found this video of old logging equipment on you tube.

semologger · December 22, 2012, 05:14:57 PM

Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TfcpSiMVfo

terry f · December 22, 2012, 06:33:01 PM

Would be tough to make a liveing with that equipment nowdays, must have taken a lot of skill to run that thing.

Jeff · December 22, 2012, 06:39:04 PM

Pretty sure by looking at the video, that it is not an old video, so someone is keeping that old stuff in working order.

beenthere · December 22, 2012, 07:59:02 PM

I agree with Jeff, but would suggest semi-working order, as the cable drum clutches and brakes seemed to need some serious adjusting. ;)
Appeared to be first unloading the logs, but then a crawler appeared to be bringing in logs. So the actual operation seemed a bit "up in the air".

The boom seemed like it needed a heel to have better control of the logs...but just a guess.

harrymontana · December 23, 2012, 10:39:36 AM

looks pretty efficient to me, this is how we do it in Bolivia:

1270d · December 23, 2012, 09:05:18 PM

I like this guy's hardhat ^^^^^^^

harrymontana · December 24, 2012, 08:23:41 AM

you haven't seen his slippers yet

cutter88 · December 24, 2012, 04:05:08 PM

judgeing by them new west coast cut chrome straight pipes on tht old truck ide say its defently not an old video... very neat though

log cutter · December 24, 2012, 04:19:21 PM

My Dad ran a heel boom and grapple like that. The old timers could throw load on very fast. Toss the grapple down the hill 150ft ,stop letting cable out and when grapple came to end of the slack it would close right on the log. When the frictions and brakes were adjusted just right you didn't have to move the levers and brake pedals very far. I've loaded a few load with our machine back in 88.

CX3 · December 24, 2012, 09:24:10 PM

I like the truck but the loader would have to bring me a check from the scrap yard lol

NWP · December 24, 2012, 09:47:41 PM

Back in the day when that loader was new whoever bought it probably thought they had made it to the big time.

shinnlinger · December 24, 2012, 10:18:35 PM

Has anyone figured out why he is "Unloading" logs in the woods????

semologger · December 25, 2012, 04:52:24 PM

This is the link to the place in the video. http://www.pomeroyfarm.org/ pretty neat place. I doubt i will ever get to go there but maybe there are some forum members out there thats been there.