Logging in Olympia - Slide Show - Day 2

This is from day two of our urban logging project - taking down the overgrown Douglas fir trees in our side yard.

The Jameson guys got the trees down and chipped the branches pretty efficiently. We don't know how they avoided dropping some of the timber on either our house or on the neighbor's (see the videos "Logging the side yard" #9 and #10).

Doug firs are majestic but they create endless chores dropping needles, pine cones, sap, and whole branches. Cleaning the roof twice a year is a backbreaking chore. Cleaning the deck every other day is simply irritating.

Plus they are unsafe in even moderate wind storms with huge branches coming down every year. It seems that somewhere in the Olympia area every winter at least one of these things crash through someone's bedroom in a storm.

Two of the firs turned out to have been partially eaten by termites.

Kit, one of our neighbors, asked if he and his son-in-law Gary, could cut up some wood for the winter. We said "sure". We came home from work to find that they had already started and had made a lot of progress.

Kit is 92 and Gary is 68.

The music is by Ralph Stanley & Vern Gosdin from Bluegrass Gospel - Way Down Deep.

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[CadillacL]

I LOVE this song, cant' say i've heard the bluegrass version till now. but. LOVE it. :)

[tippin260]

Earth first we will log the other planets later. That was a tree or trees that were bugged and needed to be taken out so they did not do any real property damage a far cry from the logging industry.

[rephaim22]

The Douglas fir is the dominant tree in the Northwest. We may halt it's progress temporarily as we expand our cities, but when mankind eventually blows himself into extinction, the forests will reemerge like nothing had happened. That's just nature.