I didn't know you could use a chipper as a grader, didn't think you were going to get it out of the last job area but you did then put it into the sand, thought you were gone but you know what you're doing hats off to you great job.

Oh there we go now the fun begins, I miss those days backing up for a mile or so it got old but it's part of it nowhere to turn around in those hills and mountains. Good job

That CAT winch is amazing. The truck moves like some small RC toy.

14:00 branch finish....years ago in my small excavation business, my foreman used the 4-1 loader bucket on our JD 410 backhoe to grab a juniper tree we had taken down and "swept" the lot after we backfilled a foundation. They were 1/2 acre lots...I was impressed...he called it a "juniper Tree Finish". I like it!!!

@bladerunner6354

4 жыл бұрын

Up here I sweep'em with a gray birch and an excavator. Works PISSAH'

Thats a hell of a winch. If that would of been me it would have broke. I can't count the number of times I've had them break on the dozer.

Now pray for no rain!! Just a curious thought here, would a tandem axle dolly work better than a tractor?Less wear and tear on the road trucks and less weight the skidder has to drag around. Just keep rollin John!

Man that was stressful just watching,can imagine how it was in person, good luck, be safe

This video shows the power of those skidders better than anything else I have seen.

@bladerunner6354

4 жыл бұрын

You ain't seen Jack

Those 2 skidded have some serious pulling power!!!

Well, there's no DUST! Prayers, BLESSINGS and Goomer HUgs!

My uncle and cousin been logging for over 40 years and they put water and antifreeze in there Skidder tires and rap chains around them, it helps out a lot Sir, we are out of Arkansas and Texas,

From 6:00 on, it's really amazing how much stronger a winch is, pulling against the parking brake, rather than leaving the tow vehicle in "drive"

Haven't seen you teem up like that in a while. That got me to laugh pretty good at the end " now we smooth it out with a feather " here comes the skidder with a bundle of bushy logs

The fun joys of logging. Going from 1 extreme to another. 😊😊

@bladerunner6354

4 жыл бұрын

All in the same day, lol

That is just crazy John! That has to be hard on the equipment dragging it through that stuff! Good luck buddy! What a pain just so you can work!

@ericharris893

4 жыл бұрын

Elite Earthworks LLC add regulations and tree rot and disease plus the bugs to the most recent frustrations. If loggin payed good enough you could afford to throw 40 loads of “#3 crushed cobble in the mud holes

I have recovered lots of heavy loads from sand. I reside in a desert area and worked large recovery for a living. Never ever have the stuck unit(semi tractor) apply power. It always causes the unit to sink lower into the sand and then increases drag due to frame/ running gear dragging. This goes for mud also, just in a lessor degree. When pulling the chipper from the rear, you would have increased the chance of getting out by short lining the winch cables(getting closer, increasing the angle, thus taking weight off of the chipper) resulting in taking weight off the tires of the chipper and loading it onto the large tires of the Cats that have massive flotation. Recovery from sand is a science, not just brute force .............regards/thanks for sharing your troubles.

@bebajoro77

5 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more, at least the skidder drivers knew what they were doing even if the semi tractor insisted on digging his wheels in and bellying out . . .

@jeffkonig4968

5 жыл бұрын

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@jeffkonig4968

5 жыл бұрын

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@RU-zm7wj

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, fully loaded lowboys just magically float over the mud (never sink) and put no strain on the cables just by leaving it in neutral and being a dead weight. My experience is in mud, and lots of it, and experience tells me different-I've tried every way.

@pkav8tor

5 жыл бұрын

@@RU-zm7wj What part of this video shows a 'lowboy'? You missed the point Mr "experience".

It would of been a hole lot smoother if the dummy kept his wheels straights

@bladerunner6354

4 жыл бұрын

Ya plus one skidder ahead of the other PULLING is more in unison. Never PUSH on any vehicle. See him pushin' at the turn around with truck turned 90 degrees, lol

@bobmorris9687

4 жыл бұрын

They don't have a clue to what they are doing...

@ronaaserude8225

4 жыл бұрын

@@bladerunner6354 the world would run so smoothly with you in charge huh?

@ronaaserude8225

4 жыл бұрын

@@bobmorris9687 you're right, they're all rookies and never been in a tough situation before, you need to get down there and show them how to do it or they'll never accomplish a thing

I didn't know if you were going to get the chipper out or not. I guess two cats have a lot of pull. Thanks for the video Mr John.

Gonna be able to add a pusher and tag axle on the shaker after that job good thing just movin around the corner sand maybe a lil better for drainage have a good week John

Great video, nice machines!

