What are you cutting 2024? - pics welcome

[Nealm66]

That's rare to find a cedar like that without a hole or some big ol bark seems.

Especially inland. I've cut some nice stuff over belfair and silverdale area by the water but rarely anything inland. Looked at a logging/tree job in graham the other day with a couple probably 6' and fairly tall rotten cedars leaning over their house with barely any room to fall and not enough room to get behind the lean to pull very good. I slept on it and declined the next day. I'm getting too old for that stuff

[SwampDonkey]

Coastal red cedar in northern British Columbia.



Upland eastern white cedar in central New Brunswick growing with red maple, white ash, yellow birch, red spruce.



That little stuff is mostly red maple regen.

[BargeMonkey]

Ordered ProPac parts, should have wrapped this job up, this wasn't alot, other side is 70+ acres.


I hope whatever immigrant family my tax dollars are supporting til Jan 21st 2025 are happy, warm, enjoying TV, these 0430 till passed dark days are getting old.

Of course the time I take a picture its poverty sticks,

[BargeMonkey]

Told the truck driver that the words "no", "no more" and "stop" aren't good enough and we need to pick a better safe word 😆 when it comes to how much wood I can load on, I bet I can fit 50 ton on that trailer.

 

[Riwaka]

A full-size Cat 525C? Skidder was recently shown in a Californian? fairground with the waymo type lidars etc for 'distant operator' machine operation. The video poster said the operator was over 100 miles away from the machine.(Caterpillar made remote control logging equipment previously for removing trees near military training uxo areas.)The Californian machine looked like it would easy to back over the tongs & ruin tires, damage the lidar. The RC skidder could be okay for 2 staging under a Swing Yarder with a restricted landing, pulling logs down a track to a better log processing site. (I wonder how many of those 'migrant families' would really like to get outdoors again and wield a Stihl 880 or Husky 3120 like they did back in the jungle?)       

[Nebraska]

Saturday morning after I went in to the office for a bit I decided to get the last load of the "free" Red Cedar logs.  I was following my trucker with the load of logs
(my wife) pulling the trailer with the tractor.  Saw white smoke coming off of the rear of the tire and of course we are in a hole where cell signal is poor so I have to hope she sees it, or it holds together long enough for me to get up hill enough to call her. I was about 200 yards behind.
Parked it in a harvested soybean field on top of the hill and drove the 15 miles or so home to get the jack and the spare. I had part of the load  off of the trailer when I took the picture figured I should show proof.  Sometimes free doesn't equal cheap. Kinda like dogs and horses.

The load shifted just a little and a nubby branch broke a spot weld and bent the fender liner in and rubbed the tire sidewall.

Final scorewas three and 3/4 loads of cedar.

For
1 thermostat and radiator tank,  one fender liner repair, and one trailer tire.
Plus an extra half a day dealing with this project.

[mudfarmer]

I hope whatever immigrant family my tax dollars are supporting til Jan 21st 2025 are happy, warm, enjoying TV, these 0430 till passed dark days are getting old.

Just shipped a load too, heard the immigrant my tax $$ is going to is Elon


Me today

[Resonator]

Had a tree service come in this week to cut a few trees around one of the old cemeteries my local church owns. A young guy that could climb like a red squirrel cut the top branches off, and set the pull rope in this particular ash.


Also had a basswood tree that was definitely a challenge, and why the tree service was called in. It had 2 stems grown together, with one trunk snapped and hung up high overhead. And just to make it more fun, at least half the trunk was rot. He cut the unbroken stem separate, then had a tracked machine pull as he cut the main trunk. Everything came out cleanly and landed in a neighboring field.
I helped with cutting them after they were felled, and got a few good saw logs and some firewood out of the job.

[SwampDonkey]

I had a balsam today that grew with two tops. The wind over the years was causing a split to appear. The split filled with resin, great for a wood fire. I cut it to fall between two trees, but the crown was wide enough that one top hit one of the two other fir. It broke the split in the collision and both tops were on the ground. 

[BargeMonkey]

I lack 3 days and have this one wrapped up. My boats coming back from Maine, have to go relax and earn a paycheck. 

That's snow up there, last 2 days it's been snowing on and off here, got the woodstove going. 

 My log buyers outlook on the log market isn't good, not so much pricing but even being able to get enough, I was the only one today to ship wood. He said a few of his customers up north have packed it in. Get off the mountain into the snake pit with the creeper clowns, 4400ft on that one.  

