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if I were you I would just leave them standing. they will probably have hollow butts, if they are semi good they will probably contain alot of ring shake, which makes the lumber useless, If i'm logging hemlock for lumber purposes, I seek smaller trees, on moister ground, we sell the lumber for...

not wood related, but a good reminder for all. kids want to be invoved with what dad is up to. after you read this please teach what could happen, before you show them what you are doing. a local contracter was washing his truck on the first warm day of spring, his 10 year old son wanted to...

thanks for all your opinions, has been a good help. Yes a tracked loader would be useful, and we can do the off-road trip with the trailer chipper if we bring the skidder with us. My thinking was to avoid floating big machinery for smaller jobs. I was hoping the tracked chipper would crawl into...

hey boys I was checking out the bandit web site, and I'm taking a shinr to the 12in tracked chipper, anyone ever used one, we do alot of building site clearing, as it is now we have to wait for a road to go in after we have cleared the trees, to get the towable chipper in to do the cleanup. I...

I was looking at the bandit site, and I'm curious about the smaller tracked chippers they have. any of you lads worked one yet. I clear alot of building sites, and we always have to wait for the road to be put in so we can get in with the towable chipper. I thiught how sweet if, if we could...

what type of tree are you sliceing these cookies of of?

what kind of tree are these cookies coming off of?

have seen similer ones here in canada, under the company name of Wayne. basically it is a planer head posing as a chipper, it sucks the brush right out of your hands, hard on gloves, limited to small brush

cool l;ooking tool, for years now I have been using a 6ft long tube of steel we made to fit over the shaft of my jackall bumper jack. we welded a v shaped teeth to the top to penetrate the trunk safely. I throw a chain around the base of the tree to prevent the jack sinking into soft earth , or...

hired a newbie last summer, as a third hand, feeding the climber with gear, or piling brush and wood with me on the ground. we were cutting some tight trees out for a septic field. the excavator waqs on site pulling stumps and loading the trucks. I sent newbie to gas up my new 361 still, as he...

prayers and speedy recovery for your sidekick. when I was a young pup with chainsaw in hand I had an underwear filling expieriance with a large red oak. we were clearing a roadway and had a beauty of a red oak to take down. 24in. and clear trunk for 40 feet. based on what I know now I can tell...

try looking up forestshop.com it is an online book store pertaining to trees , logging, outdoors etc. I think I saw abook on the history of logging tools there. you will also find lots of sources of info for your museum. I'm up in wakefield not far from you, like to help you out, I love the...

this spring I will have had my super split for 27 years. on moter no.2 I'M RUNNING A 5HP. honda engine now. about 10 cords to the fill up. I added a table to the front to catch the split pieces, saves that extra bend to pickup the other half. I used to do 200 cords a season to sell, and rent the...

I still have a stickler that I bought back in the 80's. had a contract to supply 48in. firewood split for a wood fired bakery. this splitter was great for this job. you could get that screw hot enough to burn your skin if you touched it. A little hard on the back as you are always bent over to...

have you ever looked at the tarm boiler.(woodboilers.com) I researched the owb subject to death, before we built our 2700 sq. ft. home. I wasn't really happy with anything I saw on the market. More than pleased with the tarm. have been heating since october 1st, till now I have only burnt 11...

thanks for all the research and ideas gang, your on the right track as to what I was thinking. good tip on the fighting gravity issue, on the swing. to many designs on the level garage floor, don't cut it in the bush. those hydraulic clams are nice but way to pricey for what I need to do...

calling all backwoods engineers. I bought a goose neck, 12 ft. dump trailer last summer to haul wood and whatever from tree removal jobs. as ofnow we are still hand loading what we can and taking the sides down to roll larger sawlogs on sideways with the help of a chain saw winch. I would like...

hello treetop, I recently discovered a guy in saskatchewan canada. The buisness is called Briutish Tractor Wreckers, all he does is restore old british built tractors. I have a super major engine in my Timberjack skidder, He was my hero when I needed a starter, when mine became unrepairable...

hey gang, I wandered down to Vermont last weekend to the logging show at essex. I was wowed by those big wood grinders, and their price tags. I was wondering what you get for a load of chips. It seems that bio-mass heating is catching on big in the states. to few markets for my area, but I would...

that dude on the bike was a lucky one. I must of met his mother a few years back. I had to take down 3- 20in. ash trees in a front yard on a busy rural road. If I were to fell them towards the road , they would of hit the yellow line. I figured I could go on an angle, and most of the tops...