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Too bad your woodlot is gone to hell. Time to replant and wait for the next round I guess!

Good actually, suck fan so I’m cooking on the longer skids. It’s enough to keep me dried off between hitches.

still picking away at it. Snow is getting deep and the skid is getting longer. Love the spring weather.

We cut them into decking, pipeline skids, corral boards, fence and windbreak boards, dunnage and blocking. It’s horrible junk to saw too, can have a pile of tension, pockets of unseen rot, etc. But, when it’s clean and white it can be some pretty tough wood.

Pretty much lol. Some of this aspen is sure ugly junk. I got a couple saw logs out of it though so it was worth the effort.

Guess which way this one wanted to go. Ha ha.

first one is me setting up trees for skidding, second one was me using a pusher tree, mostly for fun. Skidder was right there, could have used it but this was a bit more fun.

Last decently big one in our wood lot. We have a lot of dogs hair to log and process after this. Gonna trade it for oversized to run through the new Coutts portable mill. Skidder is finally running well, needs a bunch of electrical work and some tlc to seals etc and it will be gold, not a bad...

Some of this aspen can sure be spooky junk sometimes

Breaking in my new 572 and loving it!

I do the same. Dads saw had a piece of Pilsner can in it. Lol

I got a couple of them forming today, but from cutting I beam rather than sharpening chain. Getting a good start on setting up our new mill finally after spending 90 days in camp with only 10 days at home so far this year. So sick of spinning wrenches on other people’s stuff. Also brought my new...

Goes to show you gotta be ready for anything!

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...

Huntaholic, you caught the jist of it perfectly. It’s an old TJ 404, but we’ve got just over $2,000 into it and it runs not bad at all. I’m a heavy equipment tech by trade, my business partner is as well plus he’s a ticketed millwright too. It’s awesome for us: we can make old stuff work like...

Your skidder cost less than the value of the wood you pulled out with it the first day you got it running. Ha ha

4x6x48 poplar by the thousand. They had 11,000 skids at the sale. I thought that would have saturated the market a good bit but there really aren’t any rough cut mills up here anymore. None of the big guys like Wayerhauser or CanFor will do rough cut orders. There’s a great market for them. I...

Well, wish me luck guys. Tomorrow is my last day at my regular job. Going to try logging and sawing on my own for a month and see how it goes. The company I’ve been with this last year is pushing up daisies, and pipeline skids are at a record high (the ones my former employer just sold at...

Winter’s here...

I’m planning on falling in daylight and trying to skid and possibly mill at night this winter. Anything mechanical especially stuff out of the woods can get done in the dark. Every little bit helps.