How do you hook your Log tongs to draw bar?

Chilly807 · Aug 4, 2010

With any luck this thread will get locked down soon, it's really going to the dogs.. er tongs I mean...

Chilly

SPYDERLK · Aug 4, 2010

Chilly807 said:
With any luck this thread will get locked down soon, it's really going to the dogs
Chilly

By all means. ... The constructive response to any disagreement.

larry

Famah · Aug 5, 2010

Runaway thread! Runaway thread! Runaway thread!

Baby Grand · Aug 5, 2010

Famah said:
Runaway thread! Runaway thread! Runaway thread!

That sounds dangerous!

20 20 · Aug 5, 2010

IslandTractor said:
The morons are the ones do don't learn from history. Do you seriously believe machinery and equipment was safer in the 1930's before OSHA?

the equipment maybe safer, the problem is that the operators aren't !

Common sense is uncommon.

bingo you get a cookie :licking:

Equipment and machinery operators get tired, bored and make mistakes. I don't see why equipment cannot be designed with that in mind given it is a near univeral human experience.

So what you are saying is that a tired operator should still be operating ?

hmmmmmm

Rabid anti government types need to step back and appreciate that there is a positive role for research, regulations and enforcement even if those things are expensive, painful and sometimes really annoying. If OSHA isn't working for you then suggest positive fixes rather than whining about how great it used to be before they inflicted ROPS on us.

I LOVE TAXES :confused2: :drool: I also think we need atleast another gazillion laws on the books. Next I say we tell folks were and how to live, after that I say get rid of the older generation{maybe 40 and up}.
When I complain I'm trying to say what is wrong I'm not just whinning. I had a CDL, put many miles on a rig. I have seen complete dipwads get behind the wheel of a rig just because the "companies" didn't want to pay for experience. So let me ask when a company can pay to bypass the law is the law any good?????

20 20 · Aug 5, 2010

CJBOTA said:
. Please don't get to carried away with giving OSHA credit. Mostly they are just a bunch of beaurocrats that wouldn't have a job if they weren't on the government gravy train
cj

:thumbsup: I worked for a company that had a boat load of serious safety issue's. When OSHA showed up the wallet came out {$$$$$$payed} and nothing was done. I could say the owner of the company payed but, in the end the consummer and tax payer are the ones that flip the bill.

Famah · Aug 5, 2010

Baby Grand said:
That sounds dangerous!

It is!

Richard · Aug 5, 2010

20 20 said:
after that I say get rid of the older generation{maybe 40 and up}

Says the 39 year old...

I have probably done some dumb things and probably done some moderately intelligent things. When involved in doing something dumb I usually have a bad feeling in the back of my head and try to be on the alert for as many 'gotchas' as I might be able to foresee.

Ultimately it's about risk management and making an educated game plan for the task/problem at hand.

Just last weekend, I was shown a dead oak tree that is leaning towards the gravel drive (far away from anyones home)

It is a LARGE and very tall oak tree and it's also in the woods. There is no way this tree is going to come down without causing other casualties (tree) during the process. Now we're debating do we wait and allow the tree to fall on its own, however unpredictable (anyone care to drive through the fall zone twice a day?) or do we take it down so we can focuse our attention to the moment it falls?

Fortunately, I have an industrial backhoe so I might be able to clean something out or after it falls, help muscle it around. Unfortunately, this tree is up a sharp bank and there is no real way to get my machine up there so it's essentially useless.

Fortunately (part II

) my brother in law has a bulldozer. It could make it up the embankment but I don't think it can get through the woods to get to this tree without having to run over other trees.

Upper branches have already started to fall, noticed one with a diamater of maybe 8-10 inches laying on the ground (in the woods)

You can't eliminate risk in life so what I try to do is (hopefully) manage it and fear what can happen to me if I fail (thereby causing me to perhaps keep a sharper eye on it?)