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Grave's Creek Alabama Tree Cutting:
Phil and I met up Saturday morning to go look at Grave's Creek in Alabama . Graves is known for holding trees due to it's small watershed, also I was wanting to try out a backpack setup for cutting trees out. The backpack has an extra chain, sparkplug, bar oil, files, bar adjustment tool,1 quart of extra gas, gloves, earmuffs, and chainsaw chaps. We figured it weighed in a a little over 60lbs. A manageable weight for sure. With us being in our third year of drought down here, tree cutting has almost become a sport, it helps us get more quality runs in, under a smaller window, most of our rains, are flashes and you don't have a big window to boat in. With Graves open, its manageable to run Graves, (the big two) Big Scirum, and Austin Creek in one day. By doing that they go up in difficulty ,starting with Graves and ending with Austin, so you have plenty of warm-up for some nice runs.
For those who don't know Graves ....it's a easy hike in, and you drive right up to the big one...so this was a good place to work out the kinks on the backpack set-up Here is more info on Graves CLICK HERE
Here is the backpack with the saw and axe
Getting ready to go...
Hiking in......
Here is our first victim, a tree in the slide rapid
Upstream shot of the tree...
In progress......
Phil moving the "firewood"
The Saw setup worked great, and now were ready to tackle some remote runs, and looking to clean up some trees on Sand Mountain now.
Here's a shot Phil showing how balanced the pack is...
Mark Cumnock
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