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Is that headed for Shelburne?

Man, you have got a challenge ahead of you. Here's my two cents. I recently skidded the logs for a wilderness cabin with my horse. The terrain was both steep and wet. One of the builders had a 4-wheeler there, but he decided the machine couldn't do the job. I skidded about 30 logs a...

Don't know what they do in Sweden, but in NH that stuff would be pulp or roundwood biomass (chipped elsewhere) I've pulled a good bit of that kind of wood on a scoot (sled). Hand piled and hand loaded. Roadside value runs around $25 a ton. Not a money maker.

I read somewhere that all wood has about the same btu value per dry pound.

Mills pay for pulpwood by the ton nowadays.

I've done this using a tree scale stick. Just wrote down a conservative estimate of the volume of each tree as I went along. Worked out fine.

I do a fair amount of commercial and pre-commercial thinning in Northern, NH. Here the NRCS pays 75% of the cost up to $150 per acre if it's a pre-commercial project. But if there is merchantable wood to be harvested they won't fund the work. Low-grade wood is very hard to move profitably...

One thing you could do next time is cut in from each of the four sides leaving a four by four in the center uncut. Then scope out which side the pinch is going to occur on. Cut another kerf there. Then zip the four by four at max rpm. The block should then roll free. I do this fairly often...

I used to do quite a bit of this years ago. I found that I had to rough pile the blocks to make enough room to do the job, so it involved more time and effort than just running the saw. I have done 12 cords this way in a very long day, but a cord an hour cut and piled is a more reasonable...

Sounds like a good fit for a horselogger.

Years ago, before I knew a heck of a lot, I was cutting wood for a guy in town who decided to go on vacation on the spur of the moment. One night he came to my house with his truck, a spool of light gage wire and a couple tail lights. He said, Park the skidder, you'll be running the truck next...

Thanks, Yeah, good to see you here. There aren't a whole lot of boards to go to in our racket. Sounds like you have found the right way to make it. Hope you share those demographic secrets when you finalize them. The challenge here in NH is the log value. It is so low now it doesn't...

If you don't mind my asking, Who are the people that pay this kind of money, and how do you contact them?

Looks good. If you don't mind me asking, where'd you get the crane and how much was it?

Hi John, Nice pair of mules. I also like the looks of the arch in the second picture. Hope you'll say a bit more about it. Did you pull it with your forecart? Does it have brakes? How did you get it to straddle the log? I'm still logging with my horses, but the money is less than it was...

Sorry to see you getting roughed up Stihlman. Don't let them get to you. To get work in the woods in my area, you just about have to have your own machine nowadays. It's an insurance thing. Nobody can afford workers comp insurance on a part time chopper no matter how good he is.

Around here in northern NH, the average growth rate is about a half a cord per acre per year. Ten acres would probably do it. For a lot with mixed species, you might think it through in terms of tons per acre or btu per acre to factor all types of wood into the equation. For example a...

I'm old enough to remeber using a buzz saw. For those huge rounds someone mentioned, we split them lengthwise in quarters with three steel wedges and then lifted a quarter onto the saw table. The table cradled the wood and carried it to the saw while you pushed.

You can peen the rivets with a small ball-peen hammer.

On the International Scale a 16' log with a 14" top is 155 bf. You have a tad more than that. But they may not use this scale in Ontario. Cut and split that log would produce about a face cord and a half of firewood. If you decide to sell the log, get the specs before you buck it.