You're not a logger until you ---

[WDH]

Green is the proper color for tractors..........John Deere green!

[treebucker]

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Oh, one of the other things you must experience is to get your saw stuck while bucking logs. Then walk back to your pickup to get your spare saw, and then get that saw stuck right next to the first one.   :  Been there, done that too. But I have one advantage in using the harvester to go around bucking logs. If I do get my chainsaw stuck, that 12 ton gorilla can just grab that tree and shake the saw loose.  8)

Yep, had 4 saws. Figured I would start a 3rd to get the other 2 out before anyone noticed. No, the other 2 wouldn't start. Got caught by the wisecrackers.

Yep, oil in the gas tank and gas in the oil tank more than once. But something about my nature - I've always caught it before starting the saw. :D

Yep to taking the head off the bar stuck in a large tree - wait for the wind to finish her.

Dropping a 18" WO. Top was broke out. Remaining trunk was doubled over to within 4' of the ground. It started falling where I intended then the top of the doubled-over trunk hit the ground. It reversed course and headed for me. I abandoned my favorite saw but the oak quickly fell in love with it.

When these things come to light, it's both a blessing and an embarassment to have a brother who works at a chainsaw repair shop clean up the mess.

[arojay]

These posts read like an episode of "This Is Your Life".  Maybe I'll just stay in bed tomorrow morning, with my oily, gassy saw pants hanging by the door.

[leweee]

It reversed course and headed for me. I abandoned my favorite saw but the oak quickly fell in love with it.

Maple loving Husky to death.......it happens : :'(

[Burlkraft]

It reversed course and headed for me. I abandoned my favorite saw but the oak quickly fell in love with it.

Maple loving Husky to death.......it happens : :'(

Did ya give her a proper burial.... ???   ???   ;D  ;D

[Burlkraft]

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

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

My saws do match match my tractor real nice don't they......       

[onionman]

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

Uh.... yes

[Nate Surveyor]

Get named in a lawsuit, because you cut trees, and now the neighbor is accusing you of cutting across the boundary line... and he has no survey, and you have no survey, just a flagged line, of unknown origin...

As a Surveyor, I have seen it.

N

[Ed_K]

 Here's something you don't do often. After the 2nd hitch I got back to the cut,shut the skidder off and just sat there and enjoyed the beauty of the day, It was a perfect day today. Even if I did hang 3 trees  ;D .

[KGNC]

Did ya give her a proper burial.... ???   ???   ;D  ;D

Looks like you could just kick a little dirt on it and it's buried. ;)

[leweee]

Sorry to say boys....she was X zoomed so to speak. ;D
   That Husky became on organ donor for other aging Huskys. 8) (cylinder & piston survived)
All the broken plastic & unusable parts are in a box.( labeled THE MORGEto be a constant reminder to do things the right way the first time) :

[twobears]

GARY-C:what does a guy have to do to be a master logger??
i think i know but,i just had to ask.. :

delbert

[Burlkraft]

Twobears...That's an easy one.....All of the above... :D   :D   :D   :D

[twobears]

i must be a master logger then...lmao!! i,ve did the gas/oil cap thing plenty of time,put a chain on backwards a  time or two,crushed a few saws,i even did the down hill skidder on one tire deal.plus,backwards down a very steep long mountain on a 540 jd.the trail got all iced over and i didn,t make one trip.i bet i skated backwards over 300 yards.i,ll never forget that one.the same winter i slide backwards down a steep creek bank and when,the back tire dropped in a old skidder rut the skidder stood right on it,s tail.i was sitting in the seat looking right straight up at god.. it stayed that way to as i climbed down the side of it.i walked to the landing and told my boss.he picked on me and told me to get back on it and drive it out of there.but,once he saw it he didn,t even wanta get next to it much less on it..lol if it had flipped over backwards i would have ended up right in the creek at minus 20.
the last thing i did in the woods was use my left arm to stop a kickback.i knew it couldn,t stop the kickback and the chain break didn,t kick on even tho my hand just ticked the corner of it and it always worked great before that day.i knew it was going to hit me either in the side of my neck or hit me in the chest so i blocked it with my arm.it hit me just above my wrist and twisted around my forearm into the inside of my elbow.my doctor just laughed when,i asked how many stitches i ended up with.

delbert

[Stephen Alford]

The thing about chainsaws and stitches is you want to count them going in so when you get them out "this time "you get all of them. Stephen.

