Cliff Logger

[Greystoke]

Wish I had a nickel for every time some guy told me he was a Real Logger who "felled" big old growth trees on cliffy helicopter ground with his long "blade"...lol. Would not surprise me if this guy is a member here.

[video=youtube;73xOtfa9c-o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73xOtfa9c-o&feature=related[/video]

 

[Sport Faller]

####, atleast he has Abraham Lincoln loading the rounds for him

 

[Rounder]

That's just emabarrasing........"Big bad loggers...workin' in the woods"....to quote Leon.....lol

 

[slowp]

Are they California transplants? I hear people from my fair state have also moved east and are not liked.
They might could be--from Seattle!!:eek2:

 

[shades2914]

They're just trying to split it, without an ax lol

 

[dancan]

[video=youtube;kETrRmDz4_I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kETrRmDz4_I[/video]


I was expecting to see something like this .

 

[Greystoke]

Sorry for the misrepresentation pard. That is what got me too, and when I saw that it was a bunch of dip####s posin as loggers, I figured I would share. Wish I would have had a video of some of my cliffy experiences. Best one was tozin a snag over about a hundred foot or so bluff in LaGrande Oregon. Boss told us not to throw anything off the cliff but my holding wood broke! That's my story and I'm stickin to it This pic was taken in 96 in Lyman Anchorage Alaska. I was 18 and green as a gord, and not ready for Alaska yet!

 

[Metals406]

Wish I had a nickel for every time some guy told me he was a Real Logger who "felled" big old growth trees on cliffy helicopter ground with his long "blade"...lol. Would not surprise me if this guy is a member here.

[video=youtube;73xOtfa9c-o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73xOtfa9c-o&feature=related[/video]

This is up by the bridge on Koocanusa.

 

[Greystoke]

This is up by the bridge on Koocanusa.

I figured those yayhoos must be from your neck of the back woods Nate! North Montanyians ain't all there...LOL! It would have been worth wathin all that #### if the pickup would have taken a round through the cab!

 

[Sport Faller]

This is up by the bridge on Koocanusa.

That explains sooo much, methinks they might be from the Libby side :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Metals406]

That explains sooo much, methinks they might be from the Libby side :hmm3grin2orange:

Or Pinkham Creek!

 

[Metals406]

I figured those yayhoos must be from your neck of the back woods Nate! North Montanyians ain't all there...LOL! It would have been worth wathin all that #### if the pickup would have taken a round through the cab!

Me thinks them fellas are transplants, and don't hold a certified Montucky card.

 

[Greystoke]

Now, don't you two try to get outta knowin those ying yangs....your probably all blood related! LOL!

 

[Greystoke]

God forbid Pat gettin ahold of this thread!

 

[Metals406]

Now, don't you two try to get outta knowin those ying yangs....your probably all blood related! LOL!

:hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange:

 

[GASoline71]

looks like a bunch of firewood theives in the first vid...

The cat fallin' the big 'un with the Husqvarna has a Stihl bar on it... nice mismatch! But superb job on the fall. Got a little fiber pull... but hey he was holding the camera in one hand while finishing the back cut. Hells yeah!

Gary

 

[John Ellison]

That is a good picture at Lyman Anch. Tarzantree. Looks like a typical SE Ak. strip. Seems like half the trees are perched out on some rock point that you have to crawl out to holding on to ferns.

 

[slowp]

Has anybody on here cut on something so steep that ropes were used? I'm confused about how ropes were used. There was a unit cut here back in the 80s that was really steep. None of the local guys would cut it.
Supposedly, some guys from Forks were hired, and all that was said was, "they used ropes."

Everything rolled down to the creek, of course. High stumps don't work all the time. I was there for the slash burning, and that didn't go too well. The lighters had to quit because too much stuff was rolling and they were mainly hiding behind stumps, trying to not get hurt. The unit lit itself. And, like many of our burns, it spotted into another logged unit, so we were out until the wee hours of the morning.

I figured the fallers anchored themselves with rope, but then heard somebody talking about some way to operate a chainsaw with a rope....which sounds whacko but what do I know.

Ideas?

 

[flushcut]

[video=youtube;kETrRmDz4_I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kETrRmDz4_I[/video]


I was expecting to see something like this .

I don't think that one saved out too well.

 

[Greystoke]

I worked on some ground that I should have used ropes! But never tried, or witnessed it. Now that I am a tree climber and familiar with them, I would be very comfortable to utilize them on gnarly ground.