Falling pics 11/25/09

[rwoods]

woodfarmer,

We don’t have the equipment to pick them up. My little tractor will only pickup around 1600# before the front end leaves terra firma. Our little tractor with a fel quits around 1500#. I saved a 17’ straight and limbless White Oak stem for a whiskey barrel plant. It weighs around 8000#. Been several months and no one has showed up to get it, yet.

Ron

 

[bitzer]

bitzer,

Good to have you posting again. I think of you often as I remember you chastising me for falling trees for firewood that could have made saw logs. Lately I have cut some nice red oaks and a few nice white oaks. It pains me and I tell myself you would kill me, but we don’t have the equipment to save out the logs and don’t have enough saw logs in one place to interest someone who does.

Ron

It's funny how a guy remembers things like that. Yeah I thought as the kids got older I would have more free time. Not so! With the games and practices and academic and school events it seems never ending. I love them to death tho and I'm trying to soak it all up because I know they'll be gone before I know it.

As for that tractor you've got, I once pounded out 6 loads of logs and pulp in one week with a 45hp tractor that just had pallet forks. True it was flat and the skid was pretty short but a lot of the trees were 20-30" on the butt. Hard maple and oak. I bucked them all in the woods(per usual for me) and the big ones I could only grab one at a time. The biggest I had to drag. Then I decked them all as tall as I could for the trucks. Like you mentioned the biggest thing is having enough. Sure you can stock pile them and wax the ends but there's a lot of time and dedication there that may not add up. That tractor would pick up 1000lbs on it's best day . It was a wet December and I couldn't run the skidder.

 

[rwoods]

For firewood we try to avoid skidding due to the dirt eating chains. Below is my toy tractor this Fall at max with a 1650# log. Can only steer going forward by using the brakes. As muddy as this winter has been, can hardly go anywhere now. I have since rigged it up with some dolly wheels so I can load heavier chunks on level ground but I still can't move much in the mud. Heavy logs with their swinging leverage are too dangerous with our small equipment. Side slopes are killers too. Ron

 

[Skeans]

Our truck driver lives only a few miles from our job got this surprise yesterday morning.


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[MilanRV]

Beech wood again in cold weather( -22•C)

 

[bitzer]

Beech wood again in cold weather( -22•C)

Those are some really nice beech for that size. Mine would be all hollow

 

[bitzer]

Our truck driver lives only a few miles from our job got this surprise yesterday morning.


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That happens here about 9 months out of the year

 

[Skeans]

That happens here about 9 months out of the year

You guys can keep it


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[InfiniteJest]

That happens here about 9 months out of the year

How's things out your way Bob? Getting tired of the white crap here.

 

[bitzer]

How's things out your way Bob? Getting tired of the white crap here.

It's been a weird winter. It got cold early in November but every weekend it would warm up enough to rain and then stay just cold enough to work during the week but never froze. That went on until late January when we got our first big snow(10" which really isn't that big) and then we got temps in the -20s. -25 was the lowest I saw at home. -50 something with the wind. Then 3 days later it's in the 40s and rain again. Now we're back to winter. Very weird. You?

 

[bitzer]

You guys can keep it


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June, July, and August are the only months I haven't seen snow here. Then it'll just be 90 something with 90 percent humidity.

 

[InfiniteJest]

We've been about on the exact same track here. Somebody definitely turned on the snow last week though. "Normal" winter was just late getting here I guess. If it stays in the twenties, I'll be happy. The -0 to +50 pinball gets old in a hurry.

 

[bitzer]

We've been about on the exact same track here. Somebody definitely turned on the snow last week though. "Normal" winter was just late getting here I guess. If it stays in the twenties, I'll be happy. The -0 to +50 pinball gets old in a hurry.

Right? All I want is a week of clear 20s & 30s. Its either super frickin cold and the wind blowing like a banshee or there's some kind of rain/sleet/freezing rain/slop snow mix coming down . I feel an extended winter into April coming on. Our last snow last year was mid April. Frost in the ground til almost May. The up down ******** is hard on a guy.

 

[Tannerbob]

Big temp changes is normal for us. Our cold isn't near as bad as you guys up north but we had almost 70 on Thursday then freezing rain that night and in the 20s since the rain


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[flying pig]

We’ve been in the deep freeze hard for about three weeks, we got close to -50 for a few days. Glad I’ve been too busy working, there would have been a lot of damaged wood if I had tried logging.

Back in the late 70’s, early 80’s Dad said he loved this weather. He got payed by the log to the landing, everything was still tree length here so the only time he got to buck trees was if they broke. He made more money, but he was definitely the only one who did.

 

[northmanlogging]

084 is about broke in...

 

[Saiso]

Beech wood again in cold weather( -22•C)

Wooow! Our beeches don’t get that nice and big. Beech bark disease gets to it or/and winter abuses them. How old do you reckon those are? Where are you located?

 

[bitzer]

084 is about broke in...

Hahaha awesome man! Scaring the piss out of the locals.

 

[northmanlogging]

We've only had a few complaints...

This is right by a very busy street, thurs day we caused an accident... looky lous ran into eachother...


I love my job..

 

[bitzer]

Swamp ash