what will it lift?

[redprospector]

The only thing I know about helicopter's is that when they drop a 250 gallon bucket of water on you, it will knock you on your azz.

I'm still not sure if he just missed the spot, or was aiming at me. The pilot swore that it was purely accidental, but he was laughing the whole time.

Andy

 

[Meadow Beaver]

The only thing I know about helicopter's is that when they drop a 250 gallon bucket of water on you, it will knock you on your azz.

I'm still not sure if he just missed the spot, or was aiming at me. The pilot swore that it was purely accidental, but he was laughing the whole time.

Andy

I wouldn't wana be runnin a saw when I got hit with that, of course I wouldn't wana get hit with it anyways.

 

[CollegeLogger]

Cost right now on our last fire for a Vertol was $3500 an hour on the fire, the 206 was around $1600 an hour if i remember right. Both were doin bucket drops and had at least an hour on the fire. Pretty cool to sit in the safety zone and watch 1300 gallons of water come out of the bucket of the big ship though.

 

[bullbuck]

talked to the mechanic of a columbia chinook?anyways red and white twinprop,and he said he had been with the company for quite awhile,and offered up that he went for one turn on the heli and swore that would be his last...he also told me that some of the best pilots in the world cannot handle long line skidding...

 

[Greystoke]

Helicopter logging

This is part of a Chinook landing in Humboldt County CA, working for Columbia Helicopters:

Insane what those things can lift...I think around 28,000 lbs max. Also insane how fast a good pilot can plug up a landing. We had to rip, and sometimes quarter 20 foot logs that were too heavy for it, but you usually had the pilot try logs that were close to weight, at the end of the fuel cycle. It was scary being on the ground when they would come try one, as the rotor wash was intense, because those huge rotor blades were pushing so much air as the pilot was trying to lift the logyou definitely wanted to make sure that you could hunker by a big stump or something...never been in a hurricane, but that is what it seemed like.

 

[Metals406]

Cool picture Cody! Yeah, rotor wash sucks (or blows )... Especially when near thick, poofy sand/dirt... It'll sandblast you to death!

 

[Meadow Beaver]

Cool picture Cody! Yeah, rotor wash sucks (or blows )... Especially when near thick, poofy sand/dirt... It'll sandblast you to death!

That must suck, probably like a sandstorm. My aunt was in a few while at a base in Afghanistan.

 

[Metals406]

That must suck, probably like a sandstorm. My aunt was in a few while at a base in Afghanistan.

It does suck! It's like standing inside a blast cabinet.

 

[bullbuck]

nice logs there,did the chinook fly that big one you are next to?

 

[Greystoke]

nice logs there,did the chinook fly that big one you are next to?

Yep...It flew all of those logs. Most of them are 40 footers...I am guessing that the one I am next to was a 20. We usually tried to keep a butt-cut around 2,300 bd. ft. in Redwood for the Chinook. The Chinook also flew all of the logs off of the tree in my avatar. They had to quarter the first two 20 foot logs off the butt and rip the third and fourth 20 foot logs. We would staple the pink panels that you see on the logs, so that the Chinook pilot could see where to drop his grapple. A regular sized turn was a square panel, and a heavy turn was a diamond pattern, so that he would know to try it toward the end of his fuel cycle. Wish I was still cutting logs for the Chinook!

 

[bullbuck]

man that does sound like a good time,hopefully things look up soon...i assume you guys use ripping chain to rip logs?i read in a book one time that the old timers used to drill and dynamite their logs into skiddable sizes,have you seen or heard of anyone still doing that?

 

[Meadow Beaver]

A guy I met at Madsen's said back in the 1970's when he logged in Alaska they used dynamite to get the logs down to a managable weight.

 

[bullbuck]

ha ha. i usually do anywhere between 50,000 and 100,000 bdft a week (if all goes as planned of course) with me and one other guy and a skidder....so those boys are moving some wood

50 to 100 between three guys is nothing to laugh at either,you must have a tight crew...

 

[sILlogger]

50 to 100 between three guys is nothing to laugh at either,you must have a tight crew...

yup...but i was talking about 2 guys, me and one other one. we both can cut or skid so that helps a bunch.

 

[Meadow Beaver]

That's good work my cousin and his partner can get out 10+ loads a day, by themselves.

 

[bullbuck]

...more or less cut and skid three loads a day?do you guys sub the hauling?

 

[Meadow Beaver]

My cousin has someone else haul for him, he contract cuts for Deer Park.

 

[bullbuck]

That's good work my cousin and his partner can get out 10+ loads a day, by themselves.

no disrespect,but that sounds like alot to cut skid load and haul for two guys?

 

[bullbuck]

is this hand fell or mechanized?

 

[sILlogger]

mine is all hand falling. i don't do the hauling, typically the sawmill provides the hauling. my end of it consists of cutting, skidding, bucking and loader operation.