Pics From The Logging Site This Week

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Nice lookin load of logs, sounds like you have a good system

 

[Adiredneck]

We're waiting for a little snow and colder weather before we start winching. Nice pictures. Stay safe.

 

[john_bud]

All the land I bought had already been logged flat, so I'm still waiting and watching! Good to see you safely and successfully dropping them!

 

[Chilly807]

I've never had much luck with fir around here, at least not with balsam fir. Generally by the time they're big enough to cut for logs they're starting to die out. Spruce seems to be a much hardier local softwood, as is juniper or hemlock.

Same deal here with the weather. I need some frost in the ground and some snow preferably before I start cutting anything.

Sean

 

[crazyal]

My Beech has the same butt rot problem. It amazes me just how far rotted the butt can get and yet still have a healthy canopy. All I have for softwood is Hemlock over here. Usually just leave it alone since it's not large enough to mess with and there's not enough of it. Alwys fun looking at pictures.

 

[creekbend]

I enjoyed the pictures. Thanks for posting.

 

[Thomas]

Good clean operation..keep the updates coming.

 

[Gordon Gould]

When you look at a just logged site it is hard to see it as improvement. But for a working forest and for wildlife habitat diversity it really is. Leaving all that slash lay looks a pretty messy for a while but it is a real magnet for wild life. Every morning I see fresh deer tracks where they have browsed thru the fresh slash and the place is loaded with rabbit tracks. They love fir. In the summer it will be rodents, hawks and more. To me this is the most ecologically sound way to leave a logging site. Our forest soils are already depleted enough. Might as well leave as much as you can for replenishment. Most of the nutrients are in the limbwood and tops. Here are some photos of a similar cut I did two years ago in Oct 2010. The last two are taken from the same spot two years apart. The first is how I left it, the second is this fall two years later. It already looks better and there are a lot of new seedlings started if you could see down in close to the ground.