A day cutting wood

[4x4American]

I used to dead stack at 42" and then one day I switched to 4' so that I could fit more in a pack.  Ties are 45" though

[YellowHammer]

It will lift a lot of lumber. BUT, the higher you go the more [rock] you have. I picked up 5 pallets a lumber and all most dumped them over. Had to set it down and take off the top 2.

There's an OH&S guideline here that says stack height shouldn't be more then 4 times it's width. Seems about right - we take a lot of care to keep them flat and even then the 4th one up is verging on wobbly.

I took this photo at a local mill.  As you say, 4 stacks high. 

[SlowJoeCrow]

Growin pains Peter.  I'm sure in a week you will be toolin around in that thing, gently delivering fresh worms to baby birds 4 stories up.
Nice machine.

[Peter Drouin]

 

 
Didn't take long, did it.  :D :D ;)

[4x4American]

Butterfingers!    lol lol lol

[Bruno of NH]

Lol

[Bandmill Bandit]

Thou shalt not covet! Thou shalt NOT covet!

[TimGA]

     Nothing fun about that!!

[Peter Drouin]

Just tip back too far. :D
Lumber on sticking is as slippery as Ice. The dryer the pine the easier it slides.

[DPatton]

  going to have to dump a few to figure out that machine. I know you are going to love it though. Cat makes a really nice telehandler.
They have a low head height and a tight turning radius. I see you even got the outriggers. You'll be amazed how far you can reach with the outriggers down. The only thing I really never liked about them was their rolling toggle controller for the fork tilt. Having spent a lot of time on Lull and JLG brand RTF's the Cat fork tilt is too quick for me. But once you get the hang of it, no problem. Congratulations on a very nice machine Peter.

[YellowHammer]

Could have been worse.  Tilt back and you'll lose the pile above the fork backrest.  Tilt too far forward and the entire pack his the ground.  Not that it's ever happened to me....nope, never. 

[Darrel]

If only that were the worst spill I'd ever had! 

Spilling wood is fun if I'm not the one doing it. (Just kidding)

[Peter Drouin]

DPatton, The rolling toggle is fast. Just touch it little for tilt front and back / left and right.
I think 4x4 has the same thing his Cat backhoe.
I looked at JLG then the Cat came along. I kept after Milton Cat for that size telehandler to let me know when someone traded one in. A carpenter traded that one for a new one.
It's all original with less than 4000 hours on it.




Sounds like you know all about it YellowHammer.  :D :D :D :D :D




The other thing Darrel is I can't see the far side of the lumber pack. I could with John, But the Cat it's out there.  :D


Also need to fill the pallet all the way across with lumber. With John it was one pallet at a time not 3. And be sure the sticking are 4', Not 4' 2".
Sometimes a row of stickings will catch the lumber pack in the back and lift ½ of it up too.
The John Deere would behave better that that.  ;D

[WDH]

You get to do some RE-WORK  :D.  Isn't that fun?  ;D

[SlowJoeCrow]

You meant to do that...right?? :D

[Darrel]

My worst spill wasn't lumber. It was a load of 2 1/15" OD X 9' oil field pipe that I had just welded spades onto (like T post spades). Had the load on a wheel loader and was going down hill.  The load started to slide off toward me so I tilted it forward and in my haste, a bit too much forward. That load of pipes was spread out for 100' down the hill and I had an audience of about 40 farm workers cheering me on!  8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Those pipes weighed about 80 lbs. each.  :-[

[ScottAR]

I worked at a plastic warehouse for a few months. I came from working at a big box and thought I could run a lift pretty well till I found out they were moving gaylords 4 high.  I spilled a few of those till I got the hang of it.  Nothing like picking 10,000 plastic dinner bowls out of the floor. 

That's a sazzy looking machine Mr. Drouin...

[longtime lurker]

We do our batten in packs 10 boards wide. Long boards 16-20'alternate with a double that adds up to 22' (say a 6' and a 14' for example). Row of sticks every 5th row, 20 rows to the pack. Average pack - approx 3800 linear feet or so.

Some idiot tries to pick up 3 and walk them down the yard. Old Bessie the LD8R is light in the back end but. .. "she be right mate".

One rock. Just one little rock. >:(

[Peter Drouin]

At least lumber won't roll away Darrel.  :D :D :D

That's a lot of bowls ScottAR 



I was sharpening some blades last night and was thinking about Customsawyer and all the blades he sharpens. Looking at my small pile and thinking that man when he's not cutting he must be sharpening blades.
I don't know how he does it.
Not to mention the lumber he moves in a year.  Goes to show what a 40' LT70 can do.  Most impressive.







iongtime lurker, Sometimes that's all it takes.  :D

[YellowHammer]

Sounds like you know all about it YellowHammer.  :D :D :D :D :D

We've spilled a few, unfortunately the bigger the pack the the bigger the mess.  Long sweeping loaded turns are bad, get a little momentum in a turn, get going a little too fast, watch the pack slide sideways and then hit the brakes to try to stop it.  The pack shifts like it's in ice, comes off the stickers and "thar she blows!."  There goes an hour.....

I have a nice big oak tree with a vertical side on my way to the air drying pad.  Whenever a pack get out of square, I'll drive up to it and push against it to rearrange and resettle the the stack.

Of course, a dumped pack never gets forgotten as the customer will usually ask why some of the boards have dirt on them.   ;D

[Peter Drouin]

The cat has a computer in it that runs the trans/ hydro, and things.
It has to be calibrated from time to time from normal wear.
The man sat in the cat with his laptop hooked up to the net, 15 mins done. More like a reboot, I guess.


 



Then a del.


  

  

 
Some nice W Pine.
Gotta go scale,, :D :D

[4x4American]

Looks good Pete.  I reckon now with the Cat you've got the capability to unload log trucks that dont have loaders eh

[ScottAR]

I didn't count em but there was a lot of bowls....   :D  Broom and a grain scoop and some time.

The rule became "go as fast as you want, you just can't stop or turn fast." 

[Peter Drouin]

Looks good Pete.  I reckon now with the Cat you've got the capability to unload log trucks that dont have loaders eh

No time to unload trucks here. :D :D :D
If they want to sell me logs, they better unload themselves.  ;D

[Peter Drouin]

Moving logs now, is no work and ½ the time to put away.


 
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