March 6, 20178 yr Two Questions: In the video what is the purpose of cutting the end of the long? Only to square it or something else? Why were spring boards placed so high? Seems that wastes a lot of wood at the butt.
March 6, 20178 yr 4 hours ago, Gerald said: In the video what is the purpose of cutting the end of the long? the felling and initial cutting operation tends to splint the log and this recut gets rid of them and helps stop additional splitting..... look at the vid again.. you see this... 4 hours ago, Gerald said: Why were spring boards placed so high? base of the tree has high silica.mineral and even rocks embedded in the wood that is murder on the tooling fron the 1st cut to final mill work..
March 6, 20178 yr 10 hours ago, Gerald said: Two Questions: In the video what is the purpose of cutting the end of the long? Only to square it or something else? Why were spring boards placed so high? Seems that wastes a lot of wood at the butt. Gerald, Another reason the spring boards were place high was to get above the butt swell of the trees. It allowed the fallers to cut a smaller diameter and thus take less time. Also, in that era, the mills only took the best logs- top and limby logs were left, as was any logs with conk rot. The swell was usually do to some defect. And another reason, when the mills would porcess the logs to lumber, that swelled section would only produce short slabs of low value. The mills were not into 100 % utilization like they are now. As for the other question, they still cut the logs long - called trim. This allows the ends of each block to be cut square, saw kerf when cutting the logs into blocks and for mounting the blocks either in the lathe or head rig. As the technology improves in the mills, and in the woods, the trim length get shorter. When I worked in the woods years ago, the standard trim to add to the length of a log was 10"
March 6, 20178 yr 4 hours ago, Gerald said: Thanks to Stick and Kelly for explanations. Yep...very interesting...
March 14, 20178 yr Here is another reason for spring boards - Steep Ground. It allowed the other faller to be on the same level as his partner. The photo is circa 1962 SpringBoard1.pdf Edited March 14, 20178 yr by Chips N Dust
March 14, 20178 yr 2 hours ago, Nickp said: When Stick was taking trees down they were still saplings... lotta work to fell those big one... dangerous too... so why not...
March 14, 20178 yr 14 hours ago, Chips N Dust said: Here is another reason for spring boards - Steep Ground. It allowed the other faller to be on the same level as his partner. The photo is circa 1962 SpringBoard1.pdf Kelley they must have put a lower springboard in the stump to cut the notch and drive in the upper one. Too far to reach from the low side. just thinking out loud, Herb
March 14, 20178 yr 20 minutes ago, Dadio said: They usually had more than one spring board. They would notch in a spring board, get on it, and cut a notch into the tree where they needed to be or to get to and stick another one there. Get on that one, put out the other and move on up or around the tree. Sort of like stairs. They have had more than two, but it seems like they always took the "spares" out when they took a photo.
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