A day cutting wood

[Resonator]

quote - "I hope he does not have to make a panic stop."

If the load is loaded tight to the front wall, no inertia can build up in a "brake - check" stop to cause damage. The force of all freight pushes evenly across the front of the van. On a flatbed trailer "false bulkhead" is built by stacking wood and chaining / strapping it down in front of the load to prevent forward movement.

[Peter Drouin]

The price on W Pine went from .34 a bf to .38 this week is what some big mills are paying now.
I think by spring it will be .40 a bf for logs.
I'm going to set my log price at .40 to make my price list for lumber for 2018.

[Dave Shepard]

What grades and lengths do you accept? Do you have to take knotty uppers to get the loggers to sell to you?

[rjwoelk]

There is talk of a 35 percent increase in lumber up here in canada. That is good for me.

[Peter Drouin]

What grades and lengths do you accept? Do you have to take knotty uppers to get the loggers to sell to you?

All the big mills only want 12',14',16', and maybe some 10' logs.
What happens is the logs get cut mostly 16' some loggers don't look at the logs and there like a boomerang. :D :D
Over at A&P Saw Mill I want gun barrel straight logs, So that means [old school].
Cut the logs the way they come out of the tree, I get 8'6" and up to 16'6" some 20'6" too
And I pay the same for an 8' like a 16'. If the grade is there.
Hunch back logs, logs with 2 piths, 4"+ knots are pallet logs. Less $$ for them.
At one time that's how trees where cut.
I met a new to me old logger on Saturday was happy I buy 8' logs.
I just half to wach out I don't just get the top half of the tree in a load, The butts had better be there too. :D :D

When I started buying all this wood some truckers, loggers, tryed to pull a fast one from time to time on me. :D
It took a while to weed them out. Now I have a good bunch and they know me better too.
The bigges thing [ THE MONEY IS THERE] no bull.
Buying 8'and 10' brings loggers in.
Dave In the mill biz I do get some knoty stuff, But if I don't pay much for it and tell them [DON'T BRING ME THAT JUNK]  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
They get it. Like I tell the them no smaller than 10" top. Some 8" will come too.
It is what it is, So I try to market the not so good logs.
The loggers don't grow the trees, They just work with it.
What I will not buy is Red rot W Pine.
I got one logger all mad at me because he brought a ½ load of red rot junk. Culled most of it.

[Peter Drouin]

It is a Monday, :


 
Red Oak

[paul case]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBBq_1Yvu5Y



Nothing went real wrong ,but nothing went exactly right either. No one was hurt I guess.
PC

[Peter Drouin]

 dancing-jack

[starmac]

I see you are making some nice tapered ramps. I have a set I park my truck on, makes it easier to service.

[4x4American]

I did that today too Pete..except with a 5" x 9" x 8' piece of hemlock :D . What I do when that happens is balance it on the tire and put my weight on it and pivot it up onto the bed, when its too heavy i reach over and grab it with the cat

[Peter Drouin]

That was a 10x12x10, Cats do reach. :D :D :D :D ;)

[Peter Drouin]

Today was like monday.
First, I run the Cat over some pallets.  :
Then another one.  :


  

 
With the days in the teens the Cat starting hard, So I called THE CAT MAN..$$$$$$


 
Wensday I hope is better. :D :D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Hope he fixed it......maybe.  :D :D :D

[Magicman]

Shoulda boughta a Kohler.   :D   :D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Shoulda boughta a Kohler.   :D   :D

:D :D :D :D :D :D

[4x4American]

Something is wrong IMO..usually Cats are great at cold starts.  In the manual on the 420E IT it says you dont need to use the glow plugs unless it's under 0 degrees and I've tested that and it's true and the batteries that are in it are iffy...prolly needa get new ones soon.  Seems like it never ends...

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Can't you plug it up and keep the engine warm?

[starmac]

4x4, I seriously doubt that cat has glowplugs.
Poston we have to plug stuff in in winter when it gets  below 0, but it do get expensive.

[Peter Drouin]

Can't you plug it up and keep the engine warm?

Yes, I can. I think with the cold any water in the diesel will give you fits. I put in some stuff in the tank to fix that.
Maybe.


Starmac, It has glow plugs. When it's cold enough, they come on, on their own. ;D

[4x4American]

  My cat has glow plugs too pete.. they aren't automatic they are manual on a switch.  iirc the 315 cat's we ran at the excavation company didnt have glow plugs..we didn't really need them anyways

[starmac]

I did not realize any true cat engines had glow plugs these days.

[bozzaa69]

The CAT man, ouchy.

[bozzaa69]

I do my own mechanics. But the cold is a pain for diesels sometimes. Had a Dresser dozer wouldn't start yesterday. Still haven't got it going.

[Peter Drouin]

I do my own mechanics. But the cold is a pain for diesels sometimes. Had a Dresser dozer wouldn't start yesterday. Still haven't got it going.

I gave up on the mechanics thing . I grease and change the oil and all the filters. But that's it. I make lumber, the CAT man fixes the CAT. The GM man fixes my two trucks, The John Deere man fix My John Deere.
That way it's done fast and right.
And I'm pushing out lumber.

[Darrel]

Had a Dresser dozer wouldn't start yesterday. Still haven't got it going.

I also have a dresser dozer. It's a cat and dozes on my dresser every night.  :D :D :D :D :D