I will never understand people who pay in full before the job is complete but nice score for you. Nice straight logs
Nice grab, friend! I can smell those Christmas trees from here. Doug Fir is my primary firewood here. I love the stuff. I’d be all over that like white on rice, on a paper plate, in a snow storm.
Nice score! You folks definitely have some big tress out West! Cool crane on the trailer too. I’m sure that made life easier.
As far as Douglas Fir goes on the west coast, we would call them goldilock size. Hard to handle but they do come much bigger.
Two more loads out. Maybe one more. The sawyer is suddenly motivated to get the logs out now that they are going away. We'll see. I am thankful for the three loads no matter what. I am also running out of room in the storage/processing area but that is a good problem to have!
Weird. I have a trailer from out that way that could be a clone to metalcuttr's darn near. I also just added a new/old tow rig. '02 Toyota Tundra! Looks like great stuff in a handy location.
Some amazing logs and trees there. Hats off to you for working them. Do they section easi;y with a maul or sledge and wedge?
Hey Brad, The really straight grained rounds can pop easily any time at 16" long unless they are fibrous butt rounds. The knottier ones seem to do better for me if they season enough to develop stress/drying cracks that you can exploit when splitting with a maul. You can quarter them or a bit more, depending on size, and then go to your hydro in the proper position. If you have to get right after it you can go vertical and roll the rounds up and topple them onto the backer plate and tug them into place with a pickeroon and split to handling size (not all of us can have a splitter/yarder like campinspecter ). An awful lot of hard work no matter how you approach it. If I could come up with a really effective yarder arrangement for my small splitter on vertical I would certainly make it and give it a try!
