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Westboastfaller said:
Well I'd ask you, don't you still believe in Leprechauns Paddy?
Just because you can't see them dosen't mean they ARrre not rEEEAlll paddy laddy.
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Uh, are you speaking Canadian or something?

Can you translate this into normal English for us regular folk?
 
whatz with you guys? didn't you read the plot?

handsome guy, 6'1... hits skids in large US city... decides time for new career... enters Forest Circus lotto and wins rights to log 10,000 acres somewhere in Pac NW w/all mineral rights. lats and longs not provided... kissed his down south g/f goodbye, says catch up to you later to all his other online g/f's... goes to Sears and gets him a chain saw... and he hits the road North... arrives in town, stays in the local "no-tel" motel and eats at Molly Sue's Hometown Diner... for couple weeks... he is enjoying the new pace... as quietly joined logging crew as a Newbie... they let him keep the water cool for starter job description... then while roaming his acerage one weekend discovers a running creek up on the acerage... pans some running water falls/rapids... and finds 1 and 2 oz gold nuggets... :surprised3: ends up very rich... buys the small town... and hires all the local loggers to become gold miners... and everybody lives happily ever after...

and the rest is history!

:D
 
Hey Northman! I had to take the Plastic Airstream back in to get fixed and was amazed at all the stuff at Ritchie Bros. I'll have to go see one of their auctions some time.


Yes, they fixed my trailer, I think, this time. Maybe I should write a thriller about RV places. Part of my book plot would be the good person passing out in a Denali fifth wheel in the display room. They wake to see (fill in crime here). A Fifth In The Fifth Wheel.
 
slowp said:
Hey Northman! I had to take the Plastic Airstream back in to get fixed and was amazed at all the stuff at Ritchie Bros. I'll have to go see one of their auctions some time.


Yes, they fixed my trailer, I think, this time. Maybe I should write a thriller about RV places. Part of my book plot would be the good person passing out in a Denali fifth wheel in the display room. They wake to see (fill in crime here). A Fifth In The Fifth Wheel.
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> Maybe I should write a thriller about RV places.

you should, no doubt it would have an Evergreen State flair to its theme...
 
slowp said:
Hey Northman! I had to take the Plastic Airstream back in to get fixed and was amazed at all the stuff at Ritchie Bros. I'll have to go see one of their auctions some time.


Yes, they fixed my trailer, I think, this time. Maybe I should write a thriller about RV places. Part of my book plot would be the good person passing out in a Denali fifth wheel in the display room. They wake to see (fill in crime here). A Fifth In The Fifth Wheel.
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watched it online... when I shoulda been workin... people be crazy at auctions, some stuff went dirt, and I mean dirt cheap, others people paid way to much for.

A good example, there where 2 komatsu 140's? maybe 160's anyway I looked at them both, only a year between the 2 but the newer one had 3 times the hours and 1/3 the maintenance. it sold fer like 75k, right next to it as in lot number xx4 and xx5 the one year older but 1/3 the hours and a better machine all around sold for 25k, if I had been thinking and better prepared I might have bid on it.

auctions are a strange thing, while yes you can get a helluva deal, a person has to be very careful not to get caught up in the bidding.

Also lots of absentee bidders at a RB auction, most of the massive excavators where being bid on by folks in Asia, or the middle east, and from the sounds of it they had deep pockets...

In the end, I didn't get the one I bid on, I bid low on purpose, hoping to come out smelling like a rose... but like I said folks is knutz it was the oldest midsize excavator there, and it sold for more then several much newer better machines. Why? couldn't tell ya.

another example, there was an old decrepit chipper morbark? 198? vintage no title non running, probably not going to run anytime soon, last one in line and it sold for several thousand more then the runners parked next to it.

Anyway... logging and stuff...
 
northmanlogging said:
watched it online... when I shoulda been workin... people be crazy at auctions, some stuff went dirt, and I mean dirt cheap, others people paid way to much for.

