Target rich environment!!!

Yup...the Oak brothers, Teddy and his albino brother Whitey

 

It’s kinda in lower ground. There’s a creek about a half mile to the north that runs through wet meadows and swampyness ( is that a word?). Anyways, several years back there were a couple consecutive wet years and the water level was way up, drowned them.

 

Another 3 targets down. Property owner offered to use of their pay loader to help push the trees over. Cat 928F, more reach, more weight, and more power. They are still resisting being pushed over. Not enough roots rotted off yet. Three trees seem to be about my physical limit for a day. 3 saws got on the bus but only 2 got in the game. The jonsered didn’t want to start. Been a while since I ran it and if I remember correctly it was acting up some then. 357 and 562 played the whole game.

 

Nothing like your own private woodlot. Nice score. Gotta love bigger equipment

 

Back at it today. No helper. I been wanting to get this one down but it’s leaning the wrong way. Tried to push it over with their loader last time, still too solid. Today I figured I would try to wedge the way I wanted it to go. I got lucky because there was a good breeze that was perfect direction to assist. It went well and exactly where I wanted it but I was starting to worry because I used all the length of the only 2 wedges I had.
Only took down 2 today. This one and a quite a bit smaller one that I shoved down with the skid steer.
266 did the falling and some bucking. 257 did everything else.
Didn’t feel like I made very good progress today as there wasn’t a very big load in the dump truck. But I think I put maybe 11 logs in the log pile. Cutting them to 12ft

 

Looks like a good day to be out. It’s always nice when things go as planned.

 

12 ' logs add up quickly.

 

Nice to see the 266 in action.

I can relate as sometimes I feel like I didn't make good progress at a cut/score. Slow and steady does win the race though.