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haven't posted much lately but thought you might get a kick out of these pictures of a recent job I did.

My neighbor two doors down has a guy who does all kind of jobs for him around his house and yard. I have been doing some tractor work for him and yesterday he gave me a riding lawn mower. It looks to be in good shape but apparently someone took off every pat that sits where the shifters are...

I know that many of you don't get into the sawmill thing, but here is a cut off from a bone of a log that was still to heavy for my loader. The question is do you think the 9 foot cut off is worth sawing on the mill?

here is a nice shot of my chainsaws and weedwcker after cleaning and tweaking. 038, 028wb, 028av, 009, 066, 045 with log wizard, and fs86.

just a reminder, especially for us northerners as the weather finally starts to get better. don't forget filters and fluids. I did oil, fuel, hydraulics and front axel on my Kioti lk3054 and boy did that make her happy.

first off thanks kiohio for the parts, will soon contact for more finally got some nicer weather so I could catch up on my service duties on the 3054. 575 hours on the meter and some hard working snow pushing this winter. Oil, fuel, front axle, and hydraulic changes with filters and fluids...

thought I would post this here in case you didn't see it on the other thread.

when it comes time for cat toys we just don't fool around, we use live ones!

just wanted the kioti owners to know I havent dissapeared. took week off at end of august and then on return had to put in a well pump, school started then took first weekend to go to seafood fest in hampton. In between a friend got shot dead, very sad. then my furnace developed a hole in the...

this lumpy old pine butt log is so big I had to winch and drag it off the top of the log pile and up to the mill

since we have had no new posts i thought i would remind youall just how fine my lk3054 has been at every job I asked it for.

started to build a fire pit to burn the slabs and cutoffs from my sawmill. I have filed for both a town and state permit, that will let me burn at will. Just a simple call to the fire dept to check on conditions. In this first picture two apple trees have been cut to give a start.

the swing cylinder on my metavic forwarder trailer is buried down in the enclosed headboard, with only removable covers for access. finally took a look in there and low and behold the end cap was working its way loose, having destroyed the o-ring and rubber backer. parts are ordered and it...

the tach on my 3054 quit, anyone know what might be up. I don't know too much about how a deisel gets its tach signal.

the tach on my kioti lk3054 just quit, any hints?

anyone have a cure for the poison ivy that is ready to invade my entire property?

5/18/02 didn't get much work done today

here are a few shots of yesterdays barn raising. My customer had a crew put up this post and beam oak 24x 24 horse barn. frame went up between 7:00 and 3:00 notice the crane, i dont think it had any hours on it. what a great sight to see my trees, as 8x8 going up as this barn.

for those who don't read the kioti thread here is a picture of the FEL partly assembled to my 3054. The skid plates from Payeur for the forestry package had to be removed for the FEL mounts so will have to rework, and as you can see the FOPS will need a little custom attention. I was able to...

finally stated to install the FEL, I had to disconnect the trailer then wedge the tractor to get the grapple to reach the front of the tractor, but it worked. Seems like I have to rework all of the skid plates that Payeur installed, because they interfered with the front and mid mounts. As you...

just thought I would say wow look we have 600 posts on the kioti section. we are the up and coming new guys on the block, er I mean in the field or the woods.

Here is a good example of what not to do with lumber that needs edging from the outside of logs processed on a woodmizer mill. Ordinarily I would put these flitches(lumber with bark on one or both edges) onto the sawmill loader arms and trim them after cutting each log. This weekend I wanted...

here is a shot of the last of the red oak posts and beams I have been cutting for a 1.5 story carrage house my cutomer is building. 4800 bd ft of product, ranging from 4"x4"x8' all the way up to 8x8x18. this job took 167 hours to produce. I harvested all of the trees from our woodlot and...

here is a shot of the forwarder with a fair sized load of logs. the two on top are 18 foot long. I have a cut job for a post and beam carriage house. included in the order are 6-18' and 8-17' 8x8's. this is the second load i cut and pulled out sunday before noon. so much mud i can only work...

thought I would post a picture of the 3054 with a load on the forwarder. this fine tractor pulled this load home, and up the muddy hill out of the woods. I did have to unload the two 18 foot logs from the top to have enough traction. At the top of the hill I winched them up to the tractor and...

check out your hands when you saw. look specifically at your thumb. is it wrapped around the bar, good! or is it resting on top the bar, bad. number one cause of injury is kickback. thumb on top and you hand will slide off during kickback. wrap your thumb around the top handle and keep you...

anyone out there who wants honest on the ground logging and sawmill training (free labor) should e-mail me tonight, as i cut tomorrow till............. nice environment (cold in woods) nice scenery (work so hard you won't get to look at it) get fit get in shape (work so hard we don't stop for...

just got some phot optimizing soft ware and thought i would post with it to see how it looks

