Pacific Northwest LOGGING I Tigercat Feller Buncher

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  • Welcome to one of the world's most productive logging regions-the Pacific Northwest.
    Here, logging companies manage hundreds of thousands of acres to grow the timber we need. Whether it's lumber for our homes or toilet paper for our... you know... we all use timber products daily whether we realize it or not.
    And don't forget-trees are a RENEWABLE resource. Thanks to excellent management practices and regulations, these lands are replanted and re-harvested repeatedly.
    This is where Kirkpatrick Cutting comes into play. Kirkpatrick can harvest timber on extremely steep terrain using a Tigercat feller buncher attached to another machine via a steel cable and winch.
    There's nothing quite like an early morning in the woods!

ความคิดเห็น • 174

  • @mrfiero1451
    @mrfiero1451 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    Tree’s are one of the best renewable resource we have. Most areas in the northwest are replanted after logged. Called tree farming.

    • @AaronWitt
      @AaronWitt  ปีที่แล้ว +10

      bingo

    • @mrfiero1451
      @mrfiero1451 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@AaronWittlook up Levanen Inc. they have a tower logging operation.

    • @dingusflingus
      @dingusflingus ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Lack of biodiversity in the pnw forests is a problem. When every single tree is a doug fir, only one bug or disease is all it takes to decimate the forest.

    • @benhart16
      @benhart16 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Exactly. Trees are just another crop, but happens to have a decades long harvest cycle.

    • @mrfiero1451
      @mrfiero1451 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bio fuel is becoming fuel type which utilizes all the extra parts from the trees. Bark. Leaves, small branches etc. also managing our forests correctly can reduce wildfires.

  • @landonkelley7645
    @landonkelley7645 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    1000 RPM per minute.......... Oh so like 1000 revolutions per minute per minute.... Got it thanks
    Keep up the great content

  • @marksellinger3736
    @marksellinger3736 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Aaron...Aaron....You are an engineer.....1000 RPM's per minute! That's redundant. M in RPM stands for minute! C+ for this segment. But friggin LOVE watching that feller work! WOW! And what in the heck is the, "top of the roof?!" 🙂

    • @zekeabercrombie3583
      @zekeabercrombie3583 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That one got me too. Common construction mistake.

    • @marksellinger3736
      @marksellinger3736 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zekeabercrombie3583 Aaron is a common construction mistake? I thought he was from Arizona

    • @nicoleranallo7641
      @nicoleranallo7641 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nit picking at its finest

    • @chrisfallis5851
      @chrisfallis5851 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My personal favorites are ATM machine and PIN number. Allow myself to introduce…….myself (Thanks, Austin Powers).

    • @Harry_Gersack
      @Harry_Gersack 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And it's rpm, not rpm's

  • @cjschoenmann2258
    @cjschoenmann2258 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Could you do a steel mill one day? Btw the logging videos are some of my favorite since I deal in portable milling. You make the best videos bringing attention to these jobs. Thank you for the excellent content

  • @markbatzel
    @markbatzel 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Gotta love the Cam Hanes "Keep Hammering" swag in the cab of the Tigercat!!

  • @sinclair6.782
    @sinclair6.782 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Finally some logging content!

  • @TsunauticusIV
    @TsunauticusIV ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Another amazing vid. Thank you all for the hard work!

    • @AaronWitt
      @AaronWitt  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      thanks for watching!

    • @earlwright9715
      @earlwright9715 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh , no shit, thats what the m stands for in rpm, révolution per minute? I would've never guessed😮

  • @scotthouser9064
    @scotthouser9064 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    nice to see an old Top Gear clip. men of great culture I see.

  • @TheWoodJourney
    @TheWoodJourney หลายเดือนก่อน

    [2:59]- So impressed with how detailed the explanation is! Making a video like this must take a lot of effort.

  • @rupps_timber
    @rupps_timber ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Spot on Aaron! Come on over to Idaho and I can give you a taste of inland northwest logging and forestry practices.

  • @KL0WNK1NG
    @KL0WNK1NG ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Those machines are incredible!! So much power yet finesse with those trees!