 

[mudfarmer]

Nice! Hard frost here and snow at higher elevations too. I guess I need to pay better bribes?   4500 in the pile and got left with 500

Have fun on the boat

[BargeMonkey]

It's about 1 mile in of town road, then I'm 1mile in down the private road. No good place to stack wood under the wires, met the caretaker and he seemed cool, dropped the wood in the town turn around, left him a note, brought wood out and did a 2nd one, hadn't heard back from him ? Yeah... he's been dead in the house since Thursday night... 🤦I feel bad.
Find a hole and stack it full, gotta finish cleaning the yard out. Not CTL level production but take what I can get for a couple days alone.

Anyone who thinks NY is all blacktop 🤦, spend enough time out down here you look at your cousin differently, that Delaware / Greene / Sullivan county corner is like a trip back in time.

[Old Greenhorn]

You were cutting in sundown? Like In Denning? That's more my neck of the woods than yours. Geez I had to deliver in Big Indian today, I could have hopped over a few mountains on the way back and said 'Hi'. I haven't been up that road in about a year, but I have never known it to be a good one crossing from Ulster into Sullivan, it has lots of pieces missing.

[BargeMonkey]

Went down and hung that winch on for a guy on Friday Tom. Again I just laugh because people think NY is blacktop, NOTHING out there. I didn't see 4 cars all afternoon. I thought about saying something, I flew down, hung the winch and flew back, down thru Lexington notch, went back Lanesville way. 

[aigheadish]

Bummer about the caretaker.

You guys make some really nice logs!

[ehp]

Barge, nothing wrong with that oak, I hope your getting a good dollar for it , that size is about as small as I want to see cause for timber logs the bigger size pays alot more per ft, you keep it up your going to have your own baseball team of kids 

[PJS]

Had a friend ask me to run his dozer for him cause he was in a pinch so I've been doing site prep, road/landing building the last couple months. Told the two young lads that have worked on the farm for the last 4 years that if they got permission from their dads they could learn to operate the big machines. They started on flat ground moving logs from one side of the yard to the other till they were blue in the face. They're very talented young men so it was worth giving them the opportunity to learn a skill that will last them a lifetime. They've been coming out after school and, for rookies, they're quite talented and work well together. Couple loads of white pine and spruce have gone out and a couple more spruce to go.

[David B]

PJS, that's really encouraging to read. 

[SwampDonkey]

Cut'n in predominately balsam fir ground, some aspen in it. Using both for firewood. I've got trails that circle around me. If I need one, I cut one out. ;)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCWQSCAqBKI

[BargeMonkey]

[BargeMonkey]

Take a bad day of boating repairs over an easy day of logging repairs any day. Got the surprise to pack and go tow sub parts tonight. 🤦




The original boat that had this name was lost off NC in 1969, killed the entire 6 man crew. They didn't find the boat for 3-4yrs. They built 3 basically identical class boats after and I've worked on all 3 now about 20yrs apart. All 3 have either burned, sunk or blown up, this one sat on the bottom for 6wks WAY off the coast of Florida running from a hurricane in the late 90s. 

Bunch of maintenance when I get home, the panic of "deer season" is coming. Ordered a blank skidsteer plate, I need a combo box, that will hold 4-6 pails of oil, tools, 100+gal of fuel, build it similar to my other carrier so I can still hang it off skidder blade. 15+ beers and going to tractor supply never makes for good life choices 😆



Anyone on here using hydraulic skidsteer forks ? Are they as nice as they look ? I've gotta order a set of 5500lb forks, is it worth it ?

[mudfarmer]

 gotta love it 

Log prices are up, diesel is down and it's warm at night we are in fancy beer territory the past few. Don't let me go to TSC....

[cutterboy]

SD, Nice video..thanks. I like your little buggy, it looks handy. I could use something like that.

[customsawyer]

I have been through several sets of skidsteer forks. Get the ones that exceed the lift capacity of your skidsteer. It's  not to hard to bend the tips of the lighter weight ones like you mentioned. I bent every set I have owned. They aren't to hard to straiten when you have other equipment to push them back. Or a press. I have a 10000 LBS set on my JD now that has a little bend towards the tip of the right fork.

[g_man]

Nice clear fir even at the butt SD. I'm jealous. Like the video too.

gg