The "Busted Up Loggers" Thread

[Locoweed]

Hey look who crawled in!

Hi Russ!!!

Gary

Yep, another old fart who still likes cuttin wood

 

[GASoline71]

Hey.....I'se a lager.....I climb 'em, tho, most of da time.....Ergo, I've cut em into 2 million pieces.....

Some of 'em mighta even sailed all the way to that thar boreal Mannytuba foret....and landed on a "reel" logger....

better wear that head cheese bucket, Homey boy......

LMAO Dodger...

Manitoobian forest:

PNW forest (Hmm... only had room for one tree in the pic):

Gary

 

[04ultra]

LMAO Dodger...

Manitoobian forest:

PNW forest (Hmm... only had room for one tree in the pic):

Gary

Great post Gary...... :yourock: :yourock:

 

[04ultra]

LMAO Dodger...

Manitoobian forest:

PNW forest (Hmm... only had room for one tree in the pic):

Gary

This such a good post I just had to quote it again....

 

[GASoline71]

What the heck are you doin' up so late??? It's way past taps at the home Steve-o...



Gary

 

[spacemule]

Two years ago, I broke eight ribs, collapsed both lungs, cut my liver in half, cut my spleen up pretty good(i think the word they used was lacerated), and broke a bunch of tabs off my vertebrates. I feel a little stiff/sore in cold weather, but feel lucky otherwise. The guy with me broke his legs into multiple pieces. We were on an old logging road running parallel to a river when the bank collapsed.

Why would someone who gets mincemeated like that feel lucky?

 

[GASoline71]

Love the new avatar Rexy!

Gary

 

[lh3]

can get up everyday and work. sometimes a little slower, but work! most of the time cant even tell ive been mangled. bodys a little crooked though, hehe...

 

[slowp]

Will there be Icehouse Beer?

 

[Gologit]

Will there be Icehouse Beer?

Where?

 

[slowp]

And pink camo hats. I think I'll go to work as a "sunburned forester" today.
I got the idea for that costume from watching tv last night. Something worthwhile was on. OK, I am drinking coffee and bracing up for another day of Logger Whining. Hmmm, Probably should call it logger discussions.

Now I'm warming up...no no no no no no no no no no no no Must find earplugs!

 

[Gologit]

And pink camo hats. I think I'll go to work as a "sunburned forester" today.
I got the idea for that costume from watching tv last night. Something worthwhile was on. OK, I am drinking coffee and bracing up for another day of Logger Whining. Hmmm, Probably should call it logger discussions.

Now I'm warming up...no no no no no no no no no no no no Must find earplugs!

It's not whining. It's, um, descriptive job related constructive alternatives. Like..."We'll only mash two or three patches of reprod and scar up a few leave trees if we can just skid the way we want to." Or.."So what if the fire wagon has two flat tires...nobody can find the keys to the fire tool box, anyway". Or "It's not a real big hydraulic oil leak...more like a little seepage. We'll have the chaser keep a five gallon bucket under it and pour it back in when it's full".

See...that's not whining. Have some more coffee...I am. It's raining.

 

[deeker]

I am 49 and feel more like I do now than when I first got here. Does that one count????

Kevin

 

[PB]

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[ciscoguy01]

Skidders

Do they actually use skidders out in the PNW? I've only seen from those TV shows they use those great big trolleys. I was kinda wondering that. Different kinda work out there than here... And could a plain skidder like a JD440 pull those kinda logs? I'd think it'd take alot more trips, not to mention they'd have a hard time driving through those big trees out there...

opcorn:

Noooooo, I'm not being facetious. Curious as to how they get the bulk of logs out on a general basis. I know alot of loggers around here use those big skidders with the blades on the front now... That's not really logging I don't think...

 

[Jacob J.]

There's a lot of skidder ground here, but even in the thinning jobs it's usually tower and high lead or swing yarder and staged rigging...

 

[stihl sawing]

Count all the ones that you remember- not the ones you were told about!

Ratings at the bottom Blackjack chewing gum
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Candy cigarettes
Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Party lines
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Flyers
Butch wax
Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
Peashooters
Howdy Doody
45 RPM records
S&H Green Stamps
Hi-fi's
Metal ice trays with lever
Mimeograph paper
Blue flashbulb
Packards
Roller skate keys
Cork popguns
Drive-ins
Studebakers
Wash tub wringers
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young

If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older

If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age

If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!

 

[stihl sawing]

I'm antique cause i remember every one of them.lol

 

[RandyMac]

Yep the Stihl looks like an 076?????

That was an 075, it was given to me by a dealer to "test" for a couple months, it did not live up to the dealer's hype that it was a direct replacement for the Mac 125/797s that were in current use. When I showed up with the 075, the old guys called me a Democrat. The only Stihls being used at the time were 090s, mostly as deck or landing saws.

A pic of my pile of gear

 

[Woodie]

Party lines

OH!!! You said "party" lines!!! My bad...



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