Quite the low stump for a west coast faller, with a half wrap no less!

[forestryworks]

Big sugar pine.

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[Jacob J.]

You don't see too many guys popping big wood with a half-wrap 084 around here...good for him.

 

[Jacob J.]

More 084 action...

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[lfnh]

and there's that trusty blue wedge right in the thick of things.

 

[2dogs]

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

 

[madhatte]

Ain't a thing wrong with some fatty pines.

 

[rwoods]

More 084 action...

Just curious - what's with all the throttle action? Ron

 

[Jacob J.]

Just curious - what's with all the throttle action? Ron

You'll have to ask the guy in the video, I wasn't there.

 

[Gologit]

Just curious - what's with all the throttle action? Ron

It seemed to work okay for him.

 

[rwoods]

Just trying to learn all I can. Figured if there was a useful purpose someone here would know. Ron

 

[Gologit]

Just trying to learn all I can. Figured if there was a useful purpose someone here would know. Ron

Okay, I'll try to explain. Sometimes in soft wood, like sugar pine or ponderosa, the kerf will load up with chips. I've found that it happens to me mostly if I'm running full comp and trying to push a little too hard. I've had chips gum up so bad that they got in between the chain and the rail...and that was because I was running a chain that should have been changed and wasn't . If you have your bar buried to the tip in a long top buck or when you're backing one up it seems to help if you lay off the cut for just a second and blip the saw with no cutting load on it...it seems to clear the chain better and keep the kerf clean. It usually works. Usually.

I don't say yes or no to blipping the throttle...some guys just cut that way. I worked with some guys last season and one of them was a throttle blipper...you could always tell where he was just by the sound of his saw. He got as much on the ground as anybody.

 

[rwoods]

Gologit, thanks. As I said I am trying to learn all I can - although I'll likely never cut any timber bigger than 36"; maybe a 4 foot yard tree or two. The throttle blipping just caught my ear and I didn't know if it was being done because the operator thought it sounds cool or there was a reason behind it. I know you are old enough to have driven with the old manuals where you had to double clutch to shift and have ridden with those who unnecessarily blip the throttle with a modern transmission. Ron

 

[Jacob J.]

Gologit, thanks. As I said I am trying to learn all I can - although I'll likely never cut any timber bigger than 36"; maybe a 4 foot yard tree or two. The throttle blipping just caught my ear and I didn't know if it was being done because the operator thought it sounds cool or there was a reason behind it. I know you are old enough to have driven with the old manuals where you had to double clutch to shift and have ridden with those who unnecessarily blip the throttle with a modern transmission. Ron

Bob's old enough to remember having to fill the boiler with coal to get a turn of logs up the hill...

 

[RandyMac]

Bob's first job in the woods was slathering grease on corduroy roads.

 

[Gologit]

Man, you guys are just plain MEAN!

Seriously, though, greasing the skid roads was my Grandfather's first job in the woods. He was twelve.

 

[RandyMac]

I am too embarrassed to say what my first paid job in the woods was.

 

[Gologit]

Well, hell...you've been ambarrassed before and it didn't kill 'ya...out with it.

 

[RandyMac]

Ok ok, timber faller, I was 20.

 

[Oldtimer]

Big sugar pine.

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Why the big old saw? I thought west coasters could fall such small stuff with Wild Things?

 

[Gologit]

Why the big old saw? I thought west coasters could fall such small stuff with Wild Things?

You need to get back on your skidder where you know what's going on and you aren't bothering the real loggers.