couple pics... post what your currently cutting

[BargeMonkey]

That sucks wow.  I hope they get you squared away quick and you get back working. We had to send a bigger 100+hp NH farm tractor down the road 2wks ago, we managed to get it put out, insurance, about 6 trips to the dealer and it still wasn't right, we finally said enough and the new one has 3x the electronics and DEF.  >:(  I can only imagine the headaches with a newer forwarder like that half burning up and they want to fix it.

[BargeMonkey]

8) 8)          I have an old trail cam that doesn't work but I hang it on a tree by the landing in plain view with a little metal box and chain around it so far so good

We figure between the vandalism and stuff that's walked off this last yr it cost us over 10k, i had 4 cameras, now we have 20+ and a security system. Things aren't good up by me, I assume it's the same your way, heroin everywhere. I took my cameras down 2wks ago to find out about a high dollar city person tree stand that walked off within sight of my header, I find out the last 6-8wks I've been getting ripped off and wouldn't have known it, cutting the backside of my firewood pile off. I've got wood in Bovina Center, South Kortright and a 300acre butcher job right on main street in Grand gorge, I'm 90% sure I got that job on the reservoir, debating converting a 20' container or buying a used toy hauler and 1 of us just stays on the job every night to prevent the drama.

[coxy]

barge is there much hmaple on the bovina job we cut a piece off up there about 18years ago and the hmaple was the nicest we ever cut the hearts was dime size and none at all just watch some of the people there not very nice maybe things changed in 18 years  ;)

[chevytaHOE5674]

I can only imagine the headaches with a newer forwarder like that half burning up and they want to fix it.

No way is this machine fixable. Only way to fix it would be to split it at the articulation joint and replace the forward half. ha

[BargeMonkey]

I can only imagine the headaches with a newer forwarder like that half burning up and they want to fix it.

No way is this machine fixable. Only way to fix it would be to split it at the articulation joint and replace the forward half. ha

I didn't figure that crispy critter was being fixed.  :D. I mean if you had caught the fire and let's say 1/2 the cab, most of the fancy expensive electronic stuff got melted but the insurance company says "we can get that fixed" and you get stuck with a lemon, problems show 1-2yrs later. We looked at an 860.1 last time home, a guy west of me brought it down from ME, pictures looked good, in person you could tell she had been passed around central NY like a sorority girl by a couple big loggers, I read so much on here about wiring issues with these 10-15-20yr old machines and I didn't bite, it seemed fair as far as butchered wiring but it looked to have 29-30k+ hard hrs, meter said 9K and he figured 19k.
Any idea what the back half on one of those newer machines go for ??? 

[chevytaHOE5674]

Going to find out. The ins company said they are going to put the machine up for auction as is. Then we will have the opportunity to buy it back for the high bid price if wanted. I told the boss it would make me a sweet dray to pull behind a tractor for me on the farm. haha

[BargeMonkey]

 :D  I see a few of them for sale out your way, Lakeshore has had one for a while. My mechanic and I where hashing it out one day of how much of a nightmare it would be to cut a burned one just forward of the swivel and graft it on the front half of a 748E-G ??? 

[chevytaHOE5674]

If it goes cheap enough I'll let you know how much of a pain. hahaha

[g_man]

Holy moley that is scary. I can't image arriving at the job site and finding my equipment all burned up. Hope the insurance guys are a help and not just out to see you struggle thru hoops.

gg

[barbender]

Chevy, I didn't mean to sound like a smarty pants, if I did. It never occurred to me (and I still see our guys parking side by side like a truck stop sometimes) until someone mentioned at a safety meeting that best practice is to leave some space between machines.

[chevytaHOE5674]

I see lots of guys that park their equipment all lined up every night, but we are usually far enough apart in cutting/forwarding that we are parked apart. Weird how things happen that the one night we are broke down and parked next to one another is the night the machine decides to burn.

Still waiting on the ins company to figure out what they are doing. Processor has to go to the shop to get new windows put in but road restrictions are on until at least monday so getting it out of the woods is a problem at the moment.

[jwilly3879]

First trees from the new job.



 

3 16's in each scaled out about 1300bf for the big ones




 

This stick was 50' and 23" at the tip

  https://youtu.be/ZnBgIWh0SEA

Now for the access road to freeze.



 

[nativewolf]

Nice white pine? (i guess).  What's a nice stem like that fetch up in NY?

First trees from the new job.



 

3 16's in each scaled out about 1300bf for the big ones




 

This stick was 50' and 23" at the tip

  https://youtu.be/ZnBgIWh0SEA

Now for the access road to freeze.



 

[millcreek40]

I was waiting for that saw to get squished    glad it didnt

[jwilly3879]

Looked closer than it really was.

[millcreek40]

That really stinks on your machine. I hate to see nice equipment lost like that. Hopefully the ins co comes through quickly for you. I know of two people who lost equipment to a fire. Both were insured. One said they were great  the other guy said he only got about half what it insured for.  Scary. Best of luck to you

[g_man]

Nice way to start a new job jwilly. They say cold is coming!

gg

[killamplanes]

             

I left the bigger sycamores standing. That's a 36in bar on a 661                         

[barbender]

Whoa!

[coxy]

             

I left the bigger sycamores standing. That's a 36in bar on a 661                         

I always wanted to cut one of those we have them on river flats some call them button balls cause of there flower

[chevytaHOE5674]

Any idea what the back half on one of those newer machines go for ???

The back half goes for $5700 to the winning bidder. haha

[1270d]

I'd jump on that if we still had a caribou.   4 tires two tracks and a good rear bogie axle for 5700 is a good price.   Spare stakes too.

[barbender]

That's what I thought too.

[BargeMonkey]

 We have no problem finding work, but I never remember being this flat out busy in January /February. It's gotten to the point Im just laying the entire job on the ground at night, 14hrs in the dark in the last 2 days. 

  

  

 
I've been working around the real big good wood, that one oak I could just get thru with a 33" bar on and they are tough to swing.  No mercy given on the firewood on this job, the good logs on 90% of this where hammered off 20yrs ago and they left the junk, my log buyer calls it "Buncher blindness".  :D so much of it is either trash or beech with the blight. All goes thru the processor. 

 
We are the only pit in the area that doesn't close so it's been chaos lately and our 2 guys deserve a vacation, but that won't ever happen. 😂😂😂

 
75' of 1" hose to plumb that snowblower and I'm not quite done yet. 

 
They hang the trusses tomorrow. Amish building company out of PA, only way to go. Add another 12-15 employees by June. Wish I had more time to cut wood but it's not looking good, I'm going to get my firewood cut and what good logs I've got on this job and probably park everything for the summer.

[OH logger]

whats going in the new shed barge? storage, sawmill, processor...??