Logging In Washington State- Forest Jackson- BLLW
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Forest Jackson and Blue Line Land Works Falling a patch of nice timber in Southwest Washington. If you are are wondering about the stack of logs that we often used to fall across, the purpose is two fold. First we were falling on a small parcel that had a knoll right in the middle of it. By lifting the but of the log in the air it allows the rest of the tree to cant over the knoll without breaking. The second reason is that by falling over the stack of logs or even a single log, it allows the top of the tree to catch up to the rest of the tree before it slaps the ground and breaks. It takes a little more time but you save a lot more wood when you are falling trees this big. Sometimes Quality over Quantity is the way to go.
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A lot of guys won’t appreciate the skill of these cutters. Low stumps, no tearing of the trees, saving the best quality timber. Few years experience there.
I fell timber in the Queen Charlotte Islands B.C. back in the 1970's. Brings back old memories. No fir up there but the Sitka Spruce were a real challenge. I like how you use the logs to lay the wood down softly. Great job guys!
I broke in falling for Crown Zellerbach at Sandpit in 1976. I quit doing it about 15 years ago but still live in the islands up on the very north end. Seventy one years old I'm still a logger going to work every day running equipment, there's much truth in it gets in your blood. Maybe we crossed paths.
@@mikee9065 Hey, good for you still working at 71. Keeps you sharp. Yeah I broke in at Sewell Inlet in 1978 for Fedje and Gunderson. Les Kelly was the bullbucker. I was partnered with Ted Harkonen most of the time a Finn nicknamed Blondie. Also there were Dave and Pat Nicholson and their father John. Other fallers were Andy Robberstaad, Hal Carmont, Kenny Foote. Bullbucker later was Lew Taylor a Native guy who later went to Dinan Bay. He was on the cover of Georgia Strait magazine back in the late 80's. Good times. I left Sewell in 1984. Good camp 6 days a week. Went to other camps for a while. Logging was dying so I got into urban tree work. That was good and in Vancouver but being young and falling was the best. Am 72 now and think of it all the time. Stay safe brother. Maybe you knew some of those guys!!
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I do know a couple of those guys you mentioned, Mike. I worked with Les Kelly on a job at Kitkiata Inlet on Douglas Channel near the village of Hartley Bay in the late eighties and Ken Foote lived at Sandspit and had a small salvage logging and custom cut sawmill at Naden Harbour for many years. We stayed in the same camp at Eden Lake. There was a woods foreman at Sewell I took flying lessons at the same time and place with and he bought a fast little Mooney and immediately killed himself and his wife near Port Hardy pushing weather, don't remember his name. I'm sure we could swap stories for hours and you ever get back up this way let me know and we will, until then you take care.
I don’t care what it is....from welding..to driving a truck...or cutting down a tree...to watch a skilled man work is awesome.
that sounds very gay, which in itself i am not saying is a bad thing
Southwest Washington is where I was born and where I grew up. When my dad was a young man in the 1930's he worked as a logger up in the east end of Lewis County. After I was grown, I met a man who worked in the woods with Dad, and this man told me that he taught my future father how to drop a tree right where he wanted it to go. I saw Dad do that a few times when I was a kid, and it just fascinated me to see him do that.
this is by far the BEST tree felling video I have ever seen! The slow mo was a great effect
Glad you liked it. Share it with your friends
Ur gd logged all my life I'm old now gd to see there's still some body out there that knows what they doing
Nice job you guys, I I appreciate the fact you take the time out for these vids. Really nice of you guys. I worked in the woods for awhile. There was a guy by the name Gary Sprague, little short guy, when they got in big timber he looked really cool with his saw n bar, so much taller then he was. He had a horrible mis-hap jacking trees. Really nice guy. Industry is really changing. I'm glad you young guys got it in your blood ;) hello n hi to all from Florida, Eddie
We know Gary
Awesome! WELL done. Blue line rocks it
I must have watched you swing dutchman that tree at 1:39 about a dozen times. Pretty awesome to watch the process in slow-mo and see the remaining holding wood roll it as the face cut closes. Definitely helped me better understand the process, both intentional and otherwise!
