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Cable/ winch assist machines

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Skeans1

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Plebeian said:
Madill cable assist with Tigercat 870c feller, Link Belt heel boom shovelling, excavator processor on roadside.
Should there be two machines shovelling to keep up with the Feller Buncher?
Could a plain grapple shovel faster (less weight in the boom) than the heel boom Link Belt that has more weight extended on the slope?
A dual bogey Tigercat skidder or clambunk (even some self loading crane forwarders) could pull most of that terrain or are the enviromental rules so strict in the logging area that this terrain can only be track machine shovelled or cable logged (heli uneconomic)?

Could try bulldozer/ excavator tether machine, Madill felling/ bunching, Tiger cat shovelling and Linkbelt- shovelling/ fleeting/ loading and processor base - (processing/ loading)
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Part of the reason it’s shovel logged is price and efficiency as well as it’s all tree length wood.
 
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Plebeian

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T-winch 20.1 (there was also a 15.1) 20.2 model being worked on specs: weight of 64K lbs (30 metric tonne), 560 metres of 26mm, 1840 feet of 1 inch winch rope, 15 metric tonne line pull, 33K lb line pull. 414 hp . 20.2 intended to have improved line speeds of up to 8 metres/s? to improve reaction time for felling machine control.

 
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Plebeian said:
T-winch 20.1 (there was also a 15.1) 20.2 model being worked on specs: weight of 64K lbs (30 metric tonne), 560 metres of 26mm, 1840 feet of 1 inch winch rope, 15 metric tonne line pull, 33K lb line pull. 414 hp . 20.2 intended to have improved line speeds of up to 8 metres/s? to improve reaction time for felling machine control.

Out of curiosity, at the very beginning 00:01 to about 00:04 the drone shows what appears to be some very significant ruts. Does NZ tolerate that? Here (Pacific NW) most authorities would have at least a heart murmur if not an outright heart attack upon seeing them. "Can't disturb the ground, or we will all die."
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Plebeian

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NZ has a NES rulebook (national environmental standards for forestry) and regional environmental rulebooks . Been a few court cases over recent years of driving logging trucks across creeks instead of putting in bridges, un-permitted large earth works to get logs out etc 6? forestry related companies have court time looming for environmental problems. Another 'test case' forest area could potentially be taken out of pine plantations and put back into native/ indigenous flora to keep the greenies happy and so the tourists don't see brown clear cut hill sides when in a tourist town.

T-winch 10.2 with jd forwarder on the wire.
 
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