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The Westcoast Hooktender
Canada
Приєднався 14 сер 2022
Here’s a view into the stuff I see everyday on the hill side. I want to show everyone out there what real logging looks like. Not what reality tv shows like Ax Men and Big Timber have made it out to look like. As well some teaching videos on anything logging! I hope you enjoy seeing the things I do as much as I love doing them!
FALLERS Hard at work!!
In this logging video you get to see some trees being fell! Really nice wood and a couple runaways!
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Well that DIDN’T go as planned! 🤦♂️ #oops #loggingblooper
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In this logging video we are pulling over a hazard wind fall tree when…
Non stop barge loading! Packed er full!
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I show you guys the whole barge loading and unloading process in this video. No wasted space on this barge!
How to make a Hindu and how their used!
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In this logging video I will teach you how to splice a Hindu. Also I show you how to use them and what we use them for. Please if you like my videos please hit that like button and subscribe!!
STIHL 461 OVERVIEW and COLD START
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In this logging video I give you guys an overview of everything on the saw and I will also start it up aswell.
Splicing Video: Logger’s Eye
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In this logging video I show you how to splice a logger’s eye. We use a logger’s eye in our haulback eye. Also it is used in many other splices it is one of the most important spices to know.
Line Maintenance VERY IMPORTANT stuff!
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In this logging video I show another part of Yarding and that is taking care of your lines. We have to put a new haul back line on when the old one gets too short and worn out. That is usually about every 2 years. The lines for the yarder are not cheap! We manage to always get the most out of line though we re-purpose them as closing lines for the grapple among other things aswell!
A cool ARIAL VIEW of our new block and also a Birds Eye view of my camp!
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In this logging video I show you guys the new block I’ve started working on. It’s taken us awhile to finish it so that’s why everything looks so dry. Also watch until the end to see my camp!
Barging Video: How to load a BRIDGE on a BARGE
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In this logging video I show you guys the teamwork and skill it takes to move huge bridge pieces onto a barge. These pieces of bridge are used to build our logging roads. Barging is just one other piece of the all the different things that go on, to achieve the main goal of getting all the wood out of the bush!
The BASICS of Processing Logs! Tigercat 880 with Waratah 624C.
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In this logging video I cover the basics of what the processor operator does.
Gotta GIVER Between Breakdowns!
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In this logging video I show you guys what a Guyline chain looks like also I explain more about the Guyline and it’s parts! Also the steps you take to re spool a Guyline!
All about SPOTTING, how the operator and I work together!
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All about SPOTTING, how the operator and I work together!
A little over view of the YARDER I work with!
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A little over view of the YARDER I work with!
Pulled my tailhold…. CARNAGE!! #logginglife #shithappens #neveradullmoment
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Pulled my tailhold…. CARNAGE!! #logginglife #shithappens #neveradullmoment
This is the view from the cab of the Yarder! #yarding #westcoast
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This is the view from the cab of the Yarder! #yarding #westcoast
All about the BACKSPAR! #gottaloveit #production
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All about the BACKSPAR! #gottaloveit #production
Logging Compilation: Best of the Westcoast!
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Logging Compilation: Best of the Westcoast!
Double Blocking Part 2, some more tips and tricks about double blocking
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Double Blocking Part 2, some more tips and tricks about double blocking
What DOUBLE BLOCKING looks like! #logging #westcoast
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What DOUBLE BLOCKING looks like! #logging #westcoast
Super Snorkel with HUGE boom backs onto a barge!
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Super Snorkel with HUGE boom backs onto a barge!
Is there much choker setting in bc? Thought about moving there for a logging career.
Where was this at
Go kamov go ! Looks familiar!
Very good job!
Great job!
That’s a great video! Thanks for sharing!
Whatever it takes!
How many people actually know how to do this on the job?
Not many. Usually just the operator and hooktender and the chaser learns from watching. But most other people don’t know unless they have spent some time working with a yarder before.
