Logging Equipment Pictures

[JTL]

About 4 years ago I had just came back to Idaho from California, needing some medicine, so I went to work for my best friend and his Grandpa, building some new logging road. I cut alot of the right-of-way, and ran dozer behind the pioneer hoe. I was able to get a few pics though.
The big Madill shovel on the lowboy was being moved into a different job, just down the road from where we were working.

 

[JTL]

Me and the one man pipe crew, Johnny, went for a booze cruise one afternoon and found another logging site. Thats a 395 Valmet head on a 330B Cat. The other pic is a 528 Cat skidder. The must have been using is as a guy line stump for the yarder, which had just moved down the road. No pics of it cause my batteries died.





I have some more older pics, but I need to scan them first.

 

[Contract Logger]

Sweet pics! This is wxactly what I was hoping for--- that people would start digging out thier pics to share. I love looking at any operation I havent looked at before!

Love the Madill- is it a 2800 or 3800?

 

[JTL]

Sweet pics! This is wxactly what I was hoping for--- that people would start digging out thier pics to share. I love looking at any operation I havent looked at before!

Love the Madill- is it a 2800 or 3800?

:drinkup
I cant remember if it was a 28 or a 38. I'm gonna say it was a 2800. I know it was big from what I remember when we drove by it.

 

[Contract Logger]

Landing shots.

 

[Wolf]

The third pic is of my saw on a big cedar I cut on a road job up in Port Angeles we did 2 years ago.
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That's an awesome looking cedar you cut in Port Angeles, Jason. Can't get over the size of it. How old do you think that tree is? Whatdya do with all the lumber?

 

[JTL]

That's an awesome looking cedar you cut in Port Angeles, Jason. Can't get over the size of it. How old do you think that tree is? Whatdya do with all the lumber?

I lost count on the rings at around 70 to 80, and still had a foot of tree left. As far as the logs went, the road we built was on Green Crow's ground (a big timberland owner in those parts) so I just bucked the logs up and stuck them in a couple of decks along the R.O.W. They sent in a self loader and hauled them to the mill.

 

[stormdodger]

great pictures everyone:thumbsup

 

[csquared]

heres mine!
http://www.********.com/showthread.php?t=269952&page=2
proud 4th generation b.c. logger!

 

[sluggo]

eeehhh... I think I recognize that green paint in the pix of the lowboy truck..(Jack Buell)

 

[Tacodriver]

Here are some shots of my girlfriends brother in laws yarder. Thunderbird Tsy-50 working about 60kms east of Canal Flats Bc. Was quite the machine I had never seen anything like it working before, growing up in manitoba you don't see things like this.


The carriage think I figured out how it works quite the setup.




Glamore shot turned out ok I think.

 

[Tacodriver]

Here are a couple more shot of the yarder and one of the backspar hoe. They added 10 tons of iron to the machine to keep the yarder from dragging it around. Contract logger thanks for all the pictures and information.

 

[Contract Logger]

Those are great pics! Only a few TSY50's were built, and I have never seen this machine before. The operaor's cab is much larger/different than the standard model, it must have been built/ordered specifically for this machine. I am guessing, but I suspect this may have been he last TSY50 built. Did he buy the machine new, in 1988 or 1989?
The TSY50 was the base model that developed into the TSY255, and I think only 10 or 11 were built. I thought I had seen all of them, but this one is new to me.

Thank you for sharing! Very cool indeed!

 

[Tacodriver]

I think they bought it new but I will have to ask. He did say they are the only one operating a cable in the area, they do have a convtional side also.

 

[Wolf]

great pictures. that is the real deal.

 

[Drifter]

Couple from work.

 

[Drifter]

I have a bunch more just need to find the cord for my camera.

 

[JTL]

Look at this cobbled up pile o mess!

Buddy Matt and I went to Spokane yesterday so he could re-open his unemployment claim. On the way home, being the equipment nerds that we are we had to take a trip down equipment row on Trent. There isnt really alot of iron sitting at Western States or Modern Machinery, but we did find this little jewel at Western States.

 

[Contract Logger]

A high-and-wide EX150--what a neat little machine. Cat built some high/wide 315BL forest machines for a short while, but they never really took off.

Squirt boom is neat and rare as well. Looks like a baby Waratah head maybe???

Great find, never seen one like this.

 

[JTL]

I have seen a couple of those 315's with hi and wides doing silverculture work. Seemd like the right size to get around witout doing to much damage to the floor while piling brush.
We were thinking the head was a little Valmet, being the boom was a Valmet 989. We couldnt find any markings on it at all. It is small though. Look like it would only handle a 12 or 14" stem.