Some of those tops look real small, but I guess if the mill couldn't use them, they wouldn't get loaded. Nice pics, good to see some logs heading out. I'll bet it smells good there.
Some Logging Going On
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ak4195
ArboristSite Operative
looks like an awesome work day too
woodguy105
ArboristSite Guru
Cool Pics!
Kiwilogger
ArboristSite Operative
Geez!
In NZ, if our trees were on the ground for more than, say 3 weeks, they'd be sap stained to buggery and totally unmerchantable.
2 months and it would be rotten/full of insect.
In NZ, if our trees were on the ground for more than, say 3 weeks, they'd be sap stained to buggery and totally unmerchantable.
2 months and it would be rotten/full of insect.
wvlogger
Rock trucker
nice pics you got any of the felling?
What is Douglass-Fir bringing these days? Last I heard here it was 175 per thousand (if you could find a buyer). Redwood is 600, old growth (cants) can bring as high as 3,500!
I think it is the same here. I haven't looked lately.
wvlogger
Nope. That stuff was too tall and the ground too flat to get close to the cutters. I haven't taken many pictures of falling because I don't want to interrupt the concentration, I don't want to get smashed, and I don't want to slow them down.
Here's another sale that started up this week. They are using a faller-buncher, grapple skidder, and delimber. Today's landing was in the high elevation seed orchard--offspring of genetically superior trees. Road right of way is being skidded. I spent the day hiking up and down the steeper slopes, marking trees to get cut for the skyline corridors. I think the chainsaw cutters will start tomorrow.
Adkpk
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Very good pics. Thanks slowp.
hvy 1ton
ArboristSite Lurker
slowp, you wouldn't know if the skidder is a 517 or a 527 would you. I've only ever seen a wore out 517 i can only imagine what a 527 can do on some decent ground.
Humptulips
ArboristSite Guru
Slowp,
I believe they're just called stake extensions.
There are a couple of co-generation plants on the Harbor. One is even taking slash on a limited basis. Sierra Pacifics mill runs on mill waste and Grays Harbor Paper has a co-generation plant funded by Grays Harbor PUD. It uses a lot of cedar spaltz from the shingle mills and is using slash I think all coming from Rayonier land.
Don't know about fir but I heard $230/thousand on hemlock last week. Don't think any mill on the Harbor cuts fir now. Have to truck it a long way.
I believe they're just called stake extensions.
There are a couple of co-generation plants on the Harbor. One is even taking slash on a limited basis. Sierra Pacifics mill runs on mill waste and Grays Harbor Paper has a co-generation plant funded by Grays Harbor PUD. It uses a lot of cedar spaltz from the shingle mills and is using slash I think all coming from Rayonier land.
Don't know about fir but I heard $230/thousand on hemlock last week. Don't think any mill on the Harbor cuts fir now. Have to truck it a long way.
Whatever it is, it was brand new last year. It has all the bells and whistles and the operator was pretty happy with it. He was hard to get out of it.
It is a 527.
jeremym
ArboristSite Lurker
There is talk about building a co-gen biomass generator plant at the old International Paper mill in Chelatchie Prairie, WA. Should be interesting if it comes to be!
Humptulips
ArboristSite Guru
I don't think the gathering of slash for hog fuel to fuel the co-generation plant is turning out to be very cost effective but it counts as green energy and the PUDs are scrambling to come up with enough to meet the requirements of the intiative that passed ( forget the number) mandating targets for green energy production.
PUD paid for all the capital costs of the one in Hoquiam and Grays harbor paper just has to pay for running it. Doubt it would have been built if GH Paper had to pay for building it or I should say upgrading as part of it was already there. The old Rayonier pulp mill boilers.
bullbuck
ArboristSite Guru
slowp,you had mentioned that your log trucks carry high bd.ft.age,well when we had an active stud mill in these parts they scaled one of our loads at 7650bd.ft. give or take that is our record to date,do you know what those trucks can haul?just curious...:monkey:
I usually use 4.7 or 4.8 mbf (Net) for estimating.
Back when there weren't so many cops, and no weigh stations, one old guy got 8 mbf (old growth) on his trucks. That's what the scaling turned out to be.
Back when there weren't so many cops, and no weigh stations, one old guy got 8 mbf (old growth) on his trucks. That's what the scaling turned out to be.
bullbuck
ArboristSite Guru
mbf?....what does the m stand for?
deeker
Tree Freak
mbf = one thousand board feet.
bullbuck
ArboristSite Guru
thanks deeker,its interesting how the lingo and logistics of logging varies throughout the country...
Well, to confuse us more, we sell timber mostly by the ton now, but cruise it to the CCF which is hundred cubic feet. There's not quite 10 ccf on a log truck. I use a 2 CCF to 1 MBF ratio because I think in MBF. 
