Vote on skid carts

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@TaylorJohnson 11633 wrote:

Most of the time a single. A lot of the time I just fell the trees and bucked them ( bucking had more to do with my plan that the felling as far as my skidding went ) so I could hook a drag and skid it to another tree , stop the team and back the cart up unhook the drag hook some more pull it up hook the hole load and go. Sometimes I would pull up to a drag , let some slack out on the load that I had on the cart, pull over the skid I wanted to hook , hook both drags , pull them ahead , back the team up, hook the slack drag tight pull ahead to even them , set them both and go. (In the time it took me to write this down I would have already been on the landing LOL. I am a better logger than typer for sure. )

When I fell a tree putting it in the right spot for the forest is the most important thing. The next thing I do is plan my skid. In the pine in the pics I would use my tape measure out 2 8′ mark the bark on the first one make my cut on the 2nd one. this pine was 6 to 8 sticks ( most any way ) so I would measure out the rest of the sticks wile I was limbing then fell another tree.
After I had 2 fell , limbed and marked I would decide were to buck the wood so that I could easily put a skid together trying to keep every thing in at least 16′ lengths. Most of the time bunching the smaller logs up to the first cut letting the but cut log be hooked by its self. In this way in a row cut you can put big skids together with out a lot of trouble doing the hooking as I described up top.

Taylor:

I know this is a little off topic, but I am hoping you can explain your second paragraph. I cut and bunch logs like you mentioned in the first paragraph and I am interested in any new techniques. I couldn’t quite figure what you were describing.

Thanks.

George

[TaylorJohnson]

George after I read what I wrote I thought it might be hard to follow, so I will try again and probably confuse every one more the second time around LOL. Basically what I would do is fell a tree and measure out all the sticks in the tree wile I was limbing it out. after I had a few down I would make my cuts so I could pull them up together with my cart into bunches to haul out of the bush. It just worked out that a lot of the time I would cut a 16′ , then cut the last 2 sticks off and pull them up to the first and second 16′ logs. Some of them were cut into 10′ ,most of the time just the but cut, then a 16′ ,and so on I would then take all that I could handle( by hand that is ) and pull it up to the first 16′ so sometimes I would have 3 16′ logs together and a ten that I could hook with one chain . When I hook and go the logs pull together in line and I can pull up to my next drag and do the same. If it worked out well I could un- hook one of the chains and re hook the hole load with one chain pull up and get another log or logs . I don’t know if this is making any since or not, if not you can sure give me a call if you want and we can talk some logging I might be able to explain it better on the phone ( or may bey not LOL ) . I usually only carry 2 chains with me and when I hook these drags like this I am hooking at the small end of the but cut ,then running the loose chain around the next log or logs if they are bunched with it past the hooked but cut. Wrap the chain ones and it is ready to haul out of the woods. Taylor Johnson

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