Felling my first big logs

NZJake · September 08, 2005, 03:59:37 AM

Well heres the trees I took down a few weekends ago, it was a real experience for me as I have not taken down such giants before. Every thing panned out alright though, managed to get the old heart pumpin for a few seconds :

, you gotta love the sound of that first crack and the huge thump as it lands on the ground.

I got most of the managable sized logs trucked into the shop (around a truck and trailer load), the bigger trunk ends are gonna have to be milled on site as the loader had no show of lifting them, probably get to cut them up next weekend. I'm thinking I'll get around 450 8x4 @ 2.4m long out of them (a fair bunch of sleepers). If you look carefully you'll probably see a road and power lines in the back ground, that's where the heart pumping came into play.

Just a few picks of the logs and site, also training day for one of our new ASM owners cutting up my nice sleepers

for me.