Finished up a job today for the past week I have been doing reclamation work water baring the roads and sowen 500 pounds of grass seed I got all my equipment moved today before the snow hit. I will be glad to get back in some good wood making some money it's been rough this winter I will post some pics tomorrow
I hear you on starting a new job. If everything holds together I'm moving up the road next week to new job with some pretty decent sawtimber. We've been in too much pulp lately with too many costly repairs.
im just picking up the pace my self too. instead of a load a week i am nailing 1 and 1/2 loads of production a week.
i have survived the winter on about a $250 weekly income. and a few hundred extra on some firewood cut/split orders.
Diesel fuel prices and break downs have been bad(got showered twice with diesel when fuel line broke very scary trying to get back to the landing with engine smoking thought I was going to ignite)but the ground is froozen soild so that's real good.seems to be tuff to make ends meet know matter how hard we work but atleast there is work. No problem getting rid of low grade but hard to make a buck with just a cable skidder cutting that stufff. I have heard guys in Russia have had it bad. I sometimes know how they feel.good luck!
When a guys moving to a new job with better timber, you get a feeling inside that only a logger would know. I never got much sleep the night before i started, i made sure everything was ready to go about four times :D
:D :D :D Lumberjack 48 hit the nail right on the head many nights I layed in bed playing over and over in my mind how I was going to lay the job out and which tree was the first to meet my saw.
I had that felling went to bed at 9 woke up at 1 am could not go back to sleep my mind going 100 mph on what to start doing on the new job looked out side to find a fresh coating of 10 inches of snow that's my luck so no work today
10 inches >:( Ugh, sorry to hear that.
yup winter has been tough in northern ny to lots of below zero weather rain and ice lots of snow too we got a foot last nite went to the woods this morning and started the skidder on my 2nd hitch lost a clevis in the back tire chain and walked that off the tire well fixed that and finished the day in a blizzard I had 78 trees at 3 oclock and called it quits now im home sitting by the wood fire
Sounds like you did not have to bad of production 78 trees that's pretty good I pulled about 25 trees today around 5k feet had to cut skid roads in today though gonna work tomorrow and see what we can get done
Didn't you promise us some photos?
Quote from: Birchwood Logging on February 14, 2014, 10:00:18 PM
Sounds like you did not have to bad of production 78 trees that's pretty good I pulled about 25 trees today around 5k feet had to cut skid roads in today though gonna work tomorrow and see what we can get done
I understand completely. ;)
We finished up work on Friday early in the afternoon. Starting a new site next week, too.
I got a better price on this track of timber I've got it for 30 percent last job was 40 percent that was killing me on my low grade stuff I know it's only 10 percent but that buys my fuel. I will try and get some pics tomorrow if my wife will let me use her phone
Nice to start a job where I think I might make some money. Snow was 3 ' in the woods and at least i am cutting big stuff and it dosen't get lost in the snow. Skidder got a workout even after tracking it up yesterday. Loving that 16" bar, have been doing everything with it, and on the 2159 Johnny it screams.
David l
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Finally got a few pics of one of the days loads we are working our way back in to some bigger timber
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Some nice looking stuff your cutting there what are you cutting pine and mixed hard wood. We went from 24 inch bars to 20 inch bars I like the extra power it gives and a lot easer to sharpen. We cut a 40 plus inch red oak today with it no problem.
Eastern white pine, First time running a 16" bar for chopping and it went just fine. the landing saw is a 24". limbing with the 16"also and was real nice running a saw that was light all day. Usually run 18 and 20" bars on everything.some of this pine is nice, 3 and 4 clear faces at 16'. Should bring decent $ next payday. Slow going though with this much snow.
David l
David-L, are you selling to a local mill, or is it heading North of the border?
Had a heat wave today got up in the 60s worked by my self today pulled out a good load of poplar and redoak I cut pulled bucked and loaded this in half a day
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I know im loving this heat wave ill be sad to see it go. Good looking load of logs. Cant wait till i can get out and start logging myself
You should come help me some weekend
i would love to actually but your about 2 hours away i think and it would have to be a teusday or wednesday because those are my days off from work. Then i would have to get the ok from the woman
Good looking logs! What do you load with?
