There is work to remote control the feller buncher and the guitar string tether machine from a rv type trailer. The operator will be on top of the hill while the FB heads off to the creek, bluff etc.
The summit tether winch will be 2000 plus feet of cable for the PNW. tehter machine Linkbelts?, Cat 330DL, 336DL or larger replace the 13K lb and larger counterweights with the winch system
More than 30 summits machines in the timber.
Bruce Skurdahl olc
Summit system
recent Chilton vid with the climbmax and a lower road. (2 saw chain losses in one video? chain tensioning not good enough?, saw bars bent? could have left the felling head on the dock and used a tigercat, southstar etc felling head)