couple pics... post what your currently cutting

[g_man]

cutting some real nice white pine on former Rockefeller property in central vt. Planted around 1900. Trees are running from 800 to 1400 bdft.  4-5 16FT logs plus pulp. Some of the trees are red rotted which can be disappointing when you bore into them...being hauled with Rottne Rapide forwarder. I will catch some more pictures soon.  We have about 375 of these to cut

Are you clear cutting the old plantation or thinning it in an effort to prolong it's life ?? They have some nice timber in Marsh-Billings assuming that is where you are.

[xalexjx]

cutting some nice hard maple and ash, load I sent lest week around 5500'

Nice load! I could get in trouble with a rig like that in maine!

yup its a large sawmill so they run legal weight, my normal trucker puts on 8-9k on a tractor trailer

[SFires]

 

 

Not sure how many ppl on here clears power line right of ways but for those who do here's a nice little line I'm on. And yes there are live power lines in there if you look hard enough

[chep]

G man,

Yes that is the location.  Stop by for a visit if you want.  It is a thinning with some group selection.  Be done chopping the big stuff by early next week if you are in the area.

[chep]

99 rottne rapid

[mesquite buckeye]

Sfires. Thats what the power lines through my woods look like. The power company abandoned them and just left them as a felling hazard. :(

[lynde37avery]

 

 

[BargeMonkey]

 

 
Fight to tow the loader back in, driveway has turned to mud again. 

    

   should just park my big fuel tank right next to it, she moves wood but has a drinking habit.

[lynde37avery]

 

 

[treefarmer87]

Grade poplar have been cutting

[ga jones]

Good to see your still around treefarmer

[lopet]

Where you've been TF ????

[lynde37avery]

Yea come to think of it i hadent seen any activity from Treefarmer in quite some time. good load!

[so il logger]

 

That is a tree! How long is it? Picture's never do justice but i can tell it is nice diameter as well

[lynde37avery]

Its about 50ft long ash. Got 5 logs out of it. The first log was 24inch on the small end.

[Lumberjohn]

Lynde- you do nice work you didnt even ruffle the leaves from the other 2 trees pulled out in photo .

[jwilly3879]

Some pine logs off the new landing with the trucker's new trailer.



 



 

and a spectator



 

[BargeMonkey]

 I had one of those which would follow me around the header, I think he was holed up in the woodpile. You guys get to cut all the nice pine up there, not alot down here.

[lopet]

Nice trailer and pine.

Such a landing I wouldn't mind either. Mine is all mucked up now. I am afraid it's gonna snow first before it freezes up, like usual .  :(

[ehp]

My landing is very dry and I'm not to far from you

[lopet]

It's in a open field and all black muck. Bush is swamp and not much fun right now. Wrong time to be in there.     And it's my own. :D 

[York Woodwright]

 

Headed to the backwoods to remove some ash trees that had been killed by EAB and were hung up as widow-makers. As well, the forester had marked some Eastern Hemlock that needed to be removed. But this one didn't look like a hemlock to me. When the forester marked my woods, I asked if I had any Black Cherry but she assured me that I didn't. I've never cut a cherry before, but I wonder if I just did. I love making Arts & Crafts furniture with cherry, so I will enjoy milling this log if indeed it is a Black Cherry.
Can someone confirm this identity for me? Thanks!
Charles

[beenthere]

I think you did just cut a cherry... did you run into trouble on the felling notch and back cut?

[York Woodwright]

I was worried about a barber chair as the tree was leaning really badly, which is why it was to be removed, and to make things a bit more difficult, was on a slope (though the slope doesn't show in the picture). I tried a Humbolt felling notch, which wasn't terrific. I wanted to do a boring cut but being a novice (I've cut less than a hundred trees in my lifetime) I was struggling to start the boring cut safely, so I abandoned that idea. And then I realized that my back cut was too low. I was a bit embarrassed to post these images as I realize it was not a clean kill. But I needed help with the tree ID.
I appreciate your reply, beenthere.
Charles

[beenthere]

Not a terrible thing to admit what you were faced with, and real glad you did not get that barberchair... but must have been mighty close.
Practice on that bore cut, as it can be a life saver.. or at least a wood saver.

I often practice the bore cut on a horizontal log at the bucking point, where the top of log is in compression and will pinch the blade if starting cut down from the top.
I bore cut just under the top and leave a bit of wood to act as a wedge.