Roadtrip

bushmechanic · March 19, 2012, 07:56:46 PM

Love the pic's and an excellent job!

Autocar · March 19, 2012, 08:14:43 PM

Great picture and a good job ! Always enjoy how the other fellow logs his area.

lumberjack48 · March 19, 2012, 09:06:10 PM

Good job, keep it clean and you never have to clean it, that was my rule. We used to say that before i guy could log or build logging road he should have to be a trucker. The truckers used to save my wood for night hauling, no stumps, straight piles, all wood sorted, no short pieces in piles and i was a phone call away if they had trouble or got stuck.

treefarmer87 · March 20, 2012, 12:32:29 AM

great pics enjoyed them very much. Nice setup too

Stephen Alford · April 14, 2012, 10:55:25 PM

Site conditions sure have changed in the last while. Looks like the snow storm Sunday was the last for this year. Now the challenge is dealing with drainage and frost comming out of the ground.

Put the clams on the log loader.

Its great to be able to back the trailer into a wet area. Having the loader on the back helps.

Suprising how a small amount of water can cause so much grief.

Generally speaking the frost crust will carry you until about 11am. But not always. :-\

Nice to be able to unhook the trailer. Hoping to fix things up Monday if the weather holds.

I have the impression that I am not the first to be stuck here.

You can always find hope if you look in the right place.

bushmechanic · April 15, 2012, 08:39:01 AM

Yes Stephen here on the Rock spring has sprung here too.Roads are muddy and soft but most of the snow is gone also.It's good in a way because now I get time to do some maintence on the equipment.Last week I had our 1010D John Deere forwarder in the shop,I did the center bearings and bushings in her.Also got time to do a lot of other small jobs that ordinarly would not have got done while she was working-I'm sure you know what I mean.I keep forgetting to take some pictures when I'm at those things because I bet it could be of use to someone else on here who might have to do a job like it.I am going to change the brakes from drum to disk on my old 201B and will try to take some pics of that.Good luck on the ground drying out. Will Tilley

Stephen Alford · April 16, 2012, 10:41:29 PM

Hey Will those are great pics in your gallery. That hoe on the skidder , now I like that. Man , that TJ looks in great shape. Be sure and let us know if you hear the DNA results on that coyote.

Waited till noon but things were still a bit slipppy.

Able to load by midafternoon.

Gave the load a rub and the day ended well.

Stephen Alford · May 03, 2012, 09:16:56 AM

Sure have been enjoying all the posts on the forum. Just wanted to contribute, so thought I would add a couple pics. ;D

Still dealing with a couple trouble spots.

Slash in the bottle necks.

Landowner wanted a couple sawlogs.

Pretty decent firewood.

Moved the landing into the woodlot before the farmer shows up.

Got caught up in rush hour traffic on the way to the woods, thought about it till lunch.

lumberjack48 · May 03, 2012, 03:42:00 PM

Looks like fresh lunch, good pictures

Tramp Bushler · May 03, 2012, 04:37:00 PM

Stephen ; you have a great looking operation there . All my wood goes to firewood also . But Im not as setup as you yet . That looks like good coyote calling country . !
Like Ohio Bob . Mobeing my loader down the highway is more herding than driving . If I got on the highway with chains on Ide get skun out . Troopers would follow my tracks

I have to pack so much stuff with me and keep it warm that I need a crew cab.

treefarmer87 · May 03, 2012, 05:26:16 PM

Stephen, did you make that cab for your loader? i need something like that.

Stephen Alford · May 04, 2012, 07:47:13 AM

Thank-you LJ for taking the time to share your experiences. Speaking of food lobster traps were set here Tuesday, hoping to have that Dang smell of crustations in the truck by the weekend.
Hey Tramp how many cords of wood on an average delivery for a 1000sq. ft. home? Here an ol farmhouse ( my fav) may be 13 cd. Normal dwelling 6cd for heat, 3cd for subsidizing oil heat and 1&1/2 for emergency burn. What species and length ? That ol terex must be what I hear on a cold winter morn off to the NW. ;D
TF you better get the cab built before that C6 fires up cause you will not have any spare time after that. Build most of the stuff, zip cut blades and those screws with the drilltips are the tools of choice.
Had a buddy drop by with this hybrid. The arms got bent and apparently if you work in the woods bent steel would be something that was familiar. :D

Tramp Bushler · May 06, 2012, 04:06:06 PM

Stephen ; here we mostly burn beattle killed white spruce . .In this area there is only white+ black spruce , Silver poplar + some small cottonwood . We don't have good enuf drainage for birch .
The wood boiler customers burn between 18 and 22 cord per year .. typical 1800-2000 sq ft home around

8 cord . I burned about 7 cord this last winter . We run around 2 cord per thousand bd ft here . This is a 2 cord load of 8' wood . Everyone thinks they are a homesteader here so alot of them want to cut their own wood up . I get 200$ a cord for 8' wood 30$ a cord to stove length it . I started with this

Stephen Alford · May 07, 2012, 07:29:06 AM

Tramp that is very interesting. There are owb owners that heat the house in winter and the pool in summer. They will take 16 cd. Blocked split and delivered here is going for 200/cd. The low end for price is the value of a barrel of oil doubled and the high end is a cd of 8' delivered (8' is going for 120). Since the forestry crash happened processor guys (those that are left) focus on the 8'wood.
You might want to consider a shear system for blocking and splitting. I think you could tap in with quick couplers to the tipping cylinder on that ol Terex and you would be good to go. Built such a beast about 7 years ago and has worked well. Some pics in the gallery.
Looks like we used the same forwarder . Mine had snowshoes instead of tracks. :D After that yarded with a TD7 and winch and had a go at packsacking for awhile.