Peterson ASM

[Big Stan]

Simon told me last email he's REAL busy..
The other day he walked 8 hrs to look for trees in a faraway concession.# ? blown up bridges and I think he said a 36 kilometre walk, he found his trees..The forrest had grown over the old roads, and there was a herd of elephants in amongst the forrest...
he said there was a LOT of trees with 40 cubic metres in 'em..423.78 super feet in a cubic metre makes 17,000 super feet  in each log  (tree)
(superfoot is 12" x 12 " x 1"..possibly same as one of your board feet ?
Maybe you can confirm this..
Bloody big trees !!!!
When I learn to reduce the size of photo's I'll post some of his & possibly some of mine...
Ain't it great to be alive
Bigstan

[sawmillsi]

Hi guys, hi dad,

The walk to the trees was 8 hours return, but the drive from Luanda (the capital city I work in) was about 11 hours.

You wouldn't beleive how much damage the bloody elephants do to roads, massive footprints! (and big piles of dung)



Here is a pic of some of the forest I was looking at. The white stems are massive (about 3-4m diameter and the crown starts about 30m up)



Here is a small village (which is real typical here) that we passed through

Simon

[Fla._Deadheader]

 How ya gonna set up that Peterson around them 12' ers 

[Captain]

Well Simon, good to hear from you.  Keep sending the pictures!!

Captain