Sometimes the best laid plans of men and mice and so on.
We had to drop planting because we got 4" of snow.
So back to logging, which is no fun with everything covered in wet snow.
Every time a tree goes down, it is followed by a shitload of snow.
We were WET!!
Sometimes the best laid plans of men and mice and so on.
We had to drop planting because we got 4" of snow.
So back to logging, which is no fun with everything covered in wet snow.
Every time a tree goes down, it is followed by a shitload of snow.
We were WET!!
Meh, at least you weren't logging in the mud or rain...looks pretty nice overall.
The harvester had left one fine Norway Spruce behind............to thick for the poor lil' fellow.
So the forester asked my new apprentice to grab a saw, hike out and fell it, limb it and buck it to shipping container lengths...............bound for China.
Felling big trees really cranks her up, the bigger, the better.
Funnily enough, she tried to get out of falling a skinny 100 foot birch with no top weight.
It'll hang up on me, was the reason.
So I told her, I set you to thinning those Birch, because you are precise.
Just stand it on two stamp size hinge corners so it'll gain some momentum and drop it between the little Beech and the maple, it'll go down.
That was a lay less than a meter across, 30 meters out.
I hid behind a fat Beech to see how she did.
Slammed it right in the middle of the lay and I mean RIGHT in the middle.
She could have hammered a nail in with that tree.
As we were walking up for lunch, I asked her if that didn't feel pretty good................................yep, sure did!
Nope, I always wear a helmet like this when logging.
Not that model and no radio ( I get enough noise from the saw) but with the whatever you call it in the back.
Looks like Mine is having fun Stig!
The flap on the back of a helmet we call a neck flap.
Battling wet weather and a resurgence of Covid here, my groundie is is out for a week or so. It's being treated like having the flu, just don't come to work sick.
Chipper feed wheel hydraulic motor spat the dummy on Thursday...sigh, wait for parts.
work in my own garden while things sort out.
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