The "Not So Pro" discussion thread...of course Pros are welcome!

[twochains]

No cutting for me, all out of wood until the foreseeable future... got a few yard trees to work on and what not but no logging for a while now.


With a set of drums on a shovel that would make it a yoder then would it not, then you could set it up like a yarder and still load and sort logs all with one machine... some day I might have one... some day...

By the way these shovel machines are ####ing huge... where talking lowboy chaser trucks and oversize load permit big...

Not a prentice or olympic loader bolted to an old beat up mack truck...

Yeh, my boss has a big ass'd track hoe, it's got over size load flags. I wish I could figure out hot to rig a yarder for my next tract of timber I am gonna be cutting. Ther is about 80 acres that from my understanding..I'm not cutting due to not being able to get it out. Solid ledges and bluffs....#### piles of timber though...BIG timber!!

 

[twochains]

Mike did you say you got yer 660 ported? How does that beast cut?

 

[treeslayer2003]

Clint it has rained 4" since it came. I don't know when i'll get to try her out lol. but when I do, y'all gonna her all bout it.

 

[twochains]

Man we need rain. I got a 1/2 inch this morning and it just knocked the dust down and made the humidity like 95%...LOL! Seriously though it was 80* and the air got so thick I was blowing bubbles! :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[twochains]

Yeh man I am curious about it for sure! Dude my dual port muffler is still on back order! I think it's been a month! What the Hell??

 

[treeslayer2003]

you'd been better off getting one off e bay or a member here. i'm sure somebody here sells um.

 

[slowp]

The Used Dog and I wandered about checking trees. I've planted a few every year that I've had this place. I'm getting mixed results from the Valley Pine and White Pine planted this spring. The Western Red Cedar is easily outgrowing those trees. I need to get out the D-tape and see how large the candelabra cedar is. Cedar grows well here and I shall stick a few more in the ground next February.

 

[northmanlogging]

Yeh, my boss has a big ass'd track hoe, it's got over size load flags. I wish I could figure out hot to rig a yarder for my next tract of timber I am gonna be cutting. Ther is about 80 acres that from my understanding..I'm not cutting due to not being able to get it out. Solid ledges and bluffs....#### piles of timber though...BIG timber!!

Its not really all that hard, just a whole pile of equipment, and several thousand feet of wire rope...

The hard part is finding tail holds that will hold up to the weight of the rigging and the logs.

the guys are simple enough, three or for to take up the load. tower only give you height for lift, or you could use a spar tree... sometimes you need a tail spar, some times a lift tree in the middle all depends on the ground. The really big yarders run 7-9 guy lines...but I don't think you would need that kind of grunt...

search for flying cats on youtube...

sky line lifts and the haulback... haulsback... bout as simple as it gets with a shotgun carriage. You start adding things like motorized carriages and uphill yarding then things can get interesting.

I know where a skagit bu-80 for around 35k is... no idea what kind of condition its in... but I believe its a running machine... of course you would have to drive it from here to there, I think its a self propelled machine, not to mention find a crew to work it... let alone a yarder engineer to run it...

Sometimes you come across on old Christy for dirt cheap, they where generally mounted to Mack chassis, seen a few go for around 7-8k... just say'n

 

[treeslayer2003]

is white pine native there ms. p? I thought it was a northeastern tree.

 

[twochains]

you'd been better off getting one off e bay or a member here. i'm sure somebody here sells um.

Yeh yer probably right! Maybe I could get my hands on one of them there "triple port" covers! :help:

 

[twochains]

Its not really all that hard, just a whole pile of equipment, and several thousand feet of wire rope...

The hard part is finding tail holds that will hold up to the weight of the rigging and the logs.

the guys are simple enough, three or for to take up the load. tower only give you height for lift, or you could use a spar tree... sometimes you need a tail spar, some times a lift tree in the middle all depends on the ground. The really big yarders run 7-9 guy lines...but I don't think you would need that kind of grunt...

search for flying cats on youtube...

sky line lifts and the haulback... haulsback... bout as simple as it gets with a shotgun carriage. You start adding things like motorized carriages and uphill yarding then things can get interesting.

I know where a skagit bu-80 for around 35k is... no idea what kind of condition its in... but I believe its a running machine... of course you would have to drive it from here to there, I think its a self propelled machine, not to mention find a crew to work it... let alone a yarder engineer to run it...

Sometimes you come across on old Christy for dirt cheap, they where generally mounted to Mack chassis, seen a few go for around 7-8k... just say'n

Yeh..I don't see it happening. I heard they "ballooned" timber out of the hollows of The Boston Mtn.s just West of me about an hour and a half from me. I can't think of what year...60's I think...

 

[twochains]

is white pine native there ms. p? I thought it was a northeastern tree.

Mike I heard there was some in Tennessee just East of me.

Hey Mike, I have been in a set of timber that has Maple scattered all through it! I been saving all of it from other timber...odd though that there is so much...probably the most I have seen in one area. It grades out as #4...I don't even cut the saw log trees.

 

[treeslayer2003]

Mike I heard there was some in Tennessee just East of me.

Hey Mike, I have been in a set of timber that has Maple scattered all through it! I been saving all of it from other timber...odd though that there is so much...probably the most I have seen in one area. It grades out as #4...I don't even cut the saw log trees.

i'v cut a few here, they pretty limby. mills don't want it just pulp.

you mean soft maple right?

 

[twochains]

i'v cut a few here, they pretty limby. mills don't want it just pulp.

you mean soft maple right?

IDK Mike, the bark is sort of rough and black and silver. IDK what kind it is. Been in alot of draws here on this property. I've always wondered if the CCC's brought it when they worked this area. I've found their old camps and their work is still visible.

 

[paccity]

No cutting for me, all out of wood until the foreseeable future... got a few yard trees to work on and what not but no logging for a while now.


With a set of drums on a shovel that would make it a yoder then would it not, then you could set it up like a yarder and still load and sort logs all with one machine... some day I might have one... some day...

By the way these shovel machines are ####ing huge... where talking lowboy chaser trucks and oversize load permit big...

Not a prentice or olympic loader bolted to an old beat up mack truck...

 

[northmanlogging]

there is also brand new yarders made by Koller some small enough to be drug around by a tractor, with full wireless control, very easy to set up and operate. there are a few other makes but can't think of/pronounce the names of em.

You know from the sounds of some of the ground you work on having a small yarder could be the kind of thing you could make some damn good money with, especially if your the only guy in town that can do it...

of course it would probably be easier to retrofit a large excavator/shovel with a couple pullmaster winches... then you wouldn't even need guylines for the most part, just some poor bastard to beat the brush and tie chokers...

 

[twochains]

like x2!

 

[treeslayer2003]

what kinda loader is that pac?

 

[twochains]

Pac, I'm gonna take a picture of one up the road. A crew has turned a cab over firetruck into a knuckle boom! LOL! It's still painted like a firetruck! LMAO! I wish it was daylight I'd run up there now.

 

[twochains]

what kinda loader is that pac?

That's a bad ass heeler aint it Mike!