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General Board / Re: 50 years ago today

Last post by customsawyer - Today at 01:53:56 PM

Happy Anniversary

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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Thinking about the future....

Last post by customsawyer - Today at 01:43:31 PM

If I could only have one machine then it would probably be that backhoe. Where it has the quick connect on the front, it is priceless. It can lift over 8000K with the front forks and can unload a log truck with tall bolsters on it. They are top heavy so wouldn't like going sideways on a hill. Up and down it I wouldn't worry about it as you can use the hoe as a counter weight and back up the hill or fill the bucket and go forward with it. It will have more strength in the hoe than most mini ex will. Just can't swing 360 degrees. I probably have more rolling stock around here than most on this forum and the reason is that they each do certain tasks better. It also gives me a backup when something breaks down. The back hoe doesn't get used much anymore as I have other equipment but I will never sell it due to it's versatility.

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Tree, Plant and Wood I.D. / Re: Tree of the day

Last post by Don P - Today at 01:29:15 PM

Not a tree but under them, and at least for us these are rare.

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Forestry and Logging / Re: Humboldt vs. Conventional

Last post by WhitePineJunky - Today at 01:01:32 PM

But my point is, how do you know the tree is 15'-10" when the tree is vertical?

Most often a log 12'-6" with a bigger top end is going to be more money to begin with. Same with sweep in a long log, enough deflection by 16' that don't grade, but bucked shorter, more money. Seen it many times.

I don't, but I'm not taking chances, sometimes it pays off sometimes it doesn't. One can get pretty close to eyeing out a 16' in a standing tree though

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General Board / Re: 50 years ago today

Last post by Magicman - Today at 01:00:51 PM

Hopefully not Chet's future:

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Forestry and Logging / Re: Humboldt vs. Conventional

Last post by SwampDonkey - Today at 12:58:55 PM

But my point is, how do you know the tree is 15'-10" when the tree is vertical?

Most often a log 12'-6" with a bigger top end is going to be more money to begin with. Same with sweep in a long log, enough deflection by 16' that don't grade, but bucked shorter, more money. Seen it many times. Cutting off flare would have to be great money to bother with. Logs are not big money up here, even veneer is 1/3 of what Ed gets in southern Ontario. I have rarely seen flare cut off a log up here, that gets old if you have a mountain of flared spruce logs in the pile barely paid more than pulp price. :D

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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Ain't Normal

Last post by Magicman - Today at 12:51:01 PM

There is/will be a 75% cost share program through the ASCS and Marty and I went to the meeting and listened to the presentation.  We quickly saw that it was nothing that would be of any benefit to us in our situation and afterwards the foresters and the loggers were shaking their heads.  It was evident that "our situation" was no different from anyone else's.  There was no logger there that would be willing to move their equipment onto a salvage operation which would be a land clearing job instead of a logging job.

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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Sawmill Automation Mikro L...

Last post by Magicman - Today at 12:34:48 PM

I would go to an upholstery shop and have them sew me a waterproof cover for the control unit.

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Forestry and Logging / Re: Humboldt vs. Conventional

Last post by mudfarmer - Today at 12:18:40 PM

The log length would be determined on the other end.  No one is climbing trees with tape measures. Well low can be a foot high, a standard stump height. I've seen some trees cut 3 feet high, someone didn't want to bend too much. No flare up that high. A 3 foot high stump wouldn't pass around here.    I'm cutting wood that isn't huge, so most stumps are under a foot, some I cut flush, but on trails.  Never know, might need to cut 20" high on a big old rock maple 4 feet on the but. Once you get above the flare the taper is a lot slower. I wouldn't drive over a stump that big even if it was 8" high unless it's a skidder or forwarder. I will cut a popple high if it has a J-shape but to.  Cut it off later. Hard splitting those, the grain is curved.

You're misunderstanding me. There may be a bend 15'10" up from where a humbolt would be, but if I do lower a couple inches with a conventional, I can make that a 16' log.

I don't have perfect cream crop trees like they do out west, so I scrounge what I can

Same here, huge percentage of 8 and 10' logs to make grade and that extra few inches can make all the difference. I do need to practice humboldt more, on the steep it probably won't leave a higher stump if done like Skeans says when falling downhill and no full wrap so get a couple more out of it It just does not feel as natural to me and don't do it much so no muscle memory to kick in.

Big root flares- pretend I am a spur cutter for a minute, get right in there

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General Board / Re: 50 years ago today

Last post by chet - Today at 11:59:42 AM

That was da plan, but it didn't work out.

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