couple pics... post what your currently cutting

[Stephen Alford]

   We hit -45 at 5am Saturday , its that time of year when you see one seagull towing another seagull with a frenchfry trying to jumpstart em  ... I like all your pics... fill yer boots  

[mudfarmer]

Hey Barge, I like the boat pics, and the equipment pics, and the occasional memes  ;D

"Poor logger" and weekend warrior is where it's at but I don't know if you will qualify for the program with a fresh paint job on that truck and a kitted out 450J?  

[barbender]

Barge knows darn well we all like his boat pics, he's just fishing for compliments.😁

[mudfarmer]

So happy to have gotten through the firewood in this spot and start bringing out some saw logs. A lot of you guys probably haven't seen a live Ash tree in years, we are preparing.



 

Day job gets in the way, mostly cutting and bunching on the weekends and skidding after dark during the week, seems to be working alright so far but need to get cranking. Long skid from here but getting shorter every turn. Nice beaver pond here near the end of the line maybe can see it over the hill



 

[Log-it-up]

We saw 25 below here Saturday morning too 15 above 24 hrs later 
   Mudfarmer- you should talk Barge into letting you use some of his iron that just sits around rusting up they way he keeps going I think we'll keep getting boat picture for a while ( which I don't mind at all I like seeing different things)

[mudfarmer]

Could sure use a not trashed small 440/TJ/TF that's for sure. Anything else just plain wouldn't fit. Will try to remember to get some trail pics. Missed a dandy of a C4 recently, sold so fast my head spun

[nativewolf]

Barge if you see a low lowboy with a long well we are interested.  Moving forwarders and it is not the trucking rate so much as it is the timing- waiting a week to do a move.   Thinking about buying a trailer.

[BargeMonkey]

Could sure use a not trashed small 440/TJ/TF that's for sure. Anything else just plain wouldn't fit. Will try to remember to get some trail pics. Missed a dandy of a C4 recently, sold so fast my head spun

There's a LOW hr 440D for sale in VT, like 2700hrs, low 30s. There's a 540G3 in Ontario by Ed for 45 that doesn't look pounded at all, the stuffs around. 

[BargeMonkey]

Barge if you see a low lowboy with a long well we are interested.  Moving forwarders and it is not the trucking rate so much as it is the timing- waiting a week to do a move.   Thinking about buying a trailer.

I'm seeing stuff come around, marketplace and a couple of the groups is where it's at. Your talking 26-28' of well and dropside ? Wanna be sitting down 😆 

[nativewolf]

Oh yeah...lots of $ Bargemonkey.  Dropside and the longest well you can find.  An elephant is quite the long toy.  

[mudfarmer]

Innernet says 540G3 = 9.5ft wide? That's like... 2 feet too wide :D 30's and 40's I'd just buy another wood lot and keep on tractorin' you can still get 50ac here for that money and there are some poor land locked folks behind me

[BargeMonkey]

Barge knows darn well we all like his boat pics, he's just fishing for compliments.😁

I would post memes but you know 🤦‍♂️😆. Tonight's excitement, after fixing another EMD that pulled in for engine parts, this almost got real expensive, sucked up into the nozzle on an expensive Z-drive. 


 


 Alot of ships and stuff got built in this area for the war effort, the Staten island graveyard isn't far from here, seen it in a couple movies, theres old boats all over down here, all sorts of stuff on the bottom here. 
 

"Poor logger" and weekend warrior is where it's at but I don't know if you will qualify for the program with a fresh paint job on that truck and a kitted out 450J?  

I'm 99% I'm going to have them drop it off. My buddy runs the Albany store and had it since new, still low hours. I've been looking for another low hour G, dont exist. Would take a long weekend to put a complete package on this one but I know what I've got, never been in the woods or pounded. 


 

 I will keep my eye out on skidders. I know where a STRAIGHT C4D is up by Glens Falls for 24, friend of mine hobby cuts and kind of getting out of it. Andy Swinton has been doing all the maintenance on it, honestly a nice little machine. 

