Today....

[Bendroctanus]

Rico, I am extremely jealous.

Join the club! There’s jackets!

 

[southsoundtree]

The lower bark doesn’t look super silver-ish to me, but maybe conditions vary out there compared to here. Were the leaves very pale on the underside with bery deep sinuses?

Relatively shallow sinuses.

 

[rico]

Rico, I am extremely jealous.

I am blessed to live among some amazing timber and to be able to turn logs into beautiful lumber. As I have gotten older it has definitely become my favorite part of the tree life that I live here. I’m like a kid in a candy store when I’m milling.

 

[Bendroctanus]

I’m like a kid in a candy store when I’m milling.

I know what you mean…

There’s something about opening up a log that just feels so right.

 

[Friedrich]

I know what you mean…

There’s something about opening up a log that just feels so right.

especially when it has been saved from the tub-grinder

 

[oceans]

especially when it has been saved from the tub-grinder

I tell everyone that asks about what we do with all the material generated from a tree removal that we do as much as possible with it.

 

[rico]

I tell everyone that asks about what we do with all the material generated from a tree removal that we do as much as possible with it.

For the last few years I have been taking much of my larger mill ends down the coast to a city dump that lets me dispose of it for free, and they turn it all into redwood/fir chips which they use to beautify the cities parks and landscapes..

The rest gets turning into chips and kindling for my local community..

 

[Treemuel]

Five bushy spruces next to the lines; great one for a no cleanup job, just had to limb and buck and leave a mess. Customer said they know someone with a pulp truck to haul it all off.

 

[Njdelaney]

Five bushy spruces next to the lines; great one for a no cleanup job, just had to limb and buck and leave a mess. Customer said they know someone with a pulp truck to haul it all off.
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That sounds like getting paid to do just the fun part to me!

 

[oceans]

Relatively shallow sinuses.

Honestly that doesn’t sound too Silvery either. I could be 100% off, but now I feel like I need to know what species it was. Could a Silver really look entirely different from coast to coast?

 

[oceans]

Five bushy spruces next to the lines; great one for a no cleanup job, just had to limb and buck and leave a mess. Customer said they know someone with a pulp truck to haul it all off.
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Those co-dominant stems can be a time bomb. Looks like a nice day’s work!

 

[Matias]

Honestly that doesn’t sound too Silvery either. I could be 100% off, but now I feel like I need to know what species it was. Could a Silver really look entirely different from coast to coast?

I have seen intense phenotypic differences in Silvers at each 1500' elevation change, and coastal vs inland.

 

[Boomslang]

Very few true silvers left around. Most of them have hybridized, at least in my corner of the world. That could explain the regional differences.

 

[southsoundtree]

Honestly that doesn’t sound too Silvery either. I could be 100% off, but now I feel like I need to know what species it was. Could a Silver really look entirely different from coast to coast?

I was definitely just wondering/ guessing!

 

[27RMT0N]

Birds in the trees... watching half a dozen eagles and 10-15 vultures, plus a few ravens, eat a dead dear by my place.

 

[Serf Life]

Got to drive an 720hp f8 spider and a portofino on a few hour tour. Most fun I’ve had in months.

 

[SeanRuel]

Maybe I already mentioned this but check out the video Climbing Arborist did on YouTube about the ISC triple snap failing open. It happened to me a few times and I just haven't trusted mine since

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[Neill]

noodle pine this morning.

 

[AdkEric]

Keeping with the theme of noodle pines.. this was about 95' tall and probably 18" DBH, hanging way out over a camp. Too hot to play camera man today so here's a stump shot. Solo rigged the overhanging limbs, pushed over a small top, chunked down to about 60', and dumped the stick.

 

[rico]

2 small hard leaning firs over a house today. They were growing among some 225 ft timber and despite being only 26"-28" at the stump these little fuckers were 165 ft. The movement while working aloft was something to behold.