Office views

[barbender]

This will be my office window for the next 3 weeks-

[Mountaynman]

Back cuttin for a bit bud for me its sittin and spinnin in the logyard after gettin done with the roadbuildin have to see if my woman can get some pics on here pretty busy 15-20 inbounds out of the woods and about the same for outbounds can be quite a site with sometimes 8 or more cranes swingin wood with the selfloaders stay safe my friend

[newoodguy78]

Uh oh barbender is that the machine you got your username from? :D :D 
Enjoy the seat time looks a lot warmer on the inside of the glass than the outside. 

[barbender]

I didn't get my username from a harvester but they definitely give "street cred" when you have a pile of mangled Oregons in the bed of your truck😂

[treemuncher]

Finished up the tornado job from post #268. My customers salvage all of the big wood that they could. I mulched all the stumps and the rest of the junk as well as gave it a good thinning. It was nice to work close to the river for a while. Here is the near finished product as I was making my finish cuts and erasing my tracks:



 

[nativewolf]

I didn't get my username from a harvester but they definitely give "street cred" when you have a pile of mangled Oregons in the bed of your truck😂

 

[Ken]

 



We have made lots of friends the last couple of weeks clearing 40+ acres for a new subdivision in the city.  Been visited by Department of Environment for complaints about cutting too close to a waterway.  Fake news.  Been visited by city officials about noise complaints.  Can't help that.  Been visited by Department of Natural Resources about clearcutting in the city.  Also nothing they could do to stop it as it's private property.  Most of the residential areas surrounding this jobsite had a forest in their backyard for the past 50+ years.  Nobody likes change

[barbender]

Out in a tamarack swamp





Maybe I should say, it was a tamarack swamp😊

[jimbarry]

My office view for 2023



 

[Treecuttermo]

 

 

Had to get some of these old blades sharpened back up. Not much to do with all the rain we've been getting 

[cutterboy]

This was my office for today.



 

     Cutter

[Firewoodjoe]

We had some nice views this morning. Colors must have been almost 100% in some spots. But it started raining and I bet alot has been knocked off now. One of those many wonders you better enjoy fast. 

[SwampDonkey]

Woods is pretty much bald up here except for a few protected maples and some aspen groves. Wasn't very great color this year, leaves turned brown. No frost, lots of rain to. Couldn't see any rocks or gravel in the creek for months, water up into the grass. Cut'n firewood right now, thinning out the junk. Just about every aspen has a dead top, lots died and where just dry snags with 3/4 of the stem rotten on ground. Leaving lots of small hardwood (maple, ash) and of course there is all kinds of spruce. Thinned it 18 years ago. Getting some rails from the spruce tops for wet crossings, work great with a brush mat down first. I use some for fence posts in the garden, surprising they last a long time. Been using some posts for 4 years and still solid. They just lay on the ground all fall and winter. Bark left on, the woodpeckers like to look for bark beetles when they are holding the fencing up. There's probably a few hundred in every post, as they are tiny as ground black pepper. :D I'd need to use a flash bulb for a photo in my woods. Having a lot of 40 foot spruce growing close makes it kinda dark. Never see the sun all day. :D Zero undergrowth to. 

[Nebraska]

Had a late afternoon call Sunday. Thought my office looked pretty good thought I should drag this thread back up.   Photos were taken a few minutes apart. Took a bit and was thankful. 

[nopoint]

Nice Pics. One of the things I like about having a phone/camera glued to ones self is when something like this comes along you don't miss it! There will always be the missed photos that one regrets. My most vivid was driving past a Taco Bell. Sign says closed for remodeling. 3/4 of the building was crushed and there was an oversized excavator seconds away from taking the last munch out of the front of the building..... No camera...  Oh well... 

[aigheadish]

I don't know if this is appropriate to mention in today's society or with today's workforces, but nopoint your Taco Bell mention reminded me that I once saw a Taco Bell being constructed by a bunch of white guys, I don't have political feelings about that, just thought it was interesting.

[beenthere]

A "bunch of white guys" can't build a Taco Bell ??

[Old Greenhorn]

The general assumption here is that they don't know nuttin' about making tacos, so how can thy build a taco shop?

[aigheadish]

I guess they can build one but around here if someone wants something built it's usually Mexicans that do the best, least expensive, and fastest work, and the taco shop aspect Tom mentioned!

[cutterboy]

This has been my office for the last few days cutting beech for firewood. My old tractor with a load of firewood in the woods with all the leaves on the ground is a beautiful sight to me.

[SwampDonkey]

Those big rounds make less handling on the front end and yield a lot of firewood sticks on the back end.    Beech is easy splitting compared to yellow birch.

[thecfarm]

Yellow birch is easy splitting compared to elm. 

[SwampDonkey]

Yep. I don't use elm. But tamarack is just as tough and I do burn that. I have to chainsaw split it. 

[Magicman]

Elm is spiral grain and has a mind of it's own, both while trying to split and as flat lumber.  Beautiful inside but it gives up only what it wants to give.

[doc henderson]

We love mulberry and oak, but we burn some elm.  all about the same for BTUs.  about 25 million per cord.  You just have to have a splitter that is meaner than the elm.