How much did you cut today?
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Sam Reynolds
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nice snow pics. we got snow in north carolina today about three inches and since everyone down here is not used to it schools close and everyone goes to buy bread and milk
Sam Reynolds
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nice skidder! if i come see your "tract" do i get to drive it?
Newfie
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"we got snow in north carolina today about three inches "
Heck, most guys around here don't even hook up the plow for less than that. A balmy -10 right now with a 20 mph breeze. A little snow would be a welcome change. I have to go make sure the dog didn't freeze to the back porch.
I haven't cut anything in about two weeks, either dangerously cold or mud bogging 50's.
Heck, most guys around here don't even hook up the plow for less than that.
A balmy -10 right now with a 20 mph breeze. A little snow would be a welcome change. I have to go make sure the dog didn't freeze to the back porch.I haven't cut anything in about two weeks, either dangerously cold or mud bogging 50's.
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Ryan Willock
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Sure Sam why not? But first you have to learn to set chokers, and why wouldn't you?
Newfie
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"Check the weather forecast, we're going to have our wish."
Yeah, but right back to freezing our titties off.
Yeah, but right back to freezing our titties off.
ehp
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didnot cut a ???? thing today
just to cold
just to cold
heffayinthebush
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too frigin cold!
Hey Ed. What was the temp (celcius) this morn. in your neck of the woods? We debated splittin today but when our mitts froze solid on our hands we give it up. Diesel was slushy in the trucks.
Hey Ed. What was the temp (celcius) this morn. in your neck of the woods? We debated splittin today but when our mitts froze solid on our hands we give it up. Diesel was slushy in the trucks.
ehp
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one said -38 the other said -40 with out wind chill
thursday the radio said with wind chill it was - 57 c. so that is70.6 degres below 0 for you guys in the usa
and i turned it off on friday because it was colder and i didnot want to hear it
thursday the radio said with wind chill it was - 57 c. so that is70.6 degres below 0 for you guys in the usa
and i turned it off on friday because it was colder and i didnot want to hear it
Pacific
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What do you use that bent twisted up wood for is it firewood ?
I'am glad the white crap is all disolved away no more snow for the rest of the year hopefully back to West Coast rain. The local logging contractors hate snow it screws everything up it is too hard to work in the bush on the West Coast when it snows.
I sure wouldn't want to be hauling logs down logging roads with 10% grades with snow on it. For the excavation contractors I work with didn't work in the snow you can't get the dump trucks through it and the excavators don't work well in the snow.
I was looking at Ryan's pictures it must be nice to have flat ground where you can run a skidder on. Skidders in this area rarely get used you would never beable to work on the slopes we have here. Hoe chucking is a better practice for this area then a self loading logging truck can pick up the wood at the road edge
The lot I'am working on doing some falling and cutting firewood on you can't get a machine on most of it without major hassles. I have been thinking about giving up the job of taking the firewood too much handwork.
The owner of the lot marked all the trees that have to be removed but I don't know if he wants to sell them for lumber or firewood. There are a couple nice firs they have grown on solid rock about 28"s at the butt 60' tall. There are some smaller ones that are leaners right towards powerlines I don't think I will be dropping those. There is a big one close to my parents house not one I want to touch.
There are a bunch of knarly cedar trees covered in limbs I'am not looking forward to dropping those I may get a climber to limb the SOBs. Once they are limbed they can be dropped in sections there is no way of getting a machine down on the slope to man handle the logs. The limbs have to be stacked into burn piles by hand the limbs the size of small trees
The logs that are worth anything for sawlogs I guess will have to be hoe chucked if a excavator can get onto the lower half of the lot. It is going to take minimum EX-200 Hitachi to drag the wood up the hill maybe bring in one of the local logging contractors EX 400 it would move the wood quick and devope the mountainside.
Enough rambling I feel bad for you guys that have to put up with snow 6 months of the year
It was 10 celcius (50 F) today enough to break out the T Shirts
I'am glad the white crap is all disolved away no more snow for the rest of the year hopefully back to West Coast rain. The local logging contractors hate snow it screws everything up it is too hard to work in the bush on the West Coast when it snows.
I sure wouldn't want to be hauling logs down logging roads with 10% grades with snow on it. For the excavation contractors I work with didn't work in the snow you can't get the dump trucks through it and the excavators don't work well in the snow.
