Those of us who work in forestry are often in areas that offer good views. Let's see them.
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Looking over the Connecticut lakes, Pittsburg NH (last fall)
Both are some great views. :)
Thinning soft maple
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(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/20988/20140708_212151.jpg) Nice sunset
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;D
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My office for most of the summer of 2012.
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Wow those are some nice pic! Thanks for posting.
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This is our job site.
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Some time the office in a high rise!
My office veiw stinks. I like ya'lls much better. I'll have to wait till I get off to post pics. Can't even upload them from my desk.
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That mouse wouldn't jump so I shut the saw off and had to get him too! That's a hydro ax saw head by the way. He came out of a tree a cut. Lucky feller!
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Not much of a view but here it is.
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I like them all. Keep them coming!!
That mouse reminds me of the deer mouse that crawled out from under the hood of the car and up the helical antenna after I had drove 25 miles and across a farm road. I stopped the car where I was going to be working and grabbed the tip of the antenna and introduced him to his new home, and released him catapult style. ;D
Not traditional logging jobs, but a couple snapshots of places I work. The first is building trail a few weeks ago in NH. The second was a backcountry trail maintenance job for the state of Maine in Nahmakanta Public Reserve.
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Looks like Al Smith's proverbial tree grove in the corn field. ;D :D
Seems like corn isn't worth much this days. I bet that trail is gonna end up a little wider than you think, if your pulling a twitch behind you :)
Quote from: lopet on August 31, 2014, 11:05:02 AM
Seems like corn isn't worth much this days. I bet that trail is gonna end up a little wider than you think, if your pulling a twitch behind you :)
Ya I'm sure it would. :) I actually was on the way back to a gas well site that we were finishing off with some accumulated topsoil from the mill yard. So I won't be skidding anything thru there.
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This photo is from a about a year ago, but I still like it.
Also, this is my first post on the forum. Hi everybody!
that is nice!
ChrisIsThis,welcome to the forum. That looks nice!!
Quote from: Ken on August 22, 2014, 07:09:39 PM
Those of us who work in forestry are often in areas that offer good views. Let's see them.
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ken has this ever been cut before
Coxy, it looks like second growth. But I'd bet twice cut before. Ken can give us the story. ;)
things look a lot different in another country :D :D :D
Yes here in NB you can go through areas of mostly spruce-fir-pine softwood, then into maple woods, cedar, aspen and then a mix of everything. :D
And not much real big wood left, it's been all cut the last 3 decades and the older cuts have 8-10" wood, if it's faster stuff like fir and aspen. So you could drive for miles around settled areas and comment on small wood. It's small because it ain't that old. Or so thick it ain't growing much. :D
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Coxy,
This area was once cleared for farmland. It then was a Christmas tree plantation that was left unattended. About 12 years ago the owner did a thinning to reduce the density. It blew down on July 4th. The area was nearly 16 acres and produced 1350 m3 (500+ cord) of predominately fir studwood. Would have been a nice block in another 10 years.
My office is flat as a board, so not too many scenic views down this way...
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Log deck on a 32 acre clearcut...it was a little muddy that day but it's dusty now!
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Big pine makes the cutter look like a toy
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At the end of the day it's always satisfying to pass a load of your logs headed up the road to the mill
Great pics!!
Ed
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Great day at the office. :)
Quote from: VT_Forestry on September 02, 2014, 11:12:58 AM
My office is flat as a board, so not too many scenic views down this way...
VT_Forestry
Looking at big pines and watching them hit the ground is scenic to me. Looks like some nice volume in that stand.
Stephen
That picture sure captures the scenic beauty of the island
Lots of nice pics! Here are a few more.
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I HAD to post your picture. That is mighty pretty.
Quote from: Ken on September 07, 2014, 02:47:00 PM
VT_Forestry
Looking at big pines and watching them hit the ground is scenic to me. Looks like some nice volume in that stand.
Ken,
I cruised it at right around 14mbf/ac of pine and it cut out right at 15mbf/ac...I guess they were a little better at utilizing topwood than I figured they would be :)
thanks cfarm could figure that out.. it is actually looking out my kitchen window.
@240b (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=10675),this will refresh your memory,
I like to go to whatever post or start a new topic first to include a picture.Go to your gallery,it will open in a new window.Click onto your album,then click onto whatever picture you want,it will get bigger,than scroll down a little to find,Insert Image In Post,click onto that,click Yes and that is it. Some have to copy/paste the link to work.I like to hit the enter key at least once or twice to move the picture down away from what I am typing. The enter key really helps to leave some white space if posting more than one picture. Somewheres I think it says to add 10,000 to your user number or something like that to make a clickable icon to your gallery under your user name. Use the preview button to see how it looks and modify it if needed.
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That's a nice one too. It almost looks like the end of the world scenario.
A good ending to a fine day. :)
The sun sets are hard to beat they sure are pretty :)
something went wrong with that first try.
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The first attempt was missing the closing ] brace in the link. ;)
Thanks Swamp Donkey, Missed that piece.
David l
very nice davidL! I love skidderin' in the snow!
I do not like skidderin in the snow.! >:(
Nice winter scene!
