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No but they use amsteel for tail rope strops back home. Makes alloy more sense than packing a 3/4 strop plus Block around. Over here the loggers use ratchet tie downs to support skyline spars. Most of the stuff logged here is tiny like in Scotland. Seeing a mechanical slack pulling carriage...

Those Bell Machines are a Trip to drive.You Steer them with foot peddles and operate the Boom and Grapple with levers.They were mainly used for fleeting cut logs into piles to be loaded into stacks when I worked in the bush.They were powered by a Deutz air cooled Diesel that used to run just...

Logging has indeed changed so much in the last 20 years,but Steam power changed the scene just as much too. I remember fondly my days working in a Yarder outfit,but I don´t miss having to carry around Tail Rope Blocks or dodging Stems that have slipped off the landing and are hurtling down the...