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    bandsaw for rent?

    I know it's not very likely, but I am looking to rent a mill for a while, and was wondering if there was someone who had a mill to rent out or knows a place that has them to rent in the southern Maine area. Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks
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    mud

    still got a couple feet of snow, but it rained all lastnight and you sink right through to the mud
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    mud

    who else is done cutting for a while? I had to call it quits today, could hardly get down the town road to the landing today to get my splitter and stuff today, let alone getting around in the woods. too much MUD!
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    Are you tired of it yet.

    sure am sick of the snow, too much snow for my tractor it sucks. i love burnin the wood tho love opening her up and chucking more sticks in. got almost 4 feet on the ground right now. way too much.
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    I dont know how you guys up north do it....

    well im just cutting firewood, and its not the cold thats slowing me down. Its all the stupid snow! its too deep for my tractor to get through so im just cutting close to the road and dragging it out on a sled. sure is a tough way to make a living. Its over my waist when i get off the beaten...
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    good guy!

    i'm out cutting firewood every day, and there is a guy thats been logging just down the road from me. every time i get stuck he comes and pulls me out with his skidder, when its snowed he plows out my "landing" and today to top it all off he came in and skidded a few cord of wood for me. what a...
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    Merry Christmas

    I wanna wish you all a very merry Christmas! im sure you all have wonderful friends and family to spend it with. my family almost lost a member tonight driving home from my grams house. i was driving behind him when his truck went off the icy road and hit a telephone pole, he is well and we...
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    Who here has never cut hardwood?

    man, the biggest bar ive run is a 24, i almost always run a 20. i live in the pine tree state but i barely cut any softwoods. the soft stuff i cut is normally poplar. my part of the state is mostly hardwood, and thats what i cut. i can't imagine running a lil 440 with a 36, i don't have...
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    Let's talk about kickback...

    i will try to give some advice for kick back. im just shy of 20 but i have spent countless hours running all kinds of chainsaws. i love them, and they are my version of office equipment. the biggest thing is to wear chaps a helmet and STEEL TOE boots. but a saw can cut through those, they...
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    What kind of a sick person....

    i too was outside this saturday cutting wood, i didn't split any but i was cutting it down and hauling it out with some friends for a friend. i didn't really get cold, but my friends wife had food and soda for us all, and that was the hardest coke ive ever tried to drink. lips stuck to the can...
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    Free outdoor wood boiler plans- Check it out!!!!

    looks good to me, ive looked at it a few times the same with many of the things found on their wonderful site. not enough time or money to try them out. hope to soon. id love to build that stove, try it out in my shop and if it works use it for the house as well.
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    husky rancher

    well ive had my 455 rancher for a year in a couple of weeks. i love it, i would prefer a bigger saw but for now i can't afford one. but i must say, it has cut amazingly well for the money. I have lost count as to how many cord of wood i have cut but its coming up on 200 or so so far. and now im...
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    wood pellets sure do burn!

    i tried in my truck, but they won't let you through unless your an emergency person, i guess i should have joined the fire department this year.
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    wood pellets sure do burn!

    being a guy who loves firewood, i don't care much for wood pellets. but there is currently 150 or more tons of wood pellets burning in a warehouse a few miles from my house. the warehouse also is full of large paper rolls, and plenty of other fuels for the fire. there have been 32 plus fire...
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    A question for you large volume woodsellers

    well here ive been working for my uncle and for myself, we tell our customers right upfront before we sell them anything that our wood is green, and they are ok with that because we are honest. we sell 100-125 cord of green cut split and delivered wood a month. its amazing how happy customers...
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    Man I just got po'd at a wood seller

    this summer i delivered a 3 cord of hardwood cut and split to a guy up the road from me, i was delivering with a borrowed f350 dump, and i wound up shorting him by quite a bit, the bed was a bit smaller than i was told,(serves me right for taking his word for it) so after the local chemistry...
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    looking to buy in the future

    hi im starting out with my own logging business in Maine. im just a one man band, with some off and on help. i mainly cut firewood right now, i have my own truck and splitter, and i have a homebuilt skidder made out of an international with a pto winch and an arch on the back. im looking to up...
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    how is ash?

    been keeping my parents 200 year old farm house, up in the mid 70's on some very green ash, its been doing a fine job, actually at the moment, im burning some ash that was standing 3 days ago, lights up instantly and burns nice and hot, good bed of coals as well.:greenchainsaw:
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    this weather

    yep it is going to be full time for quite a while, i don't have a full fledged skidder so its going to take some time. but i enjoy it. the lot was thinned in the past 20 years, but now its getting cleared for corn fields. im looking to get quite a few loads out this winter. ive found quite a few...
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    this weather

    id love to come down there and soak up some nice warm sunshine. but i can't right now, i have 60 acres of about 90% hardwoods to clear, and a few hundred acres to thin as well. way to busy to go down right now. but thanks for the offer! altho i may be headed down to alabama for a few days to...
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