Muddy landing.

[logging22]

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Anybody else trying to work in this? Gotta let it dry a little before we go back to work. Supposed to rain again Monday and Tuesday. Mother nature sure has a way of making it rough.:frown:

 

[husqvarnaguy]

It is the same here. Gotta wait for it to dry out and it is killin me. I am having bad dreams about someone getting my wood.

 

[logging22]

I would say if they can get to it, they could have it!!:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[husqvarnaguy]

I would say if they can get to it, they could have it!!:hmm3grin2orange:

Or get stuck trying. Reminds me of a time when we were hauling hay. We lost a thousand pound round bale and when we came back there were 2 guys trying to load it up on there truck. We told them if they could load it they could have it. When we came back it was not there.:msp_mellow:

 

[husqvarnaguy]

I really need one of these. Nothing could stop me then.:msp_razz:View attachment 280807

 

[logging22]

Its not getting stuck. The landowner is getting a little bit worried. Just too dang wet.

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[RandyMac]

I worked Redwood landings where the mud was so deep, logs floated in it.

 

[timberland ts]

This year has been terrable. Only about four weeks or frozen ground. When your done for the day last one out back drags the landing and road out. If it freeze youll blow a tire or brake something. The towns around here will shut you down quick.

 

[floyd]

Different soils from my world. Here, we would keep that bladed.

This is where pictures of previous jobs would go along way helping the landowner understand it is temporary.

I never took pics of previous jobs.

 

[Blazin]

Gonna be March or April here before the mud gets deep here.....depending on the weather. Muddy logs suck to say the least.

 

[Trx250r180]

i feel sorry for who evers chain gets to cut those logs

 

[4x4American]

Don't know if this will help but my boss orders a truck of woodchips for the landing at certain jobs. costs $2/yard and gets a 100 yard load. on this particular landing it's damn near on the road and he wants it to look good for the people driving by. Anyways, we got the load delivered friday just before quitting time, he let it set there til saturday AM so that it frosted overnight, first thing saturday am while the frost is still on the ground he spread out the wood chips and told me that the wood chips will insulate the ground and the landing will stay hard for a long dang time. Also the woodchips make it nice for bucking logs and it looks real good too.

At the farm I work at the local landscaping companies come dump woodchips maybe you can find a way to get a load of woodchips free.

Now to get a little off topic, my buddy in the ADKS just got his property logged and they all called the landing the header. Confused me at first, dunno ifen its a north country thing or what. Anyone ever heard of that?

 

[bitzer]

I just don't know how you boys down south can make a livin in the winter. Seems like it would never freeze or dry. Theres at least a foot of frost in the ground up here this winter. I'd be run out of the county if I had a landing or woods get like that. Snow works well for keeping the frost in.

 

[Blazin]

Now to get a little off topic, my buddy in the ADKS just got his property logged and they all called the landing the header. Confused me at first, dunno ifen its a north country thing or what. Anyone ever heard of that?

Yep, header is a common term for landing up here. Must have something to do with towing the log truck in backwards with the skidder, and you barely have enough room to pile 5000'. lol

 

[logging22]

Winter sucks. Never freezes, or dries enough to work. Gotta leave that yard and start another job today. Further in the hills. More rocks, less mud. But, its forcasted to rain here the next 36 hours. Sweet.

 

[Driver625]

Header

A friend of mine that logs in Vermont calls it a header. A guy I know in New Hampshire calls it a landing.

 

[Driver625]

Winter sucks. Never freezes, or dries enough to work. Gotta leave that yard and start another job today. Further in the hills. More rocks, less mud. But, its forcasted to rain here the next 36 hours. Sweet.

Just think, all the rocks, rain, and mud "builds character". At least that's what I'm told. Good luck to ya.

 

[Gologit]

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Anybody else trying to work in this? Gotta let it dry a little before we go back to work. Supposed to rain again Monday and Tuesday. Mother nature sure has a way of making it rough.:frown:

Yup...muddy landings are a pain. Especially when the timber owner insists that you go ahead and log and deck and tow the trucks out with a Cat...sometimes one Cat pulling and one Cat pushing...and then screams bloody murder when the mill scaler docks the logs for having too much mud on them.
Lots of fun.

 

[Trx250r180]

around here we just keep piling cedar branches in the mud ,make wooden roads out of em

 

[4x4American]

I snapped two pics when I left work today. This is what our new landing looks like after two days of working it. There's two other landings so far at this job where the other equipment is, this landing is real small and not many logs here yet. Town is closing us down thursday due to frost or something so we're trying not to let logs set there too long been sending out quite a few loads. Landing seems to be holding up well. We're only skidding in the am right about now while the ground is hard. It's been about 20f in the am hours and today it got to about 42f around noon or so.

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