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    Tigercat yarder

    Always will be the Gyppo loggers operating with paid-for but beat-up equipment who don’t need to put out so many loads per day to meet their bills, and then the big guys with the new equipment who push hard to make the quota and their higher bills. Grapple yarding and guyless systems are not...
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    Tigercat yarder

    Take the $50,000 and use as a down payment on the $2M 10-year loan. Monthly payment is $9,451. Save on two choker setters (by using a grapple carriage) at $50k annual salary each, actually about $65k each when you added benies and unemployment, workmen’s comp, so $130k per year; Divide by 12...
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    O71 tank undercarriage breakdown

    Rubber tire sure have the advantage when there are narrow, winding paved mountain roads. There are a couple guys with self-propelled Skagit GT3’s driving the roads from job to job, or even from the yard to the job, in Northern California/Southern Oregon.
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    Tigercat yarder

    No way Tigercat has done this on their own:
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    Northern California logging

    Probably some relation, he’s been around here a long time. And is fond of heel boom loaders: here’s another one of his:
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    ecologger tower on a treefarmer skidder

    Here's an Ecologger rigged up back in 2011 for fire salvage on the Klamath National Forest:
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    Northern California logging

    This was taken in 2011 of a old loader converted to a yarder in the area, not sure of the make; I believe it's one of Mark Crawford's equipment (Mark Crawford Logging). He is a long-time logger in the area who might be worth a call to talk about the old times. Next time you are in Yreka, drive...
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    Appalachian Thinner

    An interesting conversion of a John Deere 450 into a small yarder by the Forest Service around 1980: https://www.fs.fed.us/ne/newtown_square/publications/research_papers/pdfs/scanned/OCR/ne_rp495.pdf
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    S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC

    This was on a USFS sale; supposedly the yarder was brought east from Western Washington a few years ago. Not pictured is the widow maker left hanging over another guy line, yikes!
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    S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC

    Here is a Madill 071 rigged up on a rainy spring day in North Carolina.
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    Yoader Pics

    Not a yarder, but a single winch line machine owned by Jim Johnson in Etna, CA.
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    Yoader Pics

    Yoader working near Medford, OR on a USFS sale.
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    Yoader Pics

    Excaliner built with a Link Belt drumset, owned by Joe Fraser in Missoula.
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    Linkbelt yarder

    A few Linkbelts in Joe Fraser’s yard in Missoula.
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    Linkbelt yarder

    Here are a couple Linkbelts owned by Joe Fraser, working on a State of Montana sale.
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    Bitterroot Miniyarder

    These yarders are 18 hp, built with garden tractor hydrostatic transmissions: https://www.fs.fed.us/eng/pubs/htmlpu bs/htm83512504/page01.htm
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    Bitterroot Miniyarder

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    Bitterroot Miniyarder

    Drum set and corridor view of the USFS yarder. This rigging had four guys, two front, two back.
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    Bitterroot Miniyarder

    Detail photos of the USFS yarder:
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    Bitterroot Miniyarder

    I have photos of two Bitterroot miniyarders to share. Any more photos of these "toy" yarders available? The light trailer- mount is owned by the USFS and is presently located in Missoula, MT; the heavy trailer mount is owned by the University of Montana and is at their Lubrecht Experimental Forest.
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