Starting a new job.

[BargeMonkey]

 

 

Took that picture standing on the small logpile, got the loader turned finally. Had to put 40yds of cobble in the stream crossing and using a 30ft bridge next week to get across the large stream.

[chester_tree _farmah]

Nice. Look at all that beautiful heavy metal!

[luvmexfood]

Bargemonkey. What is that directly behind the Barko? Splitter?

[BargeMonkey]

 CTR slasher table. 20ft on an axle, I lucked out when I bought that loader. I can slash for days on a chain sharpening, I will never slash with a saw again on the header.

[chester_tree _farmah]

The long tall box on the right end has a huge bar saw that swings down to cut wood to length. Zip. Runs off the loader hydraulics. Is it a 60" BM?

[BargeMonkey]

 Ive never measured it, I think its 92 driver's.  The spare new bar I have is about 5'8" tall. Bar saw slasher is so nice.

[BargeMonkey]

 

 

[Ken]

Are your tops firewood or do you have a pulp market?

[windy hill farm]

Hey BargeMonkey are you sure you're in upstate NY I don't see any snow in those pictures   

[redprospector]

Nice looking equipment, and log deck.
Wish we had a market left around here.

[Woodhauler]

Hey BargeMonkey are you sure you're in upstate NY I don't see any snow in those pictures   

When i went to caledonia a couple weeks ago, the snow was all gone!! Only place i seen any was on hog back mountian in vermont!!

[BargeMonkey]

 Its been snowing but wont stay. If I go above 2200ish feet you can still find it, the mountains are still white. Anything #2 or above I firewood, the cost to truck it and the firewood demand eats most of the low grade. We saw survey stakes by the pallet load, alot of ash, beech, soft maple and oak.

[BargeMonkey]

Are your tops firewood or do you have a pulp market?

I can ship hardwood pulp, but I prefer to firewood it. We ship 50-75 loads of softwood pulp to Finch every year, not a big money maker.

[jwilly3879]

I heard Finch was paying $109/cord for hardwood. Firewood pays $100 and it is local.

[BargeMonkey]

 Sounds about right. Softwoods been paying 8-900 a load after trucking. I refuse to sell wood off the truck, not worth the hassle.

[BargeMonkey]

 

 

[timberlinetree]

Nice set up! Thanks for posting.

[coxy]

Hey BargeMonkey are you sure you're in upstate NY I don't see any snow in those pictures   

When i went to caledonia a couple weeks ago, the snow was all gone!! Only place i seen any was on hog back mountian in vermont!!

hog back mountain haven't been there in 15 years the 100 mile view  :laugh: :laugh:

[luvmexfood]

Bargemonkey. That slasher has me puzzled as I have never seen anything like it. So what do you do? Take the loader and lay a log up on it and then use the loader to push the logs through it?

I can't believe the equipment you have for firewood. Honestly around here you can't hardly give it away. If you can get $120 for a full cord delivered and stacked you are doing good.

[BargeMonkey]

 Firewood is big business up here. Ok, you see the saw in the box ?  See how all the bunks are, each bunk after the saw is measured, the 1st major one is 8'6", then 10-12-14- and so forth. Grab the log with the loader, slide it on the table, run the end past the bar and cut it to the length you want. If cutting smaller stuff we sometimes get 3-4-5 pieces of wood to a pile then reach in and grab a pile. Lever in the cab runs the saw, takes some getting used to swinging and running the saw at the same time. Accurate cut to length right from the cab. The real high dollar stuff I still get out and mark them just to be sure.

[luvmexfood]

Hope I didn't pester you just wondering. Years ago my BIL borrowed a homemade fence post splitter that someone had made. Back then when the mines were running strong they would make stuff like that on company time with company parts. Anyway it would split an eight foot locust in a heartbeat but problem being the split would follow the natural grain of the wood and you might have a fence post 8 inches in diameter on one end and two on the other end.

[BargeMonkey]

 I will get a few pictures of it working up close. Once you own one you never go back. Circle saw is faster, but you need more HP from the loader, and im not a fan of throwing chunks of wood 150ft with the saw. There are guys up north who have built large spliters they use off the loaders for splitting pulp down, thats kinda neat to see.

[ozarkgem]

Firewood is big business up here. Ok, you see the saw in the box ?  See how all the bunks are, each bunk after the saw is measured, the 1st major one is 8'6", then 10-12-14- and so forth. Grab the log with the loader, slide it on the table, run the end past the bar and cut it to the length you want. If cutting smaller stuff we sometimes get 3-4-5 pieces of wood to a pile then reach in and grab a pile. Lever in the cab runs the saw, takes some getting used to swinging and running the saw at the same time. Accurate cut to length right from the cab. The real high dollar stuff I still get out and mark them just to be sure.

any way to get a video of that? Thanks   Jim

[BargeMonkey]

 I will get one today of the slasher. Only guy I know with a big splitter is way up north, not common around here.

[loggah]

We had a hood slasher package on the s-182,the 6068 john deere had plenty of power for the circular saw.The good thing about the circular saw was with dirty or wood with frozen dirt on it the carbide teeth still worked well. when we had to split big pulp we just sawed partway thru it then split it with the loader bucket.Don