My camera is on the fritz, 80% chance I'll get a fuzzy photo. I think I knocked a lense out of alignment. Time for a new one.
I only took two pictures at Firedog's. The heat fried my brain.
His driveway needed to have it's center marked so I thought I'd do it for him.
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This is the only photo I got of Firedog. I cut up these redwoods for fencing, and furniture. The loggers cut them down by mistake.
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So how does a person cut a tree down by mistake? There has got to be an underlining story in this one. ;D
Quote from: Kirk Allen on July 23, 2005, 09:34:00 AM
So how does a person cut a tree down by mistake? There has got to be an underlining story in this one. ;D
Come up here and I'll put you to work felling white spruce. I'll tell you that there's a storm coming so you have to hurry a bit and I'll make sure there are a few balsam fir mixed in the grove. I'll bet that you'll have several fir layed down before you quit. The needles look similar and the bark of an older fir looks like the bark of a white spruce at the bottom of the tree. By the trird day, you won't make the mistake again.
Why? Is there a learning curve, a big fine or do you get whopped on the head? :D :D
I had 11 Coastal Redwoods located at my gate area. I was having the property logged (clearcut) They told me to flag any trees that I wanted to stay, so I flagged all of the redwoods. THen we got to looking at the area the trucks were going to have to pull out of the gate and the logger figured we would have to cut one or two so the trucks could make the swing onto the county road. I said no problem, since we need to get the trucks out and could deal with losing a couple. So I show up a few days later and all that is left of my redwoods is two smaller trees. I was about sick since these trees were planted by my grandfather and he had passed away a couple years ago. Not much I can do at that point since the trees were down, my forester figured the tree faller running the faller buncher just got in cutting mode and wasn't paying attention. I never did ask him since it was going to matter at that point.
So I told the logers that all the redwoods stayed for my use. I built the gate that I have pictured below out of them and also put in posts to the road. So in memory of my Grandfather I got some use out of them.
I will post a few pictures when I get home again, working yesterday aand today so I won't be home again till tomorrow. (https://forestryforum.com/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.comcast.net%2F%7Emjgetch%2Fcabin_pictures_082.jpg&hash=180a1f54105fa546fbacd87164704f3de82b99a6)
Here are a few of the pictures I took while Gilman was up at my place.
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FIRE DOG; WHAT DOES SW STAND FOR.iM CURIOUS SEEING I lived there over 10yrs.in the banana belt,web feet and all that.Very good steelhead fishing till Judge Bolt gave half the steelhead and salmon to the natives.
SW= Southwest,
I live in Vancouver and spend lots of time up at my place on the Kalama. Born and raised in Portland, moved across the river last year. Steelhead fishing is still up and down some years better than others. Springer fishing was pretty much a bust this year.
Firedog,
What happened to that neet stack of lumber you had in the back of your truck? :o I thought the heat was just getting to me. :)
It was fun trying to get the most out of those logs for Firedog. I did make one mistake of leaving the toe board up once. I calculated I lost him two 2 x 6's from that log. Frustrates me when I make a mistake on a customer's logs.
See ya'll next weekend, be gone for a week.
Thanks again Firedog, I had fun despite the SUN.
David, When I realized we had a lot more lumber than I expected. I started grading the 2x6's. The best ones in a pile for picnic tables and such and the rougher ones for the fence. The pile kind of got messy at that point and it was to hot to try and straighten out. :)
You did a great job getting the most out of the logs. Way more than I thought we were going to get. Now I have a lot of projects to do once they dry.
Thanks again.
S.W. COULD ALSO MEAN sedrowoolley ;D thats where I lived for 11yrs. thats to bad about the fishing.I was a slave to it for 3+ months in the winter.I had mostly cedar on one place and a mix on the other. I went from there to Minn. then to east TeX. It seems you have to learn all over again.Now I have a mill,had to move 3 times to finally get one.I miss the old growth cedar shakes I used to make my own,used culled bowling pins to hit the froe(??)