Recent content by afleetcommand

Yes that was over 200 cars. 216 sounds right. Go by axle count, each locomotive has 6 and there were 6 locomotives. That's 36 axles...so 900 - 36 = 864 axles of rolling stock. 864 / 4 =216. Since I caught that one, others have seen a few more like that train which essentially is one train...

To those from the west, the line this was on is the ex New York Central "Water Level" route, famous for not having much grade .... anywhere. So lots of locomotives either means a power drag ( moving locomotives ) or a really long and or heavy trai8n :)

OR is it torque? Either way three lead locomotives, and three more DPU mid train to motivate this properly. Longest I have ever seen in this part of the world.Even long for out west :)

Back at it, at a little slower pace, but at it just the same :)

Yup I don't loose anything according to the log buyers to this point as I do try & keep the hinge out of the "money" and in the trim. AND those larger trees can be a pita to trim root flares after that side is on the ground. So by doing that I'm not only having a lot of face angle to keep the...

Kind of rare to find one in running order. This one had a rough life, I "collected" it 15 years back. It ended up at Bob's, came back for a mini. It's Bar oil line, felling spike, and fuel line / cab needed attention. ( Did that in another video ). AND after putting a couple hours into it with...

Back to work in the woods doing firewood for a bit. Help from a friend :) And beat a saw that stumped me a few years back as well :)

The essence of my summer, building roads & this :(

Last in this video I wanted to show what propagates a barber chair, so I left a LOT of hinge to show how the chair starts at the back....didn't quite get it to barber chair but you can see how the stress forms that can create one. I will prolly re do this video and force a chair for demo...

Some raw video of big dead tree's that can kill you if they chair. And they want to chair . Have to not let the face cut close until I'm way gone. And bore cut as much as possible before cutting the trigger :)

Yeah have done a lot of ash over the years. Also have a bunch of video's demonstrating the pro's and cons :) But to the gut the hinge thing.... you HAVE to know your tree's , last thing u want to do is take too much and let the leaner release too soon with too weak a hinge while your cutting...

Exposed roots

A mini nose picker excavator vs. tree stumps.

Changing things up a bit, moving in a slightly different direction. Retired now and that process is an evolution I guess, so shedding a little more work for a little more fun and games.