The Official Work Pictures Thread

[stig]

Just thought I'd show what a lazy bore cutter can do with a 20" bar.

There was one tree in the stand that was way bigger than therest.
No idea why, it didn't seem like it was old enough to belong to the previous generation in the area.
Lot of vigour is my guess.

Anyway, I had the choice between hiking all the way out to the truck for a bigger saw for that one tree or whittling it down with what I had.

Laziness won.

 

[BIGTWIG]

Looks about like working in the Mission SF.

Bigtwig is that for Fuel Reduction?

@Bodean

Yes sir, fuels reduction and doing what we can to help the Whitebark Pines.

 

[Bodean]

Nice. Good effort… wildfire really ruins things quickly…. So much prescribed burning and thinning needed.
Those poor tree roots in Max’s pics, outriggers and loaders in the mud over the root zone…. Maybe it’s no big deal… I watched a bobcat do Brodie’s around a Chinese elm tree under the canopy…. four years later you’d never know. Some trees can handle root disturbance.

 

[flushcut]

The ground is probably still frozen. Frozen ground here in Wisco means bombs away with no damage regardless of how big it is. It’s quite something seeing 8 foot by 20” diameter oak logs bounce off of the ground like they were on a trampoline.

 

[stig]

That is what I really miss after climate change ate our winters.

Logging big hardwoods on frozen ground.

Today you sometimed need a spade for bucking the log, they bury themselves that deep.

 

[Mellow]

That is what I really miss after climate change ate our winters.

Please, keep your political views out of the Work Pictures thread. Thank you! Carry on.

 

[flushcut]

IMO climate change isn’t political unless the phrase is uttered by a politician wanting to tax something.

 

[Maximalist]

Today the weather is good - sunny -2*C

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[Bermy]

Please, keep your political views out of the Work Pictures thread. Thank you! Carry on.

The climate is changing, patterns are shifting, as they have been since the dawn of time. What's political is the debate around the cause and possible 'cures'.
Carry on.

 

[SeanKroll]

Planted my 4 varieties of pears.

Full southern exposure, on an otherwise hard to use sloping area, next to the sloping area I couldn't use as it is reserved for sledding.

 

[Bermy]

What's in the background? Scrub or a planting?

 

[Sven]

Please, keep your political views out of the Work Pictures thread. Thank you! Carry on.

How is that political?

 

[Nutball]

I think Mellow is poking fun at how Stig can overreact about something that wasn't intended to be political as being political.

 

[stig]

Was I overreacting?
Then what category does Brian's ( as per usual) complete screaming hissy fit belong to?

Of course biting the head off of anybody who doesn't love his Orange x president is just standard practice with Brian, so no overreaction there.

When I was a young logger, 45 years ago, we had hard frost down to minus 25 Celcius in winter.
These days we hardly have frost at all.
A good example is the Redwood that a Karate student brought me from California.
The first few years it would freeze back every winter, but now it is 20 feet tall.
So obviously the climate has changed.
I completely fail to see any political intention in saying that.

 

[Ryan]

Here's a short vid from my last year working with a tree service (2007). A moment's diversion for anyone who's interested.

 

[flushcut]

Bring in more redwoods make Denmark the next California! It is changing so why not shake things up in the future. Those trees have little trees and the cycle continues. I not trying to be funny or wise just saying why not morph with the change. Who knows in a thousand years you can be attributed to the saving of a species creating costal redwood forests in Denmark,

 

[gf beranek]

Ha ha.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

California, the next petrified forest state park.

 

[flushcut]

“Society grows great when men plant trees who’s shade they will never sit under”

 

[Burnham]

Until a fire burns those young trees to the ground...then maybe not so much .

Apologies, I must be a bit blue tonight. It still happens from time to time. I suppose it always will.

 

[SeanKroll]

That's a sad reality, Burnham.

I wish it hadn't happened.

Brutal.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Depressing. I get real down when I work or drive through a burn scar in a place I used to cherish for camping and such. Hell, just drive round the bend from my little green nest.

 

[SeanKroll]

Until a fire burns those young trees to the ground...then maybe not so much .

Apologies, I must be a bit blue tonight. It still happens from time to time. I suppose it always will.

Consider 12 legs in the house instead of 4.

Presumably, 2 wagging tails, total.

 

[Burnham]

That's not bad advice, Sean .

 

[Maximalist]

A lot of wires -
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