Standing stem logging

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Reg

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If you've never heard of this. The selected trees in a forest are stripped, topped and appropriately flagged. They are then cut at the bottom all for a strip of holding wood in the centre....and picked by sky crane helicopter at a later date. A better alternative to clear cutting I believe. Some climbing and topping footage. Cedar trees upto about 150ft x 5ft dbh.

Use HD setting. Thanks

 
Limb it , crash the top no obstacles. Could do it all day. Dream job! Wonder with the trees that are close if they swing to the next after going up then go top down on the next? A 2 for 1.
 
Cool stuff! When you say cut from the bottom, do you mean make a snap cut so the sky crane can just break them off when they come to grab them? If so, how many of them in any get knocked over by wind or just fall down from the time they are cut to the time they get picked? Logging out west is so much more involved than here in the east, and it's cool to hear about the different methods you guys use out there. Awesome Video!
 
Thanks. If the trees are lose enough together, then yes, grapple across to save some climbing.

The 201tc wasn't mine....I was trying it out. Yeah pretty good saw. I was there for 6 days. That was just a handful of video clips put together. Back again next week.

Two opposing cuts are made at the bottom, leaving a strip of hinge wood. No overlap on the cuts, so it shouldn't fall over until picked by the sky crane.
 
Few questions. Were you alone? What about fuel and oil for the saw? Do you always carry a wedge and hatchet or just based on what you were gonna do it seemed useful? Thanks Reg. Interesting job.
 
On this job, you have to be self sufficient. So, wedges, axe, fuel, radio, whistle need to be worn up the tree. You climbline also needs to be bundled/packed and carried up there. You cant trail it on the ground or it might get trapped by a falling branch.....because there is no ground support. There is usually another climber within a couple of hundred yards, in case of an emergency.

You have a map, with dots to ID the trees. You tie 1-3 ribbons on the top of each spar depending on the dbh.

How many you get depends on size and how far away. Your up on the mountain for 6 hours tops. So, you might manage 6 x hundred foot trees in the day if there relatively close to each other. When they start getting upto 150 and 5ft dbh then you're not going to get that many done.

First couple days we had 2 feet of snow and a lot of hiking up hill and over fallen trees and creeks etc. Packing a huge amount of gear, not to mention. The climbing part was easy in comparison.

Over a few days we gradually moved down the hill and the snow got much less. But the trees got bigger.

Edit: forestry regs only require 1 tie in also. So you can strip the entire tree on the way up with a single flipline. Saves an aweful lot of time.
 
That's b.a dude. Thanks for the replies. I'm jealous of your work, but its super inspiring. Keep it up man!

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Reg said:
If you've never heard of this. The selected trees in a forest are stripped, topped and appropriately flagged. They are then cut at the bottom all for a strip of holding wood in the centre....and picked by sky crane helicopter at a later date. A better alternative to clear cutting I believe. Some climbing and topping footage. Cedar trees upto about 150ft x 5ft dbh.

Use HD setting. Thanks

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Very cool.
 
I have thought about it before. Probably because a jig is typically made in manufacturing to hold a piece of work until it is finished later. Sort of systematizes things.
 
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