Welcome to the Landing

[Dennis]

We have a couple of short log/self loaders around here, this is why I was asking...and yeah we have a bunch of self loaders for long logs as well..

The excavator is a very useful tool, especially in the salvage logging operations. As you say, there is a pile of blow down....the dangle head works quite a bit better than the bucket and thumb as well...

 

[Pacific]

Dennis your machine looks like a 150 or is it a 200 its hard to tell in your pic.

Most landclearing is done with a EX150 sized machines the largest is a 200 for residential lots in the bush 300s and 400s.

Even the excavation contractors are ordering 150 sized machines with highwalk undercarriage to go along with the full forestry guarding it makes Hoe chucking on residential sites a bit easier.

Combination machines are becoming more common in this area for use in the bush. Where you have a EX300 sized machine with a road builder undercarriage with a 36" riser in the cab so the machine can do multiple tasks. It can build roads,mount the heal boom and chuck logs or have a processor.

They can convert a 300 sized machine into a rock drill to eliminate the use of the old tank drills the drill mounted on excavators are so much faster.

If the local loggers in this areas didn't have excavators they would be screwed

 

[Ryan Willock]

I am actually a first generation logger. One of my great grandfathers was a timber cruiser and the other owned a sawmill but other than that to my knowledge I'm the only logger that has been in my family. I've been using heavy equipment since I was 7 years old. My uncle has a paving business and put me to work on a Case 580K Construction King backhoe and I've been working with equipment eversince. We used to have a dairy farm milking 600 head twice a day when I was born, the farm had been in the family since the early 1700's. When I was 10 months old my grand dad started taking my out to ride on the tractors with him. We sold the farm in '97. Most of what I know has either come from HKU (hard knocks University) or I learned (my preferred method) from some one older who has been there, done that and got the T-shirt! Its eaiser on me and cheaper too!!