Some sawing, logging and skidding pics and videos ......

[CORNFEDMIDGET]

Somewhere in this mess, someone said something about cookies.

I love cookies, they are delicious!

 

[056kid]

Im lost for words. . .


I think I should be the one being mentored! How long have you been cutting timber?
Dr. Phil has hit the nail on the head though.
A genius of geniuses!
You know more than I don about me!!
Its UNBELIEVABLE.
Im glad you and your friends are getting a kick out of this whole endeavor, Cause your Im a bad ass attitude makes me laugh. Especially when I think about how long or to be more accurate, how short you would last in the industry that I half way know. . .

 

[Slamm]

Im lost for words. . .


I think I should be the one being mentored! How long have you been cutting timber?
Dr. Phil has hit the nail on the head though.
A genius of geniuses!
You know more than I don about me!!
Its UNBELIEVABLE.
Im glad you and your friends are getting a kick out of this whole endeavor, Cause your Im a bad ass attitude makes me laugh. Especially when I think about how long or to be more accurate, how short you would last in the industry that I half way know. . .

I believe the key phrase in all of that is," The industry that I half way know ...." ..... So while you may, and I use that word loosely, you may, know your industry half way, you don't know jack about my area or what makes money in this local industry, I'm pretty sure I've got a good handle on it. I have successfully cut and skidded timber in Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois, I owned all of my own equipment on all of those jobs and could go back and get work at any of those locations tomorrow. I also have changed very little about my operation in those 5-6 years, why, because its efficient, it works and it makes sense.

(edit below)
So just how long would I last in your industry (You ask)???

Hmmmmm, I have zero bills, I have fun at what I do, I employ other good guys that need work/money, my wife knows how to run saws and equipment about as good as most men and can run a grapple skidder better than most, I get repeat business wherever I have worked. The landowners like my work, the timber buyers like how I cut/skid and I have the photos to prove it all. (I don't mean any of this as a brag, just proving a point to this idiot). Meanwhile, your photos show a hack that from day one, until now can't figure out how to cut a tree down without dumb looking notches and pulling fiber, LOL. I'd say, I've got more than just the basics of the industry down and know how to make money doing it, and all without screwing around with your beloved pulpwood, LOL. (end edit)

So if you want to shrink your own head a little go back and read some of your old posts and just see that 5 years ago everybody thought you were a dumba$$ and today everyone thinks you are a drunkard dumba$$. Here is some good reading for you, pop the lid off a cold one and drink up:
http://arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=21395&highlight=056+kid+guitar

You are the epitome of a hack and the pictures to prove it are in the above thread, LOL.

Why don't you just run along and leave this thread alone, okay, wouldn't that be a smart thing to do???

Later,

Sam

 

[056kid]

I know what people used to think of me, and I know what they think now.
Its not important to me though, what is important is my well being Comprendere? So spouting off on your all mighty thread really dosent pose any harm. . .


Instead of studying up on 056 kid, go get some rest for that steep ground you gotta traverse tomorrow. Stay safe now. since I said that Il say #### you to even things out & keep my reputation. .

Yea and the hack thing, Il let the man that signs my pay check determine that buck-O.




You know bringing up 6 year old irrelevance is a really dirty liberal type thing to do. IMO. . .

 

[Slamm]

Okay, bye bye now.

For those that just want to look at some pics/videos of the various goings on, it starts partway down, (back) on page 17, with page 18 ---- to this point (19) being a complete waste of time and effort.

Later all,

Sam

 

[possumtrapper]

Thank You Slamm, you do an awesome and admirable job of handling logs, equipment, staff, chainsaws, idiots, delinquents, will e helicopter pilots, and what sounds like teenagers, drunks, space cadets or maybe a mixture of all those things.

I have been back and read this entire thread and think it is embarressing how you have been treated and I feel like I need to apologise about the lack of regulation of that kind of misbehavior.

From now on I'll be ignoring them, and concentrating on what makes America great, which includes your work posts.

Please keep posting your excellent pix, I find them inspirational and motivational. Thank You again from all of us here in New Zealand.

 

[belgian]

Im lost for words. . .


I think I should be the one being mentored! How long have you been cutting timber?
Dr. Phil has hit the nail on the head though.
A genius of geniuses!
You know more than I don about me!!
Its UNBELIEVABLE.
Im glad you and your friends are getting a kick out of this whole endeavor, Cause your Im a bad ass attitude makes me laugh. Especially when I think about how long or to be more accurate, how short you would last in the industry that I half way know. . .

Hey Kid, let it go.

You may think you are the best faller in town but what makes you believe that you can tell someone how to run his business, while you have never run an operation yourself, nor know anything about Slamm business environment.

Running a business is about making money, not about how good you can swing a saw or how many (profitless) pulpwood you leave behind. Maybe some food for thought for you, LOL. From my perspective, you are the one to learn from Slamm ....not the other way around

So go sit in the corner and use your brain instead of your mouth. Or do I feel some jealousy right dar...

 

[CORNFEDMIDGET]

I was trying to lighten the mood earlier. Cookies, somehow become part of every discussion here. My hats off to you Slamm. I've killed some trees in my time, but never run a business. Looks like you enjoy your work and family, good life. Kentucky is a great place, my roots are from Kentucky. My grandpa was an axman (literally) in Eastern KY, back when they still were logging in the Appalachian.

