It happens,... usually when the ground is real steep, but we usually had two skidders on site. Most of the time everyone had plenty to do. The company I worked for was well polished with two owner operators, and long term employees, since retired.
Reach in the slide deck, grab 3 to 4k #'s at a time, and hot load em. Pretty rough! I ran shovel, and still have to load out my own wood from time to time. The guy that ran processor for me wasn't nearly as nice. You can spend your day spinning your tracks, or cutting wood.
Not really. I messed with one a friend bought at auction. It had a newer computer that wasn't set up right. I was able to get into the programming, and get some stuff programmed. It would have taken me more time than I spent on it, or some professional advice to get it sorted out. Alot of logging crews run em in Idaho, and make good production. Seems to me the logmate computer is easier to deal with. I might be prejudice, as I've been running logmax for 12 years, or about 16,000 hours.
@@weilfast I'm honestly not a logmax fan, but I recently spent some time in a 240 linkbelt with a 623c. It would have been a 2013 machine and head. I'm not real familiar with Waratah software, but I was pretty disappointed in the lack of customization and setup in the computer. As far as I can tell, the head is built for 8-18" wood ideally, and anything bigger is just a battle. Measuring is sketchy, the sawbox is way too close to the feed path, and the little thumbnails are a joke. I know people make money with them, and every single head requires a little different technique, but I was really disappointed. Seems like a 7000 has a lot better stem authority especially in that bigger fir.
