Falling pics 11/25/09

[bitzer]

one thing i do different, maybe i'm wrong, is make much deeper faces. 40% is about right to me most times........

I typically do too, like 40-50 percent.

 

[treeslayer2003]

steep n deep lol

you in good timber bitz?

 

[bitzer]

Yes sir. Soft maple swamp. I'm surprised how tall and clean this wood is every day. Lots of bar length wood. Great production. I've had my best week ever in this woods. 35mbf plus 30 cords in a week. Thats 10 truckloads here.

How about you?

 

[kentishman]

It's almost certainly cubic meters. We're alone in the world, mostly, thinking board-feet.

In Britain we still use the hoppus foot for hardwood. And cubic metres for softwood. In line with our confusing policy of using both imperial and metric measurements for different things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoppus

 

[treeslayer2003]

Yes sir. Soft maple swamp. I'm surprised how tall and clean this wood is every day. Lots of bar length wood. Great production. I've had my best week ever in this woods. 35mbf plus 30 cords in a week. Thats 10 truckloads here.

How about you?

yep, in this poplar branch........prolly half done it, then a stand of mixed pine, oak and poplar. not as large though, in the branch almost all of them are over 30 and some over 40. sandy ground so i'm thankful for that, its pretty wet here.

 

[madhatte]

That Hoppus unit is new to me, but I can see how it would be useful, as everything is based on multiples of 12.

 

[1270d]

Yes sir. Soft maple swamp. I'm surprised how tall and clean this wood is every day. Lots of bar length wood. Great production. I've had my best week ever in this woods. 35mbf plus 30 cords in a week. Thats 10 truckloads here.

How about you?

Thats a good week Bitz. You still forwarding your own wood too I suppose.

 

[bitzer]

Yes sir! Short skid, high volume per acre, and big, fast cutting wood really bushels up! Yeah It's been over a year since I've had anyone else in the skidder.

 

[treeslayer2003]

im by myself to bitz, dad only hauls now. 20-25000 is a real good week for me. of course alot of that is by weight........think i get screwed on that some times lol.
pulp is starvation here.......i ain't messin with it for 17 a ton.

 

[coltont]

$17.00 a ton. Starvation sticks. Were getting around 40.00 a ton here in central pa.

 

[treeslayer2003]

thats what i herd Colton, they can forget me bringin any in. gotta go thru two scales to get there, then go thru a buncha crap at the mill..... for 17...nope.

 

[bitzer]

Up here its around 60/per ton(150/cord mixed hardwood). I haven't sent anything to the pulp mill for a long time though. I've got a strong firewood customer base. I sell it all in 8 footers, 10 cord min starting at 105/cord and it goes up from there depending on hauling. I can actually make more on the firewood than the logs if the trucking is short. Even so I only do what I have to with it. Its just too time consuming.

 

[treeslayer2003]

105 per cord long length? dam........quit logging and just make wood lol.

 

[northmanlogging]

Siswheel pics as asked fer... I actually took these on sat morning, but then got stupor busy...

Every one of these was leaning over that house and shed... anyway heres the layout. That tall stump in the middle is on account of not having room to squeeze my saw in there.


Little bit of steerage.


This one here is every trick in the book, soft dutch, and a tramp sis, that tramp sis goes down about a foot farther then the main sis, just the moss here is kinda thick and grows back fast...



Front veiw of the tall stump



This one gives a pretty good Idea of the tramp, that board in the middle will flex and twist with the tree, staying connected as long as possible, which isn't long with cotton wood...



Random top veiw, just about every one of these trees needed a sis or at the least a bit of dutch.
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[northmanlogging]

But wait theres more.

Some stump pull. When it works good it works good..


This one is one of the few that hung on all the way to the ground, with is unheard of in cotton wood... Hard to tell cause I cut off the stump pull to get the log out of the way... but if you squint and stand on one leg you'll see it.


Some more good pulling, you can really see the second cut in there.



Armegadutch


Anyway, I thought long and hard about making a video of all this, but to be honest, this lot is a neighborhood embarrassment... One of the kids that used to live here has been wanting to get it cleaned up so he can move back in, taking these trees down got some of the neighbors off his back for a little while, still a **** hole but its getting better.

 

[Metals406]

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Dear god! The beavers are evolving!!

 

[Metals406]

-10 points for no mask and snorkel.

 

[SliverPicker]

Don't despair Northy. My sis is a bit of a tramp too...

 

[madhatte]

The most impressive part is keeping all of those crappy little cottonwoods in a tight lead. Good work!

 

[northmanlogging]

ropes help a bit... but not as much as you would think.

Close quarters work like this I'll take the time and rope em off, most where done with a throw line, about 30% or so where free fell.