Today....

southsoundtree said:
Seems nuts for a 2 hour round trip plus dump fees.

Different markets.

I could have those dropped 5-10 minutes away and get a lil money.
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No dump fees where I'm at. I tried finding anyone to take the wood with no luck.
Somebody an hour round trip away took two loads of chips.
In the end the customer paid for removal of the material, so I'm good with it. 7k for just under 2 days.
 
Boomslang said:
No dump fees where I'm at. I tried finding anyone to take the wood with no luck.
Somebody an hour round trip away took two loads of chips.
In the end the customer paid for removal of the material, so I'm good with it. 7k for just under 2 days.
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Nice going! Do you have any log trucking companies that would pickup logs in the future? We're spoiled with a great outfit that rarely charges more than $300 in trucking and it helps keep their employees busy. Anything more than a few logs or if it's a longer haul and multiple trips it saves so much time/headache.
 
It’s been a soggy mess. Upto 10” rain predicted over a 7 day period (mostly in the mountains but several flood warnings). Coupled with king tides, and 50mph gusts expected on Monday.
Snuck this one in this morning, done in about an hour, add an hour of pivoting on the heels and still got the scheduled job done.

This area is alluvial glacial marine outwash. Sea level was much higher (?) as the shear weight of the mile plus thick ice sheet pushed the land down and it’s still rebounding some 8,000 years later! So essentially the land 100’ ish above sea level present day was a delta from the glaciers running off into the beach.

Anyway the trees were about to go, exasperating more sliding from this recent let go. Managed to jump them exactly on top of the other jockstrawed trees avoiding punching the loose material.
Soil cracking 10’ upslope from the trees indicating movement.IMG_5975.webpIMG_5976.webpIMG_5980.webp
 
evo said:
It’s been a soggy mess. Upto 10” rain predicted over a 7 day period (mostly in the mountains but several flood warnings). Coupled with king tides, and 50mph gusts expected on Monday.
Snuck this one in this morning, done in about an hour, add an hour of pivoting on the heels and still got the scheduled job done.

This area is alluvial glacial marine outwash. Sea level was much higher (?) as the shear weight of the mile plus thick ice sheet pushed the land down and it’s still rebounding some 8,000 years later!

Anyway the trees were about to go, exasperating more sliding from this recent let go. Managed to jump them exactly on top of the other jockstrawed trees avoiding punching the loose material.
Soil cracking 10’ upslope from the trees indicating movement.View attachment 100444View attachment 100445View attachment 100446
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Got a WhatsApp message at 8pm last night. Cat up a tree. She had been there since the previous night and the owners had tried everything to get kitty to come down. It was pitch black out, but the temps were going down to -30C (-22F) wind chills. Get there and doesn't this cat pick a 50ft hemlock a couple hundred feet into the woods. I can hear the thing, but no one can see it although the owners are sure it's that tree. They had set a small extension ladder into the tree in their attempts to get the cat, so thankfully I didn't have to dick around trying to hit a throwball shot in the middle of the woods in the dark. Headlamp died almost right away (my fault for not swapping the batteries), so the only light I had was a dim beam from the flashlight my son was holding on the ground. It's -20 (-4) out, I'm free climbing this dense canopy (judge me), can hear the cat but no idea where it is. So I keep going up and up. About 10 feet from the top I can hear the cat should be right in front of me and finally I spot some movement a couple of feet up and on the other side of the trunk. Did I mention the cat is black and brown and it's in a dark, bushy tree and it's nighttime and I have no light. Anyway, threw my system around the stem, grabbed the cat (who was super chill about things), and got down.

And this is why I did and will continue to do cat rescue pro bono:

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Treezybreez said:
It’s called a “Fireside Friend”. It’s great for tapping wedges and cutting dirty bark out of the way of the saw.
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I keep one next to my wood pile on the front porch, best thing ever for making kindling! It even splits that occasional piece that won’t quite fit in the stove, as long as it doesn’t have any big knots. Estwing for the win on that one!
 
Boomslang said:
Got a WhatsApp message at 8pm last night. Cat up a tree. She had been there since the previous night and the owners had tried everything to get kitty to come down. It was pitch black out, but the temps were going down to -30C (-22F) wind chills. Get there a doesn't this cat pick a 50ft hemlock a couple hundred feet into the woods. I can hear the cat, but no one can see it although the owners are sure it's that tree. They had set a small extension ladder into the tree in their attempts to get the cat, so thankfully I didn't have to dick around trying to hit a throwball shot in the middle of the woods in the dark. Headlamp died almost right away (my fault for not swapping the batteries), so the only light I had was a dim beam from the flashlight my son was holding on the ground. It's -20 (-4) out, I'm free climbing this dense canopy (judge me), can hear the cat but no idea where it is. So I keep going up and up. About 10 feet from the top I can hear the cat should be right in front of me and finally I spot some movement a couple of feet up and on the other side of the trunk. Did I mention the cat is black and brown and it's in a dark, bushy tree and it's nighttime and I have no light. Anyway, threw my system around the stem, grabbed the cat (who was super chill about things), and got down.

And this is why I did and will continue to do cat rescue pro bono:

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I’m glad there are people like you, and moss. I’m certainly not one of them
 
Boomslang said:
Got a WhatsApp message at 8pm last night. Cat up a tree. She had been there since the previous night and the owners had tried everything to get kitty to come down. It was pitch black out, but the temps were going down to -30C (-22F) wind chills. Get there and doesn't this cat pick a 50ft hemlock a couple hundred feet into the woods. I can hear the thing, but no one can see it although the owners are sure it's that tree. They had set a small extension ladder into the tree in their attempts to get the cat, so thankfully I didn't have to dick around trying to hit a throwball shot in the middle of the woods in the dark. Headlamp died almost right away (my fault for not swapping the batteries), so the only light I had was a dim beam from the flashlight my son was holding on the ground. It's -20 (-4) out, I'm free climbing this dense canopy (judge me), can hear the cat but no idea where it is. So I keep going up and up. About 10 feet from the top I can hear the cat should be right in front of me and finally I spot some movement a couple of feet up and on the other side of the trunk. Did I mention the cat is black and brown and it's in a dark, bushy tree and it's nighttime and I have no light. Anyway, threw my system around the stem, grabbed the cat (who was super chill about things), and got down.

And this is why I did and will continue to do cat rescue pro bono:

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Great story! I once came home from a long day to house and dog sit at my neighbors’s place. Cracked a beer and began going through voicemails. In one message, I thought the client said something about a “Catalpa tree”. Went on to other messages and eventually came back to that one. Oops. She said “cat up a tree”. Dang. Now it’s dark and I can’t say I’ll get to it tomorrow. Still laugh about that one! Good rescue. Went up with a bag but the cat rode down on my shoulder with my hand firmly on the scruff of her neck.
 
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