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what is the advantages to doing the tree farm always been curious about it but no idea about it. I wonder if NH is the same about it..??? It is actually getting scary. I am not sure where you live in New Hampshire but we have a house in Lisbon NH in addition to the ones here in Maine. My wife's fam...

Here is a picture kind of showing you what I mean by generations of really being conservative of how we cut wood. This area was thinned in 1994 and some bigger logs taken out in 2006. A look in the background will show it is not just one or two big trees...it is a forest full of them. A little more ...

The advantages are being able to market your low grade wood. The high grade wood like sawlogs are always in demand, especially now as property taxes are going up and the cycling of logging on a given tract is reduced. That means tree size is getting smaller and so with the big diameter trees that I ...

Come on up, and let me know if you do as there is lots to see. Most people like the coast, and it gets a bit crowded, but I can understand the draw. It depends what you like, but I live in mid-coast Maine so I am pretty central to stuff like the Penobscot Narrows Observatory, Moose Point State Park,...

I am sorry Stan; I was not very descriptive in my terminology. I can see why the confusion as a crawlers tracks is 75% of the tractor.

I realize no one replied to this thread, and that is okay, I just wanted to update you on what was happening and how the certification process works in case anyone else is contemplating it. The forester did have to come back and check out my woodlot because she had not been on it for 6 months, but i...

When I was ten my teacher told my mother I was a good kid, but I fantasized a lot. When my mother heard that she was surprised because she said I was honest, almost to a fault. That was when she said I was always talking about cutting wood and driving bulldozers. That was when my mother told her tha...

They looked promising to me, but seemed they would only work in situations with through-pins. A few of my pins on my six-way blade could not use that style because they have a blind-pin. (For instance the cylinder eye pins for the angle). I got a nice crawler, but I am a little frustrated with amoun...

Has anyone ever used the Expander System to rebuild the pins and bushings on their dozers or loaders? I just saw this online when I was looking into what it would take to linebore my own worn pins and bushings and thought it is ingenious, just what I was looking for versus cutting and lineboring my ...

Neither could I, same reason though I probably would attend. I can hear it now though, "You never want to go to New Hampshire to visit my parents, but you'll leave the next day to see bulldozer porn". That is what my wife, who is from New Hampshire, calls anything to do with bulldozers. Books, magaz...

Well don't I feel silly now! I guess first dozer and seeing a youngster on it threw me off. My apologies Vetter for the misunderstanding of age, but I only meant encouraging words by what I said. Still, good for you for buying it. Farming, logging and fishing (at least here in Maine) are some of the...

You are in good hands with the grease but I thought I would congratulate you on a new bulldozer. In my opinion, seeing a young fellow buy equipment really shows they are thinking ahead. In school I know of one kid who went out and bought a tractor while everyone else was buying cars to impress the g...

One thing I have found to work; and work quite well in negotiations, is the fact that something is being used for agriculture. For whatever reason; whether they just like to eat, have an affinity for farmers, or fondly remember their grandfather toiling in a field, they will give something up to a f...

I have the same issue, I am not sure what the Pioneer PTO carts cost, but they look expensive and I have yet to see any piece of equipment yet that looks expensive and wasn't! That being said, I think the answer to this...and keep in mind this is coming from a VERY frugal man...is to be adaptive and...

PondHogVT...if you can help the guy that helps so many of us...my hat is off to you in sincere thanks.

In life you cannot always help out, but you can often be empathetic, sympathetic or just thankful.