Author Topic: Just parked my westernstar! (Read 1544 times)

Woodhauler · « **on:** January 12, 2011, 10:48:40 am »

Snowing 2-3 inches a hour! Loaded pine logs for the irving mill in dixfield maine, which is 75 miles away and said to heck with it!Got one load in this am before it started and that was it!

rick f · « **Reply #1 on:** January 12, 2011, 12:01:10 pm »

We gave up splitting and loading firewood at 10:30. 1 1/2 cords split by hand this morning and hauled. Snow and wind are bad here in Downeast Maine now. Staying in the rest of the day. This won't help the ground to freeze up at all.

dsgsr · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2011, 02:05:37 pm »

Last few days was pretty good gittin around in the woods with the tractor. Not any more, will have to stay on the trails that I can clear with the bucket. Walking to the trees will be hard also.

David

Autocar · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2011, 02:06:54 pm »

I don't like trucking in bad weather eather plus I don't like road salt on my truck

tlandrum · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2011, 02:18:37 pm »

we've had snow for the last week and around here snow and ice shuts things down. its been 10 years since weve seen this much snow and my log truck aint about to move off the hill its on until they get it cleared..ive got 2 loads on the deck and cant get them to the mill. ive got a small deck and 2 loads is it,have to clear it before i can skid more wood.

Tom · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2011, 02:23:47 pm »

It sure is cold in Florida. $:-\$

mad murdock · « **Reply #6 on:** January 12, 2011, 02:27:09 pm »

Better to be parked and loaded in the yard then tipped over in the ditch with a load of logs everywhere. A co-worker just got back from visiting his fiance's family in Brazil, said that it was cold and rainy there as well. Supposed to be summer there, it was not freezing, but certainly didn't have any hot sunny days at the beach, he said. From the looks of footage being broadcast on the "tube" of the snowstorm you guys are having back east, it looks like a winter wonderland for sure.

jim king · « **Reply #7 on:** January 12, 2011, 02:48:41 pm »

90 degrees and light rain here guys.

Tom · « **Reply #8 on:** January 12, 2011, 02:57:58 pm »

Got ~~milk~~ soap?

DouginUtah · « **Reply #9 on:** January 12, 2011, 03:04:24 pm »

Quote from: Tom on January 12, 2011, 02:23:47 pm

It sure is cold in Florida. $:-\$

Yabut Florida is the ONLY state that doesn't have any snow.

Maine372 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 12, 2011, 05:47:04 pm »

i can think of shorter hauls from jackson than dixfeild!

bill m · « **Reply #11 on:** January 12, 2011, 06:10:24 pm »

We have about 24 in. of new snow on the ground now. I worked all day in the woods cutting and hauling logs out. Chains on all four wheels of the tractor and 4wd on the trailer and I can get around real good.

chevytaHOE5674 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 12, 2011, 07:57:46 pm »

Over the weekend we got between 16 and 30 inches of snow depending on location and 17 Michigan Double logging trucks still dropped logs off in our wood yard. Not much stops the truckers or loggers around here.

Banjo picker · « **Reply #13 on:** January 12, 2011, 08:44:14 pm »

Quote from: rick f on January 12, 2011, 12:01:10 pm

We gave up splitting and loading firewood at 10:30. 1 1/2 cords split by hand this morning and hauled. Snow and wind are bad here in Downeast Maine now. Staying in the rest of the day. This won't help the ground to freeze up at all.

Things are a bit upside down it seems, because the ground sure is froze here in Mississippi...Tim

sawguy21 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 12, 2011, 09:57:03 pm »

6" here in Vancouver last night, a record for the day. Worse in the mountains, highway1 looks like a hockey rink.

captain_crunch · « **Reply #15 on:** January 13, 2011, 12:31:26 am »

Wiered weather Here in western Oregon it was 55 degs warmest has been in about 2 weeks Yesterday 39 was Hi here

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #16 on:** January 13, 2011, 05:43:14 am »

This winter has been 15-25 degrees above normal all winter. Never been below 0 F and mostly stays in the 20's and 30's. Now that is real weird, and you guys south getting all the snow and colder than normal. Yup, the world musta flipped upside down.

captain_crunch · « **Reply #17 on:** January 13, 2011, 12:52:22 pm »

Maybe we need to take this climate change crap seriously

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #18 on:** January 13, 2011, 02:08:05 pm »

I drove way up the road, over a mile above where they plow to and it looks like dry desert. No more than an inch tire impression in snow. Not even a snow drift. 35 degrees and melting what little there is. The pavement is covered in sand from over applying in between skiffs of snow. Run the darn plow truck up the road twice a day for nothing.

Woodhauler · « **Reply #19 on:** January 13, 2011, 06:16:54 pm »

Quote from: Maine372 on January 12, 2011, 05:47:04 pm

i can think of shorter hauls from jackson than dixfeild!

Might be shorter hauls,but can't get the scale and money we get in dixfield!

woodmills1 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 13, 2011, 06:36:57 pm »

Irving pays...I think they supply home depot's

Ed_K · « **Reply #21 on:** January 13, 2011, 07:09:07 pm »

Irving pays good down here in Ludlow,Ma. too

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Maine372 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 13, 2011, 07:28:15 pm »

im just across the river in peru. growing up just north of portland we sent pine to dixfeild too, but the truckers were used to heading up rte 4 for jay. i think they could drive that road asleep.

NB sawdust · « **Reply #23 on:** January 13, 2011, 07:39:28 pm »

Irving .... we try to avoid them if possible. They want more private wood they say.... what a bunch of you know what. The president of the NB federation of woodlot owners wrote in to the forum section of the Moncton Times & Transcript on tuesday of this week,great letter ,on tuesday the vice president of woodlands writes in with his reply.It's worth reading if you are local , and its probably on the website for the paper .

My opinion on irving is that they flushed out all the small private mills in all the small towns around here. Those mills were the main employer for those places, and they all used to have a small chunck of crown to work with. Irving gets all the goverment support because they are a big employer and tax payer ...... they have our goverment by the jingle bells in my opinion. Grrrrrrr....

bill m · « **Reply #24 on:** January 13, 2011, 07:54:21 pm »

Quote from: Ed_K on January 13, 2011, 07:09:07 pm

Irving pays good down here in Ludlow,Ma. too .

Does Irving have a yard in Ludlow?

Ed_K · « **Reply #25 on:** January 13, 2011, 08:36:52 pm »

sure do,my trucker headed there in the morning.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #26 on:** January 13, 2011, 09:16:10 pm »

I don't want to start anything, but if Irving pays good down that way, then things must be real bad. This is exactly their tactic, to pay more and truck further than to pay fare price to local woodlot owners. One day you will look to sell wood and Irving will be the only game in town and the price will drop. They pay the least of any outfit and we have records from reports from decades of sales. They also buy the least, they change specs on a whim, shut mill gates and all the sudden expect the wood yesterday.

They also are the slowest to pay on deliveries, can be up to 1 year and being in arrears for $1M or more in payments to woodlot organizations is not uncommon with those jokers. They have tried to break woodlot owner organizations for years and have failed at every turn. The more they squeeze the tougher we get.

Ask pappy his opinion from northern Maine.

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Author Topic: Just parked my westernstar! (Read 1544 times)