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I just did some early spring cleaning and gave away a repairable 20Ton Gearamatic Tree Farmer skidder winch, to a young local firewood guy who has that model cable skidder. I also threw in a spare set of brake bands for it too. But I didn't stop there, I also gave him a homemade firewood chain...

I don't see a problem when the brake bands release it's a free for all. Good story Jerry:thumbup: I can see a cable skidder doing the same in smaller timber. Is there brake bands on a pickup truck mount electric winch ?

Making a bore backcut before the facecut is fine, but on a heavy front leaner I'd have to say that's not a good idea. I'd stick with 2 side kerf cuts and quick backcut For felling a tree of this nature by someone other then a pro faller, I would say apposite to lay guy line anchored to a...

This summer I witnessed the mountain pine beetle destruction on the Ponderosa pine in the Black Hills in South Dakota and it' one heck of a sad site. $15 per tree cost to spray, lot's of spraying done around Mt Rushmore, no beetle activity in sight.

Very early 1980s our logging camp had to shut down production and all the crews had to cut fire line to divert a large fire coming our way. What the skidders couldn't push over us fallers had to drop the rest. A lot of half pushed over trees that needed a fast saw to get them down. I was using a...

I've spoken to a few smoke jumpers who use it alot

Escape route 135 degrees from the direction of lay [45 degrees from the opposite direction to lay] and don't linger too long at the stump. Three numbers come to mind, the 5-15-90 rule. Studies have shown that 90% of fatalities happen within 15 seconds after the tree starts to fall , within 5...

I've never felled enough heavy timber with heavy forward lean to use the Coos Bay, but having said that I do tend to operate a saw with more power then needed and I touch up my chain regularly. I learned one important factor with the training company I'm involved with. You do have a longer...