Not logging necessarily, but some pictures.

[pantheraba]

Perfect timing...I just read this today about building guitars...discusses and shows exactly some of what you just referenced.

How to Build a Guitar (Published 2020)

For The New York Times for Kids, the photographer Christopher Payne visited the Martin Guitars factory to see how humans and machines make music.

www.nytimes.com

 

[stikine]

One of our sales is wrapping up and the cleanup is ongoing. Here are a few pictures of some of the iron.
Madill 009 yarder

Line horse for cable


Log loader

 

[stikine]

 

[pantheraba]

Showoff!!! I just got a 15K lb excavator...now it looks like I bought a TOY! Cool pictures.

 

[stikine]

Haha, at least yours runs. Some of this stuff not so much!

 

[treebogan]

I logged timber in the Queen Charlotte Islands that was destined for Yamaha musical instruments.

Isn't it funny how pictures bring back odors and tastes,I felt I could smell that Big Spruce log.

Just like Gin brings back memories of a mele with drunken Natives beside the Kenai river.

 

[treebogan]

Showoff!!! I just got a 15K lb excavator...now it looks like I bought a TOY! Cool pictures.

Is that shovel an old Link-Belt? Kind of hard to tell, I thought it might have been a Madill but not sure.

 

[stikine]

Here's a stroke boom delimer/processor that is destined for the scrap yard after the engine is removed.

 

[stikine]

 

[gf beranek]

Thin bark. can't even see sapwood or growth rings.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

I always feel very sad when I see old equipment rusting and dying.
More than in a wreck for example.

 

[Burnham]

Here's a stroke boom delimer/processor that is destined for the scrap yard after the engine is removed.View attachment 114422

Well, the carcass would make a fine anchor for a mooring, dropped in about 50 feet of water .

 

[stikine]

Let's hope it doesn't mysteriously fall off the barge .

 

[Burnham]

Maybe attach a line and float, just in case .

 

[stikine]

Funny thing is that the undercarriage looks to be in pretty good condition. Not sure if it could be repurposed or not? The siderod said he was going to take a torch to the boom and get it out of the way to make moving it easier.

 

[stikine]

Walking tracked machines long distance is what does them in. Delimers seldomly walk far.

 

[Burnham]

Yessir.

I'd bet the transpo, parts, and labor costs in your part of the world would make repurposing a hard nut to crack, to keep it in the black.

 

[stikine]

Probably, fwiw stroke boom delimers are out of vogue any way... require huge landings to accommodate the length.

 

[cory]

Funny thing is that the undercarriage looks to be in pretty good condition.

I was thinking the same thing

 

[treebogan]

When I logged in the Charlottes in 99 I couldnt beleive the equipment left sitting in the bush.

Trucks, yarders,rigging, blocks etc. All just left sitting when they had finnished the site.

I would love a big " Rope Master K" block. I would rejoice in giving one of those plus two leagues of haywire to a mouthy young buck to carry. "Come on son, I was carrying all that uphill before I was old enough to drink".

Oh how he would laugh...

 

[stikine]

Yup, I've hauled plenty of "treasure" left in the woods back home over the years. Helicopter logging chokers are sometimes useful. Big haulback blocks not so much!

 

[cory]

I would rejoice in giving one of those plus two leagues of haywire to a mouthy young buck to carry. "Come on son, I was carrying all that uphill before I was old enough to drink".

Indeed!

Iirc,, a haywire coil weighs 150 lbs. Carrying that through thick brush is a serious undertaking imo.

 

[treebogan]

Indeed!

Iirc,, a haywire coil weighs 150 lbs. Carrying that through thick brush is a serious undertaking imo.

Seems like alot?

5.5mm rope × 110 yards I think was about #30?

The best part by far was the indentations left on your shoulders from the block crushung the rope in, or was it the happy chance of one of the hooks catching your boot and falling over?

So many happy memories!

@stikine

If you can get me a block, I will pay freight. Straight up.

 

[pantheraba]

What do one of these haul back blocks look like? And what are they rated at? Do I want one? Maybe I will pay $50 plus freight?

 

[flushcut]

Maybe attach a line and float, just in case .

So you can find your mooring spot later after it falls off?