Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[goeduck]

There’s not a lot of wood like this left around anymore other then on State and Federal lands but of it is all dead. When you see a truck now they’re all small wood loads it’s sad to see the rotation of the industrial get down to an age that’s not the best for everything.

Very true, I grew up when it was not uncommon to see just a few trees load up a truck, sometimes just 1 or 2.

I once read an old logging book that said anything under 3 feet in diameter was a weed, not worth bothering with.

Early logging photos show the taming — and tarnishing — of Washington state’s old-growth forests

Darius Kinsey documented turn of the century tree cutters in all their gritty glory

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[Skeans1]

Very true, I grew up when it was not uncommon to see just a few trees load up a truck, sometimes just 1 or 2.

I once read an old logging book that said anything under 3 feet in diameter was a weed, not worth bothering with.

I would think the last time cheese blocks were used would be when the Mount decided to blow her top. It’s amazing how time has changed 32” is the magic butt size anymore unless it’s going to a special mill then you’re lucky if it’s 60”.

 

[Citydude]

Some thinning yesterday before the frost comes out of the ground.

 

[arrow]

Food for thought you can have unmatching cuts on the stump and not barber chair if you know what you’re doing. .

Two things: 1. Your example for a notch sway directional cut not necessarily barber chairing is not what I mean. I mean that when your wedge top cut is either over running your bottom cut or comes underneath. You want that "V" to meet. A "swing dutchman" let alone a full "dutchman" is a dangerous style cut for the layman imo.
2. Many people on this forum do not know what we're talking about listing the "names" of cut style.
Not only that, depending on the area people live in, what certain nomenclatures are understood in one area, are called a different thing in another.
For instance, I've heard a "hitch" of logs called a"twitch" of logs.
What might you think a "beaver cut" is? It's what we called an inexperienced homeowners cut. I've seen a hundred times however when the a cutter attempts to angle the felling cut to match the bottom angle of a wedge cut.

 

[arrow]

That’s because the timber is smaller, the insurance for a hand faller is crazy to put it nicely, and setting chokers behind a skidder is a quick way to go out of business.

I don’t touch my chains in the brush never have and probably never will I can swap a chain before a guy can file one. The guy who works for me running a grapple track skidder runs a 20 inch bar by the time he does a stroke I can have a 36 or 32 swapped. The other reason is I don’t run round grind cutter they’re all square ground it’s a lot faster, smoother, and it’s easier on the power head.

One had to do something while awaiting the turn. I found sq grnd chains advantageous for stands of soft wood. Some guys liked it for oak but filing was easier with semi.
I only swapped chains when I damaged one. I would do my grinding at night when I got home.
Also, they're were no grapple skidders at our company when i was logging.
I never drove one but to this day, I always thought it handy to drop a hitch and reel it back in when a skidder was balky on a terrain.
We never got into grapple skidders mostly because we weren't able to really create a "bunch" of logs. Feller/bunchers were like science fiction. The first anti vibe saws I didn't use until 1980-81. New England woods were tight and dense. Land owners particularly wanted their woods less damaged so haul outs had to be more surgical unless we were clear cutting.

Can you imagine clear cutting a 200 acre parcel with 2 skidders and 4 guys with chainsaws?

Logging is simply a different world now from when I was doing it as was "Western logging".

 

[Skeans1]

Two things: 1. Your example for a notch sway directional cut not necessarily barber chairing is not what I mean. I mean that when your wedge top cut is either over running your bottom cut or comes underneath. You want that "V" to meet. A "swing dutchman" let alone a full "dutchman" is a dangerous style cut for the layman imo.
2. Many people on this forum do not know what we're talking about listing the "names" of cut style.
Not only that, depending on the area people live in, what certain nomenclatures are understood in one area, are called a different thing in another.
For instance, I've heard a "hitch" of logs called a"twitch" of logs.
What might you think a "beaver cut" is? It's what we called an inexperienced homeowners cut. I've seen a hundred times however when the a cutter attempts to angle the felling cut to match the bottom angle of a wedge cut.

Beaver cut? We call them farmers cuts another good one is GOL the Swedish stump dance of death is another one that are a good chuckle.

A hitch a twitch and then there’s turns of logs.

I don’t disagree with you but if they don’t know what they are and don’t know the names then they can’t look up what it means and the effects for it.

 

[Skeans1]

One had to do something while awaiting the turn. I found sq grnd chains advantageous for stands of soft wood. Some guys liked it for oak but filing was easier with semi.
I only swapped chains when I damaged one. I would do my grinding at night when I got home.
Also, they're were no grapple skidders at our company when i was logging.
I never drove one but to this day, I always thought it handy to drop a hitch and reel it back in when a skidder was balky on a terrain.
We never got into grapple skidders mostly because we weren't able to really create a "bunch" of logs. Feller/bunchers were like science fiction. The first anti vibe saws I didn't use until 1980-81. New England woods were tight and dense. Land owners particularly wanted their woods less damaged so haul outs had to be more surgical unless we were clear cutting.

Can you imagine clear cutting a 200 acre parcel with 2 skidders and 4 guys with chainsaws?

Logging is simply a different world now from when I was doing it as was "Western logging".

I remember the big clear cuts here they were normally high lead shows sometimes cat/skidder ground. Even back in the 70’s you’d see grapple cats/skidders out here. All these pictures of mine are pretty much of thinning I hardly clear cut and it’s all done with a grapple single arch cat you learn to bunch as they come up. We had buncher out in the 60’s the Wet coast has always been very advanced in comparison to the east coast.

 

[keony]

2. Many people on this forum do not know what we're talking about listing the "names" of cut style.
Not only that, depending on the area people live in, what certain nomenclatures are understood in one area, are called a different thing in another.

Good point. I for one (never a professional) don't know what "barber chair" means? Sounds bad from the context...

 

[Skeans1]

Good point. I for one (never a professional) don't know what "barber chair" means? Sounds bad from the context...

Barber chair is when a tree splits out the back well you’re cutting it.

 

[John_Mc]

Barberchair: