1st paying job. We practiced on one in the corner of our yard, then did 4-5 in our son's yard, just learning the best way to run it.
Smart move on your part. Seems easy enough to do once you get the hang of it. Of course anything is easy when you know what you are doing. Hopefully it will bring in lots of Benjamins for you!
The brother of a lady we have done work for called, said he had 2 trees that needed to be dropped before the house was moved in. A big pine and small pecan... We went Monday afternoon and got to work... Used the Stihl MS461, 28" bar and Stihl XS400, 25" bar... Setting up the notch... Finish and notch clean up... Back cut and fall... On the ground safely... 32" dia Long leaf pine, full of pitch, haven't seen a heart like this in a long time. Used the XS400 for bucking and limbing...it will sure sling some chips... We called the brothers with the pallet business, Luke brought the flat bed trailer... We cut 3 8' and 3 12' saw logs from that tree. 60' Then we dropped the pecan... We bucked the main stem and save 3 9' logs for us... The landowner came by, wanted another pine dropped that had a bad place on it that we showed him earlier...added it to the job...only got pictures of it on our trailer, it was very late when we started on it...got 5 12' logs from it... We'll take the pine stump and pecan off and take logs to their mill this morning... We got limbs cleaned up and tractor home about 9:30 last night...new 20" light bar Christmas present works great.
You know I have to include my supervisor and moral support, Miz Carol. She took most of those pictures...
No No sir, you reap the rewards of your labor. Give us an update on how well they work when the time comes. Glad you grabbed some.
We had a little tree job for a friend yesterday. He had 11 pines he wanted down...the row of pines here and a couple small ones on other side of lot The Stihl XS400 and Echo XS4910 made the trip. Measuring the saw logs...cut them to 12' or 8'... Echo XS4910 did most of the bucking and limbing A nice long leaf pine was in the mix Miz Carol was a big help with the Kubota L4802. She guided a few pines in the right direction... She moved all the saw logs And stacked them, around 40 total... We loaded his trailer with some limbs and smaller wood... Put the rest in a burn pile... After lunch, the pallet mill boys came to get the logs 1st load was all 12' logs, I didn't get a 2nd load was 8' and 12' logs... We were home by 2:30...
Jeff, it is awesome that you have a buyer for a small job like a tree or two. Any idea how much they pay? If I had a market for pine and gum, I could go to town on my woodlot. I mean small loads here and there instead of some logger coming in and doing the whole place. Don't want that because it would destroy the look of my land and also damage too many trees. Around here, you can no longer find any logger that will touch a small job. A shame!
What’s all this green and brown stuff you’re playing in? I wish the pine around me was straight and knotless.
When we started some small jobs a couple years ago, we were able to take pine and small gum logs to a chip mill. We got around $20 ton delivered to mill, not much, but we were getting paid to do the tree work and didn't have to burn it. The big gum logs, over 10"+ dia, we took to sawmill, got $55 ton for those. Sadly, last year, a tree service brought a load of short logs, like 6-10', in to the chip mill, needed to be 16', they got so they said if it wasn't on a log truck, they wouldn't take it.... We were working the big pine job, Pines, Pines Galore when this happened. We get about half what the chip mill was paying, but we don't haul, and it's an outlet for pine logs. 3 brothers rum a pallet mill.
