Spring weight resrictions

[2308500]

Restrictions start sunny Feb 29 at midnight in nova Scotia  with virtually no frost in the ground.  Been a different trucking season this year

[thecfarm]

We call it posting the road here. Towns did it a couple weeks ago. We had a warm spell and then it froze back up again. Not suppose go below freezing tonight,meaning no trucking. Been above freezing since late morning.

[gump]

Restrictions start sunny Feb 29 at midnight in nova Scotia  with virtually no frost in the ground.  Been a different trucking season this year

Yea crazy eh? A strong month earlier than normal! Calling for a mild week again!

[grassfed]

It is raining some here and just a bit above freezing but the recent freeze thaws that we have had (rain then -27F last week) seem to have driven the frost deeper. Next week it will get as high as 37 but it is very cold at night -4F on Wednesday. They generally post our roads on March 15th and if it gets cold at night the road commissioner might grant a waiver for early morning runs. Our hardwood pulp dropped to $37 a ton and then to $30 a ton last week so I am now cutting spruce fir sawlogs for $315mbf. I need to make more money to make it through mud season. :-[

[justincase]

Grassfed  Just curious if those hardwood prices are delivered price to mill or your price after trucking?

[grassfed]

Price for HW pulp is delivered to mill. Trucking is $13 per ton. I used to truck my own but my truck needs a new motor. My truck hauls 8 tons and my trucker can haul 30 tons so if the price is close to $40 a ton I hire trucking but right now I will not cut HW pulp unless I can truck it myself because it is not worth my time at $17 a ton net (this is for hand cutting my own wood)

[justincase]

I am in the same boat as you. Prices are all over the board according to location and stumpage seems to be a big variable as well. We are holding around 40 a ton delivered but with trucking and stumpage rates not coming down profit is certainly different from previous years.

[sawguy21]

Restrictions are on here too but I really don't understand why, the roads never froze. We have had maybe a half dozen nights below freezing all winter, really bizarre.

[Hackermatack]

Towns around here are in charge of posting their own roads. Most towns in my area have stopped posting, the reasoning being that it only stops the loggers because the law says fuel trucks, grain trucks, milk trucks are exempt. Our town road foreman visits all of the logging jobs and warns them not to abuse the privilege and only go when the temperature is below freezing or on solid roads or else. Works most of the time only one time in recent memory that he posted a road as punishment and they could not even move their equipment until he took the signs down.

[grassfed]

I'm in the Northeast Kingdom too (Brownington/Charleston town line) They post the roads here but you can call the road commissioner and usually get permission to make an early morning run if the night was cold. When the road I live on is bad you need a good 4wd and some luck to get through. I'm hoping we have a quick mud season since we did not get much snow this year.

[Hackermatack]

Ha-Ha never seen a town with as many back roads a Brownington. Been there a few times and was lost most of the time good thing we found the Evansville trading post for some gas, food, and drink or might still be there.