Back To More Typical Logging

After the salvage logging in the driveway of a single dead tree, we were able to get the debris picked up, the fences reset and the logs hauled across the county road and back to the landing. There were two logs salvageable out of the tree, the rest was cut and split up for firewood.

Now we are back to harvesting trees from the patch on the hillside that we had started several weeks ago. But the word typical is not really suitable some of the trees that Mike is falling.

One large tree needed to be thinned out of the forest. It is getting so big that mills will not be able to take it and trucks would not be able to haul it. The tree was on the steep side of the hill and when it was cut, the limbs worked like wings to let the tons of weight soar on its trajectory toward earth.

All the limbs were cut off where it was laying, and three logs were harvested off the top end of the tree. Still the tree was so heavy that our 250C Dozer could not pull it further down the hill for processing. Instead Mike used the blade of the dozer to roll the timber off the slope toward the landing. He looked like a tinker toy pushing it around.

It will be easier to get the logs cut and moved around now that it is on relatively level ground.