A lot of it has to do with there's not much big wood left as well as everything is mechanized now. Around 2000 is when the last ten union Weyerhauser fallers were let go and that's when stuff started to change to the 32" butt unless it's a temple sort that can go up to 46" export.
That 1210 honestly is about on its last legs the ground we were on was so broke up it's not even funny plus the squirt isn't going to like the bigger wood.
Most cut to length refers to cut process leaving all trash in the trails to run over. There's two types of it over here short wood done with a double bunk forwarder lengths from 17 feet to 26 feet, then long wood with a cat, skidder, or clambunk forwarder yarding your length from 41 feet down to pulp.
Yeah it would plus they can unload trailers too with the buncher style booms. If we do one it'll be used for now we may just load 32's and 36's on our till we bust the back end and bogie drives up.
Yeah I've seen the pictures of them and can tell you it wouldn't work in the thinning unless everything is perfectly straight. We'll figure it out the one operator that doing them right now on the forwarder have a bolt on extension on their ponsse we'll see how long to they bust this one up they normally get 10k out of bogies if they're lucky with normal short wood.
Overdrive is for hippies!
I don't know man, 55 without my teeth rattling out of my head is pretty nice.
