Ran across this video of logging in mountainous area.
Wow, that is way cool. love the terrain. very hard logging job. hats off to those fallers.
I actual thought it was Heli logging. they do that a lot back where i'm from, in Switzerland. they fly out logs and trees because high up in the mountain there is no other way to bring the logs down. everything has to be ready and moving quickly when the Heli finally arrives because they have a expensive hourly rate!
I've seen some heli logging videos from Switzerland too—seriously impressive stuff. The coordination and speed they work at is next level.
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There was a show on Canadian TV about logging that included Heli logging too. It was done Gold-Rush style. They were bringing out huge trees. Grab onto them while they are still standing, cut the base and off they go.
Thanks for sharing the video. I'd like to go out there and experience that climate and terrain. I'm sure I'd be sucking air, spending most of my life at 82' above sea level or below. Do any of you know if the saw he was running was a 592?
Makes me appreciate the WRC that I was able to buy last year.
Now that you mention that Jake, how is that going? did you saw and sell it already?
there was a topic right?
I've sawed about half of it. Lots of learning going along with it. I'm going to do fine with it $$$ wise, but as I was afraid of, I'm developing a market for it, and now working on replacing my inventory. Once I put in the work in to get a ball rolling, I don't want to let off the gas.
you need to update that topic and put some pics up
Quote from: caveman on June 30, 2025, 09:29:36 PMThanks for sharing the video. I'd like to go out there and experience that climate and terrain. I'm sure I'd be sucking air, spending most of my life at 82' above sea level or below. Do any of you know if the saw he was running was a 592?
592 on the bigger stands like in that video I think, 572 in smaller diameter stands.
Quote from: rusticretreater on June 30, 2025, 11:53:37 AMThere was a show on Canadian TV about logging that included Heli logging too. It was done Gold-Rush style. They were bringing out huge trees. Grab onto them while they are still standing, cut the base and off they go.
Those guys did a lot of single stem heli work. Select trees are climbed for limbing and topping then 2 seriously wedged felling cuts that leave a chunk of holding wood. The heli drops a grapple over the top of the tree and rocks back and forth to snap the holding wood, then the log is flown to a dump. Pretty technical all around.
Helicopters have become really expensive as in
$8,000 per hour.
It only makes sense to use them for the most high value timber like old growth western red cedar on Vancouver Island, BC. That is where the TV show takes place.
I worked on a mine site in SE Alaska and all of our support was by helicopter. I did a timber survey, water quality, soil survey and lots of other things. We could see 15 mountain goats from the air, but never saw one on the ground. We could herd the salmon with the prop wash. It is exciting flying but in bad weather it can be too exciting.