couple pics... post what your currently cutting

[BargeMonkey]

Finally got her fixed yesterday, buttoned up today and in the woods at dark.


 


  One of our customers is a welder in NYC, straight off the boat irishman, July 4th at 7am rod was burning, my loader now has some plate in the boom from 20th street in Manhattan, has to be worth more now 😂


 
Weather has been good and its nuts between hay and trucking.


 
 

 700 today, get about 6k in that barn right to the roof.


  I'm going to have my CDL changed to "log truck only".
I did text a few of you the picture of the 2 females waiting for me last night, I cant post the rest of the pictures here 😂


 

  Its like Disney but for loggers over 30 😂

[olcowhand]

One of our customers is a welder in NYC, straight off the boat irishman, July 4th at 7am rod was burning, my loader now has some plate in the boom from 20th street in Manhattan, has to be worth more now 😂

Geez Barge,
That looks like a joint from a Bridge support or something; won't they miss that?

[teakwood]

Its like Disney but for loggers over 30 😂

Are you back? like the old days?? 

no girlfriend anymore?

[BargeMonkey]

One of our customers is a welder in NYC, straight off the boat irishman, July 4th at 7am rod was burning, my loader now has some plate in the boom from 20th street in Manhattan, has to be worth more now 😂

Geez Barge,
That looks like a joint from a Bridge support or something; won't they miss that?

I can assure you that no bridges where harmed. There isnt much I cant get because of our customer list from the city. 😂  

[BargeMonkey]

Its like Disney but for loggers over 30 😂

Are you back? like the old days??

no girlfriend anymore?

No not quite like that, 😂 This arrangement has been on / off since high school, the ones husband talks like he wants to kick my @ss, I've told him where I'm working but he is kind of pretty and doesnt look like the type to get hit in the mouth. The last one said how I work too much, how her life goals and mine where diff, it happens. 

[BargeMonkey]

Finally back to putting wood out. Was soaked after the 4th drag today. Booms fixed and the self propel on my loader is working again, wanted to get all my new lights out on right but just didnt have enough time at the shop. 
 

 

[mike_belben]

There actually was a pilfered hunk of bridge and a dude from ireland.  He called me lad, even though i was riding in the middle of the bench seat reserved for lasses.  

[BargeMonkey]

There actually was a pilfered hunk of bridge and a dude from ireland.  He called me lad, even though i was riding in the middle of the bench seat reserved for lasses.  

And Mike asks him, "so how do you feel about the English" ? 😂 I wasnt going to mention you where there loading and unloading the steel, figured have all of the FF checking under bridges before they drove over 😂 

[g_man]

Started cutting some pine saw logs. Way different than my normal diet of Balsam Fir and fire wood. First tree got me a load and then some.



 



 



 

Those are 12'ers on an 8' bed plus 2' of tail gate so it's not as bad as it might look but I don't think a DOT guy would buy that. Good thing it is all quiet dirt town roads except the last mile, where there is no traffic and going slow won't bother any one, to the log yard. 800 BF



 

gg

[doc henderson]

I have done a few loads like that.  did the front of the truck come off the ground when you hit the foot feed.?  @g_man    

[doc henderson]

local tree service took down several locust (honey) trees.  the big one only wanted to lift up about 4 feet via my 277c.



 

[BargeMonkey]

Been doing something else mornings, head to the woods at 1-2 and go till dark. 
 

 
 Pull 20ft of cable, hook 6-8 and go, woodpile grows. 
 I sent my employee back to weaving baskets / collecting shopping carts, good help is hard to find. 😂 Still get 4ld of good wood + firewood alone, keep the money in my pocket for my iron fund. 


  Theres 4300 international there, not bad for what it is. Cut those lengths so they go in the container just as they are. 
 I'm sure I'm not the only one here knocking hay down. 


 
 One of the blondes stopped over before I got home, tied the dog out. Here even the woodchucks are dangerous 😂 Woodchuck is around the 100lb shepard's neck determined he isnt going out with a fight, she has to grab a piece of wood out of the woodpile and club the woodchuck, dog eventually got him, I've lost faith in the dog 😂


  
 

 

[olcowhand]

That's why you need a dog like this, Barge! "Badgers! Badgers! We don't need no stinking Badgers!"


I (or my dogs) don't need to shave.......

[SwampDonkey]

I had a dog named Flash that was deadly on them things. They weren't safe in their hole, he dug them out if it took all day. Ring it's neck, a toss in the air and that was that. :D

Half Shepard, half Siberian Husky. One brown eye, one ice blue.

[mike_belben]

We have a new pitbull rescue named bella, young dog.  Will not stay out of the frog pond [puddle really] until she gets every last one.  Theres an impenetrable thorn bush they hide in that she punches holes right thru without a yelp or flinch.  The prey drive just turns her pain receptors off. 

