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Thought I'd bump this thread. I want to tell some stories of my mechanical harvesting experiences in 1975 running a Drott 40 feller buncher with a 50 tracked under carriage...... but I'll tell that later and bump up to 1979 when the government DNR had prior 3 years earlier shut down the...

I only like wrenching on my own equipment Pat:) It was a nice thought going back to the bush working for someone else, but I'll just stick to my seasonal tree service operation. My wife and I found our new home in the new city we're moving to . I'm just going to stick close to home. I saw...

Yeah I did here too. I guess it helps to live 400 miles from a major sized city.

Thanks Jay. The winter job opportunity should have happened years ago, I won't need it now. The city we're moving to is twice the population where we live now and a much higher income per capita...........and no local established tree service!

Sorry fellas for my lack of participation in this thread, my wife was appointed a judge last Friday and we've been going nuts getting ready to move to another city. Yard sales, getting the house ready to sell, house hunting for our new home. Life is upside down. I have some good stories to...

Around here hardwood is a weed for our forest industry.

I'm just talking softwood [spruce, pine] limbed and topped production . We never logged or skidded hardwood.

:lol: you think that's small From looking at that vid that snail paced machine isn't even setup with forestry screen, sure not a professional logging operation . I'll show you hoe operators what production in softwood is........ with a Clark 666 and a Stihl 064 -18" b/c. Limbed and topped piled...

Not saying the timber is too small, just saying the mechanical harvestors aren't making alot of production in it. Our government conservation and water stewardship are real restrictive with large machinery around lakes , streams and fish stock migration etc. Brash mats wouldn't work here with no...

Well it depends what part of the world you have your information from Ed. Here with the province of Manitoba being larger then the whole UK and having 100,000 lakes we have lots of level lowland of water and swamps. Our logging operations here work on timber sales of crown land on "islands "...

You don't release the winch and drop the choked up load.....you let it down smoothly not to fan the butts out. I'm still amazed when I think what some of the partners I had could do with their skidders, smooth as silk and never wasted a movement.

It must be 2 in the morning there Ed:O Yes that's why the smaller cable skidders worked for us up until about 1993 when the bunchers and processors took over and today their stuck cutting smaller wood and have to work around the clock to match what we did in 8 hrs with a power saw and cable skidder.

I have a hard time doing metric conversion Ed. I was basing it on a 3 cord load of green black spruce limbed and topped tree length at approximate 5000 lbs per cord. 15,000 lb average load through the day which is pretty darn good for a little 20,000 skidder with a 100 foot 5/8" mainline and 15...

A cable skidder has a heavy duty 4 roller fairlead, not those little narrow single pulleys most of the grapples run. You'd be breaking mainline cables steady with that pulley...... never mind all the derailing Bigger loads with cable skidders too, also when you loose traction drop the load...

Production on long skids or uneven terrain a cable skidder will out produce a grapple skidder. I ran Clark 664 cable skidders with the little 353 and pulled 7 cubic meter loads to the landing. that's about 30,000 kg

The Tree Farmers like the C5 are one if not the easiest to service and get parts, prices are reasonable . Bare bones machine and they do have one of the strongest 20T winches out there, just hard to pull the mainline out compared to others like the TJ's and Clarks. But the Tree Farmers has 6...

The Clark Ranger cable skidders 664, 665, 666 were the Cadillacs compared to the Tree Farmers , auto trans, one lever controls steering and blade......................... The old C5'S were bare bones and hard on the operators bones.....nothing glorious about them, ha

Yeah pushing and pulling those levers and pedals with all 4 hands and feet keep us in shape and don't forget pulling out that stiff mainline......and then along came the Clarke Ranger 664D:dancin:

Here in Canada their called CanCar Tree Farmer skidders. The C5D being the most popular in the late '70s early '80s. They turned from orange color to lime green in 1974. The year I started logging fresh off the farm at 16.