How much wood could a (mechanical) woodchuck chuck?

[egleaves]

Someone sent this to me in .wmv format, but I found a version of it on Youtube.

Really, who need lumberjacks anyway?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WwPHeM5ltI

[DGXSER]

Dayummm, and folks say I'm a fast eater!! Looks liek somehting out of a cartoon of space invaders coming to demolish our planet!

[Varnae]

Oh I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok
I sleep all night and I work all day...

[Jerry]

I used to do by hand what that machine is doing, cutting trees and removing the bark. I sold my stuff to a trucker who hauled the wood to the paper mills in Wisconsin. Had to cut the trees into 100 inch lengths. It would take me 15 - 20 minutes a tree typically, depending on the number of branches I had to cut off once I had felled the tree. Cut a strip of bark off the top with a draw shave, then pry the bark off with what looked like a big chisel with a "T" handle. When the sap was flowing the bark would 'pop' as it came off the tree. Did this summers and paid most of my way through college this way. Had 3 chain saws for the cutting and a tractor to pull the logs to a landing where a truck could get at them. I was in shape those days....

[trbig]

I was in shape those days....

Jerry, I always tell them... Round is a shape too!


Tod

[wa407mpp]

That's not logging, that's flat land Plantation harvesting on an alder Plantation. You couldn't do much of that out here, unless you could hang it from a helicopter.

[CatatonicBug]

That's not logging, that's flat land Plantation harvesting on an alder Plantation. You couldn't do much of that out here, unless you could hang it from a helicopter.

Good point! I wondered why all the trees were the same size (and relatively small too)! Definitely would not work in an Old-Growth forest...