What are you cutting 2025?

[SwampDonkey]

I have lots of fir and popple to cut, but it's non profit. 

[David B]

I have lots of fir and popple to cut, but it's non profit. 

Don't need to get paid on vacation. 

I think that's gonna be my niche. Cutting what's not worth getting a logger to cut. Been working on a Caldor Fire burn scar up north. 

https://youtu.be/NaEoHLjMKXo?si=Q1bcEFM6nsyMZQvc

[LeftFinger]

Elm and more Elm  about 10 straight pcs out of 40 . I'll be an expert in bananas by the time this lot is done.

[g_man]

^^^^ You are looking to turn that elm into lumber ?

My only experience with it was trying to make firewood back in the hammer and wedge days. Never saw so much water squirt out of a block. Old timer I knew said it was good for barn floors. Tough enough to stand up against the hooves.

gg

[SwampDonkey]

Same. Floors under horses. They like to tread a lot. I never saw an elm board that laid flat when it was dry. I wonder how it would behave quarter sawn?

[LeftFinger]

I dried some last year and it stayed flat . This will be 80% 5/4 and some heavy slabs out of the widest. Keep in mind that 100 yr old Prairie trees are on the small side  due to never enough rain. If we are lucky we get about 12" a year . Never when we want it of course. We don't get a lot of choice for hardwood 
Siberian elm , some American Elm , Box Elder , Birch if your far enough north , and whatever species of Poplar/Cottonwood grows in the Coulees

[SwampDonkey]

Some I had sawed was from old growth American elm. Was 28" on the small end, 8'6" but log. It all warped. Even when I used other parts of the tree for bowl turning, it wanted to move a lot. :D

[cutterboy]

and whatever species of Poplar/Cottonwood grows in the Coulees

"Coulees" That is a new one for me. Is that wet land by a river or stream?

[LeftFinger]

Coulee is a deep ravine

[SwampDonkey]

@cutterboy You've heard of the Grand Coulee dam.    I believe it to be balsam poplar in your coulees. We have it here. The old growth ones I see in white cedar forest get an orangey bark and deep furrows. I'm cutting firewood near a narrow seepage area that used to be cedar ground and I have some of them balsam poplar along the edge. Trembling aspen away from the seepage on drier ground. I'm in a plantation of black spruce, but I leave hardwoods and cut most of the aspen unless I see a nice large tooth aspen. Some of the spruce I make rails, but cut some firewood sticks off the buds as I like the rails smaller diameter than 5" on the but. I have thousands of them, they come in handy.

[thecfarm]

I thought at first The Shark was a tool. 

[BargeMonkey]

Cat controls 🤦.... swap hoses and teeth yesterday. 


Gone all winter, the maintenance is the killer, go thru my dozer today, finish cleaning up some firewood, fuel and check Timbco out. About 40 like those left to hand cut, be done on this side.


6x days off, 6wks off the following time with baby Grace showing up.

 

[BargeMonkey]

 Maintenance, more maintenance. Trolley wheels on the stroker and loader maintenance tomorrow, I didn't rut this job up and don't plan to now.
 I was skeptical of the 1" Milwaukee, wow...