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

[tlandrum]

Another reason for a high stump is as a guide around a reserve or leave tree, this is if your skidding with a skidder or dozer

i tend to leave high stumps at all the bends in my skid roads to keep 100' plus trees from wiping out everything inside the curve path and i leave the cut trees in the tail swing path there to protect the leave trees until skidding on that trail is done .then i cut the last trees for skidding.

 

[Slamm]

Here is a pic of a 441 and the large rubber chip flap on a small/normal side cover. Just showing that it works and I like it. Also the rubber will likely last longer because it won't get kinked as bad as when installed on the "proper" larger side cover. It cost me $6.50 and keeps the chips off of you as good as the larger cover and rubber flap, also if 2-4 of us are bucking up at the same time it keeps one from spraying chips all over the next guy, LOL.

Hollow trees provide opportunity for the fury friends that we bring along. We had a pretty good daily average going the first couple of weeks. This is Junior and he handles all small hole extraction duties.

Some big tree.

Some other big tree.

Another small one.

Some of the "Wrecking crew". These dogs are smart and have balls, they hang out with us during all falling and skidding operations, trying to "clean up" local varmints. They know to get on the back side of the notch and have figured out to look up, everyone of them has been bashed by falling objects, yet still love to be in the woods with us. How they are still alive is a mistery, LOL.

This one will try to ride the logs into the landing. We need to get a harness to have him drag out that valuable pulpwood, LOL.

 

[Slamm]

Some of the logs as compared to the 540B skidder.

A bunch of big butts. Since these are a pain to handle, because of their larger size, I just cut them off in the woods and pulled them all here. Instead of mixing big and little/normal sized trees on the log trailers. Plus most of these were grade logs so they weren't going as pallet lumber anyways.

Got some other stuff uploading, we aren't working today as we finished the job and are waiting until deer season is over to start the neighbors.

Sam

 

[Slamm]

Here is one of the modded 441's wearing a 28" ES bar and full skip/ semi-chisel cutting a big swamp oak.
As a result of the current modifications to the 441's like this one, we will not be needing the modded 660's anymore. The cutter in this video said he would walk 1/2 mile past a modded 660 to use this 441, and that is on flat ground, LOL. If we were in hills the "love" of the modded 441 would be even greater.


Here is a modded 441 and full width cut 28" (full skip/semi chisel) on the top section of a swamp oak (white oak cousin).


The 441 in the above videos is just some parts saw that I bought in combo with the piston and cylinder off of the previously crushed 441 several pages back. In these videos it isn't broke in yet and it has gotten faster, as per the cutters opinion.

Later,

Sam

 

[Work Saw Collector]

I am kind of late to this thread, but can we see a close up of this saws paint job? What I can see of it looks cool.

 

[rburg]

Look at page 9 for some pictures of the 441 with the paint job.

 

[Work Saw Collector]

Look at page 9 for some pictures of the 441 with the paint job.

Thanks, I'll go check it out.

 

[banshee67]

some nice oaks there! very nice
cute dogs

 

[Slamm]

Here is just some random stuff that uploaded:

Nice landing of good logs hickory, soft maple and ash.

Big one going over with a modded 441:


Here is a video of me pushing one over in the direction needed to pull these bigger ones out a little easier. Bert/cutter is coming out the back and I am coming it and pushing it. After it falls over I pan out to the right to see another nice one we pushed over and then toward the left at two other biggin's.


Sam

 

[oscar4883]

Nice work Sam. That Stihl skip/semi-chisel is real good chain.

 

[rwoods]

Another small one.

Any good figured wood in that top?

Glad Slamm Video is back in production. Ron

 

[Slamm]

Nice work Sam. That Stihl skip/semi-chisel is real good chain.

Thank you, and yes, we love the stuff. I really like it on hardwoods, but the last two jobs have been recently flooded bottoms ground and there is mud and grit up to about 4'-10' high on the trees so, the chisel chain just doesn't work at all, Stihl or otherwise, it just gets the tips ripped off and quits cutting then you have to file 1/16 of the tooth off just to get a good edge again.

My cutter used the same modded 441 and 1 partially used chain and 1 brand new chain and still has the next (third) brand new chain on the saw and this last job was around 115,000 board feet. That saw and basically 2 chains, fell and topped just about every tree of the job and bucked up a lot of it, maybe around 1/3 of it.

That is a lot of wood to cut up for 2 chains, in dirty condition, but that is what took place, and this would not take place with a chisel chain of any brand. As I have said before I have no use for chisel chain, it does not cut more wood for the effort it takes to maintain a sharp edge ........ chisel chain is basically the drama queen of the chain world, as in it either cuts really fast or not at all and not much inbetween, like a roller coaster.