Today my office was the hayfield, turning and then baling second crop of hay. Pretty late in the year and hard to dry with short days and frosty nights. Got about 12 tons done today and hope for the other 12 tons tomorrow.
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HT John - how are things going down your way - last post I saw you had 30 tons of second cut to do?
Tom
Your running an accumulator or a bale wagon ? We are still trying to get ours finished up down here, dont feel bad.
Heck of a view, whatever the case ;)
ST Ranch, Very nice views haying. I just cut my last of the 2nd cut yesterday. And yes , we are in the noon to 5pm window here as thats when the dew starts to roll in. that is one flat field for sure. good luck.
David l
BM - WE are using a 70 bale new holland bale wagon. It takes the hard work out of putting up small squares - we put up about 10,000 per year.
BB - Yup a great place to work - imagine I get paid to work where many in the world pay to come to vacation - Banff and Waterton AB are both about 3 hours east on the other side of the mtns in the picture.
DL - Thanks for the support, and yes the fields are flat - in the past [early 70's] these fields were actually flood irrigated the old way, now talk about a lot of work.
Tom
Could that be the Okanagon region ? I have a son out there who's looking to buy some pasture land . He says, it's getting pretty pricey .
My self, I don't miss the haying part, but if you get paid to do it than it's a whole different game. :)
Unless its for yourself, and you can sell some on the side without hassle hay isnt worth it around here. As a kid we had 4- 14T JD bailers in various states of death, it was always something. Now we run a 5575 NH behind a TN 120, getting hit with a bale is like being checked hard off the boards. :o
You must of played Hockey. :D
This isn't beautiful like some of the scenery you guys have been posting, it just happens to be what I've been looking at for the last week ::) Looking back towards the landing...
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Changin' of the Season
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I have only seen the sky that color in the U.P. and in Colorado. Best when looking straight up in to the north. I call it "Colorado Blue"
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Probably the biggest diameter stick I will pull all year. 51' and 41" at the butt. A redwood by Colorado standards.
I love the deep blue the sky turns this time of year. Beautiful pictures ;)
Wow, our aspen don't change color until mid October, but the hardwoods are colorful right now, just beginning to.
I have to do better with the fall color to hang with you guys ;)
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Trees are either bare or just orange around here, not much variation in the color. Sounds like its raining in the woods with how fast the leaves are falling.
We've had a good fall for color up here.
Wow those are some nice pic! On the lake other nite
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We had a great fall color season too just our peak was about a week ago. Now its declining quickly.
My office view this week was , watching the guys out of my truck burying all my hard earned $$. As we can't keep them anyways, it might be not a bad place to put them, about two and a half feet in the ground.
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Some off them actually went as deep as six feet. They should be safe ;D
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I know this is dumb but ;D what are they burying is it for water ???
Drain tile?
Quote from: 1270d on September 28, 2014, 08:04:29 PM
Drain tile?
That was my guess, too. All I can do is guess, my Ag k nowledge is pretty limited.
Yes, that is drain tile. Most all drain tile is now put in with a tile plow and there is a limit to how deep you can put the tile in with a plow. So in places where you have to go deeper to get drainage, you have to excavate a trench wide enough to run the tile plow machine.
That tile looks pretty big so it is probably a main line. Perhaps a 10 inch line.
Gary is correct, well almost it's a 12inch main.
Couldn't leave the farm yesterday, to nice out with all the swamp maples burning up. Great color this year.
David l
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My office got a make over.
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Sweet...
Saw the first snow of the season today. snow off and on mixed with rain and sunshine all day.
Quote from: 1270d on October 08, 2014, 06:16:43 PM
Saw the first snow of the season today. snow off and on mixed with rain and sunshine all day.
:o you better keep that crap out your way for a couple more months :) :)
Have enjoyed all the photos, so thought I would share one of many good views from my office.
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Looking North toward NY. I'm about 4 miles from the state line and the far ridge is another 4-5 miles into NY. In the foreground is where some pigs have been tilling ;D
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Here's a picture from last year of a cutover I planted and my deer hunting spot.
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Only a logger would find that pretty.
Quote from: Farmer Jim on October 09, 2014, 09:26:07 PM
Have enjoyed all the photos, so thought I would share one of many good views from my office.
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Looking North toward NY. I'm about 4 miles from the state line and the far ridge is another 4-5 miles into NY. In the foreground is where some pigs have been tilling ;D
wild or tame
750 K rolling in the field :o
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Yup that's my buggy and she doesn't owe me a cent. One day busy and it's all over again for a year. ;D
Back to chopping trees again.
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This is my view for most of the day.
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Mine too, but my bunks are way taller ;D To be honest, on short skids I think it is more productive to only fill my bunks about 3/4. The capacity to pile on 7 cords is nice on long skids though. I was moving some big aspen on a 1/2 mile skid, I know I was pushing 8 cords, it was mounded 3' above the stakes in the middle. That's a tall load, watch out for stumps, the boss wouldn't be impressed if I laid my machine over on flat ground :o
Another great day in the woods. Cutting out a skid road to the top of this lot. Every where I turn is cordwood and more cordwood.
David l
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That's the way we like it :)
Over 3 inches of rain here last night, loggers holiday today. Logging boots to muck boots in 12 hrs.
