Good job, building the roads. I love to watch equipment, whether it's pushing dirt or digging dirt or hauling dirt. Be careful and stay safe and keep on logging and making more videos.
Love seeing the mountain work. Man they are hard days for sure though. It’s a battle for every tree. Keeping the trees from coming in the skidder with ya is tough sometimes!! Great video and really glad to get your take on the saw. Keep loggin hard men 👍
I live in East Ky and surrounded by step hills and mountains. The mountain behind my house is pretty steep. I have a small cabin that I built at the top... I've always wanted to get someone to block out a road for me with a dozer... It fascinates me to see dozers cutting roads on steep mountainsides.
Hey man , this is really good stuff , good quality shots too . love the country side , That's some difficult logging . One wrong move and it's over , stay safe and keep em coming , Thank you .
Bought time to weld on some track grousers . There getting a little worn down! Tracks are slipping too much! God bless you and your family! Keep up the great work!
I have watched dirt perfect working that little 450 jd and Jerry can skin cat dang good but thats how it gets by... the 660 jd you have moves some dirt! Dang straight that machine would spoil me. I have run cats six's, seven's an up through the nine... they all have a place but now seeing youn's machine is impressive.
Nice job on the road. I live in hill country also. I have to pull way too much cable...usually big timber though...hard work...I'm 50...lol...nice review of the saw..
How’s it hanging Mr Hoskins.? Kinda hilly spot but nice logs. I’ve always thought I could adapt to any kind of logging , anywhere, and be at least successful. But those steep hills are not desirable and I’ll stick with Pine Sawtimber down here in Ga any day. But much respect to you for logging those challenging hills But if I had to I would give it hell too Bros. Yal b careful and stay standing up and let the timber fall down. AC
@@StumpjumperVideosPA yessir Mr Dale!! Bout like these ole SYP’s I was brought up nawwin down. Poppa told Mama when I was a lil thing to put a couple of teaspoons of turpentine in every bottle I was fed. Now Donna fixes me a cup every morning to drink as I’m headed out the door. And I tell ya this Bros, It keeps your bark slick, your needles green , and your roots balled up!! Hey, yal tighten up every chance ya get!! And let’s go get another load!!
Ol boys a ace dozer man..I can tell he’s done it before and knows exactly what to do in bout any situation…just the way he keeps that machine as productive as it can be…I’d like to come down and cut a jag or 10..definitely an oak man myself and done bout all types of cuttin in several fields…gasline,power line,tv, logged just a tad and mainly done climbin and residential stuff bout 13yr for myself…what ida gave to brought y’all this 880 and let you try the 47” hardnose stihl bar then my tsumara 36” light n tough pullin a skip .404 silvey razor sharp chain on that big one..one clean cut..all 3 of us holdin the sob lmao
How large are the blocks that are being harvested on these hills? Do you know if a pre harvest layout crew would walk these proposed roads? Great video btw! Earth work and side cuts is very ballsy work
When your cutting a road do you prefall the trees so they can land against the base of 2 or more trees to help hold rocks soil etc... for the path base? These lilltle cats are great for preserving forrested land or selective logging low impact shows. Tree farming land !!!
We put the roads in first, which makes the timber harvesting go a little smoother. Usually don't have too much erosion while the site is active. Then everything gets water barred and sown with grass.
I got the graphite, 70cc graphite pro saw. Not a bad saw, cant use stihl bar, but oregon worked well, also be careful with the chain size, i had one made, 52 links for my 24” bar???? Anyways, i know you know, but maybe somebody doesnt…. It’s not as snappy as my 500, but just to go out, delimitation, cut a few trees, and know it wont let me down for a FRACTION of the price of my 500, I’d do it again in a heart beat. I sorta crunched my 500 and hadda rebuild most of the outside lol, that gets expensive, (actually could have bought a second holts for the same price as a lite bar, handle, and the gas tank) cost me for stihl lol….anyways, cool video, i might pull the trigger on a little dozer to keep with me on jobs so I don’t have to rely on somebody else…..great vid
I have property that is pretty steep on the lower slope of a small mountain in New England. The large boulders would make for a pretty tough operation if we attempted to build this sort of road. The old skidder trails pretty much go straight up and down the slope. It would be nice to have a trail with a more gradual incline.
Y'all are some hard workers. I like that dozer. Ive used a lot of holzfforma parts to fix up my 372. Couldnt afford oem replacement parts. Aint had too many problems yet after about a year
Growing up in BC interior. We built logging roads with a fella buncher followed by a skidder and a 300-450 size hoe. Dozers seemed to take to long. We had thick clay l, gravel, hard rock and any mix. If it was steep enough you could use a high line or heli-log. But it really has to be big timber and select species. 48"+ ceder, Doug fir.. etc.
There's no screwing around with Pop's!! Drop the hammer it's time to get her done! The ground is always steeper, and the trees are always bigger in person. Camera doesn't do it justice. Be good gentlemen.
@@hoskinslogging9858 I like Pops a lot. He goes into beast mode on the dozer ! AKA madman!! You do a great job as well brother. PRODUCTION ,You guys are a perfect team. How do I contact you?
I got a Chinese saw last winter cheap and not expecting anything but has surprise me and is Worth money if not use to make $ every day logging parts are not made to last to many cheap weak plastic parts on clutch side
Beside the nicer weather looks a lot like where I log in Vermont. Hilly, steep, lots of good wood. Mainly pine. But we get into some good stands of hardwoods. I'd much rather be logging sw wv or eastern ky. Tis where family is and I'm from. Mingo county westbygodvirgnia.
It holds 41 gallons.these dozers were direct drive,some had tork converters. The tork converter models used a little more fuel. These were very good machines in those years.very efficient compared to a hydrostatic. Not as fast or maneuverable
greetings from a retired American logger living here in the Philippines just wondering how ar up and or down the hill are you falling timber? is it a clear cut? thinning ?
Stihl is originally german not usa. Husky is german originally. Husky basically poulan in orange case and USA stihl is finished in Virginia this for someone that knocking him for use cheap throw away. Keep up hard work and videos. Nice work with blade.
I don't know but I would think that the cost of all that machine time and labor cutting that skid road it would be cheaper to bring in a small twr after you fall the timber
Don’t really have the access for that. It would take tremendous amounts of blasting to put equipment like that on these ridges. And never mind trucking off them after a rain. Can it be done; probably. But this is the way we have done it for years. It’s the best way we know how. Thanks for watching buddy.
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Identical to tater Br where I cut last…can’t set yer gas down without diggin a spot out first…packed my gas oil and big water jug and started with a 362 and cut 3 and the boy said I’m goin to get you a bigger saw lol got a 461 24” cuttin massive hollow hickory 3 men and 1 650h…people have no idea what hard work is…I see your no stranger to it and would fit right in my crowd…if we can get buckin and wade behind you..you could put ky loggin on the RU-vid map lol..lay in there ol buddie…matt
@@hoskinslogging9858 Remember that next time you give an estimate or bid on a job and the “customer” shops your price. The old, if you can do it for this, the jobs yours.
