[AT] Logging

Mattias Kessén davidbrown950 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 5 13:50:15 PDT 2017


Here the lumber is quite small. It has became a very controlled "industry"
were trees will grow fo ca. 80 years, more or less depending on where in
the country etc. You will even get a reduced fee for wide trees because
most sawmills have problems handling them.

Mattias

www.rodjagard.n.nu

2017-10-05 19:57 GMT+02:00 Grant Brians <sales at heirloom-organic.com>:

> On 10/1/2017 10:09 PM, Mattias Kessén wrote:
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> Mattias, I found it interesting to see the size of the logs being
> handled in the article you posted the reference to. When I see the logs
> harvested in California, except for those thinned logs harvested for
> posts (a very small percentage) the logs are much larger in diameter and
> length. We may have lots of dry areas and definitely we lost many
> millions of trees from the drought and climate change, but the typical
> trees harvested for lumber are feet in diameter not inches (or to be
> more metric - over 31cm to over a meter). When looking at the logging
> trucks plying the California and Oregon roads, their 30 ton load will
> usually have many fewer trees than those small carriers shown in the
> article.
>
>       I am sure a big part of the difference must be the species of
> trees and the use they are put to. The White Pine, Douglas Fir, Coast
> Redwood and many other lumber trees grown here can reach heights of more
> than 100 feet before typical harvest is performed. The Coast Redwood
> trees that are old growth typically are over 200 feet in height and
> White Pines were too. I have seen Douglas Fir that exceed 150 feet in
> height.
>
>       The variety of equipment shown in the article was interesting too,
> because there is such a range of ideas as to how to perform tasks and it
> appears that a range of mechanizations were tried, maybe more than here
> but I am not sure. Also, seeing little tractors converted for logging
> was interesting because the machine used here in the older times were
> mostly Caterpillar crawlers simply with a winch and a blade. This has a
> lot to do with the mountainous terrain here and the large size of most
> harvested trees.
>
>       Something I found interesting in the Midwest was the growth of the
> straight Mid-western Black Walnut trees for lumber. This is so different
> from our use of the native "Northern California Black Walnut", which is
> not at all straight, is slow growing and is primarily used for grafting
> English Walnut cuttings for our Walnut production industry (the second
> largest by area after China and the largest by production amount by far
> in the world.
>
>       Thank you for the interesting posting even if I have to guess at a
> few of the pieces of information in the article due to my very limited
> Swedish....
>
>                 Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer of
> vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, nuts and fruit
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