Finally got the contracts all finalized and the contractor started harvesting a few weeks ago. This clearcut sale is across 6 timber stands totalling 78 acres and is mostly mature loblolly pine (90+ years old) and 5+ logs. Right around a million bdft of pine and another 250k bdft of misc hardwood.
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Skidding tall trees
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Most of the pine has been cut out, going back in now to clean up the hardwood pulpwood
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Truck loaded up and binding down for the haul
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Not a bad load of logs headed to the mill
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Stack of logs and a knothead :D
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Tight rings, should make some good lumber
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I always like to see pictures of a havest. How are the trees being cut down?
Quote from: thecfarm on November 15, 2011, 08:12:21 AM
I always like to see pictures of a havest. How are the trees being cut down?
Hydro-Ax is doing most of the work, the larger trees along with the selected pines in the SMZ are being hand-felled.
I was hoping for a picture. ;) ;D
Quote from: thecfarm on November 15, 2011, 08:21:12 AM
I was hoping for a picture. ;) ;D
I'm headed out there now, if they are workin I'll grab one for you! I did forget the best picture...they've been having a few problems with the trucks getting stuck on the landing, and they haven't been able to get some mats in there yet. So this is the method for getting the truck turned around :D
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Now that's a picture.
VT, Nice, nice clean job, neat work, you can always tell when a man loves his job.
I've been in the chair all most 23 yrs, i still have Loggers Fever, its a illness you can't get rid of.
My high was a good stand of timber, i had a hard time sleeping the night before i started.
I've had some so called truck drivers, thats the only way they could turn the truck around.
When i was driving my rig, i always put a single set of chains on the front driver's before i had problems.
Nice looking timber ;)
Quote from: Autocar on November 15, 2011, 05:31:43 PM
Nice looking timber ;)
I,ll 2nd that. also good looking job. lumberjack48,pointed that out,people that do this can tell ;D Tim
I definitely like what I do, that's for sure! The guys that we get doing most of our harvests do a really good job. They are a small crew, run pretty slow on a Monday (especially when the Budweiser was flowing extra over the weekend :)). But, since they are a small crew, they are a little more flexible when I ask them to do things a certain way....which is good because it means that for the most part, harvests are getting done exactly how I want them to. If something is not right, it's very easy to get them to fix it and make it right.
As requested, I got some pictures of the Hydro-Ax 611E buncher running yesterday. It was a slow day for them...they had some mechanical troubles with the trucks, so they were moving the logs around on the deck waiting for the truck drivers to get back. They got their logging mats put in so they were knocking some stumps down to make it a little easier on the drivers.
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Dusty!
NICE LOOKIN JOBSITE AND EQUIP. VT :) where are you selling those nice pine logs? a mill near here pays $150/1000 bf :(
Those pine sure look nice and add up volume fast. :)
$150/thousand? They don't want wood. ;)
I know what ya mean swamp ;)
My uncle got mad at one outfit one time and burnt the logs up in the furnace for firewood after he bucked and split it all. Couldn't get delivery tickets, so figured firewood was better. :D
Quote from: treefarmer87 on November 24, 2011, 05:15:45 PM
NICE LOOKIN JOBSITE AND EQUIP. VT :) where are you selling those nice pine logs? a mill near here pays $150/1000 bf :(
The nicest of the logs are going to the loggers mill in West Point. The rest are going all over the place, some are going to the GP mill in Emporia, others are going north to Saluda/Tappahanock. It certainly wasn't the best time to sell this pine, but it needed to go. Most of it looks pretty good, but rot is definately starting to settle in.
15 cents a foot??? ouch! >:(
alot of the guys i know go to west point. its good that you got it before it got too rotten.
Nice photos! Truck turn arounds can be a problem at times, but the skidders always come to their aid. ;)
Especially if they want a pay cheque. :D But I have seen skidders pull trucks out of some nasty roads, steep hills and slime. We used to pull trailers loads of spuds up icey drive ways with a tree farmer. Even hooked onto tractors or trucks in potato harvest. :D When that old tree farmer hooked on, you came along. ;D
We've had some weather delays and a few equipment breakdowns, but this job is still moving along. I got some videos of some equipment running the other day and figured I would share them :)
Just a quick shot of the cutter knocking down a pine
http://youtu.be/WsBOGLOyTTw
Cutter working on a poplar with a big root flare
http://youtu.be/_cL9S25NLUA
Nice videos! What would you do with the cleared space? Replant saplings?
Quote from: kilgrosh on August 15, 2012, 09:54:02 AM
Nice videos! What would you do with the cleared space? Replant saplings?
Yup, we'll go in when they are done, do a little site prep to knock down the tops, then plant loblolly pine
Thanks for posting these pictures! I love seeing job site updates.
Nice looking logs but .15 cents that would bum me out in a hurry :D. Seems like a fellow should saw them and stack it up there worth alot more then that I would think.
Quote from: Autocar on August 15, 2012, 07:17:09 PM
Nice looking logs but .15 cents that would bum me out in a hurry :D. Seems like a fellow should saw them and stack it up there worth alot more then that I would think.
I would hope so! Not sure what this logger is getting for them. He has his own mill so I guess he's sqeaking out whatever he can get on the finished end of things
Seems like it would have been just as easy to get the chain saw out!
Quote from: Woodhauler on August 16, 2012, 01:09:43 PM
Seems like it would have been just as easy to get the chain saw out!
What?? ;D
And have to get out of the cab, walk through/over all that logging debris to the truck, fire up the chainsaw and then back again, and again to put it away?
Think I would knaw around it as he did too. ;D
8)
And prolly safer staying in the cab too. ;)
Now you are on my old stomping ground. I was driving a truck for Chesapeake Lumber when they bought the mill in West Point some time in the middle 80. After they bought the mill I stop driving and started help in running the mill. Them they set up a planer mill and I ran that for a couple of year. Left there in fall of 88 and since then it been sold a couple of times. I don't know who own it now. You said that you was hauling to a mill near Saluda. That wouldn't be W D Edward mill would it be? Where are you hauling you hardwood? The only place that I know that buy Hardwood now is Rigsby at Shackford.