Log landing just inside the stand of 80 yr old mixed cedar fir and hemlock
 

This is a 30%-40% thin of an 80 yr old mixed stand

Cut logs all lay the same way for the processor to easily work through them
 

Processor getting started

Cedar tree laying up one of the original 1901 logging roads
 

Original 1901 parallel road along creek was utilized

Hart Logging's skidder outlined by a November sunrise.
That thing could drive just about anywhere and not get stuck
Note the chains and articulated 4 wheel drive

We discovered a stand of dead trees at the top of the hill.
The last two dry summers really took a toll on cedars.
 This hill is mostly solid rock covered by a thin layer of soil

It rained and turned everything to mud for a few days

Skidder with Jason is churning its way with a load of logs to the landing to be sorted.
They were already cut to the right length by the processor
 

Processor just cut a cedar log to 35 ft
More closeups of this interesting machine

 Hemlock
Note the defect in the bottom of the one log
We saw that this mature hillside stand was due for harvest
 

Cedar
Here's Dave looking at a pile of Cedar logs

Processor working his way into the stand
 

Three guys  logged the whole place in four weeks
 

Processor working near the top of huck hill
 

 Here's processor operator Justin
 

Some of the cedar that was unusable due to Butt Rot

Long shot of the shovel sorting the logs into piles by grade and species. Note the ten yr old stand of Red Cedar in the left and right foreground

Sorting more logs
Basically three guys using hi-tech and low-tech equipment logged 15 acres in four weeks. It was amazing to see the efficiency in the way they operated
 

Loading the first log truck
 

Log truck had built in scales
Driver talked to Tim on CB as he neared the limit of 80,000Lbs

Trucks backed in to the very edge of the forest and were loaded.
10 year old stand of red cedar on  right and left
 

Just couldn't stop taking pictures of loaded trucks driving out
 

Here's a good one
Front half of the truck is pulp and the back half Cedar. Truck was going to smith island where the two mills are located.

Driver hooking up the trailer

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