redprospector
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I've got 100' on her. It's a little much to keep up with sometimes, but it sure comes in handy in residential logging.
Andy
Michael Jackson Skidder Dancing in The Precipitation
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I've got 100' on her. It's a little much to keep up with sometimes, but it sure comes in handy in residential logging.
Andy
bullbuck
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I've got 100' on her. It's a little much to keep up with sometimes, but it sure comes in handy in residential logging.
Andy
haha,yeah i dont think we will be doing any logging in zenith park in the near future,but to get to buck them big monsters up and skid em out in the middle of town was a treat for me!hope we pissed off many a greenie!
Because he apparently likes to. He was shoving the bark and slash around a bit.
Curlycherry1
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I do not have a lot of seat time in a skidder but I did learn REAL quick that a low flying blade is a BAD thing with high flying stumps.
I learned that skidders can get going nice and quick but a low blade hitting a stump will stop them pretty much dead in their tracks. Trees have the same effect too when the driver is not watching where he is going.
When I win the Lottery I am going to get me a nice old JD440 and get it all refurbed just so I can play with it.
There are no stumps to worry about in a paved parking lot. There's a bit of a problem with extreme ground compaction which slows down tree growth in a paved parking lot.
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Curlycherry1
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I saw the word parking lot in the title of the video but I assumed it was just a misprint. You folks park in some strange places. Is that a Walmart parking lot?
joesawer
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There are no stumps to worry about in a paved parking lot. There's a bit of a problem with extreme ground compaction which slows down tree growth in a paved parking lot.
Lol, I thought you where calling it a parking lot because it was flat. I guess he wont bust his face hitting a stump there. And a stick under your tire would sure break your traction on wet pavement.
mercer_me
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Why don't you use tire chains?
Who?
mercer_me
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Sorry, I thought you owned the skidder.
Nope. Why put chains on? He only slid a bit, most of the time he pulled the logs right across the paved parking lot. Chains might have torn things up a bit.
Did he put the logs on one of those small trilers?
They hired a self loader regular truck. It got two loads. The faller had a 1970? something International. Looked like something they'd have on that show where the mules logged. I told him he needed one of those side mounted flippy up throw the logs on loader things. He thought it might make loading too much fun. They parked the International to the side of the big truck and got a load on it using the big truck loader. I did not have to demonstrate the stapling of the load ticket again. They were quick learners.
Here's the loading in progress. Drink some coffee to prevent sleeping.
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