Pacific Northwest LOGGING I Tigercat Feller Buncher
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2024
- Welcome to one of the world's most productive logging regions-the Pacific Northwest.
Here, logging companies manage hundreds of thousands of acres to grow the timber we need. Whether it's lumber for our homes or toilet paper for our... you know... we all use timber products daily whether we realize it or not.
And don't forget-trees are a RENEWABLE resource. Thanks to excellent management practices and regulations, these lands are replanted and re-harvested repeatedly.
This is where Kirkpatrick Cutting comes into play. Kirkpatrick can harvest timber on extremely steep terrain using a Tigercat feller buncher attached to another machine via a steel cable and winch.
There's nothing quite like an early morning in the woods! 
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Tree’s are one of the best renewable resource we have. Most areas in the northwest are replanted after logged. Called tree farming.
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@@AaronWittlook up Levanen Inc. they have a tower logging operation.
Lack of biodiversity in the pnw forests is a problem. When every single tree is a doug fir, only one bug or disease is all it takes to decimate the forest.
Exactly. Trees are just another crop, but happens to have a decades long harvest cycle.
Bio fuel is becoming fuel type which utilizes all the extra parts from the trees. Bark. Leaves, small branches etc. also managing our forests correctly can reduce wildfires.
Aaron...Aaron....You are an engineer.....1000 RPM's per minute! That's redundant. M in RPM stands for minute! C+ for this segment. But friggin LOVE watching that feller work! WOW! And what in the heck is the, "top of the roof?!" 🙂
That one got me too. Common construction mistake.
@@zekeabercrombie3583 Aaron is a common construction mistake? I thought he was from Arizona
Nit picking at its finest
My personal favorites are ATM machine and PIN number. Allow myself to introduce…….myself (Thanks, Austin Powers).
And it's rpm, not rpm's
Finally some logging content!
That dog was like "Stop talking, human! Throw that stick!" 😂😁😜
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Could you do a steel mill one day? Btw the logging videos are some of my favorite since I deal in portable milling. You make the best videos bringing attention to these jobs. Thank you for the excellent content
the tigercat looks sorta adorable all covered in brush
edit: 1000rpm per minute lol
Those machines are incredible!! So much power yet finesse with those trees!
Spot on Aaron! Come on over to Idaho and I can give you a taste of inland northwest logging and forestry practices.
Another amazing vid. Thank you all for the hard work!
thanks for watching!
Oh , no shit, thats what the m stands for in rpm, révolution per minute? I would've never guessed😮
Gotta love the Cam Hanes "Keep Hammering" swag in the cab of the Tigercat!!
Hey everyone fun fact I make sure tigercat gets all their hydraulic hoses for each and every one of those machines 😁 teamwork makes the dream work
Love the logging videos.
Interesting...how the development of the Hydraulic Motor & Piston Cylinders, have totally changed any type of industry. From back in the day.
Cool! RPM per minute = Revolutions Per Minute per minute
Aaron you definitely have the coolest job ever
Yes it's renewable and will be replanted. But with only one sort of trees, it is like an grainfield. An plantation over thousands of acres. There is no biodiversity. I think normally the northwest is rich in different types of deciduous and coniferous trees. Here in Germany we are now taking a different approach, where different tree species are mixed together in the forest. It looks better and is ecologically more stable. We hardly do any clear-cutting anymore. For me as a wood harvester driver it is more complicated, but I think it is worth it. Other countries other manners.
You should come to Maine and check out some of the logging we do
Need to go find a big tower yarder next
Should look into more forestry machines, in Canada there are still these old monstrosities that are still running from the 70s, massive logging trucks with 16ft bunks, super snorkels, and old yarders.
Feller-bunchers are speciallized machines indeed. These machines aren't used in Europe though, as we cut to length instead.
Yes we call those dangle heads they are used in selective logging usually. Not very common though. But we do cut to length still. Buncher drops the tree, Skidder drags it to the processor, where it is cut to length and de-limbed, from there it is stacked for load out. Alternatively it may not go through a processor and instead a stroked de-limber will strip it and load it long log for power poles and such.
I am talking from a British Columbia perspective but still the same as the Pacific Northwest in the States.
Forwarders with cut to length cutting heads are very inefficient. I'm not surprised they are not used in the United States.
@@UltraMagaFan well, obviously we have a harvester cutting the actual tree, and then the forwarder picks it up and transports it to the log truck
@@johannessamuelsson6578 I was thinking of a combination cutter. I don’t know why I said forwarder. Even then skidding is still more efficient. You pick up the whole tree instead of 8 foot sections of it.
That was a great dog! He wanted to show what RPMs are and demonstrate how the cutter works!
I'm not going to lie... I have crashed drones multiple times filming logging videos! Awesome video!
Been waiting for this one😈
Wonder if you stayed in Eugene for our ice storms. Would’ve been cool to see a video of all the lineman at work
A basic and good video
Really nice video
Way to go Jason!
awesome equipment lekker video keep it up
Not that operators first day
I was amazed at how closely and quickly he was operating around his tow cable. What happens if the blade hits the cable? Nothing good I assume.
Right on near my neck of the woods . You should come up to wa state and check out logging towers
hopefully sometime soon
greetings! gorgeous editing! see you soon~
Dude thank you for coming out! Let’s do it again on the next roadshow!
You need to check out Vancouver island logging next
I'd love to sometime soon
5:22 Saying RPM and revolutions per minute is redundant.
5:27 Dog is operating at 6 RPMs (Rolls Per Minute).
