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Poplar butt log McB's Feb 2012 022This is using the log choker chain to parbuckle a long log or two lengths out of in between to large pieces of poplar debris. Just a simple way of moving this particular piece of wood without moving the bigger pieces in order to extract the log. The pieces are actually broken in half from the impact of hitting the ground when the tree was felled whole. The damaged area was created when an ice storm or wind, broke a large limb off, several years ago starting the decay that would eventual kill the tree. It was the "nature's tree marking paint" indicator of decline that we used to identify this tree as being a worst first individual, ripe for harvesting now - since it was rotting from the top down faster than it was growing.
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Poplar butt log McB's Feb 2012 01134 inches on the little end and 12 foot 4 inches long, this big poplar log comes over the mountainside and down the old haul. Very calm confident strong pair doing a good job for us.
Tong and Garth Suffolk Punch geldings, featured on other videos on this site. |
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McB poplar by Randy 001.AVIThis is the last log from an attempt to salvage some dead oak from a gypsy moth kill that has occurred about three years before without the landowner's noticing. It was to late to have any commercial value, sad situation, if we had known earlier we could have saved more of it.
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Downhill skidding w Tong and Garth DraftwoodThis is a short video shot while skidding a large white pine off a steep mountainside. Not quite steep enough to skid on the ground but with a log arch.
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