That is text book on how not to log. The guy running the chain saw was rubbing it back and forth like it was a hand saw. Half of the trees were fell in a direction that would break then into as many peices as possible.

In Russia it is called "barbaric logging". It is forbidden to saw on the slopes of the ravines so that there is no soil erosion. Whoever does this goes to jail.

They are slaughtering that timber! Man, I've never seen such wasted resource due to not knowing how to feel timber without total destruction!

This is where Home Depot gets its 2x4 lumber. Only the best quality

Hacks, pure and simple!

Nice display of the use of the Arch and winch the last two trees fell perfect, the first two looks like they had alot that broke off. Hard to fell a tree and not waste in that kind of terrain. Thanks for the video.

Haven’t seen an arch since the ‘70’s.. used to work behind one in big lagoon

That was really cool to watch!

This is why logging should be managed by the right people!!what's wrong with people ??The greed for money is the problem and it's not the actual people that's doing the work it's the people that are on the other end!!

Future landslide area this kind of cutting is nuts!

Really interesting !! Never seen a vid with an arch! Thanks for that Alexander

Sou madeireiro no Brasil, mas voces sao verdadeiro herois retirar madeiras de um lugar muito dificil.

Tight stuff for guys on the ground... rubbish trees? What a shit gully to work in.

Aí sim que é trabalho de profissionais.

En français cet engin s'appelle une ''arche à roues''..... cela permet de traîner facilement les troncs d'arbres... beaucoup utilisé avant l'existence des ''skiders'' ces grands tracteurs à roues plus rapides que les bulls qui sont nécessaires dans les cas difficiles comme dans la video!!.. dans la vidéo la méthode évite que les troncs ne dévalent jusqu'au fond de la vallée lors de leur chute... malgré tout ils se détruisent à moitié!!!.; Bonne vidéo... travail périlleux pour l'abatteur!!..

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The problem is insurance is so high that training a faller isn’t feasible. You are expected to know what to do….A cutter needs to produce for the company to stay afloat. This faller doesn’t need to be fired, he needs better training.

Amazing bust o matic

Neat rig

Is it desirable to have the trees break into splinters when they fall?

Is that in florida?

Good video

You can all that equipment to get two chopsticks good work safe God bless

What part of NZ?

I have a 7G, it never occurred to me to use it as a yarder.

arh yes the farmers wood lot nice and steep

Faller is in some very tricky situations here... Nicely done.

I was in the wood for years on saws horses winchs forwoder harvester hand turfer saw winch .you name it i did it. But the way that saw man was dorking a the butt of that tree with that saw bar ... whell that showed how good he was ... cut it and run behind a nother tree 😕... the tops of the trees all smash up .... what a wast of timber 😢....if the forster or my boss= contractor saw that wast of timber = p45 and kicked out of the wood ... for good😢... helo frpm ireland😉...

What is that you zoom in on in the beginning? I can't make it out.

This job was at Rewa between Cheltnam and Hunterville

Keep draggin that DIRT

Tough way to pay the light bill.

Why are they damaging most of there logs

Does anyone know where this is?

I have fell Timber in Alaska. Cut trees down in Iraq. I wood not even finish watching this.

funny how every you tube commenter is an expert. If this is "the worst thing ever" you haven't see many logging operations.

They are leavin half the timber in the bush...wtf????

Looks like you have an short skid, always nice huh

Well that was a nice little gorge.

What a disgraceful exhibition of forestry cowboys trashing a woodland. The felled trees are smashed and their value much reduced, the loose soil on the steep sided gorge is disturbed and will be washed into the stream during the next rains, the ground vegetation is largely destroyed. If you wanted a demonstration of how NOT to harvest timber you could hardly find a better one.

Nasty ground but very poor falling that made it a lot more dangerous & wasted probably 30% the wood, You will get a lot of breakage but this was excessive. Oh & yes I log, mostly private ground. You would have to clean the debris out the creek & couldn't afford to loose that kind of money here in the US. Invest in a tree jack & somebody who knows how to use it. Loved the arch action, not how it was intended to be used (long skids usually with a bald face 7 or 8, they were used a lot in my area up until truck logging & rubber tired skidders made them obsolete) but it got enough lift to get the job done.

