Author Topic: Say you have to cut through 500 ft of trees to make a road..... (Read 68634 times)

Steve G. · « **Reply #25 on:** January 22, 2008, 11:02:47 AM »

yup, the first step we have to do is cut a road.... even if it's just dirt, it needs to be a place to get to our land...then we start building our house and see if we need to dig ditches on the side's of the road.

Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" · « **Reply #26 on:** January 22, 2008, 03:07:10 PM »

Please, put in the ditches when you first grade in the road. You may wish you had later and have it cost you more dollars in the end.

Steve G. · « **Reply #27 on:** January 22, 2008, 04:01:41 PM »

we'll see what happens once we get that backoe chugin' in the summer....

adk patroller · « **Reply #28 on:** January 22, 2008, 07:04:47 PM »

Quote from: Steve G. on January 19, 2008, 09:38:07 PM

Where could I get lumber wrap? or fabric? I know I can get the 3' by 100' at HD but I asume it's gonna have to be 8' wide??? right?

btw, thanks for all the help you've been giving me - it's great!

Steve

Steve,
Check with your local lumber yards and contractors for the lumber wrap discarded from skids of dimensional lumber.

Bob

Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" · « **Reply #29 on:** January 22, 2008, 07:30:26 PM »

Welcome a board, Adk. Good to have with the new forum.

Steve, you might want to see if you can find someone with a smaller type road grader to help with the crowning of the road.

Steve G. · « **Reply #30 on:** January 23, 2008, 01:56:34 PM »

How do you mean "the crowning of the road"

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Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" · « **Reply #31 on:** January 23, 2008, 03:44:00 PM »

Crowning means haveing the road slope to the sides from the middle point. Another way might be to say, rounded. Not so much, you lose your tale pipe or anything, but well enough to get the water to the sides of the road and into a ditch.

Steve G. · « **Reply #32 on:** January 23, 2008, 04:12:06 PM »

gracias!

joasis · « **Reply #33 on:** January 23, 2008, 05:54:50 PM »

So what is your family going to do with this property Steve?

Steve G. · « **Reply #34 on:** January 23, 2008, 09:38:58 PM »

well as I stated above, we intend to build a log cabin on it.... and maybe a shop - my dream shop........(dreaming)

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #35 on:** February 20, 2008, 09:33:08 PM »

Hey Steve, make sure you take lots of pics when your start your project. We would love to see the progress.

Steve G. · « **Reply #36 on:** February 21, 2008, 07:56:38 AM »

I will definately be taking pics, maybe even video! We are already in the planning stages and we have already started to build a scale model of the house! We have also started collecting some of the tools that we will need too - btw, anybody know the best place to get a peavey?

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #37 on:** February 21, 2008, 08:14:30 AM »

Contact Frank Pender! He is a Log Rite dealer and you will NEVER find a better peavey than the one Log Rite Tools offers.

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #38 on:** February 21, 2008, 09:08:26 AM »

http://www.logrite.com/

Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" · « **Reply #39 on:** February 23, 2008, 03:05:10 AM »

Thank you Kirk. I can have one delivered directly, Steve G. Just let me know.

Steve G. · « **Reply #40 on:** February 23, 2008, 09:31:43 AM »

Well my dad and I are doing alot of shopping like the loghomebuildersassociation told us to, they said collect your equipment over 2 years and don't pay retail for anything - get it at yard sales and store sales. So I'm gonna talk to him about where to get the peaveys and ask him what he thinks of these.

Steve

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #41 on:** February 23, 2008, 09:40:51 AM »

Steve, what ever you do, dont cut yourself short on your log handling tools. The one time a wooden handle peavy breaks on you is going to be the time it takes out your jaw or worse yet, lets the log roll over you or part of you causing serious injury.

I understand the value in being a good stuard of your money but spending a little extra for a peavy that will NEVER break and has a lifetime warranty is the best thing you can do. I promise you will not be disapointed.

joasis · « **Reply #42 on:** February 23, 2008, 10:54:49 AM »

Start watching eBay, and you will find that old or used cant hooks and peaveys sell for nearly as much as new....I have a wooden handled cant hook...somewhere...I also have 3 of the Logrite beauties....and they are well worth the few bucks they cost, relatively speaking due to safety. The next one I buy will be the longest handle version they have.....makes life a little easier and safer, since handling logs weighing thousands of pounds can be extremely dangerous.

Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" · « **Reply #43 on:** February 29, 2008, 09:34:27 PM »

Jay, when do you want me to have it delivered, directly to your front door? We have a 72" unit called the "mega Hook. It does not have a sharp point as a peavy, but a canthook end. I have sold a few of them to folks. The ones most wanting a "mega hook have been the women for better leverage.

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #44 on:** March 01, 2008, 07:48:43 AM »

Carefule there frank. I got one of the first prototype mega hooks to test and was proudly one of the first to buy one, if not the first and there aint no girly men around here

Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" · « **Reply #45 on:** March 02, 2008, 05:57:09 AM »

Gggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeee, I was not in-firrrrrring anything like that , Kirk.

joasis · « **Reply #46 on:** March 02, 2008, 06:43:22 AM »

I don't know when Frank, But I will buy it from you.....always about time. never enough time.

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #47 on:** March 02, 2008, 08:22:30 AM »

Just making sure there Frank

Steve G. · « **Reply #48 on:** April 17, 2008, 05:46:33 PM »

Okay guys, haven't been around lately... cuz' i've been workin' a heap! We went up to clear our rode and land.... we got a stihl MS 280 18" & a little echo saw for light stuff. We worked about 4-5 days by now clearing and chipping and felling big trees. I have a question though, say I want to mill some pine or oak we cut down (16-18" in diameter and pretty straight); what would I have to do (ie curing, drying, etc...)?

joasis · « **Reply #49 on:** April 17, 2008, 06:11:49 PM »

Get someone with a portable mill and get after it...they get milled green, then stack and let air dry.

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