Huge bars

[NovaMan]

I was just looking through the Bailey's catalog, and I noticed the bar at the bottom of the page is 7 FEET long and weighs 18 pounds! What do you do with that, cut down giant sequoias and redwoods?! How do you even handle something like that?

 

[turnkey4099]

I was just looking through the Bailey's catalog, and I noticed the bar at the bottom of the page is 7 FEET long and weighs 18 pounds! What do you do with that, cut down giant sequoias and redwoods?! How do you even handle something like that?

Those are run by two man teams, one on each end. I have seen outboard 'helper handles' on bars as short as 4'

Harry K

 

[Ed*L]

Many of the long bars are used for "slabbing" large logs. There are some good pics here: http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=47914 Aggie woodbutcher has a really sweet slabbing setup.
They are also used for felling large trees, including Redwoods. I don't really know if anyone has ever felled a full grown Sequoia though, they are just to big.

Ed

 

[stihl 440]

8 footer

There used to be a pic on madsens on a guy that had a 8 foot bar on a 3120, it was a oregon bar custom ordered from oregon. They where cutting a 18 foot in diameter cedar that fell on a campground road. They used the guy's 966 cat loader to roll the logs off the road. That is the biggest bar on a saw I've seen. :greenchainsaw:

 

[Al Smith]

The largest I own is 48".The largest I've seen is a 72".The largest I've ever heard of was a 14 footer on a Mall model 7.I can't imagine.

 

[djmercer1]

at work we have a 880 rigged with a 12' bar to cut slots in ice for compression testing of the ice.

 

[Sprig]

I believe that the first time I saw the huge bar in the park photos mentioned was on this site in the Forestry & Logging forum, or Art posted some pics, hm, should be able to find it with a bit of work. Haven't seen many bars with a 'dumb-end' but we have one in the museum here thats around 7ft long.
Can't imagine starting your new woods job on the end of one of those monsters, talk about a heavy learning curve imo.

 

[ray benson]

Here is a 7' bar.

 

[romeo]

Helper Handles

I look at those and cringe. Could you imagine snapping and 18 foot long chain and be holding on to the wrong side:jawdrop:

 

[djmercer1]

Here is a 7' bar.

never to be the one to disregard ppe, but i wonder what will your hardhat do if that thing falls on you? i once saw a guy get squished between 2-30ton containers, his hat, boots and vest didnt help much....

 

[Haywire Haywood]

The guy holding the wrong end just needs to be standing in one of those galvanized steel garbage cans so the chain can wrap that instead of his legs.

Ray, I see they have a rope wrapped around the log above the cut... I hope the groundie lowering that is one big somebeotch :hmm3grin2orange: Think that would be a challenge for a low impact takedown?

Ian

 

[Grande Dog]

Those wraps above and below the cut are chains. They installed those so it didn't split while they were falling that top out.

 

[Dan Forsh]

never to be the one to disregard ppe, but i wonder what will your hardhat do if that thing falls on you? i once saw a guy get squished between 2-30ton containers, his hat, boots and vest didnt help much....

Reminds me of a story I was once told by a client who's business was the offshore oil industry.

He told me of a job where they where erecting a massive offshore rig and hoisting in large units with the world's biggest mobile crane.

One of the units being hoisted in by the crane was jolted as it move into place and knocked two guys sitting on it off into the gap between it and the unit already in-situ. Being the world's largest crane there was no emergency braking and there was nothing down for these two guys, sort of "Indiana Jones the video nasty" as the unit came slowly in on them. There was an hour or two conflab regarding the "tragic accident" and an executive decision was arrived at. The world's largest crane was on a rate you see, and the decision was that to stop things now, take things apart and recover the pizza /bodies was too costly. So they decided to have a quick ceremony, lay a wreath at the site (which was, by all accounts now a two inch gap between units) and get on with it.

This isn't urban myth, the guy who told me this story was legit and sort of tried to qualify it with "well they were probably Mexicans" Nice thought!

Dan

 

[GASoline71]

Those wraps above and below the cut are chains. They installed those so it didn't split while they were falling that top out.

Yup... Gerry Beranek doin' some of his finest work.

Gary

 

[stihl 440]

Jerry

Yup... Gerry Beranek doin' some of his finest work.

Gary

I believe it's Jerry not Gerry, but we get the point. Who has his high climbers and timber fallers book? I have it, it's an extremely good book, lots of pics and stories. :hmm3grin2orange: :greenchainsaw: :biggrinbounce2:

 

[GASoline71]

I believe it's Jerry not Gerry, but we get the point. Who has his high climbers and timber fallers book? I have it, it's an extremely good book, lots of pics and stories. :hmm3grin2orange: :greenchainsaw: :biggrinbounce2:

Got the book...

Gerry... Jerry... who cares.... Name is Gerald... so... oh who gives a spit.

Gary

 

[NovaMan]

Wow, that is some wild stuff!

 

[aggiewoodbutchr]

Ahem...

See below...

 

[NovaMan]

Is that the log you were cutting in the link? That's pretty sweet.

 

[aggiewoodbutchr]

No. I've picked up about a dozen logs of this size+-. Same specie though- water oak. Thanks-