Mike Hill
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Most of the big stuff went to Pulp.
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97,98 and a bit of 99. Not as much logging goes on back home as there was.
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Big Trees The Trees were felled across the Hill side when possible.The really big ones had to be cut into length before they were pulled up.
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When I was 17 I worked in a Cable hauler crew in the Kaiangaroa and Rukumoana Forests. The crews were equipt with larger than normal Haulers as we would often be working large Timber.We could log out somewhat further and pull more than other equipment.The machines were two Madill 171's the machines on "Axe men" are 071's..We also had a Thunderbird TMY 70,that machine has a 550HP Detroit V8 engine with two Turbos and a Supercharger.On the in haul it sounded like a Jet plane. The work was very tough,sometimes our areas had Cliffs in them.Rivers and all sorts of crap. The knucle Boom was a 40ton prentice.Sometimes we would Rig backine Spars.There are a coupleof pictures of me going up to grease the tail rope blocks. Our production requirements were about 500 ton per day.Sometimes we pulled more,somtimes less.
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Thats cool! Where abouts is that?I lived in Taupo for a couple of years in the 90's.
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Hope you remembered your Pink Speedos big boy! Under that board walk could get crazy at night!
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We did this today. Copper Beech with 50% of its Roots lost.It was a bit shakey but better than I thought it would be. We put a cable on it and twitched it up with a 4 ton Tirfor. Last pictures are us yarding the logs up the rock face from a high point using the tracked chipper.
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As said,it depends on the make and model of the machine,what it has been used for,ie hired out daily and its service history. Not all Chippers are built the same.Not all chippers can or are greased daily for example. In my experiance Entec's are pretty lightly built.
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If you have never done that,you have never felled many Trees. Just to be safe,check the mans flask.
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Here in Norway I would be hesitant hiing someone with Tattooed Neck and hands.In New Zealand it wouldn't be as much of a consideration. One thing though,you probably won't be oing this job forever and one day when sitting in a suit waiting for an interveiw,the hands holding your CV might be the very reason why you miss out on the job.
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The client is happy that what we did was in the best interests of the Tree.Fair play to them for letting us take a different path than the pruning they were accustomed to. The cut is only visable from a couple of angles,I think I would make the Coronet more dramatic next time.The cut still has a straight profile,I think it couød do without.
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Here is the Coronet cut I did on the Stub.Its about three feet out from the next verticle branch. Thanks for Dave's advice on work positioning.
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Wire core in those flip lines is only to make it stiff. You pass one end through the D ring and tie a "cats paw".When you want to cinch it up more,you tug the tail of the flipline and the knot comes out. You push your body towards the stem and cinch it up with one hand.
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We probably shifted about three ton yesterday.It had to go uphill about 200meters. Two guys pulling levers and it took about two hours. The Track barrow carry's about a ton,but you can't fit anywhere near a ton of wood on it.
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Thats the thing.If we had had to ring all that up and carry it out with wheel barrows it would have been three long days for three guys.If we had wanted to make a long day of it,we could had finnished that job in one. I think that alot of our injuries come not from climbing,but from lifting heavy things onto the back of trucks.
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No.Taken it back to a few feet out from the almost verticle branch next to the Stem.I am going to have a go at Coronet cutting it tomorrow.I have sold that museum on the idea.I did a few smaller ones there recently.
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Happy Birthday mate!
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No,but Gunnar does.I think it helps.
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Excellent shooting.
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Did this today.Lots of fun. The machinery takes the hard work out of moving the wood.We found a bit of knackered wall and knocked it down.So we didn't have to move the wood over the wall.
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Here are some pictures from the couple of years I spent cable logging. This was my first climbing,rigging back line spars when we had to use them. The pictures are digital photos or actual pictures.Some day I will get round to scanning them.I have some pictures of me greasing the Tail rope blocks.I can't find them right now.We used to pull about 500 ton of Timber per day.Depending on the terrain.one of the pictures shows Trees stacked up against a cliff face,we used to attach the choakers on the top,another guy would step cut the tree where is had speared into the ground,then we would back pull the trees to snap them off. Glad I don't have to do that anymore. The old bloke was the bosses father in law.He was in his 70's and still logging.In one crew,we had three generations,Grand father,dad and son.It was a demanding but rewarding job.14 hour days shift work at 3000 ft above sea level in 35deg plus some days.
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Sorry mate but thats Bollocks. The High Climbers were the highest paid in the Bush after the Crew Boss. They Topped the Spar is what ever direction it was leaning,their biggest danger was Rot Pockets in the Spar.They would "sound" the Tree using their Axe on the way up,if it sounded dodgy they would choose another one. The Trees were topped to provide a high point for cable logging (yarder) operations.Either to be a main spar with the Steam winch below it,or as a Tail Spar with the Skyline or High lead system to provide lift at the end of a setting. Topping back line Spars still goes on today.Although all yarders have Steel poles mounted to them to provide lift on the front line.Sometimes you run out of lift at the back,so the Skyline is now normally run through a Block hanging from a Spar and terminated attached to a Stump.The Tailrope block is also attached to the Spar,some distance below the Skyline. How do I know this?I rigged Spars for a cable logging outfit for a couple of years.
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This book is great.It has some of the most impressive pictures of Logging operations I have seen. [ame=http://www.amazon.com/This-Was-Logging-Ralph-Andrews/dp/0887400353]Amazon.com: This Was Logging (9780887400353): Ralph W. Andrews: Books[/ame]
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Not being funny.But have you done much with Cranes?
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Two ladies at once after a Rave beats chainsaws.
