hey, I spent all of three minutes googling hot chicks and chainsaws, I expect a little less criticism here and a little more collaboration.
geesh
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hey, I spent all of three minutes googling hot chicks and chainsaws, I expect a little less criticism here and a little more collaboration.
geesh
I would collaborate on #1 , high marks Mud and well done.
Are we ok? Hey why not buy yer significant other a nice jacket for cheap in my other thread, come on make a offer.
looks like you wasted 2 of those 3 minutesQuote:
Originally Posted by mud
Oh well, wouldn't be the first time I wasted a couple minutes looking for hot chicks.
See, that is nutZZ. What ever happened to trucks?Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Above Chain-chickZZ. PlZZZ No 2... cut your arm off. ItZZ fuggin UggLee. No one ever needZ to see it. UgggH!
No. 3. Just tie that to you and jump in a cold thin ice covered beaver pond.
Outside of that, c'mon you buckin wood-nerdZ can't count the splitter op as ONE lift! ... Do oversZZ BitchesZZZ!
I touch my wood a lot
Been done cutting, six cords, may 4th. Woodin opened may 1 st. Get it done early and play all summer and fall.
I used to do forestry reasearch with a girl who was on the varsity logger sports team while attending a small ontario college and she didn't look like any of those girls
picture a husky redneck girl who always wore dickies or carharrts, her husband got her a chain saw for xmas
"Forestry Research". riiiiight... :tdo13:Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
yeah baby! And I loved it when she walked all over my back in her caulk boots
I've got many years still of clean up on property so transport won't be a big deal for years, but looking down the road when I've cut up every thing that need to be cut downand up or only up.. I can see myself going to a slash pile and cutting all the 3-4" pine into 8' lengths and using that for firewood. Piling on my 16' utility trailer ( 14,000lb gross) and cutting it up at home.Quote:
Originally Posted by powder11
I do this myself. Nothing huge, have sold 11, 16, 14, and so far this year 8 cords since buying the spread in Victor. But at 200 a pop its paid for all my gear plus the down payment on my FJ. And to think people pay money to go to the gym, 20 minutes in the morning 5 days a week keeps me fit and I make a couple G's. And I get tax writeoffs (nothing to write home about, but still nice).Quote:
Originally Posted by powder11
There are a few things that I just don't feel good about buying or selling. Wood is one of them. But I have to buy a bit here and there. I'm willing to sell quantity to the right person. Usually I just give it away to folks who need a little bit to tide them over.
If you can get $200 a cord I can see that being worth while but at $120 .. meh. Around here I have seen people picking up stacked wood under power lines on my road. Really not very much and at end only of long road.
In Whistler they get $450 a cord for dry fir. I wonder how many cords there are in a full logging truck? It would be interesting to see how much different the price here is for firewood vs. millwood.Quote:
Originally Posted by DougW
How much they can carry would depend on the truck and what is considered a cord but I heard 17 to 20 from a 7 axle rig, if I drive out of town to where there are 5 acre lots I can see a lot of people have part of a logging truck load sitting there
I think I'm going to try and keep track of what I burn this season. I have a pretty good idea, but it would be good to know just how much pine/fir/cedar and oak/almond/walnut I actually burn keeping this place warm.
It ain't just about heating the house either. Campfire wood for the backyard and travels, as well as the smoker
But that wood that comes on a logging truck isn't millwood its wood at the landing that doesn't make the grade so becomes long firewood. I friend of mine who is a logger and operates a wood lot plus logs for other wood lot operators gets a load of wood for his place. Its big wood but a mill won't take it. He doesn't bother moving wood from his landing to his place. Just gets a self loader to do it and pay the shipping.Quote:
Originally Posted by powder11
I don't think when he sells firewood off his landing he gets much for it. Most of the cost is just the trucking cost and that really depends on distance. But I'll check that. I thought he paid $1000 for a load which was about 15 cords but he's always talking abot cubes so cords don't mean anything to him.
The truck that delivered mine held 11 cords (8'x8'x4') 6 axels and an onboard grappler. $86 per cord fer birch.
we got 2 guys up here who do this ^^ the mill won't buy the wood so one guy has a self loading 4 axle truck with no trailer for 900$ a load, the 7 axle guy charges 1200 for a load, the op costs will be much the same for a 4 axle truck as the 7 axle but without the pup you don't get as much wood ...too bad the 7 axle guy is so unreliableQuote:
Originally Posted by DougW
we found a landing on a wood lot where they had just left the logs stacked beside the road ready to load for several years so we loaded up the pickup truck or pull stuff out of slash piles ... in all the wood gathering I did we didn't have to cut any trees down
86 a load eh bushman? you might spend that in truck/chainsaw fuel/ wear/tear and then you have to spend the time harvesting
$200 a cord is pricey, $450 is crazy.
