Mike Hill
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6X6 is great in a straight line.But a Turd to try and turn with even just the rear Diffs locked. A Chipper on the back would not be much of a load for it.But personally why not tow the chipper with a fast Tractor? Most of the gear like that I have seen working or used,had to drive on and only on the Chip that was produced.Otherwise much stuckness would insue. Also if you bog somthing like that down to the Axels,you need alot to budge it.
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What damage will a railway sleeper pin through a chipper cause?
Mike Hill replied to David Riding's topic in Large equipment
Brown and Pink are popular colour's when it comes to BANDITS Frank.Probably eat it right up. -
Thanks for the kind comments.I hope the pictures were interesting,I had a couple of Albums from Logging in Canada but lost them in a breakup with an ex girlfreind.
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Because they won't run through a Pulley?
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They are Pinus Radiata and Douglas Fir. Bad thing is that in the heat Doug Fir Clearfell smells like Cheese Toasties.14hour days in 30deg + sweating your nads off in a cloud of Cheese Toastie aroma is not pleasent. I wish I had a didgi cam back then.I saw the blade get ripped off a Dozer once,it flew about 300meters into the Gully.The Skyline used to be attached to the Dozer blades.After that it was run through a Hole in the Blade and attached to the tow hitch at the rear.
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Get a a sack of Sawdust some Wood Glue and a Wacker Plate. Once its all mixed up and Wacked flat,use a long Steel Ruler and Marker Pen to draw the Parket. Viola! Genuine Parket Oak Flooring!
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Its your Truck so do what you want with it. It looks like you have been hitting muddy puddles at speed,that pushes abrasive crap into joints and electrics.
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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.
