Logger walked off the job yesterday.

[dmccarty]

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I can't wait to see these things at work. View attachment 465983

The company that bought our trees had one cutter and two skidders. The machines where HUGE! :shocked: The tires were as tall as my truck and I think they could have driven OVER my full size truck and not really noticed. I stayed out of their way. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

The cutter makes a very distinctive sound, even before cutting. I heard a logging operation to our south west they other day. Once you have heard that sound of the machines it is pretty obvious. The machines they used at our place could cut a 30+ inch diameter pine tree that was very tall, hold that tree on the machine while it drove to a spot to lay down the tree. Most impressive. They had to cut some trees near a power line and they were really careful. :thumbsup:

This was smaller power line with no connections but you still would not want to drop a tree on it. The foreman said they were logging near a larger power line right of way and he walked a tree into the transmission lines. :confused2::shocked: Not sure how much that cost to fix, but nobody was hurt, the equipment was ok, and he kept his job.

The poor foreman, he was really good guy, could never win though. The logging company was owned by two partners. They liked to use carbide tips on the cutters but if you chipped the carbide you need to replace the teeth. I can't remember the cost of one of the teeth but it was expensive, $100? :confused3:. Anyway, one of the partners would tell the foreman to cut the tree well above the ground to minimize the chance of chipping the carbide. The other partner will tell the foreman to cut close to the ground to get as much wood as he could. One partner wanted to minimize expenses and the other wanted maximize revenue. Poor foreman could never be right. :laughing::laughing::laughing: You could tell which partner had been on site by how low/high the stumps were cut....

Later,
Dan

 

[Coyote machine]

The company that bought our trees had one cutter and two skidders. The machines where HUGE! :shocked: The tires were as tall as my truck and I think they could have driven OVER my full size truck and not really noticed. I stayed out of their way. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

The cutter makes a very distinctive sound, even before cutting. I heard a logging operation to our south west they other day. Once you have heard that sound of the machines it is pretty obvious. The machines they used at our place could cut a 30+ inch diameter pine tree that was very tall, hold that tree on the machine while it drove to a spot to lay down the tree. Most impressive. They had to cut some trees near a power line and they were really careful.
This was smaller power line with no connections but you still would not want to drop a tree on it. The foreman said they were logging near a larger power line right of way and he walked a tree into the transmission lines. :confused2::shocked: Not sure how much that cost to fix, but nobody was hurt, the equipment was ok, and he kept his job.

The poor foreman, he was really good guy, could never win though. The logging company was owned by two partners. They liked to use carbide tips on the cutters but if you chipped the carbide you need to replace the teeth. I can't remember the cost of one of the teeth but it was expensive, $100? :confused3:. Anyway, one of the partners would tell the foreman to cut the tree well above the ground to minimize the chance of chipping the carbide. The other partner will tell the foreman to cut close to the ground to get as much wood as he could. One partner wanted to minimize expenses and the other wanted maximize revenue. Poor foreman could never be right. :laughing::laughing::laughing: You could tell which partner had been on site by how low/high the stumps were cut....

Later,
Dan

If I were the foreman, I'd have cut each first tree close and the second one high!

Hitting high tension wires is a good way to die, lucky no one got fried...

 

[Old Guy in Tenn]

I will be talking to the logger today and asking if they can bulldoze some of that debris off once they get their landing opened up this week.

Our Forester cautioned us against pushing the brush into piles. Said that if left on the ground it will all melt away in 2 - 3 years, but if piled up will be there forever. It has been 2 1/2 years, and the stuff on the ground is almost gone. Anything that was propped up off the ground is still there. We are planning a long work weekend in May to get everything onto the ground so the forest can take it back.

 

[teejk]

Our Forester cautioned us against pushing the brush into piles. Said that if left on the ground it will all melt away in 2 - 3 years, but if piled up will be there forever. It has been 2 1/2 years, and the stuff on the ground is almost gone. Anything that was propped up off the ground is still there. We are planning a long work weekend in May to get everything onto the ground so the forest can take it back.

The DNR has been logging heavily around here for a few years now. Planted pines from the post-depression era but the goal now is to return the land to "native" sand-prairie (until the next DNR regime takes over and we'll be back to pines). They took the logs but "piled" the junk with the intention of burning them. The fires burned out with little success...the piles are still there and probably will be forever (even pine).

 

[WoodChuckDad]

I assure you that my slash piles will not be there forever. I'm waiting till things green up around here, then I'm gonna do some burns. Nothing retarded....no burning man fantasies, but that crap will reduced to ash.

 

[turnkey4099]

The DNR has been logging heavily around here for a few years now. Planted pines from the post-depression era but the goal now is to return the land to "native" sand-prairie (until the next DNR regime takes over and we'll be back to pines). They took the logs but "piled" the junk with the intention of burning them. The fires burned out with little success...the piles are still there and probably will be forever (even pine).

I'm currently working a "clean-up" job to have something to do. Get to use a Case bulldozer with 4-way blade and brushgard. Landowner thought I was going to continue his type of clean-up, i.e., doze it all into piles. Nope. Do tht and you and your kids will live with the mess. I pile and burn the brush. He now has two huge piles. When I finish cleaning up, I will tackle pulling the piles apart and burning...if I still have any ambition.

So far I have used that dozer just twice to pull two logs into better position for bucking.

 

[Coyote machine]

I'm down with burning, see my avatar. I pile everything in the middle of one of my fields and when conditions are right burn away. When done, nothing is left.
I use the same area each time, and it works fantastic. Having a log grapple helps get it all into a massive burn pile. I use a couple of hay bales and a small amount of diesel and a backpack blower to get it burning. YMMV.

BTW, I also always have a burn permit from the fire warden, prior to any burns, it's law, and protects me from potential liability. I've been doing burns since 1986.

 

[turnkey4099]

Out here one is not allowed to burn large piles, latest "proposal" last year was to restrict them to 4x4x4'

Piling big piles works, dozing entire logs and lots of brush/dirt does not.

 

[teejk]

Out here one is not allowed to burn large piles, latest "proposal" last year was to restrict them to 4x4x4'

Piling big piles works, dozing entire logs and lots of brush/dirt does not.

Here too...and only with a permit and then permitted hours are 6pm-12am when the DNR web-site says it's ok (I'm usually in for the day).

 

[DT86]

4x4x4 is hardly big enough fire for a Girl Scout camp.