started a new landing today

[Birchwood Logging]

 

 

[Birchwood Logging]

 

  its a little tight not much room to load but we are pulling some nice white oak timber out of this end of the job

[Woodhauler]

2-3 ft over the stakes up here= BIG Fine and out of service sticker till its unloaded!

[Birchwood Logging]

Guess I need taller standards

[redprospector]

Looks like the little 450's earning her keep. 

[Woodhauler]

Guess I need taller standards

10-4! Would look alot better to the local law too! Nice logs though.

[Birchwood Logging]

Yep its running great its a little tight on this landing I'm looking to invest in a knuckle boom soon

[Birchwood Logging]

Guess I need taller standards

10-4! Would look alot better to the local law too! Nice logs though.

I did not mean to be rude sorry I've been planning on extending them 2 more feet just seeing if the truck will handle that big of a load before I add to them. They are 5 feet now and I can load the truck flat footed with my track loader but if I add 2 feet to them I will have to use a loading hole. That load there brought $3174 some pretty nice timber 

[Peter Drouin]

Nice load, 8)
Goes to show you Woodhauler NH and Maine DOT are full of it. I see the DOT setup on 93 for 3 weeks now at the Sanbornton rest stop. One outfit [and he keeps his trucks in good shape] has been fined 3,500.00 and the season is just starting.

[Woodhauler]

Nice load, 8)
Goes to show you Woodhauler NH and Maine DOT are full of it. I see the DOT setup on 93 for 3 weeks now at the Sanbornton rest stop. One outfit [and he keeps his trucks in good shape] has been fined 3,500.00 and the season is just starting.

Cost me 910.00 today, had one ft of stakes showing with a load of hemlock pulp on!

[Birchwood Logging]

You have to keep your load more than a foot below the top of the standards

[Maine logger88]

What did you weigh? Maine dot definitely need to loosen up a little

[Woodhauler]

You have to keep your load more than a foot below the top of the standards

NO, you can be six inches above, i was trying to look good and be somewhat legal on weight. Weighed 83400 on his scales. Allowed 75900.

[logger79]

Nice looking logs. How many feet was that? I'm sure glad the law isn't to bad on loggers around here.

[chester_tree _farmah]

Bummer. What was your fine?

[Birchwood Logging]

A little over 2800 feet

[chester_tree _farmah]

Those are awesome logs.

[Birchwood Logging]

Thanks we grow them big here in eastern ky

[chester_tree _farmah]

And u make some mighty fine bourbon whisky too.

[clww]

Nice looking logs. If we loaded that way around here (Tidewater), we'd get a $5K ticket.

[chester_tree _farmah]

Oh 910 woodhauler. I missed that.

[Woodhauler]

Thanks we grow them big here in eastern ky

I worked in west virginia one spring, nice wood there too!

[luvmexfood]

And u make some mighty fine bourbon whisky too.

I second that.

[BargeMonkey]

2-3 ft over the stakes up here= BIG Fine and out of service sticker till its unloaded!

Im getting 3500-4000 bft on a tri-axle heavy spec legal load. If DOT ever got you going down the road it is all over loaded like that, and god forbit you ever had an accident even if its not your fault your all done. Do you have truck enough to run a pup trailer and even your loads out ?

[Birchwood Logging]

Don't think the truck would pull a pup trailer very well its just got a 671 Detroit in it a little weak lol

[treeslayer2003]

weak? if so it needs tuning. they run and pull till they pop. if not tuned right they a dog.
you have some nice timber there.
I had a IH set up just like that, it would take 60,000 gross on up the road 70 mph if ya wanted to.

[Ken]

You do have some beautiful timber to work with.  It is very evident that the DOT inspectors are much less troublesome in your area than they are here.   That load would get your truck towed around here.  Wish they would loosen up here as fuel prices are making it nearly impossible to turn a profit with a log truck when hauling legal loads. 

[barbender]

Here, once in a while you'll see a couple of cords of wood sitting in the ditch. The DOT will pull you over, if you are grossly overloaded they make you throw the extra wood off, give you a brutal fine, and send you on your way.

[luvmexfood]

Just thought of this. Around here a lot of the white oak goes to KY for whiskey barrels to age in. Who knows. In a few years you could be enjoying a sip of bourbon that was aged in Brichwoods white oak.

[BargeMonkey]

 

 

Thats the truck you need to buy. Thats the guy who hauls my pulp for me. Legal for 35 tons. Loaded in the rain and snow showers today.

[Birchwood Logging]

That truck is nice how much would that set up cost $200k it might be a little hard to get in tight spots though

[BargeMonkey]

 Actually he gets into some tight nasty spots with that truck. He said it was 225k for a new truck like that, thats loader and pitts pup trailer.

[Maine logger88]

Is that a serco loader?

[BargeMonkey]

Is that a serco loader?

I believe thats a hood 7000. It looks smooth, he loads and goes pretty quick. That truck came out of "loggers equipment" or now called General truck in Glens falls.

[Maine logger88]

Yeh those are a good loader if I was going to buy a new truck mount it would either be one of those or a serco 8500