We're just a bunch of guys, trying to make a living moving and marketing wood. We don't have million dollar equipment or mills backing us, in fact most of those types of loggers, wouldn't be caught dead running our equipment. We try to "Work Smarter, Not Harder." This is the real side of logging, it's not always roses, but we love what we do and we do our best at it. Thanks for watching.
Chad, your ability to stay "cool, calm, and collected" is absolutely the cause for envy, from my stand point! ( it truly is a super power) ... ...From one ol poor boy to the next, we appreciate you, Sarah, Zach, and your team of hard working timber cutters, for the always interesting and insider point of view from your vantage point in the day-to-day tasks you face in the woods. ... Keep sharing your content, and try not to pass through Fredonia to many times in that big Volvo without pulling her' over for a much needed break and taking time to stop by the crib to say hello, as you head back from the yard. .... KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK, AND... GOD SPEED, ol buddy!
I drove a skidder and a loader plus hauling logs for 5 years when i got out of school , common sense has too come into play at some point 3 inchs of rain and go into a hardwood bottom like that not too smart ...
The most of these saws I’ve seen we’ve always when it done is took them out that way and cut the threads out and bolt through other way with nut on the other side.
Good job man, yep removing broken bolts is one of the worst jobs. Always useful watching someone else do it and taking notes for when it next happens to me! The manufacturer could have done with designing it with space for washers & nuts on the bolts maybe. How do you sharpen the chain? I do my little chainsaw chain but your chain is another level!
If we’re not in hurry I try to take the chains home and we have a bench grinder set up for bigger chains, it’s a sweet little set up. If it gets in a bad shape in the woods and we don’t have any sharp chains with us, we use the deWalt angle grinder and just free hand it and do our best to put a good edge on it. Thanks for watching.
Interesting to watch your explanation of the different types of wood you've got on the trailer thanks. You mentioned 65cents for softwood ties, is a "tie" one of those logs on the truck? I think we might call them something different here in England.
They will saw a rail road tie out of the logs on the truck. They will put them under the rail road tracks. 65 cents per board foot (Doyle) when the whole log is scaled. Thanks for watching.
Very interesting for us that know nothing about what goes on when we see all the equipment go by, and see logs come out,, there is a lot inbetween! Thank you for sharing!
Great to see how you use your kit thanks. De-limbing's always a pain but your felling attachment makes it look easy. Is the saw on the rig next to the tigercat loader run off auxiliary lines from the tigercat? Real neat set up for getting your log length right.
The main reason is that’s the head on the machine when we bought it. The advantages are it’s much easier to bunch for the Skidder vs a hot saw and you don’t have to sharpen chains or change them like a bar saw. It probably isn’t quite as fast as a hot saw because the disc isn’t always out and spinning. But it works well for us. Thanks for watching.
If you’re in big hardwood and separating for a skidder between wood and logs you need a Quadco 2900. Plus shoveling down over a road bank much farther and faster than our actual Cat 320D shovel with grapple saw. We have to road everything for the 555D and 632H skidder though. Steep ground in southwest Va and southwest Tn.
Plus I remember those first bar saws on Timbco products we had no luck with them was all the time bending a bar. We never really had a cutter until the Prentice 720 came and it had a 2800 Quadco only 6 teeth not 12 like now but far ahead of the bar saws we had tried. Then we got a Timbco 445C with the 2800, then Cat 522 with the 2900, then 522B and 2900, now Tigercat LX830D with a 2900. The Cats was way up in the air, felt funny the Timbco and Tigercat have been the best. But the Prentice was a great machine that many years ago.
Things happen when your logging. Yep especially when ypur playing in mud and destroying the property for the owner. And tearing up equipment. Not sure if the owner is stupid if the crew is stupid or if they both are. But I won't watch anymore of their videos to find out.
