What's everyone running for processors

[Jasonwolf2013]

I'm running a Deere 2154 with a 622b Waratah. Lengths have been within spec,
Running 140stems/hr in medium spruce.

[bushmechanic]

We are running a 2000 Rottne Rapid SMV with a Logmax 5000 and a 2003 Timberjack 1070 with a 745. Our lengths are good until something shags up

[1270d]

14 Ponsse scorpion with H7 head processing mostly hardwood.

Where are you out of Jason?  I'm picturing Canadian beetle spruce?

[barbender]

What's the Deere 2154, one of the big track carriers?

[chevytaHOE5674]

What's the Deere 2154, one of the big track carriers?

Yeah it's like a 67,000lbs carrier. Big machine.

[barbender]

There are quite a few Deere 703 and 803 processors working around here. I don't really understand the draw, unless you are continously in very big wood, the rubber tire processors will nearly cut circles around them. I know one crew traded in a 703 on a Ponsse Ergo 8w, they said on their third day in the new machine they beat the biggest production day they ever had in the 703, and didn't feel all beat up either.

[1270d]

The 2154 is a tailswing  machine.   They don't usually move around much, more sitting on a landing processing decks.

[chevytaHOE5674]

Or working strictly in clear cuts where there is nothing to swing into.

[barbender]

They look better suited to loading, and processing big stuff on a landing. Shovel logging, I guess?

[chevytaHOE5674]

This past winter I saw two of those big JD processors clear cutting big overgrown aspen down in Northern Wisconsin. They weren't the fastest things in the world but they had no trouble holding onto big trees and swinging them wherever they wanted. 

[Jasonwolf2013]

I'm in NW Ontario mostly softwood, Jackpine and Black Spruce.
We have 3 processors running double shifts. I will post a link of me running it last week.

https://youtu.be/iKEIzZ7zpy8

[Jasonwolf2013]

What's the Deere 2154, one of the big track carriers?

Yup it has the heavy under carriage.

[Jasonwolf2013]

They look better suited to loading, and processing big stuff on a landing. Shovel logging, I guess?

They are based roadside, all piles are skidded prior to entering the road and we work ourselves in one side of the road and do the other side on our way out. Piling 2 sorts- 10' and 16'. Doing about 100 cord per 10hr shift.

[Ken]

Jasonwolf2013
I'm assuming the spruce you are processing in the video is all destined for a stud mill.  If so it seems they are quite forgiving on butt rot and crooked stems.  I'm thinking the wood buyers for my products would give me quite a bit of grief over some of those stems.  I'm also thinking processing roadside could become very monotonous after a while.  Must make for a long day sometimes.

I currently have a 2014 John Deere 703jh with a H480C head.  Although I would like to have a buncher to do the falling on stands with lots of regen we currently fall and process at the stump and forward to roadside. 

There are quite a few Deere 703 and 803 processors working around here. I don't really understand the draw, unless you are continously in very big wood, the rubber tire processors will nearly cut circles around them. I know one crew traded in a 703 on a Ponsse Ergo 8w, they said on their third day in the new machine they beat the biggest production day they ever had in the 703, and didn't feel all beat up either.

I looked at rubber tired machines when I was exploring my options.  A couple of drawbacks to me were the significant extra upfront costs and the extra complexity of the rubber tired harvesters.   Seemed to be a lot more sensors and possible trouble points.  Maybe my next one

[coxy]

I don't know how you guys can sit there for 10+h a day and just run trees through the head like that I would be put in a rubber room after about 3 days of that if I didn't fall asleep and get fired first     my hat goes  off to you guys that do do it    jmop but I would rather count the needles on the trees first  :D

[Jasonwolf2013]

Ken,

Yes it is for a stud mill, everything you see cut is within sawmills spec.

I have only been running it for 7 months, with the ground we work in forwarding process would be less efficient.

Jasonwolf2013
I'm assuming the spruce you are processing in the video is all destined for a stud mill.  If so it seems they are quite forgiving on butt rot and crooked stems.  I'm thinking the wood buyers for my products would give me quite a bit of grief over some of those stems.  I'm also thinking processing roadside could become very monotonous after a while.  Must make for a long day sometimes.

I currently have a 2014 John Deere 703jh with a H480C head.  Although I would like to have a buncher to do the falling on stands with lots of regen we currently fall and process at the stump and forward to roadside. 

There are quite a few Deere 703 and 803 processors working around here. I don't really understand the draw, unless you are continously in very big wood, the rubber tire processors will nearly cut circles around them. I know one crew traded in a 703 on a Ponsse Ergo 8w, they said on their third day in the new machine they beat the biggest production day they ever had in the 703, and didn't feel all beat up either.

I looked at rubber tired machines when I was exploring my options.  A couple of drawbacks to me were the significant extra upfront costs and the extra complexity of the rubber tired harvesters.   Seemed to be a lot more sensors and possible trouble points.  Maybe my next one