AC LOGGING 2019 RESTORATION HAS BEGUN

Ok...thought I should start a post about the restoration and replanting of our 2019 logging project of our burned timber that we were able to salvage. This timber was planted in 1958 and burned in 2017. We started logging operations a year ago April 29th and finished in July...when the sawmill pretty much cut us off...didn't want any more salvage logs..even though they were ok. So hoping to do a lot of work with different ACs for the prep work....might even get a 21C with a brush rake going. The only other off brand equipment should be our CAT 312 excavator....and TIMBCO 445 feller buncher. All this prep work will be done now...thru summer..fall...and early winter leading up till planting time begging mid January...so my hope is to post with pictures and videos whenever there is progress...

So some pictures of a year ago before we started logging...looked like this

So this is what it looks like today

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Thanks for sharing Mel.

Me -C,U,UC,WC,WD45,190XT,TL-12,145T,HD6G,HD16,HD20

Dad- WD, D17D, D19D, RT100A, 7020, 7080,7580, 2-8550's, 2-S77, HD15

I would think trunks on those large trees should have alot of salvageable lumber but I suppose after being dead after so many years they start drying out. Dangerous logging with dead branches and tops falling,best to use a machine with a safe cab.

I'm surprised it's solid, salvageable and not blue stained/borers. I worked for Mich DNR in forest fire and forestry for 30 yrs. Every time we got into a large fire salvage situation the pine (red, white, jack) it had to be cut within a month or two at the most, or the beetles had it riddled with holes and stained. We dropped prices to less than half or a third original stumpage, and still didn't get a lot of bids due to short time window, windfall tangles to try to process and char issues with harvesting.

thanks for posting the pics MEL, I sure enjoy them and your stories!

do you burn pine Shamer

Ok...Let me answer some questions...before you get to far ahead of me. Mike...our operation is anything for a "buck'' The business started out as sand and gravel...branched out into commercial logging in the 1970s/80s...general engineering contractors..migrated into precast septic tank manufacturing in the 1970s...so we could sell more gravel..gave up the gravel for septic tanks and waste water business.Gave up the logging too...kept our Timber Operators License current...don't know why....but now I do.

Oh...forgot...we also have some cows we run on our property that's been in the family for over 100 years. Oh...our Allis Chalmers affliction came from our father who had bought ACs back in the 1950s for his logging operations. We just started year 48.

So Steve's right on also about some of the timber issues. The bug issue was a big one. That's pretty much what stopped us. Sometimes here in California you might get up to 3 years before the bug damage stops harvesting. The Ponderosa Pine that we were harvesting did not have a blue problem...but the bugs were getting after it. Here's some pictures of bug damage....the logs we were harvesting were not this bad yet...these are some that we brought to our yard for possibly chipping for a biomass project

So Thomas wants to know if Shameless burns pine?....sounds to me like his preferred fuel is blue Ford trucks...LOL...don't want to tell him that my 05 Ford died 3 days before Thanksgiving...and I just got a new blue one in service yesterday.

Chris.....Mostly old AC equipment

So...Going to go check out the burn piles tomorrow...post pictures as soon as possible

Dont those bugs make that expensive character wood Smile

if you saw it for lumber now?

I could see a timber frame home with a pile of that wood sawed into boards for the interior walls.

Here's an update video....if I don't do it as soon as I can ...it probably won't happen.

Dave....I made some comments also about our 7G undercarriages

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thanks for the update MEL, yes Thomas i've burnt lots of pine, but none that could be used for firewood, just the smallest left over stuff. i didn't realize the bugs burrowed so deep into the logs, just thought they squiggled along the outside i guess! i burn piles of tree branches all winter long and sometime thru the summer too, my back is getting to bad to do to much more right now, and can't take the heat much anymore either, last few years i've been cutting trees at night with the help of some good lighting. lots cooler then. last few big trees i cut down, i had my truck parked about a foot away so i could lean against it while chain sawing the trees down. that worked pretty swell. anything 1-1/2 inches thick gets saved for firewood, no matter what kind of tree it is.

man...you need sum tires on them piles!!!!

shameless dude wrote:

man...you need sum tires on them piles!!!!

Good thing Mel doesn't have more friends like you. LOL

This is the Land of Fruits and Nuts. Wink

The only good smoke is from pot that has had all the taxes payed on it. LOL

shameless dude wrote:

last time our local fire dept had a controlled burn ona old house...it sure was putting out alot of black smoke. you see...no one was watching/guarding that old house the night before! lol...ya'll figger it out!

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