Better look a little closer to the pic...there is a chain around the rim to keep chains from slipping.
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. Apparantly , the grapple on the blade on the Clark is also for stacking logs ...
.I have thot about a hydraulic run conveyor for the split wood ...........
.If I run 3/8th " haywire I can get a fair amount on there ... As the timber I,m logging is pretty light and I am doing limited volume I can use a mini butt riggin for High lead . or run 1/2 or 9/16th line for a skyline and shot gun or receeding line for downhill loggin .........
. From what I understand , there were only 2 of them made so it doesn,t suprise me you never ran one .I have never messed with a Skagit skidder.
Those gearmatic winches are a different story. I have messed with those way more than any one should ever have to work on any thing.
They are really smooth and slick when they are working right. Which is when they are nearly new or you have just completely rebuilt them. The rest of the time you might as well get used to taking the side cover off and "tuning" on them on a regular basis. Sometimes a daily basis.
One thing to check for is to make sure they are not leaking around the axle. If they are nothing short of a complete tear down will ever get them working at all.
.I never went on the field trip, but there was some kind of a yarder set up for bringing in small wood. From what I understand, they had a two drum setup with baling twine tied on for chokers. The guy at the top whacked off the twine to "unhook" the chunks. Maybe I'll do some research and see if I can find any reference to it.
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. Now thats not nice !.. Got any idea how much loggin I,ve done inside the guyline circle with the hay wire on a Madill or Berger,or Washington 208 yarder when I was chasing .......bushel volume logs is there was a good show for it .... Green , wet , Western Hemlock .logs .......
. Hay wire on a skidder drum will move more wood than you may think if the guy useing it has the grey matter between his ears active ......
, Ya can,t log with baler twine .. Maybe trippled with poles 20-30 ft long and 8" on the butt end .......
WOW !! Too bad it,s there not uphere ...
.Yeah, that's the crux. . .
It sounds like you already committed to that other unit anyway -- but you could maybe find a flatbed headed from Spokane (or southern BC) to Alaska empty? Offer to buy fuel, that's a win for the trucker, and a win for you.
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.Ya , I gotta keep pluggin along and keep building up slowly ...I would want to go down and ride back up .....but that peice of iron looks like a good deal ....I found a 353 ,but I don,t know how it would bolt up to the hyd pump ..I would prolly need to move the front motor mounts back a bit ..... It wouldn,t be able to pull quite as hard as it could with a 453 , but it would still pull enough for me ...
Ya . Nice and light ... Not really any market around here for lots of logs , nor is there much supply . But we have lots of beattle killed spruce .. It makes very good environmentally friendly firewood because it burns quite clean being so dry ...
This White Spruce has lots of limbs , but they break off very easy ....If they are yarded very far ,few hundred feet most of the limbs are broke off ...The thing I hate about limbing is getting my chain in the snow all the time
Cool fricken unit, and not bad on price!
that woudl be a heck of an Appalachian yarder, looks only 3 drums uphill only, but cheap, ideal for 800' spans, light tiurns but steady makes the deck grow day in day out......
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