Steep Posterior Ground Picture Thread

[slowp]

Post your pictures of the units that wore out your pants and battered your buns!

Here's one of the bad ones I had the honor of working on. I took another job before it was done, but heard of a broken hip? or other hip badness happening to one of the guys while they were drilling rock to anchor a guyline.

This was in 1988? just NW of Morton. They hadn't turned the tower to get the part below the landing yet. The upper part was downhilled. The part below the road went down and across a creek and up the other side to a ridgetop.

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I didn't carry a camera down into units much. I was afraid of damaging the camera. Also, since I had a two wheel drive Chevy blazer, I walked the spur road up to the unit. The road was at an 18% grade with lovely pit run rock. The company did not run their own trucks for this unit. They hired independent truckers.

 

[paccity]

 

[paccity]

easy

 

[paccity]

this is always fun.

 

[paccity]

it's all fun and games.

 

[paccity]

 

[slowp]

South of Randle, WA. 1980 something.

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[paccity]

 

[paccity]

 

[redprospector]

I worked the yarder side in 89 & 90 but I don't remember taking any pictures. Heck I figured I'd be doing it forever, why would I need pictures?
Now day's I just whine about "steep" ground.

This is pretty steep to be masticating.

Andy

 

[redprospector]

Andy

 

[Gologit]

Andy

Got brakes?

 

[redprospector]

Got brakes?

Hahaha. I've been spending so much trying to keep it going.....I haven't thought about stopping it.

Andy

 

[wowzers]

I'm going to have to dig through some pictures. We've got some pretty steep rocky ground over here. I remmber hooking on a job with some rock bluffs like Paccity posted.

 

[TreeGuyHR]

Hey, I know exactly where that is.

Know where this is?

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Hint: where you are is in the background.

 

[wowzers]

Not the greatest

These are not the greatest, but I never really packed a camera around very much. This ground was pretty broke up and lead down to a resivior.
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[OlympicYJ]

That's a great shot of an intermediate support. Don't see too many of those except in the books. Do they use that carriage every day or just when using intermediates?

 

[wowzers]

We used it everyday, except we had the trip arms bolted inplace when we weren't supporting. I have several more intermediate photos I could post but they don't really show steep ground.

 

[wowzers]

Here is a few more. I have a pretty good video of my buddy topping one of these support trees, but wouldn't know how to begin to upload it.

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In the last photo we were double supported with an elevated tailhold.

 

[OlympicYJ]

What brand of carriage is that? Looks a little older. Looked like an interesting show.

One job I was doing log quality on they thought about using intermediates with a madill 071 but wound up bringing in a bigger Skagit with more lift. The fallers killed all the lift trees. :bang: Sucked because it took a while before they could get the big tube in there. Lost alot of weight on the alder in the heat. Not to mention the checking that happened. It was an awesome alder market that summer.