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    Stupid yarder rigging questions

    BDFT LOL at least they're called rigging slingers both sides of the border.
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    Stupid yarder rigging questions

    Hi Jumbo In BC the tree jack was referred to as a "Dutchman". I asked one old timer how it got that name. "Cuz it had wooden shoes inside it for the skyline to rest on, dummy." was the reply. I looked inside and sure enough there were blocks made from what looked like oak. We used a modern...
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    MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Red & White Iron, Past and Present....

    Hi trakloader I recognize the Madill 084 at the head of the lineup by its undercarriage (Sherman, I believe?). Was this the same 084 that returned to the Islands to work for Skidegate Forestry on Moresby Island? I heard that Madill only built five of these machines.
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    Axe Men beyond belief

    My wife refuses to watch the show with me any more. She says she can't hear the people in the show for me yelling, "No you dumb #@$%*&'s, not like that!"
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    Berger Manufacturing- Logging Equipment Built in Seattle

    Oops, my last post I tried to quote the pic of the skyline rigging on page 3 of this thread, but all I got was the text. Anyways, the North Bend setup you show in your diagram is how we did it, too. As you know, if you went ahead on the skidding line and kept a brake on the haulback, the fall...
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    Berger Manufacturing- Logging Equipment Built in Seattle

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    Timberjack skidder with a mini tower installed on the back

    Well, at 40' the pipe was a bit on the short side, though this is true of all mini-yarders. The best solution to this was to park the yarder right in the centre of a gully and log up (or down) it, pulling the wood in from the tops of ridges between gullies. Also, the fellow I worked for had...
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    History gurus: Who invented the haulback?

    Hi Brian You likely know the Haida fellow by name. Can't say it here, though, of course.
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    Timberjack skidder with a mini tower installed on the back

    I think the biggest tree on the setting was 36" on the butt. The wood was a mixture of pine, spruce and balsam and very thick. There were six chokers on sliders so I was able to wood each turn down if I wanted. As long as the carriage was high enough in the air and there were no hangups, things...
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    Berger Manufacturing- Logging Equipment Built in Seattle

    I noticed the oddity with the North Bend rig up, too, with the haulback attached to the back of the carriage. Then it dawned on me, if this was an interlock yarder, the turn would be locked in position at the carriage by the interlock system and there would be no need for the haulback brake to...
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    Ariel Logging- Balloons, Helicopters, or Otherwise.

    Well, I'll be. We always had a fictitious device called a "choker stretcher" we would send greenhorns to fetch but I never realized there actuall existed a real device. Interesting! Perhaps you've heard The Chokerman's Prayer? Oh Lord up above Come down if you can Don't send down your Son...
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    Timberjack skidder with a mini tower installed on the back

    Looks similar to the "Skylead" three drum yarders made in Enderby, BC. They came with a "Maki" dropline carriage. The skyline was 7/8" swaged line and the skidding line (mainline) was 1/2". The skidding line went through the carriage and became the dropline, so dropline length was only limited...
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    Stupid yarder rigging questions

    The strawline was used for taking the haulback out in the initial rig up and for changing roads. The heavy skyline was taken out and moved by the haulback. Strawline was light enough to be pulled by hand and came apart in 200-250' sections or "extensions". (dumb name, I know) The tag line was...
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    History gurus: Who invented the haulback?

    I'm not sure when the haulback was invented but, I recall reading in a textbook that the interlock yarder was invented in 1899 in Louisiana. I would think the haulback would pre-date this.
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    History gurus: Who invented the haulback?

    There is always the story of the Madill tower being operated by a rather lage (and temperamental) native fellow. The hooktender was setting up a road change in the back end, with strawline, and had lost one of the Hindus. He sent a green chokerman down to the landing to fetch a Hindu. Not really...
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    Dave Husby...R.I.P.

    Sad to see Dave go so young. I worked for him in Eden Lake a couple of shifts in the early 90's and knew him in Sandspit. Always admired his go-getter attitude. So long, Dave.
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