  • @UncleManuel
    @UncleManuel ปีที่แล้ว +26

    That dog was like "Stop talking, human! Throw that stick!" 😂😁😜

  • @djtiki-dh2ws
    @djtiki-dh2ws 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’d love to have you guys film more of the logging behalf of stuff I think it’s really cool

  • @Duvstep910
    @Duvstep910 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    the tigercat looks sorta adorable all covered in brush
    edit: 1000rpm per minute lol

  • @Tbraat
    @Tbraat 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm not going to lie... I have crashed drones multiple times filming logging videos! Awesome video!

  • @rpier8357
    @rpier8357 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love the logging videos.

  • @Dopamine1245
    @Dopamine1245 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Should look into more forestry machines, in Canada there are still these old monstrosities that are still running from the 70s, massive logging trucks with 16ft bunks, super snorkels, and old yarders.

  • @Dinoxt12
    @Dinoxt12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Interesting...how the development of the Hydraulic Motor & Piston Cylinders, have totally changed any type of industry. From back in the day.

  • @johannessamuelsson6578
    @johannessamuelsson6578 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Feller-bunchers are speciallized machines indeed. These machines aren't used in Europe though, as we cut to length instead.

    • @n2nitro444
      @n2nitro444 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes we call those dangle heads they are used in selective logging usually. Not very common though. But we do cut to length still. Buncher drops the tree, Skidder drags it to the processor, where it is cut to length and de-limbed, from there it is stacked for load out. Alternatively it may not go through a processor and instead a stroked de-limber will strip it and load it long log for power poles and such.
      I am talking from a British Columbia perspective but still the same as the Pacific Northwest in the States.

    • @UltraMagaFan
      @UltraMagaFan ปีที่แล้ว

      Forwarders with cut to length cutting heads are very inefficient. I'm not surprised they are not used in the United States.

    • @johannessamuelsson6578
      @johannessamuelsson6578 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@UltraMagaFan well, obviously we have a harvester cutting the actual tree, and then the forwarder picks it up and transports it to the log truck

    • @UltraMagaFan
      @UltraMagaFan ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@johannessamuelsson6578 I was thinking of a combination cutter. I don’t know why I said forwarder. Even then skidding is still more efficient. You pick up the whole tree instead of 8 foot sections of it.

  • @gohj98
    @gohj98 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was a great dog! He wanted to show what RPMs are and demonstrate how the cutter works!

  • @inferno1770
    @inferno1770 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Right on near my neck of the woods . You should come up to wa state and check out logging towers

    • @AaronWitt
      @AaronWitt  ปีที่แล้ว

      hopefully sometime soon

  • @AndyFromBeaverton
    @AndyFromBeaverton ปีที่แล้ว +6

    5:22 Saying RPM and revolutions per minute is redundant.
    5:27 Dog is operating at 6 RPMs (Rolls Per Minute).

  • @konnerborsheim9449
    @konnerborsheim9449 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonder if you stayed in Eugene for our ice storms. Would’ve been cool to see a video of all the lineman at work

  • @danielmedalia8232
    @danielmedalia8232 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    😅 definitivamente árvore entrou na frente drone

  • @MNW69
    @MNW69 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Need to go find a big tower yarder next

  • @10swish
    @10swish 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey everyone fun fact I make sure tigercat gets all their hydraulic hoses for each and every one of those machines 😁 teamwork makes the dream work

  • @MountainCuban
    @MountainCuban ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Way to go Jason!

  • @Carharttcowboi
    @Carharttcowboi ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Been waiting for this one😈

  • @JamesJones-sh7ut
    @JamesJones-sh7ut ปีที่แล้ว

    Really nice video

  • @paulpeters5199
    @paulpeters5199 ปีที่แล้ว

    Aaron you definitely have the coolest job ever

  • @tosijjaan
    @tosijjaan ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You should check out some cut to length forestry

    • @n2nitro444
      @n2nitro444 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      These are cut to length. Once they are bunched, then skidded to the processor, which de-limbs and puts to length, it's then stacked and trucked out.

