33 out right now! Going to try and get one load this morning if the wood yard i'm going on is not all mud!! >:(
Me too!!! I can't remember the last time we had a good solid winter, I'm thinking it's been 10 years. 35° here going to try to work today. Good luck.
Soupy mud here Saturday but 60 sunny and very windy Sunday. Hope the mud settled and dried a bit as could not even get my 4x4 pickup through the gate into pasture/landing Saturday.
Mud here also and the long term weather dosen't look good.
41° and raining here in Pa boy it's not January here.
I agree! I have a theory that there is a direct link between winter logging and alcholism ;) I bet if you look back the first "alcoholic" was some guy trying to log in the winter! Rained all day here and 50f out. The best part was when I blew a steering cylinder hose on the way up a 30 percent grade.......in the mud.....I had to lay on my back (thank god I had a rainsuit) under the skidder and pull the cylinder out. There is a fine line between stupidity and dedication.....I am trying to figure out which one qualifies today. But hey, the thought of poverty is an excellent motivator! If only our gvt. agreed!
Here's to dry weather, good whiskey and open mills!
Tom
Its the same crap everywhere. Rain here every other day all last winter, spring, summer, and this fall, so the ground was saturated, and now all winter its the same. Got a few days of cold last week and the d@##$#% center manifold in the processor decides to crap out, of course nobody has the seals on the shelf, had to order them, got it all back together this evening - the OSB I threw down under the machine was so much nicer than the mud I had been lying in. Of course now - its going to rain the rest of the week. >:(
Come on UP, winter is in full swing and the plowed roads are hard as a rock. Our issue has been being able to keep equipment and guys working in the deep snow and brutal cold weather.
My wood yard was under 6 inches of water this morning this weather is no fun
Yup, it's a mess. Had to quit yesterday due to mud. Really putting a damper on production. Going to see if I can find a piece of high ground on the lot I am on today. Looking at a topo it's not to promising. Be safe everyone
I should be working right now, rain and 40 degrees after a warm couple of days my jobs are both a mess with mud, I don't want to ruin the roads or produce a bunch of wood rolled in mud it only makes for mad customers, " the pallet mill does not have a de-barker" I will probably head out later and just put on wood on the ground to skid when it freezes up again in week, the weather here for the next few days is not good
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Rained all day Sat... rained Mon. night.. Tue. rain all day.. Wed. frozen mix. There's water running out over this one field I cross when it's dry... suppose to get colder as the week goes by.. maybe w/ some wind & cold it could be dry enough for this weekend. Being stuck in the mud is no fun when your working alone.. might end up having to walk home.
This is a picture when its dry.
Raining hard and mud is everywhere. Can't seem to get much started and when I do the weather whacks me. Same thing happened with haying this year and the vegetables also. It can only get better at this point.
David
Tried to make the best of it today. No skidding that's for sure. Mud and more mud. Put a lot of wood on the ground in hopes of it freezing up soon. We shall see. I need to seriously think about diversifying, maybe get back into residential tree work as much as I hate all the BS that comes with it the money is there. Hopefully we get a good month of good cold weather.
it has rained all day........again. :(
Has the market went up any due to the weather this winter? I know here the white oak market has went up some but it dose no good if you can't get the wood out
yup, they all screaming for wood of any kind.....fat lotta good it does if ya can't get it out.
Another 3/4" inch of rain today, and still 36 deg right now. Serviced the equipment and went and looked at 325 acres of a second thinning contract that I am supposed to get onto, - water running right down the haul road and red clay grease where the water was not running - it will be a while before I can think of getting there.
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Rained all day Sat... rained Mon. night.. Tue. rain all day.. Wed. frozen mix. There's water running out over this one field I cross when it's dry... suppose to get colder as the week goes by.. maybe w/ some wind & cold it could be dry enough for this weekend. Being stuck in the mud is no fun when your working alone.. might end up having to walk home.
This is a picture when its dry.
that's a good load on that trailer :laugh: :laugh:
Another day of setting home! 33 degrees and most of the roads are posted now!! Can't haul unless they are froze!! >:(
We had a week of of sub zero weather, then a Blizzard and 4 foot of snow, then a thaw and rain and the snow all went, the ground is like a wet sponge. The road is soooo muddy we don't dare drive on it. Mother Nature seems to have a plan this year but I am not sure for who. lol You can't go drop a bunch of trees as they would probably freeze in before you could get to them. Not a good winter so far. From what i am seeing and reading it is widespread, many states affected.
Still a mess around here, looked at timber yesturday south of me there wasn't any snow in the woods a few miles north and it was snow covered but the feilds were thawed out and was a muddy mess.
