Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

[TorkelH]

PeeWee-yarder

Great Jeremy! That yarder is the one that was presented on Pat Soderberg's PLC 1978 as the Peewee yarder. Winch was made by Lantec in Langley and this is the prototype for the winches used on the Finnings/Lantec/Cat-yarders and even on a Norwegian yarder built on a Moxy dumper undercarriage. I will post pictures of this later.

I'll put a copy of "What's new in Logging - Thinning with the Peewee Yarder" from PLC 1978 in the dropbox, if you should be interested.

 

[TorkelH]

The Moxy yarder

Built in Norway on a Moxy dumper chassis and with the Lantec winch. Seems to be a somewhat bigger winch than on the Peewee. Machine is still in operation in 2011. These pic's are in the wrong thread, but I thought it fit so well together with Jeremy's pictures so I put them here. Pictures taken by a friend, Norwegian yarder specialist Nils Olav Kyllo.

 

[SPMiller]

Not my stuff, just neat

 

[isx525]

Great Jeremy! That yarder is the one that was presented on Pat Soderberg's PLC 1978 as the Peewee yarder. Winch was made by Lantec in Langley and this is the prototype for the winches used on the Finnings/Lantec/Cat-yarders and even on a Norwegian yarder built on a Moxy dumper undercarriage. I will post pictures of this later.

I'll put a copy of "What's new in Logging - Thinning with the Peewee Yarder" from PLC 1978 in the dropbox, if you should be interested.

a little trivia-- the man operating the "peewee" in the photo is Barney Brady he gypo logged in the Greenwater,Wa area for many years, he is still alive and living near Buckley,Wa

 

[Contract Logger]

a little trivia-- the man operating the "peewee" in the photo is Barney Brady he gypo logged in the Greenwater,Wa area for many years, he is still alive and living near Buckley,Wa

I have alot of pictures from that job Barney Brady logged with the Pee Wee II machine. It was on the Pack Forest (Eatonville) right near Alder Dam and was a herringbone corridor thinning show. Myron Metcalf also did a big magazine spread on it for Finley Hayes in June of 1978. I'll dig that out, it was a very in-depth detail of the construction/design of the machine by the UW Applied Physics Lab. USFS grand money paid for the materials.

Anyway enough rambling, here are a few more pics. I also was surprised when Jeremy posted his pics. Wonder when it went to Forks, and who owns it today??

 

[JeremyM70]

Anyway enough rambling, here are a few more pics. I also was surprised when Jeremy posted his pics. Wonder when it went to Forks, and who owns it today??

It was on 101 across from the Airport and just south of the Forks Timber Museum. Not sure who owns it but there was a "Green Bean" yarder next to it as well. If you look on Google Maps and turn on street view you can see about three shovels, a skidder, and a cat, but no yarders.

 

[TorkelH]

JD 648H in Norway

We don't use to much skidders nowadays in Norway, this one is probably imported used and meant to be used only for scarifiing.

 

[69hayes]

Didn't know Kenworth made skidders

 

[69hayes]

Same machine

 

[Vigilant]

I knew they made stackers under the Dart name, but I never heard of a KW skidder.

 

[69hayes]

If you look at the VanNatta logging site they have a story on them

 

[skidsteer.ca]

595 Franklin line skidder, scarification shallow soil style

668C repowered with 6068T sarifying.

 

[64Pacific]

The photo taken from google maps, that is another old Kenworth skidder that was park along the side of the highway, right at the interchange of the highway and the road into Sayward - it was parked there in 2008 I believe, was wondering where it went, when I went past about 16 months ago...

 

[Autocar]

Why drag crawler tracks around ? Knock down slash ?

 

[skidsteer.ca]

Why drag crawler tracks around ? Knock down slash ?

Yes but the main purpose is to part the decaying duff layer on the forest floor to get to the mineral soil layer. The cut blocks are ariel seeded and this allows the seed to get started in soil.
Seeds in the duff layer die because that layers dries out too easily. This gets the jackpine started back in sites that were pine was previously harvested.

Sites with deeper soils are treated with hydraulic disc trenchers but drags are prefered in the sites where soils are shallow or there is a lot of rock. Which is a large part of the Canadian Sheid

 

[SPMiller]

 

[SPMiller]

 

[skidsteer.ca]

SPMiller
Been there, done that
Skidsteer.ca

 

[lg junior]

Here is an old Franklin dad bought from Weyerhaeuser back in the 70's.

 

[Logboss1]

A few pics of our 748 line skidder

Was bought into NZ with 6000 series winch no grapple ,had a fairlead built here and 740 decal on it. Old skidder on truck was snapped at local gas station.