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Getting ready for cutting season.

Discussion in 'The Wood Pile' started by Jack Straw, Aug 23, 2017.

  1. HDRock

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    Print out a Google map image and stick pins in it:)
     
  2. stuckinthemuck

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    You could do it old school with a compass and a pace count. My pace count is about 10 paces (two steps per pace) to a chain (66 feet). So that's 15 paces every 100 feet. Just go from tree to tree with a bearing and a distance. It'll be kind of like a treasure map for you and each time you find your standing dead marked tree, you win the prize of getting to go to work.
     
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    Another way to do it is to identify a center point for each acre and clearly mark with a pan orange post. Then you take a bearing and distance to each tree you want to cut in that one acre compartment. A square acre being 208' per side, the furthest distance from the center would be to a corner of the square at 147'. GPS would be good to locate the center of each compartment.
     
  4. fishingpol

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    Staple a $100 bill to each tree. You'll find them again.
     
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    Not if I find 'em first!!!:whistle:
     
  6. Jack Straw

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    How about a check?
     
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    No, cash incentive.:D
     
  8. Jack Straw

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    So I spray paint the trees blue, cut em with a Hatchet, put survey tape on them, take a selfie with em, mark em on gps, find em with a compass and mark that on a baking pan and nail a $100 bill on them! I think that will work.
     
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  10. papadave

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    Overkill is almost enough.
     
  11. Rangerbait

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    Just cut them all down and get like 30 years ahead. You're welcome.
     
  12. MikeInMa

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    I've bought the neon pink surveyors tape at HD.

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    Drive a bunch of nails the trees to ID them...then you can find them with a metal detector...if that don't work, just fire up your saw...that never fails to find logs with nails...:whistle:
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    I do it backward. Mark the trees I'm keeping as crop trees with that brightly colored ribbon stuff (what's that called?). Then as I'm thinning, I can easily see which trees to makes sure don't get collateral damage. Once the keepers are marked I'm checking the canopy and "releasing" it for faster growth by cutting non marked trees whose canopy is touching a keeper.
     
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    plain old caution tape
     
  16. OhioStihl

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    I used gps to mark game camera locations. They are being used as ginseng poacher cameras now, later in the season they get converted to game cameras.
     
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    I'm really late to this one but I just wondered if anyone mentioned using surveyors tape ?
     
  18. HDRock

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    Did you use your phone, apps, a garmin or other ??
     
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    There's an idea [​IMG] [​IMG]
     
  20. Locust Post

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    I thought someone ought to mention it a time or 3.....
     
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