Little Logging

[Cowboy Billy]

Well I have been busy since I got laid off. While I have been reading the form I haven't had much time to post. I have been back and fourth from home to the farm. working in the woods up there or doing chores at home and getting things ready to go to the farm. 350 miles each way no fun driving that!

Besides working on my equipment at the farm. I want to build a entry room into the trailer with a bed and a wood stove. With enough room to hang wet cloths to dry out. My plan is to build it on four 8"x8"x20 foot long beams so I can drag it around with the dozer. That way when we build a cabin we can use it a little cabin for friends that come up or as a large hunting cabin. That we can sleep in.

I plan on making a 12'x20' deck with the 8x8x20 beams then deck it with 1.5" lumber. Then build a 12'x16' foot room with a 4' over hang in the front.

Wow just lumber for the deck will be pricey :!: Better cut my own wood

Some of the trees I cut down along the trail

Loading a spruce that will become a 20 long 8x8. This little running gear I got sure is coming in handy

Little Kub-ota with a 12' log. I was surprised at what that little 21hp tractor could lift

At the stock pile with the farmall 130 and logs:!: These 14.9 tires work great in the mud! It may look dry there But you should have seen some of the mud holes I had to go through to get there.

It started snowing before I got all the wood out.

Its nothing like what all you real loggers do But I had a lot of fun and had my Uncles scratching their head as I did not have any help. I sure have learned a lot from ya all and it helped a lot. Shoot I just started wedging my back cut this year. And about felt cheated when a tree would go over without driving the wedge in.

I also got some nice red and white pine. That I want to use for siding inside of the building.

Billy

 

[tree_beard]

looking good billy, keep the pics coming as you progress

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Thanks Tree Beard

This is in the Michigan's Eastern UP. I don't know how much more I can do this year. The old 80's case loader is pretty worn and won't start below 45 deg weather. I blew out the head gasket this spring with starting fluid. And I Don't want to do that again. The trailer is a little over 1/4 mile from the closed county road and 3/4 from the nearest power line. We are running on a diesel generator. And unless I can get the entry way built with a wood stove in it I just cannot keep it warm or dry out wet clothing in it. My Dad brother and I own a wooded 120 acres. It adjoins my Uncle and cousins property giving us 440 acres to play on.

Billy

 

[ak4195]

Looks like fun CB,great job.One thing I learned from moving rolls of utility conduit,if you suck your chain up tighter and tilt out your bucket,the log will stay tight against the bucket.That is till you tilt or crowd down again,no swinging around and what not.

Well done!

ak

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Thanks AK

I want to get forks for both of them. Find a place to hook up another hyd valve on the tractor and loader. And make some clams? like they have for bobcat buckets to hold it down. As well as being able to pick up the brush and dump it in the burn pile. Jumping on and off all the time to hook and unhook chains is a pain in the a$$.

Billy

 

[RATHRBCUTN]

That's a nice looking Farmall. I've got a 130 but it doesn't look nothing as good as that.

 

[Mike Van]

Lookin' good Billy - And, you're right - Forks would be #1 on my list too.

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Thanks RATHRBCUTN

I have two 130's a 100 a std cub and a cub lowboy. I love the old low rpm torque engines. And it works great in the woods. I just need to figure out how to put power steering on it

Thanks Mike. I work construction so I get laid off a lot. And my brother never has time off when I do so I end up having to work by myself. I usually run a D5m Cat doing finish work on new landfill cells.

Billy