This was an excellent video! Very simple and quite informative. I bought my first property a few years ago and it has about 70 acres of 14 to 18 year old planted pine on it. All loggers are not the same and I can truly say based on what I've seen here my friends across the creek may not have been dealt with fairly.
Brings back memories of the Ranger School in Wanakena New York, A school of Forestry. Good job with the pacing. Also for the watcher, 66 feet divide exactly into an acre.
Lots of good info........that is an extremely clean tract of pine plantation (manicured I would say). Most here in southeast Texas consist of thick overgrown areas of yaupon , scrub trees and briars . Making that kind of free movement and all these measuring procedures almost impossible.
This is great. Now, at 10:30 he takes a sight line of N8°W... is that 352° magnetic? It sounds like it, since 352-90 would be 262° (S82°W) but I've never really understood the conversion between an actual magnetic bearing and the surveying nomenclature... or why we just don't use 0-359°? Thanks!
This is nit picking. I was a long time timber cruiser, in the NW. A 1/10 acre fixed plot it 37.2 feet. Not 37 feet and 2 inches. If I wanted to go for a1/10 mile between plots. It was 8 chains. Many times we did tree based cruising. Not area based cruising. The tree sizes varied ao much. Often I would design a cruise as either 3P or a sample tree cruise.
I can tell you cruising timber in the south does not require a federal certification. And is not nearly as complex or in depth as cruising timber anywhere else in the country. This method is okay for the most basic information but there is no accounting for defect other than classifying the product pulp, chip saw, sawtimber, pole etc... 37.24 Could you imagine if you had to correct for slope or use limiting distance measurement? This wouldn't cutt it in the PNW. A 10 factir prisim would make finding in/out trees easier as well. Or even a reliscope.
.... So with a Prism you don't find yourself measuring trees based on Diam and the Prism optics ?? I believe it. Here in the South I can't count the number of clown cruises encountered ...... Why ? >>>> because the undergrowth in summer is all around, and the Prism cruisers just ignore the boles they can't see .... which are many. Yea, all the BS about ''' Fast '' ..
This was an excellent video! Very simple and quite informative. I bought my first property a few years ago and it has about 70 acres of 14 to 18 year old planted pine on it. All loggers are not the same and I can truly say based on what I've seen here my friends across the creek may not have been dealt with fairly.
Brings back memories of the Ranger School in Wanakena New York, A school of Forestry. Good job with the pacing. Also for the watcher, 66 feet divide exactly into an acre.
Grate instructing you made it very clear to me. Thank you 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Lots of good info........that is an extremely clean tract of pine plantation (manicured I would say). Most here in southeast Texas consist of thick overgrown areas of yaupon , scrub trees and briars . Making that kind of free movement and all these measuring procedures almost impossible.
Very useful presentation. Thanks for making this available.
This is a great video for getting a basic foundation!
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Very clear instructions. Thank you
You are welcome, glad it was helpful!!!
Reminds me of Land Navigation in the Army.
This is great. Now, at 10:30 he takes a sight line of N8°W... is that 352° magnetic? It sounds like it, since 352-90 would be 262° (S82°W) but I've never really understood the conversion between an actual magnetic bearing and the surveying nomenclature... or why we just don't use 0-359°?
Thanks!
It's all fun and games until you get on a tract full of undergrowth.
And a 50% slope
..................l and , let's start out with sampling prep ?? Confidence intervals etc and et al
they need to make the orange paint orange flavored. There, i said it
This is nit picking. I was a long time timber cruiser, in the NW. A 1/10 acre fixed plot it 37.2 feet. Not 37 feet and 2 inches. If I wanted to go for a1/10 mile between plots. It was 8 chains. Many times we did tree based cruising. Not area based cruising. The tree sizes varied ao much. Often I would design a cruise as either 3P or a sample tree cruise.
A basic cell phone ap can replace a lot of this at a fraction of the cost
I can tell you cruising timber in the south does not require a federal certification. And is not nearly as complex or in depth as cruising timber anywhere else in the country. This method is okay for the most basic information but there is no accounting for defect other than classifying the product pulp, chip saw, sawtimber, pole etc... 37.24 Could you imagine if you had to correct for slope or use limiting distance measurement? This wouldn't cutt it in the PNW. A 10 factir prisim would make finding in/out trees easier as well. Or even a reliscope.
.... So with a Prism you don't find yourself measuring trees based on Diam and the Prism optics ?? I believe it. Here in the South I can't count the number of clown cruises encountered ...... Why ? >>>> because the undergrowth in summer is all around, and the Prism cruisers just ignore the boles they can't see .... which are many. Yea, all the BS about ''' Fast '' ..