David l
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Here's a picture from a few weeks ago battling the evil sweetgum, that is trying to take over a patch of planted loblolly..... the picture just happens to be in a pretty clear part of the tract, the rest is really eat up in sweetgum... or was :D
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nice pic I would fall down and hurt my self if I was there to flat for me ;D
Wood lots a swale holes are what we make a living off I guess you work with what your given
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Starting to look wintery
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Starting to look wintery
nice now i remember what snow looks like. depending the track of the storm the forecast here is 6 to 10"
is that the h7 head? how dose it compare to the deere you ran before
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Quote from: 1270d on October 31, 2014, 08:19:42 PM
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Starting to look wintery
nice now i remember what snow looks like. depending the track of the storm the forecast here is 6 to 10"
Please NO not already. I guess some form of snow is forecast for us on sunday. :o
Yeah its an H7 head.
Wintery view here too.
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Handles crooked wood quite a bit better.
I heard you guys got snow over there. So the Scorpion has great visibility, it's just what you are seeing isn't so great ::)
Snow in the U.P. It warms my heart. Time for sauna (sow-nuh)! How much snow did you end up with in Ontos 5674?
Above 10,000 feet its been white for well over a month. The Indian summer we have been having below 10,000 feet is about to change. Time for sauna here too!
The weather is holding out decent here. Today is a decent afternoon, 45°F and sunny. I have been on this job for over 2 weeks, and have had 2 loads leave. So this is what 1000 cords looks like on a spread out landing-
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1000 cords :o :o great picture
Looks good.
Quote from: barbender on November 01, 2014, 06:05:35 PM
The weather is holding out decent here. Today is a decent afternoon, 45°F and sunny. I have been on this job for over 2 weeks, and have had 2 loads leave. So this is what 1000 cords looks like on a spread out landing-
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Yeah cool pic. There's a little $ sitting there. Been too muddy to haul?
Ended up with 2-3 inches.
Bartender what equipment are you guys running to put out 1000 cord in 2 weeks?
A Ponsse Ergo harvester with 2 operators alternating long days. They are a father/son owner operator team, so they are hungry ;) I'm running a Ponsse Buffalo King forwarder, and that was a bit over two weeks production. They were cutting 70 cords a day, I am usually picking up 80 cords (12 loads) per day. They are slowed down a bit now due to some very small wood, so I am catching up quickly. Ideally I will catch them just as they finish cutting ;)
Chester, the only day it was too muddy to haul, was the only day they sent me a truck ::) We've had a very nice fall, so we've had crews cut sales that the trucking has been trying to haul while the hauling is good. They are saving my job (sandy ground) for when things get nasty (I call it "fall break up" ;D). I'll be out here minding my own business and get surprised with 12 trucks and not be able to get on the landing ::)
Barbender
Is it your skidder or does the father son own that to?
How many hours they work a day to get 70 cords?
Must be good wood on good ground. We are lucky to get 125-150 cord a week running 9 hours a day 5 days a week. But our ground is rugged and slopped, and right now we are cutting 3 stick first thin red pine.
Right now we are in decent red oak I'm cutting 45 cord a day sitting in my seat 6.5 hours a day... I run a fabtek with the 4 roller head..
It is decent wood, and flat ground. The father/son team subcontracts for the company I work for. These guys probably have 30 years experience in a processor, combined. The dad was one of the first guys in MN running a processor. And, they are in the seat 10-12 hours a day. I had around 55 hours a week for the last 2 weeks, of which about 45-48 is in the seat. This is aspen clearcut, with some balsam and spruce.
Lumbertick, 45 cords in 6.5 hours is good production.
Chevy, I've been in first entry pine where we were cutting 30 cords a day, and other plantations where we got 60. Pine plantations vary a lot with planting density and the age when we get into them. Your numbers are not low for 3 stick in rugged terrain.
This is my current office view.
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That is downtown Minneapolis and it's over twelve miles as the crow would fly to the buildings. It's hard to believe there is an entire city and a couple of suburbs under those trees between where I was standing and the downtown buildings. Also there is an interstate highway about 100 yards in front of me but you cannot see it, only hear it with the 24 hour a day noise. I cannot even see the street lights or house lights at night.
I am clearing a 50 feet tall red pine plantation that was planted on about a 3-4 ft spacing and then neglected for many years. It's mostly 5-6 inch diameter at the base. Truly is pecker wood. Lots of dead standing trees that shatter when you tip them over.
Neat picture, Gary ;)
Mine is not quite as nice as all yours.... I'd rather be seeing a pile of lumber, but gotta do what pays the bills.
The view out my office window, Nuclear Reactor.
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Not really a office view, but the first one is looking south from the Highway viewpoint to my place, the other is looking back at it across the clear cut from my place.
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The first picure looks like my uncle's place near the Powder river on the WY/MT border. Looks like a fine property, I'm feeling a little jealousy ;)
A common view this time of year- pushing trucks
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Hey Barbender, did you steal my gloves? :D
Those yellow chore gloves are pretty common on logging jobs :D I think of them as wearable grease rags ;)
I wish all we had to do was push the log trucks in and out of our job. Last few days its been the forwarder pushing and the processor UP front pulling and still struggling :(
Ugh, that sounds nasty, Chevy. If it gets that gnarly we get a dozer in. This job is sand, so the ground is firm. It was an old landing, and we didn't bring a dozer in so the topsoil is still in place. That can be a plus on sand, but a touch of rain and this turns to grease.
