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[BethesdaEC]

na silly boy...this is how you skid trees :laughing: :thumbsup:

A normally aspirated 2 HP motor and I it doesn't even appear to be a diesel.

 

[whodat526]

A normally aspirated 2 HP motor and I it doesn't even appear to be a diesel.

nope looks like pure ethanol

 

[crbr]

Here's a link.

https://picasaweb.google.com/rodcros/LoggingWinterOf2011#

Beautiful barn.

 

[ding2520]

When I read the title of the post I thought for sure that all of the photos would be rotated 90 degrees. At least that is the way most of the women I know take their pictures.

 

[20 20]

Nice logs wish I had atleast one of them, make some great bowls and carvings, not to mention lumber.

 

[DJ54]

The bottom right log appears to be windshook up that far. Hope you can salvage some from the other half...

 

[smstonypoint]

The bottom right log appears to be windshook up that far. Hope you can salvage some from the other half...

Just curious.

What do you mean by "windshook"?

How are you identifying that condition from the photo?

 

[DJ54]

Follow the two splits to the center from the right side. Then note the dark circle out about an inch from the heart. Either that is a dark growth ring, or, when it snapped, it literally pulled the heart of the tree/log loose from the rest of it.

I've seen a few like that, that Dad sawed on his mill, that people brought him that blew down in windstorms. Some snapped off like this one, or some just uprooted, but bowed back and forth so much from the wind, it again, literally pulls the heart out of the tree. Or on outward, and when making a cut, that piece just falls apart. Old timers around here always called it windshook.

 

[smstonypoint]

Follow the two splits to the center from the right side. Then note the dark circle out about an inch from the heart. Either that is a dark growth ring, or, when it snapped, it literally pulled the heart of the tree/log loose from the rest of it.

I've seen a few like that, that Dad sawed on his mill, that people brought him that blew down in windstorms. Some snapped off like this one, or some just uprooted, but bowed back and forth so much from the wind, it again, literally pulls the heart out of the tree. Or on outward, and when making a cut, that piece just falls apart. Old timers around here always called it windshook.

Thanks for the explanation. I had not heard that term used before.

Are some tree species more susceptible to being "windshaken" than others?

Steve

 

[wedge40]

na silly boy...this is how you skid trees :laughing: :thumbsup:

Got local guy who does this and he say's most of his work is from people who want an area thinned, but don't wont it destroyed in the process. Also that 2HP skidder can go up steeper hills than most regular tractors can.

Wedge