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    How to sell/get rid of mulch

    Building on Randy88's great comments, Stables can be a major market for wood products...for bedding they may want wood chips but also corrals and show rings can be a destination. Advantage is that generally want large truckloads at a time. A huge portion of wood pellets/chips go to these...
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    The Loggers Library

    A few more for you plus some duplicates cited above. If you want more details on any titles let me know Alberta: Mountain Trails: Memoirs of an Alberta Forest Ranger in the mountains and foothills fo the Athabasca Forest 1920-1945 - Jack Glenn Sr. My life story: Prarie Chicken to Bush Ape...
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    What are they paying producers

    Around here it's mostly by cubic meter. Private sales are often sold by ton. Price varies a fair amount depending on hardwood vs conifer and trucking cost. Heard up to $65/m3 last winter but that was also close to a two hour haul one way for large spruce logs.
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    Canadians eh...

    west central alberta currently...worked NE BC, Ontario and most of NW alberta and overseas in Nepal between oil and gas, agriculture and mostly forestry jobs over the last 14 years.
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    Tracked Feller Buncher Advice and Questions

    Question... Tilt body (for slopes) or conventional? What size of wood are you cuttting (small pine vs large hardwoods for example)? Head configuration? Fuel consumption an issue? Usually seeing John Deere's around here for bunchers...odd timco around as well depending on the contractor...
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    Advice for my first big job

    One other comment from pipeline construction inspection..you do end up with a hump we call a roach over the trench. That breaks down in a matter of 12-24 months around here assuming its just soil as the freeze thaw action works on the compacted dirt allowing it to loosen up and settle. you...
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    Advice for my first big job

    Deal with lots of clay soils here...that hill appears too steep to use your bucket to back blade with to smooth it out so here's a couple of other options: 1) get some old tires/timbers and use them as a drag to help level it. This will work best if the top soils are dry. 2) grab some old...
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    Couple of Saw mill videos

    Sorry man...didn't mean to come accross as knocking you or steam. I grew up around a bunch of steam tractor enthusiasts who fire up everyone that they can keep certified as safe each year. Only one that I haven't seen fired up is built with a wierd rivit construction method that the inspector...
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    Couple of Saw mill videos

    Don't knock the old steam engines....there's an old steam tractor back home that was bought brand new...used for harvest gangs/land clearing and in the winters for a power plant at the saw mills. Ran for years until the end of WW2 put so much surplus equipment on the market... Story goes...
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    What Do You Pay Your Operators???

    Not quite but around where I'm at here in Alberta labour is tough to find of any kind. Oilfield operator is $60,000-125,000/year with a one year training program Coal mines (open pit) are running at around $80,000/yr starting and more with experience. Forestry...seasonal work and lower...
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    Koehrings in the bush

    Based upon talks of loggers who used them in Northern Ontario in the early 1980's they worked okay...but only okay. Worked well on level ground, similar sized wood with lots of roads. Basically you laid your roads out to match one pass of the shortwood harvested, decked, turned around and...
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    Advice for my first big job

    In regards to plastic and spoil piles I see this done at times usually for conservation of topsoil before going into the parent soils. Only issue is that it's tough to roll up afterwards and tears easy with equipment teeth. Plus you mgiht kill the grass faster if it's left due blocking...
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    Advice for my first big job

    Ack..how much water are we talking about going down the slope now? Your grade does not look bad but if it's alot of volume and small sized gravel on top of the trench you might be looking at some form of barrier to reduce the speed of water flow. something as simple as those mid sized rocks...
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    Advice for my first big job

    What I've seen done is the larger rocks work as a combination drain and anchor against erosion. So you lay down the larger rocks until you hit just below the grade needed for the pipe. Smaller gravel is used to cushion the pipe and is tamped down to ensure it doesnt' erode underneath the pipe...
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    Advice for my first big job

    Some nice work there....not real familiar with electical jobs but I'd love to see you trenching some oil and gas pipeline right of ways compared to some of the messes I've seen. From the photos your creek crossings should not be a big challange...but one trick I've seen done for areas of...
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    Loaders, Limbers and Roadbuilders.

    Old Processor set-up. Not sure on age but it has been on site for 3 years. Taken last week. More photos on the photo album here: http://s1117.photobucket.com/albums/k599/foresterab/ I have road building photos of excavators but they're mostly oil and gas related as the forestry...
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    Loaders, Limbers and Roadbuilders.

    Bunchers hired to clean up right-of-ways following a forest fire this summer Antique buncher on private land. Has not moved in at least 8 years but can't get better pictures of it from the highway. Will see what other buncher photos I can get this fall as harvesting is...
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    SuperTrak Biobaler making Pinyon/Juniper bales

    Been similar studies here in Canada but trucking costs + road safety for hauling slash products have been big limits on feeding co-gen plants (which are privately run and can sell power back to the provincial grid in Alberta). The bio-baler appears on the surface to be able to get a dense...
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    Crummy time

    Two from this summer: Don't see much for crew moves here as most operators take individual trucks out.
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    Log Truck Shortage in the Pacific NW?

    Not in the northwest but in Alberta trucks are a big concern...to the point they've been bringing drivers from all over Canada the last few years. Problem is rising costs, short season due to a primarily winter harvest, and massive competition from the oil patch for qualified drivers. Lots of...
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