Hallback
Senior Member
I have a 1991 model Thunderbird TSY-155. 325000 u.s. dollars. Was owned by Weyerhaeuser cosi since 1991.
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S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC
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Hallback
Senior Member
Two sets of yarding grapples, two MSP carriages, Talkie Tooter system, manuals and more.
DBDLS
Well-Known Member
Madill 255B01. Went to visit it last spring. Nice machine and nice owner. Could pack a lot of line.
Did Shaws have a machine for lease? Leases are never ideal - might might allow an earlier crew formation/ development.
http://www.wireropes.co.nz/forestry/used-equipment.htm Madill lease (probably referring to the madill towers) https://loglease.co.nz/equipment-items/171-09-madill-hauler/
The Thunderbird PSY 200 is probably a bit underdone if there is a requirement of a 122/ 123
With the 69 NZ cents for the US dollar. I wonder if is time to build/ assemble/ rebuild/ renovate swing yarders in NZ again. Falcon 171 (ex Madill 171 tower) Like to see a swing yarder version of this.
http://www.wireropes.co.nz/forestry/used-equipment.htm Madill lease (probably referring to the madill towers) https://loglease.co.nz/equipment-items/171-09-madill-hauler/
The Thunderbird PSY 200 is probably a bit underdone if there is a requirement of a 122/ 123
With the 69 NZ cents for the US dollar. I wonder if is time to build/ assemble/ rebuild/ renovate swing yarders in NZ again. Falcon 171 (ex Madill 171 tower) Like to see a swing yarder version of this.
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prolog nz
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I Like my madills in Canada at the moment checking out a couple of 122s
prolog nz
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Cheers mate. Just got into Vancouver I'm checking out the 122 123 and a couple of others this week. I like the new 124s but don't like the 124 price lol
prolog nz
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The old 122 and 123 go good with the right upgrades. I like the new ones but we get wood with the earlier machines without the massive investment
Murk100
Senior Member
I just walked in the door from a fantastic trip to NZ, 7 weeks in Hawks Bay. PM me if your on Vancouver Island. Cheers
prolog nz
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I just got back to NZ this morning. Spent the day with Wes on Thursday and he said you had gone down for a few weeks.
Would have been good to catch up!
Hallback
Senior Member
Hallback
Senior Member
Sorry, but I had to quit watching when I saw the white sunglasses.
prolog nz
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Yeah mate came home with a 122
John C.
Senior Member
I grapple yarding any faster than using chokers? Of that kind of distance I would think a carriage and a crew would more than double what I'm seeing in the video. Just curious as I don't see much of that here.
Birken Vogt
Charter Member
It also makes me wonder, especially if he has a camera on it, why he seems to only be yarding one log at a time.
Hallback
Senior Member
On our 155 the only way a grapple would be faster when you are farther out like that is in bunched piles. Honestly I would not even run grapples unless it was bunched wood.
Hallback
Senior Member
The reason they are only grabbing One log at a time is because it looks to be hand fell wood or was done by a blind operator that could not build turns for the yarder. The key to high production grapple logging is in the bunching of the turns for the yarder
Birken Vogt
Charter Member
It just seems like the yarder engineer could almost do his own bunching a little bit there on the parts they had videoed. With the amount of time it takes to bring the carriage all the way back and out again, it seemed like it would be faster to bunch 2 or 3 sticks with the grapple when they are laying close together like that. Even if there is a little time wasted if the grapple bangs around and such. But I don't know anything about that job anyway.