Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[lilranch2001]

Look at all of the dead redwoods laying on the forest floor that will go to waste......

 

[Industrial Toys]

I dragged a bunch of fallen pines out of my (pre-commercial thinned) forest this last weekend to make a fire and clean things up. My better sense of the environment told me, they would have served best, rotting in place for the nutrition of trees to come. I could have put them through my 15" chipper, but the FIRE was just too much fun!

 

[lilranch2001]

My forester told me that the wood has little to no nutritional value, all the nutritional value is in the bark

 

[Industrial Toys]

That's a new one on me. What of the value of biomass in general?

 

[lilranch2001]

I have no idea, he seemed knowledgeable and believable is all I know.

I was asking if it is healthier for my woods to clean the dead wood or let it lay, and that was his response.

 

[MossRoad]

Photo caption: "20 ft. diameter Sequoia gigantea was felled in 1947 and worked up into 7700 7-ft. fence posts."

I could look through this photo collection for hours. Located in a library at University of California, Berkeley.

"About this Collection:
The Fritz-Metcalf Photograph Collection is a group of about 9000 photographs relating primarily to forestry, conservation, and the lumber industry in California and the United States. Subjects include logging operations, logging equipment, reforestation, forest research, fire protection, lumber mills, and the activities of the University of California's School of Forestry. The photographs were taken from 1906 to 1984."

Cool pics. Thanks for the link. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[goeduck]

Just that it's a shame and crime that all that non replaceable old growth forest was destroyed. For what? Mostly just mindless consumerism and profit.

Well I grew up watching the old growth forests cut down and shipped overseas. Logging truck after logging truck after logging truck hauled to the log yard. Then ship after ship after ship of logs went from here to overseas. It is a shame the old growth forests were depleted. Back in the day a tree under 3 feet diameter was a weed. Now they harvest 12 inch trees. I am not a greenie but old huge timber created an ecosystem pole forests cannot compete with. I think we needed to keep more old growth.

 

[Chilliwack Murray]

And now for a picture of someone towing something wrong.

You certainly can’t fault is tie down methods though.

 

[two_bit_score]

1000 pages in this thread!! Woot!

My counter only shows 251 pages.


TBS

 

[lilranch2001]

mine says 1001