The Digital Battlefield...Ukraine vs Russia...War in 2022 is 'different'

[WiltonRanch]

Dragging tires behind a high clearance boom isn’t possible.

[makar]

That is a big concern

Cant see losing any sleep over it, my neighbors may not see it like I do.

[makar]

Not many of us left can make a straight line without Autosteer or follow verbal directions without GPS to find our way home

And to think I cut all those miles of seismic line on a open canopy cat like a flintstone.

[rumrocks]

And to think I cut all those miles of seismic line on a open canopy cat like a flintstone.

What years & company did you work for?

[makar]

What years & company did you work for?

90s, mostly borek and adrian erickson and a local guy.

[rumrocks]

90s, mostly borek and adrian erickson and a local guy.

Cat skinners certainly got their share of fresh air before cabs, while avoiding getting speared by rogue trees and having snow falling around the cat from falling bush. The guys who worked in the foothills always lived on the edge, crossing frozen lakes and rivers and cutting steep side hills. D6c wide track pretty durable cat.
Hard on the back and eardrums.

[WiltonRanch]

We here are catskinning enthusiasts. When the old generation came here not a tree but after land got broke and fires stopped the trees came in the 30’s and 40’s. Lot of our ground got cleared and still doing some. Recent stuff is steep hills which I question why we bother but better in grass than trees I guess. I’m sure my pops has rode down sideways but never told me. I’ve offered to cork it up but he doesn’t want to. I was pushing snow off hillsides for cows and doing enough sliding. This is a wide pad D6 as well.

[rumrocks]

I saw a D6c with one track 18" in the air after sliding maybe 15 feet sideways, it happened so fast. The operator was smiling, I don't know if he knew what he was doing or just crazy.

[makar]

I have had muskeg up to the floorboards of a 5h hooked behind a 6d pulling out a 6h. Told my boys be thankful you dont need to live what your dad and grandads did . My dad did 101 night shifts cutting line in the north and ended up 40 miles from Inuvik. Was never the same man after. My sons understand, how many do understand anymore what it took to build what we have now.

[Guest]

Not many makar
Not many
That’s the biggest problem today