couple pics... post what your currently cutting

[mike_belben]

Well i guess that settles it then. They do go in the woods. 







Many piles, about 70yd from my mailbox.

[Skeans1]

 

 

 That's after a 40 taken off the butt cut was 36.5" 

 

 

[mike_belben]

Nice wood skeans.  You were able to get that big one down with the harvester or by hand?









  Well i finally got a long enough dry spell to get that load ^  cut split and delivered. Honest measurement, in the bed by square inches and converted,  came out to .9 cord.. And the leaf springs dont want much more either. 









Not counting the reject pieces and antwood that i didnt include.   Could probably pile 1.25cd on the trailer before spilling off the sides. 



In other news.. Ive had a lot of lawn mowers over the years and some were better than others in various regards.  But im gonna tell yall right now.....









 the best cutting mower i ever had is a komatsu.  In my yard, not one blade of grass ever seems to get past it for long.  ;D

[Skeans1]

@mike_belben 
Everything was put down with the machine haven't ran a saw in a few months.

[GRANITEstateMP]

Barge, Dairy farmers don't have boneyard trucks. They have "projects" waiting on line ;D. Sometimes, you steal a part of two off said projects...

Also, I like your lunch money comment, I am stealing that line and taking full credit too!

Mike, when I looked at you picks and read your comment, I was thinking your mailbox was the hollow tree... Then I saw the scratch marks!  I didn't think you lived that far off the beaten path that they left mail in that tree!

Skeans, nice wood ya got there

[mike_belben]

Ya ever seen the mailman driving a left hand drive camry from the right hand side with arm and foot across the hump?  

Thats how its done here.  Private contractors delivering in their own stock daily drivers.

[GRANITEstateMP]

That's how most towns around me are too Mike. My Mom and stepfather delivered mail til they retired, we had a lot of junky cars to deliver the mail!  At one point we had 5 Dodge K car's.  I don't think they paid more than $500 a piece, and they got the snot worked outta them! You needed at least 4, one for each route and a spare the fifth they left at the shop so when they got towed in They had something to drive!

[mike_belben]

Yeah i can picture it up that way.  Ive got a few friends in your neck of the woods. Too much winter for me though.

[ehp]

Barge what are they paying for stuff like that with the big hearts in them ? 

[BargeMonkey]

Ed I didnt have the buyer come, thursday was a complete wash out. The better ash 1/3 or smaller heart over 12" 9' up is paying pretty decent, and even with the bigger heart they aren't fussy if it's got volume. 

[BargeMonkey]

Dry for a week or so then we get POURED on, sat in the loader for 1hr waiting to get hit by lightning.


 


 
Not the nicest cherry but theres 3x sticks in it, hammered today for a while. Should ship 4 triaxle load next week, pull the Timbco to this 100k ft job down the road.


 


  I still havent walked all the wood on this job, landowner stopped and we walked another section.
Get down over the bank into some nice oak, I've already got 2x adjoining lots and this guys working on buying 24acres next door that's never been hammered, just a wicked wicked pile of wood.


 
Just keep feeding the monster every night, talked to the guy in PA on that 200C stroker, I've called on 3x machines and I think that's the best money spent. Another logger I deal with offered me a bundle deal on his iron the other day and I think I'm going to do it, cant afford the downtime. 


 

[mike_belben]

Thats some big cherry barge.. Can the buncher handle that much backlean or were you just putting in a first cut and tossing from the other side?

We have a lot of cherry sapplings but by 6" dbh they start to fizzle out or bend into arches.  I wouldnt even recognize a full grown one.

[Old Greenhorn]

Barge, you just seem to keep stepping in it! More nice cherry, has the price gone up yet? I still have yet to mill those logs you gave me, they look so nice I can't decide how to mill them. :D
 Interested to hear what all is in that 'bundle deal' and I don't know how you find these woodlots, but good on ya. If there is any 'little junk' in that bundle you want to off load, let me know. Not much cash, but always looking for stuff I can fix and use.
 Keep hammering man!
 (BTW, did Andrew call you on that sand?)

