Tree felling vids

[cory]

 

[davidwyby]

How about another good one from my buddy Dan?

 

[davidwyby]

@gf beranek when did steel felling wedges go away? Dan found one a while back and was wondering. He’s pushing 60, been cutting all his life.

 

[Mick!]

How about another good one from my buddy Dan?

What’s the plan afterwards, Is the wood ruined or can it be used?
Will there be replanting?

 

[davidwyby]

What’s the plan afterwards, Is the wood ruined or can it be used?
Will there be replanting?

It’s fire salvage lumber, I imagine replanted. @Burnham could probably tell us more.

 

[davidwyby]

…or @MatthewMMeckley

 

[davidwyby]

The weight distribution looks ok, he must have just really screwed it up.

 

[stig]

Out of the box tecnique for sure.

 

[Burnham]

I can't tell at all what the cuts look like...which is too bad. Greatly reduces the ridicule we can bring to bear .

 

[flushcut]

Guys! Don’t be silly. The truck was put there to protect the gravel drive from divots.

 

[stig]

Now, that is out of the box.

 

[flushcut]

Better to go full Murphy. Lol

 

[gf beranek]

There's some doosys' on the next.

 

[davidwyby]

Oh, cheese….

 

[gf beranek]

Yeah, a skit. Never get away with that in real life.

Back in the day I helped extract a few tree sitters from their perches. Some over 200 feet up.

Over a period of two years we removed over 50 sitters. Plus their platforms and garbage.

I knew some of them by name, as we took a few out of the trees at least several times.

It was kind of funny sometimes. Reminding of the cartoon of the sheep dog and coyote changing work shifts.

In all the extractions no one was ever physically hurt. Not withstanding one's pride.

Some of those protesters were cool and even tempered. Though most were outwardly assholes.

 

[Burnham]

That's the way it was.

 

[Kaveman]

I'd really like some of those stories guys...

My mother in law was a Sierra Club protester, until she caught them "Spiking" trees. Which she never explained but I always assumed that they drove big spikes into the trees to screw up chains and such. Apparently she left the organization and reported her former friends. The thought of someone getting hurt, by something she or they did, just didn't sit well with Pam, and she did the right thing. Again, I don't know what "Spiking" a tree means, or how it could pose a danger to a sawyer, but I'd love to be enlightened. This took place in NorCal, so @Burnham and @gf beranek should know something, I'd hope.

 

[stig]

Spiking is not aimed at the sawyer, but at the mill saws.

 

[Altissimus]

Has killed people in the Mills when saws break into shrapnel , Kave there's a great old thread here somewhere about those days ... great but I don't remember the title

 

[Burnham]

Remember the Timber Wars?

I'm sure a lot of you guys/gals here remember how bad it got in the 1980s and 1990s with the protests over logging. Even though I'm from the East coast and have only logged in New Hampshire (without any protesters), I still remember what happened on the West coast and always felt bad for the...

www.masterblasterhome.com

 

[Burnham]

https://www.masterblasterhome.com/threads/dealing-with-hippies-new-age-tree-nutters.18633/page-12#post-707766

 

[cory]

Gotta love the thread title, @Mick!

 

[Mick!]

Gotta love the thread title, @Mick!

Was a throwaway joke thread that developed into a bit of a classic.

 

[cory]

 

[Mick!]

Gréât stuff for a Monday morning, thanks Cory