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Scott G
ParticipantThere are several Amish orders who use round balers with BIG PTO forecarts. You won’t see any of them posting here though…
The Amish guys I’ve talked to seem to like them.
I’m not as big of a round bale fan as I used to be. But then again, I only feed two steers and a few horses.
Had a neighbor that about 18 years ago was unloading a round bale out of his truck. He lived on the side of the mountain like we all do around here. Anyway, he got it off the back of his truck into the corral, the bale landed on its side and off it went. It busted the corral and thats when it really picked up momentum, continuing down the mountain until it launched off the cut bank side of the county road, went about 20′ airborne over the road, touched down, went through the wire fence and stopped when it got to the meadow/creek. We figured it went about 250-300 yds. Another neighbor, Martha Ann, had just driven by on the road seconds before this thing launched over it. Can you imagine driving down the road and seeing a 700# round bale flying overhead? Ahhh, the stuff local legends are made of…
ParticipantGreat site, Ben!
I added your link to my site and the DAPF contact site.
One suggestion, you may want to make it so that your outside links open in a new window. Otherwise when people start visiting the other links and start exploring from there they navigate away from your site and can get lost. If a link is opened in a new window and they close it, you’re still there! A bit of marketing…
Take care,
ScottParticipantAndy,
Here is a search with a lot of info…
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=011380079945713262039%3Azls1k4u10qg&ie=UTF-8&q=solar+kiln&sa=Search
I have seen one that CoWood at CSU put together and it worked well. Your biggest challenge is how much you want to invest on humidity and temperature controls.
The USFS-Forest Products Lab in Mad Town will bury you in all the info you could possibly want.
Take care,
ScottFebruary 12, 2010 at 5:35 pm in reply to: Smal-Scale Logging & Slowing the Spread of EAB field day #57829ParticipantEAB & Asian Long-Horned Beetle arrived here in untreated pallets & crating stock from…. I know you already know the answer.
Chestnut blight, Dutch elm disease, white pine blister rust, the list goes on and on…
The bark beetle issues we have out here, its not just MPB, are all native insects and is a result of both climate and lack of disturbance to create different age class stands. Now that the population is large enough they’ll pretty much munch on anything if there is enough population pressure.
On the bright side, there will be some oppotunites fro horse loggers to work on fuel reduction and hazard trees. Reason being is lodgepole and pondo are very prolific when it comes to regen capacity. The regen starts coming up in a sea of toppled trees and the only way to effectively remove the deadfall without trashing most of the regen is with horse logging, preferably running a single.
In my mind, invasives are the single most important threat we have facing our native ecosystems. The native flora/fauna are just not adapted to cope with these exotics.
Participant@nclady 15575 wrote:
Are you still finding decent logging work, Scott G? .
All that I want or need to fill what time I have.
@nclady 15575 wrote:
I was looking Ray up on the internet because a close mutual friend of ours (ret. Fire Chief) passed on and I haven’t seen him since we married and moved from the mountains. That’s how I found you all here. *hello* Here’s an article from some years back, Ray is well known and liked in that area, nice guy.
I have dogs, but I’ve also shot a few wild dogs in the past that were running & harassing stock. It used to be a huge problem out here and the law was on our side.
Not as much a problem anymore, the mountain lions and coyotes weed out the rogues.
February 11, 2010 at 10:38 pm in reply to: Smal-Scale Logging & Slowing the Spread of EAB field day #57828ParticipantParticipantOops on my part! I should’ve noticed this was in the Ox forum. Oh well, what can you expect from a dumb logger like me…:(
ParticipantTraditional logging tug/trace. I know the folks that used them swore by them but I don’t think they would be as handy for me, maybe even awkward.
ParticipantHmmm, frisky team with not much time to get them going steady for work. You might try a more severe bit, especially if they’re not responding to you and a wreck is imminent. You are going to have to watch your pressure on the lines with the new headgear though or you’ll make matters worse. If you’re using a liverpool with a long shank you could just drop the lines a notch or two for more attention. They’ll eventually settle with enough sweat and a consistent hand…
ParticipantNice bit of kit, Donn!
It would be great if you marketed the unit/plans once you make the refinements that become obvious with extended use in the woods.
I wonder how a sliding beam would work on an outfit like that?
February 8, 2010 at 5:54 pm in reply to: What do you all figure it cost you to put out wood ? #53164ParticipantI’ve started, Rick. To be honest, it is down a few notches on available “quality ‘puter time”. I have to mess with a few of the equations to better reflect animal operations distinct from mechanical. I will try to put a slot in for equipment like saws, forwarder, truck/trailer, etc and that gets a little tricky when you are trying to put apples and oranges on the same spread sheet.
There is a lot going on in my world right now. So much forest and so little time…
February 7, 2010 at 7:15 pm in reply to: U.S.D.A. Plans to Drop Program to Trace Livestock (NAIS) #57631ParticipantSo for those of us that live close to a State line?? For example, my daughter just picked up a steer from Laramie last weekend and brought it home. We’ve always had brand inspectors out here but they’re usually “one of us” and easy and reasonable to deal with. This is definitely local, 40-60 miles, but there are State line issues for us.
February 5, 2010 at 4:21 pm in reply to: U.S.D.A. Plans to Drop Program to Trace Livestock (NAIS) #57630ParticipantHot damn!! if it’s true…
ParticipantHarley’s sale is a great sale put on by a great guy. A lot of good stock gets run through it and the implements/wagons/sleds that come through are usually pretty impressive as well.
Of course, as always, the best things about these sales is visiting with folks you don’t see except at the sales.
I’m usually at both his spring and fall sale. He times them to be close to Waverly which attracts more folks/horses/implements to his.
If you are interested in going in April contact me and we can get together for a visit at the auction.
For the first time in a long time last April’s auction was a wash out. We got a 4′ dump at my place and stuff was floatin’ at the auction.
April is our snowiest month here.
Participant@Rick Alger 15199 wrote:
On a related note, can you think of a way to admit Logger’s Wife to this discussion?
…ask Carl to and he’ll take care of it.
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