Been a good week in the shop so far. Mill sawn Soft Maple and Sycamore. Got Dale’s trailer floor cut out. Momma talked to Curt over his Red oak order. Finally hauled the last of the wood that has been held hostage at the Perry County job. Big daddy said it turned out great in the end, I was back at the mill on loader and wrenching.
Rebuilt steering axle in our little fork truck Nissan 50. Rebuilt bunches of air valves and hydraulic cylinders that have been setting in Que. Finally, Finally got my saws fixed and adjusted up good. Now all we need is wood.
Merry Christmas and Happy New year to everyone. This week has been on laid back week. Spent a Lot of time with my boys and spent some much needed time in the shop. Had to organize my work area and get things ready for working in there. This January and February is gonna be warm and wet. Got many jobs for all of us in the shop.
I did Get the chance however, to build and install my nerf bars on Paddy this week. Had the 3”x10ga tube setting in the edge of the floor for almost a year now. Built them outa stainless, turned out stout and pretty, although they arent shinny.
Worked the the middle Friday in the pallet room because mommy wanted to run for a day to get some pallet ran through. Had a blast feeding the Woodmizers
that Job is quite addicting to me. Everybody don’t forget to work safe and count your blessings.
Had a fantastic Christmas with the Family. I feel we are truly blessed couldn’t have a better life in my opinion. Got a job that exposes me to people I love. A career with plenty stimulation. I live in a wonderful family full of people I adore. And we’ve learnt to get some money ahead for tuff times, I don’t think things could get better… On the day before Christmas. I stayed at home with the family because of the ridiculous Artic blast weather we got. Took the opportunity to build a cheap Chinese chainsaw to have in my tool box for the upcoming season.
Meet
Xi Jing Puddin
This baby was bought in a parts kit. Built it and ready to fill it up and try it out.
If it runs as good as it looks gonna be a good bridge to get me down the road to the big 592XP some day
Built this baby as a parts Kit It’s a Farmtec 395XP I built it with love. Can’t Wait to get it in the Woods
This week was rain almost all week finished big timber job in KY. Tuesday. Got all equipment moved to the mill. Spent the rest of the work week on maintenance.
Went great, fixed Titus. Repacked grab arm cylinder, leaks on three hydraulic lines. Replumbed back rear end. It has breaks and diffy lock and don’t leak a drop. Fixed bent panels, door strikers, mounted saw and gas can and toolboxes. It’s set up for some real Production.
Today started off ruff, way short handed at the mill. Was gonna fire up pallet room instead (takes less people). Problem with that was when we started the dust system the air lock motor spun the key way. Had to run Debarker while Mikey and Rodney sawed. Rickenbauh showed up to relieve me, me and big daddy pulled 2hp motor off airlock and sent mommy to jasper electric motors to fetch the new one.
Got to the farm and started moving rocks and back filling trench. Robin showed up with big dozer 700h, Boy that made the difference. Big daddy could root them borders up and out of our little quarry.. Finally got the rain at 4:30
First entry In years but here goes. Just got off an awesome patch cutting cypress for the first time in my career what an experience. They are junipers so they cut sorta like a huge cedar. Light wood but strong fibers don’t bust easy and the wood is gorgeous if anyone is interested in any we may have some of it dried and open for retail sails
I haven’t made an entry in a while, but things have been clicking right along everyone in the mill has been doing great. I'm so proud of the men and women that keeps this thing running.
We’ve been working a job in KY. I guess we musta pissed a neighbor when we moved in and they called in on us. Had to get a permit and it turned into an event. Had to put up 25,000 for a road bond but we been moving wood and waiting. Big Momma and mommy Anne kissed the ring and got our permit “thanks ladies.” Got two more days to go to get this thing out and one day for Murphy. Rain coming in Tuesday night.
Me and Big D got the cutting done today, Robin and Rogie get the wood pulled in tomorrow. Leaves a day of limbo. I had an oopsey poopsey today though. Got a Flat on Titus today, that coulda went better, but he’s pulled up to the county road and ready for new one. Well brand used anyway, lol.
Friday night I took Puddin to the mancave and tore it down to the guts the rod bearing had failed. More than likely it was some kinda mistake i musta made while rebuilding it back in the spring. Hopefully it’s ready to rock and roll now…
The past week been great getting a dirt slide under control here at the farm helping in the file room fixing equipment up all over the company wrangling people when things get loose is tuff sometimes but with good people that stays to a minimum.. oh and been fixing on and running Sgt. Pants.. what a truck, 1969 military 5 ton dump truck al wheel drive two speed transfer case NH 250 cummins motor
So the cat’s been let out of the bag…..we gonna be in this season of Ax Men Reborn Season 10. Can’t wait to see how the project turns out. The 1st episode is to air July 11th on the History Channel.