Oh yeah...lots of $ Bargemonkey.  Dropside and the longest well you can find.  An elephant is quite the long toy.  

I will hunt around, got 70+ days to kill 😆. 

[ehp]

There is lots of equipment around and more showing up everyday , It's getting almost like shopping at the store , Barge will take this one and that one , Oh my isn't that new TC 635 cute , yep ship that to my house

[ehp]

It's a wonder Barge even talks to us small poor loggers , He is killing it at making Huge Coin and Uncle Sam most just love you every pay check 

[g_man]

Could sure use a not trashed small 440/TJ/TF that's for sure. Anything else just plain wouldn't fit. Will try to remember to get some trail pics. Missed a dandy of a C4 recently, sold so fast my head spun

What size tractor are you running MudFarmer ? You seem to be getting around with it OK in the snow. But I knows pics can be deceiving. Just curious.
gg

[mudfarmer]

GG it is an L3400, chained on all four so it gets around in the deep snow just fine really but sucks at climbing steep hills and doesn't weigh enough to skid much at a time. 50hp size would be better, well I have a 50hp 4wd belarus and it will for sure pull a lot more but it needs a clutch and some front axle work before it goes back to the woods and then it will break again . I also did not like using it in the woods because of the cab, smashed window...


I think M series Kubota in 50 horse range with a roof and limb risers is probably the sweet spot for my kind of tractor logging. I will say you can squeeze this thing anywhere you dare to and it has been a great machine. It gets used for everything from plowing snow to moving round bales of hay, loading sawmill, brush hogging, moving pallets of feed and lumber, you name it. FEL capacity is low but we make do.

[Skeans1]

Barge if you see a low lowboy with a long well we are interested.  Moving forwarders and it is not the trucking rate so much as it is the timing- waiting a week to do a move.   Thinking about buying a trailer.

Who's going to drive though? There's a couple of way to move a forwarder one is on a 23 or so foot well where you put the back up on the fenders and a pilot car for height.

[nativewolf]

We have several companies that can   move but they dont have sufficient deep long wells so we have to have pilot cars.  Pricey and slow to get route and permits.

We did a long haul last month and it was so much faster getting permits, proper trailers.  Low enough .  

[Skeans1]

At a certain point it's easier and cheaper to just bite the bullet for a smaller machine then mess with all of that.

[barbender]

There is some truth to that. Nativewolf needs the biggest crane he can get, but I believe his machine has a K100. That is the same crane that is mounted on the Buffalo. However, the newer Elephant and ElephantKing (and the Mammoth I'm sure😁) have the K121 or whatever the big crane is.

[Firewoodjoe]

Barge if you see a low lowboy with a long well we are interested.  Moving forwarders and it is not the trucking rate so much as it is the timing- waiting a week to do a move.   Thinking about buying a trailer.

Who's going to drive though? There's a couple of way to move a forwarder one is on a 23 or so foot well where you put the back up on the fenders and a pilot car for height.

Yep. Even take the back stakes out. Just seen a 1510. No pilot cars here.  Unless crazy big. But drop side trailers is about a must. I want to say 14x14 is the limit. 

[Firewoodjoe]

Nope 12x14 is just a paper permit. Over that is escort. My bad. 

[Firewoodjoe]

Hey @Skeans1 did you buy that 1910 UP here. 😂 I see its gone. 

[Skeans1]

@Firewoodjoe 
Nope it's too high to be on our lowboy, I can go up to 14' 11.5" basically on permit after that it's with a pole on the pilot car. Even with our old 1210 and extension on I'm just under 14 at the highest point on our 24" tall ride height trailer which would be lower if we had a double drop trailer ride height would either be 12 or 16 inches of the ground. Myself I wouldn't want a deck length longer then 24' we have a fun time with our 23' foot well already on some to the back roads let alone having to lowboy into some of the jobs the corners aren't wide enough for this setup.

[Treecuttermo]

Had to go cut some pine the other day and it's been in the woods for over a week waiting for the ice to melt. Now if I can get the forwarder going hopefully I can get them out before it starts raining.