What is up with every one this winter

[TaylorJohnson]

What is up with every one this winter ? are you all surviving ? what are you all working in? I am in popple again and hope to get in some oak before to long . It is going ok for me but I did frost bite my ears a little back a few days but it is healing up quite well. It is cool to get to see some of you on face book, it really makes you feel like you get to know someone when you get to see pics and small look into there lives, I have really enjoyed it. I am trying to get some pics off of my phone to put on here, if anyone know how let me know . Let me know what is up I love hearing about it . Taylor Johnson

[Rick Alger]

I’m cutting softwood logs from my own land. Couldn’t find a way to sell softwood pulp this fall, so I turned down a couple jobs. Going to have the pulp and dead wood here at home chipped just to get it out of the way.

What are you getting per ton for popple?

[john plowden]

Cutting tree length firewood- then some mature pine – then…

[Does’ Leap]

I have been cutting spruce and pine for a barn I am building. Now I am cutting hemlock which I sell to a mill less than 10 miles from me. Hemlock sure gets the horses attention (and mine trying to roll them with a peavey) after a month of spruce and pine. I don’t know what the density/weight difference is, but I imagine it is significant.

George

[TaylorJohnson]

Rick I sell my popple pulp to a trucker that is paying me about $58.00 per cord on the landing. I sell by popple logs and bolts for about $120.00 dollars per cord delivered to the mill , trucking on that can run from $15.00 to around $23.00 … I am sure this will go up if or when this fuel keeps rising. I don’t even ask the feller that hauls my pulp what he is charging , he is a little more but as honest as they get and his checks are always good and he is there when he says he will be there. He is about 74 years old and has been logging since he was a kid so he is an old school type of guy and appreciates what I do with the horses because he has done it . My last trucker that I had retired due to heath and he was an old timer to and I sure miss seeing him on the landing and now his family moved him south so I can’t even stop and visit him any more . I hate the thought of losing the trucker I have now because i did not think I could get him full time because he is so busy but he worked me in.
That hemlock is some heavy stuff for sure , I was just talking with my cousin about it . He logs on the Menominee Indian Reservation in the WI, they have some of the best wood in the country. They are cutting hemlock down there that 4′ on the stump and better , he said they are hard to move and most get cable skidded out of the woods. The fellers love knocking those big boys down. Taylor Johnson

[Rick Alger]

A while back popple groundwood was high, but the last popple I sold went in as mixed hardwood pulp. My portion ( cut and skid contract) was $20 a ton. That’s about $52 a cord. There is no local market for bolts or sawlogs. Working alone it takes me six and a half days to produce a tt load when the going is good, and a whole lot longer when it isn’t.

Seems like harvesting popple would work good with a two or three guys on the ground just dropping across the trail, and someone else on a forwarder as covered in simon’s post. It could be like the old stump-cutting routine. Ever try it?

[Michael Colby]

It’s all sleigh rides for me this winter. And I miss the trees. They don’t talk.

[TaylorJohnson]

I use my logging arc to skid and I work by my self to , I have worked with guys before to cut this type of wood but most of the time I am alone. Some day I cut a tank and then skid, cut a tank and skid ,…. as much as I can . Then I take the horse back to the corral , put harnesses away , feed , grain , water. And most days I am cutting up skids in the dark after the horses are tended to. When my landing is full I hook up my loader to sort and pile. I try to get about 15 cord a week on this job.
Mr Alger, I read a story about you today and it was great. I also likes the video. I hope when I am 70 I can log like you. My Grandpa logged into his 80’s so I hope I can be like you guys . Taylor Johnson

[Scott G]

Cutting conifers (lodgepole, pondo, & D-fir) out of aspen for aspen stand restoration at about 9000′ elevation. Not to severe of a winter, easy ground, so pretty enjoyable overall. Material is chip wood & fence rails.

Last couple of days cutting in a steep deep hole on the north side of the mountain where the entire stand of lodgepole blew down a couple of years ago. That is strictly a sanitation/salvage show with mostly firewood and a few posts/poles.

No shortage of work…

[dominiquer60]

Seed orders and trying to keep up with the youngsters training, hopefully I will help Dale saw up enough siding to enclosed our sugar shack this week. Last week was the first time I got to see the old Ireland mill go to work, it is a dandy.

Erika

[Carl Russell]

I have 13 forestry plans that need updating by 4/1/11… at about 10 hours/plan average. This has been kind of distracting from the logging work I have lined up. I am also overseeing three other jobs, two skidder operations, and one horse job (Brad Johnson), including marking trees and inspections.

Putting new shoes on this week, breaking trails, and starting to cut red pine poles, and fuelwood. Conditions are just about perfect right now.

Carl

[LStone]

I am working the day job to pay the bills. I continue to work my three “bigguns” in the woods doing my own thing on the old “Stonestead”. I have been busy lately, so not too much time to spend with them. We’ve caught a couple paying gigs for the wagon and team, and I am driving wagons and sleighs commerically for a local farm part time. Feeling okay about the way things are working out now. What I am lacking on working my own I am trying to make up by learning new skills and experiences. Remembering that patience and persistance will get me where I want to be in knowlege and skills.

My best to all,

Larry

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