Why do west coast loggers fell timber the way the do?

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KYLogger

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I would love to be able to use a grapple skidder around here, but this is cable machine country. A grapple would be good on about 20-25% of the stuff we cut. I want one but I don't think the times they would come in handy would offset the cost. I would also like to go out west and at least spend some time on a yarder job or two.

And logging is dangerous anywhere lol....... prices go down I get malnourished, it's like a roller coaster you can tell how the market is doing in relation to the size brithces I happen to be wearing.

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trees2

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I hear that. I'll be taking it slow for the next 12 weeks or so, Thursday I caught a 12" white pine with lotttttts of tension on it across my left knee. Just got out of an mri, torn acl fractured bone at the knee and busted cartilage. GREAT ! I guess iI should feel lucky thats all it did, Could of been alot worst. It sent me about 12'.
 
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You would truely be amazed by this outfit from Longview that logs on Longview Fibre(or fiber can't recall). 3 guys put out 1500 loads in about 2 mo on some steep ground with a rubber tired or sometimes a D5 highboy with a grapple & feller buncher on tracks.

You Rocky Mtn boys never pull fiber cause its hard not to cut all the way thru the stems before you let off the trigger.:hmm3grin2orange:
 
HorseFaller

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We get it all here. Steep to the point you don't even want to hike down it. To the this used to be a farm field we planted cottonwood in. There are all types of outfits that have there niche.
I personally have a harder time falling trees on flat ground and flat ground here usually means mountains of blackberrys to crawl through.
 
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We get it all here. Steep to the point you don't even want to hike down it. To the this used to be a farm field we planted cottonwood in. There are all types of outfits that have there niche.
I personally have a harder time falling trees on flat ground and flat ground here usually means mountains of blackberrys to crawl through.

And head high nettles. :mad:
 
floyd

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Depends on which hand i'm scratching my ass with that day.



Yup that there's your half assed immunity. Wait, I guess it's my half assed immunity.

You, sir... will have to get your own immunity.

Thank, you. Thank you very much.
 
floyd

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I'll have you know that no rain has fallen since July & that was only because I had hay down.

Now, we are not discussing Nov thru Apr where one never worries about sunburn.

Yup.
 
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the higher stumps go with the longer bars ...............,cutting above the flare on stump makes the logs stack better on the truck like was said earlier also
 
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I prefer to cut humbolt myself, but Idon't use it because you end up with a square butt. Leaving the required step in your backcut pretty much elminated that bonus. Plus when I was bucking landing it was pretty rare that a tree would come up and I could just hit the snipe and have a square butt. Most of the time the cutter had some bias in their backcut.
 
OlympicYJ

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You would truely be amazed by this outfit from Longview that logs on Longview Fibre(or fiber can't recall). 3 guys put out 1500 loads in about 2 mo on some steep ground with a rubber tired or sometimes a D5 highboy with a grapple & feller buncher on tracks.

You Rocky Mtn boys never pull fiber cause its hard not to cut all the way thru the stems before you let off the trigger.:hmm3grin2orange:

Which outfit was it? Got my curiosity up lol

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