couple pics... post what your currently cutting

[ehp]

I would love to try a 548 g3 to see how it pulls the trees around here .  NW , most are due in the first part of July but I have lots to cut , had a good talk with one of the big farmers around here and things are not good at all , prices on houses are dropping fast with lots now asking $100,000 less and still not selling where 2 months ago they were selling for over asking by lots.  The bottom has fallen out around here sorry to say but it had to cause things are just way over priced , lots of guys looking for firewood logs but we do not cut hardly any of those here . I'm sure there is going to be a lot of land owners looking to get their bush cut this year to make extra cash , we are just going to have to face the facts , we are all going to have to sell all our equipment to Barge cause he is the only logger making big money and thats because he is not logging but is playing on a boat 

[Coopthecutter]

@NW, the exporter (Laird Logs out of Darlington MD) handles all the trucking and processing. Everything goes to his yard tree length and he bucks and sorts it there. @EHP The 548 is a nice little rig, gets around the woods great. Can be frustrating when you're trying to skid long distance because it can't pull much wood compared to a bigger skidder. It has the power but the grapple is just too small, always dropping logs and rebunching etc. From a purely production standpoint the ideal setup would be a 748 on the main trail with a 548 feeding it

[BargeMonkey]

Ed I'm seeing alot of things come to a halt and quick, certain places are still selling and others will take a beating. No one can get enough wood or get guys to cut wood, had a couple calls in the last week from small mills and the forester from Prentice about work, only thing keeping prices up out here. I've got enough dirtwork thru the end of the year and turning it away. I'm fueling my truck / iron for .03 over rack price / delivered and still crying poverty over fuel prices, just wait till China opens back up again and starts buying up more oil, I don't think we have seen the peak yet. Go buy that 648G3 I had, 18" longer frame than a 548 but was same width as a 28L model. The tasty iron deals are coming around but I'm not seeing fire sales yet.

[ehp]

Oh Barge , it's coming . I see 2 year old 648's asking just over $130,000 now and under 5000 hrs and look good . Even 240C's jack skidders are coming down in price . That piece of equipment in your picture you just posted is going to cost you a lot of coin and I mean a lot . Ask me how I know those things are not cheap to have a round lol

[nativewolf]

Coop that's a wonderful thing when the trucks just show up.  Our biggest challenge.  One day our driver is up to driving and then another day he is in too much pain.  Need 2 drivers hauling 2 loads each.  Maybe we've solved that, hoping so but will know for sure if they drop trailers on Monday.  

I expect a lot of iron will get put on the block, owners aging out, fuel up, everyone and the blind mice see an economic recession coming.  Since everyone sees one coming it's not likely to be bad, the bad ones are bad because you don't see them coming.  

If China does pickup then export pricing picks up as well and they have to chase the same scarce wood as anyone else.  If China does not pickup then oil is falling (down to $105 today).   Personally I'd rather have China pickup so the USA is not carrying the world economy.  Japan still is down and EU is not good.   It would help support the RO pricing and I have some RO that needs to be cut this fall.

[Skeans1]

 

 

[nativewolf]

1 bunk trailers :D.

Love it!

[teakwood]

Happy Birthday barbender!  smiley_crown_grin

[barbender]

Thanks teakwood!

[Bruno of NH]

Happy Birthday barbender

[Skeans1]

1 bunk trailers :D.

Love it!

Been that way since the beginning out here unless it's a mule train or hay rack trailer. We can't ship anything under 17' anyways and preferred is 36's or 40's so who needs extra weight or a trailer that doesn't follow you worth a fill in the blank.

[so il logger]

 

 

 

 

[nativewolf]

Nice logs!  

[Autocar]

Nice logs time two 8)

[chep]

X3 ! 8) 

@so il logger how old are those oaks? Growth rings look very wide! Beautiful timber

[ehp]

nice looking logs there , smooth tight bark .  happy birthday Barbender 

[barbender]

Thanks guys!

I'm drooling over the timber here!!

[so il logger]

X3 ! 8)

@so il logger how old are those oaks? Growth rings look very wide! Beautiful timber

Tract is mostly water oak, which grows somewhat fast in low areas here and is going to a large crane mat mill.  The 2nd pic is a hickory, didn't scale the forks but the stem was just shy of 1200' doyle. Guessing another 200' above that from what was salvaged from the top

[teakwood]

Need to go drop some more teak trees, lumber sales have picked up and storage is getting low. have sent 800 deck boards to the oven and half of it is already sold. did some heavy investments to boost production, quarry is working pretty good also, sometimes the day has not enough hours :D

for those interested

Old Weinig foursider in Drying and Processing

[IndiLina]

More loblolly.  


.  


.  

[nativewolf]

Did you do the controlled burns?

[IndiLina]

Did you do the controlled burns?

Nope. That was done maybe a year before I bought the tract. So 2-3 years ago. I'm not sure I'm sold on prescribed burns. I'm a fan of building soil, and the burns seem to leave less material for building soil. 

[barbender]

In the loblolly patches I saw in Georgia, if they weren't burned annually they were a real tangle. 6' high impenetrable vines and brush. I'm not sure how much soil is being built there.

[WDH]

The fire selects for fire adapted species of weeds and forbs that are very beneficial to wildlife and create great cover that one million sweetgums do not. 

[teakwood]

Went droping 25 trees yesterday, excellent premium teak, 16years old, heartwood is dark as the night and very little sapwood, 14-16" diam. that's exactly what you want in a teak plantation