[AT] Swamp loggers. A log skidder is a tractor isn't it?

[John Hall]

It's all about making money. I've noticed a lot of folks trying to sell 
firewood on Craigslist. When you add up the cost of a truck, splitter, and a 
chainsaw, these guys are working for peanuts. Its got to be hard to compete 
against the commercial processors.

Back in the '90's there were still a few farmer sized sawmills around here. 
I don't know of any still running. They gave way to band saw mills and it 
seems those have fallen to the big lumber stores. I priced adding on to a 
farm shed 2 years ago and I could go buy dressed lumber at the big box store 
a whole lot cheaper than I could cut down a couple trees and have it sawn 
for me.

John
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From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [AT] Swamp loggers. A log skidder is a tractor isn't it?


> There is another small local logging picking up here that I don't
> really like. That is the commercial firewood business. They are buying
> these firewood processors and then cutting really nice logs and
> feeding them into the firewood processors. Many of them just leave the
> tops laying. I would really rather see the good logs going into lumber
> and the tops used for firewood.
>
> http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.indgravel.com/emeditimages/380-1.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.indgravel.com/english/processor.html&usg=__jYFLkZeBtBFRJC8rlkSLoND1ZHY=&h=984&w=1500&sz=802&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=v8BYONpfEEgs7M:&tbnh=98&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfirewood%2Bprocessor%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1
>
>
>
> -- 
> Have you hugged your horses today?
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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