Crappy wood, brushy, snags, and limby as hell!

[Burvol]

This is the kind of job I wish I could photograph the whole thing and show all of us on AS the un-glorious side of timber falling- the crap jobs. We all have to take one from time to time, they keep you happy when you get back to slick timber! I usually contract cut for big outfits, then go to gypo-ing with my dad in between big sales, it's kind of a nice pace, I still cut timber both ways, but it's kinda fun to log your own wood too. I took on a partial thinning job that is mostly pulp, (price is good and white fir is really heavy) with some nasty, nasty vine maple, huge choke cherry, buck brush, and loaded with bug dust snags all throughout the mess. The pay is atcually pretty decent, it's just a fight to get through all the brush and saw escape trails, set up your strip, etc. I start off the morning with my saw full of gas, and my jug with a true 1 1/2 gallons. Yesterday I burned all that I had, and went back to the landing and re-fueld my jug and burned two more tanks (1/2 gallon roughly 385 xp has almost a full quart tank).....and I was still four sticks shy or so of a 90,000 Gross load!!!! There is a lot small stuff mixed in between old, wolfy, crappy, root rotten bastards. I just wanted to show the crappiest stuff I have ever done, but it's actually paying decent, so I won't #####. I am happy to be in the woods I will start carrying my camera more if I can. Cutters just don't stop and snap photos all the time, it's kinda not a good thing for production or your job.

This isn't too bad here...

My dad on his old trusty D4 D crawler. That machine has been absolute money for us, a perfect sized gypo cat. Probably one of the best they ever made in my opinion.

My 385xp on a 29 inch White Fir stump with root rot. Nothing to really write home about, but I figured I share...A rotten piece of White Fir....pretty sad that's the only stump or falling pic! I'll try for some more next week.

 

[Burvol]

I'll try to take some better photos on this job next week.

 

[forestryworks]

well you got me interested

keep the pics coming

work hard

 

[Burvol]

well you got me interested

keep the pics coming

work hard

I will do that.

 

[huskykid141]

nice pics, hope to see more
:greenchainsaw:

 

[slowp]

Where's all the rain that we've been getting? Everyday!

 

[mile9socounty]

It's been sprinkling on us down here in Douglas County on and off all week. Its damn near perfect for non-stop work. More is coming this way over the weekend on into next week.

 

[tramp bushler]

Right on with the pics ... Yesterday I took some and had the guy working with me take some .......
I,m real interested in how you like your 385 , and if you ever worked with the 288 , how do they compare ???

 

[abohac]

Pictures

I'll try to take some better photos on this job next week.

A little off your subject and I know it's been posted before, but how do you post pictures? I'm not really computer literate but my kids are. I just got a new little skidder/winch and I was going to take a few pictures in the woods (don't really know who'd care to see them but I alway enjoy looking at other guys pictures). Anyway tell me how you do this.

 

[tramp bushler]

Picture Questions also

I tried to do it the way I post pics on a different forum and it wouldn,t work .???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Thanks .,

 

[Burvol]

I never have ran a 288. I know that the 385 was a good saw for me, but I would just get the 390 instead if I could do it again. That's the next saw I am going to buy most likely. I know a couple of guys that run them and 385's and they say that they are really smooth, powerful saws for what they are. I held a new 390 the other day, and it felt really light and nible.

 

[Bushler]

I think maybe I found the right forum! I'm a cutter/equipment operator on my own timber farm in SW Oregon. I just finished a unit that fit Burvol's description to a tee. I never saw such horrible timber. Right on the westerly aspect of a exposed ridge overlooking the Pacific.

Rotten hearted cat faced hemlock and white fir rinds. Shudder. And some of the roughest spruce I've ever cut. Fall the spruce and they 'bounce' when they hit.

Falling some of them with a Husky 2100 w/50" bar, and by the time I get to the second cut I'm using a 044 Sthil with a 28" bar, carrots anyone?

I have two old logging CATS, a D-4 (7U) and a D-6 C. On the landing I use a CAT 941 w/log forks.

Two years ago I bought a Deere 270 LC with Young logging front and grapples. Logging with that rig will spoil you.

I have some pics, I'll post them up. Have to be carefull, I already got scolded for posting a pic of myself saluting with middle finger.

 

[Bushler]

Here's 6

 

[Burvol]

Here's 6

That's his big bro alright, the old man use to have one, too much cat for tight spots, so he picked up the 4. Good crawlers for sure. Looks like your tracks are ready for a new set, maybe?

 

[Bushler]

Yes, the tracks are destined for the scrap dealer, soon. That machine is so old and tired though, a new set of grousers might tear out the final drives!

I don't log with it much. Since I got the shovel I've gotten pretty spoiled. Shovel has enclosed cab w/climate control and FM radio.

Here I sit, meeting new people, drinking coffee....when I should be out at the shop replacing the pins and bushings on the 941.

Stay safe.

 

[tramp bushler]

mayby a pic

Hi .. Well now it says my pic , with a 1.1 mb size is too big , that it needs to be 300 kb in size , whats up

 

[Burvol]

Hi .. Well now it says my pic , with a 1.1 mb size is too big , that it needs to be 300 kb in size , whats up

Tramp, go to photobucket! Up load your pics to photobucket, then put them in here with the insert image link (the little moutain in the yellowish square). You cut and paste the direct photobucket link to the one here, done...and they are sized too!