What are you cutting 2024? - pics welcome

[WhitePineJunky]

Picked up a C6D tree farmer putting some paint on also fluids changed and hydraulic cylinder rebuild 

[WhitePineJunky]

I must say the tree farmers are not designed well for getting in and out of 

[barbender]

Access is a real issue for a hand cutter.

[BargeMonkey]

Move stump piles, cleaning off for food plots. 

Finish grade and go. Now that's a road after logging. Landowner wishes I had hit it harder now. Have 70+ acres across the road to come clap next year, bunch of other road work. 

Gonna scare the deer...... 

Both loaders fired right up, take the barko up this weekend and start a job. 

[olcowhand]

More Red Pine.....

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Nice pile of logs cutter.  I would have trimmed the flared end on that double heart log.  Make it easier to turn it on the mill.  But I bet you were going to do that to before you loaded it.

Barge I swear sometimes the cleanup and equipment moving cost so much and takes so  much time you wonder why you ever started.

[BargeMonkey]

I'm going to dream about loading stumps tonight. Finish up this other job tomorrow, see how bad it's raining and hopefully cut wood.

Till dark, repeat tomorrow. Had 2x engineers quit at work, got the call today if I can come back Sunday 🤦😆

[BargeMonkey]

Barge I swear sometimes the cleanup and equipment moving cost so much and takes so  much time you wonder why you ever started.

 It's not worth it. These private jobs the extras will eat you alive. I'm at the point in life if I can't make money on a job the iron can sit in the yard, watch someone else starve to death hustling. 

[mudfarmer]

Out of the frying pan and into the fire eh Barge? Walking like you are still on a boat across the landing? 

Sounds like two jobs, loader dozer skidder and dump at one, excavator and dump at the other, that should keep you busy and the fuel man happy!  

Grease it and let it sit, have a cold one and make money doing what pay$, watch the boys race to the bottom.

[BargeMonkey]

[BargeMonkey]

 99% manicured. There's 8 cabins going in up here, bridge, all about the rich people from NYC. From wood to a couple miles of road I don't think it came out to badly. 

[Nebraska]

Looks very good from here. 

[thecfarm]

The road looks good.
Looks like you have some nice ground to work with. meaning not rocks every 10 feet.      

[BargeMonkey]

Horrible ground. Can't find enough dirt to hide the rocks. This is UP there, go 50ft off this trail and it's nothing but down, over looking RT30 coming out of Blenhiem. Going to get hit with the drag rake, planted in seed, should hold up. There is a rock point that sticks a fair ways out, talking do a clearing here for a large cabin. 

[doc henderson]

reminds me of Thatcher park near Albany.  we did a retreat/end of year party for peds there each spring.  all rock pushed up by glaciers, I guess.  

[SwampDonkey]

Lots of places up here to, blessed with boulders. They still cut the wood off them boulder fields.  Whatever seed falls in trails afterward, is all natural.  Sometimes mostly raspberries and pin cherry.

[WhitePineJunky]

reminds me of Thatcher park near Albany.  we did a retreat/end of year party for peds there each spring.  all rock pushed up by glaciers, I guess.  

Pushed and dropped and luckily for the settlers they never had to dig up rocks to split the stones for foundation rock etc 
they could simply walk into the woods and find random stones are all over 

I have a unique stone that the glaciers dropped on my land, hauled it over from the bay of fundy when I first laid eyes on it I wasn't sure if it was a meteorite or something 

[Nebraska]

Well that's a pretty spot, I could probably be happy with a cabin there. 

[mudfarmer]

Yes that looks very nice!

[aigheadish]

So, you guys are smart...

I have honey locust that I'd like to buck up into probably 8-12 inch lengths, then rip in half with a chainsaw, so I have 2 half circles of log 8-12" long. 

Is there an easy to make jig that makes this process easier and less in the dirt? My initial thought, and I don't think I can describe it well in words, was a V shaped thing (really 2 of them I guess) at the top of a sawhorse, so I'd lay the logs in, there'd be a gap below so my saw doesn't cut the jig in half, and slice away. It'd have 4 feet, like a sawhorse, but those legs would extend up past the top of a normal sawhorse? 

[teakwood]

Just make sure you put the chainsaw dogs (felling spikes) against the log and then cut. noodeling, because the chips will come out real long. sometimes they clog the bar cover so go slow. Be carefull, the smaller the piece of log the more dangerous it is to cut or rip it with a chainsaw

[aigheadish]

Good call, I probably wouldn't have thought of that. I do have a ripping chain to put on...

[doc henderson]

I would consider ripping it in half, at least most of the way.  what is the project?  if they need to be identical halves, you could then bind the halves together before you buck them to length.  the longer log is easier to stabilize.  what it the log diameter?  i have supported big logs on for smaller logs at the 4 corners and get the big log 6 inches off the dirt.  A spotter watches and give hand signals so I stay out of the dirt.  I try to use gravity when I can so you could stand the log up, and let the saw cut with gravity.  What the heck are you making?

[doc henderson]

drying thin wood for coaster stock. - Page 4 (forestryforum.com)

[David B]

Howdy. Been working on this place in the mountains in the summer when it's too hot down here in the desert. Guy has lost 22 oaks...big and old.


https://youtu.be/qarCha6yGs0