burnam.

One local tribe, the Tolowa, referred to it as the "World". Not that long ago. 4-5 generations. Thousands of years of culture come to a quick and bitter end.

 

[flushcut]

It worked on the Oregon Trail. It's been a while since I've played, but I seem to recall something about using ropes and winches to get your wagons up and down steep hills.

You're lucky! I never got past the river.

 

[gf beranek]

Jump to 1:10

The movie is incredible. No special effects in these scenes. It's the real deal.

 

[cory]

Crazy!

09 gonna freak when he says all that block and tackle

 

[Tree09]

I don't always drag boats through the rainforest, but when i do i wear a white suit

 

[chainsawer4741]

Here are some great logging and forest harvesting magazines.

 

[stig]

I take it that the McGuire family are a machinized operation.

 

[pete mctree]

You still got the big machine Stig? If so how is it working for you

 

[stig]

We still got it, but we are selling it.
The State forests got hit by a " Give it back to nature" thing, that means lots of forests are being taken out of production and turned into "nature", so we've lost our biggest client.

 

[pete mctree]

That’s a shame and very shortsighted of them. It is a growing movement here also, where woodland is seen only as amenity and not as a valuable natural resource.

 

[Tree09]

The "not in my backyard" idea. Everybody needs wood, oil, gas, food, etc, but no one wants to live by it. It's somehow better to exploit everywhere but where it's needed.

 

[SeanKroll]

If people had it in their back yard, they would conserve more/ reduce consumption.


Imagine if you had to keep all your waste on your own property... no landfills.