Logging Accidents: And They Walked Away.........

[expatracer]

that machine thats burning is that what you where talking about on the cypress thread use a log in the socket for a boom with a special cap ?

 

[trakloader]

that machine thats burning is that what you where talking about on the cypress thread use a log in the socket for a boom with a special cap ?

That's right.

 

[trakloader]

966 Almost Crushed

The note on the back just says "loader accident", I'll bet it scared the Hell out of the operator!

 

[trakloader]

Crew Bus + Black Ice = ...........

Luckily, the driver hadn't picked up the crew yet. Otherwise............

 

[Contract Logger]

I was across the canyon logging one day at Snoqualmie Falls when a Weyerhaeuser saftey man showed up driving a Ford Ranger pickup. He parked down the road below-- where the yarder engineer couldn't see and started walking toward the landing. he got half way to the landing on foot and his pickup went straight up in the air- head over heels! Seems they were changing out a skyline and he had parked right on top of the new one- just as they started to spool it! I never got a pic but it looked alot like this van.

No injuries, but boy was that embarassing for the safety dude.

Nowadays, they would have 4 flaggers up and down the road, lol.

 

[Contract Logger]

Madill 172. Sorry for the Lousy Scan.....

No injuries, but lots of damage. This yarder was plagued for awhile it seems. It burned, was rebuilt completely, then tipped over on 2 different occasions. This logger ran several sides and all were fine except this one yarder.

I am not going to name the logger, as it is somewhat embarassing.

This happened about 5 miles form the Camp 18 Restaraunt and Museum near Elsie, Oregon in 2002.

About a month in the Kalama shop and it was good as new...again.

 

[Big Iron]

a little accidental humor

and the hook calls up and says we have a "pretty good sized one comin at ya" (last turn of the day:drinkup) that should have been my first clue! i couldn't see the log they were hooking for the brush, so i eased up on the skiddin line (keep in mind the skyline is up and dogged in as they didn't have enough brakes to hold the line and carriage up, let alone with a "pretty good sized one" on the chokers) until i see the brush start to move. then after the Maki carriage had disappeared into the brush pile came the hup hoe on the talkie tooter, being the good yarder engineer i am i wound the old 4-71 up and away we went!ointhead at this point i see what appears to be the better part of a 20,000 sq ft house firmly locked into the carriage coming out from behind the old growth stump we found to use as a tail-hold for the skyline. since its coming from the back side of the draw it is now moving downhill on its own and since this is a shotgun show there's no stopping it till it gets to the belly of MY skyline. first thought: lower the skyline NOW problem: not enough power or friction to raise the skyline enough to release the dog. second thought: which of the 3 major components (skyline or 1 of 2 guylines) of this problem are going to fail (note i said going to fail not might fail). During the course of these 2 thoughts the 20000 sf house i mentioned earlier is traveling at somewhere between the speed of sound and the speed of light towards the belly of MY skyline!!!!! It was at this point the question of component failure was answered, the operator's side guy line had parted and the old SJ-4 was going over.:slomo i saw most of this on my way to the ground, having waited long enough (the length of time it takes to figure out if you don't move you are going to die!) to figure out which way to run when you hit the nice soft ground, it was about then i remembered the "good sized" mud puddle (anywhere else in the world billy bob and bubba would have been looking for a place to launch there bass boat in this particular "good sized" puddle) i was heading for, i suddenly thought meabe i should have ridden the yarder down. i don't know how they were going the explain to OSHA a drowning on the landing. but all worked out well (the chaser held my head above water until the riggin crew got there to get me unstuck from the mud.:drinkup

all kidding aside there are things that will remain forever etched in our memories, that happened 40+ years ago and to this day it is still a vivid memory (along with a bunch more), but i guess those memories help keep us alive the next time around.

 

[DBDLS]

A couple of pictures for trakloader of GY3 after it fell off the lowbed. This happened twice to this machine that I know of. I wonder how many grapple yarders and logloaders have fallen off various lowbeds? It always looked to me like a somewhat precarious perch up there at the best of times.

 

[trakloader]

A couple of pictures for trakloader of GY3 after it fell off the lowbed. This happened twice to this machine that I know of. I wonder how many grapple yarders and logloaders have fallen off various lowbeds? It always looked to me like a somewhat precarious perch up there at the best of times.

Thanks! After seeing the haywire old lowbed E&A were running, I'm surprised the bloody yarder didn't fall off every time they moved it!

 

[Murk100]

Oh dear. And no the yarder never did it, inexperenced hook.. like me on the scanner

 

[trakloader]

Ha! I've seen backspars like that before, only one that was totally destroyed, though.

 

[Murk100]

Didn't no were to put this one, either here or the new thread M&B red and white. and yes the Yarder did it!!!

 

[Murk100]

Found this in my collection, scary stuff runaway. Madill 123

 

[JeremyM70]

No injuries, but lots of damage. This yarder was plagued for awhile it seems. It burned, was rebuilt completely, then tipped over on 2 different occasions. This logger ran several sides and all were fine except this one yarder.

I am not going to name the logger, as it is somewhat embarassing.

This happened about 5 miles form the Camp 18 Restaraunt and Museum near Elsie, Oregon in 2002.

About a month in the Kalama shop and it was good as new...again.

I think this one was owned up to on a certain "reality" TV show wasn't it?

 

[Murk100]

Scotia Creek 144 fall off lowbed

 

[Murk100]

Another 144 almost new, Caycuse I believe Lake Cowichan area

 

[Contract Logger]

These were just sent to me by a friend yesterday. Gold River area, Cypress 7230R. Owner unknown. I asked, but he wouldnt say, given my new 'posting habit'. Thanks Keith.

 

[Murk100]

Here's a Cat 235 that was hooked up to a 144, a side pull jerked it over sideways rolled 3 times.

 

[Murk100]

Truck driver bailed out watched her go over the bank: good call I would think..

 

[EZ TRBO]

Some amazing photos, no wonder logging is one of the top 10 most dangerous professions in the usa, if not the world. Thanks guys for sharing.

Trbo