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The Thunderbird Tsy 255 Swing Yarder THE THUNDERBIRD TSY 255 SWING YARDER Rob Prebble ABSTRACT A Thunderbird TSY 255 swing yarder was studied working in a stand of 80 year old Douglas fir mixed with other minor species in Oregon, USA. Extraction was in log length and the average piece size of the logs was 1.05m3. The machine was rigged as a run- ning skyline with a Mechanical Slack Pulling (MSP) carriage. Productivity was estimated at around 280m3 per eight hour shifi. Limitations on loader capacity and longer than usual rigging delays lowered overall productivity. Close to 65% of the drags were pre-stropped during the study and this method of hooking on was 24% quicker per piece than using at- tached strops. Overall however, there was no significant diflerence in cycle times. Average hook on times were fast at .64 minutes for 3.9 pieces but usually there were four and Figure 1 :The Tlzunderbird TSY 255 swingyarder and sometimes five breaking out. Koehring 366L loader With an operation like the Thunderbird TSY 255 expected to cost over $4100 per day in New Zealand, there is no margin for error in daily productivity calculations on which tar- gets may be set. Careful planning of the Elders Resources, NZFP for awarding the whole system @om felling to transportation Jubilee Scholarship to fund the travel and will be necessary for it to be economically vi- contractor Dancer and crew for their able. cooperation during the study. INTRODUCTION (Prebble, 1989a) but line speeds are slower and the operator has to keep more brake The Thunderbird brand of haulers, pressure on the mainrope during outhaul manufactured by Ross Equipment in when grapple yarding. Competition be- Oregon, are relatively new machines on the tween these two manufacturers appears to market compared to Madill, Skagit, Berger be intense with each new model having etc. In Oregon and Washington they have added features over its predecessor and proved strong competitition for the older, more importantly over the latest machine more established brands taking a major from the opposition. Whether this prestige share of the skyline hauler sales and more war actually benefits the logger remains to recently they have made inroads in the be seen as with each new development swing yarder market. comes an increase in price. Swing yarders are generally track mounted While the potential for swing yarders in which enables them to negotiate low New Zealand may not be great, there are quality roads and travel over difficult places where they will work well and could ground conditions. The swing facility al- be cost competitive with other systems. lows the machine to operate over the side Environmentally sensitive areas with un- of its undercarriage and to land logs on the stable ground conditions or high road and same road or track that it is working from. landing construction costs are examples of A machine shift therefore, involves simply where a swing yarder system could be used. releasing the guylines and walking along to the next location. Landing construction A previous study of a high cost swing yar- can be reduced to a minimum with this der operation in New Zealand (Prebble, method of logging. 1988) indicated that the machine had fast cycle times but average drag size was well A feature of most swing yarders manufac- below the optimum payload and as a result, tured these days is interlocking between logging costs were high. With the even the tailrope and mainrope drums. Inter- higher cost of machines like the TSY 255 locking regenerates energy, normally lost Thunderbird, low utilisation and small through braking, back into the input drive payloads could not be tolerated. which improves efficiency and operator control. Some machines have interlocking As part of a series of machine studies a in both directions, i.e. outhaul and inhaul Thunderbird TSY 255 swing yarder work- and while this is good for grapple yarding, ing in the Roseburg area was production it is not really necessary for MSP' carriage studied in December, 1988. This report systems. The main reasons for this are that presents the results from that study. interlock loses efficiency over long outhaul distances and the slipping clutch mechanism adds to the cost of the machine. THE MACHINE Thunderbird have basically been producing The Thnnderbird TSY 255 can be mounted machines for the Oregon and Californian on a rubber-tyred carrier, but most markets and loggers there have a machines are track mounted. Basic preference for MSP carriage operation. specifications are: MSP systems tend to be more efficient than grapples over longer hauling distances and Engine - 313 kw Detroit they are less sensitive to areas with low Diesel 8V92T volumes per hectare. Transmission - Twin Disc, 5 speed forwards, 1 reverse The TSY 255 Thunderbird has been Undercarriage - Track mount, hydros- designed for MSP operation and as such tatic drive capable only has interlock on the inhaul. It has of speeds up to 6 greater line capacities