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Use Tapered Hinge against Side Lean?

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Holy shit. That takes balls.
Credit where credit is due; the video was thought out and planned and informative. It's not like it was an accident, and he's not preaching that anyone should ever use it. He warns about the dangers and unpredictability a few times.

Maybe "advantage " was a poor word to use. There's certainly safer and more reliable ways to shave off 10 feet.
 
I was a dog paddler on this one too.. Who needs a stump grinder when you can just uproot em... Take that baber chair vid and shove it016.webp002.webp025.webp016.webp
 
southsoundtree said:
What are you pulling with? I zoomed in on the picture and seems like a hella winch. Figured you were pulling it by hand with a 2:1 or something.
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That is a Ersted yarder. Ersted changed their name to Hyster in the 30’s. If I remember the story correctly it was a old mans project on the left on the beach with a 3 phase electric motor on it. My previous employer found it and refurbished it, installed a 4 cylinder Datsun motor with a 4 speed tranny.
The machine is on skids, which was used to drag itself into place then chained to a stump. And a two speed. It’s scary fast! It has two drums with individual foot brakes and friction levers to engage.
I’ve looked in the bowels of inter web for a similar machine with no luck, so all I really know is it’s pre 1930 and has all the safety features you’d expect. You’d be amazed at some of the work we managed to do with it.
We would chain the front of the truck to a stump, chok the wheels, and make the one ton buck like hell.
We could pull a 45 degree back leaning alder over keeping the wire tight the whole time. Set up highlead systems to fly material over houses. High lead 22’ Douglas 40” diameter to a landing.. We uprooted more than one sphar in the process, guys were a must.
 
@southsoundtree
This is basically the machine, but two drums, and no rollover.
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http://www.fao.org/docrep/c3200e/c3200e0a.htm
Used for smaller pulpwood?
 
evo said:
Ooooh! Complete with a section of sewer pipe! :loco:
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Not sure if you were talking about utilities but all joking aside, it was between two adjacent houses on a small hill about 8ft above street and house level so there were no worries on the pull.

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SERIOUS power.

I don't know what HP you get out of a 4-cylinder with a transmission, but I'm guessing a good bit. Our State Parks ancient skidder was only half that age, with a 65 HP engine. Holy Moly would that thing pull.

I was bent/ articulated a bit, and not pulling dead straight. The winch lever jammed and wanted to flip the whole machine. I hit the clutch pedal or something. That was 'interesting'.
 
evo said:
That is a Ersted yarder. Ersted changed their name to Hyster in the 30’s. If I remember the story correctly it was a old mans project on the left on the beach with a 3 phase electric motor on it. My previous employer found it and refurbished it, installed a 4 cylinder Datsun motor with a 4 speed tranny.
The machine is on skids, which was used to drag itself into place then chained to a stump. And a two speed. It’s scary fast! It has two drums with individual foot brakes and friction levers to engage.
I’ve looked in the bowels of inter web for a similar machine with no luck, so all I really know is it’s pre 1930 and has all the safety features you’d expect. You’d be amazed at some of the work we managed to do with it.
We would chain the front of the truck to a stump, chok the wheels, and make the one ton buck like hell.
We could pull a 45 degree back leaning alder over keeping the wire tight the whole time. Set up highlead systems to fly material over houses. High lead 22’ Douglas 40” diameter to a landing.. We uprooted more than one sphar in the process, guys were a must.
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You can do some straight-up logging with that thing. 2 drums, with brakes for each drum, and a 4 speed tranny. Strap that fucker down, rig some trees for lift, and you've got a legit little hi-lead setup, complete with a skidding line and a hall-back system. What more do you need?
 
rico said:
You can do some straight-up logging with that thing. 2 drums, with brakes for each drum, and a 4 speed tranny. Strap that fucker down, rig some trees for lift, and you've got a legit little hi-lead setup, complete with a skidding line and a hall-back system. What more do you need?
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Done it.. the time involved and trucking off island just barely makes it worth while. Not really my cuppa, but it was fun to play with the riggin.
 
rico said:
You can do some straight-up logging with that thing. 2 drums, with brakes for each drum, and a 4 speed tranny. Strap that fucker down, rig some trees for lift, and you've got a legit little hi-lead setup, complete with a skidding line and a hall-back system. What more do you need?
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Faceplate the gears so you can snatch gears mid pull with no interruption ;-)


All joking aside I love the idea of rescuing an old piece of equipment.
 
southsoundtree said:
SERIOUS power.

I don't know what HP you get out of a 4-cylinder with a transmission, but I'm guessing a good bit. Our State Parks ancient skidder was only half that age, with a 65 HP engine. Holy Moly would that thing pull.

I was bent/ articulated a bit, and not pulling dead straight. The winch lever jammed and wanted to flip the whole machine. I hit the clutch pedal or something. That was 'interesting'.
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I’m guessing it was about 80-90hp. We jumped the choks more than once. Even lifted the truck a few times.

The stock fairlead was removed because of the side pull danger. We just set up a adjustable redirect to make sure we were pulling inline.
 
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