Dirt bike logging?

[Hilltop366]

[Hilltop366]

Bigger logs?  More bikes.

[Old Greenhorn]

Wow, and I thought I worked hard getting my logs out!
 And before anybody suggests it, "NO", I am not going to try to apply this to mushroom logging.

[thecfarm]

WOW is right.
If you don't know how to tie a knot, tie a lot!!!   
That's a hard days work!!!!!
You don't want a slacker in that bunch!!!!

[Southside]

Who knew that Yamaha built a forwarder? 

[barbender]

Easier on the trucks if you make contact🤷

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Why?  If they have logs to log, if the logs have value, then why don't they have logging equipment like loggers in other countries do? 

Yes I understand they may not have the means.  I get that they are doing the most they can with what they DO have.   But what are they doing wrong, and obviously HAVE been doing wrong for some time, that they have no better way to log?

[teakwood]

Perfect logging, chainsaw guy in flip flops and shorts smoking a cigarette , who needs a  felling cut, lol.  If you bike stops at a incline just aim for the higher side of the trail to lay on!

[Southside]

Easier on the trucks if you make contact🤷

Man I left that alone, but you sure came in fast with it!!  

[barbender]

 Self depreciating humor is sometimes a defensive mechanism😂

[Hilltop366]

And before anybody suggests it, "NO", I am not going to try to apply this to mushroom logging.

I'd be lying if I said "the thought never crossed my mind". 

[WhitePineJunky]

Mopads and dirt bikes are the uni tool over there lol, have you seen how many people they fit on one motorcycle? They make as busses too 😆

[Old Greenhorn]

I'd be lying if I said "the thought never crossed my mind". 
Yes, and I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I could see that coming with my eyes closed.

[Magicman]

I loved it because it is doing it with what you have to do it with.

I hope that they don't run out of rope and I love what thecfarm said:

"If you don't know how to tie a knot, tie a lot!!!"

[Old Greenhorn]

Lynn, you are spot on. I laughed hard at Cfarms comment because it brought back a flood of memories covering many decades, from that of a young Scout trying to learn all the knots, and then trying to learn to tie them all in timed events and competing with an old Scoutmaster who was REALLY good at it and I could rarely beat, up through all the firefighting classes and disciplines I had to learn and master for low angle rescue, firefighter rescue, and swiftwater rescue. This last, we had a senior instructor who could tie just about all the needed knots one handed after hundreds of hors of practice, He was really good and he taught us some amazing rigging setups. Some were very complex with a bunch of hardware, but some were just rope and nothing else and produced a heck of a lot of force (we pulled over a telephone pole we were using for an anchor once, by accident, with no pulleys, just human power).  My first class with that instructor was when he dubbed me the 'knot fairy' and had me teaching the folks that were slower to pick it up. (At one point he offered me a teaching job). Yeah, that guy would not buy the "Tie a lot" method. 10 seconds to tie a knot correctly was a bit too long for him.
 What impresses me is an aborist who can tie a knot in a line that gets about 5.000 pounds of load on it, but then unties really easy when cleaning up. I still have some figure eights on a bight I have not been able to untie after 5 years. I call them 'rope features'.

[Peter Drouin]

Hard-working bunch. 

[woodroe]

I'll admit to trying logging with a snowmobile   
. Use what ya got and if that don't work upgrade.
Those dirt bike loggers are resourceful I'll give em that.

[Dom]

I admired their skidder trails,those are next level up!

Definitely can do attitude. 

[Magicman]

The tire chains weren't bad.    

[Southside]

It's similar to the old IH tractors with the T/A (Torque Assist) when he gets the push to get going. 

[VB1977]

I came bouncing into this thread thinking a small dirtbike would be a great idea for saving time and energy getting to the far end of a trail for logging.  Then I saw those two videos and a) I was shocked, b) I laughed out loud.  I have been backpacking gear in with a pack similar to this
http://www.chainsawstoday.com/chainsaw-backpack-review-my-recommendation/
and I'm thinking there's got to be a better way.  But regarding those videos... count me out fellas!

[beenthere]

$423 will get you one.