Feller buncher

[JHH]

We don't see many of these because we are Ag mostly. These are neat. Putting injectors in.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

843L?

Don't see them on rubber tires around here, everything is on tracks.

 

[Silver]

Ya, other than the buncher head that doesn't look anything like what they use here. Never actually seen one on a wheel loader platform before. Interesting.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

I've got a couple hundred hours seat time in a tigercat rubber tire buncher I ran for a guy a few hours away from here during breakup. Very quick and efficient in good ground like a pine plantation. Utterly useless in soft ground, deep snow, steep terrain, etc.

Before I decided to sell out of the logging business I was a few signatures away from owning a tigercat tracked hot saw.

 

[SmokinM]

A boat load of those here. Not many tracked machines. You would be surprised where those guys will take those things. Steep doesn’t mean anything to them of course neither does rolling them over. Although they say if you flip one end over end that hurts! Occasionally it will get bad enough they have to chain them up. I always find it interesting how far away you can hear that head running. That sound carries for miles.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

Flopping a buncher over gets old fast, also hard on the operator (got the scars to prove it). Anything on rubber tires runs chains or OTT tracks year-round here if it has any hope of producing. A leveling cab tracked buncher is much more productive in our ground conditions.

 

[Silver]

Flopping a buncher over gets old fast, also hard on the operator (got the scars to prove it). Anything on rubber tires runs chains or OTT tracks year-round here if it has any hope of producing. A leveling cab tracked buncher is much more productive in our ground conditions.

Same program up here.

 

[cowman82]

they ran them in the appalachians on pretty much straight up and down ground. chains on them. i would never take anything where those boys would take things.. i wouldn't even run my quad on some of those logging roads they made they were so straight up. These were the things that grab and drag the logs .. skidder I think they are called.. .. not grab and cut them like that one..

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

If you think they ran a rubber tired buncher on steep ground wait until you see the ground you can take a long undercarriage leveling cab tracked machine.

 

[chaded]

they ran them in the appalachians on pretty much straight up and down ground. chains on them. i would never take anything where those boys would take things.. i wouldn't even run my quad on some of those logging roads they made they were so straight up. These were the things that grab and drag the logs .. skidder I think they are called.. .. not grab and cut them like that one..

We had our place logged and they had a skidder with chains and there was some spots that was pretty much like you are talking about. I won’t use those roads with my sxs because they are too steep.