I was looking at Ryan's pictures it must be nice to have flat ground where you can run a skidder on. Skidders in this area rarely get used you would never beable to work on the slopes we have here. Hoe chucking is a better practice for this area then a self loading logging truck can pick up the wood at the road edge
The lot I'am working on doing some falling and cutting firewood on you can't get a machine on most of it without major hassles. I have been thinking about giving up the job of taking the firewood too much handwork.
The owner of the lot marked all the trees that have to be removed but I don't know if he wants to sell them for lumber or firewood. There are a couple nice firs they have grown on solid rock about 28"s at the butt 60' tall. There are some smaller ones that are leaners right towards powerlines I don't think I will be dropping those. There is a big one close to my parents house not one I want to touch.
There are a bunch of knarly cedar trees covered in limbs I'am not looking forward to dropping those I may get a climber to limb the SOBs. Once they are limbed they can be dropped in sections there is no way of getting a machine down on the slope to man handle the logs. The limbs have to be stacked into burn piles by hand the limbs the size of small trees
The logs that are worth anything for sawlogs I guess will have to be hoe chucked if a excavator can get onto the lower half of the lot. It is going to take minimum EX-200 Hitachi to drag the wood up the hill maybe bring in one of the local logging contractors EX 400 it would move the wood quick and devope the mountainside.
Enough rambling I feel bad for you guys that have to put up with snow 6 months of the year
It was 10 celcius (50 F) today enough to break out the T Shirts
ehp
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Eric that skidder in my picture is a CLARK
is it a detroit motor or a V6 cummins
is it a detroit motor or a V6 cummins
ehp
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The skidder on page 3 with the guy getting in or out of it
i looked at it more and would say it is a 664 clark but it is a clark forsure and should have a 3 cylinder motor in it but it could be a older style 666 with a 4 cylinder motor , they used the same frame
i looked at it more and would say it is a 664 clark but it is a clark forsure and should have a 3 cylinder motor in it but it could be a older style 666 with a 4 cylinder motor , they used the same frame
NeTree
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eh... no.
Sorry!
If it makes you feel better though, the cab for sure & likely the shrouding isn't original. It was rolled sometime in like 92/93, about 4 years before I bought it.
353 Det power, seems to be the original engine.
Sorry!
If it makes you feel better though, the cab for sure & likely the shrouding isn't original. It was rolled sometime in like 92/93, about 4 years before I bought it.
353 Det power, seems to be the original engine.
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Oregon_Rob
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I'm Huffin and a Puffin just reading this
Originally posted by Pacific
What do you use that bent twisted up wood for is it firewood ?
I'am glad the white crap is all disolved away no more snow for the rest of the year hopefully back to West Coast rain. The local logging contractors hate snow it screws everything up it is too hard to work in the bush on the West Coast when it snows.
I sure wouldn't want to be hauling logs down logging roads with 10% grades with snow on it. For the excavation contractors I work with didn't work in the snow you can't get the dump trucks through it and the excavators don't work well in the snow.
I was looking at Ryan's pictures it must be nice to have flat ground where you can run a skidder on. Skidders in this area rarely get used you would never beable to work on the slopes we have here. Hoe chucking is a better practice for this area then a self loading logging truck can pick up the wood at the road edge
The lot I'am working on doing some falling and cutting firewood on you can't get a machine on most of it without major hassles. I have been thinking about giving up the job of taking the firewood too much handwork.
The owner of the lot marked all the trees that have to be removed but I don't know if he wants to sell them for lumber or firewood. There are a couple nice firs they have grown on solid rock about 28"s at the butt 60' tall. There are some smaller ones that are leaners right towards powerlines I don't think I will be dropping those. There is a big one close to my parents house not one I want to touch.
There are a bunch of knarly cedar trees covered in limbs I'am not looking forward to dropping those I may get a climber to limb the SOBs. Once they are limbed they can be dropped in sections there is no way of getting a machine down on the slope to man handle the logs. The limbs have to be stacked into burn piles by hand the limbs the size of small trees
The logs that are worth anything for sawlogs I guess will have to be hoe chucked if a excavator can get onto the lower half of the lot. It is going to take minimum EX-200 Hitachi to drag the wood up the hill maybe bring in one of the local logging contractors EX 400 it would move the wood quick and devope the mountainside.
Enough rambling I feel bad for you guys that have to put up with snow 6 months of the year
It was 10 celcius (50 F) today enough to break out the T Shirts
ehp
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well when you break something on it let me know cause i got 4 sitting here the same as that , i could not see the axles to tell what size itwas but you say it has a 353 motor in it so i know it is a 664 , i may even have a parts book here
