Winter logging in the Adirondacks

adirondack harvester · April 07, 2006, 08:51:12 PM

Here are some pics of the first load of white pine I harvested this winter in Northern NY.

thecfarm · April 07, 2006, 08:59:21 PM

Welcome to the forum.What are you using to twitch the logs out with?Is this your land,acres?Plan on cutting more of differant kind?Do you have a sawmill?

nyforester · April 07, 2006, 11:05:38 PM

Welcome Bradstr
Nice White Pine.
I also work in the ADK's.
What counties do you work in most ?
I am in the Lake George/Warrensburg region.

Jeff · April 07, 2006, 11:23:32 PM

Welcome and I gotta say nice job on the pics in your very first post! I'd love to have a few of those to saw out right now.

jon12345 · April 09, 2006, 12:17:48 PM

Nice Logs, where in the adk's are ya? I live just outside the blue line in Herk. County.

adirondack harvester · April 09, 2006, 01:42:49 PM

This is a great board and I'm glad to be part of it. I'm actually just a weekend warrior in the essex county area. By the way that isn't my truck in my first post I have a local hauler do all my hauling. I have been out of the woods for over 10 years and decided to get back into it a little this winter and found out just how much I missed it. The land is my uncle's and it's about 260 acres. There is certainly a mixture of species and actually I'm about to take out a small load of hard maple here in the next few weeks ( I mean weekends) since mills arent buying any pine now. I posted a couple more pics of the jobs.

Here's my workhorse for getting the wood out. JD 5300 with Farmi 501 winch.

Second landing used.

One of the last loads taken.

jon12345 · April 09, 2006, 11:04:00 PM

How much snow ya got left up there? Almost none here. ~~Tourist~~ Trout Season will be in full swing pretty soon. :D

Phorester · April 10, 2006, 07:13:15 PM

What's that white stuff on the logs and ground? ;D

adirondack harvester · April 12, 2006, 04:47:40 PM

No, the snow is all gone and most of the frost is out of the ground now. I need to get some hard maple out soon so I don't need a mud hole on my hands.

Here is a few more pics of this winter's activities.

Here's the best load of logs I cut. Many 30" +

Before I started:

Bringing them out:

A couple more 30" +

jon12345 · April 12, 2006, 05:40:03 PM

looks good, where ya haul them to, wards?

adirondack harvester · April 17, 2006, 03:24:58 PM

Yes, the majority was Wards. I also brought some smaller stuff to some local guys. I'm looking for some markets for hardwood. Any suggestions?

jon12345 · April 19, 2006, 10:30:08 AM

How far are you lookin to ship? I'm not too familiar with the area I just visited wards on a college field trip. bailies (boonville) is quite a haul especially with fuel prices now.

Woodhog · April 19, 2006, 05:43:37 PM

Nice looking Pine... It looks like the trucker has 3 tier on the rig, how much can he haul in one load with that outfit that picked up your pine????
They look so nice on the landing and then when they load em and leave you get that feeling... well here I go again!!!!!

adirondack harvester · April 19, 2006, 08:43:36 PM

Yeah that is exactly the feeling I get. All that hard work to disappear in 30 minutes-- it doesn't seem right. Anyway, he averages about 8500 bf per load. One time he actually got 9400 bf! What a load.

Here's a pic of the first load they took out for me.