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Matt, for all the hard and dangerous work you and Kate do everyday, you deserve extra pay. The rewards of good hard work. God bless.

Very good.

Run for your life! Oh, how many times a day? There lies sure romance in it all, somewhere.

Doomed from the start. Resistance is futile. Now, getting back on track.

No kidding. I seen that vid.

Don't derail this thread! Please!

That was real sweet, Matt. Though, I do believe I heard a bit of a crunch. Next thing you know you'll be on the flats falling layout trees. With a Cat, a Bucker and a loader at your command. Be careful, and keep posting those vids. Thank you for sharing, Matt and Katelyn.

Local slang, Mick. meaning you lost the top half to breakage, but still got the best part (volume) of the tree: that being the butt and middle logs.

Lost your footing there, I see. Happens all the time on steep loose ground. That top was close to breaking out before the tree even hit the lay. You got the hams and back straps. Next.

Close enough in theory, Matt. Fact, it can all be proven mathematically, but as we know, in the real world a lot of things can change the theory. When it comes to threading the needle being off by just a foot or two can mean hitting a stump and turn a valuable tree into worthless chunks...

Thanks for posting that vid. Katelyn has it down! I'm proud to know both of you. With the weather turning you guys are about due for a break, I think.

You're slaying'em, Matt. How's Katelyn doing in her strip?

That's a good day, Matt. Great on the stumps. Ron sounds like a well seasoned faller.

"Thread the needle", referring to missing stumps that is. No visible breakage. Perfect Matt! That's "virgin" second-growth redwood. Long ground, big trees and no brush. Just ferns. Hasn't been a saw in there since it was yarded 150 years ago. Yep, a faller gets a good strip once in a...

A lot of parks and trails on the Mendocino coast. Excellent trails, big second-growth, steep ground, but the grade is easy, 3 to 6 miles a day not a problem for me, and Ibuprofen. Today I am surely not fit enough, steady enough to work and run up and down and across that steep ground. Jack...

Trying to save time I cut the spring board notches before the lay was built. Guesstimating where the corners would be. It was close. Blocking out the face took about two hours, Matt. And not without help of a big fellow from Oregon by the name of John Welsh. I worked for John one season...

Nice tree, Matt. Wicked limb fall. Looks like it saved out pretty well. Guessing 5 or 6 bushel in that one? Cool shirt, too Cory, I set the corners with a tape. After blocking out the face I used the sticks to verify. I could have jacked that tree, but Don (the boss) wanted to pull...

laying trees uphill definitely prevents breakage. Less distance to fall / gain momentum. Lay down nice and soft. But as a rule side-hill or quartering to the slope is much easier to limb and buck. Limbing and bucking up and down-hill all day long will tire you out real quick.

About 200 feet up.

That was a pull tree on Cat ground, and it had a Cat dug layout. One blade wide and quartered to the slope. After cutting it up I went to safe space, 20 feet other side of the tree, then called on the radio, "Pull it, Don!" Saved out to about 30 inches.