Thread: tree loppers,can't live without them heh

holey moley, thats a big stick!

Nice one!

So that's what I saw when I drove pass, was thinking hmm, geeze his yard looks a little full

Wow! You had better make a "bluestain plan", before it gets into them. Don't ask me though.

dj you must have been going somewhere,told ya the billy was on this week. I rolled the first log into the mill this arvo and realised the lucas can only cut 1100mm down. So i blocked it up to get to the top of the log and when i get half way through,i'll take the blocks out ,wind the mill up,level the cutting surface and finish the log. 5 times over. Lot of wood though
timber talk, the blue stain wont start for a few weeks yet (depending on rain fall) and since it wont affect the finished product too much i'm not that concerned .if i left them for 5 months instead of 5 weeks, yeah then i'd have a problem

Yep, been running back and forth trying to get bits and pieces to get the truck back on the road, hoping to have the ram that extends and retracts the boom back next week, that was sent off about 4 weeks ago to be repaired, but in the meantime I've got a blown seal behind the harmonic pulley and it is proving to be problematic to get it off, am hoping that the solution I've lined up tomorrow morning will get it off

Lucky to have such loppers about Charslie, the ones around here are pretty set in their ways. I have spoken to nearly all of them, all interested when I talk to them and tell them what is possible but to date I have had no calls and constantly see trees 600mm and over blocked up into rounds that the client can't use and doesn't want

non of teh boys round here wanna play

i oferd to pay for the logs.

instead they dump them and i go to the dump and remove them for free.

Originally Posted by weisyboy

non of teh boys round here wanna play

i oferd to pay for the logs.

instead they dump them and i go to the dump and remove them for free.

Alright when they dump them in lengths, everything here seems to get blocked up into 300mm rounds. Last week a spotted gum that would have been 800mm diameter was blocked up less than 800m up the road from me, last month a marri of the same dimentions about the same distance away in the opposite direction. What really gets me is the guy with the spotted gum was given my card by his neighbour who had two equally large spotted gums dropped last year, clincher for these two was that they had two straight trunks that remain standing to about 5m and the guy has put chicken wire over them to grow creepers on. They laugh at me every time I drive past

burnsy ,carl you just have to wonder sometimes. it's a bit different for blokes like me (and i reckon burnsy your like me, part time miller) i don't want heaps and heaps of logs. I want the good clean,straight saw logs that i can make a quid out of milling them. the tree loppers around here will drop any bit of crap they can get in your yard to save a dollar in either labour to cut it up or tip costs. if it's easier to ring it up and leave it on the nature strip they will ( i just knocked back 30 macrocarpa logs tonite, purely for the reason i dont have room)

most logs come in to the dump in .5m lengths(2 man liftable) if im lucky big stuff over 1m will bein 1m of 1.5m lrngths (liftable by a bobcat). sometimes i get good logs. there is about 20 cube of pine there at the moment im decidin wheather to take. and i got about 5 cume of spotty logs in about 3m lengths. a few mounths back.

Charlsie - I like the size of those logs....

Here is another tree loppers mess to contemplate. I spotted these two days ago, a bit of door kocking and calling around put me in touch with a great guy at the state planning commission who own the land. It seems a tree lopper had some deal to use the land but they have had enough of it and want it all gone. He is happy for me to mill whatever I want on site, they will give me a permit. It has all been pushed up this week unfortunately so many of the big logs are under crap like ficus logs.

Given time and a tracor with tines or a hiab I reckon I could mill about 50%. Instead I will be lucky to mill 1 or two logs within the permit time that I will be able to get. Still looking into it as it seemed they were in a hurry to clean it up but maybe I might have a few months. Think about what could have been possible if the lopper had cut the trees for milling, especially seeing the nature of the site is perfect for milling and storage of cut logs, even if it was just cut for sleepers it would be better than it going to the tip or being burnt! It is on a major road so a sign out front and they would have not been able to keep up with garden sleeper sales.

I think the banksia is definitely coming home with me as boards, nice thick trunk and long too. Pretty rare these days. I also need some 200 x 60 for my deck as ballustrading posts and they only need to be about 1400 long so some of those big trunk bases should see some nice quartersawn boards for that.