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Getting unloaded right onto the trailer by the center mount,
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...and a nice sunset.
Time for a coffee break and watch the trucker do the work. 8)
That's right ;)
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Nothing special but this is the view I have at the tract I'm on now
Took a couple pics on my last twitch of the day.
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Quick picture before the snow came
Last logs of day
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Nice pictures, guys ;)
You guys post those beautiful pictures, and all I have is...
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This is our "bug", Walter. He was hangin' with me for the day.
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The boss sent another forwarder to help me get caught up, being as I have fallen behind about 800 cords :o ;D This job will be over 2000 cords total, and a majority of it is around 1/2 mile skid. 10 loads is a good day in that. With the second forwarder, and the skid shortening up as we go, we are getting out around 150 cords a day. There is a bit of competition involved :D
nice pics of the pup but I have to ask where is his hard hat :laugh: :laugh:
He only wears it when he gets out of the machine, per OSHA requirements ;D
Here we're ganging up on a bunk trailer, if things are coordinated right, both forwarders come out of the woods with the same product on to load on the waiting bunk trailer. If we're really in a rush and everthing goes right, we can load it out in as little as 10 minutes. 15-20 minutes is more common.
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Who's winning ? ;D
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Trying to learn how to add pictures Looks like it worked.
Dan.
Fat trucks are always impressive
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The new block we just started requires widening the roadway running up the side of a large hill. A little sketchy cutting it with the harvester when the drop off from the side is 100m or so and the very old road is only as wide as the harvester. You can see the highway under the head and the Nashwaak river in the background. Will have some nice views later this week when we get going.
Quote from: lopet on November 21, 2014, 10:38:58 PM
Who's winning ? ;D
The other guy, he is one of our fastest forwarder operators. Actually, we're moving the same amount of wood, since my machine hauls a cord more. But I am going as fast as possible, and I think he has some on reserve ;D
Dan R, those are some awesome loads :o I wouldn't want to be walking around next to a load of monsters stacked 6' above the stakes though :o
Ken, that looks steep even in the picture, it must be bad :o
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Nice morning in the woods. -7 F
Finally started a new job and I can tell the pine is gonna stretch up nicely. Lots of long clean sticks in this stand. Could use some cold weather though.
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Nice picture, I have to call you out on another nor'easter phrase- "stretch up". I've never heard that one before.
Old guy in town who worked the woods would always ask how the Pine was stretch-in up when he new I was in town cutting. Must be an old saying as he is long gone about 15 years ago and died well into his ninetys. Guess he said it alot as I am now saying it.
Wet goop around here, sure wish it would freeze up so the landowner would stop freaking out about mud on the landing.
There still strecthen up good. It's nice to be cutting good size timber. Plenty of mud on the skid road, the grapple trailer has been handy for keepin the logs somewhat clean.
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Nice looking stuff! Looks like your jack is doing good! I picked up my transfer case parts yesterday hopefully put it back together Saturday
This is some of the smaller stuff in the front of the lot, The bigger stuff will be later as the grapple won't want to pick up the 16's and 14's. I will put a 24" bar on for them. Once it freezes I"ll skid the the big boys to the top. Best pine I have cut in awhile. The Jack is really screamin on the way out as the pine is in a hole. By the looks of the old stumps, I would say it was cut 60 to 70 years ago, really no understory and alot of ( Hamamelis Virginiana ) Witch Hazel.
Very, very nice! And it is strechin' up good ;)
My view has changed a little bit since I last posted pictures. I'm now a processor operator...
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No more coffee breaks every trip in and out of the woods ;)
No more coffee breaks in and out, but the trade off is you don't have to slam over the 18" high stump in the main skid trail (20 times a day) the processor operator left, that spills your coffee anyhow ;D How'd you make the switch? Did you get your first hundred cord day yet? ;D
I don't miss the constant driving/bouncing on my way to the landing 20x per day that the forwarder provided.
The former processor operator is a good friend of mine and both of us were working for his dad(log truck driver). Well they don't really get along and last week it got ugly, so now in order to keep the wood moving I'm doing the cutting. I had probably had 100 hours run time before now but its still a bit of a learning curve.
100 cord day??? ha I'm happy when I cut 30 cord a day in this first entry red pine.
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This picture shows the view from this jobsite facing north. The Nashwaak river is visible and flowing with lots of ice bits lately. I am getting sick of picking up blowdown.
Blowdown is not fun :( That is a nice view, though ;) I am working by a town named Nashwauk right now.
This hawk has been using me to flush chipmunks and mice out of dead red pines for about an hour.
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Quote from: Ken on December 05, 2014, 07:23:47 PM
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This picture shows the view from this jobsite facing north. The Nashwaak river is visible and flowing with lots of ice bits lately. I am getting sick of picking up blowdown.
ken is that a pipe or power line in that pic
Quote from: coxy on December 12, 2014, 03:46:19 PM
ken is that a pipe or power line in that pic
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Coxy that is a power line. Very few pipelines here in NB at present
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Here's a few pictures from a flight today. That's coming from Henderson county into polk. White oak mountain is in the background and south carolina is further to the south.