Big daddy has spent the summer fighting lymphoma cancer. He has it whipped we thing going in for his last treatment tomorrow.. Been a ruff summer for shore with that, my uncle Herman passing away.. had a Sawmill fire had a slow beef up for the winter, still don’t have enough inventory but we’ll be ok unless the winter is a bad one... went to a short corse for lumber grading a couple weeks back and got a good crash course on grading... Starting to help out in the mill some and the guys are welcoming me with open arms so far... I intend not to let them down they need my help.. Got two of the bigger guns in the mill both with tore up shoulders from grading lumber at our speeds.. Gonna start innovating some in the lumber room got some great ideas to make life better down there.. Rain coming tonight and tomorrow could be an 1” so gonna spend some time at the mill next day or two... the ultimizer needs some overhead work done to it and some tweaking... rip saw doing good after the photocell repair on it last week.. did Bunyan a couple weeks ago just been jam packed!!!
Oh and last but not least there was a request for a Logger Wade vidja for the industry to use as a mechanical Logging presentation...
I posted it on my channel it’s called “Mechanized Logging” have a good one peeps thanks for checking in
Been a ruff few months but things starting to smooth out a tad..
big daddy been sick with Lymphoma for a while now, he's about half way done and getting a lot better.. Been organizing the daily operations, with the help of the good men around here we getting the job done... Gonna wrap up the job we on and bring equipment in for service before heading to the next one...
IWe've been having lots of breakdowns and tire issues and Peewee went to the hospital for two days... Started on an aggravating job with little gullies and deep sand erosion and places with skattered junk in them... peewee had to go to the hospital because of some chest pain and they kept him for a couple days so Steveyy been on buncher and he's doing ok!!!! Sycamore fuzz is clogging up people and heat exchangers... what a battle that little stuff can be... nasty!!! Gonna start raining this weekend and the big champion tater/billows saw off is prolly gonna go down Monday live via youtubes!!! Come one come all and be ready for a little shenanigans!!!! Later peeps!!!
Hills ain't that bad just a little aggravating roping. And skidding out everything...
Son of a buck get stopped up tighter than a toads butt!!! Then on comes the heat
This is what the aggravating sycamore fuzz looks like
Started our new job this week, moved to Ky and started on a neat land owner on a nice horse farm... Gravy logging with some big boys mixed in Looks like this week gonna be a wet one for shore so prolly be doing catch up work
This week has been something!!! Figured out dad has cancer, it's not supposed to be a bad one it's lymphoma. Had to work without mom and dad for most of the week. Smashed my saw, blowed a big din din hose, bent a buncher panel... everyone did a good job though covering for them!!!
Blowed the big hose on din din
Junkyard's skidder rolled over 10,000 hours this week
Used a humbolt notch in a few trees around a fence
It's been a horrible week had equipment break downs from one end of the company to the other!!! First the air compressor in the pallet stock room caught fire and toasted it.. Buncher getting new rear seal... Din din had a computer glitch. Din din also had the saw motor break.. Diffy lock leaks stopped up radiators, bent metal on planters, dead batteries on grinder.. there's more but I'm slipping
e had the absolute Weekend from hell last weekend broke almost every piece of equipment we have trying to cold weather log.. Still got over 36 loads out and ended with chainsaws and cable skidders... lol what an experience!!!
his week has been mostly shop work, changed the motor out on the Gang rip worked on the little grapple and started on the Cut up rack for the Din Din...
This week was laid back, started out working on Whitey.. Got the Fab work done and started on the Din din Guards.. With a little help from Stevey got it done and started on the the frame work for the hog magnet down in the pallet stock room. Nic Tore into the buncher motor switch out project, he appears to be doing a bang up job.. Derrick worked on a little of everything.. He's was like a magician nocking out stuff right and left!!! Tomorrow the timber tracker guys coming to shoot a vidja ought to be fun!! Happy New Year everyone!!!
This Week was our final push to clean the woods out before the nasty Christmas weather came in..
Monday
Shop day spent working on whitey
Tuesday
Tuesday started out rough, was still rain and snow mix when we started, made for a nasty day. To wet to cross the valley and had to do some shovel logging to get the wood up the hills.. Truck road was a mess had to push trucks out..
Wednesday
The temp dropped the night before and the ground had a little crust on it and w busted the whole job open.. The main push was on!!! day started out productive but by the end of the day I couldn't see out of one eye.. The Pink eye flat put a whoopin on me, at least PeeWee got the wood all threw on the ground...
Thursday
Friday was potent, got all the wood topped and shoveled by 2:00 and finished the day out on bucket throwing the sides in for big daddy.. It was a late night but with Werner trucks helping Friday we could win the battle..
Friday
Spent the day trucking, it was ass holes and elbows...
Werners hauled 5 loads of there stuff.. We hauled 12 loads of logs.. Got two machines and the boom moved to the mill and Junkie's skidder setting on the trailer behind the Kwapper for Monday..
What a week!!! thanks god for frozen ground and it started raining on our way in Friday night!!!
