Traxcavator pics

[245dlc]

Saw this handsome machine sitting by the road on our way into the park yesterday.

[Muz]

Kinda weird extention piece on the front forks IMHO if that was raised .. and you tried to grab a full load of timber .. do you think it would lift it ?

[Wazza]

.. do you think it would lift it ?

It's only a cat, but yes I reckon it would

[ianoz]

It is a Beak ,or clamp to hold the logs from rolling off the forks Hyd rams lift it up out of the way until it clamps down on the logs .

[Stock]

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvleee eeeeeeee fire wood...........................

[Muz]

It is a Beak ,or clamp to hold the logs from rolling off the forks Hyd rams lift it up out of the way until it clamps down on the logs .

I couldnt see any hydraulics attached to it though .. thats why I wondered what i was ?

[245dlc]

I've got more pictures on my wife's camera that I should be able to upload when I get home. The project going on there is selective logging in order to expose some of the still healthy Lodgepole Pine trees to the sun so their pine cones will be able to open and spread their seeds without starting a catastrophic forest fire. The last time that isolated forest had a fire was in the late 1800's early 1900's which destroyed the forest, since then any time a fire broke out they always extinguished it. Well because they've always put the fires out right away the forest hasn't been able to regenerate properly since that type of tree requires intense heat to release their seeds from the pine cones. And now that people live there and camp there the worry is that if a fire starts it'll wipe out the entire forest and take many more years than normal to recover so they found that exposing the trees to the sun actually helps open up the pine cones. It'll be interesting to see if that really works....