Nice office you've got. Are you the pilot ?
Quote from: lopet on December 19, 2014, 09:39:36 PM
Nice office you've got. Are you the pilot ?
No, I'm about as far from a pilot as you can find. I was just along for the ride and didn't want to move a finger so I wouldn't hit any buttons or levers :D.
Here is some office views from today.
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Double added some pics. Still trying to get the hang of this.
Looks like you're running a rottne?
Yeah. A 96' Rottne SMV.
I was missing this thread-
Beginning of the day
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and the end of the day
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That's a flowage we have to cross, it's a long skid (1/2 mile, had a lot of jobs like that lately) and it sounds like the thaw is on the way, so we have to get the wood out quick.
I forgot about this thread. Here is a recent pic, I put a short video of the same scene in the timber harvest methods thread. Sunrise behind the buncher
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Last load with truck 95 before she goes to greener pasture
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Last year at this time from my plow truck.ice jamb on the Susquehanna river. Natural gas power plant in the back ground.
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you didn't do what I think you did did you :-\ up side down hope not hows the truck been doing for you
Pictures appear on their left side on my screen. Just to let you know.
Truck is working good. Waiting for the freeze now. it was 55 here today spent the day washing her up.
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Yesterday late afternoon headed to the field, both ends looked like they came down in our fields on either end of town
Let me guess, you were working in the middle field? :)
You know it, the only thing I found was saturated sweet corn to pick. Oh well made the refreshing barley spritzer taste even better when we finished ;D
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Beautiful! :o
Cant 1 up johndozer but still beautiful
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My summer office.
;D
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Spent the last couple of weeks with a nice view of the Nashwaak River valley. The forwarder sure had to work hard bringing the wood up over the hill.
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Looks like you guys are doing it right, or at least better than me. This has been my office view for the last weeks whebn I have been making money.
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Quote from: Old Greenhorn on September 12, 2021, 06:47:12 PM
Looks like you guys are doing it right, or at least better than me. This has been my office view for the last weeks whebn I have been making money.
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Tom, without the money there's no office ;D
This actually went from property line to property line on my job. Nice view over money on the bank.
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A rainbow DOES lead to a pot-o-gold (of sorts) 8)
#Thank the Lord the beauty of the land
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Got done my real job, then it was time to help the wifes family chop some corn. Got to keep them cows in good feed!
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Chopping directly into the truck,or running a dump wagon?
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Putting in cover crops last night
In a patriotic way 👍
Quote from: newoodguy78 on September 16, 2021, 08:53:58 PM
Chopping directly into the truck,or running a dump wagon?
Yes ;D
On ole Yellah, we chop right into the truck, the box is only 9ish ft long. We have a Richardton dump wagon behind a NH240 2 row chopper. Things have been wet so most of the time we tip once into the C60 or C65? a long wheelbase 6 wheeler, or tip twice into the Autocar rolloff truck. If we ever find a dry field, it's tip once, then top it off til the corn tickles the telephone wires on the dirt road! :D
I had my fingers crossed yall were redneck enough to chop directly into an IH schoolbus. I know that hoodscoop pretty well.
Mike, if you could make a school bus dump cheap enough, we sure would! The hood scoop is where the raw power comes from :D
put in a roof hatch for the intake pipe. toss the seats, build a plywood floor vee just below the beltline and run a walking floor out the back door.
Mike, that bus may be even longer than our chopper!
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this was today's office view. Small field, lots of turning, had a bunch of corn lost to raccoons. Someone left a giant maple (I think) along the old stone wall to give me a bit of shade while he filled the wagon
Last weeks office. Getting a bit of snow now.
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View from my studio window, from the crow's nest. 8)
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Johndozer, where are you located?
Quote from: johndozer on October 07, 2021, 02:12:20 PM
Last weeks office. Getting a bit of snow now.
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I'm keen!
Quote from: SwampDonkey on October 07, 2021, 02:18:10 PM
View from my studio window, from the crow's nest. 8)
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I like dat one too! :D
Quote from: barbender on October 07, 2021, 02:29:16 PM
Johndozer, where are you located?
Looks like Smithers, BC area. Just a guess. ;)
I'll be glad when the snow comes. :D :D
This has been my view the last week.
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Not my office view but a few miles East of my branch office. ;) Barbender has seen this view. I was a few minutes late on a really nice sunset. Missouri River in the background.
Beautiful!!
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Quote from: SwampDonkey on October 07, 2021, 03:30:14 PM
Quote from: barbender on October 07, 2021, 02:29:16 PM
Johndozer, where are you located?
Looks like Smithers, BC area. Just a guess. ;)
I'll be glad when the snow comes. :D :D
Pretty good guess all things considered Swampdonkey. Telegraph Creek BC. 700 km drive NW of Smithers
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Just a shot of my office for the day during a break in the action.. We had to adjust the head gate on the chute a little smaller, 344 head through it today. Good day and good folks to work with.
