Sponsors:

Recent

Welcome to The 2024 Forestry Forum!

Do you have trees to grow? Logs to saw? A forest to manage? Chainsaws to fix? A sawmill to purchase or maintain? Timber related business to run? Lumber to dry? Trees or plants to identify? A cabin to build? Are you hungry and like FOOD?

Or would you just like to pull up a stump and visit with a friend?
If any of these and a multitude of other topics apply, then The Forestry Forum is the place for you.

What Will you Find on the Forestry Forum?

Pages: [1] 2 ... 40

5W-40 Synthetic Oil in JD 440C?

Posted in Forestry and Logging
Yesterday at 10:55:48 AM
Written by Downeaster
Views: 474
Good morning all,

I have a JD 440C skidder that I was going to change the oil/filter in, but after reading the manual for the appropriate viscosity oil, I am not sure that I should use what I use in all of my other diesels. I normally use Rotella T6 5W-40; however, the manual states that it should...

Read More

4 Comments

Large Dia. logs

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
March 17, 2025, 11:19:53 PM
Written by handhewn
Views: 831
Six months ago the park fire took out my 60" circle saw. Because of same fire I ended up with 44 butt logs mostly cut at 8'-6" lengths. Average dia. at small end 34.7". Smallest end 30", various large ends over 60". Biggest small end 48". Two good friends in town have Wood Mizer mills, I took half the logs (mostly sugar pine with a few YP, DF, and cedar) to each mill. I have cut up logs like this before (see my gallery) but only for a few logs for my cabin interior, not for this many logs. We intend to cut these logs for large 12" thick cants to be stacked and stickered then cut to order later. Does this make sense? Read More

8 Comments

Split blades in an EG200

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
March 17, 2025, 05:53:33 PM
Written by DocGP
Views: 334
So as not to hijack the other thread, could one cut the original blades in half after sharpening and use them as split blades?? Am I attempting suicide if I try?? Thanks to KWood, I have a couple pairs of split blades coming, but I'm such a tightwad, I hate to throw the others out. May be best to just have my daughter paint some farm scenes on them and count it good as wall decor.Read More

0 Comments

Pillow block bearings?

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
March 16, 2025, 08:50:06 PM
Written by cmj
Views: 544
New diy sawmill build. I have only around 3 hrs of running mill. Two bearings per shaft. 1 1/4 inch shaft. Today I could hear a thumping noise and then one bearing blew up. Inside race cracked in half. Blade tension was set at 25 ft lbs. Other bearing on that shaft has play. I put a little grease in them, but not too much. Read More

1 Comment

Forest Management plans

Posted in Forestry and Logging
March 16, 2025, 11:44:55 AM
Written by Mountaineer2020
Views: 906
Currently an WVRF/working for the forest service. Contemplating leaving the circus and going to teaching locally (50k with experience, I taught for several years out of undergrad/local) and working as a consultant during the summers. Currently trying to roughout a business plan before I talk to a few retiring locals. Read More

6 Comments
Pages: [1] 2 ... 40

Thank You Sponsors!