EXTREME Logging!!! ClimbMAX on 100% Slope- Chilton Logging

The ClimbMAX is one of only 12 machines like this in the world. Chilton Logging Purchased this machine from ClimbMAX in New Zealand and had it shipped to Washington State. The Machine has its own self contained winch system that allows it to climb slopes of more than 45 degrees without an extra machine at the top of the hill.
ClimbMAX allows Chilton Logging to not only cut the trees on the steep slope by machine but then Shovel Log the timber to the bottom of the hill where it can be processed and shipped.
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[@barryhansen6854]

Great footage of that working, good to see NZ machines working outside of the country, cheers NZ.

[@arkansas1336]

100% slope will test your equipment and skills. Great video! ....13

[@woos31]

That's pretty damn cool! I finally see how that machine had the winch integrated on the undercarriage, and crazy how your mind tricks you when in the first minute or so the ground I so steep it looked flat when the drone was directly above the machine. Aside from some of the angles looking into the sun, that's another drone logging video winner pard!

[@tttco]

Great video! Chilton is a great company to work for Top Notch equipment and top-notch operators

[@stevewooff5982]

Really great video ! Having the winch on the cutting machine has got to be better than a stationary winch. Rope can't burn for one thing.

[@8800081]

For every soul who dared to run Towards the words, " It can't be done" For those who said "It can" and won Yours is not the Cry of cost For what you've waged and what you've lost But The Spoils of the victories yet to come

[@killstrees]

I really liked steep ground. Never did get to kill trees, but I ran forwarder up and down ground like this in north eastern washington. Was a lot of fun, but the machines weren't exactly designed for this kind of ground, so they broke quite a bit. Even bigger pain was the stumps. They were at ground height going down hill, coming back up loaded they were about two feet taller causing the forwarder to get high centered and stuck. Thankfully the worst of it was in a clear cut so i had a couple options to get around

[@oldschoolmoto]

sweet nice to see you posting some vids great as always

[@goldshieldenterprises692]

Slicker than pig snot. Waiting for this channel to blow up. Awesome video.

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

Thanks for watching. Its growing slowly but surely.

[@upnorthoutdoors1229]

I logged for thirty five years this looks like a jack pot for who ever is skidding it out.Wood is not bunched tight and alot of its butts facing uphill.

[@VideosByAl]

Another Stellar video 👍

[@eliteearthworksllc]

Fantastic video! That is quite the machine! Looks to save a ton of time and be able to cut trees in places or slopes that use to seem impossible to cut! Thanks for sharing and keep em coming! Great work, great editing! Thanks

[@jacksak]

Great video, amazing shots...

[@ToTheTopCrane]

Awesome video!! Don't forget us little KZbinrs when your channel blows up! Lol Nice work my friend. 🙂👍

[@alexesgate8033]

Super cool machine and awsome srone video

[@desertlogger2062]

That's bad ass brotha 😋 keep em coming

[@salstonightsbiggestloser]

Seen this at a logging show in Oregon a year ago or so. Pretty damn cool way of tackling a big problem, and helping to adapt to terrain you wouldn't be able to access.

[@chuckdriver9672]

Very cool video!! The drone really shows just how steep that machine is working. Looks like they are getting a bit behind on the landing...

[@jacobdixon7218]

Glad to finally see this video! I saw you comment on another page that you were going to get some footage of this machine in action. You did not disappoint! Great video and straight up awesome machine! Keep em coming

[@muddawgkomm9642]

Boy being in a position to harvest on slope of the nature opens up a whole new ball game!

[@Pete-from-Tn]

Sure would make for a bad day. If that cable was to snap. Unreal to cut that with a machine.

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

The primary job of the cable is for traction assistance on the way back up the hill.

[@barryhansen6854]

If the cable breaks the computer on board drops the blade immediately to stop the machine from a run away.

[@reltsihW]

So how is the engine sitting without starving for oil on that much of an angle? It would have to be on some sort of pendulum or remote oil pressure system.

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

Climbmax has completely redone all of the fluid systems to allow for them to operate correctly. I couldn't tell you specifically what they did though.

