couple pics... post what your currently cutting

[mike_belben]

looks like you need to put the old man in a machine barge. or have more kids to run them for you!

[BargeMonkey]

Mike my father hasn't been in the woods in 2yrs, prefer he stays out, last time he decided he was going to be a hero in the ice and got his face rearranged. My oldest boy is going to be a waste of air, wants nothing to do with cutting wood, has no hustle. 
Last summer I went to move that loader down the driveway, broke the drives haft and took a ride, my loader was buried in a woodpile on the hill, he took me out on a chain and down over the hill backwards resting on the blade, I wouldnt want to do it with a 450 dozer. 


 
 If i can make it work I will go buy a new one in a bit, trailer is so hard to get in around here sometimes.  


 
 Ive got no logging help and still have to do everyone else's job 😆 saw Tom today as im coming out of the cooler dealing with beer deliveries. My other jobs too wet, finish this one, 4-5lds of good logs and 100 cord to go, go clean up that clearing job down the road.


  

[Old Greenhorn]

Yeah, you didn't look like you were having a great day, but you did look like you were getting through it OK. You are banging some real wood out of that 100 acres jib and I still haven't got down to where you are cutting, having enough trouble just getting my toothpicks done and staying awake on the drive home, which felt very long today. (Note to self, do not get up at 2:30 when you are leaving at 5.)
 Keep hammering! Tomorrow is another day.

[mike_belben]

if you put a ball valve to cut the supply off to the rear bags, and then another ball valve on a tee that is between the shutoff and the bag to vent the air out, it will let the rear axle slide and will turn just like a closed tandem without fighting you.  the effective wheelbase will come forward 2 foot or so also. 


well.. if its air ride anyways.

[BargeMonkey]

 

 
Just keep hustling 🤷‍♂️


  


  watch the sun come up, sun go down.


 in between cutting wood.


  truck wood 🤷‍♂️
 

 no brakes on the train now 😆 Timbcos fixed...

[barbender]

What are we looking at there, Barge?

[barbender]

We just started on a nice private sale, lots of White Pine coming off this one. I do think I'll bring a load home to feed to the Woodmizer😊 These are 16', not huge probably average 16-20" dbh-



 
We need rain really badly, this is a sand job and the dust is atrocious! I knocked at least 10 pounds of dust out of my air filter yesterday😬

[barbender]

The first pic is just 8' aspen, there is a ScorpionKing hiding up on the hill in the background.

[Skeans1]

 

 

 

 

 

[Southside]

What are we looking at there, Barge?

My guess is $3,500....

[barbender]

We finally got a nice soaking rain on Sunday. That and a new air filter and things are looking up😊

[nativewolf]

The dust has been something here but we've also had some rain over the last week.  Well the dust, water pump gradual failure ...becoming urgent, fan clutch...etc etc.  June has seen 1 truck :(.  Good news is that we did the water pump and fan clutch ourselves, lots of learning for a couple of mechanical idiots.  No leaks!  Temps much nicer, more dust.

[mike_belben]

What are we looking at there, Barge?

My guess is $3,500....

I thought it was the yoke frame of a dangle head getting rebushed.. ?

[Skeans1]

What are we looking at there, Barge?

My guess is $3,500....

I thought it was the yoke frame of a dangle head getting rebushed.. ?

Nah that's a dog bone off a timbco.

[mike_belben]

Gotcha. Now that i see the pic of it in the truck its obvious.   The first pic with it standing upright i didnt recognize. 

[teakwood]

happy birthday @barbender ! all the best and health for the years to come

[olcowhand]

.....X 2!
Steve

[Old Greenhorn]

x3! Stay safe out there and have a great day!

[newoodguy78]

X4 I'm sure you're out there stacking straight piles  8)

[ehp]

happy birthday as well. No need to worry about dust here as were to get 4 or 5 days of rain . I should be done this bush tomorrow if I do not get flooded out tonight

[mike_belben]

Happy bday mang

[barbender]

The BuffaloKing is shut down from a pinhole in a steel hydraulic pipe, that the local Ponsse shop didn't have on hand. So the birthday boy got to saw some nice 16' red pine for pallet lumber🤷🏽‍♂️

[Andries]

That long pine looks perfect, especially for a Birthday Boy.
The smell of fresh pine on the mill is one of those rewards for hard work that other people just don't get. 😆

[chep]

Cant ask for a better birthday then that! Barbender thanks for keeping it real! 
Have a good one

[Skeans1]

 

 Not a whole lot of taper in these girls.