A good example, there where 2 komatsu 140's? maybe 160's anyway I looked at them both, only a year between the 2 but the newer one had 3 times the hours and 1/3 the maintenance. it sold fer like 75k, right next to it as in lot number xx4 and xx5 the one year older but 1/3 the hours and a better machine all around sold for 25k, if I had been thinking and better prepared I might have bid on it.

auctions are a strange thing, while yes you can get a helluva deal, a person has to be very careful not to get caught up in the bidding.

Also lots of absentee bidders at a RB auction, most of the massive excavators where being bid on by folks in Asia, or the middle east, and from the sounds of it they had deep pockets...

In the end, I didn't get the one I bid on, I bid low on purpose, hoping to come out smelling like a rose... but like I said folks is knutz it was the oldest midsize excavator there, and it sold for more then several much newer better machines. Why? couldn't tell ya.

another example, there was an old decrepit chipper morbark? 198? vintage no title non running, probably not going to run anytime soon, last one in line and it sold for several thousand more then the runners parked next to it.

Anyway... logging and stuff...
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interesting post.
 
One year a friend and I talked about going and bidding on scooters. I have asked a former hooktender friend to keep an eye out for a grader. It must be dirt cheap, run well, and never ever break down. I haven't heard back from him on that. I would love to have a grader. Our road needs it. My section of the road is too rocky to blade, but the bottom and worst part could be done. I could chain it up and plow out the neighborhood if we ever had another big dump. Then I could also paint it in camo colors and stealth blade the bad FS roads. A Sirius subscription for it would be welcome.

I have been to estate auctions. I have seen the insanity that goes on.
 
slowp said:
One year a friend and I talked about going and bidding on scooters. I have asked a former hooktender friend to keep an eye out for a grader. It must be dirt cheap, run well, and never ever break down. I haven't heard back from him on that. I would love to have a grader. Our road needs it. My section of the road is too rocky to blade, but the bottom and worst part could be done. I could chain it up and plow out the neighborhood if we ever had another big dump. Then I could also paint it in camo colors and stealth blade the bad FS roads. A Sirius subscription for it would be welcome.

I have been to estate auctions. I have seen the insanity that goes on.
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craigslist occasionally run across and old grader, not sayin it won't break down but they is cheap, and it seams like they don't get used a whole bunch, could just be me though.

For road maintenance a mid sized dozer would do you fairly good, little handier then a grader though not as fast, and arguably easier to learn to drive. Grader is like a Zamboni but fer dirt lots of wierd levers and turnin things funny to make it work just right, dozer just has reigns and a blade control... sometimes they even have brakes.. other then the whole forward backward gears which on older machines aren't much different then a car.
 
IyaMan said:
Uh, are you speaking Canadian or something?

Can you translate this into normal English for us regular folk?
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Ha Boy... How's about Yea?
Pretty sure Paddy, Laddy & Leprechauns come from Ireland. Ye thicker than two short planks. Wind yer neck in a wee 'n' do one love would yee or I'll knack yer Ballix in wee doll. J/K..lol
:dizzy: Domo arigoto Mr Roboto
Not everything written needs to be understood. Are you 'American' living in Japan?
 
slowp said:
Then I could also paint it in camo colors and stealth blade the bad FS roads.
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Our PW shop has I think 2 of their graders in camo, because army. One of them seldom seems to run. The rest are yellow and are pretty good machines, except for the one that is a gem.

northmanlogging said:
Then you could get the wee little grapple cat, and go do some proper cat skinnin... with a side kick that probably doesn't care much for being stuck in a noisy smelly vinyl seat with no suspension and no cat nip.
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I have a crappy old JD tractor on my property book that for some insane reason is listed as being worth $125K. The way gubmint procurement works, if the book says you have one, you have one. If it goes away, it must be replaced. The boss and I both think it would be great to have the listing changed so that we can instead replace it with a cheap skidder. Something small and handy, mostly for clearing and repairing roads and dragging fuels apart on fires.
 

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