[Peter Drouin]

Basket weaving!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D I'm going to use THAT one. :D :D :D

[Bruno of NH]

My dog will catch rabbits and kill them and tries to get the snapping turtles. 
She comes in with her face bit up :D

 

[BargeMonkey]

Basket weaving!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D I'm going to use THAT one. :D :D :D

I worked on boats where life revolved around verbally abusing grown men for sport, on a crew of 7-10 guys you never wanted to be the weakest link. I've heard some good ones 😂 

[olcowhand]

We have a new pitbull rescue named bella, young dog.  Will not stay out of the frog pond [puddle really] until she gets every last one.  Theres an impenetrable thorn bush they hide in that she punches holes right thru without a yelp or flinch.  The prey drive just turns her pain receptors off.

"Pain Receptor"? What's a Pain Receptor? Is that something other breeds feel?

[Peter Drouin]

Basket weaving!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D I'm going to use THAT one. :D :D :D

I worked on boats where life revolved around verbally abusing grown men for sport, on a crew of 7-10 guys you never wanted to be the weakest link. I've heard some good ones 😂

I started out as a tender. then a bricklayer. I know how sharp a mouth can be.
 Like are you going to live long enuff to get that done, want me to get my grandmother to help you?  I've seen grown men not make the day. I could go on but I get put in the woodshed. :D :D

[Old Greenhorn]

Basket weaving!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D I'm going to use THAT one. :D :D :D

I worked on boats where life revolved around verbally abusing grown men for sport, on a crew of 7-10 guys you never wanted to be the weakest link. I've heard some good ones 😂

I started out as a tender. then a bricklayer. I know how sharp a mouth can be.
Like are you going to live long enuff to get that done, want me to get my grandmother to help you?  I've seen grown men not make the day. I could go on but I get put in the woodshed. :D :D

Although I was raised on a boat, I never worked on them I have a lose friend who has been First Mating for 20 years, and I understand the drill. Most of the trades where some skill or hustle is involved work like that. Having worked my way up from an apprentice cleaning bacteria laden coolant tanks and suffering with rashes for weeks after, or continuously. Eventually I gt into design, engineering and project management, but it was  35 year long road. The entry levels I see now are less that dis-heartening and I throw a comment out once in a while, but the management of my corporation has an entire program designed to eliminate peer pressure and motivational speaking of comments such as " Were you raised on a dairy farm? because I see you milk every job you get." "I've seen better work than that from guys who hadn't yet succeeded in their drug recovery program', "you couldn't find your way out of a brown paper bag if you had a map glued to your nose". I have been reprimanded a time or two, sorry to say. Apparently we like to cultivate folks who have lower standards these days. Pride in one's own workmanship is fading, in fact, the term workmanship is fading and poorly understood. Just like the difference between leader and manager.
 I was never a fan of Tom Edison, he had great publicists and made his fame and money off the work of others mostly, he was also a little slimy and a bit of a thief, but he is quoted as saying "Genius is missed by most people because it wears coveralls and looks like work." This I have found to be true.

[BargeMonkey]

 My good sea stories aren't fit for the FF 😂 After about 2008 things changed, the paperwork, big oil, sexual harrassment training, you work for one of the big companies anymore and your a secretary who happens to keep a boat running. We used to have company meetings in CT @ the casino which where usually a knock down drink fest, had one guy show up in capri pants, mascara and lipstick and we had to "accept" him. We where talking today, once weed is legal for recreational use in NY we are all doomed, forget finding new help who can pass a test. 

[BargeMonkey]

 "we would like you to do this with a small machine because its low impact and limit the amount of dozer roads" 😂 So sick of being on 3 wheels. 👎 Machine belongs in a museum with all the other 440's. Even with loaded tires this is normal, I'm too close to part time logging again to get hurt.


  Big skidder comes over tomorrow, landowner got almost 6 digits for this sale he can deal with it 😂
 

 
Not bad wood, adds up pretty good. The wood parasites about 15 miles from me have no loglength firewood, now all their customers are calling us and it's a big NO 😂 100 a cord now or 260 a cord in 4 months... let's think about that. This jobs about 5 miles from my processor.

[barbender]

I had the 8 wheel BuffaloKing on 6 wheels with a huge load on the other day, if that counts for anything😁 Driving into the sun, I got into some shadows and hooked a 3' tall stump with the wagon while turning off a strip onto the main skid trail. Our processors commonly do that with clump hardwoods, they're bar benders when you try to cut them low. When I'm in a processor, I will cut the clumps high, to on but after the tree is processed I nip the stump off low. I hate tall stumps!

[GRANITEstateMP]

Not bad wood, adds up pretty good. The wood parasites about 15 miles from me have no loglength firewood, now all their customers are calling us and it's a big NO 😂 100 a cord now or 260 a cord in 4 months... let's think about that. This jobs about 5 miles from my processor.

I'm no economic's major, but that seems like a pretty good plan to me!