Moving logs

[John_Mc]

John, Thank you. I appreciate the comments from your experience. Not as big of a production as you have, but still, if I am going to go though the effort to move it across a "sensitive" piece of ground (there is going to be damage no matter how I do it), I sure don't want to just give it to someone who will turn around and sell it....or frankly, doesn't have the interest in doing something for themselves (assuming, of course, they are physically able). Already looking at partnering with a local charity that will do the vetting and I like your ideas about folks to help with the work.

Good luck with it. Hopefully, enough folks in your community will show interest to make it an ongoing thing.

 

[Bendboater]

Thanks.

 

[Sberry]

Not all scuffing is bad as long as it doesn't lead to real erosion. It provides disturbance for regrowth.

 

[Bendboater]

Not all scuffing is bad as long as it doesn't lead to real erosion. It provides disturbance for regrowth.

Sberry. Perhaps in Michigan, but not here in the high desert, inter-mountain west. The native vegetation is slow to grow and, once disturbed, is often out competed by Cheat Grasses that are the first to come up in the spring (the Cheat Grass takes all the water....what little there is of it). So, after tire ruts are filled and raked out, I have to spend several years picking out the Cheat Grasses so the native vegetation can get re-established. And, of course, some of the larger vegetation like the sage and bitterbrush (to say nothing of several Juniper trees), that I can't avoid, won't grow back to a mature state for many, many, years. The strip of land where I brought my underground power in to the property almost 30 years ago is finally "almost" recovered....though the sage and bitterbrush there now is still pretty small and it's still obvious that something happened there. So, as you can see, I think long and hard before I just go crashing cross country across my property. Seriously considering laying a couple hundred $$$ worth of plywood/wafer board down across the most sensitive parts

 

[MFWD]

Hello,
So what's the big deal.......you just cut them into the right length right at where they are stacked. Then throw them in your trailer and pull them back to the house. Have your splitter ready and crack them.......then go for another load !!!!! Just git-r-done !!!!!!


MFWD

 

[Sberry]

I understand context and location important. Here it starts over from a clear cut chop strip to cant see thru it in a year. 2 tops.

 

[Sberry]

I am going to sit here and do nothing before I invest in a similar scheme. Bunch of hard fussy work with little return and would be cheaper to take a few bucks and buy a cord of wood from someone does it for a living and give away.

 

[Sberry]

I had to go back and read the first post but you had a simple solution to start with, cut them in half and shuttle out with wheeled equipment. If you want to build anything full length is the best. But for firewood mule them out to a work wise place. If I could help it would want to back in with a common pickup truck.
But someone did cut down a lot of big ole trees, seems like a pretty big scar to start with. I think its a good place to learn if some things are all worth it? 300$ of plywood plus the work to reclaim 200? worth of firewood? Evidently they didnt have value to the guys gave them away.

 

[Buggs67]

WOW. $200-240 a cord for pine. My cousin is spending similar money for wood in N Arizona.

Hardwood is about $180-200/cord cut and split here. People also sell it by the pickup load; usually about $75 picked-up or local delivery.

 

[Bendboater]

I had to go back and read the first post but you had a simple solution to start with, cut them in half and shuttle out with wheeled equipment. If you want to build anything full length is the best. But for firewood mule them out to a work wise place. If I could help it would want to back in with a common pickup truck.
But someone did cut down a lot of big ole trees, seems like a pretty big scar to start with. I think its a good place to learn if some things are all worth it? 300$ of plywood plus the work to reclaim 200? worth of firewood? Evidently they didnt have value to the guys gave them away.

Sberry,
Yup, where you measure growth in feet/yr we measure it in inches/yr. Sometimes I think the rocks grow faster.
The guys were selling the wood, but just lifting them over the fence and putting it on my property, saved them the work of hauling the logs off (Besides, they were getting paid by the job, not by the hour.)
Sometimes we just don't think clearly when offered something for free But it'll all work out. I'll get the wood out of there, reclaim the land and probably make someone else warm in winter.