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Now that's crazy powerful :jawdrop:Dahlgren logging out of Forks, Wa., sends some cat's with their Berger Mark IV over the canyon...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJzMNPvFu-8&feature=related
Now that's crazy powerful :jawdrop:Dahlgren logging out of Forks, Wa., sends some cat's with their Berger Mark IV over the canyon...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJzMNPvFu-8&feature=related
Some others on here will be able to give better technical information on various engines used on logging trucks I think. I’m certainly not the best guy to ask, that’s for sure.
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Depends on whhat you call big machines. If you're talking 90' and over towers with over about 1 1/8 skyline I think the answer is nobody. You could get a 70' madill though.
Photo isn't showing.I've posted this before. This was the first job for this yarder. PLS bought it and ran it through the Loggers Jubilee parade in Morton. I wish I had a picture of it going around the corner. They had to clear the sidewalk, and had a couple guys with poles to lift the utility lines so it could make the corner in the parade. It looked like they had waxed it.
I'm not an expert like you guys. It was a big Thunderbird. I walked the boundary of this unit a few times--was a lot younger then. It was creepy to do after the fallers had left. I'd hear a log move and then a bunch would start rolling. I stayed well out of that unit. They did the downhill part first.
Rumor had it that there were some old mine shafts in the area. There were coal deposits here and there.
There was a problem. The fallers had not bucked all the way through most of the logs, so the company insisted that a faller be on the landing (I heard it put a nastier way) to buck the logs on the landing.
The road was steep. PLS hired independent truckers to haul on that road. I walked it in because my little two wheel drive blazer would spin out. They wouldn't give us 4 wheel drives then. The truckers would offer me rides but it looked too scary for me.
I transferred away. The owl rules were on the horizon and it didn't look good for here. I did hear that one of the guys broke a hip while drilling into rock for a guyline anchor. The yarder was also vandalized.
This was in the Mineral Block, north of Morton.
There was a bigger chunk of the unit below the yarder. It went across and up the other side of a creek. I've got another bad picture somewhere of that part. This was the first time I had ever seen a motorized carriage.
Sorry for the quality. I didn't pack a camera around much then. I kick myself now.
its a 10 year old thread, been more then a couple of hacks and updates since then, lots of stuff has gone missing.Photo isn't showing.
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