Cutting starts today

[Magicman]

Joan, to me that is a big operation.  About how many acres are you cutting/improving?

[SwampDonkey]

Just curious of what kind of Cedar you guys have back there?

Eastern (northern) white cedar, Thuja occidentalis



Old growth


Young Thicket

[Pclem]

Yes, we love red maple, birch, cherry, [most mixed hardwoods] for the packaged wood. This is for the summer camping season at campgrounds. It splits, dries, and packages better than oak. And I like the different fragrances for a campfire . We're selling an experience too ;D For homeowners fall/winter, we only sell oak. We used to be able to have the loggers sort processor "mini bolts", but the amish mills around here keep paying more for anything down to 7", so it's harder to get decent stuff. They would buy that pile of birch of yours cut 8'8" for $140-$150/cord

[thecfarm]

All my cedar,I can shove my arm up the butt log 4 feet.     Well I could if you took all the rotten wood out. I had my land cut off,about 5 years ago. I told them to bring out any cedar they had to cut that was in the way. Really no market here. I had a pile from the last time I had it cut. I had a hard time to get a 8 foot 4x4. The butt maybe almost 16 inches across,but by the time I get into good wood,it's down to 10 inches. But I got a lot of side lumber to build some tomatoes cages.

[SwampDonkey]

We've always had a market for cedar here, a lot of it is sold to Maine actually. I saw a big load of tree length Cedar down in Smyrna a couple weeks ago. They was all solid wood. I like the smell of cut cedar rolling bye. Doesn't Ward buy it?

I see a lot of 30" cedar left to fall down on cut land on public land, also big piles road side. Such waste of wood. Some day they will wish they didn't waste cedar wood. Those that hold the license to that land have all the control, if someone wanted it, they couldn't have it unless the license holder said so. And knowing how they operate, they would fear that 100 guys would bother them for it, when they'd rather deal with 2. :

[Ron Scott]

Good picture documentation of the timber harvest project.

[thecfarm]

I have a few cord of cedar at the woods yard,as I call it. Maybe 2, high 3 cords. I doubt I could get a cord from all that cedar,I mean good saw logs. First off,it's old,probably 100 years old,the first 4-8 feet has rot in it. Not really no lie about it being rotted hearted. Remember I said I had a hard time getting a 8 foot 4x4 out of them?
I will be sawing it up into cants and sawing alot of short lumber off from the short logs. This is what is called side lumber?
Ward,never heard of them. I know of one small sawmill that saws cedar,on the way to Charleston. I have no idea what town it's in. A good 2 hours from me.

[Skeans1]

A lot of guys will split posts or make shakes out of the western red cedar.

[sprucebunny]

Joan, to me that is a big operation.  About how many acres are you cutting/improving?

A big operation to me, too ! We are cutting on about 90 acres.
It will be a little more 'cause we are going to clear next year's road. The owner says one spring when they pulled out the bunches left last fall , there were sleepy bears under them 

[SwampDonkey]

Ward,never heard of them.

I mean down in Smyrna, too far for you for sure.

They make cedar log homes. Been around almost 100 years. First place in the US to make log homes actually. The office is in Houlton, but the manufacturing is down Smyrna way.

Ward Cedar Log Homes | Log Homes and Log Cabin kits

We've had a couple cedar mills retire here in the last year or so. Lindsay Lumber and Hainesville Lumber. There is a old guy near here that makes cedar posts. I go there for raspberry cane tie-up posts.

[sprucebunny]

Some of this is salvage. There were lots of standing dead fir with spruce mixed in and a couple acres of 12" dead fir on the ground with recent softwood blowdown on top of it.


The foreground of this pic was like that, too. The hardwood in the center had some larger not great trees.
I really didn't know that there were that many straightish trees out there !


Studs.


Sorting and chipping.
There was a deerstand on one of the poplar logs.

[teakwood]

you make awesome pics! Keep em coming

[lopet]

They wouldn't put a deer stand through the chipper ??

[sprucebunny]

Nah...too noisy 

[sprucebunny]

Someone took the deerstand over a weekend. Solved that problem.



 

 

[sprucebunny]

I got to ride to the biomass plant with one of the truck drivers. It's pretty hard to see the truck picker-upper from the road but I got a close up view !



 

 

 

 

 

 

[lopet]

Huuh, I wouldn't wanna be in that cab.  ;D  Almost straight up.

[GRANITEstateMP]

Huuh, I wouldn't wanna be in that cab.  ;D  Almost straight up.

Nope, couldn't pay me to go on that ride!

[Skeans1]

Don't forget your coffee either

[Peter Drouin]

I sent up 1200 + yards, the drivers go in a booth and dump there own trucks.

[sprucebunny]

It's not as vertical as it looks in the pic. Maybe 50 degrees.

For those who don't know, this is an old pulp mill site.

[teakwood]

How does the truck hold on that ramp? are they tied down? or just the brakes?

[g_man]

It's not as vertical as it looks in the pic. Maybe 50 degrees.

For those who don't know, this is an old pulp mill site.

Dump your own rig - that must be fun !! Is that Berlin ??  Haven't been thru there in years.
gg

[Peter Drouin]

Berlin burns 110  TT loads a day.

[sprucebunny]

How does the truck hold on that ramp? are they tied down? or just the brakes?

That was my first ? also.
There is a brace at the back of the ramp that contacts the back of the trailer. You can see just a little of it in the second picture. Gravity does the rest
Yes, Berlin.