Now We're Logging #2

[Gypo Logger]

Not being able to take it anymore, trying to get up those steep slopes like a dog after a football, I found a set of never used tire chains. Although they were 22 years old they are brandnew, never used, and what a deal at 800 CDN installed!
The ones on the front are so worn, that they look like flapjacks pasted onto the tires. The skidder will climb over anything now!
Frank's Planks

 

[Gypo Logger]

It is nice to have a good service crew. Here is Doug Snow and his son Levi installing the chains as I and the woodlot owner stand by and dish out the instructions.
John

 

[crowe]

Chains can make the difference between getting in a days work or not this time of year. There is nothing I hate more than putting them on. I bought a chain tightner out of baileys a couple of years ago and that has made the job so much easier. It was money well spent. I like to keep them on as long as I can nice an snug it will get you a little extra tire life as well. However, when they are throwing dust up in your lap its time to take them off. ............happy skidding, Wade

 

[user 2993]

They will make a nice impression on your other equipment as well

 

[jokers]

Well I guess I don`t need to tell you that you stole those chains, huh. That`s about a 1/4 of what they would have cost you around here and you`d be putting them on yourself. Russ

 

[JimL]

We just got some new ones, not sure who put them on but I pushed them off the tires twice now.

 

[glens]

Keeping the thread on topic I note the <i>chain</i>saw in the second photo...

 

[Ryan Willock]

glens, thats a cutoff saw not a chain saw!!!

 

[StIhL MaGnUm]

Chains are a definte must have especially in the winter months they make life alot easier,and usually save you from getting stuck and having to release the cable and then move up and winch it back in..Or they can keep you from getting stuck between two trees ..To bad you did'nt have them on a few weeks ago.Well keep on loggin'

Later Rob.

 

[glens]

Ryan,

That was my point.<blockquote><b>Q.</b>&nbsp; What do you use to cut chains?
<b>A.</b>&nbsp; A chain saw.</blockquote>Glen

 

[Ryan Willock]

ha, ha that was a good one

 

[John in MA]

Not anything as neat as a cable skidder, but I put chains earlier this year on my "new" ('60s vintage, dump find) snowblower. The good folks at Sears designed with racing slicks--seriously. Not too useful without some strap-on steel.

BTW: How thick are those skidder chains, out of curiosity? A TS-400 is a pretty heavy-duty bolt cutter.

 

[Pacific]

Pretty small skidder what are you pulling potatoes out of veggie patch

Rubber tired skidders are a thing of the past here a tracked grapple skidder works better for doing small jobs but most of the time wood is hoe chucked. The one logging contractor that works in this area uses a D-7 with highwalk tracks and a grapple for skidding Ex-300 Hitatchi's are used for hoe chucking.

Getting chains on properly is tough letting some of the air out of the tires first then get the chains on and fill the tires back up will put tension on the chains.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Hi Pacific, I wish I had of thought about that. I will go out now and buy a tracked grapple skidder and excavator and get right into hoe chucking my pecker poles.
I thought of letting out the air first in the tires, but thought it would be a problem getting the chains off if I had a flat tire. Instead we just used a come-along to cinch them up.
Would the sale of my skidder make a good down stroke on the purchase of a D7?
Thanks in advance,
John

 

[jokers]

Hey Pacific, are you Brushing_Contractor? Russ

 

[mryb]

John,
The sale of your skidder minus the chains would be enough to buy an oil change & enough fuel to run a D-7 for a week. The bottom radiator hose on one of those looks like piece of 6" well casig pipe...Rick/Creep

 

[Pacific]

I didn't mean to offend anybody I was just teasing ya a bit pretty rare to see a skidder that small

For this area its faster to Hoe chuck the logs to the road edge is almost standard practice on the West Coast no pecker poles here some of the logs they were hauling to our log dump are 70 feet long and 3 feet in diameter.

 

[daveb]

Originally posted by jokers
Hey Pacific, are you Brushing_Contractor? Russ

sounds like we have a winner!

 

[StIhL MaGnUm]

Hey Gyro look familiar


http://groups.msn.com/GuidosEquipmentPics/bigchainsaws.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=548

Later Rob.

 

[Pacific]

What is that 60" bar thats what you call a big bar thats good for guys cutting big cedars for shake bolts where you gotta cut through large timber in one pass.

I'd hate to have to buy a new chain for the saw it would take a full roll and to sharpen it would take a hour you would have tobe really carefull you don't hit any rocks.