couple pics... post what your currently cutting

[BargeMonkey]

That's quite the find out in the woods.. 

[dustintheblood]

BargeMonkey,

You say yer pics aren't forestry, but I disagree.  Now I don't know keel from rudder, but I do know value added wood products, and there's a ton (or whack depending on measurement) of blocking under them big ships.

Gotta be someone somewhere that would love to supply those beasts!  Markets are just under your nose sometimes  8)

[BargeMonkey]

BargeMonkey,

You say yer pics aren't forestry, but I disagree.  Now I don't know keel from rudder, but I do know value added wood products, and there's a ton (or whack depending on measurement) of blocking under them big ships.

Gotta be someone somewhere that would love to supply those beasts!  Markets are just under your nose sometimes  8)

I've tried. Alot of big PA mills compete for the wood down here. I shipped 4 lds of hemlock for the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel project but that's as far as I've gotten into NYC. Talking about sending some bundled wood to the Hamptons, working out the details on that.

[coxy]

years ago I was about 16 and got involved with a guy in putting wood in the man hole cover in the city for a bakery never again what a pain everyone gets paid off    the    gets a big chunk as they close the street    don't remember what part of the city it was in but people are scary acting/looking down there :D

[Wallee]

 

A little urban logging from this past week.

[BargeMonkey]

 Handy looking truck, we had one like that yrs ago we would load with a track loader in a pit you would back into.

[Wallee]

Handy looking truck, we had one like that yrs ago we would load with a track loader in a pit you would back into.

It's a nice truck for sure! We have standards that slide in and extend it about 3 more feet higher. Me and my grandfather use to haul up to 18 tons at a time on it to the mill. She is slow but gets the job done!

[lynde37avery]

 

 

Been cutting white pines big big big. My photo editing makes it look old school but this pic was from no more than 2 weeks ago on my cell phone.

[BargeMonkey]

 Nice WP adds up quick.  ;D. I enjoy seeing the pictures, spent portions of my childhood sitting on a 450B.

[Dave Shepard]

I'll take a trailer load of straight, clean 52 footers, 18" + on the small end. :D

[chevytaHOE5674]

Last fall we processed some big White and Red pine. Cutting 16 and 18' lengths really adds up in a hurry. I'd like to cut some again.

[BargeMonkey]

 I have friends who live out near Fairhaven and Cape cod and I drool at the pine driving out by them. We can find it but it's kind of scattered. Mills down my way don't pay anything for it, I couldn't give red pine away in January, was smaller stuff and I left it.

[thecfarm]

Nice size logs. I had some white pine on my land that was an easy 3 feet across. Most are gone to the sawmill now. They was old and time to go.

[NH-Murph]

Been taking some fat girls out of our woodlot too... Doesn't take many trees to make a load!

  

 

[lumberjack48]

 Here in the Chippewa National Forest in the 60's we cut all the big White Pine on our timber sales. They said it had a disease and they wanted to stop it. I wish i would have counted the big White pine that i cut in the 60's and 70's. The biggest White pine i cut, the first 12' log had a 1000 feet in it. It was all the C5-D wanted. I cut it just south of Lost Lake, it was a ground shaker. I like to watch them when there falling, its like slow motion until they hit the ground. I gave many Porcupines a ride down to the ground. I can't believe they don't get hurt, they just waddle away. 

[1270d]

We  got to cut some fatties last winter as well.  This one was around 125 years old. The bottom log on the forwarder was over 1100 ft

[Sawhand]

Been taking some fat girls out of our woodlot too... Doesn't take many trees to make a load!

  

 

Those are some good size logs. Great looking 518 too!

[NH-Murph]

Been taking some fat girls out of our woodlot too... Doesn't take many trees to make a load!

  

 

Those are some good size logs. Great looking 518 too!

That's a good buddy of mine's 518.  Been well cared for.  The WP harvest is a bit much for me and my tractor, so I hired in a cable crew.  I sure do like watching those big sons of guns tip over though!

[Clark]

Here in the Chippewa National Forest in the 60's we cut all the big White Pine on our timber sales. They said it had a disease and they wanted to stop it. I wish i would have counted the big White pine that i cut in the 60's and 70's. The biggest White pine i cut, the first 12' log had a 1000 feet in it...

That does help explain the near absence of white pine on the Chip. I'm guessing they took a different (and more correct) approach on the Superior. Just yesterday I measured one that was 42" DBH near Echo Lake. This whole conversation reminds me that humans are the greatest limiting factor when it comes to growing large trees.

Clark

[beenthere]

"cut all the big White Pine on our sales" doesn't mean all the big White Pine.

State of WI had a large 300 yr old stand of big White pine on the Flambeau River State Forest, when a straight line wind came through (believe it was 1976) and took it all down. So "correct" way to do it is subject to the weather, and not just humans.  IMO.

[mesquite buckeye]

Yep.. Wind, drought, disease pests, rot, ice storms and who knows what else. If my red oaks get much over high 20"s they degrade inside as fast as they grow or better.

[ga jones]

Well now don't forget we mess up the weather to...with global warming and all. LMAO

[Clark]

"cut all the big White Pine on our sales" doesn't mean all the big White Pine.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that but if you've been to the Chippewa National forest you'd see that you're wrong. Currently we have 16 million acres of forestland in MN, white pine are the dominant tree on 67,000 acres. They cut all of them and they didn't come back very well.

Getting back to my main point. You can refute it by using examples of relatively short-lived tree species and that is fine. Those that grow fast and die young tend to do well when managed by bean counters. My point is that those species that can live for a long time and grow to immense sizes very, very rarely will they  reach their potential. Humans always limit that potential. Menominee might be the one place in North America where trees are managed on a true biological rotation, not just someone's guess at when trees "need" to be cut.

Clark

[barbender]

For the most part, the only old growth white pine you see in this area look like they where trees that the loggers didn't want. Multi-stemmed, or really bushy. There are a few notable exceptions, such as the "Lost 40", but often White pine is just one loner tree left over, actual stands are rare.

[ga jones]

White pine has low value here and grows to its full potential and dies of old age and is blown over all the time. We do cut some in the winter months but a lot stands. With all the hemlock dying that may change soon.