100M scale

[Grandedog]

     Howdy,
   Friends with pix are great. These are from Miranda CA. This tree scaled out over 100,000 board feet.


  

  

 
   That first picture is the Tab Hunter at poolside shot. Get after it on that second shot. The third shot shows it on the ground. One thing you don't see in these pix is the amount of prep work going into building the beds for it to land in. There's a lot going on that you don't see. They build the beds with small voids where they're going to buck the log. No chain in the dirt that way. Quite a bit of the butt end  had to be quartered up so it could be hauled out. On that photo where they're kicking on the log, I just wanted to show how much of the log was heart (red), and how much was sapwood (white). In that last photo, they were in the pumpkin patch for sure. This patch wasn't far from the 100M tree but, he said that these trees were about 20' below flood stage. He said they really blew through some chain but, it wasn't nothing compared to the payday on these trees.
Regards
Gregg

[petefrom bearswamp]

Nice stick of wood.
Photos look kind of old.
What year was this?

[Grandedog]

     Howdy,
   I think that was early 80's.
Regards
Gregg

[KyLogger]

Doin' it old school. Love the big timber and falling pics from the 80's and early 90's!  Thanks for posting!

[thecfarm]

I betcha that made the ground shake when it landed.  ;D

[Peter Drouin]

Is that a red wood?

[mikeb1079]

those are great pics thanks.  reminds me of all the good pics and stories gerald bernerak's book:  high climbers and timber fallers. 

these pics and most of gb's are of the last of the old growth logging circa 70's 80's.  by then most of what was left were the difficult to fall or get to or fire/damaged.  but as you can see there were still some big dogs left.   8)