Vaccination day? That's a lot of animals to run through the chute nice job.
Yes preconditioning vaccinations, these calves are part of the " Iowa Green Tag program." A fair number of the calves in the practice are marketed in Iowa and participate in this program. Just a done rite guarantee as far vaccinations go before the calves get sold... Just means a Veterinarian oversaw and was present during the processing and it met specifications set by the program. Keeping your food healthy. :) :) :)
Pictures taken from the deck on the back of my house.
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Absolutely beautiful!!
Dang....I could work there... :)
Some really nice views guys!!
Cutterboy- Very nice! I see now why you have that big zero turn mower. Looks like a skiff of ice on the pond, you'll be ice skating before long. Thanks for the pics.
Scott B.
From my side lawn. Love this time of year.
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same here! What a view @logitup Vermont is pretty special this time of year. What town do you live in
I was in So. VT last weekend and it was like that too. I should have gotten a hill shot off to the right of this photo. That was my office view last Sunday, working on a tree at the back of the photo.
Today I head into the central Catskills, maybe I can get a nice photo here. The only problem with the fall foliage is that it brings on the tourists. ;D
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We lost a lot of leaves yesterday with the rain/wind.. the tourist mostly left last monday thankfully
Looking out the dormer window one day.
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Chep- I'm in duxbury just south of exit 10 off off i-89, the view is facing north good clear days o can see the wind towers in Lowell VT, and I too fancy this time of year I wish it last longer
Looks like you have view to see a stretch as well, good color there the brights reds are popping extremely well this year
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It's been nice working in the UP during the color change
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Makes me glad my office isn't a cubicle.
The only problem is with a view like that you might not get any work done
My office view, where there is always work to be done. :)
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Refurbishing a chairlift cabin at 2300m elevation. Second one of the year.
Quote from: jimbarry on October 16, 2022, 09:05:03 AM
My office view, where there is always work to be done. :)
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Groupe Savoie would have loved to have your firewood pile.
Sunrise at Pine Shadow Farm.
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big sky!
A horrible picture, of a beautiful sunset. We were discussing scratched, hazy equipment windows on here somewhere the other day. Well, this is the view from a forwarder that has 25K hours or so 😁
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Nativewolf's photo reminds me of driving through Glassville, Kenneth or Upper Kintore. :)
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It is a pretty spot
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Couple sunrises at my sawmill. View I get to see when I look out my front door each morning. :)
You're working hard and there must've been a strong West wind.
The sawdust has covered all the snow in the second picture. 😉
Two different days weeks apart, supposed I could of put them in order. :D :D
Doing some slope work along a local highway clearing project. I'm really liking the new chains. They really keep a good grip when things start to pucker up pretty tight. Most of this slope has been running right at 35 degrees or so, as long as I don't drop off of the rip-rap edge that is considerably steeper. If it ever stops raining, I'll run across the bridge and start on that other side. I got this side completed to the bridge just before the heavy rains started.
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Glad you got that beast in action! They are absolutely amazing machines!!!!
Resonator, maybe leave the pictures in that order and we can pretend it's spring.
Well, two and a half years ago my office view was, well, an office. 3 walls and a wall of windows looking out over the Hudson River, but it was an office. I have no photos (your welcome).
But now my office time is split between the sawmill, the woods, and the shop. So yesterday's views:
Looking south
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Looking North:
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Looking east-ish:
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Todays view from the front of the shop, just pre-dawn:
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Today is another day.
Quote from: treemuncher on December 08, 2022, 08:47:32 PM
Doing some slope work along a local highway clearing project. I'm really liking the new chains. They really keep a good grip when things start to pucker up pretty tight. Most of this slope has been running right at 35 degrees or so, as long as I don't drop off of the rip-rap edge that is considerably steeper. If it ever stops raining, I'll run across the bridge and start on that other side. I got this side completed to the bridge just before the heavy rains started.
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How is the learning process with the menzi going? are you a pro already? they are one of the most complicated machines to operate. Swiss Power!!
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The view from the Logrite office yesterday! We had a special little visitor stop by!
^ Looks like fast food!
Quote from: teakwood on December 09, 2022, 07:30:31 AM
Quote from: treemuncher on December 08, 2022, 08:47:32 PM
Doing some slope work along a local highway clearing project. I'm really liking the new chains. They really keep a good grip when things start to pucker up pretty tight. Most of this slope has been running right at 35 degrees or so, as long as I don't drop off of the rip-rap edge that is considerably steeper. If it ever stops raining, I'll run across the bridge and start on that other side. I got this side completed to the bridge just before the heavy rains started.
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How is the learning process with the menzi going? are you a pro already? they are one of the most complicated machines to operate. Swiss Power!!
I've been running a hoe for nearly 30 years. The Menzi is a different animal. The basics of the Menzi are fairly easy but there are a lot of interference points that you have to be careful of at all times. Get in the wrong position and you can hit the tires or legs with the attachments or, worse yet, hit the boom cylinder into the legs. The tight tailswing radius is great!
