Tigercat Bunching In SW Washington - Planning For The Worst, Hoping For The Best And Making It Work!

Wanted to show an example of using trail mix to give me just enough traction to get into the bottom of a block I was going to cut to the top. Hope you find it interesting!

[@bobmartin6055]

Thanks for sharing! I sure enjoy wrapping up my day watching you put the wood down!!

[@thedailylogger]

Our pleasure! Glad to hear you enjoy them. I like watching them myself, it sure is an impressive machine! Good holidays to you, thanks for watching. Be safe.

[@peterbilt898]

Getter done 👍 Merry Christmas to you and yours

[@thedailylogger]

Thanks! Hope you have a good holiday as well. Best wishes for the year to come. Be safe.

[@timmyfrierson2684]

Another great video Jason man you keep whacking and stacking and we’ll keep watching and I can’t wait do you get your tether machine and see how that turns out for you so you stay safe out there my friend and merry Christmas and happy New Year’s

[@thedailylogger]

Thank you. Hope you have good holidays too!

[@johnfahey7215]

Corduroy road!👍

[@thedailylogger]

Yup, it amazing how much even the smallest amount of brush can help. The unit I'm on right now is on Mt St Helens in Washington state. The wood is 40 years old so it was salvaged and replanted after the mountain blew in 1980. As a result there is a lot of big old wood, chunks on the ground. Sometimes they can be pretty significant, buckskins 6' through and 100' long. Too big to cut up and move into lead so I end up having to fall around them. But most of them are smaller and somewhat deteriorated so work really good to chunk up and use to get across a ditch onto the road, work out onto wet ground or to level up a rough pitch. Thanks for the comment, have a good holiday!

[@wantowski987]

Jason are you guys having summit put grouser extension on your 870? And for getting started, it’s really fun to figure out once you have a line on you lol

[@thedailylogger]

No, not getting extensions on this one. I'll wait for the next one! Do you have the 28" pads on your 855? Talking with Tigercat they recommend that with the extensions, I'm a little skeptical just because of the increased wear. I'd like to get out and see you cutting sometime. A lot of the units I'm seeing are ridges with creek draws on either side. Kinda seems like running straight down the ridge first and opening up the point at the bottom would be a good place to start. Then I could herringbone off on either side quartering in towards that opening. Then they can log into it down one side coming into butts and then the other. That would, conditions allowing, allow me to cut to the buffers and have a clear throw. Thinking about redirects has me a little concerned just cause this younger wood and smaller stumps seem a little dicey. I'm sure when it's real steep I'll need to run straight up and down the hill, but when it's moderate but poor traction do you run more across the hill lined up? Thanks for the comment Josh, have a good holiday when you get to it!

[@wantowski987]

@@thedailylogger yes I have the 28s with extensions clipped on the outside! Honestly after having the 28s Jason I’d never go back to 24s! So much better at floating around and seems to turn easier

[@thedailylogger]

@@wantowski987 Right on! That's good to hear. I'll add tall 28's to the wish list. I've barely got this one broken in so I'll just have to enjoy it a couple more years before I get to smell that new paint burning off a new one. Good talking with you, be safe!

[@karsoncampbelllogginginc]

I guess it depends on what subject to used for what do you think about them because my company uses them a lot we use lithium grease

[@thedailylogger]

Not quite tracking you on this one, but we use lithium too, with a percentage of moly. Grease is cheap, compared to parts, right!