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Offline 1270d

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Harvester video
« on: February 26, 2011, 08:55:06 pm »
 sorry about the audio, my flipshare program did it     

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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2011, 09:07:53 pm »
Always neat to see how different things are done.  Amazes me what those machines can do in skilled hands.  Thanks for the video. 

Makes me wonder if your good at video games, with all that joystick time? :)
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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2011, 09:10:44 pm »
that was interesting, where in the U P are ya at?
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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2011, 09:38:41 pm »
this job was near Republic   I live in the Ishpeming area
I do OK at the games, but have given them up mostly to spend that much more time with my lil boy

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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2011, 09:46:48 pm »
i wish i had the money for a forwarder, and processor. there are ALOT of pine plantations around here, i could get alot of thinning jobs.
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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2011, 02:47:44 am »
I do OK at the games, but have given them up mostly to spend that much more time with my lil boy

Good for you! Take that boy outside! In hind sight, the worse thing I ever did was get my boy most all the video games he wanted.  At 17 he is addicted to them and will hardly leave his room.
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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2011, 06:03:54 am »
nice vid mate, hows your wrist.


FP - i have a brother like that, hes 16 wont do anything. during school holidays he will spend 3 weeks straight 15 hours a day on the stupid thing.
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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2011, 06:58:28 am »
Maybe it's just the old rocker in me but I think the music goes well with the video.

Thanks for sharing it.
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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2011, 09:31:47 am »
Is that Hollie's machine?  I stopped and talked with one of there operators working a brand new possessor like that and asked how the payment could be made cutting those little pecker poles, he gave me that look and said it would cut 100 cord per day, are those numbers right?
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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2011, 10:52:00 am »
Tammy and Stacy ran into one of the Holli's at the State dart tournament in Midland. I'm not sure who it could have been, because they forgot the first name, but they said he was my age, so it could not have been Dave.  He noticed their Forestry Forum jackets and they told him about the forum. He told them he was going to show up here, but he may have forgotten or lost the info. I think the only webpage you find if you search for them is my old archived Timberbuyer's network site. [lmgtfy]Holli forest products[/lmgtfy]
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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2011, 01:57:50 pm »
I believe i have met the dart player, not sure though.  this is not holli's but they did own one identical to it at one time.   

I have never cut 100 cord with this machine.  In this spruce i was cutting 35 to 40 cd per day cutting 130- 160 stems per hour.  my best with this was just shy of 70 and I thought that was pretty good.    In first thinning pine (2 8' sticks) i could come close to 40 sometimes but for me that was a mental workout with close to 200 stems an hour.  with the newer machine i am running now i can usually  cut 50 to 65 cord a day in most  stands including large diameter hardwood thinning. (20plus inch dbh)

Holli does have some of the best operators in the country though.  They've won the forwarder championship several years in a row now, and one of their guys even went to sweden to compete at Elmia Wood.  He took 5th i believe.   

here is his championship run in sweden

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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2011, 03:09:27 pm »
Thats who I ran into, he was telling me about his European competition, I didn't want to question his numbers but they seamed a bit high.
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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2011, 03:45:13 pm »
I have never ran one, but i have spent many grueling hours on a loader, very good video, it had me moving all over in my wheelchair trying to swing the boom faster, got my heart rant right up there :D
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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2011, 03:59:08 pm »
You have to be in really nice wood to cut 100 cords a day, 50 is more typical. The way the payments are made on those machines is a steady diet of wood going through the processor head, people go belly up in cut to length all the time.  Treefarmer87, good luck on cut to length down south. Although the wood is ideally suited, the mentality down there is not. I know of several operations that tried to make a go of it down south and it didn't work. People can't get past the price per ton. It costs more to log CTL. But you are left with a better stand, higher value timber in the future.
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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2011, 05:58:33 pm »
your right,its hard to make it on plantation wood down here. i like how good the woods looks with CTL.
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Re: Harvester video
« Reply #15 on: March 03, 2011, 09:56:48 am »
Dave Holli, Shotgun, and I were in Forestry School together. Michigan Tech class of 1961. Our 50th reunion this year. ;)
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