Steep Posterior Ground Picture Thread

[wowzers]

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.

It is a Macki carriage. Kind of a local outfit. I don't think they are legal on the coast because they don't have a horn in the carriage or something to that effect. But like my boss said if your that stupid you probably don't need to be down here anyway.

The thing about that TMY 45 was it had a rediculously short boom so you had to support quite a bit, but it would pull anything. I think they had a 27 tree turn one time! I know I sent at least twelve one time when we were presetting. They used to have a Madil 071 and Thunderbird 70 but they just don't pay for them over here to make it worth it. I would say a LS98 is probably the most popular set up. Plus we're pretty roaded up over here form the Jammer days.

That was the best thing about our cutters, almost all of them were former hookers so they could read the ground and always left plenty of support trees. Once they are down you can't stand them back up!

 

[OlympicYJ]

It is a Macki carriage. Kind of a local outfit. I don't think they are legal on the coast because they don't have a horn in the carriage or something to that effect. But like my boss said if your that stupid you probably don't need to be down here anyway.

The thing about that TMY 45 was it had a rediculously short boom so you had to support quite a bit, but it would pull anything. I think they had a 27 tree turn one time! I know I sent at least twelve one time when we were presetting. They used to have a Madil 071 and Thunderbird 70 but they just don't pay for them over here to make it worth it. I would say a LS98 is probably the most popular set up. Plus we're pretty roaded up over here form the Jammer days.

That was the best thing about our cutters, almost all of them were former hookers so they could read the ground and always left plenty of support trees. Once they are down you can't stand them back up!

Okay. Heard of maki but never seen one out my way. Been around a TMY 45 though. The logger that had it said when it hit overdrive it got scary. It was a pullin sun of a gun. Trailer mount?

Madill 071, 172 are pretty popular here too. When you don't need the lift of a 100'+ tube. I saw an 071 strung way out there one time. They had extensions on the skyline and were out another thousand feet. It wasn't just a couple hundred fet of extension.

 

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There was an outfit (ab)using a Maki carriage here. I met Mr. Maki because he and Mrs Maki delivered or came along with the carriage for a run through with the new owners.

The new owners made many trips to Idaho for repairs, but I wouldn't blame it on the manufacturer. One of their rigging crew guys wanted to go fishing one day and he rammed that carriage into the tail tree, over and over. It was sad.

They take a different style of jack (intermediate support) than the other brands. Neither of these guys is the bad boy.

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[wowzers]

We kept 2000' of 1" on the drum and a bunch of extensions in the rigging van. The furthest I was ever stretched out on it was around 3200 feet, but I think the furthest they had it before was around 4700 feet or so.

The TMY-45 was on tracks.

 

[wowzers]

There was an outfit (ab)using a Maki carriage here. I met Mr. Maki because he and Mrs Maki delivered or came along with the carriage for a run through with the new owners.

The new owners made many trips to Idaho for repairs, but I wouldn't blame it on the manufacturer. One of their rigging crew guys wanted to go fishing one day and he rammed that carriage into the tail tree, over and over. It was sad.

They take a different style of jack (intermediate support) than the other brands.

One of the reasons we used him was the close proximity for parts and repairs if we couldn't fix it. I'm pretty sure he manufactures the jacks we used also. They came in two pieces that you could take apart for packing around through the brush. I have skidded on an acme and didn't are for it at all. Worse possible situation while supported was if you broke a choker or the mainline and managed to flip the carriage over the skyline when you were below the jack.

 

[OlympicYJ]

Yea I wanna say this one was around like 4000 somethin feet total. Forest circus acess issues....

Man that's alot for the little guy! How much mainline and haulback does it hold?

Well off to the woods for a drive with the gf. It's her birthday so gotta do somethin lol

 

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I was not there when the yarder engineer spaced out and the carriage sailed over the jack and off into the woods. I was glad I was not there.

 

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[NORMZILLA44]

Nice pictures. Some of that real steep unforgiving stuff looks like this country around me. I don't really have to many good shots to show the steep, and deepness, but I will get some. Ive run Boars through this country for many years. There's still spots that will make you shart yourself. I used to be in a hunting club fish rock road, mendocino county, and run near the manchester country up there. It's in high climbers and timber fallers, they said mountain view road area was some of the worst, the fallers had to repel down with climbing gear to buck logs, of trees they fell. I have run much of that country too, not logging but hunting. And when you running dogs, and running to them when they have a nasty boar. You end up in some hairy places, and end up running off, and down stuff like that. If you try and stop or slow down it's all over.