  • @Markfernandez-g3h
    @Markfernandez-g3h 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    nice vid from oregon

  • @anthonygredig
    @anthonygredig 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cool! RPM per minute = Revolutions Per Minute per minute

  • @chloehennessey6813
    @chloehennessey6813 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3:58
    Did you mean you hit a tree?
    The tree didn’t move over and hit the drone. 😂

    • @richardreid6377
      @richardreid6377 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm guessing he flew too close to one that had been cut. Batter up!

  • @mattsprayberry0
    @mattsprayberry0 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm sorry we don't have hills in the southeast?????
    I mean, I will admit we don't have anything like Oregon.Washington idaho any of them places do
    But at the same time we have some pretty steep places in some of the states in the southeast
    Perhaps you should get out more

  • @thomasesteb9589
    @thomasesteb9589 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A basic and good video

  • @tomhoffman9729
    @tomhoffman9729 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Come on man! At the +/- 6:00 mark the dog CLEARLY wants you throw the stick for him.

  • @wayneburnett8532
    @wayneburnett8532 ปีที่แล้ว

    Here in the south.. they replant trees all the time. That's if they do a clean cut. Some times u thin cut an then couple of years later they will go in an clean cut an a few weeks later the. Go In an replant trees. A couple of times I seen helicopters come in an help with cleaning an one or two of em an sprayers. The company I use to work for they have a track an tire fella bunchers.. I use to run a tigercat 625 Dual arch skidder

  • @josiahpeterson6100
    @josiahpeterson6100 ปีที่แล้ว

    Trees are a crop, like corn, wheat and soybeans. It just takes longer to grow and harvest. When we think of them as a crop and less like a fixture of the landscape we will manage them differently and better. People will be more acclimated to walking through trees like walking through farmland.

  • @hamblin113
    @hamblin113 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It would be Cool to see how the trees were then brought to road and put on trucks

  • @eprohoda
    @eprohoda ปีที่แล้ว

    greetings! gorgeous editing! see you soon~

  • @DeDeimos1
    @DeDeimos1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yes it's renewable and will be replanted. But with only one sort of trees, it is like an grainfield. An plantation over thousands of acres. There is no biodiversity. I think normally the northwest is rich in different types of deciduous and coniferous trees. Here in Germany we are now taking a different approach, where different tree species are mixed together in the forest. It looks better and is ecologically more stable. We hardly do any clear-cutting anymore. For me as a wood harvester driver it is more complicated, but I think it is worth it. Other countries other manners.

  • @jacksonbennett6151
    @jacksonbennett6151 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why do they leave one tree up and to top of the hill? Future anchor point for the next cutting?

    • @n2nitro444
      @n2nitro444 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Either not mature enough to cut. Or the wrong type.

  • @metamorphiczeolite
    @metamorphiczeolite 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    5:40 RPM stands for Revolutions Per Minute.

  • @lebaillidessavoies3889
    @lebaillidessavoies3889 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So basically you need one machine as expensive as this one which stays seated the all day on top of the hill just to operate the winch? idk if its really profitable.

  • @adamcoleCat425
    @adamcoleCat425 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They produce a lot hauled for them back In the day at hood river

  • @AJDeere
    @AJDeere 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You need to check out Vancouver island logging next

    • @AaronWitt
      @AaronWitt  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'd love to sometime soon

  • @jdavenport_photo
    @jdavenport_photo ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude thank you for coming out! Let’s do it again on the next roadshow!

  • @millerthekiller1124
    @millerthekiller1124 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1000 rpm per minute? doesn't rpm sand for revolutions per minute?

  • @porcucoon
    @porcucoon ปีที่แล้ว

    Is there a part 2? You need to check out a high lead job.

  • @Bjames5150
    @Bjames5150 ปีที่แล้ว

    Noway this was 2 days ago. But cool video

  • @ReaperThugX
    @ReaperThugX 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Revolutions per minute per minute??

