How much did you cut today?

[Pacific]

Its raining here on the coast of B.C. today thank god that white crap is gone back to normal weather for us

The local logging contractors here are happier than a pig in **** its raining so is all the other contractors that have to work outside.

The reason why I asked Ryan if he is selling that wood for firewood or saw logs is the wood we sell for saw logs has to be pretty straight and no shorter than 10' long. The guys with the woodmizer mills buy up cedar like no tommorow as their is a big demand for dimensional cedar lumber and beveled cedar siding.


Is it still snowing in Oregon Rob or has it stopped I know you guys were getting the heaviest snow fall in the Pacific Northwest area. I think today we would need our rain gear and rubber boots more than the heavy winter coats and insulated snow boots

 

[Oregon_Rob]

It finally started raining for us as well. I have lived in Oregon all my life, 37 years, and have never seen the weather act like this. We don’t normally get any snow worth talking about more than about once every couple of years and it is typically gone within a few days, so we don’t have the equipment to deal with it and since we don’t want to hurt the flowers and bunnies on the road side, we don’t use salt on the roads. I’m sure that no salt thing was decided on in a summer session of the legislature.
Since I am a weekend tree hacker, the recent weather does provide opportunities to get some of the fiber that has fruitlessly become horizontal.

Rob

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

ehp, I also thought that was a Clark 666, or 664 and was suprised when he said it was something else. I owned a 666 with the V6 Cummins for awhile and it looked just like that skidder.

 

[ehp]

ya Dennis i have had 664's 665's 666's 667's and one 668
i liked the 666 with the inline 6 cyl. cummins the best
same machine as the 667 just a shorter frame , same motor
i like the Clark better than the rest for around here, but have owned john deere's from 440 up to the 740
the 740 was a good machine it had a 4 way blade and 2 winches on it, the only thing is they just donot have much power so out came the 170 horsepower motor and a 288 horsepower motor went back in, now we are logging just donot think you are going to pass the fuel barrel
with the more hp motor you will burn 40 to 50 gallons per 8 hours shift but you would pull so much more trees in the 8 hrs. it was well worth it

 

[JimL]

ehp, did you ever have a 640 jd?


what motor?

 

[ehp]

yes has had 2 640's
they were the 140 hp. range
i think they were in the 1988 to 1990 year range
did not have good luck with them
could not keep transmissions in them both so sent them down the road , one went to new york state somewhere to skid whitepine
i am sure now they are better now or we just had a bad skidder day when they were built

 

[Ryan Willock]

Pacific, the twisted crap is pulp that will be made in to OSB (Old SH!TTY Board ). I dislike dealing with it but then it comes with the territory!!! I've got the 353 Detroit in my skidder and the 453 Turbo in the log truck. Busted a U-Joint in the skidder this after noon down in a hole three hundred yards from the landing, I should have it back together agian in the morning though

 

[Jacob J.]

Got 118 pecker poles today for just over 10mmbf. Full manufacture in the brush.

Ryan- that's a hell of a good thing you have going there, the sky's the limit as long as you keep your operation small and tidy.

 

[Ryan Willock]

Thanks JJ, I'm thinking VERY seriously about adding a knuckle boom loader with a buck saw to the opperation. That should increase production by 50-60% and then maybe a JD 450C dozer for road work and BMP's.

 

[Pacific]

It makes sense they can use any crap to make that oatmeal board that swells up double itsize if one drop of rain gets on it. I'am not a fan of OSB but it is cheap and passes building code so when you have a small shed to build it works.

 

[JimL]

Ryan, a knuckle boom is nice, We didn't have one for a while, and only one sawmill in town had a loader on the truck.
We bought it and we can load any truck.
Ive been happy with my 640 deere. its a 89. Its being completely redone now.
Other guy that works with us with us has a old timberjunk 240.
He's buying a new cat soon as summer hits.

 

[ehp]

tell him to look hard and long at the cat , just put a back rear end in a 525 it was only 14700 dollars , not bad if you say it fast
the pump in the back rearend stop pumping when the guy was roading it a couple of miles and it came to a real hault fast , his knees are a little sore

 

[user 2993]

Good going, Ryan!
When will we be seeing pics of Willock Sawmill?

 

[Oregon_Rob]

Not to sound morbid, but what happens if you get injured or sick and can’t work for a while? Do you carry insurance for something like that? Sounds like you now have some overhead that is fixed, weather you are working or not.

 

[Ryan Willock]

Woodbeard, the sawmill will be here next week. I have to go to Indyana to pick it up.

 

[user 2993]

Good deal, Ryan. Whatchya gettin? Woodmizer? Which one?
Here is mine, not a WM, obviously, but I did cut 1000bf with it today

 

[spencerhenry]

well, i am not a certified anything except maybe beer drinker. what year and make is that skidder, was it made in the 1900's looks like it will get the job done though. but how do you figure bdft on crooked logs like that, i wouldnt even mill that thing.
i milled about 1000bdft of lumber today, but no cutting except in the log pile. the snow here is still 4 to 8 feet deep at least where there is harvestable timber anyone. cant wait until july.
i own a dinosaur skidder too, a 74 i think, it isnt pretty but last december i skidded 4100 bdft six miles in one pull! took 3 hours one way
snowed in woodbutcher

 

[Ryan Willock]

My skidder is a '67 franklin model 130B, its a pretty good machine although I am thinking about selling it and getting something a little bigger as I am getting more tracts in the 20 acrer and up range with more steep ground. The sawmill I'm getting is a woodmizer LT40super Hydrolic and its a '98 model thats been reconditioned by woodmizer.

 

[spencerhenry]

i too have a woodmizer mill. it is an lt40 super hydraulic with a 42 hp diesel. got it with the lube mizer, and the debarker, and the remote station. got it last april 17, is a 2003 model. so far i have cut about 60,000 bf. mostly engelman spruce, some blue spruce and a little poderosa pine and doug fir. been having trouble lately getting flat cuts. adjusted the rollers, and tightened up the drive belt, and put new blade wheel belts on it. with a new blade, no problems. anybody out there have experience with milling standing dead blue and engelman spruce? blue is pretty knotty. my skidder is a massey ferguson 220. it old, it leaks, and its tired but for my uses its ok. would like to get a forwarder for hauling sawlogs, and moving logs from pile to mill, and offloading big beams from the mill. my gehl forklift moves logs ok and lumber well, but is too big for my yard. it is about 30 feet long retracted, and will reach 25 feet in front of the tires. it sure helps when putting the chains on the skidder. only edged about 800bf today. i hate edging. what kind of logs are you milling?

 

[Ryan Willock]

Red oak, chestnut oak, white oak, hickory, poplar, yellow pine (not much), white pine, walnut and maple.