[lancek]

Yea how many post do you need we can supply both locust and hedge wich would allso work well for your post And we have a pointer to !!

[lancek]

This is all very interesting Scott and Taylor you have hit on some real good points, but I want to add another perspective! In indiana the wood lotts were small and gave us an edge when we went to look at jobs. But down here in the Ozarks things are differant woodlots are much biger the last three I have looked at are between 300 and 1500 acers! Lots of land to cover with a horse! So I am going back to my origenal idea of a small forwarder. Something the size of a bobcat with a trailer and knucle boom behind it! But the real question is where do you find the engianering help to make such a machine?

[lancek]

There agian that whats nice about the yurts [ I will spell it right now] but anyway we used 2×6 walls and 2×8 rafters wich you could cutt from your wood lot and the floor was 2x10s with simple poored pillers made with sacked cement as a foundation! Then we put sheet metal for our roof R30 insuation in the roof and r24 in walls and floor joists 1/4 inch hard board was use for the inside walls [easy to paint and inexpensive and 3/4 plywood for floor with carpet and vinal for kit. then we had rubberized lumber tarps to cover the side walls and a small ben franklin wood stove to heat and propane gas heater as back up. There agian we put $5000.00 into it and it lasted us two years untill we were done with the job and then we dismanteled it and sold it to a nighber for a artis loft

[lancek]

We made stud walls with two by fours and put the batting insulation in this the inportant thing is to make sure you seal your floors to cealing and yes they tryed to give us problems with this situation but found out as long as we had the min. square footage per person and proper water and sewage then there was nothing they could do about us living in this! I would allso sudjest if you live in the north east to get a arcituectual enginer to sign off on your plans and that should give you enough ammo to get around the problem of local athoritys giving you trouble! We allso lived in sub zero temps and had no problem keeping temps in 60s!

[lancek]

when we went to tenn and worked on a prodgect we put up a uritt large tent house like they use in asia! we made a wood floor and frame then used lumber tarps to seal the out side walls and metal for the roof! W e made four differant rooms added electrical and insuation and hard board for the walls all this inclueding plumbing cost us less than $5000.00 and we lived through ice storms hurricane and cold winter weather with out too much discomfert for three years!

[lancek]

I just wish this would end ! Its 102 here today and thats actual temp. heat index of 113 im going to do what my dad use to tell me to do quit offten go soak my head in the river ! lol we have a great spot down the road gravel bottom tree lined and mountians all around !

[lancek]

I think that is a very true concept But if we could get more folks to see the truth we would be in a better place

[lancek]

just heard the long range forcast and they say this heat will last untill oct. or nov. I dont think I will throughlol

[lancek]

Hey you need to add kids to your saying about hayward hurly and hell because kids are what realy drives you batts! And as far as your comment on the hase here you are absulutly right as soon as the sun comes up the humidity gose through the roof

[lancek]

Yes taylor its hot 107 heat index here today! and it allways is more funny when your not the one thats thashing around on the floor in pain my kids thinks thats funny when I get the same problems! I think I may come up and stay there the rest of the summer where its cool or see if Scott has any extra work out in colorado that rocky mountian air would sure feel good about nowLOL:D

[lancek]

well if you dont find what you need there we have a unique situation here!
there is over 9000 acres of blown down timber from a storm that hit here a year ago and most of the work is in areas that cant be worked by machines!
I need good people that are willing to learn and or all ready trained in this line of work if you would like to talk further email me at jak10860@yahoo.com and leave phone no. I will call you back! Tim

[lancek]

Thats tearable that is the problem with higher education just like most other things in this world they put greed above everything else!If your looking for an apprentiship come join us in mo we have plenty of work and beutiful setting here in the ozarks it actuly reminds me of Vermount!

[lancek]

Im glade that we only make the parts and not the finished rails that would give you a headach!!!!!!!

[lancek]

back in the 70s it was 3500.00 per year or at least that is what my dad sold our lake lot for for me to go! but it looks likr they made a lot of inprovments since I left I wonder if they ever fixed the boiler so you had hot water when it got below zero!! lol

[lancek]

We Will try to keep our twichs between 200 and 300 feet the origanl skid trails are all in that range so we will use them as extraction roads and twich the logs to there!

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