Quick release logging chokers

[Thor's Hammer]

Anybody know where I can obtain them? I can get them over here, but they are ridiculously expensive. I need the type that release when you drop the load.

 

[sotc]

Never heard of that, remote control chokers work for you?

http://www.fortronics.com/the_choker_system/
http://www.jlogging.com/overview.html

 

[Thor's Hammer]

I'd love some, but I somehow think that a set would probably cost more than my whole yarder cost...

 

[woodworkingboy]

These guys like their electronic choker.

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[squisher]

Never used the remote chokers myself. What's the matter Ed you getting lazy?

 

[Frans]

Ed, I subscribe to this magazine: http://www.loggersworld.com/
and I have seen ads for the quick release chokers in the classified section.

If that doesn't work lemme know, cause I can contact some people directly for you if you need it

 

[stehansen]

Yeah, with all the loggers sitting around wondering what to do until the next batch of houses will be built. I'll bet there are all sorts of chokers for sale.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

yeah skwishey, getting lazy
those electronic ones behave just as I imagined - clogging up, getting stuck, not releasing etc.
The ones I ned release manually when you drop the trees on the landing stack.

 

[squisher]

How much will they slow down the guys doing the hooking though?

 

[Thor's Hammer]

The chain ones in the picture are just as quick.

 

[squisher]

I'm talking about weight, bulk, and ease of sliding under a log. Chain seems like it would get caught on damn near everything while getting to the logs. I've never used 'em so just speculating is all.

 

[Al Smith]

Em , well you've got a point,you can't push a chain .

 

[NeTree]

Chain is an East Coast thing. Cable would never stand up to the beating taken being skidded over sharp rocks, etc.

Cable is easier to feed under a log.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

I prefer cable, the guys prefer chain. I have both, and the cable is a lot harder to release on the landing, but thats probably down to the design of the bells we're using.

 

[sotc]

We never had trouble with cable chokers and rocks. Ed, they seem like you would lose logs when pulling the turn together. I can't really see how they work though.

 

[squisher]

It's gotta be the bell and knob fitment if they're hard to release. Under no tension cable chokers should be real easy to open one handed.

 

[NeTree]

Willie, are you talking hy-line logging or conventional skidding?

 

[sotc]

Doesn't matter, All our chokers were made the same, 1 eye, 1 nubbin and 1 bell and we worked some rocky ground sometimes. A dozer can slide a long way on a rocky hill

 

[woodworkingboy]

Do those tongs work very well for skidding an individual log?

 

[sotc]

I have some but i'd take a choker any day

 

[NeTree]

Willie, I was thinking in terms of how much the choker cable is actually dragging on the ground, is all.

 

[sotc]

Even in high lead logging, unless otherwise specified, the logs are rarely picked of the ground much more than a dozer would. Just puts to much strain on everything not to mention the hazard involved if the logs broke free and could pick up momentum.

 

[sotc]

This is typical of what we did
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[squisher]

Heck yah! Although that looks like some pretty creamy going. Looks like a eagle carriage? That's the only type of slack puller I ever worked with, real nice carriages.