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This is just a collection of the efforts required to get this big poplar butt log off the mountain with a nice tune from Iron Horse playing on the first few pulls. For those that know what it takes to get a pair of horses to work this hard and stay calm and confident, please enjoy this piece of media. The log had almost 700 board feet of lumber in it.
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This is using the log choker chain to parbuckle a long log or two lengths out of in between to large pieces of poplar debris. Just a simple way of moving this particular piece of wood without moving the bigger pieces in order to extract the log. The pieces are actually broken in half from the impact of hitting the ground when the tree was felled whole. The damaged area was created when an ice storm or wind, broke a large limb off, several years ago starting the decay that would eventual kill the tree. It was the "nature's tree marking paint" indicator of decline that we used to identify this tree as being a worst first individual, ripe for harvesting now - since it was rotting from the top down faster than it was growing.
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This is a short video shot while skidding a large white pine off a steep mountainside. Not quite steep enough to skid on the ground but with a log arch.
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