Quote from: coxy/quote]that's a good load on that trailer :laugh: :laugh:
Yea.. I'm def. guilty.. the trailer bed is 20ft.. I think those logs were 27.. normally I cut at 21ft.. but try to max. bdft. /grade too. Back home I just stack at that length.. then cut down to size once I know what I'm milling. Small potatoes compared to you guys.. but I really enjoy it. :)
Still setting home!!! 2 loads this week so far! Down from what should be 15 or so!! Can't even ice fish!! >:(
Blizzzzzard here today no travel schools shut down DanG is summer ever gona get here?
I only went about about 10 minutes from here,but that is two towns, No posted roads,YET.
Stayed home today. The job I am on now is an hour drive so I figure save fuel and do some house stuff make my wife happy. I see cold temps in the long range forecast. Lets hope they are right
Had to push trucks out of the jobsite today. Usually this time of year if we have stuck trucks it is because of snow and/or ice. Rain in the winter is not good but at least we can keep working. -30+ kept us idle
Yup pretty bad when there posting roads in January
Remember this last year? I have it down as Jan 15,2013,just one year ago. Still no postings around here. I went into a couple small towns and did not see any postings. I saw was someone was cutting wood on a back road.
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there is always someone that thinks they have to haul when the temp is in the 40's. a few are exempt milk trucks oil trucks school buses and best of all plow and sand trucks we have no weight laws 0 none
The neighbors are having septic problems and the contractor was there today trying to dig a new line for the leach field across the driveway, there was about 30" of frost where he actually got through it and then his machine broke. Our truck road has about 3" of ice on it and dirt where it wasn't driven on. Trucks have been able to make it with chains on but now need one on the front also, no snowbanks to help turn.
Got up in hopes of freezing temps. 33f and light drizzle. I think even my dog is sick of this weather!
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there is always someone that thinks they have to haul when the temp is in the 40's. a few are exempt milk trucks oil trucks school buses and best of all plow and sand trucks we have no weight laws 0 none
the road boss in my town wont say anything if you hall on a road that is a little sloppy but have to use good judgment and you have to live in the town no out siders ;D tends to get some people a little upset :o
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I thought I give it a shot today.. finishing salvaging 2 big oaks had some wood left in them.. I be able to get something out them.. spalted.. maybe.. sometimes all you get is questionable firewood for all your hard work.
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This tree had a lot of burrs.. people like burrs in live edge slabs.. I'll cut this piece to pull out too.
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It got muddy quick.. pulled 4 times. This was def. a salvage effort.. sometimes you don't know until you cut into it. I'll come back and take all firewood size stuff later. The tree in the background had a hole in the side 25 feet up.. big enough to catch water.. when I cut the butt it was solid.. I got a 12 foot butt log... the rest was rotten.. it had come down from the Sandy storm.
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I'll load these up and try not to get stuck.
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Made it to the field road.. I had a few more I could have loaded on.. but I really didn't want to test the fates today. I made chilly last night.. and I was getting hungry.
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A muddy day.. but no equipment problems.. and I didn't get stuck. My brother took this picture of me the other day.. he came over to cut firewood(for himself).. can't seem to get him to come logging w/ me.
A foot of new snow today.. single digit lows for the rest of the week. Tomorrow.. gusts to 40mph.. the road will probably fill in w/ snow drift over night.. I've seen 12ft plus.. they had to bring in the earth movers then.. road stayed closed for over a week.
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It's -1 as I am typing, fuel from our supplier has been full of water and the skidder freezes up at night, have to thaw out with a torpedo heater and drain lines filters lift pump etc...... Then I get home last night and I am goin to feed the cows and hosses, start up the the hill on the farm tractor with a roll of hay and the *DanG thing chokes out (fuel froze up in it while it was running!!!) I was one mad *(#*&$(^@@&^#!!! I just can't get clean fuel around here no matter what I do. I filter it at the transfer tank, I put treatment in every tank full, change out fuel filters on a regular basis......I am pulling my hair out.
My Valtra 900 tractor has a water seperator in the fuel system which is a pre-filter system and I can't beleive the water it can pick up. I drain it prior to the cold weather as it settles in the bottom of a glass like bowl. This tractor is from Finland and they must have to deal with cold temps constantly. I will take a pic when I am working today.
David l
You guys up north can have this cold! -4 windy again I'm not even going to try today. We're just not set up for this. And don't want to be. LOL
Got the trailer stuck today.. had to unload the logs and set the trailer up on the field road.. and reload.. I hate having to do stuff twice. Even w/ single digit temps this week.. the ground under the snow was unfrozen.
Today was suppose to get up to 20.. so I headed out and found a nice oak to work on today.. Sandy blown.. main log was off the ground. Now the dirt is frozen on the log.. I would normally brush off all that I could.
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I finally made it back to the house.. my feet had gotten wet.. so they were getting cold. I'll unload it tomorrow.
Was wearing a bandana over my face to help with the cold. I started to notice blurred vision in my left eye. Ice had formed on my eyelashes from my breath being deflected from the bandana. I love the cold but the machines get a little cranky when starting :)