[BrushSaw]

It's what I'm currently cutting.. weak hay crop this year no rain during June or July. Yield  has been terrible. We usually get  260+ round bales off our 3 fields.    This year we will get 112 smiley_embarrased

[BargeMonkey]

Thats some big cherry barge.. Can the buncher handle that much backlean or were you just putting in a first cut and tossing from the other side?

We have a lot of cherry sapplings but by 6" dbh they start to fizzle out or bend into arches.  I wouldnt even recognize a full grown one.

I can cut that in 1x pass and throw it, stuff that size can be awkward to carry and hard on the machine but it can be done. Theres 4-5 real nice ones not far from this one, waiting on them, this was in the skid road and filling the truck for the end of the week. 

[BargeMonkey]

It's what I'm currently cutting.. weak hay crop this year no rain during June or July. Yield  has been terrible. 

Hasn't been great here either, what nice 2nd cut we will get is getting roundbaled and wrapped. Have a trailer from LI to fill in the next couple days, didnt get as many square as we really wanted either. 

[Southside]

Barge, how many layers of wrap do you put on your dry hay? Have about 350 acres of second cut that I am going to do the same thing with here right off. 

[BargeMonkey]

Barge, you just seem to keep stepping in it! More nice cherry, has the price gone up yet? I still have yet to mill those logs you gave me, they look so nice I can't decide how to mill them. :D
Interested to hear what all is in that 'bundle deal' and I don't know how you find these woodlots, but good on ya. If there is any 'little junk' in that bundle you want to off load, let me know. Not much cash, but always looking for stuff I can fix and use.
Keep hammering man!
(BTW, did Andrew call you on that sand?)

Yeah he called me, never question giving out my # if it involves making money. 😆  I met him yrs ago when he worked for Creech. Last couple yrs we have been sending material down as far as you, had one guy hauling to Woodstock on a continuous basis for a while. 
 One day when your not busy you will have to come up, quite a bit of this job has to be hand cut, stuffs too nice for the buncher. You walk 100yds and think you seen the nice stuff, just keep walking. I've bought that job next to where you and I rode the mountain, when prices come back I'm going in and hammer it, other than that 200C stroker I'm not in any rush because theres so much nice stuff out there for sale and theres going to be more, I'm leery of buying anything but more 5.56 ammo till after the election. 

[BargeMonkey]

Barge, how many layers of wrap do you put on your dry hay? Have about 350 acres of second cut that I am going to do the same thing with here right off.

18 wraps on the counter, we only wrap balage, never dry hay. That wrapper has a dump plate but we dont use it, it works ok for being a Polish built machine 😆 we can do a bale every 4-5mins.


 

[BargeMonkey]

 Camera just doesnt do this view justice. 


  just to the right of the buncher standing there I can pick out the elm trees along the hedgerow and see the hay barn. This is like kryptonite for the type of mud cricket's we have here. 
 

 
 Bunchers got to leave tomorrow, I'm not proud of what I'm about to go do but if I dont someone else will, it's been hammered and I'm going in to do it again. 😆. 

[Old Greenhorn]

Barge, you just seem to keep stepping in it! More nice cherry, has the price gone up yet? I still have yet to mill those logs you gave me, they look so nice I can't decide how to mill them. :D
Interested to hear what all is in that 'bundle deal' and I don't know how you find these woodlots, but good on ya. If there is any 'little junk' in that bundle you want to off load, let me know. Not much cash, but always looking for stuff I can fix and use.
Keep hammering man!
(BTW, did Andrew call you on that sand?)

Yeah he called me, never question giving out my # if it involves making money. 😆  I met him yrs ago when he worked for Creech. Last couple yrs we have been sending material down as far as you, had one guy hauling to Woodstock on a continuous basis for a while.
One day when your not busy you will have to come up, quite a bit of this job has to be hand cut, stuffs too nice for the buncher. You walk 100yds and think you seen the nice stuff, just keep walking. I've bought that job next to where you and I rode the mountain, when prices come back I'm going in and hammer it, other than that 200C stroker I'm not in any rush because theres so much nice stuff out there for sale and theres going to be more, I'm leery of buying anything but more 5.56 ammo till after the election.