  • @andrewplayfair3075
    @andrewplayfair3075 ปีที่แล้ว

    have you ever checked out a yarder?

  • @tlyons4758
    @tlyons4758 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Not that operators first day

    • @95thousandroses
      @95thousandroses ปีที่แล้ว

      I was amazed at how closely and quickly he was operating around his tow cable. What happens if the blade hits the cable? Nothing good I assume.

  • @Умед-ч8к
    @Умед-ч8к 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Мы смотрим ваш видео.

  • @JJR0SS
    @JJR0SS 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1000 rpm per minutes?

  • @jaydenrodger117
    @jaydenrodger117 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Should try come to terrace bc logging is on alot more interesting ground

  • @earlwright9715
    @earlwright9715 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "In the southeast, you dont have hills!" Im in the end of one of the oldest mountain range in the world, the Appalachian mountain range . I have hills all around me

  • @peeverlogging9950
    @peeverlogging9950 ปีที่แล้ว

    We run tracked buncher on flat land as much as steep

  • @earlwright9715
    @earlwright9715 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rpm's per minute? Just in case, i guess?

  • @joshpodolsky7740
    @joshpodolsky7740 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1000 rpm's per minutes, ah yes, I love me some rotations per minute per minute.

  • @farmboyjude1078
    @farmboyjude1078 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When your government banned everything about cutting trees, its illegal to cut trees, there is no tree farming, but there is a lot of illegal logging and sad part the mountains are not replanted, tree farming is the best way to protect nature.

  • @MMikeHD3904
    @MMikeHD3904 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yeah..treehugger here, 15 years of bunching

  • @UltraMagaFan
    @UltraMagaFan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They're the same exact feller bunchers loggers use 2,700 miles away in the southeast. There's absolutely nothing special about them. They're incredibly common machines. You should have done a video on a cable yarding operation instead. It would have actually been interesting. That's a type of logging specific to the Pacific Northwest that you do not see everyday.

  • @Sdukes001
    @Sdukes001 ปีที่แล้ว

    What happens if the cable breaks?

    • @banffdigger
      @banffdigger ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The winch is "supposed" to be an assist only.

    • @Sdukes001
      @Sdukes001 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@banffdigger I understand that but things do fail and my question is what happens to the machine does it tip over or have a safety for that.

    • @banffdigger
      @banffdigger ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Sdukes001 It depends what the ground is like and how steep it is frozen 60% you might go for a big slide, steeper broken ground you might have a really bad day. Those tigercats are fairly stable I have seen them cut on 70% all day long with no winches and a really gifted operator.
      The contractor I work for runs winches that are a 2 line system so I feel they are safer.
      Just as a side note the hotsaw will cut that chain in a blink of an eye. That is way more likely then any other part of the system failing.

    • @Sdukes001
      @Sdukes001 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@banffdigger I seen that when he was going back uphill definitely need a very good operator.

    • @UltraMagaFan
      @UltraMagaFan ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nothing. The feller buncher can go up and down the mountain by itself. The cable is there just to be 100% sure it doesn't flip over.

  • @chuckwillcox1930
    @chuckwillcox1930 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How is the up hill winch controlled from the cab? Tied together via wireless control so they work together? Interesting to learn how that is done.

    • @blueman5924
      @blueman5924 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know eh. Such an interesting pc of the job, and no mention of the technology involved.

    • @jacksonbennett6151
      @jacksonbennett6151 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m wondering the same thing, you’d want some tension all the time automatically but also pay in and out when tracking the lower machine and for it to hold firm if it’s slipping.

    • @joel387ktm
      @joel387ktm ปีที่แล้ว +3

      All the winches are linked to the machines via radio contorls some of them have a set tension they will pull at some is based on track speed of the cutting machine

    • @n2nitro444
      @n2nitro444 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Having bunched on a tether before. It is in fact wireless and connects to your foot pedals. But as soon as you stop moving it pulls some tension. To hold you.

    • @AaronWitt
      @AaronWitt  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      it's automated based on the tension. The feller buncher controls it from his machine

  • @kevinallen206
    @kevinallen206 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Maybe potlatch timber company along with most of idaho will figure out how to replant again.