Hell ya what yarder is that
It’s a cypress 7280
@@Thewestcoasthooktender is it for sale ? lol
Ah man hope ya don’t stop making videos! That hoook tending videos are awesome.
Thanks man! Unfortunately I’ve changed careers. I’m apprenticing as a heavy duty mechanic now. I really loved hooking and making content thanks for the support!
Always love the Buzz Martin. I'm getting my start in logging up in Woss. I've learned a lot in these past months.
Did the job for some ten years in the northwest coastal area of BC and you do a good job showing the details. I have been looking for hooktending content for years and it is a pleasure to find your channel. Joe Rogan describes MMA as "high level problem solving with dire physical consequences" and a lot of logging jobs are very similar. I enjoyed the engineering required in hooktending, especially while stump rigging, your videos are enjoyable to watch, and thank you for making the effort to document this.
This is amazing great job
Thanks I’m glad you like it!
My man. It’s situational. Your grapples wouldn’t get anything done in a thinning operation. Or on a slope that’s real steep no one is stupid enough to work on the down hill side of a pair of grapples ripping a turn up the hill. If the grapples lose a stick up hill of the rigging crew and it comes back down the hill and smokes the men . Plus your grapple car looks like it gets gut hooks all day long. How hard is it to deck when the ends are never consistent. Equipment everywhere will be different to meet the topography. Rules and regulations. And the needs of the men on the ground. Like seeing your videos. Just don’t be trashing your woods brothers to the south.
Yep seen some stuff like this back in the 1990s. I think around 1994 I was setting chokers on a Thunderbird Ty 70 Tower. Up in a Valley called 4 Barrel Creek, up the Fraser Canyon outside of Boston Bar B.C. We were shot gunning down about 800 feet and hanging off of a large spruce tree tide back two 3 other standing trees. We had full suspension of our turns, and as the day was wearing on we continued to load up the rigging with heavier turns. Until we choked 2 3ft spruce and a large chunk. We went ahead on her and just as the turn was about 80 feet in the air the whole back end let go, oh heck what a mess. After taking a couple hrs to sort it out, we finished logging the bottom side with much lighter turns. lol Great videos bty Real logging.
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Hate when that happens can be hard on the haulback. Had a tree ride the haulback and went clear over the yarder happened fast.
Holy that’s crazy! Yeah we didn’t mess around I just went and bucked it off the lines.
Cedar certainly wasn't my first choice but sometimes you gotta make do . I would usually try to put something around them to minimize the bite but again sometimes you just gotta make it work .
Yeah I hear ya, in this setting pretty much 90% of the standing second growth was cedar. It’s always nice when you get a bunch of fir or hemlock to use but your right sometimes you just gotta make it work!
Hey guys here’s another cool video of pulling over a tree! Check it out! ua-cam.com/users/shorts-Sds2gC1MWY?feature=share
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Hey guys I have another barging video I think you would also like! Here it is ua-cam.com/video/uFOxKGAzouk/v-deo.html
Hey guys I think this splicing video goes well with this one! Check it out! ua-cam.com/video/4gleshU44oU/v-deo.html
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How come your not up there learning how to run it lol
Hahah not the machine I want to learn to run. Especially that one since it’s on rubber! I mean it would be cool that’s for sure, but eventually I want to get on the yarder!
Awesome videos !
Thanks a lot man! I really appreciate it!
Westcoast Tug and Barge. Loaded logs on it several times.
Cool! I bet that was a long process haha
Hey be careful you don't were that strap while he pulling on it
Yeah thanks man! I appreciate it, your right that could be a concern. Even using good straps like we use you just never know.
Looks cool
Yeah it’s pretty cool when everything goes well, but it can be a little more frustrating if the line doesn’t want to spool properly.
That went smoothly
That looks like a small landing zone.
Yeah it’s a small helicopter just an R44 comes in handy sometimes when the boss is around to fly rigging to the back end.
Pretty serious roadbuilder there
Hahah yeah they were doing the heavy lifting. I was there to hook everything up and guide the one operator back onto the barge.
Nice job on the tour. Learned something new. Subscribed.