Everything is pricey here, and we pay $100 for a loaded dump bed (just shy of a cord) of a bone-dry mix. Little bit of pine, some maple, beech, oak. Found a card the previous owners of our house had left. That guy wanted $85 for the same. The house isn't set up to be heated with wood, so we didn't burn much the first couple of winters. Just dumped a bunch of money on a heat pump last year, so now we don't burn much at all. But, at $85/~cord, I would have kept buying it. My 5 year-old daughter can swing a maul for shit.
Fond memories of splitting wood with the old man, though. We lived in a pretty nice neighborhood in town, so it must have looked pretty funny seeing us splitting wood on the front lawn, or on the side of the street when we could get the hydraulic splitter from his friend.
Now THAT is badass!
Tell your buddy I'll give him a couple grand to deliver a truck load of fir to Whistler next summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by DougW
It certainly is, but it's paying for my ski pass this season!Quote:
Originally Posted by bagtagley
He has everthing but the truck, skidder, processor ( excavator with a fancy thng that can grab and cut to exact lengths) but gets other people to do the lauling. He sells from his land landing wood for firewood and sometimes buys a load himself. Way to far for firewood from Golden but there must be a way to get stuff from closer.Quote:
Originally Posted by powder11
feller buncher to cut the tree down and I think they use a limber to clean the tree and cut to lengthQuote:
Originally Posted by DougW
no he does cutting of trees down by hand then moves to landing with skidderQuote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
though I know what you mean by feller buncher but I don't think he can use one of those as wood is too big for the most part.
There is, but they know what the final sale price is to the local customer, so local guys don't sell for cheap and I don't really want to be in that business anymore than I already am anyway unless there were a big upside. Just a thought and I appreciate the feedback.Quote:
Originally Posted by DougW
Problem here , well at least for friend is a storage of truckers. It was a real bottleneck for him this year when he was trying to get out 200 loads. Was also shipping to Revie as even after extra shipping was paying more.
I'll ask what firewood sells at landing.
One would think a way to do it using that skid steer cutting splitting machine would be to fill an open top container and deliver to final location. A 40 footer should hold 15 cords though a 20ft might be easier to move around. Though that would start to require capital invsetment.
Or maybe just rent a cube truck for a weekend. I bet one of those uhaul moving vans would handle perfectly heading down the mtn highway loaded to the gills with firewood. Hire some Frenchy to drive and pretend he stole it if he crashes it.Quote:
Originally Posted by DougW
I've got way more than I need, but I can still cut through November (wx and road closures depending) and have a good stash. Hard to resist. I'd hate to go back in the spring and discover some other dirtbag got MY wood. My wife says I have issues.....
I am hacking away at my pile. I'll take some photos next week. So far my back shoulders and arms feel good. Maybe 20% cut split and stacked.
nothing like swinging a maul a few hundred times a day to work through the issues!Quote:
Originally Posted by telemike
had a borrowed splitter for a while - kinda felt like cheating - back to the maul - my neighbor uses a little maul and a small sledge - I prefer swinging the big one
Cutting and splitting 1-2 cords a day this time of year. Pretty good money if you don't mind the labor.
You have issues.Quote:
Originally Posted by telemike
When I was working with a climber/faller here on the Shore most of our work was in the British Properties, many of the people we cut for didn't want the wood. So we would split it and we had about three spots around the area that we would dump the wood. We'd dump 2 to 3 full pick-up loads of good split wood 4 days a week. Seems that enough people had figured out where we dumped and each pile would be gone in a day or two.Quote:
Originally Posted by powder11
If someone really wanted the cheap wood they could track down the guy I worked for (I've since lost his number) and get lots of free wood. Truck and a trailer would haul plenty up to Whistler to sell at a premium.
Thats just sick IMO, up here fire wood isn't a mom n apple pie thing and it ain't free cuz you gotta invest some time & money to harvest it so fire wood =money ... get it anyway you can cheap as you can without wrecking too much gear or hurting too many body partsQuote:
Originally Posted by telemike
This house has no wood stove so I no long have to do the wood harvest every year and after a furnace/insulation upgrade it costs me 1200-1500$ a year and zero effort
It's gotta be fir to sell at a premium. You guys cut a lot of fir or was it a mixed bag?Quote:
Originally Posted by shirk