The hardest thing to get used to is the severe pucker factor when you're working a difficult situation. Gravity is unforgiving so you better be sure to keep your traction at all times when in those challenging positions if you don't have a tether. It takes a lot of thought to how your machine needs to be placed for the safest working conditions. I'm really liking the chains on the front tires, well enough that I ordered another set for the back tires too. New tires are nothing compared to tire chains, especially on rock or gravels.
I've have 29 functions per hand, 4 foot pedals and a bank of about 30 switches. It's not something you memorize to reflex memory in a matter of days. It's certainly challenging to operate efficiently but I'm getting better at it each day I spend in it. My only real disappointment with the machine is the wimpy performance of the mulcher, otherwise, it's got the power of a 150 class machine in a 120 weight. It digs and moves about rather quickly. The mulcher runs at 5k psi and 45 gpm which is decent, but I'm used to running my bigger hoe with a 300hp dedicated power pack just for the mulcher system. Of course the big machine won't go were the Menzi will. Just like everything else in life, there are trade offs. I guess what I like best about the machine is that it keeps my mind busy thinking at all times when I'm working it.
Chains win the traction game every time.
That looks like a great machine👍👍
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Yesterday, the first day of winter, was the perfect winter's day here. At 1:30 in the afternoon it was 33 degrees under a deep blue sky with no wind. Perfect for cutting wood.
The picture above was taken at the highest point of the farm and the picture below is of a grand old hickory tree at the edge of the highest field.
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A day like yesterday makes me realize how blessed I am to have grown up on this farm and to have experienced the beauty of the natural world.
Bless you all. Merry Christmas! Cutter
Quote from: barbender on December 09, 2022, 11:30:18 PM
Chains win the traction game every time.
That looks like a great machine👍👍
Absolutely. My rear set came in so I could finish the worst part of the job and now it's like having velcro tires. I was able to climb a bunch of limestone rip rap without much slippage. Actually, the chains crushed many of the rocks into smaller pieces. It's certainly nice to drop the pucker factor a few levels.
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Oregon
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Bear canyon Lake, AZ
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Bear canyon Lake, AZ
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I feel like maybe I should be banned for this but I'm going to post it just the same, wishing it was more forestry related, but we do chew up a LOT of paper, that's kind of forestry related... Also almost entirely pictures of nature going on that 2nd monitor...
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Before I retired this was my office view.Not a tree in sight.Can't say that I miss it.
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Wow, nice machines. I would love to see that!
Wimedley- Interesting picture! I spent 30 years on the other end, burning coal to make electricity.....
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Can't say that I miss that either....
Scott B.
Quote from: Wlmedley on December 23, 2022, 03:28:02 PMBefore I retired this was my office view.Not a tree in sight.
Help me, is that coal or a rock quarry? To me it looks like rock.
Magicman- I was just guessing coal....re: open cast coal mining. Much processing takes place after this phase.
Scott B.
It was a surface coal mine.I spent almost 10 years working there.I wasn't employed by the coal company.I worked for a Komatsu dealership and initially was supposed to stay 6 months to take care of warranty work on that excavator and some other equipment.Coal company liked me (I guess) and after 6 months was up they paid for me to stay.
After mine shut down they kept a small crew of men to finish up by reclamation of land.At that time excavator in picture had approximately 40,000 hours on it and was tore down and moved to another job to be used for parts.I went up two days a week during reclamation to keep equipment running.
Thanks, that coal doesn't look anything like the open surface coal mines that I saw in NE Wyoming, West of Newcastle. Also there the tires on the trucks looked to be 8' tall. :o
Of course the only thing that is mined here is gravel so I know nothing. ::)
Trucks on this job were 150 ton.Cat 785's and Komatsu HD1500's.This was a relatively small surface mine.Larger mines in West Virginia used 300 ton Komatsu electric drive trucks and electric shovels to load them.Years mining on this job didn't make economic sense to bring in larger equipment.
QuoteHelp me, is that coal or a rock quarry? To me it looks like rock.
It could well be just rock, along with sand, dirt and anything else on top of the coal. In open coal mines coal runs in seams, and depending how close it is to the surface, determines how much "overburden" is dug away to expose it. A big part of mining is moving this overburden (the largest dragline shovels ever built did this). Along with moving the material back to reclaim the land, which is then planted to grow grass and trees.
There's a limestone quarry near me and they had to deal with the overburden. When a highway project was done in the 1980's they got an order for 1 million tons of coarse fill and they filled it with overburden. A guy who worked at the quarry told me they got 2 years ahead on removing overburden and it involved handling it a lot less.
Aren't most open pit mines essentially overburden removal operations with a minor mineral or coal extraction component?
On this coal surface mine there would be maybe 2 or 3 seams of coal maybe 3 or 4 feet thick with maybe 50' or more of solid rock above them .Once they got down to the first seam there was less rock to get to the next seam but still hard to figure how they made money.Not sure if information was accurate but remember one of the bosses saying break even was around $50 a ton for the coal.They had a lot of Met coal on this job which is used to make steel and is worth a lot more than steam coal.
