What are you cutting 2025?

[teakwood]

How did they put it on those blocks? with a big ass lift? don't you have a pic?

[beenthere]

Barge mentioned the 2 ways they get the barge in/on dry dock.  Think the travel lift is shown in the background of one of Barge's pics reply #239

You've got 2x ways to do it, drydock or travel lift, 3x but graving docks arent used for small boats typically, my regular boat is to heavy for a lift, but 80% of the fleet they can pick up in slings and on the hard they go.

[SwampDonkey]

Something wrong with boats.

Today I cut firewood in the morning and split and hauled in over 1/2 a cord this afternoon. I think I must be getting close to 4 cords I wanted on the ground. If not, it won't be much to add to it. I put a half cord load on the new trailer, didn't have any issues hauling it. It's not the smoothest road, the Royalton Road. But all rural roads here have gone to pot for a long time.

[BargeMonkey]

 I'm 40' up in the air if that gives you a scale. Run the boat in the slip, divers, slings, up and out. Can't pick up big boat but 75% of the stuff around NYC they can pick up, my regular boat is to heavy for a travel lift, on paper she is 298GRT. Alot of the stuff I worked on the lakes was 199GRT and BIG, all how they play the game for rules and manning, safety requirements.

 I asked my boss what they are going to do in 10yrs when all the older guys leave, alot of the people here are less than 5yrs to go. Most people would rather go home than go to the shipyard, they take care of me pretty good but Toby doesn't say no either.🤦😆

[Riwaka]

New crew - green card some experienced multi-lingual Filipino marine engineers? see Chief Makoi youtube ' The truth about marine engineering'. 9 minutes.

Suggest to the local crew training school to get a Canadian log dozer boat (also called side winder boat etc) to do motion sickness evaluation on freshman students with? 

[BargeMonkey]

 I work for the biggest anti union boat company in NY harbor and the only Filipino we have is the electrician. If they could replace us all they would, working 8x months on, 1x month off,  50.00 a day and a bag of rice, it ain't gonna happen.

[Old Greenhorn]

Been a while since I took down a bigger stick alone. This one is a EWP abut 30" on the stump. My 32" bar would not reach through. The top snapped off about a year ago in a windstorm and made a mess, I left the stem, but now the woodpeckers are hammering it to pieces. It's actually on the neighbors property and if it fell toward his house it would wreck their lawn but not reach the house. I texted him last night and he had no objections to me dropping it in my swamp. It went right where I aimed and clobbered one small tree that was coming out anyway, poorly formed. The house is on the market now and that tree on the edge of their lawn is just an eyesore.



The stick is about 40' long [edit: it was 50+']. I really took it to test out my 372 project saw setup. It failed. First it threw the chain and budged up a driver. Fixed that then it stalled out when I was driving wedges and I could not restart it. I grabbed the 562 and finished it off. It just missed the keeper tree I wanted by inches which was the goal. His yard looks better, mine, not so much.
 

[leeroyjd]

Working on the salvage job from "straight line wind" damaged white pine.
Some big wood, some ugly snags but they add up fast!
Cut this one with a 16" bar. 12" wedge for reference.

[BargeMonkey]

Trying to avoid boat posts but got some good pics,



Shot with an IPhone so hard to change over. 

[BargeMonkey]

Another one today,



 The boat I'm dealing with was 615 tons empty weight, that ex-osv is a bit heavier.

 The words "lend" + " borrow" aren't typically in my vocabulary, buddy of mine lost trans in his skidder, sent my 620C down to finish cleaning up his job this week.
 Go home next Friday, baby Grace is planning to show up. I'm in the yard with 2x other guys, almost like a joke, so a Swede, Greek and Mexican walk into a bar 🤦. I keep threatening to call ICE on the Mexican....

[Magicman]

Trying to avoid boat posts

Please do not avoid the boat pictures.  Yours are the only way that I will ever see such. 

[GAB]

BargeMonkey:
When you wrote this " Trying to avoid boat posts but got some good pics" I hope you were kidding.
GAB

[trapper]

{ like the boat pictures

[doc henderson]

may need a cutting the water thread for all the boaters.

[BargeMonkey]

 Actually a pretty cool vessel, "Freedom Star", was built for Nasa to pick up the rocket tanks after they fell off, theres a Wikipedia page on it. Same power as the boat I'm sitting on, EMD 12-645's.
Alot of people brag about being boat trash, Toby's just here for a paycheck.


Blasted the winch and had some rough bolts. I was skeptical at one of these induction heaters, it worked + 3' pipe wrench 😆 can find it right on Amazon, I've got one coming now.

 

[BargeMonkey]

I'm off the 2nd, back the 15th and home again July 23rd, got about 15ld of wood to move, finish my job, swing an engine, and have a baby. 🤦😆. My buddy is probably going to live in that cab tonight to get done before the rain comes. She's getting new glass and updated LEDs she gets home again. 

Makes beautiful processor wood, 

[SwampDonkey]

Busy paddling and wood processing his way to a fortune. 

[customsawyer]

Barge, what is that to the left of Freedom Star, in the picture?

[barbender]

I'm waiting to hear your review of the Amazon induction heater, Barge. 

That is nice processor wood! If that stuff is sound, that whole pile looks like it would go for pallet logs here.

[BargeMonkey]

USNS Henry J Kaiser to the left, USNS Pililaau in the graving dock in front of me. 

Heater worked good, got those nuts off without to much fight, I'm sold on it. By the time you skin the pallet logs out and truck them somewhere it pays less than firewood. 

[Plankton]

Firewood and hemlock with some garbage pine mixed in but its dry. Subsistence wood pays the bills. Got some nice hardwood to cut thats too wet to even think about right now.

[barbender]

Pallet pays about $20-$30/cord more than firewood here, and the firewood market is more fickle in every way. Firewood market here mostly means residential deliveries with a tractor/trailer, so it ties up a haul truck for extra time. You want to get as much pallet as you can.

That's one of the benefits of cut to length equipment that offsets the higher cost per cord to produce. It is easy to make all of the sorts, to get the best value out of the timber.

[GRANITEstateMP]

Plankton,

is that a Prentice skidder?

[Plankton]

Its a clark g67. Valmet owned clark ranger for a minute so its red and says valmet but its exactly the same as the yellow ones that say clark

[BargeMonkey]

 I don't know if this is going to be clear enough to see. Pallets paying between 175 to 300, species dependant. That's a 5hr minimum round trip. Nice load of processor wood brings 1k with about a 30min haul off this job. Matt logs are paying 500 but have to be 16'6' and sound. 
I don't deal with Tri-state but my buddy sent me this sheet. Everyone's log prices have fallen, I know alot of guys have parked everything. The oak on my job may just sit there, I'm not doing it.