Nice tree length firewood!

[jegushee1]

Cuttin nice beech, maple and birch firewood in midcoast maine

 

[chucker]

nice one time splitters making fast wood with little effort by hyd. or maul........

 

[treeslayer2003]

jegushee, is there no big wood up there? or you are just in the small wood b'ness?

 

[jegushee1]

jegushee, is there no big wood up there? or you are just in the small wood b'ness?

Plenty of big wood up here ole boy

 

[jegushee1]

I don't know who the buyers are around other areas but all my tree length buyers don't want wood any bigger then 13-14 inch on the butt. One or two splits is all they want

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

They all cut in 1/2 for a short log truck?

 

[jegushee1]

We take all hardwood logs right down to 9 10 inch and the rest of those trees go into pulp. Only smaller stuff goes into tree length. Dif elsewhere??? Up here hardwood pulp still pays pretty good and you don't chase your $

 

[jegushee1]

Why are they all cut in 1/2? We do tree length here, can go as long as 50ft on the log truck.

All tri axles here. All want 8 or 9 cord loads so everything cut 24 ft

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

How do you get 9 cords on a tri-axle?, that's got to be a really heavy duty truck!

I get 5.5 cords of firewood on my tri axle dump and that's pretty near the GVWR of 50k.

We load about 9 cords that on a 5 axle setup, 80k GVWR... tri axle truck and dual axle trailer... log reach/stinger (whatever you want to call it) setup, like this put with a self loader...

 

[jegushee1]

?? Every pulp truck here carries 21,22,23 tons of wood no problem. Last load I sent was 10 cord of popple.

 

[treeslayer2003]

I don't know who the buyers are around other areas but all my tree length buyers don't want wood any bigger then 13-14 inch on the butt. One or two splits is all they want

you are talking about fire wood, i was talking about large veneer logs. just curios is all.

 

[treeslayer2003]

How do you get 9 cords on a tri-axle?, that's got to be a really heavy duty truck!

I get 5.5 cords of firewood on my tri axle dump and that's pretty near the GVWR of 50k.

We load about 9 cords that on a 5 axle setup, 80k GVWR... tri axle truck and dual axle trailer... log reach/stinger (whatever you want to call it) setup, like this put with a self loader...

pretty sure they can tag for alot of weight there. there are no self loaders around here because you can't tag it for enough here. 80,000 is all you can put on a semi here no matter how many axles.

 

[Chainsaw_Maniac]

If that were all hardwood, I would pay good money for it. Stuff like that usually gets snapped up by major firewood producers with big processors (not if it's poplar though!). My niche tends to be the stuff that's a bit bigger/knottier since most processor guys don;t want stuff over 13".

 

[bitzer]

you are talking about fire wood, i was talking about large veneer logs. just curios is all.

Tough to get a straight answer outta him? Oldtimer who lived in Vermont or New Hamshire claimed he had never even seen a 1000 bf hardwood tree. So I'm guessing they don't get too big up there.

 

[1270d]

I think Maine is a lot like where i live in michigan. Timber doesn't grow very big here. Short growing season, poor soils etc. Most of our stands are managed with a max stem diameter of 20-24 inches. Average diameter is a lot less than that. Optimum diameter/quality is supposed to be around 16-18 inch, then quality drops off pretty quickly.

 

[treeslayer2003]

wow, i leave 16" trees

 

[1270d]

thankfully what is lacked in timber size is made up for by excellent markets for products harvested

 

[bitzer]

wow, i leave 16" trees

Same here. Its funny cuz hes only about 5-6 hours north of me. At 2-3 hours north of me there is a huge change in timber size.

 

[jegushee1]

This tri axle when loaded head 4300 board feet of oak logs on it. That is over 8 cord. Is that not how you guys haul logs??? Never seen it different up here in maine unless someone got a trailer set up. Then your talkin 6 thousand board feet

 

[treeslayer2003]

nope, 4300ft be a semi load for me. we just can't tag for enough weight here to use straight trucks. i tried it, to many fines.

those be saw logs right?