Shame there isn't some way you could attach a couple sets of tires from the skidders to the chipper. Not enough ground clearance, to much weight on those "little" tires lets them sink right on in. Winter is coming. Will the freeze out help you any with all this muck?

Bloody good winch on that cat.

Skid plate! Yep, these vids have a lot of advice and mine is a skid plate in front of the first trailer axel. Just enough that it has to ride up just before the tyres start cutting dirt. I’m thinking 10 to 12” off the ground at the lowest , full width and five foot length with sya a 20 degree slope.

I hate them ball buster jobs where even the skidders struggle. Nice to get on solid ground again.

I wonder If Freightliner did this in their truck endurance test at the factory? LOL

@bladerunner6354

4 жыл бұрын

Ya, but at the factory they redline it during the test.

Days like that every day seems like a Monday. Keep rolling

I love it when he used the trees as an old broom..

I have seen and hauled alot of wood out of big cuts and never broke up roads like this . Worth while putting in a proper road and cause less wear and tear on machines

No wonder stuff breaks all the time 😂 logging ain’t easy on equipment

Amazing on how much the tractor/semi will take. When is it ever worth getting a lead load of 1x3 crushed rock or stone to put down? I understand you might be a good hour or so away from a gravel pit but is it ever worth building a landing with stone or gravel? I see Lutke will do that on occasion on some large hills to get back to the landing. Thanks!

@stuckboy22110

5 жыл бұрын

Kyle Riegle I have wondered the same.

That's some Tod Hoffman sheet there!

That poor freightliner looked like it was 10 foot longer after it was unhooked.

@royceanderson3389

5 жыл бұрын

Pads Pads Pads, I like Pads and People who know how to set up a Site. Can't wait to see the access Road to the Chipper.

Glad y'all have those machines. 🤔

Best truck in the world

Thought the chipper had become a CAT scraper at one stage. Great work getting it sorted 👍

wow that's awesome. you won that battle.

Stupid question do they allow triple drive axle trucks in Michigan?

That is what turns a Freightliner into a 'Freightshaker'! Tough conditions, good luck! ....13

@bladerunner6354

4 жыл бұрын

and then into a crateliner.

We use to dump pea gravel into soft mud like that at a C&D waste site after Hurricane Katrina. It was the only way to firm it up. We used pea gravel from roof removal jobs.

@bladerunner6354

4 жыл бұрын

How nice of you to recycle hurricanes fury.

man those machines have to be tough !!!

North Carolina has been getting lot's of rain to an we work outside to!

@lewiemcneely9143

5 жыл бұрын

It has been known to happen and yes, we have! I liked watching the timber freeze up while hauling boulders.

I apologize for my English, the driver at the beginning of the video puts the wheels across for entertainment or did he spit on everyone?

I liked the big broom at the end.

That trucker was probably chanting, "Bumper don't fail, bumper don't fail" the whole time. Lol

Would it be a worth while investment to get truck mats?

I thought the chipper was going to tip over. How heavy is it?

Would it be more efficient and cost effective to utilize gravel in building up areas like that in regards to cutting down the time it takes to prep and maintain areas or pads like the job you guys left and the new landing with all of the sand? Seems like it might be or would be but I live in Georgia so I’m very positive it’s not the same in regards to quarry location and etc..... great videos though my friend!!

@FARMALLL666

5 жыл бұрын

GRAVEL COSTS MONEY

@bladerunner6354

4 жыл бұрын

@@FARMALLL666 Time wear and tear lost production site maintainence mud out on highway sunk trucks skidders interrupted FREE!!! Lol

Geez!!! That's some soupy stuff!!

Everybody knows more than the guys doing the job.

That was a hard Pull, but I guess I'd rather have sand than deep mud to mess with

Wondered when the skidder was going to use the winch instead of pulling.

Its like watching the tractor pull.. im just waiting to hear you yell FULL PULL!!!

Man i hope y'all get paid well. Seems like a headache of a job. But gotta get it done though

Hey question for you?? What happens when you level up the chipper and the out riggers are fully down, you come in the next morning and she sunk up to the belly of the beast?? What do you do then to get it leveled back up??

@bladerunner6354

4 жыл бұрын

Judt keep rollin' lol

How much work if they use some wood mats for traction.

Did that off and on for 30 years and the high mountains of Washington State steep cliffs and switchbacks I need a cat.

Those are some cool cat machines

How come you guys don’t run tire chains on the skidders?

