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[EOTE]

Hey Bindian,
My primary log handler is a Kubota L4060 with an AgArmstrong grapple.  I really like it because it has a quick attach plate like skidsteers so it is easy to switch between forks, bucket, and grapple.  Works great for bucking logs to the mill and offloading cut lumber

 as well.

[nativewolf]

@longtime lurker Nice looking lacewood.  Indeed it does look a lot like our qs sycamore, or the reverse actually.  Glad to see the floods didn't shut you down.  How fast will things dry up there?  I never got to Northern Australia, we traveled from Sydney south and then over to Tasmania (my favorite) and that was it.  

[Magicman]

longtime lurker, that Ash is some crazy stuff and it is quite understandable why the Oak is prized.  It's amazing what we sometimes get to see that is inside of logs.  

[WDH]

Lurker,

GRACIOUS!

[longtime lurker]

@longtime lurker Nice looking lacewood.  Indeed it does look a lot like our qs sycamore, or the reverse actually.  Glad to see the floods didn't shut you down.  How fast will things dry up there?  I never got to Northern Australia, we traveled from Sydney south and then over to Tasmania (my favorite) and that was it.  

I see the same resemblance to your sycamore. This will darken with oxidisation to a yellower colour though.

The floods are bad. Townsville copped a hit but will recover. The rangelands to the west... Its all gone. Quick and dirty metric to imperial ... Theres 30 million acres under water, estimated cattle losses between 300 to 500,000. Kangaroos, emus... Anything and everything that couldnt get up out of the water is dead.
Roads...rail...fences... Buildings and infrastructure... All gone.



 
That is a satellite image of the lower Gulf of Carpentaria, with the Flinders River 80 miles wide in full flood, and further flooding offscreen to the east and south in other river systems.

A chopper pilot mate I spoke with yesterday had overflown one property with 50k cattle on it... Not a single live beast or any other wildlife in 600 square miles, and the smell of death everywhere.
I got a lot of friends out that way. 

At the other end of the country Tasmania is burning. And 7 years of drought in the middle.
Yeh... It's bad

[Magicman]

Oh my, on my side of the world I didn't even know about it.    I suppose that each of us are living in our own little worlds, and worlds apart.  :

[petefrom bearswamp]

This is the first I have heard of this tragedy.
My heart goes out to all involved.

[longtime lurker]

Queensland floods: About 300,000 cattle dead after Townsville floods | PerthNow


Don't click the link if you have a liking for cows. But that's what's out there.

It rained and rained and the water came up fast. And then the temperature dropped and they had a night of 50 mph wind in the rain. The cattle were weak from drought, and they basicly bogged down and drowned or exposure got them.


As a cattleman I find that more upsetting than a couple thousand homes inundated in Townsville.... S'what happens when you build in a swamp right.

Anyway, we'll survive. Wet season is only just starting too.

[Magicman]

Your video is attached to Facebook which I can't see.  :-\

[Crossroads]

That's a sad deal, I hope you guys can recover quickly, but loosing that many cattle is going to be rough. 

[longtime lurker]

Fixed it for ya Lynn.

All you can do is say "'straya,mate"... Which translates to something like its always a land of extremes, droughts, floods, fires, cyclones, heatwaves etc: pull your big boy pants up and get on with it or get outta the way.

What annoys me is the government response... The feds give 4 million to the local shire (county) governments which cover between them an area about the size of Texas the same time it sends quarter billion in foreign aid offshore. The feds also got the air force ready to drop fodder and fuel into places, been sitting by a runway for a week...But the state hasn't signed off on it for political reasons. Meanwhile everyone gets their picture taken, and nothing gets done. Yeah... Lot of people are angry, but we're alive to be angry so it could be worse.

'straya mate.

[Southside]

I had not heard of this either, my heart goes out to all those impacted, I just can't imagine coming home to that kind of a loss.  

[Magicman]

Still could not open it but a Google search for; "Queensland flood" found plenty of distruction. 

[longtime lurker]

Its depressing... Go back to talking about pretty boards and sawmills it's far more enjoyable.

I'm about to get verrryyyy busy. I'm the closest fixed mill to Townsville, and we do a lot of the heavy structural bridge timbers for the secondary roads in that western country.... Soon as trucks can move I got logs coming at me from everywhere, and no time for cutting fun things till who knows when. Its an ill wind etc etc but I tell ya I'd rather be cruising along and not have so many I know hurting.

[Darrel]

My thoughts and prayers are for friends I've never met in Queensland. 

[Magicman]

Today I/we have been "making ready" for my road trip return next week.  Dull blades boxed, sharp blades ready, new Debarker blade, new power feed belt, chainsaw gas/oil, ATF, marking paint, wire brushes, & Diesel.  PatD has been busy with my laundry.  Nothing exciting, just check items off of the list.  Anytime that I am sawing that far away from home, my comfort level gets stretched.   :  

[Crossroads]

I've gotten a couple calls this week, but this weather is holding me back. Last night we got about 10" of fresh snow and the temps have been hitting single digits. It looks like my plan of running the mill full time, is going to be put on hold for a while. It looks like I'm going back to punching a clock again next month. 

[Woodpecker52]

Loaded down a trailer load of cypress  beams for a customer to start timber frame home in NW Ms. today at the load dock noticed the plum trees are starting to bloom and all the tree buds are swelled,  looks like spring is ready to spring around here.

[quadracutter222]

Saturday
Laying out a log from a balsam (true fir) boomstick. Western Hemlock and doug fir next.


Square thing are good things ;)


Some of the yield, 4x4s for ground dunnage and 4x6 for woodshed expansion.



Sunday

[Magicman]

the plum trees are starting to bloom and all the tree buds are swelled, looks like spring is ready to spring around here.

We have had a few daffodils for several weeks, but now they are everywhere.  The lawn grass is greening up. 

The only thing that is hampering my sawing is rain....much rain.  The forecast is ~50% for next week which is not good when you are 230 miles from home on the customer's expenses.  Hopefully I can get at least 6 hours per day sawing.

[petefrom bearswamp]

Not sawing anything yet.
Snow at the mill site got down to about 8" during our short spring last week, but is snowing now and expect 6 to 10" then freezing rain.

[Crossroads]

We picked up another 6-8" of fresh snow last night. No sawing this week ❄️❄️❄️❄️

[Old Greenhorn]

the plum trees are starting to bloom and all the tree buds are swelled, looks like spring is ready to spring around here.

We have had a few daffodils for several weeks, but now they are everywhere.  The lawn grass is greening up.  

The only thing that is hampering my sawing is rain....much rain.  The forecast is ~50% for next week which is not good when you are 230 miles from home on the customer's expenses.  Hopefully I can get at least 6 hours per day sawing.

You guys are KILLIN' me. smiley_brick hits_hardhat

[Frontier_Paul]

 

 

 Cutting up some Pecan and Sycamore

[Magicman]

You guys are KILLIN' me.

Nope, you will freeze long before our hot air gets to you.  :D

Paul, nice slabbing.  Plans for the slabs?