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Cutting started again today. I had previously stumbled around on snowshoes marking trees to cut for skid trails. Here's about the only place I can get pictures of the processor, by the road or on the landing. There isn't much ground suitable for cat logging here, so they won't take long to do it.

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And I wore these, just for a while. The spikes were picking up every little chunk of wood.
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I know nothing about mechanical harvestors,but that seems like a small machine,short tracks with no counter balance.Seems like they're giving up alot for the sake of manuverability?Purty boots btw

ak
 
I know nothing about mechanical harvestors,but that seems like a small machine,short tracks with no counter balance.Seems like they're giving up alot for the sake of manuverability?Purty boots btw

ak

Feller bunchers are a lot more capable than you think. They have a leveling feature in them for steep ground too. Is that what you guys are calling a processor Slowp? I figured that they were all called bunchers and a processor is a dangle head mounted on a shovel with a longer jib. Must differ from area to area.
 
Feller bunchers are a lot more capable than you think. They have a leveling feature in them for steep ground too. Is that what you guys are calling a processor Slowp? I figured that they were all called bunchers and a processor is a dangle head mounted on a shovel with a longer jib. Must differ from area to area.

Down here they'll call a feller buncher a hotsaw...just kind of a generic name. I've never heard a processor called a processor, it's always referred to as a danglehead or a stroker.
One outfit ran Timbcos for years and then switched to something else. They still call the machine a Timbco, though. Habit I guess.

Fallers have a lot of names for mechanical cutters. I can't say them here.:)
 
Down here they'll call a feller buncher a hotsaw...just kind of a generic name. I've never heard a processor called a processor, it's always referred to as a danglehead or a stroker.
One outfit ran Timbcos for years and then switched to something else. They still call the machine a Timbco, though. Habit I guess.

Fallers have a lot of names for mechanical cutters. I can't say them here.:)

We call wheel saws hotsaws, and barsaw timbcos bunchers. Limbers are strokers here, and dangle heads are processors. Confusing for everyone out east reading along, I'm sure.:monkey:
 
We call wheel saws hotsaws, and barsaw timbcos bunchers. Limbers are strokers here, and dangle heads are processors. Confusing for everyone out east reading along, I'm sure.:monkey:

That's okay...it'll give them something to do. Terminology even changes from job to job. One siderod calls a roadgrader a blade...the guy over the hill calls it a smoother. One guy calls his knotbumper a landing rat and can't understand why some people think that's bad. Another guy, when he asks for a knotbumper, wants a landing saw...he calls his landing guy the chaser, even though it's a grapple Cat show.
 
From my fallers vocabulary: There are "loggers" and there are "backhoe loggers."
When I was a young man of 17 I ran a Drott 40 feller buncher with a model 50 track undercarraige for the company,we had 2 different heads on them, auger and shears. There was a delimber attachment for them but was never used. A Swan River,Manitoba logger last name Stadnyk, invented a flail with chains mounted on the front of a skidder to delimb at the landing ,an idea from when he saw a flail combing for land mines in WWII.
I lasted 6 months on that feller buncher working 2 shifts before I went back and picked up the saw. Most boring job I ever had.:)
 
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I call it a processor because it also delimbs and cuts to length. To me, a machine that just cuts and bunches is a feller buncher, or buncher. I only hope I got the stump marks low enough in the snow. Those machines cut low stumps. I'm having to remind the operators to leave paint showing!
 
We call wheel saws hotsaws, and barsaw timbcos bunchers. Limbers are strokers here, and dangle heads are processors. Confusing for everyone out east reading along, I'm sure.:monkey:

Finally...someone who speaks the same lingo..... called as above here as well.
 
I call it a processor because it also delimbs and cuts to length. To me, a machine that just cuts and bunches is a feller buncher, or buncher. I only hope I got the stump marks low enough in the snow. Those machines cut low stumps. I'm having to remind the operators to leave paint showing!

In the lodgepole pine country around here alot of the contractors "process" (fall/limb and top) at the stump. There generally is only one log sort in the pine so it is efficent. The buncher/processor then makes grapple bundles for the skidders to skid to road side. Post harvest, the cut block is machine site preped for planting. Slash piles are burned in the fall with the first rains....fun with fire :)
 
Some east coast lingo, any type of mechanical tree faller is termed a "cutter" there might be more names but i dont see many other loggers except for guys that walk on to the job asking for a job. And telling my boss that
"your cudown man don't know how to cut"(humboldting) isen't a good way to get hired! anyone with a saw is a "cudown man". the T is missing on purpose..
 
Feller bunchers are a lot more capable than you think. They have a leveling feature in them for steep ground too. Is that what you guys are calling a processor Slowp? I figured that they were all called bunchers and a processor is a dangle head mounted on a shovel with a longer jib. Must differ from area to area.


Hi Burvol,its not the capable part Im wonderin about,its the stability.Theres nothing to use for perspective for me,so Im going by the front end of the dozer,which Im guessin is a D5,again no reference.The track length of the buncher looks really short,making it tippy(in my mind),no counterweights in the stern even more so.
I suspect having the boom attached to the rear as apposed to the front might put more tree weight on the rear achieving some counterbalance,but sacrificing reach.
Oh well,turn the radio up and grab another tree...
ak

ak
 
Hi Burvol,its not the capable part Im wonderin about,its the stability.Theres nothing to use for perspective for me,so Im going by the front end of the dozer,which Im guessin is a D5,again no reference.The track length of the buncher looks really short,making it tippy(in my mind),no counterweights in the stern even more so.
I suspect having the boom attached to the rear as apposed to the front might put more tree weight on the rear achieving some counterbalance,but sacrificing reach.
Oh well,turn the radio up and grab another tree...
ak

ak

I've seen them go over on their side. It doesn't happen very often but it does happen. Then again, I've seen Cats, rubber tired skidders,road graders, wheel loaders, pickups, and logging trucks on their side too. Anything I left out?:)
 
I saw a brand spanking new "hotsaw" on a flatbed going up the interstate a few days ago. I found myself pacing it getting a good look. That big circular saw on the bottom looks nasty.

Ian
 
Finally...someone who speaks the same lingo..... called as above here as well.

I believe from North Oregon Coast up to beautiful BC it's all related. We are more closely related to you guys than back east in our own country with logging stuff. BIG DOUG FIR!!!
 
Hi Burvol,its not the capable part Im wonderin about,its the stability.Theres nothing to use for perspective for me,so Im going by the front end of the dozer,which Im guessin is a D5,again no reference.The track length of the buncher looks really short,making it tippy(in my mind),no counterweights in the stern even more so.
I suspect having the boom attached to the rear as apposed to the front might put more tree weight on the rear achieving some counterbalance,but sacrificing reach.
Oh well,turn the radio up and grab another tree...
ak

ak

They just have a self leveling feature, that levels the cab and boom up, the tracks stay down. You should see a three wheeled hot saw in action, holy crap! My buddy says he's put it over 7 times. He turns the key off and holds on when he knows it's coming....:dizzy:
 
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