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Flagging a hazard does make sense. Skid roads where I worked were marked by trees having 3 stripes on them if they were to be removed to make way for the skid road. Other times the forester just painted the small trees along the road. that was a dozer, skidder or brush grinder could just follow...

In another forum a person said they would never trust a forester that did not mark trees with tape as compared to paint. I have never heard of such a thing other than around houses being built and small markings for borders of construction sites. I can think of a lot of reasons to not use tape...

I have heard more than one person say there is more money to be made out of the woods rather than in it. My brother runs a big firewood operation and he never really made decent money until he got out of the woods and started buying firewood logs delivered to his property and processing at his...

50+ years of family owned firewood business and my brother fails to change, yet whines about it. He refuses to go to any kind of pallet operation for handling wood, yet complains up a storm how the business is wearing him out.

I was up in NY last week and my brother needed to get some Timberwolf parts so he asked if I wanted to tag along on the one hour drive to get them in Boonville. I figured he was going to Hud-Sun so I tagged along. It turns out he was picking parts up at the Timberwolf booth at the Woodsman's...

Your splitter is probably on the slow end of the spectrum. A Supersplit can really whack the wood and I have been using a friend's for a few years now and I am blown away how fast it is. I can split about as fast as a person with an axe on a below zero day can do. It is literally so fast that...

We got out of the woods about 25+ years ago and since that time firewood selling has been much more profitable. The cost of getting wood in the woods is very high. Sure paying for logs delivered to your yard is expensive, but considering the costs of doing it one's self, it pays back in...

You need to find a cheaper supplier. That is almost 2X what my brother pays in CNY. He has been using the same suppliers for over 15 years but he has gotten a great relationship from him and they can count on cash payments when they need it. One of them waits until just before hunting season...

Upstate NY has forests all over the place so getting logs is not a problem. His biggest supplier, and pretty much his sole supplier works for the largest sawmill in the state so they have tens of thousands of acres of woods under management. Plus, there are tens of thousands of acres all over...

There is a guy across town from my brother that is supposedly claiming 5000 face cords per year. That I find impossible to believe because even with my brother's ~2500 cord operation you can see his log piles on Google Earth. The other guy has maybe 40-50 tri-axel loads of logs in his yard...

My brother in upstate NY has finally hit is "slow" period where he sells 7 face cords per day and 12-21 each day on the weekend. He thinks he has sold about 1800 cords this year so far but he really does not know. They started in August with a mad rush and it never really let up. He was...

My brother's model shown above has been able to run both 4 way and 6 way wedges. He stopped using it and just puts what wedge will work well for the particular logs he is working with. He can swap them out in about 3-4 minutes. It also has the feature to fly the 4 way or the 6 way up and...

Yep, expect it on all splitters and processors.

I've cut tornado damaged wood for firewood and I would never do it again. Lots of logs are split and you don't know it until you cut in and your saw binds, instantly. It is a jumbled mess so it is like trying to pick apart pick-up-sticks. The safest log to cut first may be the one that is...

The problem even with star wedges is the small pieces they generate. Put a 12" log through a 6 way wedge on a splitter like a Timberwolf processor and you get some pieces that are sized right, but you also get a lot of slivers and trash that is unsalable. That has to be sorted out and disposed...

My brother runs a Timberwolf and he has been going to trade shows for years and he always asks the guys that actually run processors what they really get for production. Every one of them, regardless of model of processor they run will tell you it is all over the map how much you can get out...

That was me that did the scientific study. Darn if I can find it on my hosting page or in my computer. I need to find them again and post them. I will get on that.

Harvester logs I have seen have nice clean ends. If that were a harvester project there would certainly be tire or track marks nearby. They never tread lightly.

When the housing market dropped the lumber market crashed even worse. I used to buy cherry 4/4 boards for $6-8/bd ft. Recent prices at the same place at $3.25. That is less than half of what it was before. Now back up the cost of kiln drying, sawing, hauling to the mill, and skidding it out...

OMG! Jimmy is such a tool! What kind of moron goes on a TV show while collecting worker's disability checks? Someone please down that idiot under one of the logs he is trying to salvage, please! Here's the link. They got him on 17 counts: Reality TV Star’s Workers’ Comp Benefits Get...