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    Butler Brothers logging trucks

    Just saw this on Instagram. Not my photo, don’t know anything about it other than it looks like it belongs here... someone had a bad day could’ve been worse though Trev.
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    This is a skidder right?

    Clark 668c late 70’s early 80’s. Detroit diesel 6v53 engine, 3 speed Clark power shift transmission, Clark diffs, can’t remember a ballpark weight. Given it’s got doors on the cab it was probably a grapple machine rather than a line/winch machine. Trev
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    S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC

    Thanks Tacodriver That’s pretty much what I thought would happen. Have run Johnson grapples and motorised slack pulling carriages and figured that combining the two might lead to a few broken parts
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    6 wheel John Deere skidder

    Must be getting close to a release date
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    MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Red & White Iron, Past and Present....

    This off instagram today, heading for the scrap yard....
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    6 wheel John Deere skidder

    This from instagram today
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    Logging Equipment Pictures

    Yeah you’ve got the right location, roughly 2.5hrs west of Sydney. During the summer months we have a 500litre tank and pump on-site with each crew.As we get so much experience with fires everyone is quick to get small fires out using fire extinguishers, shovels, rakes or whatever is at hand...
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    Logging Equipment Pictures

    Around the Oberon region of New South Wales in Australia and the ground varies from soft soil, hard packed red clay with a lot of rock and quartz ( great for starting bush fires) through to solid basalt and granite boulders and I completely wear track gear out really quickly ( about 5000hrs) so...
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    Logging Equipment Pictures

    The head weighs 2 ton and the heel about the same. Stability can be an issue if you’re not careful however it’s in the workshop right now getting that addressed with a bit of counterweight being added
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    Logging Equipment Pictures

    It’s about 30’ without the heel and about 35’ with.
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    Logging Equipment Pictures

    It’s a satco 630e felling head and it’s set up really well with the heel. I still have full range of movement and would struggle going back to a felling machine without one. I think it adds enormously to the machine. The machine I ran before this one had a woodsman fh1350 felling head with a...
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    Logging Equipment Pictures

    Live heel and tilt base gets me most places
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    Pacific trucks in the logging industy

    The white one above in Barry's collection when she was new
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    Grapple yarding tips & tricks?

    Start slow and keep slow for a long while to help avoid line wrap. Have a yarder operator and spotter that don't hate each other (though they probably soon will) and shorten up one side of the grapple chains with a rigging shackle to get one tyne to hang lower than the other. Trev
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    Where has everyone gone?

    Too busy logging to post..... sorry got to go back to work. Trev
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    Directional Felling Grapple

    Not much good to say about the woodsman head either
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    MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Red & White Iron, Past and Present....

    wow still guyed up ..... just waiting for the trees to grow again
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    awesome, how far out is that? Trev
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    Logging Accidents: And They Walked Away.........

    superman - man of steel
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    Directional Felling Grapple

    Have loaded plenty of trucks with the satco 630 felling head on a cat 330 D FM and really only struggled with lengths shorter than 4 metres, though it can be done if you take your time. I'm running a woodsman pro fh1350 head on a Komatsu PC300 at the moment and it doesn't have a stabiliser bar...
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