Stone Branch, build it, they will come.

[Mennoniteman]

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And I thought you said you weren't professional, that looks pretty professional to me, and no slivers on that one. It looks like you were out of wedges, how'd that turn out? Sometimes I will stack two or more wedges on top of each other, (one time my logger cousin had five wedges stacked on top of each other) or go for my big fat steel wedges I inherited from my dad.
But I handle our tulip poplars a bit differently, I let them grow to 18-22" DBH and sell them for $300-400 each, however, it costs me half to get them to the mill, but I never have to touch them, and road improvements and treetops are a free bonus (although I don't burn any poplar). Then if I need barn beams for myself, I use that logging cash to buy 8X8 air dried Doug Fir from an Amishman. But I miss the days of being out in the woods with snow boots on, wedges in my hip pocket, and a a big Stihl in my hand. We'd build a little fire out there and make sausages on a stick for lunch. From my viewpoint, you have got it made.

 

[George]

And I thought you said you weren't professional, that looks pretty professional to me, and no slivers on that one. It looks like you were out of wedges, how'd that turn out? Sometimes I will stack two or more wedges on top of each other, (one time my logger cousin had five wedges stacked on top of each other) or go for my big fat steel wedges I inherited from my dad.
But I handle our tulip poplars a bit differently, I let them grow to 18-22" DBH and sell them for $300-400 each, however, it costs me half to get them to the mill, but I never have to touch them, and road improvements and treetops are a free bonus (although I don't burn any poplar). Then if I need barn beams for myself, I use that logging cash to buy 8X8 air dried Doug Fir from an Amishman. But I miss the days of being out in the woods with snow boots on, wedges in my hip pocket, and a a big Stihl in my hand. We'd build a little fire out there and make sausages on a stick for lunch. From my viewpoint, you have got it made.

I botched the back cut on that one and I got scared, better to be scared than dead. I was going to leave it and come back in the morning with a fat steel wedge but then again, I didn't want my dogs up around that tree. I did something a bit unconventional for me, I went further up and dropped another tree into it, risking further complications, but it worked. Turns out the back cut wasn't botched as badly as I thought just not squared off leaving a heavy rounded hinge in the middle. I'm about ready to start figuring how much wood that I need and how much that I have cut.



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