The Official Work Pictures Thread

Deva,
I'm looking into buying flights to Maui to help set up, run errands for, and judge, the Maui TCC over Presidents Weekend in February.
Will you be competing?
 
Yes Sir, Pat shooting for Maui in Feb…

Thank you all for the kind words…

Raj, those looked awful… good example to show clients what not to do. As you know…. :)
 
Deva, that's some amazing-ness.

Patrick, I love that octagonal deal... I'm going to have to try it.
What I learned doing it is to not take too much on the first 4 cuts that make the cant. You can always go back and cut more. it is quite fun to see the octagon take its shape. I am thinking of building a rotisserie type jig so I can make these shapes repeatedly.
 
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I have, yet again, a young woman out logging with me.
She wanted to appretice with me, so I made a deal with the forestry school that she could come try out working with me for 2 weeks.
She has a bachelor in wildlife and nature management, so she is more interested in working with that.

She is having a blast felling big Beech, but we've already agreed that she'll apprentice somewhere else.

I would have taken her on if she'd wanted.
She's got tons of spirit and is real good company when working.

I'll put in a good word for her with a company that does more of nature related work.
 
Today we removed a Scott’s Pine growing out of the base of some rock/cliff.

Small building below the tree and main property to the RHS. Three tiers of rock to get the arising down and then over a fence to the road. We decided to speedline the brash over as far as possible and then built a pile to stop bouncers for the logs. They went down the back side of the property to the trailer.

Soaking wet day and the rocks made it very slippery.

The afternoon was to remove an Ash tree. Completely hollow and very brittle. Originally we were going to rig it down but decided against it. Maybe 2.5 feet in diameter and max 3-4” of wood holding it up. F8481202-9F17-480C-84B9-B8FE91CFCB80.jpeg CC6E846D-2B11-441A-A0BB-09BC3B456EF6.jpeg AA84AE82-B168-43EE-A8BB-E6235D74E06F.jpeg 1ABE1321-D73D-432F-9A62-A7799C0EDCB9.jpeg 0BC29A25-DE7F-4A0C-87BD-7DD0D1C897D7.jpeg
 
It's that time of year, dry after dark.

I got some solar- charged, LED, motioned-activated lights that I haven't permanently mounted, yet. They are actually very convenient to move, so I think I'll mount them on something that can easily move from one post to another, or free-standing.
They can even be useful looking under/ into vehicles and machines.

Sometimes, not getting to something right away gives time for better ideas to incubate.

I sat by the stove for the late afternoon before unloading after the rain quit close to dusk.

Snuck off the last haul-off of logs on the books, bid in dry weather, before the wet weather necessitated mats, meaning more work and expense.
About 1/3 of the millable logs,fir 8'ers and cedar 6'ers from the last two jobs. I had to rip two butt logs to lift and negotiate tight access (where I clipped the fascia with the grapple cleat, $550 for fascia and gutter replacement, oops...I put on flagging, until I paint or tape that top cleat in a hi-viz color).


I need to build forms and pour concrete runners for the mill to sit on, and then get it set-up.
 

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Last day with my logging gal today.
Got a call to fell a handfull of old, large Beech trees, so she got to try her hand at big trees and a MS661.
She was right at the outer edge of what can be done with a 24" bar.

Check out that stump!
Borecut from both sides and everything matches up. After 2 weeks!
She can put them where she wants them, too.

It was such a pleasure working with her and seeing how rapidly her tecnique improved.

Her teacher from the forestry school came out earlier to see how she was doing.
I had her fell a big one while we both watched.
That didn't bother her at all, she just did her job.

Afterwards he clapped me on the back and said:" looks like you've done it again!!"
 
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