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jeremym said:
Dahlgrens are great folks, I went up there and rode around with Pete year before last and saw their Berger Marc2R side, their 124 side and their 172 side. Though I hear they sold the 124 and got another 172 since then? I want to go back up there this summer and see their Berger Marc 6's!
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Never knew they had a 124. Just the one 172 that I know of. Met Pete this week but didn't get much of a chance to talk. Planning on seein if he'll let me pick his brain on cable loggin and loggin in general some time... more than likely on a weekend or something. Just saw both Marc VI's today have a shot of em side by side. I'll get it up tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully have a metalhead pic with it too.

Wes
 
Here's Dahlgren Logging's two Berger Marc VI's. For those that don't know they are 130 foot tubes. Largest production yarders ever built. There are larger custom "homebuilt" tubes I hear and don't doubt.

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These others are from fishing saturday. First river pic is the Solduc second is the Calawah. No metalheads for me. Maybe this week after work I'll get lucky.
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Now you need some pics right next to it for size reference. I have been next to a BU99 and it is plenty big and I'm sure the Marc6 is a bit bigger
 
jeremym said:
Now you need some pics right next to it for size reference. I have been next to a BU99 and it is plenty big and I'm sure the Marc6 is a bit bigger
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Yeah I can probably get that done some day here! They are massive even with the tubes down!

I gotta jump in a 3800 for a few mins today. Me and the guy I work with got to try one out for a few mins each lol All I can say is when you're used to John Deere controls Cat controls totally screw you over! lol
 
Here's the lanyard I rigged up for the rely (relaskop.) Just had the two rings and the ends of the cord tied to em. Bugger would get all twisted up when using it. Hopefully this will end or at least minimize that.

I know i know, uninteresting forester stuff. Got into a patch of nice juicer spruce. Nice being a relative term lol I'm sure a look at the rings would cause a shake of the head.

Hope everyone has had a good week so far.

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I keep my Relaskop tied to my vest on a single length of parachute cord. Trouble-free, right? Yeah, well, I keep everything else tethered the same way because I lose stuff. Fact is, any given cluster of paracord strands exists only to tangle amongst themselves. I think it may be a mating ritual.
 
madhatte said:
I keep my Relaskop tied to my vest on a single length of parachute cord. Trouble-free, right? Yeah, well, I keep everything else tethered the same way because I lose stuff. Fact is, any given cluster of paracord strands exists only to tangle amongst themselves. I think it may be a mating ritual.
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Exactly! Compass - check, Clino - check, rangefinder - check, relaskop - check, stylus - check. Yea alot of crap dangling off the vest How ya likin the new Pacforest vest? I'm adding two more grommets to mine this weekend. Getting closer to finishing the project?
 
I like it better each day. It took a bit of getting used to at first but now I don't see how I ever used another arrangement.

As for the project: still plugging away, worrying now about canopy closure metrics, and fighting network security issues as usual. Oddly, all of the old issues are resolved. These are new, never-before-seen issues. Charting unknown territory means making a lot of friends. It's looking now like I won't have time to write up this process until after fire season. Ah, well, such is life. I suppose I'll know more by then and be better prepared to write it. I did present my wetland/watershed study/proposal a few days ago and got a buy-off from the F&W guys to do the sale. That's a load off of my mind.
 
Hey Nate, have you used any good gps/offline map apps for android? I just downloaded a free demo. It's good through the 29th. Gonna see how that one works. Also found Gaia GPS might be a good one too...
 
Offline? Harrumph. No, not really. I found one awhile ago that let you download tiles of airphoto coverage, but they were all at least ten years old and 2om resolution. Worse than useless. ArcGIS Mobile lets you store stuff, but you have to have Arc on the desktop to clip coverages to export to the mobile device. Right now Google Earth is still the most usable and up-to-date map service available for free. If only you could download coverages for offline use!
 
Well a little update is in order. Been doing lots o stuff mostly compliance lately, some cruising too. Worked in the office updating a spreadsheet for doing cruise comparisons and then running some. The last two days though I've been learning how to mark Alder slicers. I love Alder as a crop tree so I was all over this and I'm not getting too bad at it either! And Fathers day me and the old man took a pretty nice hike up in the Olympics. Being an inquisitive forester I threw the D tape in on the hike. Taped some Silvers and a Hemlock. The Hemi was 64". There were some other lunkers in there as well.

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A nice lil patch of slicers.

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Stupid computers. Well I guess I'm retyping this again.

Well been busy busy even with the market downturn. Went down to Oregon the other weekend, met the girlfriend halfway, and we tooled around the coast. Went to Tillamook and up to Camp 18 for dinner. It was good to see her even for a weekend.

We started a 500 acre state thinning with cable and ground base. Gonna be laying out corridors. Hung with the choker dogs and helped them out for a little bit on a side. Quantity does not equal quality. I've known this but it definitely gets reaffirmed when you work for the mill. Birthday is tomorrow, gonna be hitting 25. I think back and think about how not long ago I was just graduating high school. Hope everyone has a good 4th of July weekend!

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Dahlgrens Tong tosser.
 
Well it's been a long but short summer. You guys and gals (guess I should be politically correct) know how that goes. Seen some interesting things and met some good folks.

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Well here's a temporary crossing Dahlgren's came up with. The logs are self explanatory but our running surface is wood chips. Most of the chips will get scraped off but what does make it into the creek will not count as delivery. Below is the Clambunk being used. Just getting the trucks over the creek to load. Have a pretty long skid over an old road so the Clambunk was the best machine for the yarding. Shovel everything to the road then drag it to the landing for processing and loading. That baby will skid pretty much a truck load of logs.

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Example of the wood we've been cruisin.

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Nate leaving good classic beer cans to waste in the woods after being bear mauled... haha

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One of our loggers found this on a thinning unit. Long story short I helped em rig a tail tree while we were showing the DNR the job. Think they liked that so I wound up coming home with this a couple weeks later. I did not know Berger made blocks. It's an 8 inch. Unit was logged int he 70's but the block is older. Seemed froze up at first but got it freed up. Bearings are good in it but the cheekplates have wear spots, one of the ears for the top strap pin is torn, and one cheekplate is worn where the shaft is. Gonna have the old man weld er up and put it back together. Should work just fine for dragging the jeep out of the canyons.
 

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