Updated Chainsaw Mounts

[woodlandfarms]

Not that anyone cares. This is about an hours worth of work. My morning excercise. Alders are a weed tree (although the evolution of a forest is really fascinating and the trees actually have a purpose) What is crazy is that they are way way taller than when I first bought the property, and way way taller than I can handle.

Anyway, lop a group down, grapple them to the burn pile. I have like 6 burn piles going at the moment. Will have 8 by spring.

 

[ernemats]

Carl what are you planning to do with the land after you get it all cleared? It looks like you will be busy for awhile . I am attaching pictures of my chain saw mount. I have basically the same on my pt 422, at times I have thought about making them larger. The ones I have work ok for my smaller chain saws.

 

[hslogger]

I would also be interested in you Alder take down motivation. Are you going to replant with fir, Western Red Cedar, spruce? or make it into meadow or ?
Does DNR in Washington state offer you any woodland assistance?

 

[woodlandfarms]

HS. Probably stupidity on the Alders, I guess if I left them alone they might have some timber value. Motivation is to either increase meadow size (no, we don't have livestock so....) and help baby cedars and first get better traction. The wife and I like the look of Maple and Cedar better than alder.

I will have to check on DNR. Never thought of looking into what they offered. Our property (40 acres), we put into Forestry when we bought it. We are now out of the tax burden should we change back to anything else.

What I was told is that alders offer great protection to baby fir trees, deer get blocked out on chomping on the fire and alders provide protection and because they are such a brittle tree and always delimbing, they provide a lot of nutrients to the ground.