I'm not sure if thats true, but my wife thinks I'm either crazy, extremely bored or have a death wish...maybe all 3 !!
I've got about 25 big aspen between me and my neighbor that I have wanted to get rid of for a while now, but didn't really want to them for firewood. So I did an inventory of what I had on my 11 acres and and decided I had probably just enough to make a truck load (22 cords). I decided if I was going to do it I had to make $50/hr cash or forget it. called my cousin Jeff who has an Iron Mule (forwarder) and asked if he was using it. he said no, he had just went thru the engine and was about to put it back in. he said come and get it in a couple weeks. great guy, lets me use it for free. Sooo, now I needed to find someone to sell it to. called a freind who is a logger and he said he would buy it all roadside for $80/cord. I figured I could cut and stack at least 1 cord/hour, so I put an edge on the Husky 460, took about a 32nd off the rakers and started last Thursday. As of today I have about 9 cords down. Been averaging about 1.5 cords/hour, better than I thought I could.
Gonna cut down about 10 cords of big white birch too, a local company here that makes paint paddles, yardsticks, etc. is paying $140/cord , so I might as well as long as I have the Mule here.
Lots more pics to follow... if I survive it .....LOL
Pat
I've got about 25 big aspen between me and my neighbor that I have wanted to get rid of for a while now, but didn't really want to them for firewood. So I did an inventory of what I had on my 11 acres and and decided I had probably just enough to make a truck load (22 cords). I decided if I was going to do it I had to make $50/hr cash or forget it. called my cousin Jeff who has an Iron Mule (forwarder) and asked if he was using it. he said no, he had just went thru the engine and was about to put it back in. he said come and get it in a couple weeks. great guy, lets me use it for free. Sooo, now I needed to find someone to sell it to. called a freind who is a logger and he said he would buy it all roadside for $80/cord. I figured I could cut and stack at least 1 cord/hour, so I put an edge on the Husky 460, took about a 32nd off the rakers and started last Thursday. As of today I have about 9 cords down. Been averaging about 1.5 cords/hour, better than I thought I could.
Gonna cut down about 10 cords of big white birch too, a local company here that makes paint paddles, yardsticks, etc. is paying $140/cord , so I might as well as long as I have the Mule here.
Lots more pics to follow... if I survive it .....LOL
Pat