The Jamesville Quarry near me, origionally, wanted a vein of high grade kiln-stone to send to their Syracuse Works, a plant in Solvay where the stone was burned in kilns to make soda ash. So there was overburden and layers of lower grade limestone to deal with. They crushed, washed and screened the lower grade into "commercial stone" for runner crush, stone dust, and various sizes of stone for fill, concrete aggregate, etc. It is much like a sawmill wants to saw select and better lumber but needs to market bark, sawdust, chips and low grade lumber to be profitable. Today the quarry produces commercial stone and the plant in Solvay is long gone.
QuoteAren't most open pit mines essentially overburden removal operations with a minor mineral or coal extraction component?
Yup. Any mine comes down to what the rock-mineral-metallic ore is worth on the national and global market, and how great the cost is involved to extract it from the ground.
Pretty crazy numbers in gold mining. remove thousands of m3 of overburden to process thousands of m3 of gravel to get a few onces of gold. it's a numbers game
This was the worst case of moving dirt I've ever seen;
The Open Cut - Lead (sdpb.org) (https://www.sdpb.org/blogs/images-of-the-past/the-open-cut-lead/)
Underground they were at the 8,000' level going after a metal that won't hold an edge :)
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headed home after work, 7 am.
Quote from: treemuncher on December 23, 2022, 11:26:28 AM
Quote from: barbender on December 09, 2022, 11:30:18 PM
Chains win the traction game every time.
That looks like a great machine👍👍
Absolutely. My rear set came in so I could finish the worst part of the job and now it's like having velcro tires. I was able to climb a bunch of limestone rip rap without much slippage. Actually, the chains crushed many of the rocks into smaller pieces. It's certainly nice to drop the pucker factor a few levels.
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I love "spider diggers" (don't know how you call those in the US) Here these are "pelle araignée"
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out my back window
Watching the barges pass by on the Tennessee River while I work a selective clearing job, including mulching up tornado damaged trees & stumps from two different events. This place was hit hard. Numerous trees over 30" flipped over or tops ripped off. Customer is saving the big logs. Big stump on the closest tree already mulched to bits. Every flipped up stump will be treated the same and left with a smooth finish when I'm done. Nice to have a view of the water for a day or three.
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from the back yard.
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sun coming up and Libby scratching that itch!
to put thing in perspective
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My view for the day, I've got to go out and put wood in the boiler shortly
Need to fire up the BBQ too... ;D
I was thinking the same thing! Brush that snow off. Start happy hour and take in the beautiful views! Then get a big steak ready!
My house from across the beaver pond.
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This will be my office window for the next 3 weeks-
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Back cuttin for a bit bud for me its sittin and spinnin in the logyard after gettin done with the roadbuildin have to see if my woman can get some pics on here pretty busy 15-20 inbounds out of the woods and about the same for outbounds can be quite a site with sometimes 8 or more cranes swingin wood with the selfloaders stay safe my friend
Uh oh barbender is that the machine you got your username from? :D :D
Enjoy the seat time looks a lot warmer on the inside of the glass than the outside.
I didn't get my username from a harvester but they definitely give "street cred" when you have a pile of mangled Oregons in the bed of your truck😂
Finished up the tornado job from post #268. My customers salvage all of the big wood that they could. I mulched all the stumps and the rest of the junk as well as gave it a good thinning. It was nice to work close to the river for a while. Here is the near finished product as I was making my finish cuts and erasing my tracks:
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Quote from: barbender on February 07, 2023, 08:53:32 PM
I didn't get my username from a harvester but they definitely give "street cred" when you have a pile of mangled Oregons in the bed of your truck😂
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We have made lots of friends the last couple of weeks clearing 40+ acres for a new subdivision in the city. Been visited by Department of Environment for complaints about cutting too close to a waterway. Fake news. Been visited by city officials about noise complaints. Can't help that. Been visited by Department of Natural Resources about clearcutting in the city. Also nothing they could do to stop it as it's private property. Most of the residential areas surrounding this jobsite had a forest in their backyard for the past 50+ years. Nobody likes change
Out in a tamarack swamp
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Maybe I should say, it was a tamarack swamp😊
My office view for 2023
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Had to get some of these old blades sharpened back up. Not much to do with all the rain we've been getting
This was my office for today.
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Cutter
We had some nice views this morning. Colors must have been almost 100% in some spots. But it started raining and I bet alot has been knocked off now. One of those many wonders you better enjoy fast.
Woods is pretty much bald up here except for a few protected maples and some aspen groves. Wasn't very great color this year, leaves turned brown. No frost, lots of rain to. Couldn't see any rocks or gravel in the creek for months, water up into the grass. Cut'n firewood right now, thinning out the junk. Just about every aspen has a dead top, lots died and where just dry snags with 3/4 of the stem rotten on ground. Leaving lots of small hardwood (maple, ash) and of course there is all kinds of spruce. Thinned it 18 years ago. Getting some rails from the spruce tops for wet crossings, work great with a brush mat down first. I use some for fence posts in the garden, surprising they last a long time. Been using some posts for 4 years and still solid. They just lay on the ground all fall and winter. Bark left on, the woodpeckers like to look for bark beetles when they are holding the fencing up. There's probably a few hundred in every post, as they are tiny as ground black pepper. :D I'd need to use a flash bulb for a photo in my woods. Having a lot of 40 foot spruce growing close makes it kinda dark. Never see the sun all day. :D Zero undergrowth to.