Erik

Sorry, but its been a while since I checked in here. Beautiful work, and some great pics of the Sequoia removal. Thanks for sharing Snarlingbadger. Congrats on the new 88. I run a 3120 for my bigger saw needs, but just had a really clean, low hour 090 fall in my lap.

I'm just a dumbass tree-man, so I don't really know how all the math works when it comes to calculating board feet on a log. I have been looking at logs long enough that I can usually get pretty close with my guestamations. I keep a little log scale book on the dashboard of my truck if I need to know exactly how many board feet are in a log while on the job. http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/calculators/calc.pl?calculator=log_volume On most jobs I measure the length, and diameter (small end) of all the logs, write them down, then use this website to calculate the total board feet for a given job. Super simple and the international scale is very accurate.

I see a lot of Redwood logs in my day to day work life, but I try and keep the really good stuff for my personal stash when I can! This log was over a 125 ft up a beautiful old 5500-6000 board foot tree. It is the first log I have milled from this tree, and now I'm really looking forward to getting into the rest of the logs.

Glad your enjoying the vids and pics.

Yep! I lived a pretty blessed life here! My main saws are a Husky 550 XP, 562XP, 395XP, and a 3120.

Its about a 50/50 split. On some jobs we are hired to harvest a few trees for the purpose of milling them into lumber. Love these jobs. On other jobs we are brought in to simply do the tree work. With the 518 skidder and the mill we see much more value in the logs than the average tree outfit, so many times we might actually do the tree work straight across for the logs. . Homeowners love this because they don't have to spend a penny to get their tree work done. We love these jobs because we might do a $2000 tree job for free, but we will be leaving with logs that we can turn into $8000 worth of lumber. A win win for everyone! The Sequoia looks pretty straight forward. Brush it out and chunk it down. I would really try to keep those logs as long as possible, and try your best to find someone in your area with a Lucas, Mobile Dimensional, or a mobile bandsaw mill to turn that thing into lumber. I imagine that you could find someone who would love to mill that tree up. Good luck with the job, and I would love to see some pics of the work and the wood!

Some beautiful old Redwood from my personal stash. Amazing chocolate browns, ebony's, and reds. The shit you don't find in the lumber yard!

When it comes to milling you have to remember that a log is only as big as its small end. Part of the art of being a great faller and bucker (something I am not) is knowing how to maximize your scale on every tree.

Glad you enjoyed it. I am generally not a fan of music in tree vids as I like to hear the sounds of the job. We used a drone for everything but the falling cut, and all you could hear was the sound of the drone, which sounded like an angry insect. Put a little hillbilly music (The Steeldrivers) behind the vid, and I think it turned out allright!

I don't bother taping off the tree on my way up. I will simply tape it off when I start chunking down. The first couple logs are usually long longs (29-40Ft), and short logs (12-20ft) when I get a little lower. When dumping the spar I very rarely get much waste as I have so many option on how to buck it.

Took me about 3.5 hours to get it on the ground. The vid doesn't show it, but I had to speed line all the limbs onto the road for cleanup.

The Fir has to be pretty exceptional for me to bother milling, and this tree was subpar. I was simply getting this thing on the ground, so was quest-a-mating the log lengths to get them to lay relatively flat. If I am getting wood on the ground for lumber I always tape off my logs, so as to minimize waste.

$2600 in US Dollars. Thanks but I will pass. Maybe I missed the memo, but is there something wrong with a nice pair of Buck Titaniums, Gecko CF's, Kiwi Klimbers, or Bashlins?

Solo Friday morning milling session. Trying to get all the timbers milled up for this bridge project before winter rains get here? For reference the bigger boards are 20 foot 4x10's. I need to mill 55 of them, as well as a bunch of 6x6, 4x4, 2x8, and 2x10. Gonna be a lot of milling this week, but I think we can pull it of.

Always love watching you work Reg.

Nice work Mick! I reckon you will get some beautiful boards out of that log. Whether you are gonna mill it now or later I would highly recommend getting some end-sealer on those logs, as Redwood is very prone to end checking and cracking. From the looks of the pic, that was one fast growing bugger!

Set up a new milling site today.

Words every man wants to hear. Fab wood!

Breaking in a new groundie. Ugg!

I have been looking at Redwoods my whole life and have rarely seen one grow like that. Generally when a Red has multi spars it does so much higher up. It’s also very unusual to see them with limbs growing so close to the ground. In their natural environment the first limbs on a Red of this age could be as high as a 100 ft or more. The only time I see Reds that look similar to this one is when they are growing in a swampy area, or at the very edge of their natural environment. Being completely out if it’s natural environment no doubt had a lot do do with this mutant tree.

If you using mechanicals I would look elsewhere. There are better options out there. 11MM HTP is my favorite rope with a Wrench. A bit like climbing on wire, with no bounce even with over 300 ft of rope in the system. I hate bounce so this is something that is very important to me. It is sweet and smooth on both ascent, decent, and when working a tree.. Also works great for DdRt when needed. Available with sewn eyes, has decent hand (can tie any knot needed), and I have had no milking problems with it. Its also tough as nails! Did I say I love HTP? I also climb on Xstatic (use it with a BDB), but like the HTP better with everything but mechanical devices.

Don't forget the TB and the Leprosy. Fox had to backtrack on this narrative pretty quickly. Why? Because it was a lie. Much like the man they work for (Trump), Fox News has a very hard time with the truth.

Got into some incredible old chocolate brown redwood logs today.

A close-up of what the wood from a 1000 yr old Redwood looks like. Grain so tight you can't count rings with a naked eye. This piece came from a log about 140 ft up a mature 14 ft-16 ft DBH windfall. World-class goodness!