cool fact, pipe tobacco will go in a cigarette tube just as well as cigarette tobacco, actually better.
most of these less expressive tobaccos are a burley and virginia mix. it leaves an aftertaste some what like that of some game meat. kinda like your tongue feels fuzzy. the one i like is cavendish and burley, no after taste at all.Perique is nice and peppery and spicy
Black cavendish is delicious - so is Latakia
Virginia and Virginia mix is good but can get burned and ashy tasting rather quickly if it’s too dry - Abingdon by GL Pease is one of the best blends I’ve ever had
Stay away from burley if you don’t know how to make it burn right or taste good enough to smoke
I smoked a pipe for over 15 years - had a collection of over 120 pipes total and I can’t tell you how many cans of tobacco I had - most were English blends, McClelland going out of biz was one of the worst things that ever happened in the pipe tobacco world, that Frog Morton was outstandingly good - even some of their aromatics though very light actually burned well and tasted good - my heart is still broken over them fully going away….
Getting rid of my stuff 3 years back included the pipes and all the tobacco - sold most of everythjng and tossed a lotta the cans away…..
You could do this stuff by hand but you won’t make any money doing it let alone get the job anymore. Just watched one of the big guys bump out two fairly decent sized operators out of their normal spots for the mills they were working for, it’s brutal to watch anymore it’s one reason I thin vs clear cut.idk how any one makes any money in little wood. move more loads, yeah but the cost goes up along with production.
i think guys forget about machine wear. that cost has increased like every thing else. your gonna fix it or replace it.
Since when did equipment come with seatbelts?View attachment 6872
He's wearing his seatbelt, only thing he's missing is hearing protection. Wanted him to hear it run first time mowing.
And a kid with all his fingers?Since when did equipment come with seatbelts?
what are you cutting mostly? i can make some money on export grade and long matts. last weeks average was close to a dollar a foot. it was nice shit, i cant stay in it nearly enough. pine.........i had to drop my price on it. great big 8 to a semi load pine is only gonna pay about 1200 a load, if i can move it at all. pine pulp is down around 700 a load if you over load. i cant do it, not with a 120 mile round trip. let her rot.You could do this stuff by hand but you won’t make any money doing it let alone get the job anymore. Just watched one of the big guys bump out two fairly decent sized operators out of their normal spots for the mills they were working for, it’s brutal to watch anymore it’s one reason I thin vs clear cut.
How many guys on the ground is it going to take to put down 8 to 10 loads a day bucked and limbed? With two guys on the same job we can produce that vs tree tree length doing the same cost almost twice as much in man labor alone let alone equipment.
Right now I’m just contract cutting a job I actually bid on, we normally try to be up around 175 an hour on the yarding and 200 to 250 an hour in domestic wood which by the ton is around 45 or so. Export if it’s not if not 32 plus on the top with 37 feet plus it actually pays more to be in the 60 year old Jap wood where there’s 3 sticks of export and a long stick of domestic.what are you cutting mostly? i can make some money on export grade and long matts. last weeks average was close to a dollar a foot. it was nice shit, i cant stay in it nearly enough. pine.........i had to drop my price on it. great big 8 to a semi load pine is only gonna pay about 1200 a load, if i can move it at all. pine pulp is down around 700 a load if you over load. i cant do it, not with a 120 mile round trip. let her rot.
And that concludes this week’s episode of “Hipster Foreplay”
Really nice. congrats.wheres Rick? got me a big copper today. mid 1700s king George the second half penny. its pretty wiped but i can just make out the REX and the outline of the bust facing left. also got on some flat buttons and partner got a pewter spoon. most all this shit dates mid 1700s to early 1800s. in the middle of a woods, not on any map. we lucked out finding it.
what are you cutting mostly? i can make some money on export grade and long matts. last weeks average was close to a dollar a foot. it was nice shit, i cant stay in it nearly enough. pine.........i had to drop my price on it. great big 8 to a semi load pine is only gonna pay about 1200 a load, if i can move it at all. pine pulp is down around 700 a load if you over load. i cant do it, not with a 120 mile round trip. let her rot.
i matt every red oak i can. we never had a whole lot of really good red oak though.Mat mill here is wanting 16' and 20' @ .65.. Nevermind everything else that's been delivered to the mill off my sites since oh, September that still hasn't been paid for.. Not my call or this would have never taken place. We talking allot of money that is owed to the guy I contract to. Veneer white oak sale last week avg 4.50, large layout and allot of 3.00 logs. Red oak is still garbage, .51 for a real good log
They shooted them. He's pissedHow many bees he got ?? Doesn’t get interesting till the bees get annoyed!?🤷♂️😳