What Do You All Do..and explain

Janel · September 14, 2003, 09:17:11 PM

question is....since am finding this is a vast subject.....what do each of you do.....in what segment of forestry....and explain what in intails......as you can tell I am just learning
:P
Thank you in advance.......
J

biziedizie · September 14, 2003, 09:34:38 PM

  What do we do as in our full time jobs??? Or is this question for the guys that work in the woods full time???

  Well for me my job is very fullfillin....Know when ya drive down the road and ya see that bum sitting on the corner with the tin cup selling pens??? Well that's me :D :D :D
  See that Lexus across the street from me??? Well that's mine as my welfare checks pay for that 8) :D :D
  The money that I get pan handling buys me beer and smokes and crab legs for dinner :D :D :D

  K I'm gonna stop now before I fall off my chair ;)

   Steve

CHARLIE · September 14, 2003, 09:38:12 PM

I retired a year and a half ago after 33 1/2 years with IBM Corp and now I enjoy taking logs, cutting them into bowl blanks and turning them into bowls or other woodturned objects. It's fun taking something that might be destined for firewood and making something that just might become a keepsake.

Janel · September 14, 2003, 09:47:47 PM

this is for Bizzzz.etc........I have read many of your post.....you do lead an intersting life..one that has made me smile while learnin......
am talkin anytime working with wood......forestry......and if just part time why...why is the sideline
J

Texas Ranger · September 14, 2003, 09:48:45 PM

I am but a simple forester, working my way through life, planting trees, cutting trees, doing theft investigation, estate division, etc. On the side, I build furniture and refinish the old stuff that comes my way. Still working the woods. I also practice the fine art of the raconteur, when the sun is down and the scotch is up. But then, most forestrs are gentle philosophers at heart. ;D

Janel · September 14, 2003, 09:49:59 PM

Charlie
you create with wood....when you first said bowl blanks...thought that was something I hadnt learned yet.....but if am right you create out of wood......the artist.....
J

Janel · September 14, 2003, 09:52:53 PM

this is for Don
how to you replant...what you cut...I mean to me it seems alot more cutting.....and takes year for the replant........not an activist or anything..an I appreciate the replanting.......but seems that would take so long...to replenish what is taken
J

Tom · September 14, 2003, 09:57:22 PM

Retired and live on a 45 acre tree farm growing pine trees. Own a custom sawing business too. www.tomssaw.com

It's a shame more members don't have complete profiles. You could get a lot of information about their life from that too.

Texas Ranger · September 14, 2003, 09:59:47 PM

It is a growing cycle, we plant one thousand for every hundred we cut. Often, we selective cut, remove only some of the mature pines, and leave the rest to grow, but some folks are into plantation growth. I'm in the south, Texas, and we supply alot of fiber to the US, and structual materials, when we are not out done by the foreign inports. 15 to 20 years minumum in the cycle, so I plant for the next generations, as do most foresters. We are the origianl environmentalist, I have slept under beech trees in Germany that were well over 150 years old, and at the time had another 50 to 100 years to go in their cycle, a lond dead foresters ghost probably kept me up those nights trying to explain his managment plan, or it could have been the moment.

biziedizie · September 14, 2003, 10:17:31 PM

Janel ok I get it now

K I own a small construction company and I really enjoy what I do, it's fun and I like being my own boss

I (sometimes) like my customers but sometimes the stress of it all takes it's toll :

I've always wanted a mill since I saw a WM in action at a wood show in Powell River 8) It took me 3 years of research till I bought a mill but I'm glad that I got one as when I'm alone with it and I can't hear the fones ring

There's something about being alone with a mill and a log that can't be put into words. When I'm at the mill I feel alive and the whole world disappears and I get intune with my inner dimensions of my soul and my mind

I feel happy and content and that's makes me feel like a human again.
I enjoy the people that drop off logs and I like how they will just stand there quietly and watch in aww as their log is being cut up, I think it takes them away to a different world aswell for that brief fleeting moment and that sticks with them well after the boards are loaded into the truck.
  We also have a very large shop and you saw the boat that we have nearly completed. We make wooden pens and also make them out of deer antlers. My dad who lives on the same property makes bowls and all sorts of other stuff and I'm gonna post some pics of his stuff as it's very unique.
  As I believe in protecting the environment nothing from the mill goes to waste, everything is sold or used for sellable projects. What can't be used goes into the woodstove as that's the only source of heat that I have.