  • @iceman_wn_
    @iceman_wn_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1000 RPM's per minute? PM stands for Per Minute.

  • @Умед-ч8к
    @Умед-ч8к 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Сколько стоит такой!

  • @Mk7Dustin
    @Mk7Dustin ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "1000 RPMs per minute" lol

  • @nickvial7008
    @nickvial7008 ปีที่แล้ว

    5am? Y’all are late 😬

  • @phillipcraddock8248
    @phillipcraddock8248 ปีที่แล้ว

    THE JOB I WOULD LOVE

  • @StagnantMizu
    @StagnantMizu 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    america needs to start building homes from conrete and steel so much more durable and better for CO2 intake fresh oxygen etc I mean not anti wood but make it more for specials craft purposes that are more artisinal in nature

  • @secondgear6079
    @secondgear6079 ปีที่แล้ว

    We need wood to build homes. Dirt slope board video soon ?

  • @7B-NorthIdaho
    @7B-NorthIdaho ปีที่แล้ว

    Whelp, looks like your gonna have to go back and show how those felled trees are extracted……

  • @Умед-ч8к
    @Умед-ч8к 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Вот это машина.

  • @tysonwalsh8193
    @tysonwalsh8193 ปีที่แล้ว

    The dog wants you to throw the stick

  • @brianhynes17
    @brianhynes17 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is the operator having to manually level the machine or is it automatically controlled

    • @banffdigger
      @banffdigger ปีที่แล้ว

      They do have a button to press that will auto level, usually though you don't want to be perfectly level.

  • @anthonyjohnson100
    @anthonyjohnson100 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s the third world logging you need to be worried about.

  • @al_d7829
    @al_d7829 ปีที่แล้ว

    Should really look at forest thinning not forest clearing

  • @betes1
    @betes1 ปีที่แล้ว

    a full1-2.5 min of driving talking about to find a drone but no crash footage? talk about dead footage

  • @tallbeen1990
    @tallbeen1990 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Aaron check out swamp logging in north Carolina

  • @victorcamus8200
    @victorcamus8200 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That's logging? Come up to Prince rupert 10' not inch trees logging lol

    • @victorcamus8200
      @victorcamus8200 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This video is laughable

  • @olivercolpitts1559
    @olivercolpitts1559 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dog wanted a zyn

  • @Harry_Gersack
    @Harry_Gersack 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What I really don't understand is: You're at locations where there are people that know so much more than you and yet you're refusing to let anyone explain it to you.
    You're always explaining stuff the way you derive it instead of collecting some facts before starting to talk.
    For example the cab doesn't level out so the operator is nice and comfortable but to prevent the whole machine from tipping over. Whithout that mechanism it wouldn't be able to operate on steep slopes.
    Also revolutions per minutes per minute

  • @royalblood2405
    @royalblood2405 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sad to see

  • @robertjohnston6387
    @robertjohnston6387 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another example of global warming

    • @thepressurepack3777
      @thepressurepack3777 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You live in a tent ?

    • @keinname7478
      @keinname7478 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      this isnt deforestation, this is logging. they usually get replanted afterwards

    • @johannessamuelsson6578
      @johannessamuelsson6578 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@keinname7478 Logging actually releases more CO2 than car traffic, so... Even though they replant, it still doesn't neutralize the emissions quick enough. I think that was Robert's point.

    • @kenhofer8063
      @kenhofer8063 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johannessamuelsson6578 Robert doesn’t have a point he’s as stupid as the tree huggers and there’s no global warming either

    • @carlfalt174
      @carlfalt174 ปีที่แล้ว

      K​@@johannessamuelsson6578

  • @amosbackstrom5366
    @amosbackstrom5366 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow that thing accelerates 1000 RPM 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦, thats ridiculous. It would be spinning 100,000 RPM by lunch time...😂

    • @blueman5924
      @blueman5924 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the dog messed up his train of thought.😂 He did not “stick” to the script.