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Almost all of the camps I worked in on the coast were off-road trucks, the logging roads seemed huge compared to the roads here in the interior, until the first time I saw a off-road low bed come around the corner with a giant yarder on the back. :O

Did not know that, maybe I should read my newsletter a little more closely :lol: I'm a pnw member and like I say really want to start taking advantage of some of the learning opps once I can.

You don't get cert'd just for going to a conference do you? You'd still have to write the exam, no?

At the conference? Corvallis? I'd love to go but probalby not in the cards for me until I dump the station, then I plan on starting to get out a little more.

We had 1" non-swedge on the skyleads, I don't know what size was on the swing grapple as I only worked there two days. We never had to use a straw for setting our guy lines on the skylead but that was how these guys were doing it on this swing, I was the new guy so was just going with the flow...

Yah we'd do that if we were worried about stumps pulling, and ya you only do that backwards once! Choppity chop!

Worst cable injury I ever had was when I worked for two days on a different yarder crew over a long break-up. It was a swing grapple set-up and I was excited to run the hillside with it but what a haywire crew. We were using strawline to run the guylines up a steep bank on a yarder move and...

I see your one guyline now, I still think that's nuts! We had two skyleads and the older one had 3 and the newer one had 4. Did you guys 'wrap' a stump to use two? Or just one stump? And when you say 'broke' you mean pull the stump? We never once broke an actual guyline.

Holy cow, better hope you got a strong stump! Those must be heavy (duty)machines. On the runaways with limited vis, we'd be getting the play by play as we were running for our lives 'straight down, no it's going your left, no your right, no' run for the nearest big stump and dig in! Next best...

One guy line on the yarder? That's crazy we ran four. You know it on the danger nothing like working a intermediate road and hearing that crackle over the radio 'RUNAWAY' and then waiting for death from above to come flying over the ridge. I will always maintain I'm one lucky SOB!

There were a few pics in there that looked a little treacherous to me :O .

Oh so true, I'll never forget the glorious day we got our Eaglet slack puller, man I thought they were gonna make me take a pay cut. :lol: Mangoes thanks for that link, very cool!

Engineer is pretty sweet compared with running the hillside eh. I was trained to run the yarder but rarely got to do it.:(

A skylead c-40. They are mounted on a skidder chassis that's stretched for the yarder part. Little yarder that can access some pretty rough terrain. Set-up for uphill or downhill(haulback). We used a line skidder or two depending on the setting to forward wood to the landing and then...

I thought it looked a little on the thick side, I feel sorry for ya we ran 1/2 and 3/4 swedge and that was heavy enough.:|:

What were you guys running for main/skyline diameter wise?

Awesome man, simply awesome. Loving these pics!8) Logging is good times for sure, life sure seemed simple compared to now when I was yarding. And frig you guys got some nice looking wood there.

No never been around a christy. Before we got the eaglet all we had was the mack1 and this local built flimsy little pos that was mechanically controlled not radio controlled what a pos. Took a real light touch on the mainline to engage and disengage the skyline brakes and many, many times it...

The joke behind that is that the mackI isn't a slack pulling carriage it's all by hand, and the eaglet is a slack puller, much mo nice! Awesome pics Willie some nice big sticks there!

Awesome pics Willie! Thanks alot for getting those together. What carriage is that a mackyII? We had a mackI and a eaglet guess which one I preferred :|: .