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Once again that thing has been "dramatized " to the max . If nothing else though it is very evident to me, a flat lander ,why the west coasters use long bars . I can't imagine cutting in such a jumbled up mess like that .Good grief what a goobered up mess that is . Now the actual show and...

Not to worry because they show the previous weeks episode before the current weeks airs . I caught the stolen rope deal at 9 followed by the harvester spearing at 10 last night . Geeze that hydraulic saws nips 30 inchs of fir in three seconds . I can't do that well with the Mini Mac :roll:

What is ironic about this situation is that during slow downs in home building that is the only time people on my end can buy decent lumber . After a major catastrophic event such as a hurricane the price leaps up and the qualty goes plume to hell .Wet wood ,curved like a sled runner with bark...

I've never done it but my DVR has the ability to burn DVD to DVD or tape to DVD or store from a tv broadcast and to DVD . It's just about like every electronic gizmo I have in that I seldom use them to their full capability . As it is ,it's just a fancy VCR recorder in it's general usage ...

Hmm,seems I missed it .Kinda fell asleep in my easy chair .:( I'll catch the rerun .

Excellent vid. A thought on this matter with objectivity. Here in the midwest the farmers harvest a farm crop yearly.The hardwoods are selectively cut about once every 50 years .In the Carolinas and Georgia on this side of the US the clear cut is around 35-40 years .Evidently the PNW cut is...

I think a lot of these scenerio's are meerly fabrications to dramatize the show,nothing less .Even a flatlander like myself wouldn't do some of that stupid stuff .

Yep,that old boy has a "get'r done attitude allright,get's er done too .

My thoughts exactly .:?

Just a question because I don't know,never seen it. Is the motorized trolley controlled by radio signals or something?? The setup is really kind of like a dragline in a way .With a dragline though the operator has view and controll of the whole operation .By the looks of some of those slopes...

Evidently this "skidder" line is the same as a haul back line on a dragline type of crane.

Wire rope[steel cable ] will eat you up.The strands will poke right through a pair of leather gloves and make you look like you got the short end of the stick from wrestling with a porcupine . :whine:

A long splice is a pain in the butt but it will pass through a block where a short splice won't . A lot of times they use a wedge in conjuction with a "headache ball " on cranes . The cable is actually just an eye that passes through the ball .Often times they put a Crosby or two on the "bitter...

It's probabley a "traditional " thing I suppose. I'm just used to the iron workers installing maybe 6 or 8 "crosbys" in a wire rope of that size .For that matter they make wedge clamps that hold just as much as a splice .Buut,that said I'm a midwest farm boy type rigger and what they do in the...

You gotta remember that show is highly "dramatized" . As far as those two "climbers" ,just inexperiance .I had to laugh because that guy last night I thought his a$$ would reach the top of the spar before his head,ha. I didn't quite understand why those guys spliced an eye in that cable...

I've done it the other way.Not enough wedge and too thick of hinge and the damned tree hangs instead of snapping the hinge .Then cut the wrong side and it goes where you don't want it to ,duh .:(

Well,an M 60 undercarriage and a Sherman is like compairing a Mack truck to a Honda Civic.Not trying to be a smart arse just an observation because I've seen both of them.;)

They most likely cobbled that tank thing together because it was cheap. When I worked at BLH they made a tramway contraption that went on a crawler crane base.I think it was used for a cableway thing for quarry stone removal on water filled gravel pits etc.I never saw one of that model in...

I don't remember the exact cubic inchs on the Ford tank engine but it was large,overhead cam too. That was in the late 30's. Some had Pratt and Whitney radials but the best had Cat diesels . Not too many of those were made though. Very ill equiped with a 70 mm gun[I think] in comparrison to the...