The "Not So Pro" discussion thread...of course Pros are welcome!

[Skeans]

Cause i like saws that run no matter how much abuse verbal or otherwise i might give them

That and the husky handle angles give my wrist fits (sewn back together wrong)

Heck my last 385 was 15 years old before she gave up didn't owe me a dime after that. You don't like a straight handle bar?

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[northmanlogging]

Heck my last 385 was 15 years old before she gave up didn't owe me a dime after that. You don't like a straight handle bar?

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Its the throttle side doesnt have enough angle, muh right wrist has been cobbled together by 3rd rate doctors wut od'ed on coke a few weeks after so it got rebroke and reset....

Gots limited motion now, as a bonus i can still write better with my left hand, still cant really write in cursive

 

[Skeans]

Its the throttle side doesnt have enough angle, muh right wrist has been cobbled together by 3rd rate doctors wut od'ed on coke a few weeks after so it got rebroke and reset....

Gots limited motion now, as a bonus i can still write better with my left hand, still cant really write in cursive

Matt I only have 1/2 movement of my right wrist.

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[rwoods]

I'm not much on poetry but I know many of you are better read than me so I thought some might enjoy a little script of my nephew musing about returning to our old mountain farm and remembering my father, C.G.

https://www.ourmurmurs.com/poetry/2017/7/3/gristle

Ron

 

[Gologit]

Excellent.

 

[rwoods]

I didn't know the boy was a poet until yesterday - too many miles and too little time between us. Read some of his other published work last night and didn't understand a word. But this one I do. Brings tears every time I read it. Close to a dozen times now. Reminds me of qualities obscured - and made by the harshness of life.

Ron

 

[northmanlogging]

This could be a rare 3 load week... could be 4 but I gotta dig stumps.

 

[bitzer]

Well quit burnin daylight!

 

[northmanlogging]

1/2 load still on the ground... start cutting agian in the morning...

 

[bitzer]

1/2 load still on the ground... start cutting agian in the morning...

Does the rain slow you down much or does your soil let it run through Pretty quickly?

 

[northmanlogging]

depends on how long its been raining, and the soil.

Mostly though I just throw brush down on my skid trails and continue like nothing happened, I try and stay out of the low spots anyway.

Generally speaking though, its a lot of glacial deposits so it mostly sand and rocks of various sizes, if ya get close to rivers you run into swamps and silt deposits that are mostly clay and stink... stay out of those...

Winter gets slow because of a lack of daylight and more wind especially fall/spring winds (we really only have like 2 seasons too hot/fire, and mildew)

 

[northmanlogging]

Looks like I bought a new escort for the missus...

Probably not enough truck to move the Excavator, but more then enough to move the skidder.

International s1900 with dt466 about 80 more horsepower then the old ferd and like 300 more foot pounds of torque, as well as easier to find and cheaper tires, and should get better mileage then the old gas pot 362 in the F600

It has issues so its going to be some time before I get to drive it often, but its air braked and stupid cheap, so I couldn't pass it up.

 

[northmanlogging]

Drug a load of pulp in today, werkin on gettin muh cdl and my copilot snapped this after gettin unloaded


(edit, I really hate touch screen fones... the auto correct is a moron, and I can't feel the buttons...)

 

[madhatte]

Not just one, but now TWO of the bigwigs have expressed interest in getting a skidder for our general forestry purposes. What's the smallest useful skidder available new on the market, and how much does it weigh? We'd use it for nearly everything except dragging logs to a landing.

 

[Skeans]

Not just one, but now TWO of the bigwigs have expressed interest in getting a skidder for our general forestry purposes. What's the smallest useful skidder available new on the market, and how much does it weigh? We'd use it for nearly everything except dragging logs to a landing.

Smallest we found was a tigercat 610 weight mid to upper 30k range. To be honest they all weigh about the same, can they do a clam bunk?

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[northmanlogging]

No small skidders no more... I think Deere even stopped making the 558. Though it would be a good idear to contact them.

unless you count those little tracked things OxTrack? that are a little light duty for any actual work, including pretending to be an ATV.

 

[madhatte]

unless you count those little tracked things OxTrack?

We've already got an Argo Avenger, the Canadian version of the Mudd-Ox. It's handy and will go anywhere, but you're spot on that it's light duty. I'm fabricating a replacement trailer hitch in it right now since the factory unit was just spot welded at three points which all broke out towing a boomless spray rig in a site prep unit.

A small skidder like the old Garrett units would be ideal but if there ain't no such animal any more, we may be out of luck.

 

[Skeans]

We've already got an Argo Avenger, the Canadian version of the Mudd-Ox. It's handy and will go anywhere, but you're spot on that it's light duty. I'm fabricating a replacement trailer hitch in it right now since the factory unit was just spot welded at three points which all broke out towing a boomless spray rig in a site prep unit.

A small skidder like the old Garrett units would be ideal but if there ain't no such animal any more, we may be out of luck.

What kind of work are you talking? Thinning? Mechanical cut?

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[madhatte]

Bunch of stuff. Towing a spray rig in site prep units, pushing/pulling roads clear, some thinning use, etc. Basically all forestry tasks and not production logging. What we need is something tractor weight but UTV agile. Blade up front, winch on the back would be ideal. Skidsteer might work.

 

[Skeans]

Bunch of stuff. Towing a spray rig in site prep units, pushing/pulling roads clear, some thinning use, etc. Basically all forestry tasks and not production logging. What we need is something tractor weight but UTV agile. Blade up front, winch on the back would be ideal. Skidsteer might work.

Sounds like a small cat would fit the bill better. Or possibly like a asv or tracked skid steer.

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