Just curious why you guys up north don't use standing Skyline yarders and long span systems? Sure cuts down on road building cost!
Good question.
I know about 35 years ago it was all the rage to get a big ole Skagit or Madil and a couple of sky cars. Cut down on road building, full suspension, all kinds of reasoning. The out fit I was working for bought an 046, mounted it on a rubber tired carrier. I was quite involved with it but I left that company, went to a place where they had no interest in logging that way.
When I came back the Vancouver Island 2 years later, everybody just seemed to have quit using them.
To expensive I heard.
I never really got a decent answer.
Pretty much every logging company I have worked for all run grapple yarders, they might have 1 tower, maybe.
Hoe chuck (shovel log) and skidder where you can, Grapple yarder where the chuckers can't reach and some heli. Bit of Supersnorkle here and there.
But mostly hoe chuck and Grapple yarder.
Hoe chucker = 1 man
Grapple yarder = 2 or 3 men
Highlead is what 5 guys plus you need a loader right there
How many guys on a skyline crew including the riggers setting up the next road, 8?