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General Forestry => Forestry and Logging => Topic started by: Hilltop366 on May 12, 2024, 05:04:29 PM

Title: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: Hilltop366 on May 12, 2024, 05:04:29 PM
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: Hilltop366 on May 12, 2024, 05:25:50 PM
Bigger logs?  More bikes.

Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: Old Greenhorn on May 12, 2024, 06:48:10 PM
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. ffcheesy
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: thecfarm on May 12, 2024, 08:01:19 PM
WOW is right.
If you don't know how to tie a knot, tie a lot!!!  :wacky: 
That's a hard days work!!!!!
You don't want a slacker in that bunch!!!!
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: Southside on May 13, 2024, 12:15:00 AM
Who knew that Yamaha built a forwarder?  ffcheesy
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: barbender on May 13, 2024, 01:14:24 AM
Easier on the trucks if you make contact🤷
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: B.C.C. Lapp on May 13, 2024, 07:31:19 AM
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?
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: teakwood on May 13, 2024, 08:01:16 AM
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!
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: Southside on May 13, 2024, 10:30:40 AM
Quote from: barbender on May 13, 2024, 01:14:24 AMEasier on the trucks if you make contact🤷
Man I left that alone, but you sure came in fast with it!!   ffcheesy
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: barbender on May 13, 2024, 12:57:49 PM
 Self depreciating humor is sometimes a defensive mechanism😂
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: Hilltop366 on May 13, 2024, 05:22:16 PM
Quote from: Old Greenhorn on May 12, 2024, 06:48:10 PMAnd before anybody suggests it, "NO", I am not going to try to apply this to mushroom logging. ffcheesy
I'd be lying if I said "the thought never crossed my mind".  ffcheesy
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: WhitePineJunky on May 13, 2024, 05:38:16 PM
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 😆
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: Old Greenhorn on May 13, 2024, 07:27:22 PM
I'd be lying if I said "the thought never crossed my mind".  ffcheesy
Yes, and I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I could see that coming with my eyes closed. ffcheesy
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: Magicman on May 13, 2024, 08:10:10 PM
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!!!"
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: Old Greenhorn on May 13, 2024, 09:00:33 PM
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'. :wink_2:
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: Peter Drouin on May 14, 2024, 05:50:02 AM
Hard-working bunch.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: woodroe on May 14, 2024, 06:49:01 AM
I'll admit to trying logging with a snowmobile  ffcheesy 
. Use what ya got and if that don't work upgrade.
Those dirt bike loggers are resourceful I'll give em that.
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: Dom on May 14, 2024, 08:54:32 AM
I admired their skidder trails,those are next level up!
:thumbsup:
Definitely can do attitude. 
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: Magicman on May 14, 2024, 02:32:04 PM
The tire chains weren't bad.  :uhoh:   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Dirt bike logging?
Post by: Southside on May 14, 2024, 11:10:27 PM
It's similar to the old IH tractors with the T/A (Torque Assist) when he gets the push to get going.  ffcheesy