Mounty gets its log: BC's hills are aliue with more than the sound of music, as a new cable system from Austria gets tested in the Interior

摘要

Cable logging has not really changed much in North America for decades, but a demo machine brought to BC is challenging old concepts and providing new ideas for skylining into smaller sites. The demo machine, called the Mounty 4000 is a combo steel spar, boom, and innovative processing head known as the Woody, all wrapped in one package. It can multi-task, allowing two men to work a side hill. Mounted on a six-wheel Man truck, the fold-up unit rolls into a cut block and backs onto the road edge. On site, the sides of the truck unfold into a platform, the 40-ft tower is raised, the boom with the Woody head unfolds and its operator cab is activated. Rigging up the lines for the tower takes longer.