Got me a spring trucking job!!!!

[Woodhauler]

Did 101 loads last week, 85 this week,had to get done at 12 today to service my truck and get ready to haul wood this weekend out of the woods. ;D

the big boys down the road offered me a job yesterday....not sure i should take it or not

As long as i get to haul the wood! ;D

[snowstorm]

This picture was taken around March 9th or 10th in Wilson's Mills. There is still 3-4 feet of snow in the woods.

you were right about the snow depth.another guy and i went to stratton today snowmobile ing at 8am 15 degrees an snowing mid winter conditions easy 3 to 4 ft on the ground. some still putting wood on the ground. met a log trailer in anson .....empty.......smoke ....first 2 axles on trailer i would guess the brakes camed over. well where there should have been 4 tires there is only 4 wheels he drug those the rd so far all 4 tires came apart. checked on the way home really good skid marks for 3 miles. all on the drivers side . worst part is ya could see where he pulled over to see what was wrong. then kept on trucking for another 2.5 miles till all was toast

[Woodhauler]

Well just finished my 4th week on the piledown, not a bad job ! Got one more week if i'm lucky. I never seen so much wood coming into sappi at once ! Every truck in the state and as far away as vermont are hauling in there! They have the overhead crane,the letourno,and sometimes 2 24000 hood loaders unloading and the guys hauling in have a hour wait! They get really testy with the guys hauling piledown because  we get to pass them and go right to the crane. Sometimes i pass the same truck 2-3 times before they bget unloaded.I am hauling 22 tons average per load. Its mostly cut to length wood,16-18 ft stuff. I got 3 crews going back in the woods next week. Hauled 2 loads off a guy in waldoboro this am ,and saw a crew chipping on the powerline job in windser,me they was set up in a field and not a drop of mud!With the weather next week things out in the open will dry fast. ;D

[SwampDonkey]

The marketing board yard is getting stuffed to, I never asked them whose wood it is. They can probably pile down 5000 cords up on the hill. Sometimes they process wood for mills, weigh scale it and so on.

This was 3500 cords of white cedar back in '06.



That road goes up behind the camera man and around to the left and back down the hill in a loop. 20 feet high on the but end facing the road. You could go anywhere that winter, just a skiff like on the road.

[Woodhauler]

Well i finished my part of the piledown yesturday! Now its time for a week off! Need to domsome tinkering and some brook fishing! Got 3 crews going back to work!  8)

[Okrafarmer]

Is Sappi what used to be Scott Paper / S.D. Warren?

[Woodhauler]

Is Sappi what used to be Scott Paper / S.D. Warren?

Yes.

[rick f]

are you back there again for 2012?

[Woodhauler]

are you back there again for 2012?

No they haven't got enough wood for a week!  Thought i had a job at irving in dixfeild retrucking pine logs, asked them first but they took 2 local guys >:(Only 3 of us asked! Guess i will be on my old skidder this spring mudding out some hardwood for sappi!  Got a 20 acre lot on non posted road that a guy dosn't care what it looks like when its cut! Not my way of doing a jobbut thats what the landowner wants

[Okrafarmer]

Yep I grew up about 10 miles from S.D. Warren. I would climb a tall hemlock tree behind our house, and I could see the plume from the steam coming out of their mill. Had at least one friend who worked there for a long time.

[thecfarm]

Woodhauler,Happy Birthday.  ;D