Yeah, I figure a sale is a sale and some of the guys around here have trouble finding that certified sand you have, or whatever it is. I know Andrew knows you and figured it the right thing. Glad he got in touch. He asked me about going in with him on some TSI work last week, he doesn't have the time to mark, cut and walk, but has the equipment for the log handling. It sure would depend on the job. He also asked me why I wasn't cutting for you. ;D I just told him there is no way I could keep up with you, plus the commute is a little long.
I would love to come up and see the new lots you are cutting. That nice stuff on the next door lot should sit until the buyers start to get a clue. I know it is hard and costly for everyone to sit on their wood, but that is probably the only way the price will go up. Somebody tried to turn me on to a large amount of Red Oak logs for sale last week. The landowner has the "highly valuable walnut" syndrome playing in his head and when I told him how hard it was to even find a buyer for red oak at all and what they might pay, he thought I was lying. Before I walked away I just said, 'if your logs were in such high demand, how come they are still sitting here?' :D
I am still working like a nut, but would love to come up and see what keeps you working through the night. I just have a couple more late summer/early fall projects to get done. Maybe I will jump in the line of all the leaf peepers headed up 28 sometime and let them drag me along. ;D

[Riwaka]

Ya ever seen the mailman driving a left hand drive camry from the right hand side with arm and foot across the hump?  

Thats how its done here.  Private contractors delivering in their own stock daily drivers.

In rural areas, go and bulldoze a turnout in selected spaces(whatever the term is) for the mail box so the mail deliver can drive on the left side and still deliver the mail from the left seat. Text when delivery is made if there is cell coverage. Probably all the rural folk will end up with a mail bag or box in town one day.
I will have to remember the story of the rural folk filling mail boxes with concrete to prevent 'road side mail box drive-over' vandals.  
Seems a bit pointless to do the right seat/ left side control trick when, new right hand vehicles such as the BMW X Series and Toyota Highlander etc are made in right hand drive in the USA.

[BargeMonkey]

Barge, you just seem to keep stepping in it! More nice cherry, has the price gone up yet? I still have yet to mill those logs you gave me, they look so nice I can't decide how to mill them. :D
Interested to hear what all is in that 'bundle deal' and I don't know how you find these woodlots, but good on ya. If there is any 'little junk' in that bundle you want to off load, let me know. Not much cash, but always looking for stuff I can fix and use.
Keep hammering man!
(BTW, did Andrew call you on that sand?)

Yeah he called me, never question giving out my # if it involves making money. 😆  I met him yrs ago when he worked for Creech. Last couple yrs we have been sending material down as far as you, had one guy hauling to Woodstock on a continuous basis for a while.
One day when your not busy you will have to come up, quite a bit of this job has to be hand cut, stuffs too nice for the buncher. You walk 100yds and think you seen the nice stuff, just keep walking. I've bought that job next to where you and I rode the mountain, when prices come back I'm going in and hammer it, other than that 200C stroker I'm not in any rush because theres so much nice stuff out there for sale and theres going to be more, I'm leery of buying anything but more 5.56 ammo till after the election.

Yeah, I figure a sale is a sale and some of the guys around here have trouble finding that certified sand you have, or whatever it is. I know Andrew knows you and figured it the right thing. Glad he got in touch. He asked me about going in with him on some TSI work last week, he doesn't have the time to mark, cut and walk, but has the equipment for the log handling. It sure would depend on the job. He also asked me why I wasn't cutting for you. ;D 

He had 5 trucks in there today, supposed to be 12 waiting at the gate in the morning plus our trucks. I stopped at lunch to see how the privileged class gets to work 😆 2x 644s hot feeding trucks just a hammering. 
 

 
 Watch the sun come up thru the buncher windows, keep getting after it. 
 

 

[thecfarm]

That looks like some good stuff, the dirt that is. Don't look like gravel or sand.

[mike_belben]

Thats conesville coal.  Big bucks. 

;)