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Stars Wars logging machine?
I just got a pic and a very short video clip of a new feller buncher
which has no wheels. It looks like a bug with six legs and a boom arm. It also looks like it can handle steeper ground with no damage to soils. This machine looks rather slow but is really cool to look at. I don't think it has as many uses as a standard cut-to-length processor and how would you get the logs off of that steeper ground? (helicopter?) I can email anyone a pic but the video is too dang huge for me to send over the Internet. Larry |
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Stars Wars logging machine?
Larry Harrell wrote:
I just got a pic and a very short video clip of a new feller buncher which has no wheels. It looks like a bug with six legs and a boom arm. It also looks like it can handle steeper ground with no damage to soils. This machine looks rather slow but is really cool to look at. I don't think it has as many uses as a standard cut-to-length processor and how would you get the logs off of that steeper ground? (helicopter?) I can email anyone a pic but the video is too dang huge for me to send over the Internet. Larry Is this an old machine or a new one? We had a Spider working in this area about twenty years ago. The description fits. It's basically a back hoe frame and engine, with hydraulic legs and a cutting tool on an arm. Very interesting to watch work on a steep slope. The actual name was a "something" Superhoe. Made in Norway. The same rig was converted afterward to a backhoe with thumb, two legs and drop down wheels, and used for in-stream restoration jobs. It's in Grays Harbor county now. |
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Stars Wars logging machine?
Mhagen wrote in message ...
Larry Harrell wrote: I just got a pic and a very short video clip of a new feller buncher which has no wheels. It looks like a bug with six legs and a boom arm. It also looks like it can handle steeper ground with no damage to soils. This machine looks rather slow but is really cool to look at. I don't think it has as many uses as a standard cut-to-length processor and how would you get the logs off of that steeper ground? (helicopter?) I can email anyone a pic but the video is too dang huge for me to send over the Internet. Larry Is this an old machine or a new one? We had a Spider working in this area about twenty years ago. The description fits. It's basically a back hoe frame and engine, with hydraulic legs and a cutting tool on an arm. Very interesting to watch work on a steep slope. The actual name was a "something" Superhoe. Made in Norway. The same rig was converted afterward to a backhoe with thumb, two legs and drop down wheels, and used for in-stream restoration jobs. It's in Grays Harbor county now. It is brand spanking new but probably an old idea. The six legs help it balance on steeper ground and the boom is centered. At first, the video looked like a fake but, I've gotten this from two different sources. Maybe the PNW can thin steeper ground, after all. I can't see it being very economical, with it being pretty slow and with no forwarder to deal with the logs. Just another "cool tool" at the forester's disposal G Larry |
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Larry Harrell wrote:
Mhagen wrote in message ... Larry Harrell wrote: I just got a pic and a very short video clip of a new feller buncher which has no wheels. It looks like a bug with six legs and a boom arm. It also looks like it can handle steeper ground with no damage to soils. This machine looks rather slow but is really cool to look at. I don't think it has as many uses as a standard cut-to-length processor and how would you get the logs off of that steeper ground? (helicopter?) I can email anyone a pic but the video is too dang huge for me to send over the Internet. Larry Is this an old machine or a new one? We had a Spider working in this area about twenty years ago. The description fits. It's basically a back hoe frame and engine, with hydraulic legs and a cutting tool on an arm. Very interesting to watch work on a steep slope. The actual name was a "something" Superhoe. Made in Norway. The same rig was converted afterward to a backhoe with thumb, two legs and drop down wheels, and used for in-stream restoration jobs. It's in Grays Harbor county now. It is brand spanking new but probably an old idea. The six legs help it balance on steeper ground and the boom is centered. At first, the video looked like a fake but, I've gotten this from two different sources. Maybe the PNW can thin steeper ground, after all. I can't see it being very economical, with it being pretty slow and with no forwarder to deal with the logs. Just another "cool tool" at the forester's disposal G Larry It was designed to do high angle thinnings in doghair DF and WH. Stand ages were 90-120 and slopes were 100%++. Fire caused even aged stands were common in the Quilcene area. These days they'd probably use a running skyline or even multi span. The trees were cut full length, gathered and bundled. A yarder would haul the whole bundle up the strip. The landings were very large but had a portable chip & saw mill set up. Everything went in one end and two by fours and chips blew out the other. Hog fuel was selling at a good price then. The sales were set up to be a shade over break even - this was a better alternative than clearcutting the slopes to get some regeneration. |
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Stars Wars logging machine?
