Tips for more Effecient Logging

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By "twitch" I assume you mean "hitch"? I logged professionally for 30 years and this is the first time I've heard a hitch called a twitch unless I'm not applying that correctly.
Now I have heard a "twitch" as a "logging road". We called a skidder revolution a "turn"unless it's now called a "twitch"???
I've been retired from logging for quite a while now so I'm out of date on phraseology.

I hope you're emerging successfully from your cancer road.

 

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They gave me about 50 cord one time and it took 2 years to cut it up and heated with it for 3. All oak, hickory and cherry.

Nice!

 

[Skeans1]

I’ve always heard them called turns as well, there’s X amount of turns on this trail and X amount on the main skid road or trail.

 

[Skeans1]

Good stuff.
...but seeing how this is the internet..
#11: I substitute a 3lb hammer and a couple plastic wedges. They can prevent you getting pinched in the first place and can usually get you out of a bind when you致e guess wrong. It depends on the size of the tree, and forces. I imagine there can be situations where getting the powerhead off a stick bar can be tricky. I also bring a second saw if farther away from home.

Try carrying a 15 wedge in your wedge pouch they double as a pounder/hammer.

#12: Big saw are good for felling and cutting the trunk, but for me that痴 probably only 25-30% of run time. Much more is limbing. I壇 rather carry a lighter saw for trimming and not wear myself out. Your results may very.

It’s going to depend on what you’re doing we limb and buck with large saws all day up to 42” bars much past I’ll pack in two saws normally the “smaller” saw will be wearing a 32 bar to do smaller work or some where you need or want something lighter like up on spring boards.

 

[BrokenTrack]

By "twitch" I assume you mean "hitch"? I logged professionally for 30 years and this is the first time I've heard a hitch called a twitch unless I'm not applying that correctly.
Now I have heard a "twitch" as a "logging road". We called a skidder revolution a "turn"unless it's now called a "twitch"???
I've been retired from logging for quite a while now so I'm out of date on phraseology.

I hope you're emerging successfully from your cancer road.

Here we have always called them "Twitches" as long as they are tree length.

If we go in the woods with a trailer or a forwarder, then it would be, "We got out four trailer loads of wood today", but if you are dragging out tree length wood, then it would be, "We got out ten twitches today."

We have always called that here, and not just by my family, but everyone I know of. It is probably a regional...or at least...a Maine thing. I am sure it started back in the day of horse-logging when someone put together the words "tree" and "hitch", to make "twitch" to differentiate what they were talking about in terms of working their horses.

 

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Here we have always called them "Twitches" as long as they are tree length.

If we go in the woods with a trailer or a forwarder, then it would be, "We got out four trailer loads of wood today", but if you are dragging out tree length wood, then it would be, "We got out ten twitches today."

We have always called that here, and not just by my family, but everyone I know of. It is probably a regional...or at least...a Maine thing. I am sure it started back in the day of horse-logging when someone put together the words "tree" and "hitch", to make "twitch" to differentiate what they were talking about in terms of working their horses.

Today is a different world. Last month I watched a logging company clear-cut a 200 acre sight for a solar field. There wasn't a guy with a chainsaw to be seen. They had 12 pieces of equipment: 2 feller bunchers, two skidders so large I couldn't even take the first step to get on one. A large "bunk" type skidder, a giant de-brancher machine, 4 large excavators and 2 D9- dozers gathering stumps. I asked one of the workers hw long they figured to be here. He said "we aim to get this place baby-*** smooth in less than 8 weeks".

What a contrast to the building of a reservoir here a hundred some-odd years ago. 3000 acres. Mules, wagons, dynamite and 2 man hand saws. Took them 3 years of 12 hr days to clear the land. I believe they made .25 per day

 

[Rustyiron]

Today is a different world. Last month I watched a logging company clear-cut a 200 acre sight for a solar field.

:laughing: perfect

 

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:laughing: perfect

I'd like to blame spell check for that but it is appropriate in its own way.

 

[BrokenTrack]

I'd like to blame spell check for that but it is appropriate in its own way.

Just keep in mind that there is a lot more money in land clearing then in logging because the end-use of the land, justifies the land being cleared in the first place. In that situation, the machines used, are dictated by how fast the landowner wants the land cleared, and at the end of the job, a bill is submitted for getting it done.

You do not get that with logging, because the value of the wood being cut, has to support the costs of the equipment. What a logger gets paid for the wood, and how much it cost him to cut that wood, could be two different things.

 

[Skeans1]

Just keep in mind that there is a lot more money in land clearing then in logging because the end-use of the land, justifies the land being cleared in the first place. In that situation, the machines used, are dictated by how fast the landowner wants the land cleared, and at the end of the job, a bill is submitted for getting it done.

You do not get that with logging, because the value of the wood being cut, has to support the costs of the equipment. What a logger gets paid for the wood, and how much it cost him to cut that wood, could be two different things.

Not always true it depends on what you’re cutting different species of different qualities have different values. Using a processor can sometimes value logs differently then what you I can running a saw on the ground all day long unless it’s a true special order logs where it’s specified in the contract from day one. Another reason the big shift to mechanical logging is insurance I’m not sure what your cutting insurance cost you but mine was almost enough to make the payment a month on a machine.