new found respect for the little guy

[jay_d]

As some of you may or may not know, i manage a commercial logging outfit.
last week my yard went on quota, so i went to help my buddy that logs with a saw and a cable skidder. when you cut everything with a buncher and drag everything with a grapple and work everything up with a delimber you forget how hard it is going old fashioned. Its probably been 5 years since i last cut a tree with a saw, and id forgot the rush of when it stops leaning, rolls off the stump and hits the ground hard enough to feel it in your boots.

All im saying is that you guys that are thinking of going full mechanized, keep in mind it takes alot of the "logging" out of logging.:chainsawguy:

 

[joesawer]

Ummm.... A 460c might as well be a John Deere. Lol

 

[jay_d]

nope, this one has the cummins engine and the torque converter and everything

 

[Oldtimer]

The difference between saw and cable logging and a mechanized logging outfit is the same as the difference between flying a WW-I Bi-plane and then flying an F15.
The cost of running the business' is about the same as that analogy too.

I do get a kick out of "loggers" who think driving a new 748H all day is "logging". :hmm3grin2orange:

Drop a hitch of oak on the side of a mountain- all tops down the slope- then limb them up, then throw some chains uphill, then drag a 5/8" cable up through the tops and hook the trees, then winch it all up so that you have 3/4ths of the tops wound up in the hitch, get down the hill to the landing, fight for 15 minutes to get the mess unhooked, push it up, saw it up, and repeat.

THEN tell me how ya like "logging".

And before one of the experts comes in and says "Wedge the trees", Let me tell ya that there's no money in trying to wedge a 4 ton oak back up a hill only to have it spring up off the tops and come back down the mountain at you with what seems like impossible speed.

 

[jay_d]

idk about the whole skidder thing, i think id rather limb 10 loads of hickory than drag it. running a skidder is pretty rough work, and dont let anybody tell you that jumping stumps at fast pace for 9 hours straight is "easy" work.

 

[Oldtimer]

I did not mean to imply it was "fun". But it's not like a one man cable logging show by any means.
I ran a NEW at the time Cat 966G-II at a chip mill for a while...and at the end of the day, after bouncing in the new air-ride seat across a paved yard at 15-24 MPH I went home with a splitting headache. I know it sucks runing a machine all day, even a new one.

 

[joesawer]

I did not mean to imply it was "fun". But it's not like a one man cable logging show by any means.
I ran a NEW at the time Cat 966G-II at a chip mill for a while...and at the end of the day, after bouncing in the new air-ride seat across a paved yard at 15-24 MPH I went home with a splitting headache. I know it sucks runing a machine all day, even a new one.

When Timberjack first came out with the 460 I climbed of a really nice TJ 450C
and on to a 460. Twisting that dang steering wheel twelve rounds from lock to lock killed my shoulder.
Give me a 450 any day unless we are pulling straight up hill! Lol

 

[logging22]

The difference between saw and cable logging and a mechanized logging outfit is the same as the difference between flying a WW-I Bi-plane and then flying an F15.
The cost of running the business' is about the same as that analogy too.

I do get a kick out of "loggers" who think driving a new 748H all day is "logging". :hmm3grin2orange:

Drop a hitch of oak on the side of a mountain- all tops down the slope- then limb them up, then throw some chains uphill, then drag a 5/8" cable up through the tops and hook the trees, then winch it all up so that you have 3/4ths of the tops wound up in the hitch, get down the hill to the landing, fight for 15 minutes to get the mess unhooked, push it up, saw it up, and repeat.

THEN tell me how ya like "logging".

And before one of the experts comes in and says "Wedge the trees", Let me tell ya that there's no money in trying to wedge a 4 ton oak back up a hill only to have it spring up off the tops and come back down the mountain at you with what seems like impossible speed.

Love it.