Starting out in forestry

[peds]

6 minutes ago, Spruce Pirate said:

If you do it for long enough you or someone you work with / have worked with is almost certain to have a fairly serious accident and you have to deal with that.  It is certainly not for everyone.
 

Theoretically, if you were to seek out and work with someone who already had their spell of bad luck, does that increase your own odds of getting through without a scratch?

[Spruce Pirate]

7 minutes ago, peds said:

Theoretically, if you were to seek out and work with someone who already had their spell of bad luck, does that increase your own odds of getting through without a scratch?

Dunno, I'm just a woodcutter, not a statistician.

[spuddog0507]

Jack would you cope felling 8 -12 of these every day felled snedded and processed ? just had 2 wk of these big lumps and just got finished about 2pm today was having tomorrow at home and then was to find my self a few days shooting to occupie my self for the rest of the wk but thats all gone tits up. now spending tues,wed,thur and fri delivering logs and timber, that tree was 55" across where i cut it and was rotten in middle.

[david wood]

stacking is important as said before. 

having rushed with somebody who was raining down scyamore regen of about 20 - 30 feet, stems on brash etc and no cutting to length. then having to go back and chip brash, cross cut and forward it out i can say had site been tidier it wouldnt have taken hrs to sort out. 

fell, sned, cross cut, stack - one stem at a time - stack brash if chipper not present. do next tree.

 

looks less dramatic than many stems felled but a much more orginiased site and easier at all stages.

 

oh and no huge tall stumps....  

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

52 minutes ago, spuddog0507 said:

Jack would you cope felling 8 -12 of these every day felled snedded and processed ? just had 2 wk of these big lumps and just got finished about 2pm today was having tomorrow at home and then was to find my self a few days shooting to occupie my self for the rest of the wk but thats all gone tits up. now spending tues,wed,thur and fri delivering logs and timber, that tree was 55" across where i cut it and was rotten in middle.

Now that's my ideal place to be might be hard graft but the view themselves are rewarding enough Where's that at? 

[Ratman]

Jack would you cope felling 8 -12 of these every day felled snedded and processed ? just had 2 wk of these big lumps and just got finished about 2pm today was having tomorrow at home and then was to find my self a few days shooting to occupie my self for the rest of the wk but thats all gone tits up. now spending tues,wed,thur and fri delivering logs and timber, that tree was 55" across where i cut it and was rotten in middle.

Where that be spuddog? Looks familiar! [emoji6]

[spuddog0507]

3 minutes ago, Ratman said:

Where that be spuddog? Looks familiar!

its at your end of Longridge fell up birdy brow they have just taken 12,000 tonne off, i wish the payment cheque was being paid in to my bank account,

[Ratman]

Not been up there for a while, used to go up regular with pooch, last time i was up there i had a run in with a tit head in cat loading shovel.

[Ratman]

[spuddog0507]

15 minutes ago, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

Now that's my ideal place to be might be hard graft but the view themselves are rewarding enough Where's that at? 

longridge fell in lancashire if its views you want my job has many fantastick views from lancashire west yorks north yorks and the lake district and most are from the top of big hills so you can see for miles the site at longridge you can see many places on a good day like all the ribble valley then preston ,southport, liverpool ,the wirrell, north wales, great orme anglsey snowdonia, and on a really good day IOM and southwest scotland, do you get the picture, but this morning i was trudging round longridge fell looking for 120ft tall spruce trees and couldnt see F - - - All till i was about 15 - 20 mtrs off em,