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Do you log full time ?
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Do you log full time ?
sILlogger
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right fine looking skidders u got. not to bad looking timber either. u get moved onto your next job. i figured that u had to be loading them with knuckle trucks by the way they were laid out...and then i seen your last pic and confirmed it...btw nice pics
SEMOLOGGER
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Start the next job tommorrow had to wait for the guy to get his last hay cutting done where were putting the logs. Yeah all our logs get hauled by knuckleboom trucks ussually it sure makes it a lot easier.
sILlogger
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yea, keeps u from having to deal with the d*mn truck drivers.....just pile the logs and let them load them!!!
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Seems like every once a while you might have give them a push or pull with the skidder b/c some them dont know to drive
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Hey thanks.The 440 is longer wheelbase and turbo on engine. I cut and skid on my own with the 340 and my dad cuts and skids with the 440 on his own .
sILlogger
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yea i was cutting a job that was across a 40 acre bean field and it was a bit wet and we had to push a few of the trucks with the 450 TJ to get them rolling and a couple times had to push them across the field.
SEMOLOGGER
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We had a trucker early the other mornin get stuck on dew and tall fescue had to push him with the 440D
ever green
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I wish I did log full time...I know I wont get rich but thats what work'in wifes are for...haha...usually log/firewood in winter...I have a landscape business that keeps me very busy in summer...some day the tractor will go and a skidder will be next...
redprospector
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redprospector
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Nice job on that danger tree Gavin.
Andy
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sILlogger
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dragging them out whole tree....must be light wood, gonna go through a delimber i suppose?
what classified this as a "danger tree" in this instance?
redprospector
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I've never skid any of the wood you cut, so I don't know how light it is. I do know that 5 trees 14" to 16" DBH is all the 440 wants, and then some.
That job was all Ponderosa Pine, White fir, and Douglas fir. I was the
de-limber,
rather than hand piling all the slash on the hill I skid them whole and piled the slash in the bottom of the canyon with a Bobcat.
Andy
That job was all Ponderosa Pine, White fir, and Douglas fir. I was the
de-limber,
rather than hand piling all the slash on the hill I skid them whole and piled the slash in the bottom of the canyon with a Bobcat.Andy
sILlogger
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the stuff we have around here is pretty heavy, i think i heard one time 8lbs per board foot...depending on several things of course, some heavier some lighter
widow makers. a big hemlock fell over on its own from roots burning out, brushed the cedar, and left a mess of branches way up in it. another crew was going to hose in there and we had to assess and fall danger trees before they could go in. here's another cedar i fell that was burned way out. no pictures of me in action though.
thanks Andy. i take a lot of pride in my work. i love being in the bush and falling is definately what i want to do with my life.
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redprospector
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There is a little difference then, they figure 7 lbs. per board foot here.
440's will pull a good load as long as you don't have too much flat, or uphill ground.
Andy
sILlogger
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i actually think that the 8lbs is a bit on the light side....but not positive
redprospector
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Who knows what it really weighs. I just hook to everything I can, and if the skidder is under too much strain I unhook a choker and pick it up on the next hitch.
Andy
Andy
