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Got into 8 good size windfall Firs today. The trees were over-rip when they fell, and have been on the ground for 2 years. This area has nicest Fir around, and this shit is as hard as coke bottles. All the elements were perfect for some amazing shingle quality blue stained Fir that is as fit as a fiddle. Its gonna make some amazing vertical grain Fir floors! 8000 board feet on the landing, and a kickass day.

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A few more from Panama City.
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Fivepoints said:
Are there enough folks down there or are they in bad need of help? We're in north alabama with a crane, bucket truck, loader, grapple truck, etc.
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It is getting very competitive for anyone that is showing up late to the party. To be honest with you if you're not here established already I wouldn't want to come and fight my way through the shit

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Thanks for the info. We were tied up on current customer jobs until today. I figured cranes might be in high demand at the moment down there. I know how hard it is to get them around here when we have a tornado outbreak. We were still renting last time that happened. I wasn't looking forward to driving our crane 300 miles down there. I guess we're going to pass.
 
whoa. why do a lot of the branches seem to grow out and then turn up abruptly? Is that a species thing or because of past pruning or a camera angle thing?
 
That's a pre m-tronic 362. I work as a contract climber a lot and like to custom paint my saws so nobody fucks with my stuff

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I understand a sub making saws distinct, but why make them harder to see and run hotter in the sun?


Drought is taking its toll...

Huge reiteration and smaller reiterations that needed to be cleared out to take the trunk in two big pieces, or at least a big top, and logs cut to mill lengths.


DED pruning ban lifted. Cleaned some storm damage, tons of dead limbs, an thinning layers of limbs from repeated heading cuts, and reduction cuts to the limbs when they grew down into head space, IMG_20181022_163539296_HDR.webpIMG_20181025_101355485.webpIMG_20181025_125612084.webpIMG_20181025_122122316.webpIMG_20181026_135510299.webpbefore.


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What beetles are attacking cedar?

I had a 24" cedar to deadwood this year, as in, the top half of the tree. Will be interested to see how it looks in the spring, after a season with a lot less competition from maples (removed) and lots of mulch and water.
 
southsoundtree said:
What beetles are attacking cedar?

I had a 24" cedar to deadwood this year, as in, the top half of the tree. Will be interested to see how it looks in the spring, after a season with a lot less competition from maples (removed) and lots of mulch and water.
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https://www.greenseattle.org/western-redcedar-die-off-in-seattle-parks/

I met Rippey at the pnw conference, native bugs. The conversation was short and distracted.
Also Susan Samard (sp?) made a very brief mention of maple cedar association. In her Ted talks she mentioned something along the lines of cedar being separate from the mycorrhizal relationships she discovered between fir and other species. I had a slight moment to speak with her before her talk, and wanted to ask more about the cedar afterwards but she had to run for the door!
 
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