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That is very well summarized, Sean.

Show me a guy that has been logging for years and I'll show you a guy who has made mistakes. Part of the game. We are just lucky none of our mistakes have been of the deadly variety. On the ash logging job we just finished, my partner and I didn't have a single hang-up between us, but the...

Even if it wasn't, it is hard to get the dead ones to go down. Not enough weight in the top. Seeing that picture, I just had a flashback to that frustrated dude and his hung up Doug fir.

That picture reminds me of an old faller I worked next to once. He managed to hang one of the two last trees in a clear cut strip up in the other and had to call in a skidder to pull it down. He never lived that one down:lol:

That is an old joke of mine. I've been teaching apprentices for 20+ years. In thinning dense hardwoods it can be a major challenge to get the trees down on the ground. Especially if you are a rookie faller and decide to wedge one against the lean, so you don't get much speed on it as it starts...

I believe in letting trees fall the way God intended them to fall. When I can get away with it, at least.

That is one neat trick! Never thought of that, now I can't wait to try it out.

No, either extruded or molded will work. I checked it out with an engineer at a plastic factory when I first started making non-steel stacking plates. Last time we ordered from Bailey's we had a lady from customs call and ask why a logging company was importing 2oo gallons of hand lotion...

Buy a sheet of ½" nylon and cut that into plates. Works wonderfully. But like Burham says, if you always drive up to the trees you fell, steel plates are just as good.

I wedge trees over all winter. If I didn't have my almost 100 year old heritage 5,5 pds maul, this is what I would use:http://www.gransfors.com/htm_eng/produkter/new_prod/p_slaggyxa.html