AlaskanLogger
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Seems to be all kinds of discussion here lately about big yarders since the Jay Browning skyline incident. Jay's yarder is a Skagit 739 and is medium as yarders go, not giant. There a many that are larger. Berger MARC VI- much larger. Skagit BU-199- much larger. Wahsington 217- much larger. Madill 052- Much larger. These are the bigger production machines, but lots of loggers built bigger custom machines, especially on the Olympic Peninsula. Berger and Washington made a few one-off machines (Washington 408- only 2 or 3 built, Berger Super-Snubber, one built) and etc. There were some huge yarders custom built around, and spooling 6,000 feet of 2" skyline was not that uncommon. In that world Browning's 739 is a toy. I'll post some pics and some brochures over the next couple of months of these machines. The 739 was a 'meduim sized' machine in the 1970's, as it only spools 2,000' of 1 1/2" skyline.
I was trying to post pics and brochures from the bigger machine,but all my files are to bigfor the site.
I was trying to post pics and brochures from the bigger machine,but all my files are to bigfor the site.