and line pulls than kph its closest competitor, the Madill 122 Gradeability - up to 50% Tower - lattice steel con- struction ---------- Working height to top of tailrope l~echanicalSlack Pulling f air1ead - 15.lm Drum Capacities and Performance I Drum Rope Size Operating Mid drum Mid drum fmm) Capacity linepull* linespeed** f kg) (m/min) I Mainrope 22 610 30,872 671 Slackpuller 22 610 30,872 671 I Tailrope 22 1220 27,830 732 Strawline 10 1403 - - Guylines (3) 2 8 3 8 - - *At stall **In a no load situation Clutches and Brakes 1 Drum Clutch Inter1ock Brake Mainrope 24x5 Internal expanding - Eaton WCB 218 36x2 1 /2 Band Slackpuller 24x5 Internal expanding - Eaton WCB 218 36x2 1 /2 Band Tailrope 24x5 Internal expanding Eaton WCB-224 Two 36x3 Bands Straw1ine Disc clutch - - Operating weight - 52,210 kg Length - 5.8m, carrier only, with tower lowered 16.5m Price as at December, 1988 - US$555,000 LOGGING SYSTEM this study, the first was simply a road edge with the chute area on the cutover below the road and the second was on a turnout The TSY 255 was working in a stand of 80 which allowed more room to land the logs. year old Douglas Fir (90%), with minor On the first landing most logs were stock- species of incense cedar, ponderosa pine piled on the cutover (about a 20% slope). and white fir (10%). It was set up in a run- ning skyline system with a Danebo MSP The original loader in this operation was a carriage and four 7.5 m long strops on the track mounted Koehring 366L with a live dropline. Extraction was in log length with heel but partway through the study it was the felling and processing being done by taken out of service for mechanical repairs contract fallers. Six log sorts had been cut and replaced with a Prentice 600B with five main segregations and one minor mounted on a Pierce rubber-tyred carrier. one. Average log size was 1.05m3. Being rubber mounted restricted where the Prentice could be located and this affected Two landing locations were used during its ability to handle the wood in the chute. TSY 255 SWING \ARDER Figure 3 :A typical ground profile of the logging area. RESULTS Average cycle times from the study data are shown in Table 1. For over 63% of the Figure 2 :Logs were landed in the chute area time, four breaker-outs were hooking on on the cutover of landing 1. but there were periods when both three and five breaker-outs were used, (16 and 21% respectively). A team of four were breaking out for most Outhaul and inhaul times have been stan- of the time but occasionally the hook dardised to a common 200m distance by tender (crew boss) assisted. Nearly 65% of the equations: the drags were prestropped. Only logs lying directly under the rigging or very Out = .099 + .0023 (dist), ? = .72 close to the landing were not pre-stropped. Inh = .208 + .0042 (dist), ? = .62 Two chasers were unhooking at the land- ing, but one of them was actually attached Actual haul distances during the study were to the skidder operation working adjacent short (range 20-110m) and as such pre- to the swing yarder. dicted outhaul and inhaul times may be slower than what could be achieved. The time taken to land the logs at the landing, was considerably longer when the Prentice STUDY METHOD 600B was in operation. Each drag had to be pulled in closer and swung around fur- Productivity data was collected over 70 ther to enable the Prentice to reach the cycles using the continuous time study tech- logs in the chute. nique. Haul distances were recorded off a ground profile taken prior to the study Even with the slower outhaul and inhaul commencing (see Figure 3). The volume times and the longer than usual lower rig- per piece was determined by converting ac- ging time, hourly productivity was still high tual scaled board-foot piece size to metric at 37m3. The average hook on time per volume per truckload and relating that to piece was very quick at .16 rnin and this the number of pieces per load. The two contributed to the relatively fast cycle chasers and the loader in service at the times. Hook on during pre-stropping was time were activity sampled concurrent with 24% faster per piece than when using at- the hauler study and are reported tached strops but overall there was no sig- separately (Prebble 1989b). nificant difference in cycle times. -5- Table 1 :Average Cycle Times for Thunderbird TSY 255 El ement Time, mins Sample size 70 Raise rigging .45 Outhaul .56 (200m) position (l) .61 Lateral out .21 (6.7~1) Hook on .64 (3.89 pcs) Breakout .36 Inhaul 1.05 (200m) Lower rigging .33 Unhook .56 Delay free total 4.77 (SD = .54) Production delays .04 Landing delays .09 Rigging .86 Other -86 Total cycle time 6.62 Pieces/cycle 3.89 3 Ave piece size 1.05m 3 Ave drag size 4.08~1 Production per available machine hour 37m3 (35 pieces) (I)position includes sorting strops SD = Standard Deviation The average drag size of 4.08m3 was and this would be a common occurrence around the optimum for this machine and with the logging system being used i.e.
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