Sam

 

[Slamm]

Another small one.

Any good figured wood in that top?

Glad Slamm Video is back in production. Ron

?? "good figured wood", do you mean, the grain structure or financially/figured wood??

I didn't look at the top much, LOL. I don't remember what we got out of that tree, looks like maybe a 16' grade log on the bottom and either another 16' mat log and some longer pallet lumber from the top to the first fork. If I remember right one of those branches broke on that tree when it crashed down. We cut a lot of those sized trees on that job, but I remember that one, because it was by the blown over walnut tree who's top is showing across the ditch.

On those sized trees we were marking the various log lengths out of the whole thing in the woods, so as to not short ourselves out of a good length log at the top, and then bucking the grade "butt" log off and dragging the whole thing in two pieces. The smaller 540B's can drag the whole tree, but it is hard on them and sometimes "slower is faster", in the production world, LOL.

Sam

 

[Slamm]

I am kind of late to this thread, but can we see a close up of this saws paint job? What I can see of it looks cool.

I am going to get a thread started for this saw and some of the other modded 441's when things slow down a bit. This one got faster from the 1st tank to the 20th tank of gas, it has a larger main jet than the one Bert is using and therefore can't be leaned up as much but it sure has some amazing torque. This is not very accurate, but I was cutting with this saw and a 25" bar and was beating our modded BB660 in 20-22" ash.

For what it matters the cutter has his choice of 1 modded 660 that is the fastest saw we have, 1 modded BB 660 and the unpainted, but modded 441 that is in the videos and he didn't even touch a 660 during the whole job. In fact, the 660's were only used at the landings for bucking up and he didn't use them, LOL. Bert kept my 441 (that he uses) in the back seat of his truck when not working, because he didn't want anyone else to mess with it, LOL.

We are really impressed with the modded 441 and have been told another 20%+ power will be pulled out of them in the coming months. Additionally, a BB441 is just being finished up with similiar portwork and modds. I think the BB effectively makes it the new Stihl 461, LOL, we'll see.

Later,

Sam

 

[ttyR2]

So is the Stihl RSC chain considered a full chisel? It does have the sharp point at the corner of the cutting edge but doesn't use a non-round file to sharpen it.

 

[DSS]

So is the Stihl RSC chain considered a full chisel? It does have the sharp point at the corner of the cutting edge but doesn't use a non-round file to sharpen it.

RSC is full chisel, yes. RMC is semi-chisel.

 

[Metals406]

Hey Sam! Any new nuggets to post in here?

 

[Slamm]

Hey Sam! Any new nuggets to post in here?

Here was our Sunday. 18*F and 30-40 mph winds, we burned 6 gallons of mix in one day with 441's and dropped about 3 acres of pretty good hardwood. It was work, but we were having fun .... does that count?

With 30+ mph winds you didn't have to wonder where the trees were going, ........... regardless of lean, LOL.

The landing was brutal:

Video of the Skidder:

Video of the wind:

Another video:


Sam

 

[Slamm]

Our Saturday, was just awesome, LOL. It rained on us the whole day. The truck got stuck 3 miles from where we were cutting, so we all just grabbed the saws and started walking. We walked 3 miles with 4 saws, 5 gallon jug of mix and various tools. Worked hard then walked back out, the ATV was already at the landing so one guy got to take us back to the truck while the rest walked. Truck slid down the hill .... by itself .... but was still stuck called a friend to come pick us up. Walked another 2 miles to get to friends pickup area, we dropped a lot of trees on Saturday, despite the "minor" setbacks, LOL. I think I have the best crew of guys to work with.

The phone camera was fogged up from being wet.



Sam

 

[Slamm]

Reworked the exhaust on my 540B Grapple Skidder. Put new windshields in it too.

My beloved 540 Skidder Grapple on the trailer going to work:

My new to me 518 Cat with Swing Boom:

Finally the Ported Big Bore 441 is here, cut with it for the last two days and really like it, I need to cut with it against the one that Bert is using, as it seems his might have a little more speed/revs, but man this thing has some grunt and just chugs. This is the new Stihl 461, LOL. Thank you, Terry for this one, it runs great.

This is a small swing boom attachment I bought to put on my other 540B that is a cable skidder.

Thats about it for now, been very busy with a lot of work and not enough people to do it. We are working on lights for all the skidders to run two shifts and/or work at night when/while the ground is more frozen. We have another 300 acres that we are looking at today, if we get it, it has to be done by April 1st, Oh boy.

Later,

Sam