Mud Delay

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For the past two weeks the logging project has been on rain delay. We had expected a few showers, then we expected a few thunderstorms, then more showers, there were more wet days than dry days. It seems like the summer just gave up on us and moved on. The loggers cannot make it up the hill, and the trucks are having a hard time making it in to get the loads out that are waiting in the landing.

We do not want to make mud from the project on the hill, in the landing or for the river crossing. The decision has been made to turn the delay into an end of project for this year, the problem was getting the logging equipment off the hill in order to transport it off the property.

The big Barko machine was first with a s-l-o-w creep down the slippery slope of the logging road. The extendable long arm helped to tether the machine as it inched down the hill and across the river to a trailer for the ride to a leveler project that has established, rocked logging roads. Second down the hill was the shovel, from what I could hear from vantage point at the landing, the walk down was just as slow as the Barko. The usual clacking that can be heard from the moving tracks was silent as mud goo-ed around the joints. The track on one side of the machine would be slipping on the slope as the other side grabbed for purchase, then the opposite side would slide while the first slipper grabbed.

The last of the logs already in the landing will be picked up as soon as the trucks can make it to the landing and through the river crossing.