Hey guys, I just saw that machine somewhere recently (can't remember where). It is faster than it
looks and does not contribute to as much soil compaction as rubber tires or tracks do. It is also faster than you would think! The future? I'm not sure, but it certainly is not a bad idea - as you say, I think it has been around for a long time! -Geoff Mhagen wrote: Larry Harrell wrote: Mhagen wrote in message ... Larry Harrell wrote: I just got a pic and a very short video clip of a new feller buncher which has no wheels. It looks like a bug with six legs and a boom arm. It also looks like it can handle steeper ground with no damage to soils. This machine looks rather slow but is really cool to look at. I don't think it has as many uses as a standard cut-to-length processor and how would you get the logs off of that steeper ground? (helicopter?) I can email anyone a pic but the video is too dang huge for me to send over the Internet. Larry Is this an old machine or a new one? We had a Spider working in this area about twenty years ago. The description fits. It's basically a back hoe frame and engine, with hydraulic legs and a cutting tool on an arm. Very interesting to watch work on a steep slope. The actual name was a "something" Superhoe. Made in Norway. The same rig was converted afterward to a backhoe with thumb, two legs and drop down wheels, and used for in-stream restoration jobs. It's in Grays Harbor county now. It is brand spanking new but probably an old idea. The six legs help it balance on steeper ground and the boom is centered. At first, the video looked like a fake but, I've gotten this from two different sources. Maybe the PNW can thin steeper ground, after all. I can't see it being very economical, with it being pretty slow and with no forwarder to deal with the logs. Just another "cool tool" at the forester's disposal G Larry It was designed to do high angle thinnings in doghair DF and WH. Stand ages were 90-120 and slopes were 100%++. Fire caused even aged stands were common in the Quilcene area. These days they'd probably use a running skyline or even multi span. The trees were cut full length, gathered and bundled. A yarder would haul the whole bundle up the strip. The landings were very large but had a portable chip & saw mill set up. Everything went in one end and two by fours and chips blew out the other. Hog fuel was selling at a good price then. The sales were set up to be a shade over break even - this was a better alternative than clearcutting the slopes to get some regeneration. |
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Stars Wars logging machine?
I think I found it at:
http://www.timberjack.com/downloads/...g-Brochure.pdf Geoff Kegerreis wrote in message ... Hey guys, I just saw that machine somewhere recently (can't remember where). It is faster than it looks and does not contribute to as much soil compaction as rubber tires or tracks do. It is also faster than you would think! The future? I'm not sure, but it certainly is not a bad idea - as you say, I think it has been around for a long time! -Geoff Mhagen wrote: Larry Harrell wrote: Mhagen wrote in message ... Larry Harrell wrote: I just got a pic and a very short video clip of a new feller buncher which has no wheels. It looks like a bug with six legs and a boom arm. It also looks like it can handle steeper ground with no damage to soils. This machine looks rather slow but is really cool to look at. I don't think it has as many uses as a standard cut-to-length processor and how would you get the logs off of that steeper ground? (helicopter?) I can email anyone a pic but the video is too dang huge for me to send over the Internet. Larry Is this an old machine or a new one? We had a Spider working in this area about twenty years ago. The description fits. It's basically a back hoe frame and engine, with hydraulic legs and a cutting tool on an arm. Very interesting to watch work on a steep slope. The actual name was a "something" Superhoe. Made in Norway. The same rig was converted afterward to a backhoe with thumb, two legs and drop down wheels, and used for in-stream restoration jobs. It's in Grays Harbor county now. It is brand spanking new but probably an old idea. The six legs help it balance on steeper ground and the boom is centered. At first, the video looked like a fake but, I've gotten this from two different sources. Maybe the PNW can thin steeper ground, after all. I can't see it being very economical, with it being pretty slow and with no forwarder to deal with the logs. Just another "cool tool" at the forester's disposal G Larry It was designed to do high angle thinnings in doghair DF and WH. Stand ages were 90-120 and slopes were 100%++. Fire caused even aged stands were common in the Quilcene area. These days they'd probably use a running skyline or even multi span. The trees were cut full length, gathered and bundled. A yarder would haul the whole bundle up the strip. The landings were very large but had a portable chip & saw mill set up. Everything went in one end and two by fours and chips blew out the other. Hog fuel was selling at a good price then. The sales were set up to be a shade over break even - this was a better alternative than clearcutting the slopes to get some regeneration. -- |
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Stars Wars logging machine?
I just got a pic and a very short video clip of a new feller buncher
which has no wheels. It looks like a bug with six legs and a boom arm. This ? http://www.plustech.fi/Walking1.html |
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Stars Wars logging machine?
Andy Dingley wrote in message . ..
I just got a pic and a very short video clip of a new feller buncher which has no wheels. It looks like a bug with six legs and a boom arm. This ? http://www.plustech.fi/Walking1.html Yep. that's the one and I didn't know it was really a John Deere Larry |
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Stars Wars logging machine?
Michael Hagen wrote in message . ..
Wow. I can see it in the next movie already! Yep, and of course it will be manned by the evil Empire, logging the Ewok planet. With Rey (Spanish for king) as the emperor and an army of feller-bunchers, armed with owl-seeking lasers G. Larry |
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