Tractors and wood! Show your pics

Yogi05 · Sep 16, 2021

Skeans1, you ever get any bears, Sasquatch, brontosaurus,
or whatever checking in on you?

Skeans1 · Sep 16, 2021

Yogi05 said:
i was actually going to ask you about cutting a space out of a tree and placing a jack in there.
I happened to catch a random vid of a few huge trees being cut down and they actually cut a triangular space to place a jack.
They seemed to be European (talk) so I was going to ask if that is a European thing.
Apparently not.

What is with your gas can? Whats the black part/handle? Why 2 spouts? Gas and diesel? (symbols - pump and tractor)
Is that eye-wash attached?

The can is a husky combo can it packs gas and oil, the gas side is self shut off the oil side has a standard spout.

As far as jacks go they’re a few way to go about them putting the seat in first before the face is started or after the back cut is started. Those ones in the picture were getting their test drive/break in on a few danger dead dying trees heading the wrong way. With these style of jacks the rams can pivot well picking allowing the jack to follow the tree well pushing up vs a bottle jacks with a fixed foot top and bottom. If I had to guess the jack usage started in the PNW before most places just because of the size and weight of the timber. To give you an idea the first 17’ was scrap but the next 37’ weight almost 30k with more behind that.

Skeans1 · Sep 16, 2021

Yogi05 said:
Skeans1, you ever get any bears, Sasquatch, brontosaurus,
or whatever checking in on you?

Got me an elk once with a cedar on accident otherwise I’d rather not know what’s watching personally.

Yogi05 · Sep 16, 2021

Skeans1 said:
Got me an elk once with a cedar on accident otherwise I’d rather not know what’s watching personally.

LOL

Watched an old movie yesterday that someone mentioned to me a few days before.
Hadn't seen it since I was a kid. But I remembered one scene (no spoiler in case people here dig for it.)
Paul Neuman, Henry Fonda....
A logging family in Oregon. I think it's based on a true story. Family Vs union or something.
Not bad, but looked like really old school logging (for all I know about it, which ain't much) but interesting.

Called "Sometimes A Great Notion". (1974)
Available on youtube.