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  1. GMB77

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    Like this one?

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    Makes sense since they are in Canada. There's also Wolfe Ridge, and one other I think.
     
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  3. FarmerJ

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    I’d love to eventually work it up to something like this setup with a mini excavator loading a log table and having a skid steer or tractor auxiliary hydraulics power the processor/ conveyor/ log table.

     
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  4. FarmerJ

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    I’m finding most of those manufacturers are in the eau Claire WI area which would be a good day trip for me to visit a couple of them.
     
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  5. FarmerJ

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    There’s definitely some big iron out there.

    a Cat D7 for the army guard. It was right up around 65,000 on the deck.

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    Just invite jrider & crew over for a few weeks and be done with it.
     
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    Lol. You give me waaaay too much credit! That is some serious wood amd it would have me running a lot of options and numbers through my mind.
     
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  9. FarmerJ

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    The fact it’s for several years running is the part that got me…

    we’re meeting at the current 9 acre project he’s in that’s just 4 miles from our place on Friday.
     
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  10. FarmerJ

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    Yeah, been drooling over these too.
     
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    Nice machine...sure makes a lot of splitter trash and kindlin though...
     
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  12. FarmerJ

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    I’ve noticed that with a lot of the box wedges regardless of make.
     
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    You're definitely gonna be able to supplement retirement with that amount of wood! :eek:
     
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    I've seen guys running splitters using big tractors. Yes, it works but it never made sense to me to run that big expensive machine where a much less expensive and smaller engine. mounted on the splitter would work just as well.
     
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    The idea came from a guy running a wolfe ridge splitter and he had tapped into it to run a range road log table and feeder.

    I want to put a mini excavator in between the log table and a wood pile and use it with a grapple to feed the table. Less driving that way with a skid steer or a tractor.
     
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    If I was looking down the barrel of 2,000 cords, I'd want as much convenience as possible. A little splitter trash would not concern me in the least.
    2,000x$400/cord= :makeitrain".
     
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    2000x 8 years X $400 / cord…:faint:
     
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    We just spent the weekend visiting daughter in Minneapolis. Her hub works for U of Minnesota. One of his co workers is a kinda retired farmer north of the Cities? The farmer sells firewood on the side in the city for $560 a full cord + delivery.

    If I asked $560 a cord down here in Southern Wisconsin I would hear crickets
     
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    If I asked $560/cord here in NEO, I would get heckled!
     
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    If I asked that I might get locked up...and rightly so. It sounds like prices are whatever the market will bear.
     
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