Slip Slabbin' Away...

[78NHTFY]

My live-edge slabs have been going pretty good lately so I needed to build back some inventory.  To start off, I whipped myself up a nice batch of pancakes (yup, from scratch), cooked em on the wood stove and slathered them thick with home made maple syrup and chunky applesauce.  Now I was ready.  https://forestryforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=168971#top_display_mediahttp://www.forestryforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=168972#top_display_media;
Got the Case and Forwarder going and putted down the Lane to where I had 3 Ash logs from a dead tree ready for pick up. Back to the mill and unloaded.  Here are the pics.  https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/13967/IMG_20141104_095133_749.jpg;https://forestryforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=168980#top_display_media;https://forestryforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=168982#top_display_media;
the fat butt took up the whole width of the blade right to the rollers--https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/13967/IMG_20141104_102339_924.jpg; but the lumber looked good despite it being a dead tree--https://forestryforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=13967&pid=168981#top_display_media.
All in all a great day at the mill with the bonus that it was 57 F.  Tomorrow I'll sticker and then wait a couple of years for it to dry.  Sure is fun being semi-retired-tired!  All the best, Rob.

[RM Farm]

Let me just say, those pancakes look mighty good! I like the way your barn is coming along, and the slabs look great too. I lived in NH many years ago, at times I think I miss the snow, then I wake up :D. Take care and Keep Slabbin Away.

[Bill Gaiche]

Your living the life. Great photos. bg

[dboyt]

You've about got me convinced that a forwarding trailer is the way to go!  Between loading, hauling, and setting logs on the mill, it looks like a real time and back saver.  Now, if there were some way to use it to remove and stack the slabs, you'd have it made!  Nice looking slabs.

[78NHTFY]

You've about got me convinced that a forwarding trailer is the way to go!  Between loading, hauling, and setting logs on the mill, it looks like a real time and back saver.  Now, if there were some way to use it to remove and stack the slabs, you'd have it made!  Nice looking slabs.

I think those pics just make it look easy ;D.  Used to be I was limited by time/exhaustion.  Have sped up the loading, hauling and setting part, but now have to cut so much more (i.e. no sense in going out to only pick up a couple of logs!); and then I have a large inventory to cut, boards/slabs to move and sticker.  A key objective is TSI and maintaining the Tree Farm to the level my Dad kept it when he won NH Tree Farmer of the Year in 1978 (78NHTFY name is in his honor).  Let me know if you have any question about the forwarder, & thanks for your comments.

Your living the life. Great photos. bg
Thanks Bill.  Am trying to make up for 25 years of hard labor in the rat race business world either in an airplane or office.  I'm surely blessed at present no doubt.  Not sure how I managed to have the photos show up on my reply, then just the gallery info that has to be clicked on.

Let me just say, those pancakes look mighty good! I like the way your barn is coming along, and the slabs look great too. I lived in NH many years ago, at times I think I miss the snow, then I wake up :D. Take care and Keep Slabbin
Away.
Hey RM, nothing like a wood stove cooked pancake!  Thanks for your kind comments.  If you're ever back this way welcome to drop by....