When the Logs Are Bigger Than the Grapples

[Gologit]

Nice pics, I think that size sticks will get everyones blood racing.

Bob, how did you get them out? Must have been a dozer.

The Barko has a drum on it. They rig a block on the boom and pull cross-track. Sometimes it's like trying to land a whale with a fly rod. It takes a lot of technique and some fancy rigging but that old machine will move pretty good sized wood if you're patient with it. This tree wasn't too far down the hill and the slope was fairly gentle so it came up nice and easy. I wish we could have sent it in as a long log but there just wasn't enough saddle in front and the machine wouldn't pick the whole thing up.

 

[widtink1]

Great pixs nothing that big here i scotland

 

[scotclayshooter]

Great pixs nothing that big here i scotland

There are a few if you look hard enough!
3 Redwoods in Drumnadrochit in one garden

Courtesy of flashearth.com its better than googleearth for this area!

 

[RandyMac]

Back in the day

 

[goatchin]

Wow be nice to see a load of logs like that

BTW whats the cuttin torches for? (other than the obvious of cuttin metal LOL)

 

[RandyMac]

The torches are for cutting cable, to the right of the torches is a pile of inch and a quarter arch lines, after you are finished with tying a knot in it, you cut off the pig tail. We also cut up dead chokers, saving the buttons and bells. Cutting cable was fun, it's full of some sort of grease and can burn for several minutes.

Arch line in use.

RandyMac

 

[Dok]

Nice pics Gologit, thanks for sharing! We have a lot of logging trucks on US 50 around here this summer. Big logs too! Lots of 5 log loads and I saw one three log load, with the big log taking almost all of the bottom and two small logs on top. That truck passed right by the Camino mill, where can they handle a log that size?
Brad

 

[Gologit]

Nice pics Gologit, thanks for sharing! We have a lot of logging trucks on US 50 around here this summer. Big logs too! Lots of 5 log loads and I saw one three log load, with the big log taking almost all of the bottom and two small logs on top. That truck passed right by the Camino mill, where can they handle a log that size?
Brad

Lincoln. We have two mills there, a small log mill and a big log mill. I forget what the max diameter is for Camino but all the big stuff goes automatically to Lincoln.

 

[Ivan H.]

I know there's some loader operater who could have loaded that log without the cable. nice job though.

 

[pdqdl]

Those are just twigs. Here's a real load:

Not that I have ever done anything like this, here is a pic of the genuine old growth harvested the old fashioned way.

In the absence of modern power equipment, how do you suppose they got that log onto the truck ?

 

[Gologit]

Not that I have ever done anything like this, here is a pic of the genuine old growth harvested the old fashioned way.

In the absence of modern power equipment, how do you suppose they got that log onto the truck ?

A lot of times they'd dig a hole for the truck to back into, set up a brow log and roll it on. There was also steam power, spar poles, maybe a double crotch line with tongs or slip rigging. All kinds of ways to load that big stuff.

As for "modern power equipment"?....in those days what ever you had was modern.

 

[Gologit]

I know there's some loader operater who could have loaded that log without the cable. nice job though.

LOL...You're right, Ivan. Every loader that's seen that picture is probably thinking the same thing..."I could have done it"...thats what makes them loader operators.

All I know for sure, and I was there, is that the kid running the Barko is one of the best I've ever seen and we fought that log as a long log for almost an hour before we gave up and bucked it. It wasn't the operator that was lacking...it was the machine.

 

[slowp]

Look closely. I'd have had to make them park that load. The chaser missed painting and branding it.!!!:greenchainsaw: No load ticket either!!

 

[Bushler]

Somewhere in my 'drawer of pics' is a pic of a three log off highway load I took when I worked for Weyco, North Bend, OR in the mid '60's. The angle I took the pic is bad and the load isn't very impressive, until you consider we had 12' wide bunks on the trucks. Maybe they were 14'. I can't remember for sure. Big trucks.

Those old boys running the cable grapple machines had some moxy.

The logs were hauled down to Delwood where they were dumped into the Coos River and rafted down to Coos Bay/North Bend where the Weyco Mill was located.

The old mill site is now a gambling casino.

 

[Ivan H.]

Not that I have ever done anything like this, here is a pic of the genuine old growth harvested the old fashioned way.

In the absence of modern power equipment, how do you suppose they got that log onto the truck ?

Thanks for the response. I'm new to this site and enjoy the conversation. I've seen guys pick up 80 inchers with heel boom loaders.I'm not taking shots at you. You do what gotta do git the job done. love this picture, those old timers had a lot of enginewity.

 

[joesawer]

Check out this link for a lot of pictures of modern equipment in that era.
http://www.steaminthewoods.com/
My favorite is the Hume-Bennett/Sanger LCo. I have been to Hume lake, it is a beautiful camp/retreat area now. It is located in some of the most awesome country I have ever seen.

 

[Ivan H.]

Check out this link for a lot of pictures of modern equipment in that era.
http://www.steaminthewoods.com/
My favorite is the Hume-Bennett/Sanger LCo. I have been to Hume lake, it is a beautiful camp/retreat area now. It is located in some of the most awesome country I have ever seen.

I trying to figure out why you didn"t call bull#### on that 80 incherThat is neat site I remember my grandfather about logging with those old a-frame loaders,I also enjoyed the historic pictures of the old saw mills.

 

[Gologit]

Look closely. I'd have had to make them park that load. The chaser missed painting and branding it.!!!:greenchainsaw: No load ticket either!!

And that, you Fed you, is one of the pure unadulterated joys of logging on private ground. If the weight is right, if you can tie it down safely, if the driver thinks he can make it...you just go.

And it was branded...didn,'t you see the smiley face?

 

[slowp]

And that, you Fed you, is one of the pure unadulterated joys of logging on private ground. If the weight is right, if you can tie it down safely, if the driver thinks he can make it...you just go.

And it was branded...didn,'t you see the smiley face?

A SMILEY FACE? Who is in charge? What with the price of paint going up, and the price of logs going down, a smiley face is a waste of that precious yellow paint! That chaser ought to be fired! I have actually heard this complaint before.

 

[Ivan H.]

They probably don't have a chaser.My bet it's a mechanical side,and the loader operator had bump his own knots