Campinspecter loading logs 2

The load being finished , putting the binders over the load , and the second loader stamping the logs so they can be identified as to witch setting they have come from , and a shot of the loaded truck leaving .

 

How long until the next truck to be loaded is in place?

 

Man Allan you have probably handled more wood in a day than most of us have handled in a lifetime!

Gary

 

Just had one truck on this haul. Turn around time would have him back in 30 minutes. Because of the steepness of the ground, many of the logs are still full length and still need to be bucked into preferred lengths so the turn around time is used for this processing.

 

The most important logs were the firewood logs that I would set aside for myself .

 

That looks like the most awkward loader!! I guess its benefit is that it can pic up those monsters?

And I too work in the wood business. Here in civilization it takes the trucks usually no less than an hour, more like 2 -6 hours turn around time I can believe a 30 turn around! Y'all must of been right at the mill!

 

With the telescoping Snorkel which is fully extended in the avatar, the end of the snorkel is 110 feet from the apron giving lots of reach. So when you bring logs off a high or steep bank, you can sit back from the log you are yarding and do not have to be directly below the log like a hydraulic loader has to. The hydraulic grapple is definitely faster, but the wood that they are loading is also very close to the truck. There are places where I was out past the end of the snorkel for every log loaded.
I have operated the hydraulic machines, BUT they were just not as much fun to play with like the cable loader.
My generation is really the last group that enjoyed the cable loader. You can take someone off the street with good hand eye coordination and in a couple of months have fair hydraulic operator. For the cable machine, that time frame is 5 years.
One of the aspects of this load that made it look awkward was the fact that the load was spliced. The shorter logs in the center are placed end to end. Just putting one un-spliced stack of short logs in the center looks a lot slicker but I took pride in getting maximum weight on every load.

 

Down south as y'all guys say we have laws. Gross weight is like 82500 so you don't have to be to good to get that on a truck. Heaviest loads I have seen on scale tickets is 110k gross. Tractors here usually in the 28-30k range so that tells you the puny about of wood that is hauled.