You're not a logger until you ---

[David_c]

Not paying attention and putting own chain on backwards :-[ Thinking that tree wont hit gas & oil can then make backcut and watch as tree falls straight for gas & oil can. Thinking got enough skidder fuel to make it through day Not. Forgetting saw on truck or saw fuel or chockers. Or forgetting all at home.

[Dale Hatfield]

Take off driving the skidder only to watch that last wrap fly off the winch. leaving the hitch of logs behind.
Not nearly as bad a dragging cable up hill to retrevie a log.  Digging and pawing up the hill muttering to yourself why would anyone want to be a logger. Only to have to walk back to machine to  really jerk on the cable cause its pinched. climb back up the hill . finish pulling cable. Start to hook choker and need just a tad more only to hear that clunking sound of the cable leaving the drum

Saw bounces off skidder only to meet rear wheels in the dry summer  dirt.  Toatal loss not to be confused with times this happens in muddy months and saw isnt damaged  but no only a differant color

[sawguy21]

Set the saw on the snowbank next to the fire during coffee break ;D

[adirondack harvester]

Just finished sharpening chain and very first cut hit a moss covered stone.

Walking to equipment to start and realize left keys at home.

[59Billy]

You're not really a logger until you fill your chainsaw up with gas, forget to put the gas cap back on, pick up your saw, and DUMP THE GAS DOWN THE FRONT OF YOUR PANTS AND ALL OVER YOUR BOOTS. Only then have you been officially baptized as a logger.

Oh, cool! Last year, I couldn't even spell "logger", now I are one!

Of course, Stihl's toolless gas and oil caps makes the baptism easier....

[jokers]

Of course, Stihl's toolless gas and oil caps makes the baptism easier....

.....especially when you slightly overfill the oil tank! :

[jokers]

Or how about when you are trying to clip just a little bit more off the edge of a hinge as a tree is falling to give it a little more roll and the tree snatches your saw out of your hand and pitches it?  :D

[Gary_C]

My father in law always said "you can never have too many saws." I think when he passed away about 6 years ago that he had 14 saws, some still new in the box. One of those saws he purchased many years ago with his credit card when the card companies offered free guarantees for anything you purchased using their card. Right after he bought the saw, he left it laying near a tree he was falling and yes, he dropped the tree on the saw. Smashed it to pieces. Turned it in under the guarantee and the card company bought him a new saw.  :

That is probably why the don't offer those guarantees anymore.  :D

[Ed_K]

 Anyone bounce a skidder down hill on 1 front tire  ;D ? Or back down to a 16 tree to use as a brake, only to have said tree up root and take back tires off the ground and tipped sideway enough to pyp?

[rebocardo]

> to clear some brash/slash, go to pull-start the saw and discover the engine is still running!!

I was always glad noone saw me do that 2x  :D 

[thurlow]

Ever took the bar off the saw......................because for some DanG reason, the tree had set down on it and 'twas better to lose the bar.............if things got worse.........rather than the saw.  (Always caused by a MAJOR shift in wind direction, or just the tree gremlins at work; never by a mis-calculation on your part).  ;D

[leweee]

Anyone bounce a skidder down hill on 1 front tire  ;D ? Or back down to a 16 tree to use as a brake, only to have said tree up root and take back tires off the ground and tipped sideway enough to pyp?

yes :

[Gary_C]

Yep, you are all qualified. Not sure if congratulations or condolences are in order.   

Just don't try for the Master Logger in this subject.    :

[tlooney]

How about backing up to a turn of logs on a side hill on a dozer on a rock pile and having the rocks roll around underneath you. Where I worked we called that the pucker facter.

[RSteiner]

Well.... I've completed 90% of the course material mentioned in this thread.  One thing not mentioned  that I have done is forget the tailgate was down and back into a tree on the landing giving it that telltale little dimple.

I've had to complete the missing oil and gas cap test several times, but so far the oil in the fuel test only once.

Randy

[David_c]

Also get out there drop a few trees go to limb and mark for bucking at landing. DanG forgot tape in truck. Go get tape start marking, and cut said tape. Go get another and proceed to cut that one too.

[Nate Surveyor]

Garry C,

I for one am in favor of leaving the OIL cap off. This leaves a nice oil streak on your leg, and when it is used motor oil, makes you feel yicky all day!

I have done that SEVERAL times!

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :'(

[WDH]

I successfully completed the test of running over your chainsaw with the tractor........

[beenthere]

I'm hopin this will keep me from learnin that 'run-over' lesson.  So far, its been real handy for the saw to have a place to 'ride'.

[Mooseherder]

Gotta make me one of dose beenthere. ;)
You gotta patent? :D

[Burlkraft]

Ya packin' a 660 on da udder side.... ???   ???   ;D ;D

[beenthere]

Two slabs a plywood separated by couple glued-in narrow pieces.

[Tom]

Does the bar hold the engine up without damaging the bar during your evel knevel tractor stunts?  Do you feel a need for a small platform beneath the engine?

[beenthere]

Yep, evel couldn't dislodge dat thing. It takes a pretty straight shot to slide it in and slide it out. Not much slop in the top and bottom of the scabbard, and the blade goes all the way in. At least, so far so good. 

evel knevel tractor stunts?   gonna ponder dat awhile....... ;D ;D

[beenthere]

Ya packin' a 660 on da udder side.... ???   ???   ;D ;D

I'd prolly needa upgrade to a orange tractor ta do dat trick......... ;D