7oaks
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Wow! First Latvian on AS? Long distance rep coming your way hope to hear more about logging in that part of the world from you...
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Wow! First Latvian on AS? Long distance rep coming your way hope to hear more about logging in that part of the world from you...
Got a link? Spent about 15 minutes searching for it but :-(
I sent Forestryworks a PM to ask about it, but if you can find that post it would be great.
Philbert
My linker is broke.(forgot how) But I brought it up again. Something about antique saws.
Got this BBC link from Forestryworks:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8221164.stm
it's a longer (17-1/2 minute) expose' video on the larger topic of North Korean forestry workers being exploited in Russia.
Very brief footage of these strange saws in use at the beginning, and then around minute markers 12:20 and 12:54.
Interesting (saw) in that you don't have to bend over to cut off a tree near the ground. Interesting (video) too, but that discussion belongs in the "Off the Topic Forum" or "Political Views".
Thanks (and rep) to Forestryworks.
Philbert
Brimmstone
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That would be an awesome saw to buck a tree up with. I'm 6'-8" and sometimes my back wants to quit when I'm half way through bucking a tree.
RiverRat2
Serio Tree Freak
+1 !!!!!
Yep!!!!!
LOLOL!!!!!!! +1!!!!!
Wow! First Latvian on AS? Long distance rep coming your way hope to hear more about logging in that part of the world from you...
Yep!!!!!
If any gays end up in the hole while I'm cutting, I'm leaving...
LOLOL!!!!!!! +1!!!!!
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I imagine at the first kickback you would have a serious headache, a real spliting headache......
My local chainsaw dealer has one similar (but much older) for a mail box. His handles come straight out the back of the saw.
Roger
My local chainsaw dealer has one similar (but much older) for a mail box. His handles come straight out the back of the saw.
Roger
Dalmatian90
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Kind of cool -- the saw must swivel so you can fell the trees watching that BBC video.
Now here's what I found really interesting:
British video, filmed in Russia, about North Koreans...and they talked about how much they got paid in terms of Dollars!
Now here's what I found really interesting:
British video, filmed in Russia, about North Koreans...and they talked about how much they got paid in terms of Dollars!
Very interesting video! Some good examples of old USSR trucks and tractors.
The one caterpillar tractor is TDT 55, often called The Forest Cat. It is like a skidder - pulls logs on the platform and gets them to landing. Powerful, nimble and could get to places other tractors couldn't get. Log trucks are Ural's. Do I have to tell something about them after You watch this VIDEO?
Pretty sad about those slaves (that's what they basically are), but if somebody can get 200$ a month - it is pretty much in that area (in numbers yes, but the work they do to get it - it just is plain slavery)..
By the way - thanks for Welcome!
The one caterpillar tractor is TDT 55, often called The Forest Cat. It is like a skidder - pulls logs on the platform and gets them to landing. Powerful, nimble and could get to places other tractors couldn't get. Log trucks are Ural's. Do I have to tell something about them after You watch this VIDEO?
Pretty sad about those slaves (that's what they basically are), but if somebody can get 200$ a month - it is pretty much in that area (in numbers yes, but the work they do to get it - it just is plain slavery)..
By the way - thanks for Welcome!
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The spec confuses me: 5.3 hp ! :jawdrop:
7oaks
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Very insightful videos. Not totally surprising but informative.
Reminds me of my youth when I worked on a dryland farm in Eastern Montana. Pay was $167 per month and I worked from sun up to sun down 7 days a week. Seems not too bad until you realize in northern Montana sun up is about 5:30 and sun down is about 10pm. Slept on a cot in the kitchen of their shack and ate salt pork and beans three meals a day. Out house was out back and I used it a lot because the water was alkali water. They mixed it with Kool Aid so that it was palatable (it tasted like the old Fizzies).
Of course this was a few years ago.
Reminds me of my youth when I worked on a dryland farm in Eastern Montana. Pay was $167 per month and I worked from sun up to sun down 7 days a week. Seems not too bad until you realize in northern Montana sun up is about 5:30 and sun down is about 10pm. Slept on a cot in the kitchen of their shack and ate salt pork and beans three meals a day. Out house was out back and I used it a lot because the water was alkali water. They mixed it with Kool Aid so that it was palatable (it tasted like the old Fizzies).
Of course this was a few years ago.
WHOAH @ N. Korean Slave labor
WHOAH @ Russian saw design preference
WHOAH @ insight from Latvian AS member
This is an amazing thread.
WHOAH @ Russian saw design preference
WHOAH @ insight from Latvian AS member
This is an amazing thread.
7oaks
DRUGSTORE LOGGER
7Oaks, what was going on there! That's a tough way of life. I'd be in the outhouse plenty also, glad you were able to move on.
This thread rocks
Those were hardscrabble times. But life gets better. My next job was desk clerk at a XXXX hotel. Cheapest room $1.25 per night. Most expensive $5.25 per night. And my pay? Fifty cents per hour. After an 8 hour shift I went home with $4 in my pocket or $160 per month. My next job was even better as a private in the U.S. Army. $99 per month and a free trip to Vietnam.
I guess what I'm saying here is that things weren't always rosey here in the States and young people today don't have an appreciation for how good they have it.
SawTroll
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Banacanin
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If any gays end up in the hole while I'm cutting, I'm leaving...
these saws are Fab-U-Lous
little possum
Crash and Burn
Thats what I was thinking.
But that sure is a neat lookin critter
Banacanin. Seriously, could have gone my hole life without ever needing to see that picture. :X gross
dingeryote
Blueberry Baron
Urals ROCK!!!!
IF you can keep 'em running. Crazy coot up the road has one, and it reminds me of our old Military 2.5 Ton trucks. WAAAY overbuilt, but cantankerous, just like Belarus tractors. Cool vid!! Thanks!
Stay safe!
Dingeryote
