Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Sawyer Rob]

What's your helpers excuse? You are setting an bad example!!! lol

SR

 

[Yogi05]

What's your helpers excuse? You are setting an bad example!!! lol

SR

I'm guessing inexperience. I suppose if that's what he saw me do, then yeah.
I can't complain about help too much. He's just a guy I know who happened to be around and asked if I needed some help.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Teach him the proper way to cut them, and have him cut them. No sense in loosing the best part of the logs! lol

SR

 

[Skeans1]

[mention]Sawyer Rob [/mention] low enough?

 

[Yogi05]

Teach him the proper way to cut them, and have him cut them. No sense in loosing the best part of the logs! lol

SR

I'll try. If he is ever around to help again.

 

[Skeans1]

5% of total volume is in that first foot of tree, and it’s generally the clearest.

How much is lost to conventional faces?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

[mention]Sawyer Rob [/mention] low enough?

That's about how I cut them, as long as they aren't full of mud...

SR

 

[ultrarunner]

That's about how I cut them, as long as they aren't full of mud...

SR

When I spent a day logging in Austria all stumps were left flush with grade and one of the reasons the cutter was always busy.

You could have used the stumps as stepping stones.

He had a big Fendt tractor and trailer with grapple arm and winch with blocks...

The landowners tend to be very particular and leaving a clean worksite is essential for repeat business...

Never seen commercial logging in North America with stumps at grade.

 

[Yogi05]

Maybe I'm tired, maybe I'm simple, but what difference does 1 or even 2 feet make to loss of the best part of the log when you're cutting for beams?
Or even if you were doing dressed boards?
If you start at the stump end and cut a 10 foot board, isn't the first foot the best and the other 9 feet lesser?
Legit question. I'm not grasping the concept.

 

[Skeans1]

Maybe I'm tired, maybe I'm simple, but what difference does 1 or even 2 feet make to loss of the best part of the log when you're cutting for beams?
Or even if you were doing dressed boards?
If you start at the stump end and cut a 10 foot board, isn't the first foot the best and the other 9 feet lesser?
Legit question. I'm not grasping the concept.

Has to do with you loose some extra board footage of over run.