Soft soil really good tree growing ground, we'll push over parts like that around 75 degrees one of the reasons we use a fixed head as a brake as needed. Ground like that we yard with a cat as much as possible the forwarder you either slide or the grade pushes through the transmission.
This job no degrees think of an angle finder the slope is steep enough it turned on the low engine oil light in a 1210b. We shovel log 50% ground, this is steep enough the crane on the 1210 will come all the way back and lock out.
Got almost 13k on the perkins not an issue so far had the pan and caps off for the bearings look good we keep a strict 100 hour service interval on oil, 50 on fuel filters, gear oil every 200 and hydraulic as well so far we haven't lost an engine.
It should help we had issues with brakes at 750 we noticed so we dropped to 200 and the life has come up a good amount. One way I look at it oil is cheap compared to me rebuilding stuff especially an engine, one filter I will say we forgot about and cost us a pump is the in tank suction screens so now they will get changed every two years.
Wow.... anything over 50 we get a yarder in......
We push it as much as possible as well as this is 25 year old thinnings we're in, it wouldn't be cost effective to bring in a yarder and normally we can drop the forwarder off a road from the top.
It's mainly how we cut out here unless it's a young stand, I'll get you a few pictures of the stand I'm thinning right now parts would be well ahead to long log well other parts you struggle to 18's. Plus the prices are better on long wood they hit us good on short wood here the mills don't want it because there's not the extra over run.
Nope other then specialty stuff, but I can say guys out here have broke the scorpion booms with our timber it's tall and long.
