Nothing like having a skid chase ya down, gotta love those strategic stumps left behind that turn the skid back in the road when you need it the most!!!!
Great job on the video work..I live on steep ground. My Franklin can go about anywhere we run chains on all 4..year round..we live in greasy shale hills so without them your screwed..been 15 in rain in months so its saturated now..been a wet summer..
Small skidders will crawl into spots the big boys don't get to but the big ones can really yard a big turn. A job we were on we had some big timberjack skidders and two old Garrett's that looked like a vw next to the big timberjacks. I had a could teenage boys that liked to have fun on the little garretts so we would lower the little ones down over the side of the mountain and let kids snake them out one at a time. Soon as their pile down there was too big to get around we would lower the lines on the lumberjacks and pick most of a pile in just a couple turns. It would add one more load a day.... sometimes that load was the difference of breaking even or making some beer money. Summer times, hot and hotter, we had us a little stream on the job. I would hide a twelve pack down under the brush and in the water some ... It was for friday night and saturday was always payday. I don't know how they did it but they did hustle hard as we all did and since there were six of us, no one tipped over, from drinking a couple of beers. I ain't touched alcohol for twenty six years now come next monty and most likely won't as I am 72 now. Yep on friday they would hustle a two load day for them and it was hard picking to fill them hayrack trucks
Boys have I ever run my fair share of cbsle skidders run a late 60s early 70s can car cable skidder it was all joysticks on the dash to turn no steering wheel
Ok boys cross the hill got 2 He’s pulling and looked like 2 small excavators goin back cuttin water bars and installin drains…same country..steepern a mules face..there throwin em off a 60’ cliff
it may be a dumb question but unless the logs are going to be ground up for some reason as im not a Loger by any means why are u pulling logs crooked as hell ....just a dumb Ky boy here that hasnt been there done that 😑 Ok im thinking Firewood to use or sale ??
Yeah, when they’re too crooked or the grade drops too low they’ll go to chipper. If they’re too big in circumference then we let people come get them for firewood
Let me know what you think about the camera angle on the skidder. Thanks for watchin!
I like seeing the back more than the front of the skidder
Looked awesome
@@jdatwood7086 GoPro fell off the dozer today and my dad pulled a tree over it. It’s a little scratched up but working fine. Haha got lucky
Camera placement is ideal!
Nothing like having a skid chase ya down, gotta love those strategic stumps left behind that turn the skid back in the road when you need it the most!!!!
Nice pulls looks like uns have had more rain then us its cooled off so either way im happy lol have a good weekend.
You too bud. Thanks
Great job on the video work..I live on steep ground. My Franklin can go about anywhere we run chains on all 4..year round..we live in greasy shale hills so without them your screwed..been 15 in rain in months so its saturated now..been a wet summer..
Hopefully it’ll dry up for you pretty soon
Small skidders will crawl into spots the big boys don't get to but the big ones can really yard a big turn. A job we were on we had some big timberjack skidders and two old Garrett's that looked like a vw next to the big timberjacks. I had a could teenage boys that liked to have fun on the little garretts so we would lower the little ones down over the side of the mountain and let kids snake them out one at a time. Soon as their pile down there was too big to get around we would lower the lines on the lumberjacks and pick most of a pile in just a couple turns. It would add one more load a day.... sometimes that load was the difference of breaking even or making some beer money. Summer times, hot and hotter, we had us a little stream on the job. I would hide a twelve pack down under the brush and in the water some ... It was for friday night and saturday was always payday. I don't know how they did it but they did hustle hard as we all did and since there were six of us, no one tipped over, from drinking a couple of beers. I ain't touched alcohol for twenty six years now come next monty and most likely won't as I am 72 now. Yep on friday they would hustle a two load day for them and it was hard picking to fill them hayrack trucks
What state R U in? We have somewhat similar terrain, here in Western Wisconsin, hill and valley country. A lot of the trees R cable skidded 2.
We are in eastern Kentucky
650G Hell Yeah!
Boys have I ever run my fair share of cbsle skidders run a late 60s early 70s can car cable skidder it was all joysticks on the dash to turn no steering wheel
Getting it done
Thanks for watching buddy
@@hoskinslogging9858 oh yeah, I need to catch back up on them
Ok boys cross the hill got 2 He’s pulling and looked like 2 small excavators goin back cuttin water bars and installin drains…same country..steepern a mules face..there throwin em off a 60’ cliff
it may be a dumb question but unless the logs are going to be ground up for some reason as im not a Loger by any means why are u pulling logs crooked as hell ....just a dumb Ky boy here that hasnt been there done that 😑 Ok im thinking Firewood to use or sale ??
My guess is what doesn't make saw logs the rest might go to the chipper plant for OSB.
Yeah, when they’re too crooked or the grade drops too low they’ll go to chipper. If they’re too big in circumference then we let people come get them for firewood
Thanks for watching buddy
To bad your in ky or id sign up