https://trn.trains.com/railroads/ra...vented the spike?,weighed 36 pounds per yard.This is called a ten speed. Hammer weighs 10lbs. Used to hand drive spikes in railroad ties.View attachment 891640
https://trn.trains.com/railroads/ra...vented the spike?,weighed 36 pounds per yard.This is called a ten speed. Hammer weighs 10lbs. Used to hand drive spikes in railroad ties.View attachment 891640
I run a 10lb hammer from time to time. Moves stubborn steel much fasterView attachment 891648
I'd call a 660 with a 36" bar a small saw on stuff like that!Waiting approval from our nonprofit’s board of directors on the new small saws. Last weekend we wanted to improve our camp 3 miles in, so I carried the MS461 in on top of my backpack. It kinda nestled up there, I have a padded bar cover. It then got carried up to two miles up the trail to clear brush, others carried it for me. My Homelite is down, and we didn’t have another saw to bring. The ranger told me after the fact that we could have borrowed an F.S. saw. We should have new small saws by next trip.
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We ended up with eight rounds around the fire.
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You can see small stuff that was cut in these two pictures. Some up to 5” was cut, maybe someone else got pictures. It’s a whole lotta saw for that, but the rest of the crew had shovels, or McLeod.
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We cleared about a mile of trail that was overgrown in the last two trips.
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That would be a pretty big tree to cut with the small saws that we discussed!Last weekend we wanted to improve our camp 3 miles in, so I carried the MS461 in on top of my backpack.
What model did you decide on?Waiting approval from our nonprofit’s board of directors on the new small saws. Last weekend we wanted to improve our camp 3 miles in, so I carried the MS461 in on top of my backpack. It kinda nestled up there, I have a padded bar cover. It then got carried up to two miles up the trail to clear brush, others carried it for me. My Homelite is down, and we didn’t have another saw to bring. The ranger told me after the fact that we could have borrowed an F.S. saw. We should have new small saws by next trip.
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We ended up with eight rounds around the fire.
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You can see small stuff that was cut in these two pictures. Some up to 5” was cut, maybe someone else got pictures. It’s a whole lotta saw for that, but the rest of the crew had shovels, or McLeod.
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We cleared about a mile of trail that was overgrown in the last two trips.
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I run that 10lb’er one handed but I’m only 41. Still young and dumb lol. My elbow really cussed me now days though. Sure makes punching hammer eyes fast though. I also have an old 8lb warwood that I like much betterI swung a 10lb sledge driving wedges to split wood since I was old enough to pick it up. A few years ago I had to buy a new one. Took it back the next day for an 8lb. Couldn't swing 10 lb any more. About 80 at the time.
I was pretty accurate with one but I can't even picture swing one, much less two and hitting those small heads on RR spikes.
A keg of spikes weighs approx 200lbs and contains enough spikes to put 4 spikes in about 50 cross ties. If I had a dollar for every spike I have driven by hand and machine, I could take a very long vacation any where I wanted to go. As for installing ties, I used to average about 720 ties per hour using 1 TRI, tie removing inserter. We averaged about 3000xties a day and 3 miles. When I started working a good day was about 1600 ties using 5 Portec 2 man tie removing machines. When I left the big gangs they upgraded the cylinder for extracting the tie to a 3.5 in cyl instead of the 4 in bore of the original design. This was an attempt to speed up the cycle time of the 8ft long cylinder from 13 cycles per min, to what ever speed they ended up with. That cycle time included indexing from tie to tie and jacking the track to allow the tie to slip out. In other words, the extraction cyl was very fast.
That would be a pretty big tree to cut with the small saws that we discussed!
Philbert
I'd call a 660 with a 36" bar a small saw on stuff like that!
What model did you decide on?
Not sure what his contract says but the logger and the mill will be smiling for sure.Some pretty small HVBW in there.
It was 40* and sunny here on Tuesday. Got hit with 10" of heavy, wet snow yesterday. Back down to 2* this morning.Dusting of snow overnight. I’ve still been fighting with a little plumbing project and hope to get the rest of the fittings today. Retrofitting is so much more work that doing all new!
My plow truck goes in for new ball joints and a new wheel bearing today, we haven’t had to plow in about a month so I lucked out.
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