Well, it's been 16 yrs since our place was cut. The pines that were left have gotten big enough to harvest. My brothers and sisters needed the money. Only about 15-18 acres to harvest. They might cut a few hardwoods, but mostly pine.
It rained last night and early this morning, didn't stop them though. They brought in a dump truck load of gravel for the hill, still having to pull or push each loaded truck all the way to the highway. The road down....
That looks like really sandy soil that road would be impassable if it was in my area clay and loamy mud nice pile of firewood also JB
Yep, we have some areas of clay too. Red and white, luckily it's a few feet down. That's where we have to put the overflow wood.
It’s a nice feeling to cash those checks. I recovered the purchase price of my forty acre wood lot two times over by selling saw logs.
My brothers and sisters are getting paid. My oldest sister gave me her part of the land, but she got the $$ for this cutting. Maybe if I live long enough, I'll see a return. At least the part they aren't cutting has some oaks on it.
Made friends with the loader operator, young dude, very nice guy. I asked him to set us aside some of the oaks that would be going for pulpwood. He got us these 3 today. Gave him a tip, hope to see more.
Phew...the cutting has ended. This was the cutter they were using. This thing is a beast. They moved it to a different location yesterday. When it's running, about the only thing you hear is the blade spinning/singing, then it slicing thru a tree and the tree hitting the ground Even the skidder are quiet. Nothing like the old Franklin or Timberjacks from years ago, with the Detroit Diesels screaming in them. They still have a good bit to process and haul out.
Yeah the new stuff is really quiet but from somebody who has run the old timberjacks I still love the sound of a detroit at work my first truck was a Brockway with a 671 detroit with a 13 speed and I Strait piped it I loved it but somehow I did not hear your reply to well that sound is one you just have to like JB
Well, the loggers are gone now, finished Monday. Here is a better picture of the JD skidder they used. It's a big machine. They left some logs too... A few pine...might see if a friend with a mill wants them or we will take them to the chip mill... Left us a nice of hardwoods...ya'll know where this is going......mostly oak, I think I saw 2-3 cherry trees and a couple gum logs A couple oaks that shouldn't have been cut... They did set aside this huge cherry burls, trunk dia at the end is at least 12-14" Need to find a good home for that. Plus there are several tops that can be cut.
You got some nice tops to work with !!! were they nice enough to leave you that skidder to play (I mean work with) JB
heavy too. Picked up a used one. “It’s only 35,000 lbs….” with my truck and trailer scaling 43,000, should make me like 78,000 gross right? decided to scale it because leaving the shipper it just FELT heavy. I was a bit surprised when it tipped the scale at 89,000 lbs. where the hell do you pickup 12,000 lbs? someone put larger tires on. 2800 lbs right there. And then the filled them with liquid. Another 9400 lbs according to the fill charts…. you go back to a broker and have to explain why his rate is doubling and you better be ready to explain why. amish kid bought it and I didn’t have my trailer back together and his old machine tied down and he was already hauling logs with it…. For size reference…. The well the machine is setting in, is 29’ from the front to back. before I left, he’d returned after grabbing 4 loads and he was all grins. “Would have taken me almost 3 hours with my old machine.” I think it took him 25-30 minutes.
