trees adding up, where is my processor

[spencerhenry]

i just bought a processor, and they called to tell me that they needed a couple of more days. it was supposed to be picked up tommorrow, but it isnt ready. but fortunately they have found a cheaper shipper for me, saves me another $75. it is now supposed to be here next week.
in the last few days i have accumulated 94 trees in the deck, and 10 more on the ground waiting to be skid. selective cutting in an area that i have worked for years, taking out the stragglers. one here, one there, i average about 10 per hour cut skid and in the deck. everything from 6" 30 footers to 18" 80 footers. i am taking out all dead, and all live with disease. the diseased trees have rotten centers, and i am not sure what i am going to do with all of them, some will make ok firewood for friends and myself, but i think i will end up with a couple hundred of them.
once the processor finally gets here, i am going to make a MOUNTIAN of firewood. right now with the ground frozen and no snow, the woods work is as productive as it gets. another month and i should have 2 or 3 feet of powder on the ground, that really slows production. once the snow settles like in february of march, then i drive on top of it and skid.

[gunman63]

what kind of processor did ya  get

[Magicman]

saves me another $75. 

Sounds like that $75 savings is costing you $$$...... :'(

[spencerhenry]

i have got plenty of wood ready to go right now. the wood that i split right now i wont sell until next year, so a few days really doesnt matter. i dont have alot of space in my deck, as of today i have 132 trees out, tree length is up to 80 feet, but most are around 50. i will sell some wood in log form as i dont think i can sell that much processed wood. i think i will process about 30 cords of aspen, and then maybe the same or a little more in pine. i will also run all of my slab through it.
the processor is a dyna products. 30hp, bar saw, conveyor. not a top of the line unit, but all i process at this point is aspen and lodgepole pine, both of which are not hard splitting, and typically not very big. i think this machine is a good value, i dont do enough volume to justify a big machine. i needed a write-off, and this allows me to not spend much time and more importantly not much physical effort to process wood.

[SwampDonkey]

When you split your lodgepole pine, do you see much dimple figure? There was someone looking for figured pine awhile back.

http://www.ag.auburn.edu/aaes/communications/bulletins/figureinwood/figure32.html


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