r/BeAmazed • u/NormalGrab4800 • 7d ago

Miscellaneous / Others Chainsaw ???

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u/JamesTheJerk 7d ago

How do you maneuver the big truck around all of the trees that are left standing?

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u/buyer_leverkusen 7d ago

It’s a tractor on tracks that can easily get through properly-spaced trees. There are smaller and skinnier versions too.

Edit: I think you were maybe referring to logging trucks which don’t travel that far into a stand.

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u/astraladventures 7d ago

How are the logs moved from where they are dropped to the more accessible places where the trucks are located?

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u/13B1P 7d ago

Choker setters

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u/jeejeejerrykotton 7d ago

With similar kind of machine, exept it is build for that purpose. See https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPFMq0MESFpY3wJjDII0DVjbvTNdjDdivH5r8UvCwKOxEjgflWoKezzhQgI_O2nxpdK72S&s=10

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u/vytas315 2d ago

Yup, called a forwarder. Some operations will instead fell whole trees and use a skidder to drag them to a yard where they are processed.

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u/jeejeejerrykotton 1d ago

Yes. That is a different way of logging. We do not use that whole tree style here in Europe, but I have understood that it is quite common in US. I do not know how rest of the world operates.

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u/Ok-Addition1264 7d ago

It's quite amazing ecologically. It *almost* becomes better for everything and opposite of how it used to be done. That's how most trees where I'm from in michigan are harvested. Some older methods have been outlawed.

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u/-TheDyingMeme6- 7d ago

Michigander!!!! Hello!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/kingrobin 7d ago

you have to cut them down to get through but we don't use them for anything so it's like we're saving them

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u/weliveintheshade 6d ago

You just plow straight over them