Thanks for the explanation about the log stack too. Before I read that, I couldn't figure out why it looked like you were taking the risk of breaking more.
Glad you enjoyed the video. Falling timber like this takes longer but results in a far superior product in the end.
AM I ETONG OR DOESNT THE REAMAINJBG HOLDING WOULD CAUSE THE TREE TO TURN/SWING/ROLL/ HANG ON TO THAT SIDE….IE THE SODE WITH REMAINING WOOD
You're makin me get the twitches too pard! Cool video man, glad to see ya be able to get time to squeak one out.
Dirt Perfect sent me over, glad he did!
Cool vid. rather listen to the saws than music though.
Making my trigger finger twitch. Nice one Craig!
Thanks Scott. It was nice to finally get the chance to make another video.
This guy knows what he’s doing great videos
LOL boys, that ain't "Giant Timber" ...just nice sized stuff.... when you have a 60" bar, and it doesn't go all the way thru by TWO FEET, then THAT'S "Giant Timber" .......
Who said anything about Giant timber? Appreciate the fact he took the
Time to make the video. Thankyou Mr Chilton
Thanks bud
I ran 54"'bar on 125 mac. to.fall.with. power house
They are called pumpkins when they are bigger than that, besides cutting them down,I like to climb them, when they are 260-80 foot tall and take pictures from them and I enjoyed the video, it's always nice to see others work for a change, after 45 years of it
Try that shit on steep ground boys and will see were the real men are !!
as always amazing footage craig !
Thanks Daniel
Love it!! Sent over from ironhorse.
Amazing work men
Excellent timber cutting 👍🏻👍🏻
great video! at 3.30 that tree had a fire number or name screwed into it but looked like 12 feet up it had something wrapped around like clothes line or something
Just found you guys. Yup I am in. Marc from NH
Good to see a new vid!
Ok👍👍 good👍👍
Very few and small spiky stump leavings. :-)! Maximum yield at the mill?
I heard an interesting stat... that the total value of the logs cut in Michigan exceeded the total value of all the gold from California
Very good stuff
Nice 🌲
Since when is a 3 and a half or four footer "giant"?
Since it got you to watch the video and since weyco started logging 35 year old pecker poles.
Also sent out ten 5 log loads and a 3 log load. You don't see those very often anymore.
You get more done if you would turn up the camera speed.
But it looks so good in slomo lol
After serving in the US Army during WW 2, Dad got a job working in a plywood mill in Centralia, Washington. When the mill went belly-up in the late '60's he found work in another plywood mill in Aberdeen, Washington. Later he worked at a lumber mill in Oregon, where he retired. Dad passed on in 1995 at the age of 83.
I thought falling a tree across a perpendicular log could result in fracturing the falling tree.
It could if it's done incorrectly however if done properly it can reduce the damage done to the tree compared to if it just fell normally
Truly magnificent tree's but one isn't able to build one's nation without them being felled, 😠☺.
Have your fellers switched to 500I's?
We have 2. I still really like the 462
No one round here uses them 500s bud thats a residential saw 👍
Where is "round here" because plenty of guys use them round here
@@BlueLineLandWorks the logging capitol of the fkn world bud
@@BlueLineLandWorks come out to clallam county an talk cute bud
880 with a lw 36”…I have the same setup…125lbs 5’9”…it’s all how bad you want power…
That's actually a 52 inch bar. 36 inch light bar on the 500.
@@BlueLineLandWorks hey o…big boy made it look small lol
@@BlueLineLandWorks I have the same set up 880 with 52 inch cannon
thanks for another awesome video always look forward to them
How does someone get some swag
Terrible music...but nice cuts.
Is that in the Gifford Pinchot ??
Nope. Its on a private piece of ground.
only good tree is a dead tree
Logging saws, driving wedges, this gets me turned on.
VERY BAD.