[@calebsimth4562]

Yes they have there own systems for oil, hydraulic oil, fuel, so it doesn’t starve on steep slopes. It’s a really cool in person

[@woos31]

First!

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

Thanks for watching let me know what you think

[@tutekohe1361]

I am assuming 100% slope is American for 45 degree slope?

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

Yes 100 percent is 45 degrees. For instance if you walk 10 feet horizontally and go up 10 feet then it is 1. If you walk 10 feet and go up 5 feet then it would be 50 percent or 26.5 degrees.

[@robertnicol8743]

Nice video. Are they getting timber out with a yarder after it’s cut?

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

No the benefit of this machine is after it cuts the timber it is then shovel logged by the same machine to the bottom of the hill.

[@robertnicol8743]

Blue Line Land Works where is this work being done at ?

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

@@robertnicol8743 SW Washington

[@calebsimth4562]

Is This near Canyon Creek Wa ?

[@davestinson5691]

This might be dumb question to those who know. But how do they get trees down where loader can handle them ?? Very cool video man nice job

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

If you watch towards the end of the video you will see that the same machine that does the cutting is shoveling the logs down the hill to less steep ground. You will also see the pile that is already there from the section previously logged.

[@poorrobin1118]

This is a lot different from logging in Georgia I have watched several blue line videos and have been pretty impressed my family used to operate a 2500 ton per week swap logging job in Georgia I would have thought a machine designed to cut slopes like that would have had a leveling house in addition to the winch

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

If you level at 45 degrees you leave to much stump.

[@skadill]

Non tilter??,steep ground machine designed by flat ground engineers

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

If you tilted level on a 45 degree slope you would probably have a hard time not running you boom into the hill side.

[@swn02]

@@BlueLineLandWorks tilter would have no trouble on that land, if you look at my last vid you will a tilter working in NZ i forgot to put some stills on the end of the vid to show how steep some parts were

[@canadianboyee]

Blue Line Land Works not true..... we got two of them in BC, hot saw tigercat bunchers. So do lots of guys

[@DHRDarren]

@@BlueLineLandWorks you obviously have not run a tethered tilter. Far superior to a fixed bottom machine if for no other reason than operator fatigue alone.

[@horus2153]

This thing goes steeper than a leveler safer aswell

[@garycrane1883]

These are really scrawny logs. Are they just for chips? Who limbs them? The video didn't show that part.

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

The logs are actually fairly large for alder saw log. The first log or 2 usually gets sawed for cabinets or furniture and the tops get chipped. The machine at the bottom of the hill has a processor head on it which limbs and bucks the logs.

[@jacobdixon7218]

@@BlueLineLandWorks I thought I read somewhere that these machines have like a 42" bar saw. It looks to me that some of the bigger firs he isnt even able to cut all the way through and is tearing the last little bit off the stump. I wouldn't call that scrawny.

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

@@jacobdixon7218 I believe this one has a 1 meter bar and I would agree most of these trees are not scrawny. The size of the machine definitely makes them.look smaller though. Look at the guy standing next to the cutting head.

[@Nunyabusiness007]

100% slope? Please explain that.

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

Slope is measured in rise over run. 12 inches rise in 12 inches run equals 45 degrees or 100 percent slope.

[@Nunyabusiness007]

Blue Line Land Works yeah I thought that is what you were referring to. I am General Contactor and we deal with slopes and percentages in grading every day. 100% slope would be straight up and down which this obviously isn’t. Sorta misleading.

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

I wouldn't say it is misleading because anyone who deals with slope would know that 100 percent is 45 degrees.

[@mrkickass123100]

Highly doubt this is a 100% slope...

[@abepenner7497]

Looks pretty close. 12" rise for every 12" run...

[@briangardiner1015]

You know it is steep when you see a cable hooked to the machine. The only other time I saw a cable hooked to a machine was on a rock drill hanging off of a cliff.

[@winstonskafte5505]

get a hand faller

[@BlueLineLandWorks]

These machines are faster and safer

[@gregtaylor8327]

@@BlueLineLandWorks no.