Holy crap now I know what that looks like when we have those kind of actions.

That's hell on equipment

Need some of the mats public service use to go into the power lines

how much dose one of those skidder weigh ?

I remember Bobby Goodson rolling out round bales over soft sand to form it up. Whoda thunk.

Boys that looked like a big heaping pile of fun

Man you guys sure know what you're doing.

crazy ground conditions.. eww eww eww haha good one

I don't get why you don't have tire chains on those skidders John, here in New England everyone runs chains, they seem so useless without them.

@bladerunner6354

4 жыл бұрын

Looks to me like chains in that soil would just be an agitator stirring more mud. Ring chains here in New England have better soil content to bite, called Rock!!

All I can say John is Damit man!

Good video John, perhaps I am telling you to suck eggs but why don’t you build a raft of logs and perhaps fabricate skid plates for the underside of your trucks and trailers, I know it may reduce ground height!! But at least the equipment will float rather than sink , because it’s all to easy pulling air pipes off etc

All the weight seems to be on the diff centers not the tires.

that looks fun better than jeeps and lifted trucks

good skidder operators

Nice save.

I swear, from watchin you guys get stuck... it looks like the reason you guys get the stuff out yourself is cause yall could have a pair of 75 Ton rotators and it still wouldn't have a prayer of gettin this stuff out when its this stuck this far back here w/o just burying themselves just as deep, when u got weights like this in soil conditions like this... its just your own brains n creativity and skills to get em out

good work guys yep work as team

Chipper or scraper ! With that much pulling/pushing power you’d be better off leaving the tractor in neutral his spinning is taking your ground clearance lowering the front of the trailer into the ground

in mud like this you should had matts ...are laid some timber down

I don't see how those axels stay attached to the frame

This is a good section of my land, near useless for anything other than off-road riding

Where is this?

mats works wonders

Wow you guys could make your own matting to sit those on so you don't sink into the mud while working there but nope, let's just make it harder on the equipment and yourselves. hell park on top of pad made of bark and a couple of logs.

Someone call Bobby goodson of all terrain logging

@BenBieb

4 жыл бұрын

..even he has better road preparation for his onroad trucks than these "heroes" here..

@Carnage6.0L

4 жыл бұрын

This guy has no idea what hes doing. Amateur at it's best. You can tell how hes talking.

@Carnage6.0L

4 жыл бұрын

Makes you wonder why loggers use sand

@bladerunner6354

4 жыл бұрын

@@Carnage6.0L How much sand pounded into the mud they plowed up into the processor. If they prepare sight before move in day it would help!!

Nice!!!!

Ура! В Канаде тоже есть бездорожье!

@dimauvarov1606

4 жыл бұрын

Если б не редкий тягач фред, вообще подумал бы что либо урал или сибирь.

boy if we could just get some more rain , just to keep the dust down lol !

Why don’t they just have a way to hook it straight to a skidder instead of yanking on the truck?

Any reason you don't use a snatch block and double your skidders pulling power..?

@williamduchene1322

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah.... and some mud mats wouldn't hurt... LOL About the only thing you haven't hit is blue clay...

@bladerunner6354

4 жыл бұрын

Lol, how much tuggin will those truck frames take under those loads do ya figure??

Under the wheels of a trailer, a sheet of iron, and like a sled.

the boss sets at a deck and wants the loads out. he does not know the trouble we have doing it

As a non logger may I suggest spending some quality time building up your pad and road.

this is everyday in Russia.. Lucky NoT frozen in.Best not to pivot turn on soft sand twist trailer axel's off if in deeper.G et a Oshkosh military tractor 6×6 with 40 ton winch used for Abrams Tank recovery for these type of jobs. They go cheap and are indestructible Thanks Nice rigs good job Not here to criticize.

Ну, вот нормальные дороги прям как в Сибири. А то привыкли к своим бетонкам. Ыш какие!

That poor truck. It must be a good one. Log on.......That should get a lot of views

Oh look the pop bottles still where it was left.

Tô entendo toda a fala da pessoa, que língua é essa..????

That pusher needs to lift and allways keep pressure. That would be tuff but it would help.

Hey. Here's an idea: get yourself a twin-axle Dolly, and something on one of those CAT's, Deere's or whatever. Bet you anything that will be more cost-effective than 3 CAT's, a dozer, ánd by now a ruïned Truck. But hey, what do i know...

That truck would have moved easier if the driver kept the wheels pointed where he wanted to go.

I wonder if it ever occurred to then to crape some of the mud away.