logging pics

[sotc]

yeah broke. we pulled stumps to but a break is right now sudden. do you mean half hitch 1 stump and screwy bell another? we did do that on rare occasion. i liked it when i was guyed to a d7g, i always felt more comfortable.

 

[squisher]

Worst cable injury I ever had was when I worked for two days on a different yarder crew over a long break-up. It was a swing grapple set-up and I was excited to run the hillside with it but what a haywire crew. We were using strawline to run the guylines up a steep bank on a yarder move and that straw let loose wrapped me around the midsection and drug me aways, my own fault for not being clear enough but I couldn't figure for the life of me why it broke until the idiot buckerman piped up 'oh that don't suprise me last time we were using that line I nicked it with my saw'. You could imagine how impressed I was as I probably could've used some stitches for the cut that cable had put in my arse! not to mention being bruised up from getting drug by it.

Two days on that crew before I met the boss who told me he thought the wage I had demanded was a little high, trying to work me. I was replacing a guy on his crew that was (suprise, suprise) off from being injured at work. No one else on his crew would climb, when I showed up they were stuck yarding little roads at an angle cause they couldn't move until they had a climber, I went down set a spar and then went to unrig the old one laughed my arse off as the guys in the crummy on the way up had all been talking up these real 'high climbing' spars they were using, the rigging was all of 25' in the air. Needless to say I told him not to worry about my 'high wage' as I was done, cable logging with haywires is a recipe for disaster.

 

[squisher]

do you mean half hitch 1 stump and screwy bell another?

Yah we'd do that if we were worried about stumps pulling, and ya you only do that backwards once! Choppity chop!

 

[sotc]

sounds like a cull outfit. brutal on the ribs though! what size guy wire? we ran 1 1/8", sucked dragging it around. i guess that was an up side to running yarder, i had to be on the machine while guy lines were being dragged

 

[squisher]

We had 1" non-swedge on the skyleads, I don't know what size was on the swing grapple as I only worked there two days. We never had to use a straw for setting our guy lines on the skylead but that was how these guys were doing it on this swing, I was the new guy so was just going with the flow. After working with such a good tight crew it was a real eye-opener to see, these dudes were a cull group to say the least that engineer spent as much time forking around with that yarder as he did actually running it, and only one person to climb? Wtf is with that, were I worked everyone could (if need be) climb except for our buckerman. Oh yah and one newguy near the end he climbed once no more than 10' and nearly got stuck he was so scared . I shouldn't laugh but man that was funny, young know it all dude had been talking 'er up his first couple of weeks about how easy the climbing looked. He never had much to say after that.

 

[sotc]

be fun to meet you some time justin. only 600 miles to the conference this year you could get you cert!

 

[squisher]

At the conference? Corvallis? I'd love to go but probalby not in the cards for me until I dump the station, then I plan on starting to get out a little more.

 

[squisher]

You don't get cert'd just for going to a conference do you? You'd still have to write the exam, no?

 

[sotc]

forgot about the anchor!

 

[sotc]

no but you can sit the test there.

 

[squisher]

no but you can sit the test there.

Did not know that, maybe I should read my newsletter a little more closely I'm a pnw member and like I say really want to start taking advantage of some of the learning opps once I can.

 

[sotc]

their website has an online event calendar

 

[sotc]

heres a neat vid of a dangle head processor
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[stehansen]

The chainsaw is obsolete.

 

[sotc]

this is interesting
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[MasterBlaster]

I want a dozerboat!!!

 

[sotc]

wow this is awesome, 550hp trucks, huge loads and an old cable loader

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part2
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[MasterBlaster]

Meh, massive trucks, but if it's THAT dangerous they could just not loads the sucker so heavy.

 

[sotc]

heres a serious mule train, 6 short logs long. never seen 2 loaders load 1 truck
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[sotc]

Meh, massive trucks, but if it's THAT dangerous they could just not loads the sucker so heavy.

watch the second vid, he explains some of the hazard. also it must be a private road or they couldnt haul that kinda weight on it

 

[MasterBlaster]

watch the second vid, he explains some of the hazard. also it must be a private road or they couldnt haul that kinda weight on it

But what does that have to do with the price of rice in China?

 

[sotc]

the weight of 3 normal loads on the same amount of tires, axles and brakes. granted their heavy duty but not 3 times. going down steep switch backs, tearing out a differential on a steep corner, rolling trucks on steep ground. it is dangerous even if they are experienced. that was my counter point

 

[Paul B]

its fun to go into the woods, not so much near here anymore but a few hours drive and you see the signs on dirt roads in the hills "Active logging operation in the area", translated that means get the hell out of the way if you see / hear a logging truck barrelling down the hill. There isnt much more than a lane and a half of space on most of the back roads, I have had to put my truck into the scrub roadside to let a logger by. I used to have a CB in the truck (they used to put the channel that was in use by the local operation on the sign sometimes) but I think most commercial transport is on VHF or higher these days, harder to monitor.

 

[boboak]

Meh, massive trucks, but if it's THAT dangerous they could just not loads the sucker so heavy.

LOL...On off-road rigs you usually load until you run out of saddles. Getting wood down the hill is the main consideration. The off-road trucks are usually spec-ed out to handle the extra weight but the loads are top-heavy and usually side-heavy as well.
Makes for some interesting days.

 

[bergsteiger]

its fun to go into the woods, not so much near here anymore but a few hours drive and you see the signs on dirt roads in the hills "Active logging operation in the area", translated that means get the hell out of the way if you see / hear a logging truck barrelling down the hill. There isnt much more than a lane and a half of space on most of the back roads, I have had to put my truck into the scrub roadside to let a logger by. I used to have a CB in the truck (they used to put the channel that was in use by the local operation on the sign sometimes) but I think most commercial transport is on VHF or higher these days, harder to monitor.

They usually spray paint the CB channel on a tree at the beginning of the road.