A day cutting wood

[grouch]

Think positive -- you'll soon be able to float the logs to the mill.

[4x4American]

It's been wet here too, nonstop rain.  Finally a couple dry days was able to get out to some logs I had out in the field, that wet clay was holding them captive..  Didn't think mud season would last into summer when I put them there lol

[Grizzly]

thecfarm
You have places that would hold water? With all those hills and rocks I would have thought all you'd have is fast flowing rapidly disappearing water.

[cutterboy]

Peter, do you have help at the mill or do you do everything yourself? If you are by yourself you must work fast and work long days because you put out a lot of lumber. And you stop to take pictures of everything.
   BTW, I really enjoy your pictures and your posts so keep it coming.

[thecfarm]

Oh no.I have wet holes problems. And then some. Have one wet hole,maybe 1000 feet around. That one I can drive the tractor on. Than I have another that is floating land.Drive a 40hp tractor across it,and can see the land move. You should see what a forwarder does with a full load of wood does to the moving part.  There is only one way to cross that bog. There is a steep hill,that is full of springs and feeds that bog. Than there are the small one,maybe 6-10 feet long. I go in with a load of rocks and come out with a load of wood. Do that about 10-15 times and the wet hole is gone. I really need to get pictures of the bog and the rocks I hauled in there. I just took a load down there tonight.

[Bruno of NH]

Peter can move the wood

[Peter Drouin]

cutterboy, I do most myself, But in the summer I have a grandson will come for a day or two and lend a hand, The toughest part, Is to stop cutting to wait on a customer. I'm the sawer, salesman, clean up guy.
Most of my cutting is Monday, Tue, wen, Thur,.. Fri, sat, are too busy to saw.
So i'm sticking lumber, I'm always sticking lumber.  smiley_dizzy

[WDH]

Tell it like it is, brother.

[petefrom bearswamp]

Peter
Wish I had your stamina.
Also a customer base similar to yours

[Peter Drouin]

Peter
Wish I had your stamina.
Also a customer base similar to yours

Todays customer base is AT Bike Week, At The Weirs, The mountains of NH are a rumbling. :D :D :D :D. Hill climbs Wensday. Miss HD sat, night, ;) ;) :D
I think I'll go see if my HD has gas in it. ;D


  

 

[Bruno of NH]

Nice bike
sold my HD for money on my house build

[4x4American]

Must be bike week everywhere, Americade here in Lake George this week..I just got done for the day, sitting down before I pack it all in.  I noticed that my front roller toe board was out of square from the bed rail today.  I wasnt sure what that could be from.  When I got to looking at it closer I noticed my bed rail was all cattywampus.  There was daylight underneath the outside bolt with the foot pad and on the inside one the jam nut is loose but couldnt tell if there was psi on it or not.  And the dragback arm dont lift up anymore..and it needs a hyd service bad only 200hrs past due...yup looks like I'm working sunday.  Thats just 1/4 of what mechanical work needs done.. no partying for me tonight

[paul case]

Lots of bike riding going on here too. I think the casino's must put out a cross country map for bikers to get from one casino to the next. 14 casinos in my county. One 3 miles north of my place and we have hundreds of bikes on our crooked narrow little road every weekend from march til October. Some are loud and go fast.

I am gaining on being loud and slow. Neighbor thinks my 1086 IH and hay baler sounds like a HD.

PC

[Peter Drouin]

It's a 1948 replica, A 1200 HD is putting out,   with a 5 speed trains. Goes like a rocket.
Bruno.

[YellowHammer]

cutterboy, I do most myself, But in the summer I have a grandson will come for a day or two and lend a hand, The toughest part, Is to stop cutting to wait on a customer. I'm the sawer, salesman, clean up guy.
Most of my cutting is Monday, Tue, wen, Thur,.. Fri, sat, are too busy to saw.
So i'm sticking lumber, I'm always sticking lumber.  smiley_dizzy

Sawmilling and selling lumber is all about stacking and unstacking wood, day after day, year after year.  I have people show up saying they would like to help, and I tell them, No, no, you wouldn't.  If you were to go to a gym and told the trainer you want to do twenty pound reps, eight to ten hours a day, all day, they would say you were crazy.  Actually, that's the definition of a one man or small sawmill operation, stacking wood, twenty pounds at a time, all day long, year after year.  That's why I like this Forum, lots of crazy great, hard working people on here just like me! 

[Bruno of NH]

When I was sick this winter my Dr. Told me to exercise .
I told her give me a marathon runner and I have them crying by noon at the mill .
She thinks it not a work out
I've lost 60 lbs since christmas

[Darrel]

Back in my greenchain days, I had a neighbor that had an office job with the USFS.  He was always trying to get me to run with him every Saturday morning and I always told him that I didn't need the exercise, this was something that he just couldn't understand. So one Saturday I decided to enlighten him.  Down the road about 5 miles was Grizzly Creek state park and I said, "Let's run to the park and back."  And that is what we did. The last mile of the return trip I was literally running circles around him. The next day he said, "I don't see how you stay in shape when you never exercise."
8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
I just let it go, no amount of enlightenment would help. 8) 8)

[WDH]

I've lost 60 lbs since christmas

Way to go, Buddy!

[WDH]

Sawmilling and selling lumber is all about stacking and unstacking wood, day after day, year after year.

Tell it like it is, Brother...  Can make my one-man-butt-log drag  .

[4x4American]

Hey Robert if you want to go with the bigger muscle plan get into cutting pallet parts lol then instead of 20lbs at a time its taking log length cants 5-1/2" x random down to cut lengths stacking then loading the resaw.. This is what I did this week in addition to cutting out some 1500' of 4/4 hrdwd custom sawing lumber, some 20' hemlock 4x4's and some other odds and ends.  Getiing the groove dialed in, should be able to do even more.





Hoping to be on that resaw tomorrow had a mechanic day today.  Changed the clutch on the resaw, pm on the wm hydraulic system, fixed the board dragback, fixed lubemizer leak,  found that alot of my bedrails are loose.  Just got back now, wishing I had A/C but cold beer helps lol

[Peter Drouin]

You're going to put all that blocking into the resaw??

[YellowHammer]

4X, I'd like to cut down the exercise program, not increase it.  :D

You young bucks can do the Everready thing, I think I'll set in the chair for awhile after my old man, 5 am to 7pm day today.  I'm tired.  Maybe eat a pizza.

Hey, I like the name on your Cat, its got good taste! 

[Dave Shepard]

They refused to warranty my Perkapiller. >:(

[Peter Drouin]

They refused to warranty my Perkapiller. >:(

For what??




YellowHammer, when one gets older, One has to know when to stop for the day.
Sometimes I run out of gas before daylight, And I don't like it. But at 62 I guess I have to learn to pace myself.   : ;D ;)

[4x4American]

You're going to put all that blocking into the resaw??

Sho ams!




Lol lol Robert yea I am trying to cut down on it too...especially shoveling all this sawdust holy cow.  Milton Cat and it's yellow plus theres a hammer inside the cab...yup, it's really cut out to be your machine lol