I mentioned my processor on the firewood string, so here it is. It is a chomper from rainelle hydraulics. It uses a shear instead of a saw. i bought it to clean up slabs from my sawmill, but it will shear, and half split, just under 10 inch green hardwood, though it doesnt like the standing...

wanted to see if the kioti would pull a full load on the obnoxious ice we have here now. so here is a picture of the tractor and load at home just before cutting and splitting the nice dead standing firewood.

here is my 3054 after it brought this whack of fire wood out of the ice covered woods.

picture speaks for itself

had to chuckle a bit today when I showed my 3054 and loader trailer to a friend who climbs and cuts trees. he walked around it and said wow this is sweet. as i explained how payeur starts with the Kioti and adds.......... he said IT ISN'T A KUBOTA!!!.. I just laughed as there in plain sight...

hi guys, don't forget to post on this part when you read. my 3054 is now with it's chains and willing and ready for winter. she really gives me her horsepower and more. next week i will test her again, though she has passed tests and now delivers. sorry no picture but the financing was from...

way back when i was so much younger, i deceided that closing off the flue to a fire place would provide so much more heat. in a not so wise engineering decision, i marveled at the amount of heat delivered as the newspaper i used to partially block the flue turned brown and then exploded into a...

can't believe how much better the 3054 pulls the loaded traler up the hills with the rear chains on. only had to take off one 18 foot log. it is a ten foot trailer. two loads today hopefully 2 tomorrow.

here is a shot of the load of red oak i cut and hauled home in a few hours. gonna saw them for a customer who is doing a post and beam carrage house for a garage. over 100 pieces witht the largest an 8"x10"x12' girt. just for reference he is paying $64 for that piece. am i cheap or should i...

three times in the last two days while i tried to make my wood access better, i put my 3054 to the test. could she get out, up the hill through the turn, with my large loads on the trailer? when she lost traction she never quit. dig back to korea she would. of course at this angle i had...

anyone ever build a stacked split rail or worm fence. i have some triangular white oak sawmill slabs that look like split rails. i wan't to try some fencing with them, any ideas or help? James "woody" Mills

i have been in a discussion on the wood web concerning using air dried wood for indoor projects. there are some who say it won't work. here is my rebuttal, my entertainment center and left front speaker. built by me with lumber from my trees i cut, sawed, and dried. James "woody" Mills

sorry no tractor James "woody" Mills

it was just plain relentless here last year! James "woody" Mills<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by woodmills1 on 12/01/01 09:41 PM (server time).</FONT></P>

the post on the barn floor has had quite the discussion on what goes under concrete floors. any one have insulation under theirs. if so is there some right way to place it? i will be placing much concrete over the next three years, and have trowled in the past. two of the five buildings in...

here is what 3.5 hours of woods time brought home today. would have been much quicker if the first two standing dead trees were not just plain rotten. seems the ash trees are really in distress here. one 16 inch ash broke into 7 pieces when it fell with no usable firewood. standing dead red...

here is a photo of the very small cemetary/private burial groud we purchased with our woodlot and farmhouse. kathy, my wife, mothers' ashes are buried here along with an infant and the previous owners son. the head stone is his. we were in negotiations for purchase when kaths mother passed...

i was bringing home a load of nice standing dead firewood with my kioti and i hit the only spot i worry about on the ride. when the trailer hit the rocks my little tractor tried to dig straight back to korea, the load was too heavy and light on the tounge. she did a great job getting out in...

here is a picture of my kioti with a load of standing dead fire wood. she is a good tractor i say James "woody" Mills

i got a private e-mail about hemlock from daveNH he is on the list of names but i cant answer because he did not list his e-mail. he asked about the weight of hemlock, so here goes. hemlock is 4.2 pounds per bd ft green. i had 7 logs that cut 1150 bd ft so do the math for log weight. my...

here is a shot of my last two afternoons work after getting done with teaching. six hours, 7 hemlock logs. the product is on the ground up front. 26 2x10x16 @ $15 each. the slabs are in the forwarder, and yes the mizer is spewing sawdust while i take the picture. the dump has the material...

here is a shot from last winter, at my old house, of my "other" equipment. James "woody" Mills

here is a nice shot James "woody" Mills

up here in NH we had a fall weekend to die for. beautiful weather warm with strong sun. i will try to add a picture of the woods behind our orchard. hope you can see the possibility of thousands of cords of firewood. James "woody" Mills

here is a picture of the nice sugar maples at the southwest corner of our property James "woody" Mills

here is the woodmizer, the kioti, and the metavic loader after 10 hours of cutting old logs into dunnage. there are 141 4x4x8 in the pile. the trailer is full of slabs, though i dont usually cut that much waste. these logs were old so i shot for multiples of four, wasting more than usual...

used my 3054 and metavik loader to help cut a pile of old pine logs into 4x4 dunnage this weekend. the kioti and loader did fine and the woodmizer was great as always. check the picture in the picture posts here a tractorbynet.

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