Rotten Pine

[jwilly3879]

TJ240 cut probably what should have been 8000bf of nice looking pine today but 1/2 of them had red rot for the first 2 16' logs. Tough to make money when 1/2 the work is for basically nothing.

Breaks my heart to turn them in to pulp. They should have been cut 25 years ago. They look beautiful on the outside.

Sure am glad we didn't buy the stumpage, we are cutting on a percentage.

Pictures tomorrow.

[thecfarm]

That is too bad. I had to bring a logger in,kinda for that reason. I could not cut it all myself. Mine was still all good,but one never knows.

[jwilly3879]

Here's the pictures of the last two days of work.

Good example of the red rot.


 

Pulp pile - about 15 cord (10' high x 24' long)


 

About 8000bf fairly nice logs


 

The tree on the right already had 8' off the butt, 70+ ft and 13"


 

Now to get it all hauled and get ready for next weekend.

[jwilly3879]

Here's a picture of the second load of logs headed to the mill. Missed getting a photo of the first.



 

Two loads = 7500 bf with about 1500 left over. There was closer to 9000 feet in the pile, my estimate was 8000, they scaled up well.

[chester_tree _farmah]

What u going to do with the 1500?

[jwilly3879]

Add 6000 more tomorrow!

[jwilly3879]

We topped of the pile this weekend.

Pine Logs about 7500 bf - everything on the right of the pine tree is 16's


 

To the left is 10's and 12's and a few 16's about 2500bf


 

Added to the pulp pile, trucker had a breakdown so now there is close to 30 cord with a pile on the old header.


 

And some firewood that was cut to clear a lay for the pines.


 

Not too bad for 6 hours Saturday, 4 hours and rainout Sunday and 5 hours today. Big jib cylinder started leaking today, could be a spendy repair. 7" bore, 30" stroke and a 3" rod. The rod is so pitted I don't think it can be saved.


  

[Dave Shepard]

That sucks. Do you have a shop that can make you a new rod? That place in Castleton can do it, but it might take some time. :

[BargeMonkey]

Morradian hydraulic has done 20+ cylinders for me, thats your best bet. Chase down a used cylinder off a salvage machine ?

[Dave Shepard]

How do you get them to do it quickly? Bring them doughnuts?  :D

[jwilly3879]

I had New Hampshire Hydraulics rebuild one of my swing motors Mooradian has made some hoses for us when TJ240 was working near Albany. They also have a shop in Castleton on Hudson I believe.

[jwilly3879]

Just got the scale slip for the two loads that went out on Tuesday. 1st load 36 logs = 4045bf and the 2nd was 33 logs = 4585 bf.

it's nice when the add up like that and as a bonus there is about 2500 bf for a head start on tomorrow.

Wish I had some pictures but I was off doing my Building Inspector job that day.

[tj240]

i have used moordian before they are good gonna call tomorrow
if they can fix it it cant be fixed but the price??????

[bill m]

 I have most all of my hydraulic repairs done at Mooradian. They treat me very well. Most repairs they do for me while I wait. You may not need a new rod. They can tig and polish it so you can hardly see where it was gouged.

[tj240]

the rod is in bad shape ALOT of pits i think it needs a new rod my last post i spelled cant as can if mooridian CANT fix it it cant be fixed is what i meant to say, good day oday not to much rot

[jwilly3879]

Here's an attempt at a video. Hitch with two nice pine, (4) 16's in each one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GScScGQgKNU&feature=youtu.be

Every time I take a picture the pile looks the same.



 



 

[BargeMonkey]

 Your landing looks nice, all sorted out. Are you peddling the firewood or just pulping it ?

[jwilly3879]

All the hardwood goes for firewood. Our trucker sells most of it but I have an old fellow (80) who has  firewood business and he comes with his pickup and dump trailer and hauls a cord a trip. He bought about 15 cord the year so far. He will take all the shorts along with 8'. keeps things cleaned up.

[BargeMonkey]

I have to basically beg for people to come get the block wood, last time home I gave my mechanic 8 small dump truck loads off the last job. We have been doing 12-15 cord a week keeping up with the orders, but soon it will start in. Got a jump on it this year and I dont think thats even going to cut it this year. All depends how generous the state is for heap this year.

[luvmexfood]

All the hardwood goes for firewood. Our trucker sells most of it but I have an old fellow (80) who has  firewood business and he comes with his pickup and dump trailer and hauls a cord a trip. He bought about 15 cord the year so far. He will take all the shorts along with 8'. keeps things cleaned up.

At 80 years old and still working firewood my hats off too him.

[jwilly3879]

He has a neat setup, no processor bit he use a bobcat to put the 8' on a table where he cuts it with a chainsaw and the table is the same height as his splitter. He slides the blocks down a trough where they roll onto the splitter table then up a short conveyor into a bin. He transfers the bin to his greenhouse style kiln. When it is time to deliver he dumps the bins into his dump trailer and off he and his wife go.

He also has a thriving roadside operation and that wood is sorted by species. The summer lake residents buy a bunch for campfires and fireplaces. He is coming this week to pick up year old pine pulp for his roadside racks.

He had a successful logging business for many years and as his wife says there is wood in his blood. He also filled in at a local concentration yard running loader sorting logs until the shut it down.

[beenthere]

I worked most of today trying to keep up with an 82 yr old cutting firewood. He makes and sells 20-22 full cord each year with a Farmi winch and with a hyd. splitter. Says he should raise his price higher than $150 a cord.  ;)

 


 

[lopet]

Hats off  smiley_clapping

[jwilly3879]

Well we pulled the big leaky cylinder off on 10/5 and dropped at the shop in Glens Falls on Monday 10/6, they called on Weds 10/8 with an estimate and ordered the parts on Thursday. I called on Weds 10/15 to see how the repairs were going and the rod stock was in the lathe being machined. It was ready Friday afternoon but I had a soccer game to go to and I picked it up yesterday morning. Bill was $300 under the estimate so we basically have a new cylinder for $900. That included honing the cylinder, fabricating a new rod, welding the eye on and a seal kit. New cylinder from Barko was $3200, new rod only $2500. I'm pretty happy with the results from this shop. We installed it this afternoon in about an hour, everything went well but boy is it heavy. Motive Power and Paint in Glens Falls, NY did the repairs.

[BargeMonkey]

 Thats not bad money figuring what a new one cost.     You guys staying busy up there ?