Glad you're back. Buddy runs an 855 and directional on a tether in Idaho now, we were talking this weekend and ya, it's slower than a buncher but efficiency wise, it's doing more work than one machine at a time. Cutting, shoveling, cutting, making skids, decking, ect. Old boy taught me doing dirt work, slow and efficient equals fast! Looking good brother!
I find it strange that people throw shade at your videos. Thank you for sharing with us how you guys get the job done. One logger to another, stay safe out there my brother ✊️
Your never going to get away from the keyboard loggers. Apparently they can see everywhere, and do everything better. Keep going bud we're all still here watching.
Keep the videos coming. Ignore the know it all’s ! Eleven months ago I had a terrible accident in a Fellerbuncher that malfunctioned and rolled . I now have what the doctors call a “complicated moderate traumatic brain injury “. I’d been operating a buncher here on the East coast since 1997 . Now I’m stuck at home , but enjoy your vids .
No , I’ve got a lot of issues going in my mind that I never had in my life . PTSD , nightmares, no sleep and lots of other things . So I don’t know if I’ll ever get to do it again . I’ve always wanted to come out to the west coast and try it out though . Love your vids ! It’s good to watch a good , smooth operator !
That’s a bummer, I slide off a bridge in a 240 log loader in the winter time! Bridge was covered in snow and ice, I walked a 350 shovel and the buncher out the day before in worse conditions! That was probably one of the scariest things I’ve ever experienced it was like a 20ft fall to the creek! Hit my shoulder in the front bars of the window and cut my head a little from the Same bars!
Whoa ! I couldn’t imagine sliding off of a bridge and falling like that ! I’ve slid down steep hillsides clearing for pipeline row’s and crossed many a sketchy temporary bridges on the row . Never anything like that ! Yikes ! Glad you’re ok now.
I wondered were ya been,don't let firewood cutters that play loggers get to you,no human could keep up with that machine,it's an art the way you cut it and relay to make turns for the skidder,glad to see your working in these depressed market conditions
I saw one of ur videos on Facebook and I read some of the comments. I told those guys they were crazy,that u are a freaking beast on that thing!Don't pay those clowns any mind.
Yeah, keyboard warriors, or loggers, or anything they can run their mouth (fingers) about. One of the bad things about the Internet, but there are positives, so keep posting, I like to see a professional at work. You mentioned running tracks on rock and potential for fire. I worked in logging for four summers quite a while ago in N. Calif. We were on a cat show and whatever the rock was would just roll sparks that you could see in the daylight. We had one fire start in a dead, punky white fir top and I was ten feet away. The smell of wood smoke is something that gets your attention real fast when you are logging. The cat skinner was jumping off his D8 with his water bag about as fast as I was moving the small bit of smoldering wood to clear dirt. I had gloves on, but damn that got hot fast.
I was on some steep rocky stuff today! Had to dig most of the boulders out of my way just to walk up the hill, we had a 2 hr watch today so I watched that hillside I was working from the seat of my pickup with the ac on high lol I hope I never start a fire when I’m cutting
Kinda always the first sign of a pending recession is when the loggers are cutting wood but the markets don't want it... not a good sign of what's to come next year.
You make very interesting and good videos keep it up and dont mind the hate😄 greeting from Finland we do logging a little different here so its interesting looking at you logging😁
I wouldn't give a shit what people had to say that ant got the first clue what you have two deal with from day two day I've been cutting timber my hole life I'm a third gen logger