I load with a John deere 450c track loader
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It's so wet here no one is working.
Quote from: Birchwood Logging on February 19, 2014, 07:40:23 PM
Had a heat wave today got up in the 60s worked by my self today pulled out a good load of poplar and redoak I cut pulled bucked and loaded this in half a day
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Dave Shepard, they go to a friend who markets them. he's got a truck and lots of connections. I believe they end up in Maine. nice part is he takes everything and markets it all leaving a clean landing. Might loose a little money in the middle but there are just not that many local mills around here and have to keep it rolling.
David l
Quote from: Birchwood Logging on February 19, 2014, 07:40:23 PM
Had a heat wave today got up in the 60s worked by my self today pulled out a good load of poplar and redoak I cut pulled bucked and loaded this in half a day
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nice load but if you were in ny with that bunk bowing like that it would be red flagged and towed ;D
Quote from: Birchwood Logging on February 19, 2014, 07:40:23 PM
Had a heat wave today got up in the 60s worked by my self today pulled out a good load of poplar and redoak I cut pulled bucked and loaded this in half a day
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The last time i seen a single axle truck hauling in this area was 40 plus yrs ago.
And that is too bad. Not many small guys in this area either. I can not say when I last saw a small truck hauling logs or pulp. Years ago some would have a small dump truck,single axle, maybe 8 yards truck? and haul pulp with it.
its very common around here hauling with old single axle trucks
All tri-axle self-loaders around here. I'm about the only one that hauls with a single axle, and only for my own use. bill m has a single-axle with a loader on it, but I think he pretty much only moves firewood.
I'm getting ready to start a new job as well. Worked on getting my skid road opened up. It goes from my sawmill, up into the woods and to my neighbors pine lot. About a 500 or 600 yard skid and no trucking. ;D
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Bob used to haul 100" firewood and grade logs with this old girl. It had a dump rack and dual stake pockets. The inside ones for wooden stakes and steel in the outside. You pulled the steel stacks and reached in with the chainsaw and cut off the wooden ones at the dump site. The pic is of him delivering firewood to me the first winter I had the firewood machine. He hauled a lot of scrap with it too but it began to draw too much attention from the weigh masters. I think it's still sitting at house. I see an Isuzu cab over single axle around now and again with a load of aspen saw bolts. That's the only one around these parts that I know of.
I like my old single axel log truck it's all I need and cheap to operate coast me $40 in diesel to haul 2500 bf 100 miles round trip to the mill and back
My old single axle CF7000 Ford
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That's a nice looking truck will it haul a pretty good load I would like to have one of those cf fords
Quote from: Birchwood Logging on February 21, 2014, 02:09:09 AM
That's a nice looking truck will it haul a pretty good load I would like to have one of those cf fords
Its only 26000 GVW and a pretty long wheelbase . Has a 20ft bed . The biggest load of logs I have had on it was 1800 bf . I haul more lumber than logs . I have had it for 4 years and I am the second owner . I got it from a leasing company in Columbus for $2500 with all the service records and shop manuals . For me it has been a good old truck .
Got to love those old single axle logging trucks. Not big production but sort of the old way. Rarely see them anymore. Birchwood, I may PM you sometime. I am about an hour or so from Pound, Va. and get some advice from you. Have some timber on some steeper ground. Mainly mixed oak that has not been cut in over 50 years. Not a lot but it is time for it to come down. I can't handle it but may get your advice on it.
I will help you any way I can I've worked a lot of steep ground just hollar at me
Cut some nice hard maple today this load is mixed red oak and maple
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Spent all day cutting a new road a section of timber never got to haul any but we cut and loaded a nice load of hard maple and red oak one log had around 500 bf in a 14f oak log. Pulled that whole truck load in one twitch with the big 700 that's thing is a beast
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