wood butcher pics

Longun · Feb 4, 2017

summer of "79" right out of the service..

elkassassin · Feb 4, 2017

Hey Longun?

Where Were You Timbering?

That a Yellow Pine?

Longun · Feb 4, 2017

12 ft sitka spruce in alaska

elkassassin · Feb 4, 2017

I Might Hold a State Record!

Not a Big Game Animal though!

A Damn Tree!

Longun · Feb 4, 2017

Modoc County, Northern California...

elkassassin · Feb 4, 2017

You Runnin a Stihl?

Longun · Feb 4, 2017

Yep...Suped up 056's...here's an 090 in Lassen Park..6 ft Sugar Pine

Soj51hopeful · Feb 4, 2017

Really cool pictures!

elkassassin · Feb 4, 2017

Our 1st Good Saw was an 056!

Then I Got a 066 Magnum!

That Top/1st Pic a Yellow Pine?

Longun · Feb 4, 2017

Cuttin Redwooods over in Eelgrasses country by Fortuna..

Longun · Feb 4, 2017

The Top pic is Yellow pine...my favrite trees to cut...cut some over by Mt. Shasta that had 4 33foot logs in them..
Here's my type of firewood tree here in Wyoming...Doug Fir..

Longun · Feb 5, 2017

Have one 066 left....now being an old fart I have a 24 inch bar on a MS311 Stihl....just right for lodgepole and iceHoles at Fontenelle Res....HEHEHHE

Longun · Feb 5, 2017

Here's a nice Yellow Pine Pic for you Elk.....

hank4elk · Feb 5, 2017

Looks like Ponderosa Pine to me.

eelgrass · Feb 5, 2017

Thanks Mike! I never did it professionally, except on the landing, but I was around it enough to grow a healthy respect for the guys who fell trees. It looks pretty easy to the uneducated eye, but there's a lot of danger and pressure involved. All the fallers I was ever around were bigger than life, and as humble and tough as they come.

Thanks for posting Mike!

Longun · Feb 5, 2017

Hank we had nicknames for all species of trees....Yellow Pine=
Ponderosa Pine....

Longun · Feb 5, 2017

LAST EDITED ON Feb-05-17 AT 08:04AM (MST)[p]Piss Fir=White Fir, Alpine Fire
Dong Fir=Douglas Fir
Pecker Poles=Lodge Pole
Red Fir=Shasta Red Fir
Cedro Wooley=Incense Cedar
Wooley Pine=Jeffrey Pine
Red Stain=Hemlock
Piano Wood=Yellow Ceder
Punkin's=Redwood

eelgrass · Feb 5, 2017

Back when I worked in the old growth Redwood, a pecker pole was any tree under about 36" diameter. The fallers would cut them and mostly leave them tree length, then drag them to the landing and pay me scale to buck them. They were after the Punkins.

I worked a deal with one faller one summer. I would buck all his pecker poles if he would cut off a few slabs of redwood burl when he found one. I had a garage full at one time. I made a few things but mostly gave it away to friends.

DeadEyeDick · Feb 5, 2017

Those are some cool pics

NVBighorn · Feb 5, 2017

Great pics longun. I have never done any of that but my hats off those tough m'fers who do.

Makes my back hurt thinking about it.

grosventrehunter · Feb 5, 2017

I grew up in Yreka and it seemed all my buddies dad's were loggers. Some of the toughest, hardest working men I ever met. Thanks for sharing...

Soj51hopeful · Feb 5, 2017

I got a full month 6 days a week putting trees down after the big fire here. Ran around with pros they let me do the cutting. Lost a friend later that year, pro falller dropped a tree and a whippy cedar tree snapped the top out landed on him. He let his guard down after it swung a couple times. 30 years of falling and that's how he punched out. It was a pisser.

eelgrass · Feb 5, 2017

Not to hijacks Longun's thread, but we lost one last year too. It happens way too often.

BeanMan · Feb 5, 2017

Wow! Very cool stuff Longun. My Father grew up in logging camps in Up State New York.

grosventrehunter · Feb 5, 2017

That sitka spruce is amazing. How long would it take to cut a tree like that?

elkassassin · Feb 5, 2017

Most Yellow Pines Ain't Known for Numerous & Big Limbs!

The Biggest One I Ever Cut was Perty Healthy!

The Limbs & Branches were up to 24" in Diameter And many of them!

6-1/2 Cords of Just Limbs!

When This F'R Fell!

Yes it did make some Noise!

Probably Coulda Built a House with it!

A Week after I Cut it the USFS Tacked Signs on all the Big Dead Tree's Claiming they were Wildlife Tree's!

I've had a Few Big Tree's decide to do a Spin Right Before Falling & Fall way different than what the Plan Was!

It Was Always Fun to see one of them Big Boys Fall!

Jagerdad · Feb 5, 2017

I Hunted the Mt. Shasta area and areas North. When I drove on fire roads and heard Fallers working, I Hunted routs where I figured Deer/Bear would escape from. Sometimes I walked up to a Faller. I only carried one canteen and never food or anything but my Rifle or Bow. Every time the Faller offered me his Lunch and liquids. Even back then I only ate once a day and seldom drank but we would sit and ask questions to each other. Usually nothing stopped me from Hunting but accidentally walking into a Faller in the Timber, always has. It became my most favourable memories. No cell phones or Internet back then. Just men in the high timbers.

Those Men + Rodeo Clowns (Personal Friends) + Bronc Riders (Very personal friends since 1st Grade) & Bull Riders were true, Real Men. Strong, Agile and very Humble. Those few whom made it into the Senior Rodeo Calf Roping were there, simply because they still had a working body and, being in that Environment = Family, Friends and Life....at its best.

I now only have one such friend alive. RIP all others.

PS: I "RESPECT" Your Father and YOUR Post.

Jagerdad

hank4elk · Feb 5, 2017

LAST EDITED ON Feb-06-17 AT 07:04AM (MST)[p]I understand the nicknames,sort of Longun.
Have used some my self at times.
But I do chuckle when folks here in NM call juniper,cedars.
I do know what a Incense Cedar & Western Red are and nothing like them here. Sierra Junipers dwarf even the largest Alligator Junipers too.
Even the largest Ponderosa's & Doug Firs are dinks compared to anything I ever saw in CA.
Hell the branches are larger in diameter.They burn good too.

Love my Splated Sugar Pine I got from a buddy milling it.
The tree was in the main Park in Visalia for many years before it died. He fell it & milled in place and I gt some great slabs. The tree was 6'DBH. A Dink.