Fire wood

[Peter Drouin]

Had A logger pull some firewood for me.



  

  

  

 
This is the first bunch, Ground is frozen all good.

Today.


  

  

  

 
Old bump trees.


  

 
Walls all over, Had to open it up.


  

  

  

  

 
I think there's a tri-axle truck load here. Maybe 7 cords.  But I don't want to start trouble.  ;D :D :D

With the rain my haul road is falling apart.


  

  

  

  

 
But, my bridge is holding up good.
Now if it would get cold now.

[thecfarm]

The firewood looks good.
It's gotta get cold again. May not see a week of below zero,but I would expect below freezing day and night coming ahead of us.

[dsgsr]

Yup, hope it gets cold soon. Looks like some saw-logs in that pile too.

David

[Decked]

Nice lookin' firewood, but, I'm sure my wife could burn that pile in a weekend  :D

[Frickman]

Back when I was sawing at least half that pile would have been made into coal mine blocking. We would have still gotten a lot of firewood from the slabs. That's a good thing to cull out bad trees. Use the wood how you see fit. It's yours.

[Peter Drouin]

I could saw it all up into pallat wood and evo matts too. Some good logs, mostly good fire wood. Ann and I should be all set for the next 2 years.
Unless I burn too much in the shop. ;D


  

[Mountain_d]

What are "evo matts" ?

[Peter Drouin]

Beams bolted together to make a mat. That's 8" tall 4' wide and 16' long.
Hardwood. Use in mud and soft spots. Put 3 together and you have a 12' wide bridge.
I use to cut them out of Hemlock too. But. 12" tall.



  

  

  

  

  

 

They make a good skidder bridge too.

[SwampDonkey]

Beams bolted together to make a mat. That's 8" tall 4' wide and 16' long.
Hardwood. Use in mud and soft spots. Put 3 together and you have a 12' wide bridge.
I use to cut them out of Hemlock too. But. 12" tall.

Seen them used on one of my jobs in a past life as skid bridges on narrow runs of water. Cabled together, lift, carry and drop where needed on the skid trail. No 3 foot deep tire ditches.  ;D

[kensfarm]

Peter thanks for sharing the photo's..  how much do they sell them for once put together? 

[Peter Drouin]

Not sure on the Hemlock, The hardwood is .62 to .65 a BF for the beams not put together. I had a guy in Keene, NH want me to sell him some. The logs are .42 to .45 a BF to buy. And he wants me to pay for trucking. No money in it with a Wood Mizer, Have to cut a lot faster than what a small band mill will do. 
I did ok with the Hemlock.
When a Market opens up be lumber or chips  All the commercial mills will jump on it. Then everybody on quotas.

If I had to do it again, I would have a circle mill with a top saw all run on a Genset. ;D
And I might. ;)

[Bruno of NH]

The big hardwood mill next to me cuts the mat logs out of beach and lots of them .
They load them and truck to there other mill 20 miles away.
They have a jig they put them in and the holes are drilled with a machine at once then all threaded together.
16 ft long by 8 ft wide

[Peter Drouin]

There was a guy in Maine on CL with a rig to make the holes. Had a LT70 and all kinds of stuff. for sale. I called Ross [WM of Maine ] and ask why. He said the guy could not find the help to do the work.

They cut any hard wood for mats.  All you need is a 16' log with a 10" top and straight.
I have never seen a 8' wide one.

[thecfarm]

This place in Maine was doing it.



 

I sold them some logs.
I have no idea what is going on now. When Central Maine Power,CMP was upgrading the high power lines,there was a big boom on these mats. The upgrade is all done in the areas that I see.
This was back in 2013.

[Bruno of NH]

I hear they are gearing up for the northern pass and some big gas line in the area

[Gearbox]

Pipe lines and power lines use lots of them here . Michels was having them trucked from as far as Florida. When they did a power line by us they laid them 2 deep for miles . still have broken ones laying in huge piles .

[Peter Drouin]

And with all that going on, I have a hard time getting W Oak saw logs. All going to the mat thing. :

[Ed_K]

 Michels was working in Greenfield,Ma. on a improvement to a high tension line, I stoped and asked about the used-broken mats and they said they repair them and send them to the next site  >:( . There's a place in Winchester, N.H. sawing and building mats.