Author Topic: couple pics... post what your currently cutting (Read 543217 times)

David-L · « **Reply #20 on:** January 29, 2015, 05:56:14 PM »

Still cutting Pine for one more week then off to a hardwood lot.

so il logger · « **Reply #21 on:** January 29, 2015, 06:01:10 PM »

Good looking Jack david L.

treeslayer2003 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 29, 2015, 06:08:07 PM »

Quote from: so il logger on January 28, 2015, 11:05:57 PM

These pics are from 09 I think mainly cottonwood but it was a good time

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a wheel loader! we still have one tho with two knucklebooms it don't get used much. AC 940

so il logger · « **Reply #23 on:** January 29, 2015, 06:14:36 PM »

I just wish I had boom and a bucksaw

We currently use a 910 cat wheel loader

David-L · « **Reply #24 on:** January 29, 2015, 06:15:19 PM »

Thanx, Berts Jack looks like a keeper also. Love the old iron. O Degrees when she fired over this a.m. Block heater for 1/2 hr and a quick snort from a warm can of either and she was talkin!!!

coxy · « **Reply #25 on:** January 29, 2015, 07:02:35 PM »

Quote from: Bert on January 29, 2015, 07:05:21 AM

(Image hidden from quote, click to view.) Heres one from yesterday. I took alot of snow down the back for a few sticks!

cant be leave how much snow you got there those small tires are the best in snow my buddy has a 240 jack with those small tires bald and wore out chains and will go where mine wont with brand new 18.4-34 and new chains so I just leave mine on main road and he bunches to me

CX3 · « **Reply #26 on:** January 29, 2015, 07:42:17 PM »

Quote from: Autocar on January 29, 2015, 07:07:45 AM

CX3 your a lucky man thats two fine looking boy's, I bet it is alot of fun having them tag along. Be safe guys !

Ya they get their looks from their momma

Thanks

okmulch · « **Reply #27 on:** January 29, 2015, 07:56:59 PM »

Eastern red cedar. 20 inch bar on saw.

Dave Shepard · « **Reply #28 on:** January 29, 2015, 08:34:26 PM »

There's a lot of nice timber in these photos! I don't know which I would saw first, that big white oak, or the big pine behind Maine logger88's 'Jack.

so il logger · « **Reply #29 on:** February 14, 2015, 12:18:55 AM »

Trying to keep this thread going, Ill have a pic or 2 of the junk I been cutting on here by saturday evening.

longtime lurker · « **Reply #30 on:** February 14, 2015, 01:10:31 AM »

The first job of this year .... once the rain eases off, which will be a month or three away will be another run into this block.
Just a couple of pics I grabbed while waiting for the dozer to walk down the road before Christmas. It'll give an idea as to the size of them, plus what the last guys left behind.

The last crew through here were cutting sleepers (ties to you lot) so they banged them off in ten foot lengths and left the rest behind. I'd say rot, or burn, but these things will be lying there for the next hundred years yet because it doesnt rot and mostly wont burn. Crashing off some of them stumps with a skidder or dozer in the long grass ain't much fun either.

Skidder Kev · « **Reply #31 on:** February 14, 2015, 08:50:44 AM »

WOW lurker that is some big timber. Can you salvage those old logs that are lying around?

so il logger · « **Reply #32 on:** February 14, 2015, 03:32:01 PM »

I been cutting junk pin oak for the past 2 days. Should finish up monday and moving to a good tract with some large sweet gum.

longtime lurker · « **Reply #33 on:** February 14, 2015, 04:03:49 PM »

Quote from: kculler on February 14, 2015, 08:50:44 AM

WOW lurker that is some big timber. Can you salvage those old logs that are lying around?

We can. The last harvest through there was around 30 years ago, but there's been 2 category 5 cyclones hit in the last 10 years, the second of which (2011) laid a lot of timber over in that place and also killed a lot of standing trees (too much salt in the air maybe?)

The dead standing stuff we'll take on a case by case basis, as with the down timber we bounce into. Sawlogs offcuts like the one pictured I'm not real interested in: none will be over ten foot long and there's limited demand here for stuff shorter then that, and it's going to be pretty much seasoned by now. Y'all hear us Aussies brag on how hard our timber is right? The dead standing stuff will be starting to tighten up after 4 years, but that thing and the others like him would be better cut with an angle grinder.

I'll try one or two to see because he'd make a good pile of 4 x 4's.... But I suspect the mill won't like them much.

chevytaHOE5674 · « **Reply #34 on:** February 14, 2015, 05:21:07 PM »

Currently cutting a private 80 acre tract of decent hardwood. The logger in me is happy because we are clear cutting decent sized sawlog hardwood timber ($$$$), the forester in me cringes because I know it may not be the best silvicutural decision. But its what the landowner wanted and if I didn't cut it then somebody else would have.

lumbertick · « **Reply #35 on:** February 14, 2015, 09:13:40 PM »

Those piles are a little rough looking... My forwarder guy would kill me if my piles looked like that

chevytaHOE5674 · « **Reply #36 on:** February 14, 2015, 09:36:07 PM »

Was clearing out for the dozer to come in and push a road in. By the time the forwarder got to those piles there was 2+ feet of snow on them so neat little piles would have been lost and forgotten.

RayMO · « **Reply #37 on:** February 14, 2015, 10:01:53 PM »

A mixed bag for me this week Less 3 tri-axles with pup loads. Red oak, water oak, Bur oak, Ash, Hackberry and a couple of Maple.Quarter to half mile drag so we kept the little 440 B kinda busy.

lopet · « **Reply #38 on:** February 14, 2015, 10:49:36 PM »

Looks like that new to you 440 is earning its keep.

treeslayer2003 · « **Reply #39 on:** February 15, 2015, 10:16:55 AM »

almost forgot this thread, been in here two weeks.

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