Drying Felled Adult Yellow Pine as whole logs for poles.....?

[SwampDonkey]

Frozen up might have something to do with it. 

Where does the sap come from up here in maples in the spring time when the ground is still froze up and 5 feet of snow in the woods? From the sky? Talking March here, still two months before the daffodils.

[Al_Smith]

Now how in the world can sap freeze in a tree and not split it apart ? In a log on the ground some times yes . .

[SwampDonkey]

It gells because of the sugars. Sugar is like anti-freeze, to an extent. The water in the centre of the stem freezes, the cells are dead in there. I guess you never was in cold climate on -30 morning to here a snap and bang in trees when moving in the wind.

[WDH]

Lumberjack,

That looks a whole lot like hard work to me!  Debarking that much wood requires an objective  .

[SwampDonkey]

The last time father did that was in the 60's. Cut, peeled pulp, loaded by hand onto rail cars all for a kings ransom of $20 a cord. 

[thecfarm]

Now 50 years later you get $50 for ransom.    I know it doesn't have to be peeled by hand anymore,or loaded by hand,but just how the price is now compared to than.

[lumberjack48]

Lumberjack,

That looks a whole lot like hard work to me!  Debarking that much wood requires an objective  .

I believe these are cabin poles, i was showing what we peeled them with. A good Ole peeling spud, i have a few hrs behind one. The only time a spud was used was on poles they didn't want to buy during slipping season.
I started peeling pulp in the late 50's, Aspen or Poplar, Jack pine, Balsam, Birch and Norway pulpwood. As soon as it started slip-en we were peel-en, about late April, depended a lot on the weather. It would tighten up about the middle of July, quit slipping.
 The last peeled wood i sold was 1980, all 4 of my kids got a taste of peeling pulpwood.
1968 i got $11. for rough pulpwood loaded on rail, $18 for peeled pulp.