Who wants to see a cable harvesting system?
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- The Private Forest Landowners Association (PFLA) visits a private managed forest on southern Vancouver Island to check out a cable harvesting system. Thanks to Dale and Grant of Malloch Logging for showing us around.
music: "Sun Hands" by Local Natives
I ran a Washington swing yarder for Crown Zellerbach (Sekiu, Washington) back in the 70's. We had two Washington's and one Madill. All three used grapples. We ran them at night too. I worked on the night shift.
Way to go Dale Chumley! Great operator from Pemberton B.C. where the best loggers come from
These guys would kill it in the arcade section at Flying J
Sounds like that 122 has a Series 60 in it. At least the turbo sure whistles!
I've seen that 122 Madill all around the Cowichan Valley working before.
I think your right, Hayes machines usually had a bit of green trim on them didn't they
I think that's an old Leroy machine. I have video of this yarder working out in Franklin River somewhere on my UA-cam private videos. I can't remember where it is I would have to dig for it. I think it was working out near Flora Lake.
can you do that kind of yarding on flat land?
This yarder is working out past Sooke currently.
I do! I do!
Lools like an old Hayes machine?
Hmmm.....i'm not sure, is this like a museum or real? It cant be economic and commercial efficiency to make a good buisness. Anyway its cool to see this old maschins.
Martin Breuer this is very real and how almost all logging is done on the BC coast. There are many places where the terrain doesn't allow for any other system.
fishing logs
Malloch machine
I don't see anything steep enough to warrant one of these rigs. These rigs are slow, expensive, and require lots of labor . A good skidder crew could clean this up in half the time. Maybe the logging company was small and had no skidders, at least this thing can log any site where skidders can not. My dad was a logger we ran three sides, go in and access the site then use the best equipment. We had 12 cat skidders on two crews and one rig. Took all day just to set the rig up. Skidders had sticks going to the mill same day.
Most logging"experts" used them ass-backward. The way to be fast with a grapple yarder is to move the yarder rather than the back-end. That way you have turns closer to the yarder and you don't waste time running the rigging all the way to the back of the road each time.
We had a rigging crew that would pre-rig the tail-trees in the back-end and "walk" the yarder until there was too much bite in the tail-tree. When that happened we'd either move the tail-block (there were two blocks for the haul-back hung in the tail-tree going down to the tail block), change tail trees or drop to a cat with a block. But we NEVER changed roads in the back-end.
I ran a Washington 108 swing yarder for Crown Zellerbach back in the '70s. ;-) I clean the clock of any skidder on that setting.
Yea get outa here with ya grapple skidders , too slow
Not about the topography or production figures when it comes to harvesting certain areas. It's about minimizing site/soil disturbance. Which, in the video, was stated to be the reason a Grapple Yarder was being used.