Logging White Pine

[Drilling Man]

 It was a sunny nice day out yesterday so my nephue and i headed to the woods to harvest some white pine...  We soon managed to get several tree's on the ground,
 

 

 
  And after i bucked the logs out of them, i started skidding them to my 4 wheeled wagon and loading them in it,
 

 

 
  With all the logs loaded, we headed up "sugar sand hill" with the VERY heavy load, where my tractor spun all 4 wheels clawing it's way to the top, barely making it...
 

 
   but we did make it, and kept on going, out to the road to head home,
 

 
  Next step will be to mill those logs to a materials list i have...

  DM

[Zulu]

Drilling Man,
You are amazing as usual.  I really appreciate someone else posting some pictures on this forum!  It does take time but everyone gets to see something they otherwise wouldn't see.
Zulu

[Bucker]

Drilling Man what is that long orange pole beside your saw and downed tree in the picture. For my camp I use only felled trees for heating and rarely cut an upright one.  You ought to see us trying to pull some of those logs w/ a quad to where we can work them.  I recently rebuilt a buckboard trailer for cutting smaller lengths and loading them onto it.  Your tractor is the cat's meow man!

[Drilling Man]

  It's called a "timberjack", and it helps to get the tree to fall where you want it to.  It "extends" with GREAT force when you turn the handle on it...



  I use it mostly when i have a tree that i don't think will "want" to fall in the direction "i" want it to fall.  Also, it really helps on those days that there's a breeze, that can change everything as your felling...

  DM

[bilmac]

Never heard of such a thing, I'm gonna have to make me one. I've got several trees that I'm going to have to fell against the lean. I expect it would be very helpful when your saw gets pinched too.

[Graybeard]

Professional loggers use wedges and when things are really bad a hydraulic jack to fell them where they want them to go. Those guys amaze me at where they can make a tree fall compared to where it wants to go due to wind or natural lean. Me I just try to make sure nothing is close enough to be damaged when it don't go where I had hoped.

When I was taking out the pines in my front yard area many years ago after we first moved here I found out the hard way I'm not real good at making big trees do other than what they want to do.

[bilmac]

Broadleafs are a lot harder than conifers. Danged things grow every which direction. I cleared about 2 acres in Alaska, mixed aspen and spruce, all small stuff. I got pretty good making the spruces go where I wanted, but the aspens had a mind of their own.

[Drilling Man]

  Today i finished milling the entire load of logs pictured above.  Here's all the lumber that came out of that load, including the bunks the lumber is sitting on...



  Two 6x10 beams for headers, three 3x8-16's for rafters and LOT'S of random 5/4 lumber...

  DM

[bilmac]

Guys with sawmills sure use BIG beams.