The forestry and logging pictures thread

[Skeans1]

I’m actually hand-cutting back on our Azalea job on a waiver. Big fire extinguisher, fire spotter, and a 11:00am shutdown for me. But I’ll probably be back to the thinning in four days or so unless something changes. We have lots of work coming up, typical fall rush.
Mike has talked to me about running buncher for them, and then hand-cutting when that isn’t going...now that I don’t have a partner, I think I’m going to give it a try. I’ve played on one before, but at the time it didn’t seem like the best idea compared to hand-cutting. At least if it doesn’t work out, I can just go back to hand-cutting for them with no hard feelings at all. A few more details to iron out, and I might be bunching in a couple weeks or so.

Have you thought about trying a harvester?


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[CLEARCUT]

I think you'll enjoy it, and it's a good gig. A couple of the guys I worked with at the company did that - they would fly a buncher most of the time and then jump off and hand cut the oversize on their units or
hand cut ROWs or knock down the shelterwood on the boundaries of thinning units. That was what my one cutting partner was doing when I talked him into coming over and working for Alpine with me.
There was a guy there, Butch, that's what he did for many years. He would come out and hand cut with us a couple-three times a month.

I am hoping it will work out well. They don’t run their buncher too steady, although they could run them more if they desired to. Partly because of the terrain on a lot of the jobs they get, and landowners like Seneca aren’t fond of the machines out there when it is wet. A little different than Weyerhaeuser. They haven’t had an actual operator for a couple years, so Mike and Butch run them a bit when they can.

 

[CLEARCUT]

Have you thought about trying a harvester?


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I have, I just haven’t had the opportunity to do so.

 

[CLEARCUT]

 

[NWWrench]

They kill the engine on the steep ground?


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Yes, hydraulic fan motor let loose and took out all the hydraulic pumps.

 

[Skeans1]

Yes, hydraulic fan motor let loose and took out all the hydraulic pumps.

Ouch


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[NWWrench]

Happy Friday

 

[Skeans1]

A little bit of fun from this morning


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[jacob j.]

This fire burned up an area where I used to work last week - just southwest of Klamath Falls, OR. I managed aviation for the state there in 2009-10 for several prescribed fires.

 

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[CLEARCUT]

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Two processors? Maybe one is a dual purpose head?

 

[HYPERSAWS]

Two processors? Maybe one is a dual purpose head?

Probably have to run 2 with the increase of production with that unit being tethered. I think I see the tail of the shovel sticking out behind the log truck

 

[CLEARCUT]

Probably have to run 2 with the increase of production with that unit being tethered. I think I see the tail of the shovel sticking out behind the log truck

I bet you’re right. I see it now.

 

[CLEARCUT]