[twobears]

most of the stiches where inside my arm.the only thing the doc took out was the stainless steel wires he used to hold my skin closed.when,i had my cast on i keep wondering why it felt kike something keep catching on the inside of my cast as i moved my arm.i about fell over when,the nurse took my cast off after two weeks.it looked like somebody made twist ties out of stainless steel welding wire to hold me together.the best part was when he used a set of sears craftsman side cutters to snip them so he could get them out..i felt right at home.. ;D
i think the funnest thing i ever did was grab a skidder with a log loader as a guy drove thur the landing.i grabbed the arch and stood the skidder right on it,s nose...the look on the drivers face was priceless..lol

delbert

[Greenedive]

Made my back cut...turned to get back from the tree...and slipped and fell....threw the saw out in front of me before I hit the ground...right up against a chunk of wood laying on the ground...chain break wasn't working (bad point about those Huskys)...so there I was....laying full-length, flat on the ground with my finger on the trigger...and the saw blade against the top of my hard hat....thunk thunk thunk thunk

[leweee]

Greenedive.....your a lucky man. 8)

[WDH]

Who wooda thunk..................

[thurlow]

used a set of sears craftsman side cutters them out..i felt right at home.. ;D

In another place and another dimension  ;D, many, many years ago, I needed a farm trailer load of yellow poplar.  Had some trees growing around the edge of a pasture, each one standing alone.  Collected my brother and stuff and went to the field.  This was when I was young and foolish........as opposed to old and foolish; didn't own a hard hat.  Both of us looked the first tree over and saw nothing to worry about.  When it started over, a limb about the size of my forearm and 4 foot long came down and hit me a glancing blow right on my haid.  It knocked me down, but I didn't think I was hurt.  My brother looked and said it didn't look bad, but I probably needed some stitches.  Went by the house to tell my wife we were going to the E R.  I was bleeding like a stuck hog, so my brother went inside and said "thurlow's" not hurt bad, but we're going to the E R.  Walked in; they weren't busy for once;  I said, "You oughta see the other guy".  None of the nurses cracked a smile.   So they put in 4 or 5 stitches and said, "You can get someone to take them out in a week or so.  Time came, just me and my wife around.........she's a little squeamish, but got her fingernail clippers and eyebrow tweezers; cut and pulled the first one.  It hurt worse than the tree limb hitting me.  I said, "*DanG, woman, DON'T PULL THE KNOT THROUGH MY SKIN."  :D

[leweee]

 :D  :D  :D thurlow..... now that paints a great picture. :D  :D  :D

[fuzzybear]

get 3/4 ton 4wd stuck in the mud....get skidder stuck trying to pull out truck....get d6 stuck trying to pull out skidder......give up and climb onto atv to go home and get it stuck.....walk 10 km to the cabin and realize you left keys to your car back in the truck.....decide you really could use a beer rite about now......only to remember you drank the last one a couple of days ago.......

[Nate Surveyor]

  I said, "*DanG, woman, DON'T PULL THE KNOT THROUGH MY SKIN."  :D

'Bout killed me laughing!



Nate

[DoubleD]

Until you put a new chain on your chainsaw and hit 6 rocks hidden below leaves time after time you filed the chain  >:( :D :D ;D

[Black_Bear]

Got a delimber stuck under a train trestle once while we were moving it between jobs. Had to flatten all the tires on the flatbed, unchain the boom (old Harricana with bolt-on head, not hydraulic) and rock the boom back and forth to get through the trestle. Traffic was backed up about 1/2 mile in each direction.

Had a former co-worker plow a TJ 380 into an interstate overpass. It had 600 hours on it. Buckled that skidder into a nice "vee" shape.

Used to work with a guy we called "two hitch twang". That poor boy couldn't keep choker cables or main cables on his skidder. Finally watched him one day; he was trying to winch in his trees but what he didn't realize was that he was parked on two of the trees. We ran JD 640s, the winch popped those cables like they were made of solder wire.

I was working a steep slope once and had 5-6 rock maples behind me. While descending the slope my blade got driven into the ground while it was all the way up. Had to go get some shovels, dig under the blade, block the blade up, and try to free her up. Somebody mentioned pucker factor; I know what they mean!!

Unfortunately, I can relate to just about all of the stories from up above. I figured becoming a forester/land surveyor would alleviate these problems. Still, it sucks when you have to walk 1.5 miles into a tract only to realize you forgot the map or flagging to mark the line.

Oh well, if it was easy everybody would be doing it. 

Ed