 

[Slamm]

Well today was not a good day to be in the woods with us. The new guy Craig, was on the ground hooking up chokers, (I was skidder driver) and we were pulling a smaller tree that got hung up in another tree, and he was going to top it when it fell. Well he wasn't paying any attention and I pulled the tree out of the other tree, which was hollow/rotten and it fell over toward us. Craig was looking at his chainsaw and not the tree situation. I saw it coming and had stopped and was yelling at him but the trees kept on coming. Needless to say, the 10" section of tree that is right at his feet fell about 80' and was moving right along when it fell right next to him, it literally brushed the shirt he was wearing.

The next turn in, I watched as Bert (cutter) had a tree fall over and a large 30'+ branch came flying back at him and he was running hard, and it only missed him by about 3 feet. Then a big rotten tree fell over onto me and the skidder. We questioned the sanity of working anymore today .............. then we went back to work without any further issues. We are in some bad genetics on the trees, the ash and soft maple are bad hollow and rotten, these trees should have been cut 5-10 years ago and crap like this is the result. Bert cut 78 trees, but only 51 can be counted as decent trees with footage in them for the landing, the rest will be left in the woods to rot, as they are just junk.

This is a marked timber and we are to cut the trees they marked but we don't have to drag them out and some of these trees are so bad they just explode everywhere when they get cut, as they have zero integrity left in them.

Here some honey bees had made the best of this hollow tree. Anyone know how we should "collect" them and the honey, to make a hive at home??? I don't think it will be cold enough tomorrow to slow them down, but we could check.

We stacked yesterday's pile and this is today's landing at that location and there is another landing, photo'd below.

Here is the other landing. The dog is on a good Red Oak (We got a grade 16'x23", Mat 20'x21" and a Pallet 10'x20" and no limbing, LOL, and there are equally nice hickory behind it. Would like that we get about 200 more of those.

Later,

Sam

 

[jeepyfz450]

Wow that red oak is "Cherry" lol Just kiddin. very nice timber you got there... I hate getting into those rotten hollowed out cull trees its just plain dangerous.

 

[Zombiechopper]

the hollow rot is scary ####. I had one like that go sideways on me a while back. It was completely punky all through. Shoulda pushed it over with the tractor but it looked ok from the outside!

 

[056kid]

#### around if you want too. . . You should have been nicer to me last night, now you got the Timber Gods all pissed off. . .

 

[Zombiechopper]

#### around if you want too. . . You should have been nicer to me last night, now you got the Timber Gods all pissed off. . .

hey young feller, I think you must get pissed off at everything and everyone so I can't find it within myself to feel special for ticking you off. If I wanted to push your buttons we'd be talking about bent ES bars and the inexperienced cock sure punks that bend em....

 

[056kid]

That comment was directed at Slamm, and sorry to tell you, but bending bars is part of falling timber.


inexperienced, what ever ya'll say, like water off a ducks back it is to me. . .

 

[DHIBBS75]

Slamm Me and my neighbor just cut down an 5 ft red oak.. solid go to solo 603 versus 5 foot oak.... to see picks.... I cut the first log at 10 ft and the 2 at 8'8".... Goodmans is going to come and look at them. They can only cut 42".... these are bigger... I was told anywhere form .35-.45 cents a foot. and the log has about 8-900 ft each.... Does this sound about right??? WHat are your suggestions????

 

[Slamm]

Slamm Me and my neighbor just cut down an 5 ft red oak.. solid go to solo 603 versus 5 foot oak.... to see picks.... I cut the first log at 10 ft and the 2 at 8'8".... Goodmans is going to come and look at them. They can only cut 42".... these are bigger... I was told anywhere form .35-.45 cents a foot. and the log has about 8-900 ft each.... Does this sound about right??? WHat are your suggestions????

I'm not by a computer now (this is my phone). If they can't cut that size you may have to quarter it. They have the best prices for red oak. But a lot depends on what the logs look like. Make sure you separate the cuts or they will stain. I will check you pics when at a puter.

Sam

 

[bitzer]

Hollow and unpredictable is all part of the fun! Makes things a little more interesting and you've gotta be sharp.

Beats the hell out of an office job anyway.

What drives me nuts is when guys aren't paying attention to the action. When I say "get the hell out of the way," take more than 3 steps back and watch wtf is going on. Amazing how many people get away with it though.

 

[Slamm]

Here is some pics of the 3rd Landing.

Here is the 2nd Landing

Bert Cutting a log at 20 feet in the woods, because some of these were either too heavy to pull in one piece or two long to get turned around for easy skidding. A lot of the pin oaks we were getting two 20'ers and one 10'er before topping. So we just marked them and bucked them in the woods and pulled them out, because the skid was pretty short to the 3rd landing.

 

[Slamm]

Craig setting chokers.

This is not a face cut, the face cut is on the back of this tree. He just cut the spur off here.

Here is a load of mat logs leaving. I put nine 20'ers on the back of the trailer and 8 16'ers on the front.

 

[Zombiechopper]

ya know what Sam? I spent all day bouncing around rutted hay field in a Case 1070 with a totally rotted out seat so the first thing caught my eye is just how perty that blue easy chair in your skidder looks