   Steve

Janel · September 14, 2003, 10:23:21 PM

Bizzz
Niceeeeeee......post.....yes you answered exactly what I asked..........an inhence...you will make me research more.......thank youuuuu
J

Janel · September 14, 2003, 10:26:12 PM

Tom

Great site.....thank you......I cant get your photo albums to work though....would like to

J

BW_Williams · September 14, 2003, 10:43:41 PM

Janel, just a part timer sawyer, my paying job has got me desk bound and FF helps me make thru the shift. As far as more cutting, in the PNW more trees die and rot than are milled, not counting fire. Have you every seen a sawmill town die? 2 commercial mills within 10 miles of my front door are gone due to the Spotted Owl, they used to run 3 shifts. I look out my kitchen window at thousands of BFT dying due to Bark Beetle, USFS is having are hard time finding bidders. These trees have made our (and I mean all US taxpayers) forest a timebomb, if not addressed now they will burn. That's how I got into this game, I cut the trees and mill on site. I'm busier than I want to be. BTW I think your chip trailers are cool. BWW

Janel · September 14, 2003, 11:06:38 PM

BW
ok am slow learner stop the FF,PNW..but I think I understand
what you said..but now please say more......slow learner here ......ty
J

Jason_WI · September 14, 2003, 11:29:49 PM

FF = forestry forum

PNW = pacific northwest

Jeff · September 15, 2003, 03:15:16 AM

Janel,

Its a little after 5 oclock in the Morning and I am on my way out the door to do what I have done since I was a teen ager. Go to the sawmill and saw lumber. I'll come back and make a post after the sawmill hours and post what my other job is. I learned a while back not to try to write to much in the morning as up mixed gets everything.

RavioliKid · September 15, 2003, 04:39:22 AM

Janel -

I am a third grade teacher. I'm not directly involved with forestry, but I've done some interesting projects with my students through the years.

I just happen to like trees and wood and the people who like the same things I do, so that is why I hang around here.

What do you do?

Tom · September 15, 2003, 05:29:28 AM

I don't know what problems you had with the phoo albums on my site but it might be real simple. You have to click on two things. the first is on the stump to get tho the picture page. the second is the link in the upper right that opens the album software. Then you can pick an album.

www.tomssaw.com

How do you keep the side doors shut on the dumps to hold the load?

Den Socling · September 15, 2003, 05:45:33 AM

Tom,

The links are broken for me, also. Your computer may be showing the albums from memory, I would guess.

Den

Bibbyman · September 15, 2003, 06:12:40 AM

Works for me. Maybe it's fixed now.

Here is the link to just the album.

Tom's Photo Gallery

Den Socling · September 15, 2003, 07:51:40 AM

I was a dummy :

I clicked on password protected family photo albums.

Den Socling · September 15, 2003, 07:58:22 AM

Tom,

I always felt comfortable in power slides with my feet on the pegs but I wonder about a guy in your bike pictures. Did the guy in dayst 05 recover?

Den

Tom · September 15, 2003, 09:20:51 AM

:DNo, I don't think so. :D He's a fixin' to get his leathers dirty.

I always felt comfortable with the power screwed on and tire hanging out if the bike was fairly upright. When it heels over so that you see the rear tire out of the corner of eye trying to pass you then my foot comes out. :D I even developed a style, for awhile, where I stood on my left foot and was off of the bike. It felt real good but I realized one day that I could be in real trouble if my foot caught on something like a rut. It wouldn't take much. I put my feet back on the pegs again.

Have you ever ridden behind a big thumper? I was on a TR6 one day in Griffin Georgia and couldn't pass a brand-new Matchless 600 thumper. Everytime that thing fired it threw clay and rocks in my face. I could actually feel the engine pulses I think. Man that hurt. I put my front wheel inside of his back wheel to get out of the rooster tail and just hoped he would do something wrong.so I could get by. He didn't. From then on, I tried to beat the big thumpers to the first turn.

One of my favorites is MC001 which is on page ten now. Yep, he recovered.

Den Socling · September 15, 2003, 10:16:32 AM

Yeah, I've eaten some dirt. Looking at the pictures reminded me that we used to race wearing tee shirts! geez!I looked at MC001 and didn't think it possible that he recovered. I thought he was too far off center. We used to race in strip mines and reclaimation. Sometimes, I'd go over the top with my butt above my head but I would USUALLY land on the seat.