Horsewright
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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Yeah it's a slash pile. They're finally getting serious about cleaning up some of the forest around here it seems like. There were numerous smaller slash piles in several different areas. We were told about this one by the Forest Service. It was ideal as we could drive right up to it as you could see. So we were cutting logs into four or five foot sections and then load em in the truck. We'll actually be cutting them into manageable rounds and splitting them tomorrow. We buy a permit from the Forest Service to cut firewood and they give ya a map on where to go. The permit costs $10 a cord and you can get up to 10 cords. First day working this slash pile we pretty much got all the easy stuff out. Second day we'd put some tow straps on a log high up and tug it down with one of the trucks. This worked very well. Had to be a little judicious with what log was holding up what log.
There had been some snow in the high country which was still around. As you can see here. There was a lil in the shadows where we were working but temps were in the low to mid 60s. All pine and cedar:
Cool sunset driving back home through the Mojave desert:
