Some sawing, logging and skidding pics and videos ......

[slowp]

Can't say I don't think about it a lot. After bidding that firewood salvage job -- I have a constant hankering to go bid some stewardship contracts. A guy won't get rich doing them, but you're in the woods.

And they offer a little bit of everything. . . Pre-Commercial thinning, some saw logs, lop and scatter. . . Maybe some pulping? I know we could have an ass kicking crew with a few phone calls.



Oh no Miss P. . . We won't work our best hand like a chaser gets worked. You'd be at the M.B.U. (Mobile Baking Unit) -- keeping the crew in all the cookies, doughnuts and pie they could handle. While your stuff was in the oven, you could kick your feet up and sip on Huckleberry wine.

I have to turn that down. I put on too much weight what with the quality control process.

Might I suggest looking into a Koller Yarder? There are ones that can be towed behind a truck which does away with the need for a lowboy trip. A guy here had one with an extension on his tube, and it seldom broke down.
The bad thing is they don't have cabs so you have to master tarpology if you want to be out of the weather.

I think Koller might still be in the yarder business. Not sure on that.

The Koller seemed to handle a similar payload.

 

[Gologit]

Let's get back on topic.

Ron

Let's not. I like the way this thread is headed now.

Nate...if you're getting a crew together let me know. I can do the "growly old guy in the pick-up with all the antennas on top" routine...maybe a little cutting on the really choice stuff...and be the taste tester if Slowp changes her mind and decides to be the cook.

 

[Metals406]

I have to turn that down. I put on too much weight what with the quality control process.

Might I suggest looking into a Koller Yarder? There are ones that can be towed behind a truck which does away with the need for a lowboy trip. A guy here had one with an extension on his tube, and it seldom broke down.
The bad thing is they don't have cabs so you have to master tarpology if you want to be out of the weather.

I think Koller might still be in the yarder business. Not sure on that.

The Koller seemed to handle a similar payload.

That's just like the Bitteroot Mini-Yarder (trailered yarder). The Forest Service Development Center in Missoula designed and built one a number of years ago. I acquired the plans to build one last year.

They were designed for get'n out wood about the size of the wood in your pic.

As far as the M.B.U. position goes. . . It's a standing offer.

Let's not. I like the way this thread is headed now.

Nate...if you're getting a crew together let me know. I can do the "growly old guy in the pick-up with all the antennas on top" routine...maybe a little cutting on the really choice stuff...and be the taste tester if Slowp changes her mind and decides to be the cook.

Shucks Bob. . . Now you're making it hard NOT to go do it.

You could definitely be mostly retired here! LOL

And we'd need a cab-rat running the radio via the truck. . . And yelling at us youngsters thru the window to keep us in line.

 

[Rounder]

That's just like the Bitteroot Mini-Yarder (trailered yarder). The Forest Service Development Center in Missoula designed and built one a number of years ago. I acquired the plans to build one last year.

They were designed for get'n out wood about the size of the wood in your pic.

As far as the M.B.U. position goes. . . It's a standing offer.


Shucks Bob. . . Now you're making it hard NOT to go do it.

You could definitely be mostly retired here! LOL

And we'd need a cab-rat running the radio via the truck. . . And yelling at us youngsters thru the window to keep us in line.

Nate, that mini yarder seems pretty trick, I could have used one on a hell of a lot of jobs. Forgot to call you today, imagine that, I'll try tomorrow. Hey Bob, cmon over and retire, we won't work you too hard, we'll give ya all the juice strips, if you can find one, lol - Sam

 

[Rounder]

"I know we could have an ass kicking crew with a few phone calls. " - metals406



yessir

 

[Metals406]

Nate, that mini yarder seems pretty trick, I could have used one on a hell of a lot of jobs. Forgot to call you today, imagine that, I'll try tomorrow. Hey Bob, cmon over and retire, we won't work you too hard, we'll give ya all the juice strips, if you can find one, lol - Sam

No worries Sam. . . Call me when ya get a chance.

Jameson just looked up a past timber sale that went for 1,400 an acre. Not too bad if a fella could sell the wood, and you had some juice in it.

 

[forestryworks]

No worries Sam. . . Call me when ya get a chance.

Jameson just looked up a past timber sale that went for 1,400 an acre. Not too bad if a fella could sell the wood, and you had some juice in it.

My bad, I either told you wrong or we mis-communicated somehow. The job was over 1,400 acres in size.

 

[Metals406]

My bad, I either told you wrong or we mis-communicated somehow. The job was over 1,400 acres in size.

Well then, I guess I'm a dumbass. LOL

Or stump-dumb as it were.

 

[slowp]

That Koller is designed so the controls are run from the ground. They also make a model desiged to fit on the back of a farm tractor or truck. Or used to. We worked with the tractor mounted Koller at OSU's logging school.

The family that ran the yarder in the picture, had Dad doing the yarding, unhooking, and sometimes chute clearing.
The two sons did the falling and then one worked down in the brush. The other son then became the truck driver and loader operator.

They had a processor as you can see parked on the landing. The son in the brush would run up to the landing and run the trees through it as needed. Their dad was new to the logging world and running equipment.

The boys had been Eastern WA skidder loggers, then moved over here and figured out how to run a yarder.

Nope, no baking--at least not much. Since I probably will be retired, I will offer my services as volunteer photographer and (can give little hints, like, you might want to hang a little higher up on your tail tree or to untuck your pants, you're looking like a Farmer Logger. Then I'd spit a sunflower seed.)

 

[Metals406]

That Koller is designed so the controls are run from the ground. They also make a model desiged to fit on the back of a farm tractor or truck. Or used to. We worked with the tractor mounted Koller at OSU's logging school.

The family that ran the yarder in the picture, had Dad doing the yarding, unhooking, and sometimes chute clearing.
The two sons did the falling and then one worked down in the brush. The other son then became the truck driver and loader operator.

They had a processor as you can see parked on the landing. The son in the brush would run up to the landing and run the trees through it as needed. Their dad was new to the logging world and running equipment.

The boys had been Eastern WA skidder loggers, then moved over here and figured out how to run a yarder.

Nope, no baking--at least not much. Since I probably will be retired, I will offer my services as volunteer photographer and (can give little hints, like, you might want to hang a little higher up on your tail tree or to untuck your pants, you're looking like a Farmer Logger. Then I'd spit a sunflower seed.)

Sounds like a plan to me.

 

[rwoods]

Let's not. I like the way this thread is headed now.

Not that I endorse highjacking threads, but I was trying to address the bickering not the yarder discussion. I would love to see a small yarder in action. Ron

 

[Slamm]

Well I don't know where we are at with this thread. I think the last tree was cut on this job maybe 1.5-2 weeks ago and I have been trenching up my property putting in new waterlines.

Had to sort and stack a lot of these logs as the timber buyer didn't have time to and I have another nice bottoms job that I want to get moved onto. Here are some of the photos of loading the longer mat logs and the grade logs.

Then there are photos of moving the skidders. I am only going to move the loader and cable skidder to the next job. The grapple skidder is going home to get "modded", LOL. Its tired and needs to go home and rest up.

I will try and narrate the photos as best I can, but I'm on an old slow computer and can't see the photos very well.

Lotta Logs.

We had 4 trucks come to get the last of the grade logs this morning. The truck drivers load their own trucks and I was just on the skidder to push them out of the field or get the load started, as it was a little slippery that morning.
Grade Logs

Grade Logs

Stuff

Field Shot

Logs are everywhere 1

Logs are everywhere 2

Logs are everywhere 3

 

[Slamm]

This was a few days ago, some of the logs are leaving. Me and my girls went out and got the skidders ready to leave this job. The grapple is going home and the other two are going north about 3 hours.

These two are going north.

Here are the two arriving at the new job.

Good looking load.

This will be the new "office" for a few weeks.

 

[Slamm]

Looks like another "rough" area to have to land logs, LOL.

Just off to the left.

First few logs of the morning. I'm going to try and line them all up with the gravel road. That way the log truck (driver) can just pick them up while I pull the truck forward and he loads. He can at least reach the first few logs of each section. If it doesn't work or he doesn't like my idea, I'll just be back to stacking logs like before. This job is a far drive from the timber buyer so he isn't going to babysit us as much ...... which sucks, because if it was closer he would mark and sort the logs. Now I have to do it, LOL.

Later yet and more logs.

And more, again. I figured we got out about 9000+ in about 6 hours and that doesn't include lunch and some extra curricular wildlife activity that came up. This should be the worst of the job, as the trees aren't very big and honestly we left a lot of trees that they marked (yes this is a marked job, sucks) back in the woods, because they were either too small or bad hollow.

I wish I could pull like this all day.

Now for the good stuff. Bert is cutting here.

 

[Slamm]

Got Wood..

After domino'ing two nice trees.

Video of the domino set-up. The tree that is going to get pushed over by the other tree is leaning very hard to the neighbors and I'm positive my skidder won't push it over. So we figured we would just push it over with another big marked tree. It worked great and really saved on a lot of clean up. Before this of course we cut and skid all of the other marked trees out of the way, and then dropped these two onto those tops. I hope this pre-domino video shows what we did good enough. I kinda had to hurry as I was in the middle of them and Bert wasn't going to stop, LOL.

And the crash. I hope it shows it good enough to get the drift.


Here is the landing with the first few hours of trees in it. As is usual, we have room, LOL, but this job is going to a sawmill that will probably be picking up logs every two days, if not everyday, so we will have to stay on top of the marking and bucking daily, so its not as likely that we are going to get stretched out too much, like the last one. I think this job is going to be around 167,000 bdf, but that is likely to change, but we ran into some bad rot/hollow crap today, but like I said before we cut the worst section yesterday and today, so I think the tree average now will get into the 300bdf average area if not higher. I know the oaks are more in 400-780 bdf range. We just got a lot of ash right now, but this evening we got into 300-600bdf range with the ash and maple, and that average should stay more consistent.

Later,

Sam

 

[rwoods]

Back on track. Thanks. I appreciate the time and effort you put into this thread.

Take care of those girls; before you know it you'll be looking back at these pictures and thinking it seems like yesterday - how did they grow up so fast. Ron

 

[056kid]

You pissed me the #### off by not being able to heed some advice from a nobody like me so expect the harrasment to continue you ####ing flatlander

Log cutters are supposed to be friends too. . . . . . . . .

 

[Slamm]

Back on track. Thanks. I appreciate the time and effort you put into this thread.

Take care of those girls; before you know it you'll be looking back at these pictures and thinking it seems like yesterday - how did they grow up so fast. Ron

Thanks, the girls are doing well and they love to be in the woods with me. Usually they take a bulldog and little terrier and go see what trouble they can get into with the various wildlife and then "walkie talkie" me to where they are to referee the situation.

I guess, if I don't want the thread to get too sidetracked I will have to cut more trees, LOL. I still have to get more trenchs, trenched, hope I don't stall-out too long, LOL.

Later,

Sam

 

[Slamm]

You pissed me the #### off by not being able to heed some advice from a nobody like me so expect the harrasment to continue you ####ing flatlander

Log cutters are supposed to be friends too. . . . . . . . .

I'm just a hack, gypo logger, so carry on.

I feel your skill and experience is simply unattainable by someone like myself and will simply have to walk this earth in awe of you and those like you ................ and I'm fine with that.

Sam

 

[056kid]

You sound like a Liberal Slamm.