stairstep

[RandyMac]

Yep, good eye Funky, they are an 075 and 125C. I only ran the 075 for a couple months, it fell short of the mark, I stuck with my 797s and 125s. The Master Faller I apprenticed with, ran big, old Homelite geardrives, he called me a Democrat when I showed up with that Stihl.

 

[056kid]

you know that orange never had anything on old yellow!

 

[stihlkicken]

white fir.

it seems like any piss fir of any substance around here is cull,rotten pos.any over 3 ft. anyway.

 

[2dogs]

I have my own ways to modify the falling direction of a tree. I sometimes use a rock or falling wedge on one side of the face cut to change the lead of the tree--I have even stuck wedges in a face of a falling tree because in wasn't falling into the lay perfectily CRAZY

I've tossed a few wedges in the face as the tree is falling. It sure doesn't leave much time for escape but I have been lucky so far.

 

[redprospector]

well been logging for several years we used to produce over 3 million a year with two d6c and one timberjack 380a grapple,down to about one million now,thank clnton and his ####in nafta bull#### is the way i feel when canadians can ship it here cheaper than we can produce it here!and im 100 miles from mexico,funny enough thats where our logs go tell me thats not ####ed up!

I heard that it's kinda fun trying to collect off those Mexican's some times.:jawdrop:

bullbuck works on one of the last crew's left actually doing any logging around here. I demoted myself to thinning a while back.

Andy

 

[bullbuck]

I heard that it's kinda fun trying to collect off those Mexican's some times.:jawdrop:

bullbuck works on one of the last crew's left actually doing any logging around here. I demoted myself to thinning a while back.

Andy

been kinda getting used to the site and just found your thread,funny enough we got a guy and his three brothers down in old el paso that have been paying so far!pretty damn good for the way things are right now,better shut my mouth i will jinx it! kill as many of them as you can!

 

[bullbuck]

That would be called the step dutchman.

question,and old timer and i were experimenting with a stairstep cut similiar to the step dutchman but no angle all square,picture two steps where the humboldt should be,and that was all it was,well in tall timber if done properly this would preload the weight of the tree and somehow make the tree gain distance from the stump?(we decided that you would have to have much taller trees maybe 4 log trees)well my good friend earl r.i.p.and i decided that our trees were not tall enough to get proper preload,even after all these years still curious?so if you get bored one day i know boring a tree is a pain in the ars!but who knows could work?if you get results it would be cool to know! kill as many of them as you can!

 

[redprospector]

question,and old timer and i were experimenting with a stairstep cut similiar to the step dutchman but no angle all square,picture two steps where the humboldt should be,and that was all it was,well in tall timber if done properly this would preload the weight of the tree and somehow make the tree gain distance from the stump?(we decided that you would have to have much taller trees maybe 4 log trees)well my good friend earl r.i.p.and i decided that our trees were not tall enough to get proper preload,even after all these years still curious?so if you get bored one day i know boring a tree is a pain in the ars!but who knows could work?if you get results it would be cool to know! kill as many of them as you can!

I didn't know you worked with Earl. I get a big grin every time I think about him . Earl was a lot of fun to work with, we tried a lot of "experiments" when we worked for WSFP.

Andy

 

[bullbuck]

yep sure did,earl was the best i have ever seen on cat,rubberduck,load,,lop,mechanic,truck,you name it he is the only logger i have ever known who could actually do everything ,and to top it off just a really nice guy. im sure hes rippin a nice humboldt in heaven!