Forecast is for mud

Krieger91 · January 11, 2013, 07:07:39 PM

Same here. They're forecasting at least 50s for highs tomorrow, and Sunday. I don't know about beyond that. Either way, it's utterly horrible. I really need to work on the farm to make some extra money to fix my truck, and this is just the worst luck. Just like the bigger companies out there and on here, we can't log if we can't get equipment out there. :-[

1270d · January 11, 2013, 07:32:10 PM

Quote from: bushmechanic on January 11, 2013, 10:00:48 AM
Well could be worse you could be here on the east coast of Newfoundland where were we are having a blizzard.

I will happily take the snow. We are down to 3 or 4 inches. Need more snow so we can get into the bogs. 18 to 24 on the ground would be nice. Oh, and cold to. Zero anyway.

lumberjack48 · January 13, 2013, 05:11:40 PM

Its pretty sad when a guys not in the swamp yet. Theres only about 56 days left before road restrictions go on.

I lost a home because of this kind of weather one winter, pretty hard to make payments when you can't work.

1270d · January 13, 2013, 06:39:33 PM

We ve had plenty of wood to cut but we re using up summer ground. No way we can get into the spruce. It was close to forty degrees the last couple days.

gwilson · January 13, 2013, 06:53:42 PM

Its T shirt and shorts weather in the Carolinas, not our usual January. 8)

CCC4 · January 13, 2013, 07:36:16 PM

70 degrees Friday...got 2 1/2 in of rain yesterday...20 degrees tonight! What a mess, the ground is going to be nasty for a bit!

Bobus2003 · January 13, 2013, 08:20:53 PM

Hasn't really got much above Freezing on the warm days in the higher elevations here.. Last couple days its been hovering 0*.. I love goin to the woods when its Sub-Zero, The limbs just pop off the tree when ya hit them with the Delimber

HiTech · January 14, 2013, 05:16:35 AM

The snow is going fast, nothing is froze, mud is all over. lol The upside...if it turns cold now you will really be able to go. lol SOOO much easier cutting without knee deep snow to crawl through, at least for this old fart!. lol

Al_Smith · January 14, 2013, 08:40:22 AM

They can talk about the mud in the swamps of Louisiana .Now let me tell you the muddy conditions that can exist in parts of Ohio can equal just about anywhere at certain times .

Fact you don't own driveways you rent them .It's a constant never ending battle hauling in stone by the hundreds of tons if it has any length to it .The stuff just gets swallowed up .

Woodboogah · January 14, 2013, 02:31:06 PM

Frost is almost out of the ground here, Southern NH. This weather is depressing. Chores around the house for a couple days I guess.

WH_Conley · January 14, 2013, 03:02:32 PM

Gotta love the mud. I decided to get a cup of coffee and let my vocabulary rest a few minutes. After bottoming out a 10 ton backhoe, almost in the front yard. :(

jd540b · January 14, 2013, 04:08:31 PM

Today was 50 deg, pretty much killed logging for me till we get some cold. So frustrating, to be mudded out in january....... crazy.

loggah · January 14, 2013, 04:16:03 PM

This weather does suck for anyone that relies on winter ,logging, ski areas ,anywhere the economy is geared for winter. If it keeps up there wont be any maple sugaring season either,just like last year !!

g_man · January 14, 2013, 04:24:44 PM

Today is supposed to be the last warm day for us. We have not had any big rain during this so it could have been worse I guess. I am cutting on a north slope and the ground there is still frozen with even a little wet snow left. But the landing and truck road, which were great a week ago, are a quagmire being up on the flat in the sun.

rvolek · January 14, 2013, 05:00:05 PM

I have to give you full time loggers and anybody else who makes there living in this indusrty a lot of credit. To not be able to work every day with a steady income, and all everything revolving on what the sky looks like and what the temps are would devestate most households these days. I salute you!!

dsgsr · January 16, 2013, 09:46:26 AM

Frustrating, Why can't we get the real cold temps before we get the snow? With a few inch's of snow on the ground the cold doesn't do much good.

David

Stephen Alford · January 16, 2013, 10:26:18 AM

So true, also takes a lot of cold to freeze through water if there is any accumulation.

At night when your walking out ya don't notice it quite so bad. :D

beenthere · January 16, 2013, 10:50:17 AM

Stephen
Is that first pic a drainage ditch? or suppose to be a road? ;)

Stephen Alford · January 16, 2013, 12:21:38 PM

Some might call it a road, some might call it a ditch, in this case I best keep the the name to my self. :

Some nautical term perhaps.
Generally I try to keep skid roads straight where possible and put the turns on higher ground.

An articulate machine like a skidder tends to dig a hole as it goes around a turn. This spot was pretty good till the end of Oct.

In Nov. with all the rain I tried to drain the water to one side.

thecfarm · January 16, 2013, 12:52:42 PM

Looks like the sides of the "trail" is rising. :D And will keep "rising" if things don't freeze. How's the chain on the saw liking it?? :(

Okrafarmer · January 16, 2013, 01:43:46 PM

Rain, rain, everywhere! I went and priced a pavilion roof (like a carport, basically) to put over the sawmill. It could be installed for around $1300. Hmmmm.

Stephen Alford · January 16, 2013, 03:04:50 PM

Oh the "trail" good enough.

WE have pretty level terrain so the arch on the skidder was lifted . But the solution to the mud/chain issue was building the shear , I guess you call it a chomper. Now there is a rascal that demands your attention. :D

thecfarm · January 16, 2013, 03:12:31 PM

You built it? Probably posted pictures all ready of it. But another one would help me remember it. Hint,hint. ;) ;)

Stephen Alford · January 18, 2013, 07:36:32 AM

Hey cfarm , there are pics in my gallery from years ago. I noticed I do not have one of those camera icons so you may have to go to "user gallery" . Look under "s". Nothing fancy just a used cylinder mounted in a piece of boiler pipe. The shear was named "The Black Night" after a character in Monty Pythons "Quest for the Holy Grail" because the Knight had a desire to fight even after he had suffered amputations. The name keeps the risk factor on the radar.

thecfarm · January 18, 2013, 07:49:28 AM

Stephen,you're killing me here. I only have dial up and I went to your gallery,352 pictures and 1 album.

That would take some time. :D
I like that "chomper" I saw one of them in action somewheres. I was driving along and just caught the top of a chomper behind a church. Went to just look at it and someone was there greasing it and getting ready to start it back up and run it. ;D I talked just for a minute with him,did not want to hold him up, and told him I wanted to see it run. I stood there for a while, waved and left. I was quite impressed by it.