Thank you for the great explanations! I work with some of the guys that were trapped into doing Axe Men and the riggin rats were scripted! Discovery Channel WANTED them to break lines and hang up turns among a lot of other stupid crap! We all hoped when the series came out it would have been realistic, but it turned in to a soap opera and reality TV! Give er!
Yeah man! I know someone who was on the show as well. I hope I can show lots of people what real logging is all about!
Very cool man ! thanks for giving us a tour of that beast .
No problem man! Glad you enjoyed it!
Hope she holds
Yep she held in there for us
Need some good loading trucks footage
Good call man, hopefully next shift I’ll be able to get some
@@Thewestcoasthooktender good man.
Get some.
Is that Bjarne butler over the bank falling?
No that was Lyle Andreef, in Stafford at the end of Loughborough inlet.
Nice. I used to lov the sights from high up in the mtns. And the smell of the fresh cut trees. Can't beat it
You really can’t beat it! I love it out here and I get paid to be here!
Why not just climb the tree and hang the blocks high?
I just saw your comment, in this situation that was the biggest tree around everything else was too small to be a tail hold. Also the amount of time to get the tree rigging stuff for 1 road wasn’t worth it.
Oh fuken eh by
You betcha man!
Nice man
Thanks!
Sorry but I don't like the "headache music" as I call that style. Rather hear the machines doing their thing. If I want some music I have my own speakers and I can turn on Buzz Martin or something like that.
Thanks for making these videos, I have been missing good simple daily work yarder and shovel videos since Alex Esgate left off. I wish they were in landscape though. Hope you can make more of them for us.
Awesome I’m glad you enjoy them! I will definitely continue making them! Also I will try out landscape, thanks for the comment and support! 👍
@@Thewestcoasthooktender Processor videos are fun also and at least I like discussion about the sorts and decisions made while processing. Truck loading videos can be interesting but sometimes a little tedious. But yarder videos are the best especially in big wood and long runs. Alex was always fun with his excitement and yelling get some when he had a big drag on.
@@nspro931 yeah thanks for the ideas, I’ll for sure try to get some processor video’s whenever I have time! haha if we ever get some good Yarding, but that’s few and far between theses days!
Okay, but I’m still not sure what we just saw
Haha yeah it all happened kind of fast, I didn’t have time to move the camera so you could see it. The block came down the hill then went around the backside of the stump and flew right off the stump!
You sound like my good friend Tim. Stay safe and productive out there 🌎✌️
Thanks I will! I appreciate the comment! 👍
I enjoy watching a swing yarder at work.
Me too! Never get tired of watching the grapple go back and forth!
Logging in Canada is done for greed and no care about the environment at all
I appreciate your response but, there is lots of care taken by us on the hillside. Aswell a second growth forest takes way more carbon out of the air. When the trees become old they emit carbon. Canadas and B.C’s environmental standards and regulations are some of the most stringent in the world. We take pride in our renewable resource and our forests in general!
@@Thewestcoasthooktender old trees do not emit carbon, unless they are dead. Second growth is all we have left now as the original old growth has all but been destroyed, for profit by the unscrupulous, greedy likes of MacBlow etc. Right next to my place, they have started cutting again and they have killed everything from 1" wide saplings to the old cedars and everything in between, so no, sustainable logging is a lie.
@@davemayers9342 most of the old growth we log is half dead, so I would have to say it has stopped absorbing carbon at the very least. Also yes that was a long time ago, clear cuts are not allowed anymore…. There are leave patches, and riparian management zones. Also the regenerative forest that grows back grows back thicker and healthier than the forest before it. Aswell as gives more variety of plants and vegetation that grows back for the animals to eat. It may be bare right after it’s logged but everything starts growing back very quickly.
Many years cruising mostly coastal. Gotta have this song man! Who is this?
It’s Buzz Martin, he has lots of great logging music!
Yep, the tricks of hooking. I did it for many years.
Yeah there’s always more to learn that’s what keeps it interesting!
The squirrel at the top: "I've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty!"