Northern Rockies/Alberta Tree clearing Whitewater BC

[Tricia]

Cutting new trails with this machine is nuts. Just watching how they do this is crazy cool.

 

[Sibhusky]

When we had thinning done on our property the first year, the machine sliced at the base, rotated the tree and then the tree ran horizontally through the jaws, being sliced into logs as it went, for the trees we weren't selling to the lumber company. The ones being sold were just sliced and piled on the truck bed. Very slick operation. Nothing was yanked out of the ground it would have looked like a war zone.

 

[Bad Bob]

Some of the commercial logging equipment is absolutely amazing! That machine is a 'feller buncher', and it isn't even a big one. Huge labor savers. If you like equipment and you get the chance go to a logging equipment show; lots of people in plad shirts and huge machines..

 

[Jilly]

Geez, maybe I notice the small stuff...the machine is chained to something, most like a new grooming winch post.

 

[Tricia]

Geez, maybe I notice the small stuff...the machine is chained to something, most like a new grooming winch post.

I'm sure it has to be stabilized on many levels so the tree doesn't topple the equipment.

 

[fatbob]

How does he know how deep to cut into the snowpack. Presumably they survey depth of treewells first or maybe they want to build pillow lines?