What are you cutting 2025?

[Resonator]

All too often driving the machine into the woods empty it gets through fine. Coming back out fully loaded with logs...

[Magicman]

Like this:  STUCK LINK. 

[ehp]

Barge, nothing wrong with a D6 , we have had lots of them and D7's, they have built a lot of roads up north in the real rocky ground , they got enough power to get the job done but not so much to tear itself a part . 

Congra. on the baby girl , you keep this up your going to have a baseball and football team here shortly 

[BargeMonkey]

Ed, this makes 6x kids, I've gotta find a new hobby. I think I gave good money for that 6, but I have seen it work. Found a 10k 6C in central NY, same machine decent undercarriage with 1x bad final, I'm haggling with the guy right now, another project I'm not in a rush for, I've got a couple ponds to do. 3306PC engine in that configuration isn't as common as it used to be, I'm hunting for a complete sister with a woods package.


 He was only the 2nd owner, it was straight minus the few issues. Drag her on the trailer I get home.
I committed to cut wood for Prentice again, have to swap time and cut that job Sept / Oct, no good way up in there to banjo land, can't get a big trailer, did some horse trading and now I own a short Pitts 6 bunk also 🤦, not in a rush now to go thru my 3 axle BWS trailer this year.

 I'm sure everyone has seen the fiasco in NY last night with the tall ship, my regular boat was the 2nd one there and grabbed them, I'm up in Groton / Norfolk doing submarine activities till mid June.

[BargeMonkey]

I'm not window shopping, paperworks been done for 60+ days the guy who has it is a shrewed iron peddler, go Tuesday / Wednesday when we hit Providence, been waiting him out to see if he would come down. It's not a Tigercat but it's half the money and I don't need a 55Ton dropside to move it.


 It's the gender confused cross over model, says it's a Jack but it's really a Deere, 8.1 deere engine.

[Nebraska]

Ok why did a tall masted ship try to go under a bridge shorter than its masts??

Maybe one of you Eastern side guys can fine some tall white pine to replace them...

Just to bring this back to actual logging.  

[BargeMonkey]

 Let's just say the Mexican 3rd world navy preventive maintenance program isn't up to par ? It jammed hard astern, wasn't supposed to go under the bridge, was headed out to Bayridge. 

[thecfarm]

I have nice EWP and rocks too. 

[Old Greenhorn]

Yes, as Barge said and from what I can out together from the poor non-technical reporting, the ship was in reverse headed North and they could not shift the engines to forward. They were trying to head south and get out to sea. The bridge has 135' of clearance at it's center, the ship masts are 154' and it struck a bit from the center. 2 crew killed and about 19 injured. I guess there were a bunch of crew up in the rigging at the time of impact getting ready to drop sail. there were 277 souls on board.
 That's going to take a while to re-fit.
 Hopefully there will be an NTSB or CG investigation with an actual technical report, but they can take a long time. Not sure how much time the whole incident took, but it seems like there was time to have an effective reaction. 

[ehp]

Barge we had winches on every dozer  cause your going to get stuck up where I use to live and hopefully there was a tree or couple trees strong enough you could pull your self out, D6 or D7 is all you need , we had D8 and D9 but honestly just to big and unless moving a hill of dirt just not as good, lot harder to float around. Your going to be rough for abit logging but it will come back around for you guys south of the border , just hope your sawmills can last till the demand is back up for product. Just use your head on top of your shoulders to do your thinking , not the other one 

[BargeMonkey]