My new client and Quarry update

[nativewolf]

I just see lots of flat ground for buildings .  

Congrats Ramon, having them come back so quickly will really change your economic situation and for that I am very very happy for you.  You'll have to strip some more overburden I guess and mill the new harvest area.  Did you sell the topsoil last time?

I kid you not that you'll need more space though because you've made an amateur mistake in making your new building just the right size for today.  There's always tomorrow!  

[doc henderson]

unless the Teak buy is a onetime deal.  Ramon the lumber broker.  you have to sell it without it landing in your yard!  

[Nebraska]

That all looks so good. Thanks for sharing. 

[teakwood]

I am assuming that they are taking manageable layers so after it is taken down to the level where the crusher is, will they begin another layer deeper.  I suppose that I am wondering how deep your recoverable stone goes.  Maybe to China? 

Yes, i have a extracting plan which was accepted from the mining ministry, so more or less i need to follow some rules and guide lines. One thing they are complaining is the first wall (the bottom hole, where the crusher is), is way too high and vertical so i need to cut another terrace. We will do all that but last year was very hectic and they needed to full fill orders. this year i will make more use of the D9 dozer (as it is payed from this firm and doesn't cost me a dime) and organize the quarry a little better. make more room, strip more overburden and make more terraces.

I did a extend of my original permit and could expand my estimated extraction volume from 1.2million m3 to about 1.6million m3. this extension costed me about 6k $ because we needed to do more studies. so now i got an extra 20m from the quarry floor down, where the good material is. we needed to prove that there is no water there because it's forbidden in CR to cut into the water lines. Also no deep hole quarries are allowed, or under ground mining. only open pit from the quarry floor up, down is not permitted.

the extension was expensive but i did it for 2 reasons: my annual extraction quota got bigger and i have a extra selling point if i ever sell the quarry.

 

[Magicman]

Thank you for the explanation.  Yours is something that I will never be associated with but your venture and business is a very interesting read.  I admire your successes and look forward to your future. 

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[teakwood]

I just see lots of flat ground for buildings . 

Congrats Ramon, having them come back so quickly will really change your economic situation and for that I am very very happy for you.  You'll have to strip some more overburden I guess and mill the new harvest area.  Did you sell the topsoil last time?

I kid you not that you'll need more space though because you've made an amateur mistake in making your new building just the right size for today.  There's always tomorrow! 

Thanks Wyatt, yes, strip more overburden and mill some more trees from the clear cut. i sold very little overburden last year, the overburden is a real problem. the took some samples last week and are hopping to use 5000m3 of overburden mixed with rocks for some applications which require less quality. they will pay me less but it's kinda two birds with one stone situation, it will serve me well. hopping the lab will accept it.

you really underestimate me! i didn't made a amateur mistake, the new building is exactly right for this lumber buy (which was a one time deal). next year i extend the building and will double the space which i currently no need for.

[teakwood]

unless the Teak buy is a onetime deal.  Ramon the lumber broker.  you have to sell it without it landing in your yard! 

It was a one time deal. I think of me as a not so dumb guy, so i rather unload the lumber at my place, select into different qualities, plan or mould the lumber and resell it at a 200-300% profit, lol

There was a older gentlemen driving into the sawmill with a expensive car about a month ago, with a chauffer/ assistant. "I'm a wholesale wood buyer, how much for the whole lumber storage!?" I thought it for 5 seconds and didn't even give him a price. told him: i don't sale wholesale. I knew exactly what he wanted and he knew exactly that he would not achieve anything with this guy so he left. 

[teakwood]

Marked the next clearcut in the quarry, let me tell you, there is some height up here compared to the quarry floor. about 60m. lots of m3 left

finished up the gate with my little brother who is visiting from Switzerland. He is using vacation work clothes   at 36 degrees, dang is it hot this year
I'm very pleased and proud of how the entrance turned out


5.20am, the best hours of the day

[Ljohnsaw]

nice!
Your morning picture, at first glance, looks like the view from Sacramento of the snow covered Sierras!

[doc henderson]

It is the same sun!   

[teakwood]

The production manager has a drone and sent me some pics of the quarry and plantations, for me they are just astonishing. All this i did in the last 20 years of hard work

[teakwood]

[teakwood]

The green line is my neighbor, all the dry trees is my teak. we are at the peak of dryseason now 

[tule peak timber]

Very cool pics!

[Andries]

The birds-eye view is amazing and it really does show how much you've accomplished in twenty years. Well done!
Your little brother who is visiting from Switzerland may be wishing for ground water to fill the quarry so that he can swim and cool off. 36°C must feel very hot for him.
Do you use a hook behind the D9 to cut new terraces, or is that most excavator work?

[customsawyer]

Great pictures.

[beenthere]

Great views of your teak plantation and quarry. Thank you for them. 
Do they do any blasting to loosen the quarry rock, or mostly excavator work? 
Local quarries will blast for the limestone (or at least used to do that). 

[Resonator]

Nice pics!

When the crusher starts up should yell: "Let's get ready to crumble!"  

[DWyatt]

The drone pictures really showcase everything you've accomplished. When you've talked about not only the size of the quarry, but also the size of the teak plantation, it's been hard to visualize how large of an area you cover
 The pictures really help see things and understand you're working with.

[teakwood]

Thanks guys. i have 50ha of land and 36 is planted with teak.

I do have a small pool to cool of so my brother is fine, i'm not really working right now, finishing up some minor stuff. so i'm  enjoying the time with my brother and we go out, have food and drink alot of beer   .  Friday we head off to Colombia for 9 days, if you don't enjoy life and you loved ones for what would all the hard work be for? 


We don't blast yet, still using ripper on the machines for material loosing. the D9 has a single shank ripper and this machine is a beast. for the lower layers in the future blasting will be necessary 

[Sod saw]

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teakwood,  I do not understand.  Can you explain why there is a line between some brown tree and some green trees?

How does the dry weather affect your Teak?  Do all teak loose leaves in the hot or dry times of the year?  Or are those trees dead from some reason?

Nice operation there.  I enjoy reading and learning about how folks do different things in different areas of the world.


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[Southside]

What was covering the ground of your plantation before you put in the Teak? 

[teakwood]

The line between the trees is a fence line to my neighbour's property. The trees drop all the leaves in dryseason and are at a stand still, harden the wood and make a darker ring, much like your winters. And one month into rain season everything is green green again.

The land before I planted was a mix of pasture, bush and second growth forest

[teakwood]

Back from Colombia and quarry is full tilt right now. As the D9 is getting a new undercarriage they brought in another toy, dang is that a nice machine, 50to Volvo

Opening new ground

Now thats a bucket!

They bought 3 new chinesium Trucks, 7 more are on the way. 20m3 dipper

I dropped 32 trees so we can do more overburden removing

[Andries]

It must get noisy at your house with that size of machine tearing up the rocks.
But, that might be the sound of money coming in, right?