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Here in the south.. they replant trees all the time. That's if they do a clean cut. Some times u thin cut an then couple of years later they will go in an clean cut an a few weeks later the. Go In an replant trees. A couple of times I seen helicopters come in an help with cleaning an one or two of em an sprayers. The company I use to work for they have a track an tire fella bunchers.. I use to run a tigercat 625 Dual arch skidder
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Is there a part 2? You need to check out a high lead job.
You should check out some cut to length forestry
These are cut to length. Once they are bunched, then skidded to the processor, which de-limbs and puts to length, it's then stacked and trucked out.
It would be Cool to see how the trees were then brought to road and put on trucks
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Did you mean you hit a tree?
The tree didn’t move over and hit the drone. 😂
I'm guessing he flew too close to one that had been cut. Batter up!
Trees are a crop, like corn, wheat and soybeans. It just takes longer to grow and harvest. When we think of them as a crop and less like a fixture of the landscape we will manage them differently and better. People will be more acclimated to walking through trees like walking through farmland.
Come on man! At the +/- 6:00 mark the dog CLEARLY wants you throw the stick for him.
Noway this was 2 days ago. But cool video
We run tracked buncher on flat land as much as steep
5:40 RPM stands for Revolutions Per Minute.
1000 rpm's per minutes, ah yes, I love me some rotations per minute per minute.
have you ever checked out a yarder?
Why do they leave one tree up and to top of the hill? Future anchor point for the next cutting?
Either not mature enough to cut. Or the wrong type.
So basically you need one machine as expensive as this one which stays seated the all day on top of the hill just to operate the winch? idk if its really profitable.
1000 rpm per minute? doesn't rpm sand for revolutions per minute?
"In the southeast, you dont have hills!" Im in the end of one of the oldest mountain range in the world, the Appalachian mountain range . I have hills all around me
😅 definitivamente árvore entrou na frente drone
Revolutions per minute per minute??
Should try come to terrace bc logging is on alot more interesting ground
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Maybe potlatch timber company along with most of idaho will figure out how to replant again.
Rpm's per minute? Just in case, i guess?
How is the up hill winch controlled from the cab? Tied together via wireless control so they work together? Interesting to learn how that is done.
I know eh. Such an interesting pc of the job, and no mention of the technology involved.
I’m wondering the same thing, you’d want some tension all the time automatically but also pay in and out when tracking the lower machine and for it to hold firm if it’s slipping.
All the winches are linked to the machines via radio contorls some of them have a set tension they will pull at some is based on track speed of the cutting machine
Having bunched on a tether before. It is in fact wireless and connects to your foot pedals. But as soon as you stop moving it pulls some tension. To hold you.
it's automated based on the tension. The feller buncher controls it from his machine
"1000 RPMs per minute" lol
I'm not smart
What happens if the cable breaks?
The winch is "supposed" to be an assist only.
@@banffdigger I understand that but things do fail and my question is what happens to the machine does it tip over or have a safety for that.
@@Sdukes001 It depends what the ground is like and how steep it is frozen 60% you might go for a big slide, steeper broken ground you might have a really bad day. Those tigercats are fairly stable I have seen them cut on 70% all day long with no winches and a really gifted operator.
The contractor I work for runs winches that are a 2 line system so I feel they are safer.
Just as a side note the hotsaw will cut that chain in a blink of an eye. That is way more likely then any other part of the system failing.
@@banffdigger I seen that when he was going back uphill definitely need a very good operator.
Nothing. The feller buncher can go up and down the mountain by itself. The cable is there just to be 100% sure it doesn't flip over.
The dog wants you to throw the stick
Вот это машина.
Is the operator having to manually level the machine or is it automatically controlled
They do have a button to press that will auto level, usually though you don't want to be perfectly level.
They're the same exact feller bunchers loggers use 2,700 miles away in the southeast. There's absolutely nothing special about them. They're incredibly common machines. You should have done a video on a cable yarding operation instead. It would have actually been interesting. That's a type of logging specific to the Pacific Northwest that you do not see everyday.
1000 RPM's per minute? PM stands for Per Minute.
5am? Y’all are late 😬
Whelp, looks like your gonna have to go back and show how those felled trees are extracted……
Сколько стоит такой!
Aaron check out swamp logging in north Carolina
We need wood to build homes. Dirt slope board video soon ?
america needs to start building homes from conrete and steel so much more durable and better for CO2 intake fresh oxygen etc I mean not anti wood but make it more for specials craft purposes that are more artisinal in nature
It’s the third world logging you need to be worried about.
Should really look at forest thinning not forest clearing
a full1-2.5 min of driving talking about to find a drone but no crash footage? talk about dead footage
Dog wanted a zyn
What I really don't understand is: You're at locations where there are people that know so much more than you and yet you're refusing to let anyone explain it to you.
You're always explaining stuff the way you derive it instead of collecting some facts before starting to talk.
For example the cab doesn't level out so the operator is nice and comfortable but to prevent the whole machine from tipping over. Whithout that mechanism it wouldn't be able to operate on steep slopes.
Also revolutions per minutes per minute
Sad to see
Another example of global warming
You live in a tent ?
this isnt deforestation, this is logging. they usually get replanted afterwards
@@keinname7478 Logging actually releases more CO2 than car traffic, so... Even though they replant, it still doesn't neutralize the emissions quick enough. I think that was Robert's point.
@@johannessamuelsson6578 Robert doesn’t have a point he’s as stupid as the tree huggers and there’s no global warming either
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Wow that thing accelerates 1000 RPM 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦, thats ridiculous. It would be spinning 100,000 RPM by lunch time...😂
the dog messed up his train of thought.😂 He did not “stick” to the script.