A day cutting wood

[beenthere]

Sure enjoy the pics of Peter's wood yard, and the big loads coming in. 

Keep 'em coming, Peter. Hope its working well for you. 

[Peter Drouin]

I went to load a chip truck, filled the truck then I wanted to pull down some chips from the top of the pile. I rolled the bucket down to pull the chips. Not a big pull back just off the top. then a snap sound from the bucket. 


 See the cast ears on the end of the rod. clean brake 
The replacement one is $2,000.00
So now I can't move logs or lumber till it's fixed. 
New part will be here on Friday maybe. All the black iron 
So the thing to know, Is don't pull back with the bucket.
Push all you want. With a lull. :

[PAmizerman]

Is that some form of quick attach?

[Peter Drouin]

Yes, When I sold the cat, I had to fab the cat bucket to a lull bucket. 


 I found the pieces in the wood chip pile. No welding it back the way it was. :D


 

 New part coming. In the meantime, I change the oil in the cat 

 Cut some Wight Oak, and Then went for a ride in the HOT ROD ;D Made no $$ today, But, the ride in the rod was fun


 
So don't pull back with the boom. PA mizerman :D :D :D :D ;D

[Peter Drouin]

Mud and more mud, I'm sick of it, Spent a bunch of $$ for gravel after I scraped off the mud. :


 

 

 

 

Rain all day today. :

[PAmizerman]

Have you ever put down fabric first? It will keep the mud from working up through the stone. 

[PAmizerman]

I just put more stone down this week as well. 
I've dumped over 10k worth of stone and slate in the yard this year. 


 

 

 

 

[Peter Drouin]

It's an ongoing thing. With all the logs and trucks coming in, I have bark and more bark on the ground. In time it will work in the fill and turn it into much. 2 to 6" deep.
Try to skim off just the muck. :D
If I had stone like that in my yard, It would gone in a year, Stoney muck.  ;)

[barbender]

 Long before I got into anything wood related, I worked on a paving crew and the local UPM paper mill paved their whole wood yard. They were trying to alleviate the bark/mud mess, and they installed large sprinklers to wet all of the yarded wood to keep it fresh. The asphalt helped keep the water free of sediment as it ran back to the catch ponds that the sprinklers fed from. It seems to have worked pretty well.

 That was some gnarly mix. Two lifts, I think the base was 3" of asphalt with 1½" rock, and the top lift was 3" of 1" rock mix. That was the only time in 17 years of paving that I saw mix with aggregate larger than 3/4". It was a bear to work with, thankfully looks wasn't high on the list of this industrial job😊

 

[Peter Drouin]

6" of asphalt   That's a lot. And then I bet they still had to scrap the bark off the asphalt too.
That would be better.

[customsawyer]

I fight the muck too when it is wet here. One thing I make sure to do is clean up most of the bark after unloading a log truck. If you leave that bark over the rock it gets into it and then starts holding moisture and decaying. Once that starts it has to be removed and start over. 

[Resonator]

We did one job when I was contract hauling hot mix for a paving company, where they paved a pad for a huge feed bunker. This was for a big dairy farm that had 4000+ cows. They had tried concrete, but the acid in the wet sileage was destroying it.

On soft muddy areas we would bring in lots of breaker (larger size rock with jagged edges) and/or put down fabric. I've also seen other companies do soil stabilization it areas that won't tighten up. That being where they roto-till cement powder into the mud, roll it, and it hardens it like concrete.

[Bruno of NH]

The new mill Kenabec is building down the road from me is paved now. 
They worked on the mill yard for 6 months before they tore down the 5 year old mill and started new again

[Bruno of NH]

I fight the muck now and when I can I'm going to try the fabric and crushed ledge stone or asphalt millings

[Peter Drouin]

Love it, The Logger calls and wants to know what length of log I want. Before he cuts Instead of just bringing a bunch of " stuff "
Yes all 10' and 12' I have 14s and 16s up the Wazo :D
Now some timber framer will call want 30'+ stuff.

[PAmizerman]

It doesn't matter what all you have someone always wants something different.
All this and none of it will fill my next three orders.

 

 

[Peter Drouin]

 

 Two loads of custom-cut logs

First load


#2


load#1

One tree with red rot, no big deal, I will cut around it :D


A big deduction on that stuff :D ;D
Mix-up the pix :
The first one is to show how the mill faces South with all the sunshine, 
Last one of the mill too.


Right off the mill onto the stickers, I try to handle the wood one time .

[Peter Drouin]

Wood was so nice I have another coming. ;D
They will keep till spring. With all the cold and snow.
Have to have time for the HOT ROD this winter.
 ;) :D
And when the road bans are up my yard will be full of logs.  8)
And sawing wood.
My Doc says at 69 years old and a stroke, I should slow down.
:D :D :D :D I say full blade ahead. :D :D ;)