They waste a lot of good wood

i think this is terrible terrian to log in but the root of the tree hold the soil in place, they are not cutting the roots and stump out. by the time the roots decompose new trees are already established

The title should be " How not to harvest logs "

Okay, I'm no logger...but why not fell the trees uphill so they don't shatter like that? You could either turn them around as you winch them up the hill, or hell, just drag them top-first instead of butt-first.

I'm sure the mill likes the busted up trees. Mulch?

logging with the Flintstones. Kind of a cluster..., gents

The fish and streams only speak when there gone.

what a mess you call that logging

Muy interesante, estoy relacionado a la explotación.

Wow, that place looks quite hard to fall timber in and get anything out of at all. Although not bad for the arch use, it didn't look large enough to get out a swing yarder if one was available.

👍👍 mantaaaappp

There prob still working there

Why mast this trees die???

Problem is the lost lumber from the trees breaking against the other side when felling.

thats cool as shit, great operating skills!

why not add more chokers if you gonna yard half a tree! wtf Batman

Sure ruined a lot of good logs playing cowboy.

wow now do u use the arch do retrive all the broken tops lol pffttt

where did they get these clowns ,,,

Impossible? Nothing is impossible!

Quel bordel !!!!!

I ran a D7 with a rubber tired arch one summer but I never did anything that stupid.

I agree with Mathewbanchero-cut trees and destory the land-talk about creating a washout-these trees were hold the soil. WTF

Yo I got one too

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Lots of know it alls in the comments. That looked very steep to me, I don't think the camera showed it that well

If he fell them downhill he could haul alot more product to market

I'd let it go back to native, and plant the flat in pines.

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this reminds me on "Lord of the Rings"

just a bit steep down in the gully and i could see somebody getting hurt.

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Very poor logging techniques. You destroy more wood than you harvest and by clear cutting that hillside, that will lead to serious erosion and silting of downhill waterways. Unprofessional and one more thing...I LOVED the guy 'sawing' the tree with the chainsaw, lmao! That how you do that?!!! ha hah ha

that dozer could pull 10 trees no sweat

highly illegal haha

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chur chur. please stay safe guys. kia ora from Levin

*I have lived in Wa., Or., and Idaho as a logger/and tree trucker for 30+ years. *I read the negative comments, and thought I would throw my two cents in. *This is a difficult and dangerous strip to log. *A video can be Very deceiving. *We do not know exactly where the land ownership, begins or ends, i.e. the cut line. Or what the contract states concerning trees felled onto private ground. *The faller is in a dangerous situation, [as usual] but here, he is even more so. *Steep ground, *Plus being "tied" to a cat, and another human/the cat skinner. Trust me,.. *it's On your mind. *Falling trees in steep terrain up hill where stumps are present. Will often cause the trees to become bound up between the stumps, when they are turned butt first as the are yarded. *We do not know if these trees will be saw logs for lumber, or chipped for pulp. (I've hauled many loads of nice "saw logs" to paper mills when the demand $ was high) * The video shows only 4 trees being felled, and one of them is 'schoolmarmed' near the top. *We do not know what debris/tops/limbs were left behind, nor how 'raked clean the finished strip was. *The rooted stumps will help with the erosion which will occur. But, again we do not know if, or what type of erosion control measures were put in place at the completion. *Trees are normally planted ASAP after logging, at a rate of 3 for every 1 harvested. * Private timber companies, private land owners, along with the National Forest Land and Timber Managers, do all they can to "Get It Right". Long gone are the days of "Rape And Pillage". Other than my rant; I must say; It was cool seeing an arch being used.

Wow I've seen a few arches but never had a chance to see them get used. And hats off to that faller. That is awefully dangerous down there.

the timber faller needs replaced. What a waste of timber by breaking it like that. At least your not logging bobtail with the cat and are using an arch. but what a waste. Ant idea how much footage you lost in the draw shattering it like that?

boy this comment section is a warzone

The arch sure works.As for the rest....snooze.

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Thats some bad falling

that's one way to do it....

Unsafe and unprofessional.

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Jesus what a mess.

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Уничтожение леса

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typical truck driver knows everything never actually cut down a tree just there to haul them to town

They do not know how to log

I don't think I would post this video. Very destructive of trees. Pull 1 at a time up hill while cutting and don't drop them over the valley that way.

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7G sounds sweet. Good operator. far from nice ground down there. faller doing well

shoulda just went in there with flamethrowers... fml...

you a funny fulla hahahahaha