Finally back in the woods

[jwilly3879]

The truck road finally dried out enough to be able to haul. We have been able to get in in 4WD through the mud but no big trucks.

Last week we put in some gravel and a new culvert and today it was a dust bowl.

Here are some fotos of the first load this year. Battery went dead so no shots of the second but almost identical load. Just under 14mbf.



 



 



 



 

[treeslayer2003]

saw logs right?

[snowstorm]

nice looking pine

[jwilly3879]

Eastern White Pine headed 11 miles down the road. They get sawn and then the lumber goes to Canada. About 85% of the mills production heads north, the rest is sold locally.

A lot of the pine turns into pulp because of red rot, I wish the percentage of logs to pulp was better as there isn't really any money in the pulp. 14k on the logs and about 15 cord of pulp. In the better wood we would have had only 5 or 6 cords.

Since we are getting so much pulp we will be meeting with the LO to work out a better deal, as he said, "there is no point in working for little or nothing."

Taking the big scrubbers certainly creates some big openings.

[treeslayer2003]

lumber goes to canada?????? interesting turn of events.

[Ken]

Nice looking logs.  We have 2 different avenues to get rid of white pine pulp.  The delivered price is $29/tonne and the mills are far enough away that it just is not feasible.  Too bad as it adds up fast.

[jwilly3879]

We are getting $13 a ton on the landing which would be $28/cord. It's discouraging to cut a nice 16' log only to find it's no good, I've tried cutting them back but then I have a bunch of 2 and 4' blocks that no one wants. We do have a fellow that will pick some of them up for OWB fuel and that at least gets them off the job.

The local mill that takes our pine saws it and ships to Canada as rough sawn, they then dry it, process it into door and window parts and ship worldwide. Too bad we can't do that domestically.

[BargeMonkey]

 Nice looking pine. I just put 20mbft in my log yard to saw later, didnt pay enough to ship it. OWB takes most of my pine pulp. Our local log yard ships 80% + to Canada.