What are you cutting 2024? - pics welcome

[Nealm66]

I'm struggling to get any pictures. That old guy is right on my tail. He had me take a 4' cut to try and clear up some rot and then I took a 7 and it finally did. I'll make some fence boards and some blocks of wood for a buddy that wants to practice making some bases for base guitars. This is some of the better inland/lowland cedar I've cut actually. It's not near as good as what quilbilly will have on the coast. We won't be back till Monday so going back to do some milling but Monday I'll be done and get a few pictures

[okmulch]

This one is shorter but a better picture. 

[Nebraska]

That is tall for ERC. 

[barbender]

One thing I found with ERC- those limbs are nasty! You'd have to wear armor to hand fall them😂

[doc henderson]

I use my Stihl pole saw to limb them up.  nice if you have someone to pull the limbs as you cut.  if you fall them with all the limbs on, that is a pain as half are trapped under.

[BargeMonkey]

Perfect nice flat ground. The ledge gets worse the further you go up, come up from the bottom and blow a road in, my father cut the adjoining lot in 1978 and using his path out thru the ledges, couldnt pay me to cut jobs like this with a 440.


 Turn the corner and it DROPS off.

 Blow a road down over the bank and up between the ledges.

[BargeMonkey]

 Honey it's gonna be fine, just back over the bank 😆 she was less than impressed. 

Finish this one in a couple days, have a decent wall of wood, go around the other side and clap 5-6 adjoining. 

 Just crawl right in... 

[BargeMonkey]

So I guess the strike is over for now. Media did the best they could to make the ILA president out to be evil, I work for the biggest scab boat company on the east coast and agree with him 100%. I was part of  local 333 for 15yrs, till the feds came in and raided it, and it became the joke that's MMP.


 12 more days of freedom, be back for 28.

 Told him he falls in we will go to the grocery store and replace him with an immigrant. We finally have some good deckhands.

[teakwood]

Men those ERC sure have some nasty limbs, doesn't look like good saw logs!?

Nice pics Eric!

Managed to get 35 mid sized trees to the sawmill, in Rainseason!

[okmulch]

That's why we grind ERC for mulch and then make our cedar fiber bedding out of the them. This 200 acres of cedar I am cutting have really nice looking logs but 98 percent of them are rotten so grind them it is! 

  

[aigheadish]

Neat to see pictures of the operation okmulch! Your dad(?) was talking about some of it to me but I didn't really understand, I think he was talking about that beast in the field. 

[SwampDonkey]

I'll take ledge over boulders. Lot easier stepping around those ledge with a clearing saw. But no fun stepping on boulders and rocks with both hands on handle bars. I refuse them blocks now, I got wise. 

[mudfarmer]

, couldnt pay me to cut jobs like this with a 440.

Nahh you can't fool me that easy. You can take the man out of a 440 but you can't take the "20 bucks is 20 bucks" out of a man 🤑🤠

Diesel refill at the store last night $1 more than beer refill

[BargeMonkey]

20.00 is 20.00 🤷😆....

 Eh, another day at the coal mines... Timbco will cut 90% of the wood on this job but I need the exercise.



 Tractor supply sells a copy of a VP race jug now, the big and little ones. Not sure how many of you guys have seen them but the small ones make the ideal saw gas jug.

[BargeMonkey]

 It all adds up. Hopefully swing this job by end of next week, move to the other side. 


Most of the hemlock going for pulpwood, I'm not being nice about cutting it. 

[mudfarmer]

Hemlock pulp, you got me there. Might as well sell the 440 and head to the beach for a few months 

[BargeMonkey]

30.00 a ton loaded, not a get rich thing but it helps. Going to have this job clapped in a couple days, be a decent pile of wood for 4-5 days.


 Right to the limit of cut and carry with something that size, trying to keep them off the line.

Get the fat kid out of the cab 😆 Tomorrow get into the bigger stuff.

[mudfarmer]

https://youtu.be/1wgzttRiWlw?feature=shared


"Just one more tree" strikes again. It is getting wet and I have enough out, going to shut it down and knock out last few acres this winter and it will all go to my mill for once 



This pig of a stump is a long way from the end of my cable and not allowed to go off the trails 

[teakwood]

Men, thanks for the link, I really enjoyed that song!! I love old music

Just went back and listened to the song for about 5 times until I understood all the lyrics. And it touched something in me you can probably only understand if you're a logger!!! Thanks again, what a great song!

[cutterboy]

mudfarmer, I'm glad I'm not the only one.

[olcowhand]

mudfarmer, I'm glad I'm not the only one.

No pics, but you all are not the only two......

[Old Greenhorn]

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"

If you haven't hung one, you haven't cut much.

[Resonator]

Cable, chain, come-along winch, pulley, ratchet strap, keep any or all of theses handy for such occurrences. Best ones are when you leave to get something to pull it down, and return to find the tree has untangled itself and is on the ground.

[mudfarmer]

broke 3x 5/16" high grade chains, 1x 3/8" g70 choker, 2x 15k lb break strength 'tree saver' straps and wasted a bunch of time getting that one down. A ratchet strap probably would not have helped The maple it was hung in ended up partially uprooted. Sadly not allowed to leave trees hung up to let them come down naturally as people recreate in this area. It wouldn't have come down on its own for a longgg time anyway. 

Got 2x 10ft and 1x 8ft "prime" grade logs plus a mess of firewood out of it so not all was lost. Most of them are not such a big deal especially with skidder winch, being so far from the trail really added to the PITA factor. The tractor/winch has been a little light to get some down in the past if a big tree and hung real bad.


"Hang in there, baby!"

[barbender]

 When I get one hung, I try to save it for when I have a big hardwood. Then try to drop the crotch of said hardwood into the crotch of another big hardwood. Why mess around? Hang them up proper!😁

 I have taken to a 12 gauge and duck loads to shoot the stem off of one thus hung up before. It had to come down, and there was no other way I could think of. I tried pulling it loose with a skidder winch, which was only going to snap off the tree it was hung up in🤷