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Bodean
Cali dreamer
Dang, good pic.
Isn't rot seen as gestalt?
Isn't rot seen as gestalt?
August Hunicke
TreeHouser
I am embarrassed to say that I am not familiar with that term. Even if the log was sound all the way through it would likely be firewood the way I operate.
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Bodean
Cali dreamer
I love a fire!
Bring heat to the people.
Many jobs I buck'em up to 16" rounds, and they're gone quick.
Bring heat to the people.
Many jobs I buck'em up to 16" rounds, and they're gone quick.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
John Malkovitch... 
That was just funny right there...
Most people, living in Frisco would probably say white rabbit...
That was just funny right there...
Most people, living in Frisco would probably say white rabbit...
SouthSoundTree
Treehouser
ge·stalt
gəˈSHtält,-ˈSHtôlt/Submit
nounPSYCHOLOGY
an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts.
Rot makes it pretty, if solid enough to be stable. Like spalting.
August, amongst treemen, you're probably the oddball to know Gestalt. I only learned about it through a previous career with hood in the woods, Gestalt Therapy. Just take it all in as a whole, or sumthin'.
SouthSoundTree
Treehouser
That sucks for him. Sounds like a vibrating tendonitis-maker, wrist-ruiner. My chuck and duck isn't fancy or newish, even by a long, long, long shot, almost my age, but its F(*&ing hungry and dependable, and FAST. Cheap and light, too.
I would re-buy my chipper in a heart-beat. No less than 5000 hours on it by a longshot, as the hour meter sticks.
I'm interested in a feed-wheel chipper for the mini, but 9"x 16" throat, Chrysler 318 V8, swivel/ telescoping/ adjustable height chute, with an adjustable deflector (been meaning to attached a piece of round duct to make a neater pile or fill big rollie bins to return mulch right away). If someone is looking for a cheap chipper, that era of FMC/ Wayne seems bomber.
Most chuck and ducks as small throated and stationary chuted
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
MasterBlaster
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Timbah!!!
pantheraba
More biners!!!
Interesting colors in that wood...browns, rust,, grays, "whites" in the heartwood. Is the camera color true?
SouthSoundTree
Treehouser
Fungal stain, I'd GUESS. Blue Stain fungus in pine happens. http://www.buffalo-lumber.com/projects/blue-stain-pine-wood-home.htm
SimplyArbor
TreeHouser
fungus from Mountain Pine Beetle.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Yup... beetle kill.... blue fungus among us.
Tucker943
Bamboo Plantation Owner
My first was a FMC C16.....
That animal would take limbs, not branches. Wouldn't fill a truck tight as it wasn't a high rpm machine. But it was unlike any other chuck n duck. Wasn't violent, had a lot of power, and you could throw an 8" maple limb in there and the engine wouldn't even wind down.
pantheraba
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Sean....very good link...that wood and house with blue stain pine is worth looking at. So, Stephen...can you sell that log to be milled for the beautiful wood that the blue stain fungus makes...the ambers, rose, yellow, browns, grays are awesome.
Or is there so much around there that one more log is not a big deal?
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Poderosa is not all that desirable, especially with blue staining. If I ever get a mill, I would use it in a hear beat for like barn siding or something. Two HOs are probably going to harvest that one for fire wood, or it will sit and rot in the National Forest/BLM land.
pantheraba
More biners!!!
Got it...thanks for the get back.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
YVW Gary.
Rule of thumb here where I am is ... low elevation trees are not real desirable. That one lived at about 4200 feet. They prefer over 5000.
That one would have taken the house it was leaning toward next year collapsing under it's own weight. Even if only the top 1/2 broke out...
Rule of thumb here where I am is ... low elevation trees are not real desirable. That one lived at about 4200 feet. They prefer over 5000.
That one would have taken the house it was leaning toward next year collapsing under it's own weight. Even if only the top 1/2 broke out...
HolmenTree
Banned
Stephen , I'll teach you a little trick. As your pic shows with your wedge laying on the stump. Always drive your wedge in the kerf with the barbs down onto the stump.
Double wedge , barbs top and bottom.
I saw a lot of that Ponderosa pine with pine beetle last summer in the Black Hills. Real shame....Mount Rushmore Ponderosa pines were sprayed to save them at $15 a tree average.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
That was just a placed wedge Willard. It started as a needle gauge and the hard heads are what I was driving. Pull rope did most the work.
Thanks for the tip though
Thanks for the tip though
HolmenTree
Banned
It looked like it did the job.................just thought I'd throw it out there about the barbs.
Haven't used Hardheads for years....too darn heavy and the caps keep breaking off.
Haven't used Hardheads for years....too darn heavy and the caps keep breaking off.
Merle Nelson
TreeHouser
Why barbs down?
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
SO they can be stacked if needed Merle, barbs won't get in the way.
HolmenTree
Banned
The stump is the anchor in the wedging process, as the wedge lifts the tree the top smooth side slides with the movement of the moving tree.
The barbs on the bottom grab onto the stump.
I only learnt that a couple of years ago myself.
Mick!
TreeHouser
Well, the things I didn't know that I didn't know.
