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Around here the Amish are the worst offenders. They will try to make a deal with you then halfway through switch it to more of their favor. I don't deal with them because of their reputation, but a friend of mine does and gets right up into their grill until they smarten up. I figure he must be on t...

@cutting edge: I'm in NE Texas and a few words you used confused me: freeze,frost line, snow :all foreign words down here :lol: That is okay, Maine is the only state in the nation that does not have poisonous snakes. I like that. The last few years has been warm enough too where the frost has not g...

I see. That is vastly different for me. I typically do old growth forest which can mean stumps 2-3 feet in diameter. Logging brush is everywhere and its a crap shoot whether to burn them which means returning later in the winter after first snowfall and letting them smoulder all winter, or spend the...

I kind of had to laugh when I read your original question because this same thing happened to a guy here. He was a logging contractor and made a deal with a landowner to clear 30 acres of woods. He would use his feller-bunchers and skidders and clean off the wood then use his excavator and bulldozer...

Welcome to business where there is a huge difference between profit and hidden costs. As many business owners can attest, it is the hidden costs that do a business owner in. In fact most businesses fail, not from a lack of money outright, but a lack of cash flow. There is something to be said for th...

I WISH it would rain here. 6 weeks without a drop and EVERYTHING is brown, even the trees. The swamp maple are turning red from the stress...and its only August!

I don't believe that is the case. I know on my 1988 John Deere 350D, the transmission and steering clutches share a common sump...and thus the same oil. But I am not as knowledgeable as some of the mechanics on here. I just wanted to ensure my clutches had the right oil level and hunted and hunted o...

Excuse my complete ignorance upon the subject, but why so expensive?

My father made the claim that an old duffer back in the day used to jump start his crawler instead of using the old hand crank. I am not sure what size he claimed it was, but most likely a smaller Cletrak or something. I have been around dozers all my life and am not sure you could honestly jump sta...

Not sure if it is the same thing, but here we have ironwood as well. Here it is prized for horse hitches since its about the only wood that can tolerate two draft horses sitting on their haunches and not breaking the beam in two. It was also used for pulling stumps out of the ground by horses. It wa...

I asked the truck driver yesterday what he could legally haul and he said its registered for 100,000 pounds. In Maine, you are allowed 10% for being overweight, so a 102,000 pound load would mean they probably would not fine you. Anything over 105,000 pounds and they surely would. This is NOT an 18 ...

I hear what you are saying Paul. I know in VT right now it is even tougher than Maine. That is because I live beside one paper mill where we are the preferred "zone" for wood. That is because they have a contract with Plum Creek to buy X amount of wood from them per week. Whenever they tried to opt ...

I know here in Maine our legislatures got special permission to run high weights on the interstate. They did that because 100,000 loads are destined for the interstate that was designed for it and not back roads like what we have. Unfortunately, like all government oversight, it had unintended conse...

Does anyone know what the average sized tractor trailer combinations weighs? I had a load of hardwood go into the mill yesterday and the truck weighed 102,000 going in. No idea yet what it weighed on its way back out, but the driver said it only scaled up at 14 cord. (75,600 pounds). I stick scaled ...

I would tell you my not so favorite saying while working on my dozer, but it is uttered far more than it should. As a church-going-man I do not take the Lord's name in vain, but a time or two pounding those pins out of the tracks, I might have made a reference to an occupation that was less than lad...