98% sawlogs. A lot of it was actually pretty kinky, but we tried to cut most of that out. I don't have any orders currently, so we bucked the logs for the nicest straight logs possible, anywhere from 8' to 20'. I'm planning to try and sell most of the oak lumber because that's plentiful around here, the pine I figured we'd just cut whatever the logs "want" to be made into, that way we'll get the best quality lumber. When I have an order for some specific dimension I have to cut, I frequently have to sacrifice quality for quantity.... this time I'm going to do it the other way around.
Gotta have it, the tractor is pretty much worthless without ballast. I'd really like to replace the basket a skidding winch in the near future.
For sure. I have a small sub compact with a grapple. I put a box on mine and put 350lbs of lead plates in the bottom and still plenty of room in the box for chains and other odds and ends. Total weight probably around 500 lbs. It is like night and day with the additional weight ; no more backwards wheelies.
Been too busy lately making sawdust to post pictures of what's up.... Cut up most of the cedar we got from the neighbors earlier this year...... Then we started a pole building for the bil...... I've got all the oak beams cut, but still need to saw the rafters outta some of the pine we salvaged.
Did a two day mobile sawing job a couple weeks ago....all oak. Toasted a wheel bearing on the way home....
I bought a thumb for the backhoe, so we can use it to load logs..... Works great, and Tom's welding job is holding up fine!
A few weeks ago I picked up a new used pickup for towing logs....so far so okay.... 1997 2500 with 5.7 & 5 speed stick.
Thank you kindly. I need to post some more pictures of our most recent stuff, but I've been too busy making sawdust to upload pictures..... and think of something intelligent to say.....
We did a little cedar logging job a few weeks ago. Some real monsters in there..... Thirteen loads over the worst stretch of roads in Arkansas... Four days start to finish.....got it all home and piled up, ready for the mill.
We spent one day making cants to cover expenses & get a bit into the green ($) on that job, we'll saw the rest of em in a while.
Been hauling lots of pine off the big salvage job over the last few weeks as well.... I think I'm on load number 27 now.......
We got all the 16' pine logs sawed up, and stickered. Mostly 2x6 and some 2x4 with a bit of 1x on the side....
