A day cutting wood

[Peter Drouin]

All 8' and 10' for your market, Nice, Me I have them 8' to 24' in the yard for my market. : :D

[paul case]

I bet that grapple on the JD is handy on them long ones. I have issues on some ten ft logs.

PC

[Peter Drouin]

It can be, But, It is heavy,  I have to lift less lbs with it. I'm looking at a 2001 Cat Telehandler good for 8000 lbs.
Then I can pile the logs 40' high.  :D :D   

[Peter Drouin]

Lumber going out most of the day like this today.


 

Paul, Do you get wrinkles too?


  

 
Frozen saw dust when it thaws out.  :D :D ;D ;)

[paul case]

It has happened but I wont tell you where I get them wrankles.

PC

[4x4American]

Peter I highly reccommend Cat, they have been awesome to deal with.  Very accomadating.  I even used Cat Financial for the backhoe because it was easy and their rate was good.  I didn't have to go anywhere either, the sales guy came out to my yard multiple times and we did all the paperwork on the back of my pickup truck lol.  And when I need parts he drives them out to me at no extra charge, because he lives nearby.  Plus they make top notch equipment. 

[Peter Drouin]

It has happened but I wont tell you where I get them wrankles.

PC

:D :D :D I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW Paul.  :D :D :D :D






Yes 4x4, Get the best and the heck with the rest, But, Deere is right there too.
The thing with Cat is you can get Cat parts forever.

[Peter Drouin]

I was told, Monday it's going up.


 

[4x4American]

Sawed some pine "logs" today that'd make the pine man jealous!

























Did I say logs?  I meant chopsticks..


Whoever can guess what they're going to be used for wins one (1) piece of sawdust from my sawmill. 


Get in line and be respectful now, hear?

[Bandmill Bandit]

fence rails or d-log siding?

[4x4American]

Negatory Bandit!

[tule peak timber]

well it is either wall treatment or fence rails....

[4x4American]

Nope.




I can feel the tension, everybody wants to win that piece of sawdust!

[Mooseherder]

It's a Federal program to help support lazy Beavers.  ;D

[Peter Drouin]

I am jealous, I'd get $10.00 for each one I cut. ;D

[Kbeitz]

Siding...?

[WDH]

A birdhouse for a pterodactyl. 

[Bruno of NH]

I know but I won't be the spoiler
The piece of sawdust is priceless

[4x4American]

I am jealous, I'd get $10.00 for each one I cut. ;D

Good grief, then you would have gotten $370.  I just did it hourly as it was customers logs and it took two hrs so I made half a million

[Peter Drouin]

Well 4x4 If you sold them, Would you not want at least $5.00 apiece for a ½ log.
Where else would a guy buy them? Or get them cut?
When I call to get my truck fixed,or call the gas or oil company, they want Big $$$$ What would a man get to come and fix the Cat backhoe you have. I bet at least $150.00 an hour.
I mean no disrespect to you, But I'm done working for Less than $100.00 an hour.

[4x4American]

Well he could get them at Petteys Lumber, 5 min away, Mead Lumber, 10min away, Northern Hardwoods, 20min away, or have one of the 20 little guys like me who have sawmills within a 15 mile radius of me do it.  I'm his neighbor though so I think thats why he chose me.



I got $150 to do it and we were both happy.  I'm still figuring out pricing stuff out, half the time I'm thinking I'm charging too much and then the other half I feel not enough.  I tell some people my hourly rate and they think I'm outta this world expensive.  And then other people don't even care.  To me my hourly rate is profitable and it's easy enough to count hours so that's what I did for this one.  Plus I enjoyed the challenge, and set a new record for myself of the smallest log ever sawed on my mill.


Are you saying you'd sell them for $10/each or saw the customers logs for $10/ea?

[paul case]

So they are half logs and I wIN  the prize?????

PC

[Gearbox]

I think they are logs that the bugs will eat . He better get to peeling before June .

[4x4American]

I think they are logs that the bugs will eat . He better get to peeling before June .

He and his wife said they were gonna go start peeling that night.  Mud season activities lol

[Peter Drouin]

10 to cut.