Taking logs to the mill

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Billrog

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Nice...very nice. (y)
 
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Cedar 30" at the butt. Never measured the length but it was a tall tree. Got enough lumber out of it to fill an order of 6x6,2x6, 4x4's & 1x6.
 
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Cedar 30" at the butt. Never measured the length but it was a tall tree. Got enough lumber out of it to fill an order of 6x6,2x6, 4x4's & 1x6.
Nice. Hard to see the species from the photo. Now I see you’re from BC.
 
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Nice cedar. Not only does it have some size, but you somehow grow it straight up there!
 
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Cedar 30" at the butt. Never measured the length but it was a tall tree. Got enough lumber out of it to fill an order of 6x6,2x6, 4x4's & 1x6.
😲 Lucky to find 16-18 butts around here. Any that you do find usually has barbed wire buried in it. I would much prefer to build my outdoor stuff with cedar instead of this “new” pressure treated stuff.
 
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I unhook the trailer and load with the tractor. I had a regular set of forks yrs. ago but soon found that's a good way to take front seals and bearings out on small tractors by over loading. So I made of 16" detachable forks. You can see in the pick I'm carrying a log in front of my bucket as well.
 
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Yes I see what you mean - for the same reason I ended up dragging whole bunch of logs behind my tractor last fall by using a short logging chain.
These logs were not nearly as big as in your photo, but some were very long & heavy nevertheless.


Hybrid Poplars, loaded with water:
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It was an experiment, but I will never again plant these species!
 
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